Obviously there is nothing else interesting in the NASCAR realm to report, because my NASCAR news alerts blew up my mailbox this week with the Kevin Harvick vs. Carl Edwards “fight”.

While photographers were there to watch the happy couple get into their domestic dispute, this is the only released photo of the incident:

Yeah right! I’m not special enough to have that picture!

To break it down, Harvick was bitter about the Talladega wreck last week and said post race,

“I know that his fans won’t be very proud of him sitting back there riding around like a pansy, If he had been racing all day, maybe he would have known how long the front of his car was.”

Edwards thinks he’s still in high school and started passing nasty notes around to Harvick saying “thank you”  and “I was really trying to screw up everyone’s day. Love, Carl.”

They finally met up in the garage’s this week and tried to scrap it out.

I say we just put them in an octagon and let them go at it. My money is on Carl, I’ve seen what’s under that fire suit! (Not in person, but I can only imagine!) Harvick better run, Carl will have a big yellow shell for dinner! Some of the other guys agree with me too…

“I’m going to go with Carl, with his build. But I still think Harvick is a pretty good scrapper.” Kyle Busch says. Should I be scared that Kyle Busch mentioned Carl’s “build”?

“It would be tough,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “Kevin never backed down from anybody. But you know that Carl is pretty tough. It’d be quite interesting.”

A member of the media asked Harvick if this whole dramatic fiasco was just a ploy to get into Carl Edwards’ head, to which Harvick replied,

“That’s not very hard to do,”

That gives me hope! I would like to be in his….ahem…head!

It seems like Denny Hamlin is trying not to end up a “Tony Stewart Statistic”.

As in, he’s not going to risk injuring himself if he wrecks in the Nationwide Series race so much to the point that it effects him racing in the Sprint Cup. Tony Stewart did it last season when he injured his shoulder. Hence why I personally call it the “Tony Stewart Statistic”

NASCAR.com reports that Denny Hamlin will sit out the Nationwide Series race this week. Denny mentioned that since he is only 12th in points, he basically felt he didn’t have anything to lose.

He considered sitting out the Sprint Cup race as well, but he is currently reported to be definitly racing this week and feeling better from last week’s hard wreck.

No diaper baby whining this week for Hamlin! I feel so lost!

Photo from TechnoRide

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.

NASCAR reports that there will be an announcement tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at Lowe’s Motor Speedway that the U.S. Army will be the primary sponsor for Ryan Newman’s #39 Chevy car with the newly formed Stewart-Haas racing next season.

Tony Stewart’s #14 car has already been announced to have Office Depot and Old Spice as alternating sponsor’s so it looks like this race team is coming along almost perfectly.

NASCAR.com quotes Stewart:

“I’m really excited about having the opportunity to be hands-on and be a part of getting things going for next year and trying to get the key people hired right now and dealing with all the people at the shop that I haven’t had a chance to work with yet,” he said Monday on a conference call with reporters. “It’s an exciting time for me. It’s the busiest I’ve ever been in my life right now.”

Denny Hamlin was released from a hospital yesterday after this hard hit from this past weekend’s race at Talladega:

The single car wreck was caused by a tire failure. After leaving his car, they took him to a local hospital for further observation where he was kept overnight. He was reported to have been complaining of a headache and there were reports he had a possible concussion, but I have not found any confirmation of this.

I know I like making fun of the guy for being a whiny diaper baby at times, (which believe me, is all in good fun, I’m not that cruel!) but I really am glad he is OK!

STATESVILLE, N.C. (Oct. 7, 2008) – Elliott Sadler and the No. 19 Stanley Dodge are changing their look with a passionate pink paint scheme for the Bank of America 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race on Oct. 11 in Charlotte. The pink paint scheme is in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Sadler, who races each week with a pink ribbon decal above the driver’s side door on the No. 19 Dodge, is excited for the opportunity to lend support to breast cancer awareness.

“Last year my mother, Bell, was diagnosed with breast cancer, so this is a cause that is very near and dear to my heart,” said Sadler. “We are fortunate that she was able to fight and is now on the road to recovery, but I’m excited to get involved with Susan G. Komen for the Cure to help support breast cancer awareness and raise money for research to find a cure.”

Stanley is making a $100,000 donation to Susan G. Komen for the Cure in support of the initiative. Following the race weekend, all of Sadler’s uniform items are going up for auction with proceeds set to benefit Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Read the rest of the article at Inside TrackNews

Paul Newman¹ an Oscar-winning actor, starring in over 65 movies over a span of 50 years entrepreneur, philanthropist, activist and race car driver, died of cancer last Friday, September 27, 2008 at his home in Westport, Connecticut at the age of 83.

For you newbie NASCAR fans, and even young people like myself, you might remember him as the voice of Doc Hudson in the 2006 animated flick, “Cars” which is to this day, still my favorite movie! Although there are probably a handful of great memorable movies that my father could spit out off the top of his head.

Newman worked with Kyle and Pattie Petty to form the Victory Junction Gang Camp in North Carolina that helps children with special health care needs.

He will be greatly missed in the NASCAR community…

• “Paul Newman, a real American hero,” -Team owner Jack Roush
• “I have been out on numerous days where he has driven Cup cars. Normally, Rick [Hendrick] has a play day and puts a restrictor plate on the car and lets guys go out and drive around with half the horsepower. Numerous times, Paul has gone out on sticker tires, the plate off and run really quick laps. I was always so impressed with his driving ability and who he was as a person.” - Jimmie Johnson
• “We connected as racers, but Paul’s ideas of what we should do for charity is what really resonated with me the most. He set the bar, not only with his giving, but in how he gave. … Paul did it right, and he did it with class. He’ll be terribly missed,” -Tony Stewart
• “He wasn’t the guy in “Cool Hand Luke” or his other movies, and he wasn’t a race car driver. He was a great human being.” -Kyle Petty
• “He was just a great guy and truly loved everything about racing. He and I shared a true passion for motorsports in general, but specifically IndyCar racing. … Paul was one of a kind.” -IndyCar team owner and driver Michael Andretti.

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