Archive for February, 2005
Motorsports notes: Nissan out of SCCA World Challenge
From this week’s issue of AutoWeek:
Nissan has pulled out of SCCA World Challenge for 2005 after just two years of competition. Driver Peter Cunningham finished fifth in the Touring Car class last year with three poles and one win, the latter taken at Road America.
Too bad, as the [...]
RealTime Racing Reveals Five SPEED TC Drivers, New Livery
With Peter Cunningham listed with Pierre Kleinubing as leading the 5-car RealTime fleet, I am assuming that the Nissan TeamRTR Touring Car program is no more.
ThatsRacin.com - Dickerson resigned to the fact that towel isn’t enough
This week, it was announced that chassis/fabricating guru Eddie Dickerson had resigned from Hendrick Motorsports. What the “can’t upset the apple cart” SPEED Channel coverage has neglected to mention is that it probably had something to do with Dickerson being found clothed in only [...]
SCCA Club Racing Announces New Entry Level Track Program
After years of offering nothing beyond a sporadic Solo I program to bridge the gap between Solo and Club Racing, SCCA has announced a new “Performance Driving Experience” program, along with an accompanying Time Trial program, and spinning the events previous under the Solo I umbrella as [...]
Is Larry the Cable Guy’s mantra “Git-R-Done” becoming passe’ among pickup window philosophers? I’ve now seen two pickups with their back windows lettered “Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy,” aping the Big & Rich song title.
Perhaps a Tim Wilson quip will catch on next, however most of his witticisms run long enough that the [...]
I battled the Super Bowl crowd at Kroger yesterday to pick a couple things, and while waiting for my turn at one of the U-Scan machines, overheard the following…
(Couple in their 30’s struggling to slowly get checked out.)
As the machine pleads incessantly, “Please place the item in the bag,” the woman stiffly yanks a bag [...]
Clicky, clicky
Dan Dodge, our Wilmington friend and fellow Grand-Am fan, has his pictures from Daytona posted.