http://www.racekitten.net Monologues of a Female NASCAR Fan with a touch of Hormonal Rants and Raves. Sun, 19 Oct 2008 02:20:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Martinsville qualifying got rained out last Friday, so everyone at this point knows the drill after all that mess goes down. The starting grid goes in order by points. Why don' we just serve Jimmie Johnson his third Sprint Cup trophy on a silver platter already. We will also get to see the ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/martinsville-qualifying-rained-out/ 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/carl-edwards-and-kevin-harvick-duke-it-out/ 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/denny-hamlin-will-race-sprint-cup-this-weekend/ [caption id="attachment_404" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Photo from TechnoRide"][/caption] 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/gm-tries-to-volt-nascar-fans/ 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/stewart-haas-will-be-sponsored-by-us-army/ Denny Hamlin was released from a hospital yesterday after this hard hit from this past weekend's race at Talladega: [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmchYZ6KZ94] 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/denny-hamlin-released-from-hospital/ 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 ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/pink-never-looked-so-good/ A few month's back Amp Energy had a contest where you could sign up to get your name on Dale Jr's Amp Energy car for the Talladega race. Granted, you could barely tell from looking on TV, but I guess there were names on there. The first 70,000 fans that signed ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/i-got-on-the-car/ I think it's safe to say that it was a good weekend for Tony Stewart and a bad weekend for Regan Smith and Carl Edwards. Stewart won his first race at Talladega, so there's lots to drink to because he has come in 2nd place 9 times at that race track. ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/talladega-on-my-mind/ So I found some interesting information about where the NASCAR Goodyear tires go to die. And it's actually a very pretty life. HitVaHot explains that after a race is finished, there are at least 600 used up tires. They are stacked four high and collected at the end of the pits. ... http://www.racekitten.net/2008/10/where-nascar-race-tires-go-to-retire/