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There Goes the Neighborhood -- the N-Word is Coming to Iowa Speedway

Just got the memo: Nationbusch at the Iowa Speedway on Aug. 1, 2009. Gak. This has been the super, over-arching goal for Iowa Speedway every since Rusty the Super Deuce told the Crazy Cats in the earth movers to bogitty bogitty. From the news release:

It's official. NASCAR has selected Iowa Speedway as the site of a Nationwide Series race in 2009. Rusty Wallace, ABC/ESPN announcer and former NASCAR champion made the announcement at a morning news conference in Newton, Iowa.

Wallace, flanked by Iowa Speedway and Nationwide executives, ended months of speculation by announcing August 1, 2009, as the race date for the 250 lap Nationwide Series race to be held on the 7/8 mile oval track designed by Wallace. An exact time for the race has not been set.

"NASCAR's selection of Iowa Speedway as a site for a Nationwide race next year, in only our third full year of competitive racing, is an honor and a privilege," Wallace said, "and it's also the result of a lot of hard work by the staff here in Iowa – and our Nationwide partners who helped us secure a race here in Newton. It's a great day for Iowa Speedway, for Nationwide, for NASCAR, and especially, for racing fans throughout the country".

Read it all here.

pressdog Does Chicagoland

Gas prices are coming down! Inflate those tires, change your air filter and drive 65 mph all the way to Chicagoland Speedway outside Joliet, IL to see the season finale with me and Sarah Fisher.

Sept. 7 is the Peak Antifreeze Indy 300. Sarah Fisher will be on the track and I'll be beside it or in the media center hogging up space that should go to real journalists. Click the banner below to eyeball tickets.

I get a tiny gratuity for every click of this banner! I appreciate your support. I go to Chicagoland every year (last year Dixon ran out of ethanol right in front of me in turn 4) and highly recommend it. See ya there.

FastMachines.com Radio Episode #6

 

Chris and Josh do their weekly magic, this time representing about N-word, Tony to Ganassi ... NOT, something called "A-L-M-S," Dixon at the line! and more. A fabulous investment of 30 minutes of your time.

Vince Welch Goes on Record with pressdog

What up with Vince Welch, pit reporter for ESPN/ABC?  Vince took a minute before the Kentucky race to talk about his life as an eastern-block powerlifting team, dish dirt on the B-Unit and tease with insight into Brienne Pedigo, opine on the the pressure of Victory Lane interviews and and more ...

(This interview was done by email after the new schedule came out and before the new TV deal was announced, so sadly on reaction from Vinny on the latter.)

Vince, you've got more? ...

Officials See champcarworldseries.com as Ominous Sign

Racing officials revealed recently that the frozen-in-time Web site, champcarworldseries.com, may be a sign of a "separatist open-wheel movement."

"We expected the site to go dark after the mergification became final," said one IndyCar official who decline to be named. "But instead it's just frozen-in-time. It's like they think it's still early February. We fear that a group of separatists are keeping the site alive as an online base for a breakaway series some day."

Sarah Fisher Talks about Touching Danica Patrick

OK, about their cars touching (simmer down) -- during the Kentucky race. Left front to right front as Sarah passed Danica on the high side.

Danica may, in fact, have attempted to throw a block party for Sarah who was passing her for position, but Sarah says "that's just racing."

HD video of Sarah inhaling Danica on that pass may or may not have caused me to experience a bladder-related event. View the brief IndyCar.com video here.

Leilani Münter Takes her Team Tree-Hugger Crusade to the Huffington Post

Eco-friendly and extremely sidepod-worthy racing hotty Leilani Münter continued her quest for sponsorship Monday by scoring a guest poster gig on the huge-traffic Huffington Post.

The HP is one of the über-blogs, attracting something like a billion hits a day.

Leilani (get her in a car, dammit!) represents on her somewhat bi-polar passions of racing and saving the planet. An excerpt:

Noxville Nationals Re-Airs on Aug. 12 and 16 on SPEED

The 48th Annual Knoxville Nationals, which aired live on Speed last Saturday, will re-air on Tuesday, Aug. 12 at 12 Noon Eastern and on Aug. 16 at 2 a.m. Eastern.

I watched it on SPEED live, of course (was out of town so I couldn't make it to the track). Check out (or set the DVRs for) the dirt mayhem!

View some stunning photos of the event by Heartland Motorsports News HERE. (Caution, SPOILER! Viewing the photos will tip you as to who won. Jussayin'.)

pressdog re-signs with pressdog.com

Mercurial open-wheel blogger pressdog has signed a 19-year contract extension with pressdog.com, sources reported today.

"I told the management, 'Look, Sparky, let's do a deal or I'm going to have to call Robin Miller and have him do a story, and that will take my price up through the roof. Don't make me use the media ...' "

A spokesmodel for pressdog.com said the site definitely wasn't bowing to the Miller-based threat.

Notes Taken during the 2008 IndyCar Race at Kentucky

Notes taken during the ESPN2 broadcast of the Meijer Indy 300 presented by Pepsi and Edy's IndyCar race at Kentucky Speedway on August 9, 2008.

Flipping around trying to find this race, I see that Dario Franchitti got 5th at the N-word Nationbusch race at Watkins Glen. Dario thinks he could have done better. Viewing enhanced.