Popoffvalve.com - INDYCAR has set Friday, May 25, 2012 as the deadline for interested manufacturers to commit to building aerodynamic kits for the 2013 and 2014 season.Regulations governing the so-called "aero kits" - bodywork pieces including engine covers, front and rear wings, and sidepods which are fitted over the base Dallara-built "safety cell" chassis - were issued to interested companies on May 14.The 363 days
Popoffvalve.com - Myself and the rest of the world thought that, as usual, Barber would be a follow-the-leader snoozer with minimal passing. Surely this new car can't create great racing at a course with so few passing zones. Surely the one who started on the pole wouldn't be beaten. Surely the winner wouldn't start outside of the Top 5...So much for that.Not only were cars passing each other at will, the 399 days
Popoffvalve.com - "The Friday Setup" will be a preview of the upcoming races and the schedule of the weekend events (practice and qualifications) leading up to race day. Also it will include other forms of rambling about the upcoming race (and the overall state of IndyCar) by yours truly, because I got to somehow bring up the word-count so SBNation will allow the posting of this article/schedule so you can 418 days
Thesportsnotebook.com - The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to SoCal on Sunday with a race in the Fontana suburb of Los Angeles (2:30 PM ET, Fox) and the race took its second major twist this week when the penalties on driver Jimmie Johnson and crew chief Chad Knaus were lifted. 426 days
Thesportsnotebook.com - The $800,000 purse at Sunday’s Sunland Derby is the biggest thus far on The Road To The Triple Crown, so it’s no surprise that top-caliber racing will come to the outpost of El Paso, TX for a showdown stakes race at 7:45 PM ET. 426 days
Espn.go.com -
Brad Keselowski got a message on his cellphone during his interview session Friday at Phoenix International Raceway, the same cellphone that caused a Twitter and NASCAR sensation Monday night.
No word on whether Friday's message came from one of his 225,000 Twitter followers, 160,000 of which came onboard since his controversial tweets during the red flag in the Daytona 500.
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Popoffvalve.com - Danica Patrick may or may not have known what would happen when she tweeted, "I need to thanks [sic] NASCAR for the SAFER barrier too" following her last-lap wreck in the Gatorade Duel at Daytona on Thursday afternoon.It's pretty obvious what she meant - she was happy that NASCAR required the SAFER barrier to be installed at the Daytona International Speedway on the inside walls.Perhaps ine 454 days
Popoffvalve.com - One of the toughest parts of coming back from a holiday break is breaking yourself of the habit of sleeping in late, eating anything you want, and letting your brain turn into some sort of mushy fungus that looks - and thinks - like a giant Portobello mushroom.The intellectual vacuum created by a couple of weeks' worth of whatever the opposite of critical thinking is (SEE? MY INNER THESAURU 496 days
