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Most of us may have a summer vacation any time up through Labor Day. The kids in Michigan aren't allowed to start school until after Labor Day, because our lawmakers decided it hurt our tourist trade too much if they started school earlier. But with 17 straight race weekends to ...

Episode three of the FastMachines.com Radio Podcast Episode #3 - show notes below the fold... Let us know what you think by commenting on this posting, or shoot Chris and I an email by sending to radio@fastmachines.com. Click below to listen to us right now in your browser... [audio:fastmachines_podcast3_07-21-08.mp3] Click here to download the MP3 ...

Team Penske's Ryan Briscoe won the Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course after a rain-soaked Indy Lights field survived a deluge that saw the race-leader pit prior to the checkered flag and surprised Aussie driver James Davison emerge with the win.

HARRISBURG, N.C. – Nearly twenty years ago, Andy Hillenburg opened the Fast Track High Performance Driving School. His dream was to provide a platform for aspiring racecar drivers to get behind the wheel experience and a racing school for anyone who wanted the thrill of driving a stock car on ...

Three races over three weekends in three western US cities - it's the challenging Western Swing in drag racing. This weekend - Seattle. In Top Fuel, low qualifier Tony Schumacher and the Army rail continue to march along as Schumacher defeated Brandon Bernstein for the win at Pacific Raceway. "It's a blast," said ...

Follow me down memory lane for a second.  Once upon a time, in a place of employment far, far away, I was blessed enough to work with a very sweet lady named Rae.  When Rae wasn't chain-smoking cigarettes and calling every one baby, you could occasionally get her to discuss ...

Hey gang, it's our second week at this podcasting stuff and we're getting a little better at it.  The sound is a bit better thanks to our host and resident audio expert Chris Bailey.  Have a listen and let us know what you think by commenting on this posting, or ...

Well, the hits just keep on coming, and it looks like the next stop for the NASCAR U-Haul will be at Penske Racing where Ryan Newman will be moving out of the No. 12 Alltel Dodge Charger.

Looks like Ryan Newman didn't have the patience to wait for Indy to make his move.  Penske PR today put out a release stating that Newman and Penske Racing would part ways at the end of 2008.  No big surprises there, but now the question becomes where will Ryan go? The ...

The 29th Mopar Mile-High NHRA Nationals at Bandimere Speedway in Denver featured a fast all-concrete drag strip with innovative cooling strips, but less of it was used during the race than last year. In an effort to get their arms around super-powerful nitro cars in the wake of Scott Kalitta's tragic ...

LifeLock's not doing its job, because on Saturday night, NASCAR's identity got stolen. Kyle Busch continued his one-man campaign to make himself the face of NASCAR with another victory Saturday night; this time winning the Lifelock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway. Whether you're a Busch fan or you hate him like ...

With 6 races to go before we get to Richmond to decide this year's playoff contenders, it's time to do a quick rundown and postulate who will be in and who will be out when the Chase starts up in New Hampshire.  Here's my guess at who we'll see in ...

After a few weeks off in which I took a much needed vacation, got to see some family, and attended the Cup race in New Hampshire, I'm ready to start back into a venting/rambling groove again.  Would have been nice to write last week, but alas, my Comcast DVR decided ...

With the NASCAR Sprint Cup teams entering the final week off before the end of their season the driver changes have started in earnest. This has always been dubbed the Silly Season...

The rain fell in Nashville as Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon padded his huge lead in the Indy Racing League championship standings and twenty-three year old Brazilian Ana 'Bia' Beatriz became the first woman Firestone Indy Lights winner on Saturday.

Well of course the written word and the web browser wasn't enough for us.  We had to take our particular brand of motorsports fan-hood and give it some audible voice!  With that we proudly present our first of what we hope will be many podcasts.  We're calling it the "Weekly ...

Tony Stewart is leaving Gibbs at the end of this season. Reportedly he will take over an ownership position in a newly named Stewart/Haas team. Stewart will be back in a Chevy, but

Well the race certainly wasn't pretty on Sunday for the Indy Car Series. The crashfest was fraught with full course yellows, drivers spinning out while driving slow under those yellow flag periods, chicks crashing in the pits, and a lot of other unprofessionalism. But put that aside, ...

Well, that's pretty big. According to ESPN's website, Joe Gibbs Racing is expected to announce tomorrow that Tony Stewart is no longer a member of the racing team. From the four-letter network:

While other sports are slamming Internet writing and trying to draw the lines between print, TV, and Internet writers, NASCAR is jumping out in front of the curve.  When NASCAR announced a few weeks ago that they were going to give (some) bloggers access to their media, it was a ...