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Joey Logano still has plenty of years to develop into NASCAR’s next big thing.
For now, the Cup rookie is still learning his way around the tricky tracks. The former phenom absorbed some hits early in his first year on the circuit, but the teenager has started to show some of the promise that made him one of the most hyped prospects in years.
He’s recorded two straight ninth-place finishes, and three in his last four races. All that early talk that he was a bust and those false rumors that he might be replaced at Joe Gibbs Racing have faded with each finish near the front of the pack… Details
One would think that driving a Formula One car is both fun and thrilling – among a multitude of attributes, of course. And it’s not like we’re going to argue that, as we feel the same way. It’s just that we want to add up “difficult†to that list. And we don’t mean that in a drivers’ safety kind of way, as everyone knows Formula racing is, in general, a dangerous sport.
For starters, let’s proceed to a quick overview. Consider the fact that, during a grand prix race, a driver has to: change gears for approximately 3,500 times, keep radio contact with the team, check fuel level, deploy KERS (recently added), activate drink pump, select tire adaptation, preset the wing depending on the race conditions, watch the display giving him useful information on revs, lap times, speed, gear (etc), change brake settings, activate pit lane limiter (when needed), control differential settings, and so on…Â Details
The asphalt at the Famoso drag strip was hot, the bike licked with red and orange flames when Jesse James stepped up to the starting line and threw a leg over the 1,000-horsepower, nitro-powered dragster.
A flicker of green light, a twist of the grip and James was off. Seconds later, at a top speed of 161 mph, James had won the respect of the seasoned racers who trained him and sighs of relief from the production crew that was capturing it all on camera for his new Spike TV show, “Jesse James Is a Dead Man.”
James had defied the program title, just as he’d done when he caught himself on fire, and when he rode shotgun in an F-16D fighter plane, subjecting his 210-pound frame to nine Gs.
James, who turned 40 last month, insists he isn’t …Â Details