I like Jereme Rogers, and I don’t enjoy reporting on him doing something embarrassing, but I need to report on it. So here you go:
At 6:40 AM on Monday, Jereme Rogers whisked off his boxers and climbed to the roof of his two story house, where he started to preach loudly to the neighborhood. Naked. This went on for a while, then cops showed up, and Jereme preached to them, too. Finally, they got him down, and he went to a hospital to recover.
He’s fine now, but embarrassed, and on Wednesday he came out with an apology for what happened. Jereme said…Â Details
From Buenos Aires to Antofagasta and back: For its “title defence†project, Volkswagen anticipates a tougher Dakar Rally than ever before. The approximate track profile of the legendary off-road marathon which the organiser A.S.O. announced in advance will contain more desert and off-road parts – and thus more challenges for the drivers, co-drivers and technology.
In January 2010, the roughly 8,500-kilometre route will cover a clearly longer, seven-stage distance through Chile, lead far up into the north of Bolivia and feature a significantly larger number of kilometres through the world’s most arid region, the Atacama desert… Details
… The rare silver McLaren F1 road car, one of only about 100 made, was valued by the owner at $2 million before it burned.
(See http://www.stokednews.com/?p=13654 for details, pictures & video)
Owner and driver Irv Kessler of Minnesota said he was at the start of a roadtrip from Healdsburg to Oregon, where the car is registered, when the car caught fire.
As Kessler drove on Airport Boulevard just before 11 a.m. Monday, another motorist noticed smoke coming from the back and alerted him…Â Details & Pictures
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So far 2009 has been one of Formula 1’s biggest ever fairytale stories for Jenson Button. In 2007 and 2008 he had terrible cars, which gave him absolutely no hope of battling at the front. Even the best drivers, including the likes of Fernando Alonso, wouldn’t have been able to extract much more from those two forgettable cars.
Over the winter Jenson Button had been none the wiser over whether he would be actually racing at all in 2009. He came so close to being placed on the Formula 1 scrapheap. Now six races into the 2009 season he has won 5 races and holds a 16 point lead over Rubens Barrichello in the drivers’ championship, and 28 points over Sebastien Vettel. Button has simply obliterated the opposition so far.
The Englishman showed signs throughout his F1 career that he was potentially a great driver…Â Details