Oh yeah, will be watching the awards.I hope they loosen up a bit this year. It used to be funny. The past few years everyone acted like they would get fined and docked points if they laughed or cracked a joke. Last year was a little better.

Stewart's speech will be tough.When the banquet is over,I am wearing my #20 shirts to a Home Depot and drinking a Schlitz as a toast to the end of a good team.

I already have my new #14 shirts picked out, Jen, you need to move on to an 88 picture.

Jimmie and Chad should do the same pose and hold up more fingers. They won it. Celebrate it.

Brian France wants the drivers to show more emotion, so maybe Jimmy and Chad should strike the same pose, only holding up the middle finger to him.

I think Jen should have a picture of Clint along side of her.

Kyle B's driving suit that he tied Sam Ard's record with is autographed and up for auction on the Nascar Charities website.

Tony Gibson, Newman's new crew chief, was able to bring his whole race crew with him to Stewart-Haas from DEI.

Tony Stewart will be grand marshall in the Fiesta Bowl parade. First Nascar driver to ever be honored this way. Parade executive director has told Smoke there is no passing allowed in the parade.

Stewart and Kyle B have signed to drive Nationwide cars for KHI next year.

Kurt B is off on a 4 state hunting trip.

There will be no parade lap in NYC this week in an effort to save $$$.

Junior is signing autographs at Macy's in New York today at 5PM.

Stewie Awards to be presented tonight.

Tony Gibson, Newman's new crew chief, was able to bring his whole race crew with him to Stewart-Haas from DEI.

Tony Stewart will be grand marshall in the Fiesta Bowl parade. First Nascar driver to ever be honored this way. Parade executive director has told Smoke there is no passing allowed in the parade.

Stewart and Kyle B have signed to drive Nationwide cars for KHI next year.

Kurt B is off on a 4 state hunting trip.

Sorry--website messing up again and posting twice.

Lowe's has dropped their ticket prices.

Lowe's has lowered their ticket prices for next season's races.

Banquet was a snoozer as usual. Jeez, isn't it supposed to be a celebration?

The new Chad-Jimmie picture on the corner of 48th and 3rd is in the Nascar.com gallery. They are just not hanging off the post this time.

How come Edwards left the banquet before Jimmie was honored?

2009 race schedule has switched NH back to the end of June date and Daytona back to July.

Several races towards the end of the year with no sponsors yet.

Tony Stewart will no longer host a show on Sirius radio. Wants to focus on his team.

Excerpt from his final, Nascar star studded show:

"Roger Penske, by phone, said he'd like to someday see Tony Stewart in one of his Indy cars. Harvick piped up that he thought Tony had gained so much weight he didn't think he could get into one. (Stewart retaliated by noting that Richard Childress had contributed to NASCAR's diversity program because "he hired Harvick.") Penske also said, "I want to get up on that stage"-at the Waldorf during Champion's Week, where the winning team owner receives his award."

Video and audio of Stewie Award acceptance speeches will be available on TSL soon.

Its all about down force, baby. Down force! Stewie usually sticks like glue to the track. Always complains that he is too tight.

Its all about down force, baby. Down force! Stewie usually sticks like glue to the track. Always complains that he is too tight.

Its all about downforce baby. Stewie should stick like glue to the track. He usually complains of being too tight.

oh great now the site is doing everything in triplicate just like Jimmie.

Todd Berrier, crew chief for Richard Childress Racing’s Kevin Harvick, expects that his team will test at least 10 times next year despite NASCAR’s ban on testing at all tracks that host its Sprint Cup, Nationwide, Truck, East and West series.

Berrier expects his team will look at options such as the Virginia International Raceway and Heartland Park Topeka (Kan.) road courses, along with Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina and the half-mile Sandusky Speedway in Ohio. None of the facilities is covered by the ban.

Robby Gordon is switching to Toyota

Hi, Everybody! Merry Christmas! and a Happy Nascar Year!

Hi, Everybody! Merry, Merry Christmas and a Happy Nascar Year!

So I just read the article on Nascar.com about Texas World Speedway possibly offering track time for testing and a thought occurred to me....What if a driver gets hurt testing at an outdated facility because Nascar won't allow testing. One of the better things that Nascar does is require a standard for tracks before their cars can compete. If a driver takes his car to a track that hasn't hosted a Nascar event in twenty years and knocks a wall down, who ultimately is responsible?

Nascar Scene held an online vote for driver of the year. Guess who won the fans' vote? None other than Kyle Busch. 10,316 for Kyle, 5,171 for second place Carl. Who would have thought it?

In case this message takes 3 days to post like it has been doing, Merry Christmas to all and may you all receive that Nascar merchandise you wish for.

If getting injured while testing at a non-sanctioned track was a big deal, they wouldn't allow drivers to drive whatever they want whereever they want during the season, would they?

Just my thought.

If I was the business manager for The Rock, I would have been visiting all the race shops the day after they banned testing offering up the track.It's close enough and many drivers are familiar with it.

I think drivers are at their own risk anywhere, son of racefan, even on Nascar sanctioned tracks. Otherwise, owners would not let the drivers go wherever they want and race on their off time, would they? I do not believe there is any kind of insurance plan for any of them unless they are buying their own.

Some recent interesting quotes:

Jeff Burton describing new policy on leniency toward drivers showing emotion:

"Seems like there's probation, double probation, and then there's double secret probation. I don't even know what it all means."

Humpy Wheeler on sagging ticket and tv ratings for Nascar:

" We've got to get back to our roots, back to putting donuts on the sides of cars and not making it a felony offense."

Junior:

" Line them up,race, and the guy that crosses the finish line first wins. If you got out-cheated, you didn't do your homework."

Here's the "what if there were no Chase" finishing order for the top 15 drivers:

Carl Edwards 5236
Jimmie Johnson 5220
Kyle Busch 4984
Greg Biffle 4747
Jeff Burton 4709
Kevin Harvick 4691
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4605
Jeff Gordon 4537
Clint Bowyer 4487
Tony Stewart 4487
Denny Hamlin 4439
Matt Kenseth 4316
David Ragan 4299
Kasey Kahne 4085
Martin Truex Jr. 3839

Happy New Year, everyone. I am sorry to say I am disappointed in the administering of this blog. I don't know the whys and wherefores, so I am not pointing fingers. I just feel if someone is in charge of the blog and they no longer can or want to be in charge of that blog, they should say so so we can all go along about our business. Thanks for everything, folks, and I hope I meet you on othere venues.

Happy New Year, everyone. I am sorry to say I am disappointed in the administering of this blog. I don't know the whys and wherefores, so I am not pointing fingers. I just feel if someone is in charge of the blog and they no longer can or want to be in charge of that blog, they should say so so we can all go along about our business. Thanks for everything, folks, and I hope I meet you on othere venues.

Gee, it's difficult to get posted. I think it would be nice if the person in charge keeps us informed. But, I realize things are tough and maybe this isn't possible right now. Happy New Year, everybody!

Hello, everyone. Happy New Year to all of you.

Happy New Year to all of you. How many days to Daytona???

Sorry for all the posts. They just all appeared. I contacted Jenn earlier. I don't know who is in charge of the blog but it sure would be nice to know what is going on. I miss the blog and all the nice people.

Hey everybody, anyone want to go to the first night race in Atlanta on Labor Day? Here's the info:

Those eager to secure the best seats for the first-ever Sprint Cup night race at Atlanta Motor Speedway can purchase their tickets beginning at 9 a.m. on Jan. 5 by calling the Atlanta Motor Speedway ticket office, by visiting www.atlantamotorspeedway.com, or by using a authorized Ticketmaster retailer, including www.ticketmaster.com.

The Labor Day NASCAR weekend at Atlanta Motor Speedway will feature a NASCAR Nationwide Series race and Hot Shot NASCAR Sprint Cup Qualifying on Saturday, Sept. 5 and the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race under the lights on Sunday, Sept. 6.

For the first-time ever, Atlanta Motor Speedway is offering fans a payment plan to purchase tickets. Race fans can reserve their Labor Day weekend NASCAR Sprint Cup race ticket for just $20. They will then pay half of the purchase balance by April 5, with the remaining balance due on June 5.

Whenever I've been to a race, me and everyone else there has always been good about sharing whatever we've got; drinks, food, toilet paper,whatever is needed. Just learned yesterday that beer, grilled food and propane can be used as a form of currency with the rate exchange going up or down depending on the time of day. Guess I will stock up on plenty of extras for next time.

Whenever I go to a race, people make fun of my short arms and big tail..

Thanks for the laugh. At least it is something.