As this weekend’s Sprint Cup race was coming to a conclusion at Infineon, the driver of the #26 Ford, Jamie McMurray went into Turn 4 on lap 105 too fast allowing Tony Stewart to pass him in a heated battle for the second spot. Just as that happened, Kevin Harvick came barreling into […]

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Your old buddy Harley is back after a week hiatus.  While NASCAR drivers and the so-called ringers raced in curlicues like giddy little schoolgirls last weekend, I took my family on vacation. 
Hell, yes, I take the missus and the young ‘uns on vacation every summer.  We lock up the house, pitch a tent in […]

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Have you happened to take a look at the Tallahassee Commuters Cup Rankings lately? Admittedly it’s somewhere near the bottom as far as racing circuits are concerned but nonetheless, the name Otis Featherbean graces the top of those rankings. I don’t have sponsors and I have to do my own pit crew work […]

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Peter Havacamp’s Sunday was ruined when he sat down to take in a midafternoon family comedy, only to find out the “Cheaper By the Dozen” had been preempted for the NASCAR race at Infineon.
Havacamp had already popped his lite microwave popcorn and tuned his laptop to IMDB for the showing of the Steve Martin film, […]

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From his driveway on a hill in Walnut Acres, Mike Smelton can see the winding concrete streets of his new subdivision. Smelton built his dream home in the brand-new Cleveland suburb in 2006, and is now the only member of his neighborhood who has not abandoned his property to foreclosure.
What’s his secret?

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The list of reasons that old Fat Sandy Dirtburger would go to a race is much longer but here are just a few reasons that people aren’t going to the track anymore and it doesn’t have a darn thing to do with the cost of tickets and gas.

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