Dale Earnhardt is Tweeting from the grave. Sort of.
While it’s safe to say those words have never before been strung together in the history of, well, human language, what’s more remarkable is how Earnhardt’s legacy is being turned into a carnival show.
Tweeting under the user name daleday09, someone at Dale Earnhardt, Inc. typed (below a picture of Earnhardt clad in sunglasses), “Just reviewed plans for the April 29 birthday celebration – the cake is looking great!â€
Really? So what you’re telling us about the upcoming event is that you’ve already started baking a cake for a birthday party that won’t take place for another two weeks?
To catch a glimpse of why DEI is swirling down the crapper, and in the process dirtying the legend of the late Dale Earnhardt, one needs to do little more than look at…Â Details
The Sprint Cup Series return to the track this weekend at Phoenix:
The Top 5: Where the elite meet
A classic battle is shaping up at the top of the Cup Series standings. It’s a “battle royal” if there ever was one: Four of the top five drivers are former series
• Four-time champion Jeff Gordon leading the pack and coming off his first win since November 2007.
• Three-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson is second in points, after finishing second to Gordon in Texas.
• Kurt Busch is third in the standings.
• And two-time champion Tony Stewart — in his first year as an owner-driver — is fifth in points… Details
I can’t say I was enthused about the NASCAR Nationwide Series Dash 4 Cash bonus program until Friday afternoon.
That’s when I received an e-mail from Baker Curb Racing, which said it will donate the $25,000 in Dash for Cash bonus money to American Red Cross storm relief efforts should Jason Keller win Saturday’s race at Nashville.
“We are proud to be based in Nashville and are thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by today’s devastating storms,†said co-owner Gary Baker… Details
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AJ Allmendinger is fastly becoming the feel good story of the 2009 Sprint Cup season. Not only is he running better with hi new team, then his old team (Red Bull Racing), but he was not guaranteed to run the whole season due to lack of sponsorship. Slowly but surely Richard Petty Motor sports is piecing together enough funding to run AJ for the entire schedule.
The latest news is Hunt Brothers Pizza will come on board AJ’s #44 car for six races and the Sprint Cup All star race. This is big news for a driver 20th in points who started the season outside of the top 35 guaranteed staring positions.
This team still faces sever sponsorship problems, and desperately needs to…Â Details