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GM’s latest creation and contribution to a greener world is the Chevy Volt, an electric plug-in car. The tag line…”From gas-friendly to gas free”..which to most of us that are suffering from the high cost of gas prices…is a great tag line.

The Chevy Volt was shown off last week at Texas Motor Speedway as a method to reel in race fans.

The only problem that most NASCAR fans might have with the Volt being affiliated with racing is…the Volt is extremly quiet. So for me personally, the sound of loud engines zooming by is what initially got me interested in watching NASCAR, the Volt might not be so appealing.

What do you guys think?

I can understand the concept of going green and saving the environment, but I think watching a silent car drive in circles for hours on end would bore more than entertain.

Like a woman and her ever changing moods, I decided to do recaps for the race again.

And I must say, it’s so easy to do recaps when my electric is not being blown out my Hurricane Ike, a 6 year old begging me to undress sleazy looking Bratz dolls and a boyfriend fighting you for the TV because he’d rather watch NFL.

God, I hate my life after that little reflection….anyways…the RECAP. Fun news stories and sarcasm coming tomorrow!

• Start: Jeff Gordon the poll sitter gets a good head start.
• Lap 2: Kurt Busch hits the wall, caused by David Guilliland getting loose, (#15) spins as well as an aftermath result. Tony Stewart runs down into the grass to avoid hitting Paul Menard.
• Lap 12: Patrick Carpantier spins into the wall, Carl Edwards (#99) clips him in the left front, but only slightly, he decides that the damage is not extensive enough to effect anything and stays out.
• Lap 38 (around): Jamie McMurray is the dominant car moving through the field and takes 1st.
• Lap 64: Joe Nemecheck (#78) solo wrecks, caution waves for third time. Jamie McMurray and Kyle Busch have semi-weak pit stops.
• Lap 101: Dale Earnhardt Jr. continues to fall back in spots due to his car being “very loose”
• Lap 111: Matt Kenseth is leading.
• Lap 113: Dale Jr’s tire goes low and he spins out, avoiding the wall, then Kyle Busch (#18) car has smoke coming out of it. He says they could possibly blow up on the restart.
• Lap 157: AJ Allmedinger’s car blows smoke, caution is out. Kyle Busch is still running in the race.
• Lap 162: Robby Gordon and Jamie McMurray get together after such a great run from Jamie McMurray, both cars suffer damage. Marcus Ambrose gets the free pass.  McMurray tries to pass Gordon who was a lap car and lost control.  McMurray is out of the race.
• Lap 171: Sam Hornish Jr. (#77) gets into the wall and suffers a missing rear bumper, and side damage. Caution is out for the 7th time.
• Shortly after this, Kyle Busch is taken back to the garage area. As a parting gift oil is spilled all over his neighboring pit stalls. Denny Hamlin has been on and off of pit road so many times.
• Lap 186: Caution is out. #77 has car pieces falling out onto the track.
• 180 Laps to go: Denny Hamlin is leaking fluids.
• 162 Laps to go: Jimmie Johnson finally pits, which was much needed, on the green flag.
• 158 Laps to go: Carl Edwards is leading the race.
• 156 Laps to go: Denny Hamlin pits with a flat tire. He ends up going to the garage.
• 150 Laps to go: Regan Smith goes to the garage.
• 135 Laps to go: Martin Truex Jr. pits under green.
• 132 Laps to go: Tony Stewart pits along with Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick under green.
• 131 Lapt to go: Clint Bowyer pits along with Jeff Burton under green.
• 129 Laps to go: Jimmie Johnson leads, followed by Stewart after all green flag stops are done. Newman and Kenseth battle for the following positions 3 & 4.
• 113 Laps to go: Denny Hamlin is back into the race from the garage.
• 109 Laps to go: Caution is out, this is good news for Jimmie Johnson who could have possibly have fuel mileage issues.
• After pits, Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards leave the pits #1 and #2 respectively, but it was a very close race off the pits.
• 99 Laps to go: Biffle takes the lead with Carl Edwards right behind him, taking the spot from Johnson. Matt Kenseth is behind them.
• 87 Laps to go:  Kurt Busch gets black flagged for pieces of his car and debris hanging off the car.
• 85 Laps to go: Biffle reports a possible flat tire.
• 75 Laps to go: Edwards is the leader. Biffle is 2nd. Mark Martin is 3rd.
• 50 Laps to go: Juan Pablo Montoya wrecks. Caution. Carl Edwards takes two tires only on a gamble by crew chief, Bob Osbourne. Mark Martin catches up to Edwards on the restart.
• 42 Laps to go: Matt Kenseth takes #2 spot from Martin.
• 28 Laps to go: Kenseth and Carl Edwards are fighting for the top spot.
• 25 Laps to go: Biffle takes the #2 spot from Kenseth.
• 23 Laps to go: Kenseth takes back the #2 spot. Carl Edwards falls back two spots to #3.
• 20 Laps to go: Kenseth is #1 with close competition from Biffle.
• 14 Laps to go: Biffle and Kenseth are racing side by side.
• 8 Laps to go: Biffle takes lead with close competition from Kenseth.
• WINNER: Greg Biffle

DEBATE QUESTION: If you were in Carl Edwards shoes would you blame the loss on Bob Osborne?

I personally say No, because if Osborne opted to take 4 tires and Edwards won the race, there would be no complaints right now. Osborne obviously thought he had a good chance to win the race on two tires, so he gave Edwards two tires. He was gambling, taking a chance, and in racing, sometimes it turns out good, sometimes bad. That’s just racin! If nobody gambled, then we’d be watching a very boring race. Edwards is 1st in points right now, so there is not too much to be disapointed with. He ran a great race and with his two tires vs. the four fresh tires that Kenseth and Biffle had.

What do you think?

Ron Hornaday Jr., former Craftsman Trucks champ and currently second in points standings, admitted using testosterone for more than a year before it was added to sport’s drugs banned list.

He acknowledges the media reports during an interview with ESPN on Tuesday. He said the the testosterone was used to treat a medical condition.

NASCAR does not have mandatory drug testing. NFL and baseball, however do it, should NASCAR follow suite?

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NASCAR only does testing when officials have “reasonable suspicion” that a driver or crew member is abusing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone’s just recently added to the list.

Chairman and CEO Brian France said has plans to announce an expansion to the drug-testing policy soon.

When it comes to favorite drivers, if I had to choose between Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards, I would choose Carl Edwards. If I wanted to sound juvenile, and someone asked me to put my favorite NASCAR drivers in favoritism order….it would be Tony Stewart, Carl Edwards, then Kyle Busch. And let me also say that my favoritism list does not go in the order of which NASCAR driver I would sleep with first, that’s a completely other list.

Now that I’m done being juvenile…how bout that Bristol race?

I personally did not watch the entire thing. My little cousin wanted me to take her to a Jonas Brothers concert. Yeah, I said Jonas Brothers. I did however, wear a old school Dale Jr. #8 Budweiser hat to the race because I didn’t feel like doing my hair, and I guarantee you…I was the only one wearing NASCAR gear in that sold our arena of screaming little girls.

By the time I got in my car to leave the concert, I turned on my Sirius Satellite Radio and the screen rolled across the top 5 finishers. Ugh!

Luckily for me, they played it again today…you know, for all the NASCAR fans that went to the Jonas Brothers concert, since I know there’s a lot of you out there!

So the recap for you Jonas Brothers fans (I hope you all know at this point, I’m totally joking!) Busch lead 415 consecutive lapsBristol Motor Speedway, the first laps were the first moments of the what is now Busch vs. Edwards rivalry as they were already bumping and pushing along the way. Then at the end, the same situation happened and Edwards got away with the win. After Edwards’ victory, he started to do his cool down lap and who comes out of nowhere and bumps his car…you guessed it…diaper baby Busch.

“It’s one of those deals where I couldn’t get by him, I couldn’t get by him, and I just had to ask myself, ‘Would he do that to me?’ ” Edwards said after doing his trademark backflip off the car in Victory Lane. “And he has before, so that’s the way it goes.”

I agree with Edwards, if Kyle Busch had the opportunity, he would have probably wrecked someone else for the win, plus someone needs to tell diaper baby Busch that it’s called RACING. I havn’t watched NASCAR long, but what I have seen from the old school style of racing…I like the rough and tumble style of racing, the type of racing that Edwards and Busch did Saturday night. It’s the type of entertainment NASCAR needs these days to keep people interested.

Denny Hamlin is the same way as Kyle Busch, when things do not turn out the way they want it to, their interviews end up being negative, like a “Oh we got second place, we should have got first…”

For the sake of sounding valley girl, LIKE OMG! YOU WON SECOND, YOU ARE A FRIGGIN’ MILLIONARE what’s the problem? Not to mention, the negativeness of a second place finish must lift the spirits of the crew members and the people that bust their butt for you and you are whining about a second place finish.

Watch Carl Edwards when he does interviews with media, if he’s wearing sunglasses, he does the respectful thing and pulls them up on his head when he talks to them. I’m a woman, and body language like that is very commendable.

Maybe it’s just my demeanor of being happy for what I have in life, and maybe that principal does not apply to NASCAR, but it just proves my point that I am a fan of Kyle Busch when he is in a race car, once he gets out of the race car and starts talking…he’s the douche bag I loved to hate last season.

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Joe Gibbs racing will announce on August 25th in a news conference forum that Joey Logano will replace Tony Stewart in the #20 car next season as Tony will go on to his Stewart-Haas car owner duties.

The goal is to get Logano in a fourth Sprint Cup car by the Richmond Race…THIS SEASON! The last race before the Chase is officially underway.

NASCAR.com reports: “In no way will JGR jeopardize any of those cars’ chances of making the Chase [by putting Logano in a Cup car at Richmond],” the source said. “They don’t even want to risk the appearance of possibly jeopardizing the Chase chances of the other three cars.”

The regular NASCAR fans know that Joey Logano is a great race car driver, his track record in the Nationwide Series is far superior to most of the drivers running in the Nationwide Series full time, in 9 Natiowide Series starts he’s won once, got 2 poles and 3 top five finishes. But the big question is…is it too soon to be putting him into a Sprint Cup car?

Looks like Tony Stewart had a point when he publicly degraded Goodyear about their tires back in April.

The word of the week for the Indianapolis race was…TIRES!

The durability of the Goodyear tires did not last long against the abrasiveness of the track and the new Car of Today (aka Car of Tomorrow) which called for a very interesting and circus-like event.

In 2005, AP explains that F1 and Michelin learned this lesson, “when three-fourths of the field refused to compete in the United States Grand Prix because of tire concerns. Indy took a hit, the race never recovered and F1 isn’t currently racing in this country.”

“The difference between NASCAR and Formula One is Formula One thinks of it as a business — they don’t think about the fans, they don’t think about the show, here they do. NASCAR will do whatever is possible to put the show on in the best way possible.” said Juan Pablo Montoya, former F1 driver turned NASCAR driver.

There were caution flags every 10-12 laps for the safety of the drivers. 52 of the 160 laps were run under caution. The longest green flag run was 13 laps. Even Goodyear had an emergency shipment of tires that were reserved for Pocono sent to Indianapolis Motor Speedway in case teams ran out of tires.

After all the tire dust was cleared…literally, Jimmie Johnson was victorious against close heat from Carl Edwards and Denny Hamlin.

And there’s nothing more delicious than kissing rubber covered bricks and then kissing your significant other, but if my man just won me a hefty paycheck, I’d kiss the butt of a horse!

“Every lap. Every lap I was concerned about it,” Johnson said. “Every corner, for that matter. You could almost feel the tire life being taken out of it, if you leaned too hard.”

Other drivers were also not happy with the tire debacle:

“It’s embarrassing and it’s disappointing. I’ve never seen anything like this,” four-time Indianapolis winner Jeff Gordon said.

“Didn’t see much of a race,” Matt Kenseth said. Yeah you didn’t Matt because your tire blew up the entire back half of your car. If Sunday’s race was supposedly no one’s fault, someone better tattoo this statement to the back of his non-existent back window.

“It’s just unacceptable at this level,” Brian Vickers said.

“Ridiculous” was the word out of Ryan Newman’s mouth.

Don’t worry boys…we still love you!

I’m sure worse could be said from the drivers about the race, but if they want their cars to pass inspection their lips are probably glued. Even Tony Stewart was surprisingly calm about his comments on the whole situation, what kind of peyote was he smoking? And why doesn’t he share?

So is it NASCAR’s fault or Goodyears fault? After all, Goodyear is the only provider of tires for NASCAR (through 2012 none the less) and NASCAR should have possibly taken a more pro-active role in the situation.

If Goodyear made parachutes and I jumped out of a plane with one of their parachutes, I’d be dead. So to completely blow off the fiasco and pen it as water under the bridge would be complete anarchy.

In April, Goodyear tested tires with three drivers: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brian Vickers and Kurt Busch but the Car of Tomorrow had never raced at Indy and the weight stability shifted more toward the right side of the car with less down force.

“It’s just the package. Something’s different about the package, and we kind of need to understand that.” Greg Stucker, director of race tire sales for Goodyear said.

Um so why wasn’t this understood back in oh, I don’t know…APRIL!

When it really comes down to it though, I say sh*t happens and Sunday’s race was no exception. If I had to choose between watching a boring 400 mile race or watching monkeys scramble around like chickens with their heads cut off, then I’d vote for the monkeys and chickens….they were probably luckier than that bird that ended up flying under and out of Jeff Burton’s car on one of the re-starts.

NASCAR did end up apologizing for the circus that was the Indianapolis race and are working on a solution to the problem to avoid history from repeating itself.

If anything good came out of this race, I didn’t have to take a shot of liquor every time they mentioned Kyle Busch…and I stayed sober.

It all started with 30 or so laps to go; Clint Bowyer and Sam Hornish Jr. wreck to bring out the caution.

Pre-caution, Kyle Busch seemed to be the instigator that we all know and love by rubbing and bumping into Montoya during the caution. Post-caution, Busch continued with his shenanigans.

Montoya comes from an open wheel realm and is not easily intimidated; Kyle’s bullying on the track meant nothing to him. It didn’t help that both driver’s have huge ego’s that obviously clashed. Montoya runs into Busch’s right rear and spins out Kyle Busch during the caution and was penalized two laps by NASCAR. Montoya finished 32nd.

Post-race interviews; Montoya admitted to intentionally wrecking Kyle Busch. “He hit me under caution. He hit me under green and I retaliated,” Montoya told officials. “Did I go too far in retaliating? Yeah. I think they are giving me a penalty and its okay for what I did. The only thing I told them was that they are always saying be very careful not to do anything under caution. The only reason I did that was I was just defending myself.” He continues, “It gets to a point that it’s too much, he runs good, yeah. He’s got great cars, yeah. But you know, I thought we had a decent car and I don’t appreciate when people race me like that. There’s a fine line and he just crossed it.”

I’m sure people appreciate honesty once in a while; I’m sure not too many warmed up to Montoya’s honesty. I actually liked that he was honest because so many drivers lie about intentionally “racing another car hard”. Although, it might have ultimately gotten him into even more trouble because he admitted it; we have yet to hear of the consequences beyond the lap penalties during the race.

Kyle Busch was surprisingly calm during his post-race interview. “Honestly, I have no idea (what happened). I got a run on him with 50 laps to go and got to his outside and he kept coming up a little bit,” Busch said. “I didn’t turn down into him and I barely touched his quarter-panel and got by him. We came to that caution flag and he thought he beat me to the flag. I was just trying to get around (Dario Franchitti) who was in front of us, touched (Montoya) on the door and he turned left and spun me out. I don’t know what his beef is.”

It’s not like Kyle Busch was having enough problems with his car without retaliation from Montoya, “It wasn’t something that was going to get fixed on the race track,” Busch said. “We needed to go to the garage and work on it. We missed something all weekend and we pretty much knew it was going to be a dismal day, but we tried to make the most of it. If we would have stayed out there, then we could have won the race — we could have been where the 2 (Kurt Busch) car was.

Sure Kyle Busch, whatever you say…we already know your poop doesn’t stink.

I think Montoya is the winner of this fight, it’s about time Kyle Busch got what was coming to him. I’m just surprised Kyle Busch didn’t cry and whine so much after the altercation, the Pampers Co. must have saw a drop in sales that day.