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Last night, Mrs. Dude and I had the privilege of having dinner with two remarkable people: Beth Jahnsen and Dawn [...]
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Catching up on all the assorted comments and what not uttered in Fontana over the weekend:
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... I'm pretty sure was DayQuil. At least for me.
Anyway, is it safe to say Roush is to the large flat tracks [...]
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And now it's race day; time to trot out to the track with some eighty or ninety thousand plus close personal friends [...]
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And now, a report on today's California Busch race from someone who was actually there, as opposed to someone who watched [...]
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Recollections of a long afternoon and evening at California Speedway...
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A lesson quickly learned by all who drive to or through Los Angeles consists of how one is well advised to [...]
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By now, everyone has, or at least has had the opportunity to, speak their piece about Knausgate. Isn't there anything else [...]
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Anyway, as I was saying before my employer ever so rudely cut my blogging time short via insisting I get [...]
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While acknowledging the hot topic today is NASCAR's decision yesterday about the infractions at Daytona -- see commentary here (or [...]
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Taking a look at the penalties handed out today for assorted Daytona demerits...
I can see the length of Chad Knaus' suspension. I [...]
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Some relatively random thoughts on a Tuesday morning... or Tuesday afternoon... and yes, you can dust off that Moody Blues album.
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“And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, [...]
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Now, didn't I say Jimmie Johnson was too good of a driver to need to cheat?
While richly enjoying the [...]

Today's Daytona Busch race was rather disappointing, really. We had been given the massive build-up about how the [...]
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.
Perchance he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill as that he knows not it tolls for him; and perchance I may think myself so much better than I am, as that they who are about [...]
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It's impossible to shake the impression that Mark Martin will be actively racing long enough to not only go up [...]
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There must be an inversion layer over Daytona today; the exhaust fumes are apparently accumulating. Can't think of any other way [...]
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Lest we forget, the Busch and truck series both start this weekend at Daytona. This is so the Cupsters can [...]
YES!!!
WOO-HOO!!!
YAHOO!!!
HAPPY DANCE!!!

YEAH BABY!!!
Hey, I've never claimed to be impartial...
P.S. Lest I forget... way to go Robby Gordon!
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The Twin 150s That Used To Be 125s But We're Hoping The Extra Laps Will Enable At Least One Additional Commercial [...]
'Restrictor Plate THIS!: An
Unapologetic Look At Stock Car Racing,' the new book by the
author of this blog, will soon be available. Click this link
for ordering
information!
It's already been discussed, but the utter silliness of NASCAR's proposed method to deal with excessive bump drafting warrants [...]
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I was on Sports Bloggers Live yesterday and had a great time talking with Jamie, Erin, and those other [...]