NASCAR driver Kyle Petty is bringing his cross-country charity motorcycle ride to Steamboat Springs next week.
The Chick-fil-A Kyle Petty Charity Ride Across America takes off from Stevenson, Wash., on Friday and will make eight overnight stops before reaching its final destination of Greensboro, N.C. The Steamboat Springs stop, scheduled for the night of May 11, is the only overnight stop in Colorado.
More than 200 riders will take part in the 15th anniversary of the event. Kyle Petty and his wife, Pattie, began the ride in 1995 to raise money for chronically ill children…Â DetailsÂ
Maybe crew chief Gil Martin summed up the major crew swap his Richard Childress Racing operation had engineered prior to Saturday night’s Crown Royal 400.
His driver, Kevin Harvick was wheeling a torn-to-pieces No. 29 Chevrolet around Richmond International Raceway late in the race when Martin keyed his in-car radio button.
“I hate to tell you this,” Martin said ruefully. “But the only cars faster than you right now are the two leaders.” … Details
Sources close to the legal action over the 33rd America’s Cup, confirmed today that Societe Nautique de Geneve had lodged papers with the New York Supreme Court, late last week, seeking to have the Challenger, Golden Gate Yacht Club disqualified.
The charge is that of not furnishing the Customs House Registry document (CHR) ‘as soon as possible’.
The Challenger, as of 7 April 2009, has been sailing a 90ft long by 90ft trimaran for eight months, since early September 2008.
While SNG, as Defender, did not recognise Golden Gate Yacht Club as the Challenger until ordered to do so by the New York Appeal Court, SNG made rasping overtures about the provision of the Customs House Registry document, which is issued in the USA by the US Coast Guard…Â Details
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