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 up got their names on it. Since I am a stinkin’ sucker, I signed up for it. If you did the same, you can go to AmpEnergy.com and login with your email address to see where your name placed on the car.

Electronically (probably not for real!)…I’m on the left center, somewhere in the #88 symbol. But I’m a dumb-fud, and put my real name on the form, so I cannot point out where my name is on this electronic simulation of the car photo below, just trust me, it’s there, because I don’t trust the internet and am not going to tell you my name! Bleh!

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. What a way to pop your Talladega cherry!

With all the cars that were taken out of the race, I almost thought that the last lap of the race was going to be a scene out of “Talladega Nights” and Tony Stewart and Regan Smith would jump out of their wrecked cars and run towards the finish line and…well if you’ve seen the movie, I don’t need to go into detail.

I must admit, I totally forgot the rules for passing because I was too busy cheering and throwing things for Stewart to win, so I really thought Regan Smith had it there in the end.

Sports Illustrated explained that if you pass below the yellow line to improve your position it is a pass through penalty, since it was the last lap of the race, they sent Regan Smith’s ending position to the end, which was 18th.

However TheStar.com explains that “NASCAR also says that if a driver is forced – repeat: forced – below the yellow line, and makes a pass, the pass shall stand.”

So…confused. So what are the REAL rules?

Maybe it’s the woman in me, but a big part of me feels bad for Regan Smith, it’s not like he really had anywhere else to go but below the line, he was forced down there, at the same time Stewart was blocking and protecting his position, but that’s racing!

I just didn’t want to sound partial towards Stewart, but seeing that he is my driver, I’m going to sound like it no matter how much I justify it to myself.

On another note, did someone tell Carl Edwards that if you bump draft someone too hard that it’s not like the video games, they will get turned around? Someone needs to take away his game console and stuff it up his bum. (Call me Carl, I’m just the girl for the job!)

I tried to shoot my boyfriend in the head thinking we was going to be like a zombie and rise right back up again because that’s what they do in the video games.

Out of all the people to screw up the bum hole, it had to be his own Roush teammates, Greg Biffle and Matt Kenseth and half of the points contenders for the Sprint Cup and then some including Dale Earnhardt Jr., Travis Kvapil, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch, Michael Waltrip, Dave Blaney, Juan Pablo Montoya and Reed Sorenson.

Carl Edwards definitely gets the “Here’s Your Sign” award this week along with this quote from him:

“I was worried about the idiots when you come here and I was the guy that caused that one,” he said.

DDDDUUUUUUUHHH!

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. Besides the supposed pieces that make their way onto eBay where desperate fans bid of them and place them in a frame to hang on their walls, some of the retired tires are made into coolers.

No joke! They sell them at NascarCooler.net

As pretty awesome as they look, and they seem like a great staple to have at NASCAR and football parties, the tire cooler costs a one time payment of $319.96. Which personally, I’d rather go to a race and sleep with a pit crew member and get one for free, better yet, I’m due for a tire change on my car, I’ll just save one and throw my Bud Light and Rum in that. That’s just me, I don’t have that kind of money to blow.

Maybe one day when I marry the race car driver of my dreams and he can give me a tire off his car…

5. Tony Stewart/Joey Logano “Home Depot” Commercial

If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a Stewart fan and I’m slowly becoming a Loano fan so this commercial is kind of bittersweet (because Tony’s leaving) and exciting because I know Logano will do all my #20 merchandise justice.

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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.

1. Photo from Orlando Sentinel [↩]

The top 12 NASCAR “Race for the Chase” contenders presenting David Letterman’s “Top 12″:

Lordy, lordy, lordy. Kyle Busch said “ass” Haha anyways, I found these fun little videos and photos from The Fast and the Fabulous (a wonderful NASCAR blog by Valli) and just had to share for all you ladies out there.

The video above and the photo below was from “Chase Media Day” which shows the top 12 NASCAR Race for the Chase contenders.

I love seeing the NASCAR guys out of their element…and in suits none the less. One, it’s extremely attractive and two, it’s humanizes them, it shows the public that they really are normal human beings. Probably for the same reasons that I love seeing my favorite singers dressed in normal street clothes. It humanizes them and even for a moment, takes away from the “celebrity” factor.

Which is probably why I’m so into this photo:

Although, speaking from a degrading woman’s standpoint, I think Tony Stewart could clean up a lot better. I’d love to see him wearing something like what Denny Hamlin is wearing. Just a personal reflection.

I know I can have my blonde moments (even though I’m naturally brunette) but please someone help me out and explain this article and why it was written. It’s taken me a week to realize that this article is not true, but why was it written and was it suppose to be some kind of joke? Help an airhead out!

For you newbies to the site, I am a somewhat new NASCAR fan (it will be 4 years this year) so I don’t think I’ve ever herd of David Foster Wallace?

Article found on The Onion:

NASCAR Cancels Remainder Of Season Following David Foster Wallace’s Death

LOUDON, NH—Shock, grief, and the overwhelming sense of loss that has swept the stock car racing community following the death by apparent suicide of writer David Foster Wallace has moved NASCAR to cancel the remainder of its 2008 season in respect for the acclaimed but troubled author of Infinite Jest, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, and Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.

In deference to the memory of Wallace, whose writing on alienation, sadness, and corporate sponsorship made him the author of the century in stock car racing circles and whom NASCAR chairman Brian France called “perhaps the greatest American writer to emerge in recent memory, and definitely our most human,” officials would not comment on how points, and therefore this year’s championship, would be determined.

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