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Uncle pressdog’s Fireside Chat — Bristol and Sonoma Edition 26 Aug 2013 | 08:34 pm
Yo yo yo, what up peeps? Couple thing have jolted me out of my contented slumber and caused me to fire up the dark roast, so DRINK (coffee), ye BASTARDS and let’s discuss a case of no contact (Bristol...
Schatz Carves Through the Field to Win 2013 Knoxville Nationals 11 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
Donny Schatz celebrates his 2013 Knoxville Nationals title with fans. (Photo courtesy Knoxvilleraces.com) In 2012, Brian Brown could have used two more laps in the Knoxville National’s championship r...
Knoxville Raceway Works to Balance Tradition and Heritage with Innovation 3 Aug 2013 | 07:05 pm
Fans fill the main concourse during 2012 Knoxville Nationals Knoxville Raceway has a lot of people who are very concerned with what it does. Consider the constituencies: The track is governed by the...
Erin Crocker Describes the Wild Ride in a Sprint Car 2 Aug 2013 | 06:06 pm
Not only is sprint car driver Erin Crocker the only woman to ever qualify for the Knoxville Nationals A-Main, she’s done it twice, most recently in 2010. She’s also on the board of directors of the Kn...
Knoxville Nationals Ready to Host the Sprint Car World 2 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
Competing cars line up on the infield of the 2012 Knoxville Nationals Part tradition, part innovation, part “cultural festival,” an annual celebration of winged sprint dirt track racing is set to tra...
Knoxville and Oskaloosa Kick off "Iowa Speed Week" 1 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
2012 Knoxville Nationals A-Main competitors salute the fans with a four-wide parade lap. This just in from Knoxville Raceway PR ... it's a festival of central Iowa sprint car racing: 12th Annual Cox...
Uncle pressdog’s Fireside Chat — Dirt Tracking with Erin Crocker and Brickyard Edition 25 Jul 2013 | 06:55 pm
Jason Bowles (number 5) and Kyle Larson battle for position during a qualifying race at Eldora Speedway. What retirement? I never used the r-word. OK, maybe I “retired” from taking notes on every Ind...
NASCAR/NBC News Conference Transcript 24 Jul 2013 | 05:53 pm
Below is a transcript of a news conference on July 23 featuring NACAR CEO Brian France, Chairman of NBC Sports Group Mark Lazarus and NASCAR VP of production Steve Herbst. The three took questions re:...
NASCAR to NBC Will Not Start a Death Spiral for IndyCar 24 Jul 2013 | 02:58 am
News came out today that NBC has bought the rights to televise the final 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and the final 19 Nationwide Series in 2015. (Note that’s 18 months from now). (Story here.) ...
Leave Your Baggage at the Door and Enjoy Turbo 21 Jul 2013 | 05:35 pm
In one of the recent blizzard of stories about the making of the movie Turbo, Dario Franchitti said the filmmakers were so obsessed with detail that they asked him what pulling multiple Gs would do to...
