Rep. Betty McCollum’s office received a threatening fax Wednesday over her amendment to end the military’s NASCAR sponsorships.
The fax, which declares “Death to all Marxists!†was turned over to Capitol Police, who said they are investigating.
The fax, forwarded to Hot Dish by McCollum’s office, includes an obscenity-laden rant, and then concludes: “Without exceptions, Marxists are enemies of the United States Constitution! Death to all Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!”  … Details
Through a combination of carbon fibre expertise, innovative Formula 1-inspired technologies and development programmes, and a desire to launch a range of ‘pure McLaren’ road cars, the groundbreaking new McLaren MP4-12C has redefined high-performance sports car benchmarks.
McLaren Automotive and Jenson Button present the new McLaren MP4-12C for test driving to international media in January 2011
WRC is the closest of all world class motorsport competition to the genuine road environment, though conditions vary considerably across the 13 race, five continent series from last weekend’s first round in Sweden where blizzards and -28ºC temperatures necessitated tungsten-tipped studded Michelin tyres, through to the gravel and rocks and 40ºC temperatures the cars will encounter a fortnight from now in Mexico … More
Instead of leading the field to the green flag in the Daytona 500, Dale Earnhardt Jr. will start from the back of the pack after wrecking his primary race car in practice.
Earnhardt still could win Sunday’s season-opening race – he’ll just have his work much harder to do so.
Earnhardt mangled his pole-winning car in practice Wednesday, colliding with five-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson and sliding into a wall.
“We’ve got plenty of race cars,†Earnhardt said. “I ain’t worried about … More