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MMMM, Gotta Love Them Columbian Tacos!

I’m callin’ it TacoGate!
For those of you that live under a rock I’ll cover the basics of this story first.  During last Saturday’s ESPN coverage of the Ohio State – Minnesota game Chris Spielman asked Bob Griese “where Montoya was?” a reference to his position in The Chase.  Griese doing his best impersonation of a [...]

CHUMPCAR WORLD SERIES ANNOUNCES 2010 SCHEDULE AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Morgan Hill, Calif., October 19, 2009 – The ChumpCar World Series, North America’s newest international road racing endurance series, announced today that it has a 20-race schedule set for 2010. ChumpCar’s events will extend to 14 States and include one event in Canada. ChumpCar also announced that its inaugural event will be held at Portland [...]

Allmendinger goes Knucklehead

AJ Allmendinger was arrested for drunk driving early Thursday morning in Mooresville, North Carolina according to NC Police.  Allmendinger is the current driver of the number 44 for Richard Petty Motorsports in NASCAR Sprint Cup.  He is(was?) slated to move to the storied 43 car in 2010 with Best Buy sponsorship.  The RPM team had [...]

Penske Racing 2010

Penske Performance President Tim Cindric confirmed Penske’s plans for the 2010 racing season.

USF1 Shows Continued Interest in Kyle Busch

USA Today reports that USF1’s Peter Windsor keeps up on what Kyle Bush is doing,  “on a daily basis, almost”.  The fledging N. Carolina based Formula 1 team has previously expressed intereste with Bush for a possible driver seat some time down the road.
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According to the article USF1 has had conversations with Kyle’s business people [...]

A1GP Out at Surfers, Supercars in Limelight

It appears that the A1GP series has pulled out of their season opener at Surfer’s Paradise this weekend.  A Racer.com article attributes the pull out to “that series ongoing financial problems”.  This is very bad for A1GP but could prove to be excellent for the Australian V8 SuperCars as they are now the headliners.

FIA Re-Releases 2010 Provisional F1 Schedule

After meeting in Paris the FIA has released a new provisional Formula 1 schedule for 2010.  Of special note is the move of Monaco from May 23rd to May 16th and that the Abu Dabi and Brazilian GPs will most likely switch dates if it’s cool with the promoters of those events.
 

F1 Tentatively to Return [...]

USF2000 Series to Return

IndyCar.com is reporting that Dan Anderson has announced an agreement between his company Anderson Promotions, LLC and the Indy Racing League that will not only bring back the famed open wheel feeder series but will have it sanctioned by the IRL.Â
 

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Anderson is quoted as stating that he invisions a 12 event schedule in 2010 with [...]

ARF Checks Out Arena Racing

The staff at Angryracefan.com took a road trip over the weekend to find some live racing action. In the quick becoming frozen tundra of the Midwest, there aren’t many options this time of year. Luckily in Grand Rapids, Michigan, they have one of only three arena racing leagues in the United States. The off season [...]

NASCAR HOF

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NASCAR got it right yesterday when they announced their inaugural class of five inductees.  They were (if by chance you haven’t heard) Bill France, Bill France Jr., Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt, and Junior Johnson.  There are not five other people that have had as large an affect on NASCAR.  There are arguably better drivers; barely [...]