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NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Jimmie Johnson Audio file from Tuesday’s Champions teleconference.

 

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Over and above all the “regular” end-of-season changes NASCAR endures each year 2008 has brought many others as a result of the so called credit crunch and economic downturn.

Off season Formula One testing commenced this week at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain. Among those testing are BMW, Red Bull, Ferrari and Mclaren, but it was the BMW that caught my eye.

Beijing Guoan’s Davide Rigon will have a host of local Spanish stars hot on his heals as his Chinese club is just one round away from premiership glory in the inaugural Superleague Formula championship.

Third annual TV Total Stock Car Crash Challenge Video from top-rated German TV show star Stefan Raab held in the VELTINS Arena.

Every possible season champion has been crowned, but unlike the proverbial Bear in the Woods who both defecates and hibernates in the woods during winter NASCAR drivers stay active in one fashion or another.

This is an end-of-season video compilation of drivers as they thanked fans after various events throughout the 2008 NASCAR season.

A few hours after the official announcement was made DEI and Chip Ganassi Racing were merging operations the fallout is starting to drift downwind.

NASCAR has suspended all testing at its sanctioned tracks next season in a cost-cutting measure that should help teams save several million dollars in their 2009 budgets.

12 Women Drivers Confirmed for Lyn St. James’ Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation 2008/09 Driver Academy

Witness a south Florida TV stations headline for this weekends NASCAR events: “South Florida World Racing Capital This Weekend.”

I’ve been in resistance mode all week and have refrained from noting the numerous stories, all with no byline or from the all too familiar and [in]famous anonymous sources on a potential DEI Ganassi Racing Merger.

The Chase for the Cup was implemented in 2004 to involve more drivers in the championship hunt, and intensify fan interest and drama during the season’s stretch run. But little is known how the system was developed, this video shows all the ugly details.

AP Radio Assistant Sports Director Jack Briggs covers the week’s NASCAR stories and previews the races ahead with AP Auto Racing writers Jenna Fryer and Mike Harris. In this podcast they discuss Jimmie Johnson’s win at Phoenix, virtually assuring him the championship.

 

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It’s been a strange year for Jeff Gordon to say the least. He’s watched teammate Jimmie Johnson put on another Sprint Cup clinic and new arrival Dale Earnhardt Jr. take some of the media spotlight off the four-time Sprint Cup Champ.

Ferrari President Luca di Montezemolo has joked that he wants Kimi Raikkonen’s slower and less motivated ’stunt double’ to step aside in 2009 for the real Raikkonen.
The Finn, who only a year ago was wallowing in championship glory having beaten Lewis Hamilton to the title in Brazil, endured a trying season this year, his apparent [...]

Trivia Masters, it’s been a while since Full Throttle has tested your mad trivia busting skills. What you see is what you get, which truth be told, isn’t much.

Penske Racing today announced the establishment of a multi-year agreement for its NASCAR Sprint Cup Series program with the Automobile Club of Southern California (AAA) and its affiliated clubs.

Good-day mate works for meeting someone in the land of Kangaroos and Vegemite, but how so you say good-by? The “exiting salutation” is needed, according to several sources negotiations between the local government and IndyCar have been broken off.