maveness: (Whatcha Got There?)
( Oct. 22nd, 2008 08:42 am)
NASCAR News of the Day

Red Bull faces heavy fines for shaving weight:

Sadly, this does not mean they tackled Brian and shaved that thing off his face. Which, I'd totally help pay the fine for that. (If there was a shaving fine, though, that would possibly explain Raoul, Tony Stewart's facial hair and Jeff Gordon's eyebrows. Oh, and why Casey Mears is suddenly a Chia pet.)

NASCAR is expected to levy what could be record-breaking fines on the #83 Team Red Bull Toyota outfit on Wednesday. After Brian Vickers finished 11th at the Tums QuikPak 500 at Martinsville Speedway, the #83 Toyota was selected as the random car to be further inspected at the NASCAR Technical Center in Concord, N.C., where officials discovered the sheet metal on the #83 car did not meet the minimum thickness requirements. According to sources familiar with the situation, the sides of the car — the doors, fenders and quarter panels — were too thin. The NASCAR rulebook states in rule 20-2, 1D that teams must use a minimum of 24 gauge (0.025 inch thick) sheet steel for their car bodies. Also, the practice of "Acid dipping or chemical milling," which makes the sheet metal thinner, is strictly forbidden. One individual close to the situation said acid dipping would allow a fabricator to make the metal thinner. Once the steel is sanded and painted, it is nearly impossible for NASCAR to detect.
maveness: (It Gives You Wings)
( Sep. 16th, 2008 03:04 pm)
NASCAR Breaking News

YES!!!!!

*does happy dance of joy*

Jay Frye, general manager of Red Bull Racing, has signed a multi-year agreement to stay with Red Bull.

More importantly? Jay Frye is the guy currently championing AJ Allmendinger with the head honcho in Austria. Jay is fighting for a team of three cars instead of getting rid of AJ. There is hope! Hope I tell you!
maveness: (NASCAR - Pondering?)
( Aug. 24th, 2008 02:05 pm)
Pardon my compulsion, but they finally got decent product for Red Bull Racing, so I bought a really sweet track jacket.

Also? Their shirts are freaking awesome. Seriously, folks, if you like Team Red Bull and want NASCAR apparel that looks way more decent than the average (meaning, no tacky collages) and has a variety of sizes (for real, there's a 6XLarge folks) and the prices are finally competitive (unlike when it was all Puma gear), go to store.redbullracing.com and order something.

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And now that I've got clothes washed and futzed on the internet way too long, to take a shower and get ready for a cookout.
Random Entertainment Stuffs

Star Trek trailer - totally made of WIN

Flight of the Hamsters

Now on to NASCAR.

Newman Brings the LULZ

By actual count as of midday Tuesday, the word "excited" in some form had been used nearly 100 times from a podium in the first 24 hours of the NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway. During Tuesday afternoon's session with Dodge drivers, Ryan Newman said the word "pessimism" might have a rightful place in preseason discussions by a race team. "I was listening to all the people talking about optimism on the stage," Newman said. "The opposite of that is pessimism, and my theory is you have to have a little bit of both, and you have to have the right rationale for each to be honest and fair to yourself. "If you're optimistic, you might create goals that you may not achieve, but if you're pessimistic you'll obviously never get there. The bottom line is you have to do what you have to do to get the job done." -- Charlotte Observer

Rusty's Finally Paying Attention

Wallace was not satisfied with his performance behind the microphone in '07, either. He said he has heard from fans and viewers and is listening to criticism and suggestions. -- KC Star

ESPN/ABC Culls The Ranks, Bestwick Back In Booth

Allen Bestwick, a NASCAR TV veteran who was an ABC/ESPN pit reporter last year, becomes studio show host, replacing Brent Musburger and Suzy Kolber, who were largely new to NASCAR. ESPN reporter Shannon Spake replaces Bestwick in the pits. -- USA Today

Races Will Probably Start Earlier

Earlier Start Time for Races This Year? [Humpy] Wheeler [president of Lowe's Motor Speedway] said the start times for many Sprint Cup races this coming season will be earlier, a departure from the mid-afternoon green flags used to try and entice West Coast viewers. "I think we all yielded to pressure from the networks a little more than we should have," Wheeler said. "We paid the price for it, and we're getting back to sanity again." AND: Wheeler says, "It's not a fancy sport. It's guys with big hands and getting sweaty and getting out there and banging on each other and knocking each other around and all-American fans sitting there having a good time." Earlier and more consistent starting times is the first move to correct that. When NASCAR announces starting times on Tuesday, races beginning at 2 p.m. or earlier will go from 15 to 18 on the 36-race schedule.

Pardon my choking on my drink, but that line was dang porny. Damn, Humpy!

Qualifying Gets a Tiny Bit More Equal

Go or Go Home Drivers to Qualify Together; NASCAR to Provide Tires for Tests: Michael Waltrip suggested last season that drivers outside the top 35 in owners' points should be allowed to qualify together so nobody would have an advantage in track conditions. NASCAR officials must have listened. The governing body kicked off its annual media tour by announcing that those outside the top 35 in all three series -- Sprint Cup, Nationwide Series and Craftsman Truck Series -- will qualify at the end of their respective session. It also was announced that teams will be provided tires for testing at non-sanctioned NASCAR tests. Sprint Cup teams will be given 200 tires, Nationwide teams 160 and Craftsman Truck Series teams 120.

Red Bull Paint Scheme

Lastly, the new Red Bull paint scheme is way awesome.
maveness: (NASCAR - Team Red Bull)
( Oct. 23rd, 2007 02:13 pm)
Richert parts ways with Red Bull

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*sobs*
maveness: (NASCAR - Team Red Bull)
( Oct. 22nd, 2007 10:10 am)
Team Red Bull

I think it's official. Team Red Bull hires the most awesomely hysterical people. (And the most squishable. Brian isn't so much hilarious as "OMG cute and brainy and freckly".)

Scott Speed and another F1 development driver singing "Milk and Cereal"

They're just lip syncing to the song, but still. How awesomely hilarious!

(Wait, Scott is the one in the glasses? Really? Hello nurse! That hits one of my kinks. I think that team hits every one except one!)

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Edwards v. Kenseth: The Fight

Anybody else watch this and want to protect Kenseth?

Cause we all know Carl mad isn't a good thing, but damn!
This is a catch-all post. Things are shorter than I want, but I'll never post otherwise, so...

My Sister's Boobs

She made me poke them. Luckily she did not flash me. But I poked the top edge of her fake boobs. She lied when she said she didn't go too big. They're a small C. Her skin is way too stretched and they're very stiff. And she had them covered. All this I could tell with them covered.

NASCAR

Yay for Mears! Yay for Truex! I like when guys win who haven't won before. Tis awesome.

I especially love when guys win in their sophomore season or later. For some reason, when rookies win I feel like they don't have as fine of an appreciation for it as the other guys do. Granted, if they don't win their rookie season they tend to end up as one of those drivers with a solid career, but not a superstar, so...

And randomly, dear Tony Stewart, please stop talking about your relationship with Zippy and saying "It's like we're married." Because seriously, I'll take you two to Canada if you want. Just to see who'd get to be the husband. (Something Tony said on Trackside for some reason makes me think that Zippy gets to be the husband.) We'll ignore the part where Zip is already married.

NEXTEL Pit Crew Challenge

Most importantly: the pit crews are ten million kinds of awesome and TV fails to capture their awesomeness. Those men bust their asses getting up and down that arena for the competition. They do things they don't normally do (run 40 yards, push a car - well, they don't do that if they're not Newman's crew). They for once get spotlighted for the training they go through. In a word, they RULE.

Many apologies to the amazing eyesight of [livejournal.com profile] bubblesbrnaid for doubting that it was in fact Matt Borland sitting a couple rows back and half a row down. *headdesk* You'd think after spotting his shining silver hair from a distance at Penske that I could spot him in profile much closer. Turns out...I can't.

Newman's crew won. They were good. Timewise, there was only one other team close, and that was the 83 team. Sadly, Newman's crew called out the Red Bull team (full time pit crew guys who do it 7 days a week) in the third round and beat them there. Third best team all night long was the 43 crew, though, so much love to Bobby's team for giving it all they had.

Bobby Labonte waved at me. *g* That's my story and I'm sticking to it. (Hey, I yelled REALLY LOUDLY when everyone else was quiet and he turned and waved in our direction. So you know, that was for me.)

Jeff Gordon is seriously short, but he looks oddly good with scruff.

Doug Richert is love. So is Vickers.

I will always root for a team if their driver shows up to support them. Especially if the driver gets in the car and steers. (Hence the fact that I was rooting for Kyle Busch at one point.)

Bobby Labonte has a whole lotta stuff in his pockets. Seriously. Every pants pocket was filled with stuff.
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