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Saturday
Cup Start-And-Parks Dwindling
The practice of starting-and-parking has been a much discussed topic over the last couple of years. If you aren’t aware, starting-and-parking refers to a system in which teams enter a race and pull into the garage after only a few laps with a perfectly good race car in order to collect prize money. Teams can […]
Friday
Time to ruminate
I am driving home today and I think it will be good to have time to ruminate a little on the excitements at Spa. It was terrific theatre after the race with the excitements at Mercedes but sometimes it is better to let the emotions cool a little to get a better feel of the […]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/08/25/time-to-ruminate/
Thursday
The Future For Edwards & Biffle
As has been reported nearly everywhere, both Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle are in play on the free agent market. Nobody on either side is saying much, and that silence is deafening. What Biffle does will likely be dictated by the move Edwards makes, but make no mistake, Roush Fenway Racing could be about to […] 
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Red Bull is keeping Mercedes honest, says Horner
Christian Horner says that Red Bull is keeping Mercedes honest by always being in the position to take advantage of any problems for the silver cars. Red Bull was not expected to lead the chase in Spa, but a low … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2014/08/25/red-bull-is-keeping-mercedes-honest-says-horner/
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Wednesday
Joe Gibbs Racing plane hits Stewart-Haas plane on ground after Sunday's race
There were as many incidents at Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport after Sunday's race than there were during the race itself.
The team plane of Joe Gibbs Racing collided with the Stewart-Haas plane on the ground on Sunday. The left wing of the JGR plane made contact with the back end of the SHR plane.
An SHR spokesperson told the Charlotte Observer that the JGR plane was parking and clipped the SHR plane, which was empty. Both planes had returned from Indianapolis following the Brickyard 400.
The Stewart-Haas plane is valued at $11 million according to Sports Business Journal.
The only crash in Sunday's Cup race involved Trevor Bayne, who hit the inside wall after a tire went down on his car.
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Tuesday
If Tony Stewart won't sit out Watkins Glen, NASCAR needs to park him [UPDATED]
[UPDATE, 10:15 ET: Tony Stewart will not be racing on Sunday at Watkins Glen. Stewart-Haas competition director Greg Zipadelli announced that Regan Smith will step in and race the No. 14.]
It is inconceivable that this is even a matter of discussion. But as of 8 a.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, less than nine hours after Kevin Ward Jr. was declared dead following an on-track collision with Tony Stewart's sprint car, Stewart's team indicated he would be racing Sunday at Watkins Glen.
This is flat-out wrong. And if Tony Stewart and his team can't see that, then NASCAR needs to step in and park Stewart.
"We're business as usual today," Stewart-Haas Racing competition director Greg Zipadelli told USA Today Sports. NASCAR types specialize in stringing together cliches, but this is one Zipadelli will want back. "Business as usual?" Hours after a kid died in a wreck involving your driver? Seriously?
Stewart is not a heartless man. Quite the contrary, as a guy who races against young drivers anywhere, anytime, he's surely devastated by this. But given the situation, now is not a time for him to use the race track as personal grief therapy.
This is not about Stewart's guilt or innocence. This is about respecting the loss of life in an accident involving a NASCAR driver, an accident that will have happened barely 15 hours before the green flag flies today at Watkins Glen.
NASCAR has a unilateral power over its teams and competitors that even the NCAA envies. And with that in mind, NASCAR should remember this: There is no good reason, none at all, for Stewart to be racing today. And if his team can't figure that out, NASCAR needs to step in and put a halt to this.
Even if you're so tunnel-blind as to be only worried about Stewart's dwindling chances to make the Chase this season, that's not reason in itself to keep racing. Thanks to NASCAR's new "playoff" system, Stewart still has four races left to win a race and lock in his Chase spot. The system is set up exactly so that a driver doesn't have to get behind the wheel at all costs. NASCAR has the right to use its power to keep Stewart Chase-eligible if he was to miss the race. He attempted to qualify the car, which should satisfy NASCAR's criteria on that score.
In one way, you can't blame Stewart for wanting to race. In the midst of tragedy, we cling to those parts of our life that mean the most to us. And so it's not surprising that drivers return to their cars soon after tragedy, that Kyle Petty drove a month after the on-track death of his son Adam in 2000 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. a week after the death of his father in 2001. But this is so different from those situations, so much closer.
Tony Stewart loves to say that racing is the most important thing in his life. For one day, at least, he needs to broaden his focus. This isn't just about his pain.
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Monday
Six hours and 45 minutes after the race?
The Belgium Grand Prix was full of drama, excitement and controversy, but thing didn’t really kick off until after the chequered flag had fallen when Lewis Hamilton told the F1 media that in the post-race team debrief Nico Rosberg had admitted that he deliberately left his car’s nose where it was in a fight with […]
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/six-hours-and-45-minutes-after-the-race/
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Sunday
Audi RS3 will Next Four Doors
The Audi RS3 revolutionized we’ve all known a blunt and brutal way the market of compact high performance . I can not deny that the RS3 Sportback surprised virtually everyone , and this is something that has scored the contemporary history of A3 . Looking to the near future there are even more excited with […]
Source: http://www.autocarblog.co.uk/705-audi-rs3-will-next-four-doors.html
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