First-time NASCAR winner Scott Speed flexes his muscles in The Monster Mile's victory lane in Dover, Del. May 30, 2008 (AP Photo/Russ Hamilton, Jr)
Former F1 driver Scott Speed won his first NASCAR race in the Craftsman Truck Series Friday night at Dover International Speedway. The key to his win? A new tradition: pre-race pedicure with blue-tipped toenails on his "very soft, very beautiful" feet. Why? For better throttle control, of course. Will the trend spread through the NASCAR Craftsman Truck garage? The drivers said, if he won ...
Many Answer this... readers were discouraged--and borderline hateful in TGOM's inbox--following the recent confirmation in the Mother's Day FAQs that Kasey Kahne is still seeing Jenny Severance. Read it and weep, peeps. According to fans in attendance, Kasey himself used the "g-word" at a post-race press conference at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
"Obviously there are many people who like to pretend to be someone else, and that's fine, but when it comes to MySpace, they convince many innocent — and perhaps gullible — people into believing them. So I want to say that if you come across a MySpace page that claims to be me, that's all you need to see to know it's a fraud, because I don't have a MySpace account anymore. I haven't for a long time, and back when I did, it was set to private. And to be honest, you wouldn't have even known it was me in the first place. I just want you to hear it from me." - Dale Jr.
Dale Jr. is underestimating many of his fans thinking they don't recognize real "Sunday Money" when they see it, but nonetheless, he has set a frequent TGOM FAQ straight.
Jimmie Johnson, driver of the #48 Lowes Chevrolet speaks with the media during NASCAR Sprint Cup testing at Pocono Raceway on May 27, 2008 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Q. Um, exactly what is growing on Jimmie Johnson's head? Is it supposed to be there or has an unidentified rodent escaped the local pet store? He looks like he has a chia pet growing on his head! Did he get a hair transplant or something? A. Or something. I believe that something is called Propecia.
TGOM's question is this...
If this is the conversation in my inbox ... what must the whispers in the garage be like?
Rusty Wallace couldn't believe Denny Hamlin would just turn into Brad Keselowski purposefully under caution during the Nationwide Series CARQUEST Auto Parts 300 Saturday evening. Believe it. Hamlin admitted as much in his post-race interviews from Lowe's Motor Speedway and implied that his actions were in response to the #88's intentionally aggressive "love tap" under caution. Keselowski didn't full disclosure any intentional aggression.
"This will not stand, ya know, this aggression will not stand, man." ~ The Dude, The BIg Lebowski
Quoting Hamlin on this...
"I retaliated ... I didn't retaliate based on the way we raced earlier in the race."
Hamlin wasn't happy about what transpired during the race, though, either.
"If a guy has got everything but two inches on me, let him go because he's got there for a reason and I got there many times on him earlier in the race. Then he would slide up in the middle and then he would get a good run off the corner, but besides that it was almost at the end of the race and I had a great run on the top on him. I was up there next to his door and he slid up all the way from the bottom, all the way to the top and cut my nose off.
"That pisses drivers off and I learned as a rookie that if you make a guy that's been doing this a little bit longer and you make their job hard then they're going to make yours 10 times harder. Brad has enough talent to be in this Cup series, no doubt he'll be there in a few years, but I don't know if it's just these short races that he's been in -- you just shouldn't race like that. You can, but it will hurt you in the future."
Quoting Keselowski on this...
"Well, ya know, we raced him hard and that's what racing is. That's why fans come watch it and he doesn't like it when guys race him hard. Well, that's the sport and that's what I do. I raced him hard and he didn't think that was cool so he decided to take my left front fender off.
"I race one day a week. I don't race twice a week. I have one day a week to prove myself. I have 200 laps. I don't have 400, I have 200. I have to take every opportunity to prove myself, to prove myself not only to Junior Motorsports, but to the Navy and my competitors and fans and I have to make the most of every lap."
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