They kept coming … and coming … and coming.
And coming.
Nobody saw that last “coming†coming.
This was supposed to be the year when there were going to be acres of empty seats at our NASCAR Sprint Cup race. The economies, both national and local, are like a set of Goodyears that badly needs changing. You can see clear down to the steel belts.
Sellout? No way. Ten days ago, speedway officials said ticket sales were down 15 to 20 percent. Which really means 25 to 30 percent. This economy is killing us, they said. Plus.
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Five years after making his Sprint Cup Series debut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Kyle Busch captured perhaps the biggest victory of his young career at his hometown track – doing so in impressive style.
Busch drove from the rear of the field to win Sunday’s Shelby 427. The Las Vegas native was credited as the race’s first winner from the pole, but an engine change forced him to start from the back…Â Details
Jamie McMurray during the NASCAR race in Las Vegas yesterday.  McMurray makes a great save to keep his car off the wall and pointed in the right direction. Several of the NASCAR commentators said this was the finest job of car control they had ever seen. Let’s see a Drifting competition where someone goes sideways this far, at 180+ mph and “under control.”
The #1 boat of the Maritimo Offshore race team, the Lamborghini-powered ‘Maritimo’, has cruised to a convincing win in the third round of the Offshore Superboat Championships off Williamstown, Victoria.
With experienced Ross Willaton on throttles instead of regular throttleman Pal Virik Nilsen, unable due to other commitments to make the trip out from Norway, driver Tom Barry-Cotter and the man they call ‘Roscoe’ proved a successful pairing.
Perhaps the major story to come out of the race was the performance of the ‘new kids on the block’, Mackay youngsters Brandon and Chris Frier. … Details and Pictures