Elliot Sadler along with his sponsor, Stanley Tools recently visited Sparrow Hospital in Lansing, Michigan this week. Sparrow Hospital is a part on the Children’s Miracle Network, a non-profit organization that raises money for children’s hospitals.

If this doesn’t warm a woman’s heart, I don’t know what will.

If Sadler wins this weeks race at Michigan, Stanley Tools will donate $1 million to Children’s Miracle Network.

We’ve got him Stewart fans!

Friday at Michigan International Speedway Ryan Newman will make it official that he will be joining Stewart-Haas racing next 2009 season.

The rumors had been running for months that Newman was the man to join the newly formed race team, but there had been no official announcements…at least not until this Friday morning at 10:30 AM.

NASCAR.com reports:

“Tony’s a great competitor in a great many ways, because he’s tough, but he’s also respectful,” Newman said prior to the July 12 race at Chicagoland. “He’s been a good friend on and off the racetrack, specifically off. He’s done a lot to help me and guide me. He’s an Indiana boy, so I have a different respect for him because of that. But in general, he’s just a hard-nosed racer, and I’ve always appreciated him for that. Whether we argue on the racetrack or not, we’re two hard-nosed racers.”

It will obviously not be all roses when the 2009 season approaches for Newman. He will be driving the #4 car which is out of the top 35 in owners points.

Stewart automatically gets into the races with his #14 car because he is a past series champ.

This past weekend after Kyle won the race at Watkins Glen I noticed something was different when he got out of his car to take a bow.

Besides the fact that I got that the Rhianna’s “Take A Bow” song was playing over and over in my head at that point, I noticed the boos were not as intense and cheers were getting clearer. Could it be that people are finally warming up to Kyle Busch?

After all Watkins Glen was his 8^th win in the Sprint Cup Series alone. He’s got six in the Nationwide Series and two in the Craftsman Truck Series.

So either this guy is genuinely a really good racer…or he sticks his nut riding girlfriend underneath the hood and makes her Flinstone it around the track for 400 laps.

ESPN reports that “Busch’s fan club has grown from 110 members a year ago when he was with Hendrick Motorsports to 800 22 races into his first season with Joe Gibbs Racing.”

And we must find and shoot down the person that told him after all this success in a season that isn’t even finished yet, that he is hotter than ice and the next Miley Cyrus phenomenon because he’s launched his own clothing line called “Rowdy Style”

No joke, it launched online Monday!

The only time we ever see Kyle Busch is when he’s wearing his fire suit. What kind of style could he honestly have? I guess that’s a whole other post/debate.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Kyle Busch fan too, otherwise I wouldn’t have named my demonic looking ferret after him but was the clothing line thing a little off track?

Is there sweat pants that have his face on the butt cheeks, because I’d buy those so he could kiss my…

When I hear the name AJ Allmendinger I think about a nerdy looking little kid even though the supposed nerdy looking kid is married and slowly, but surely starting to be mentioned more than often during races.

He raced his way into the Sprint All-Star Challenge in May by winning the Showdown. He also finished 10th at the Brickyard and then 19th at Pocono.

As of now his future with Red Bull Racing is still in the air because they have not re-signed his contract and that is making him a little nervous.

Red Bull sponsors AND owns his team. The “big wigs” at Red Bull’s corporate headquarters in Australia make the final decision, so they are rarely seen or talked too.

Wish my boss was gone like that! I’m a little jealous.

If Red Bull does not re-sign him by the end of August, it will be too late to look for work so it’s only natural Allmendinger is nervous. I know when I’m nervous I drink 2+ cans or more of Sugar Free Red Bull!

Dammit NASCAR should hire me, I make better cheesy plugs than Carl Edwards!

“The assumption in the garage is that I’m back at Red Bull, but they have the option and haven’t picked it up yet,” Allmendinger said. “I want to be here. When they put [Mike] Skinner in the car, I easily could’ve said ‘[Forget] this, I’m tired of it.’ But I didn’t want to do that. I wanted to improve, and I feel like I’ve done that. I want to drive for Red Bull.”

Don’t worry AJ, I drink a Red Bull every morning before I go to work. If they do not re-sign you I will picket against Red Bull and switch to Amp Energy Drinks.

(Oh! Another plug, I am good!)

I havn’t disapeared again! I’m actually on a mini-vacation this weekend. But I will be back to writing tomorrow after the Watkins Glen race. Enjoy the day!

So I attempted to sign up with Bleacher Report last month to see if any of my articles were worthy.

I screwed up my account and the automatic feed picked up my last three posts from the past few days or so, including the Tony Stewart report leaving Joe Gibbs Racing early. Within less than a day, my article was featured on the main NASCAR topic page of Bleacher Report.

Please tell me why I got a comment (chewed out) from the moderator that the news story was already posted and that they were the ones that broke the news story first becuase they got the information from Stewarts people.

Yeah, please tell me the part where I claimed to go to bed at night and wake up in them morning with Tony Stewart laying by my side and telling me everything that he is going to do for the day.

Don’t get me wrong, that would be nice, but I don’t claim to be a media expert, journalist or the first to break a news story. I write for fun and to be informative to the visitors that might not know what’s going on every second of the day, or just to be a smart-butt.

Needless to say, I think my Bleacher Report career days will be few and far between. It was interesting while it lasted. Go to NASCAR Blogger FT Digest, they don’t take my writings and opinions so seriously.

With the whole tire debacle on Sunday at Indianapolis Speedway another very interesting debacle happened that wasn’t as publicized…

At O’Reilly Motorsports Park on Thursday night USAC (United States Auto Club) Midget car owner, Tony Stewart was reported slapping the headset off one official and shoving him.

Stewart owns the midget cars of Tracy Hines and Levi Jones. Hines was the points leader and running in the top four when he grazedthe outside wall on a restart.

When the crew planned to change the right rear flat tire and get back into the race before the restart. A USAC official ruled they were too late.

Stewart then knocked the headset from the official’s head, then shoved him.

“We talked about it after it happened and after the race was over,” Stewart said. “It got their eyes open, and they’re doing everything they can to make sure incidents like that don’t happen again.”

Gggrrr baby…momma likes it when you’re bad!

But really? Is this how a race car owner should be acting? Shouldn’t there be a level of professionalism? Or since you can’t really fire yourself if your the boss, does it matter what you do?