Friday

Driver tries to fight other driver, gets dragged along racetrack

Drivers, word to the wise: we get it that when you're ticked off at someone else, you want immediate and total retribution. However, you have to remember: your targets are often driving freaking cars. So if you go crazy trying to exact revenge, it may not work out exactly how you'd like.

Our scene: Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., scene of weekly racing. And in one race this past weekend, a fella named Derek Stoltz somehow decided to get an entire family mad at him. On the race's final lap, he spun race leader Bryant Robertson, then turned Bryant's brother Mike.

During Stoltz's victory lap, Mike Robertson then decided to do what Tony Stewart, Robby Gordon, Danica Patrick and so many others have done before him: rage at Stoltz while the race is still going on. Unfortunately, Robertson got hung up on Stoltz's car and got flung into the wall. Bryant Robertson, meanwhile, was held up by security and unable to catch up to Stoltz.

Moral of the story, then: careful about when you fight somebody. Maybe wait until they're in the Port-A-Potty or something.

-Follow Jay Busbee on Twitter at @jaybusbee.-

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Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/driver-tries-fight-other-driver-gets-dragged-along-161617427.html

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Wednesday

Driver tries to fight other driver, gets dragged along racetrack

Drivers, word to the wise: we get it that when you're ticked off at someone else, you want immediate and total retribution. However, you have to remember: your targets are often driving freaking cars. So if you go crazy trying to exact revenge, it may not work out exactly how you'd like.

Our scene: Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., scene of weekly racing. And in one race this past weekend, a fella named Derek Stoltz somehow decided to get an entire family mad at him. On the race's final lap, he spun race leader Bryant Robertson, then turned Bryant's brother Mike.

During Stoltz's victory lap, Mike Robertson then decided to do what Tony Stewart, Robby Gordon, Danica Patrick and so many others have done before him: rage at Stoltz while the race is still going on. Unfortunately, Robertson got hung up on Stoltz's car and got flung into the wall. Bryant Robertson, meanwhile, was held up by security and unable to catch up to Stoltz.

Moral of the story, then: careful about when you fight somebody. Maybe wait until they're in the Port-A-Potty or something.

-Follow Jay Busbee on Twitter at @jaybusbee.-

More NASCAR video from Yahoo! Sports:

Related coverage on Yahoo! Sports:
? Brian Vickers gets first Sprint Cup win in four years
? Tony Stewart runs out of gas, falls out of top 10
? Danica Patrick crashes into boyfriend during Sprint Cup race

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/driver-tries-fight-other-driver-gets-dragged-along-161617427.html

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Tuesday

Hungarian GP rated among top three races so far | 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix

This year's Hungarian Grand Prix was rated as one of the better races at the Hungaroring by F1 Fanatic readers.

Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/08/10/hungarian-grand-prix-rated-among-top-three-races-so-far/

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Austin Dillon subbing for Tony Stewart at Michigan

Austin Dillon was tabbed by Stewart-Haas Racing on Monday to be the replacement driver for Tony Stewart at Michigan on Sunday.

Dillon currently leads the Nationwide Series points standings by three points over Sam Hornish.

?I?ve watched Austin for many years and at each stage of his racing career he?s been successful,? Stewart said in a team release. ?He?s proven to be a very fast learner, and he?s able to adapt quickly. Being the youngest champion in the history of the Truck Series is proof of that. His background in dirt racing is an asset, and off the track we share many of the same interests, specifically, hunting and fishing. I know he?ll perform well at Michigan and I?m just as confident in his ability to properly represent Mobil 1 and Bass Pro Shops throughout the race weekend.?

See, just like in all relationships, common interests are foundational for a replacement driver. Bass Pro Shops sponsored Dillon when he won the 2010 Camping World Truck Series title.

The team has not named a replacement for the races starting after Michigan, though Dillon is likely still a candidate to replace Stewart for more races until he returns from the broken leg he suffered in a sprint car race in Iowa a week ago. Stewart was released from the hospital in North Carolina following a second surgery on Sunday evening.

"Well, it's going to be a weekly occurrence here for a little while," Stewart-Haas Racing Competition Director Greg Zipadelli said Monday afternoon about the replacement process for Stewart. "We'll evaluate each race as it comes and do the best job we can with putting someone in it we feel will do a good job for Stewart?Haas and all of our partners."

"We will probably know more next week. Tony has a doctor's appointment Wednesday here to just kind of go over things, and at that point we'll have a lot better idea of what we're doing. But for right now it will probably be a week?by?week decision as far as who is in the car."

Zipadelli seemed to rule out a Nationwide Series driver for Stewart's seat at Michigan on Friday at Watkins Glen, as the Nationwide Series is running that weekend at Mid-Ohio. Ultimately, Dillon's schedule was able to be adapted for both races. He tested earlier this season at Mid-Ohio, and practice for the series' first race at the road course begins Thursday, allowing him to spend Friday at Michigan. Dillon ran the first Michigan Sprint Cup race in the No. 33 and finished 11th.

That's his highest finish in seven Sprint Cup Series starts this season. In July, he won the first Camping World Truck Series race at Eldora, the dirt track that Stewart owns.

Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/austin-dillon-subbing-tony-stewart-michigan-193535806.html

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Monday

Montezemolo ?tweaks Alonso?s ear? for negative comments

Ferrari has given Fernando Alonso an extraordinary public rebuke in the light of negative comments the Spaniard made after Sunday?s Hungarian GP. The fact that Alonso?s management has had contact with Red Bull Racing has clearly created extra tension in … Continue reading

Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2013/07/29/montezemolo-tweaks-alonsos-ear-for-negative-comments/

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