Posts Tagged ‘indy 500’

Today Is Indy, So What?

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Afterwards, it fades into the fine print of most sports pages, buried back with the local Division II track and field results. That aside, what would it take to get this sport back into prominence? Fact is, however, Patrick is somwhere between cute and hot. Shes outspoken and is developing something of a bad guy [...]

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2008 Arkansas-Texas Football Game To Be Televised By ABC Sports

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Arkansas’ matchup against its former Southwest Conference rival is the second game slated for national television on the Razorbacks’ 2008 schedule. No further television arrangements involving the Razorbacks for the 2008 season have been made at this time. Networks may wait until 12 days prior to a game to select that contest for telecast. Arkansas [...]

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McLaren “Sabotaged” Andretti?

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Marco hopes to have a future in Formula 1 but is only interested in a top team (arent they all). Surely the main cause is living at the other side of the big pool with no Internet conection to read one day after another how the brit press reflects this cruel reality. Hey, Marco - [...]

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Drivers, Start Your Engines

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

This mixture was even less functional than it sounds; when racing started several drivers suffered fatal crashes due to the unstable track. In 1996, Nascar driver Dale Jarrett and his crew gave birth to a new tradition when they kissed the bricks after winning the Brickyard 400, the tracks premiere stock-car race. Indy 500 preparations [...]

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Indy 500 Qualifying Expected To Be Wild

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Dixon, driving for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, took advantage of Indys unique qualifying format, which allows each entry up to three tries each day. That came only moments after Ryan Briscoe, the first driver to qualify on Saturday, withdrew his earlier speed of 224.833 and put his Team Penske entry on top with a run [...]

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Top Five In Points And Five Drivers To Watch At Darlington Raceway

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

And, if you happen to be a race car driver there’s no victory so sweet, so memorable, as whipping Darlington Raceway.” Brasington’s dream, a wild one indeed, was for tiny Darlington, South Carolina, located about 70 miles from anywhere, to have its very own world-class speedway, a track to compare to Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He [...]

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Indy 500: Hoosiers Support For Senator Clinton Lead By Sarah Fisher

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

In 1999, after a successful season competing in three different midget car series, Fisher became the youngest person ever to pass the Indy Racing League Rookie Test. In 2001, she claimed a second-place finish at the IRLs inaugural race at Homestead Miami Speedway, the best result ever by a woman in IRL racing until Motegi [...]

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Americana At Brand: It’s The Grove In Glendale With Expensive Condos

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

Its about life as we live here in So Cal and how you can take it with you living la vida in LA-LA Land. Americana at Brand in Glendale is revving its motor as opening day - May 2 is fast approaching. Like the Indy 500, its rip-roaring to get off the line and start [...]

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Chrissy Wallace Aims For Danica-like Breakthrough

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Wallace raced all 253 laps, only going a lap down once; she was able to get back on the lead lap after getting a “lucky dog.” “It got easier, the more laps I was making, the better I felt in the truck. There was no part really intimidating to me at all.” “As simple as [...]

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Danica Patrick Makes Racing History

Monday, April 21st, 2008

All of which made Patrick a bit teary. 1 was a long time coming. Patrick finished a career-best seventh in the standings last year when her best finish was second in the race at Detroit’s Belle Isle. Patrick was welcomed by her family near the podium. “There was a lot of “I love you,’ and [...]

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Who’s More Annoying Ashly Judd Or Paul Hospenthal. - 72 Posts

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

The marriage took place in Scottsdale, Arizona on Saturday . Rahal Team spokesman Brent Maurer said Danica Patrick has asked Rahal Letterman Racing to release virtually no information about the marriage. Maurer could only confirm Tuesday that Patrick was married and that car owner Bobby Rahal was there. Danica Patrick made history in the 2005 [...]

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