Thursday
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Wednesday
Danica Patrick wants to be like? the honey badger?
Danica Patrick knows that she'll be under an even bigger spotlight when she makes her Sprint Cup debut Feb. 26 at the Daytona 500.
So how is she going to react? By going all honey badger, of course.
"And the honey badger, it was last year, I think, somebody showed me this video of the honey badger, and the commentator on it was very, very funny," Patrick said between test sessions at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday. "Anyway, the honey badger, he doesn't give a crap, he takes what he wants.�And that's how I'm going to be this year, like a honey badger.�But I feel like it's a little diluted with the football player that has the honey badger nickname, too.�He's No.�7, as well."
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The football player she's referring to, of course, is LSU cornerback Tyrann Mathieu. LSU lost 21-0 to Alabama in Monday night's BCS title game.
"I bet he's not feeling like a honey badger.�I bet -- anyway, the video is great," Patrick said. "He eats a poisonous snake and he falls asleep and wakes right back up.�The video is funny, so I encourage you all to watch that.�I think Randall something is the commentator or the name on the YouTube video.
"I don't know, it's a mindset.�I even have a honey badger picture on my screen saver on my phone to inspire me.�It takes what it wants."
[Related: Daytona 500 Day 2 testing results]
Patrick may want to harness the honey badger in her a little bit during the Daytona 500 if Thursday's test session was any indication. NASCAR has introduced rules designed to inhibit the two-car tandem drafting that has become prevalent at restrictor plate tracks Daytona and Talladega, but teams were still experimenting with the tandems anyway.
After transitioning from the Izod IndyCar Series, Patrick is scheduled to race 10 times in the Sprint Cup Series and run a full schedule in the Nationwide Series. She had success in the July Nationwide race at Daytona, leading laps and finishing 10th while she crashed crossing the finish line.
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John Cena to serve as honorary starter for Daytona 500
Let's be honest, there's a fair amount of overlap between the demographics of NASCAR and the WWE. So it can't be all that surprising that WWE wrestler John Cena is the honorary starter for the Daytona 500, right?
Cena, who has already appeared in a Gillette commercial back in the days of the Gillette Young Guns, received his official "invitation" to be the starter when friend Carl Edwards appeared on Monday's WWE Raw.
"John Cena is the greatest Superstar in WWE today," Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III said in a release.� "We look forward to seeing him on the flag stand waving the green flag to start 'The Great American Race' and kick off the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season."
It could be argued that Cena, who starred in that unforgettable movie 'The Marine,' is the WWE's version of Kyle Busch. He's marketable, sells a lot of merchandise and hears a lot of boos. Sound familiar? But hey, he's certainly a better fit than Mariah Carey, who served as the race's honorary starter in 2003.
Tuesday
On the first day of testing?
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/on-the-first-day-of-testing/
Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans, don?t say we never did anything for you
Diet Mountain Dew just passed the $1 billion sales mark, almost all of that coming from college students, truckers and sportswriters on deadline. In gratitude, the Diet Dew folks made this get-'em-rollin' video of a rather familiar car. Have fun, Junior fans. We figure we owe you this one, at least.
Williams FW34 a fresh start, says Sir Frank
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/02/07/williams-fw34-a-fresh-start-says-sir-frank/
Monday
Familiar faces to watch in the Rolex 24
Yes, we still have four weeks until the Daytona 500, but the Rolex 24 endurance race, the first race of Daytona Speedweeks, kicks off Saturday afternoon.
In the Daytona Prototype category, Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya are again splitting driving duties in Chip Ganassi's No. 02 with IndyCar drivers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti. They finished second last year to Ganassi's No. 01 team of Joey Hand, Scott Pruett, Graham Rahal and Memo Rojas. All four drivers return to the No. 01 this year.
Neither car is on the front row, however. The pole went to Ryan Dalziel driving the No. 8. The No. 10 car that will be driven at times by Ryan Briscoe, starts second. AJ Allmendinger is in the No. 60 and Max Papis is in the No. 9 along with JC France, Brian France's cousin. Tony Kanaan, Ryan Hunter-Reay and E.J. Viso are in the No. 2.
In the GT Series, Michael Waltrip and Travis Pastrana are sharing a AF-Waltrip Racing Ferrari with Michael Waltrip Racing co-owner Robb Kauffman and Rui Aguas. Boris Said is in the No. 94 for Turner Motorsports and Andy Lally is in the No. 44. And, yes ladies, Dr. McDreamy is back. Actor Patrick Dempsey is in the No. 40, one of the two cars he owns this weekend in the GT Series.
Coverage of the race begins at 2:30 PM ET on Speed and concludes Sunday afternoon.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/notable-drivers-watch-rolex-24-142500505.html
2012 Sepang 1 MotoGP Test Day 3 Round Up: Taking Stock After Sepang 1
The MotoGP bikes have been back in action for three days now - four, if you count Randy de Puniet and the other Aprilia ART (as Aprilia's CRT bike is called) riders' outing at Valencia - and fans and followers now have some real meat to chew over. The days of endless speculation based on nothing more than ill-informed gossip and rumor is over; the days of endless speculation based on slightly better-informed gossip, rumor and lap times are here.
So what preliminary conclusions can we draw from the test at Sepang? Has the Ducati really been fixed? Are the 1000s going to provide more exciting racing? Will the Honda be as dominant this year as it was last? Can Jorge Lorenzo take the fight to Casey Stoner? Do the times set by the CRT bikes mean that the project is a failure? Wouldn't it be nice if we could provide a simple yes-or-no answer to all of these questions?
?More mature? Grosjean looking forward to F1 return | 2012 F1 season
Source: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2012/02/05/mature-grosjean-f1-comeback/
Sunday
Roberto Mieres 1924 ? 2012
Source: http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/roberto-mieres-1924-2012/
Sprint car racer killed in family dispute before Chili Bowl
Both men died of gunshot wounds.
The sheriff says 74-year-old Daniel Garcia entered a room in the house and started shooting at his 24-year-old grandson, Donald Ray Crawford III.
The sheriff says Jodie Lynn Crawford stepped in to stop Garcia, her father, from shooting her son.
At some point, the sheriff says the father -- Donald Crawford Jr. stepped in to help his wife stop the fight.
Crawford, who lived in Wagoner County Oklahoma, not far from Tulsa, the site of the Chili Bowl, won the Chili Bowl Rookie of the Year award in 2007. Jodie Crawford was also wounded in the dispute, suffering a gunshot wound to the hip. Garcia was previously arrested in 2004 on charges of assault with a dangerous weapon.
In honor of Donnie Crawford, tonight's Chili Bowl A-Main feature will be extended five laps to 55 laps. 55 was Crawford's car number. Our condolences go out to the Crawford family.
OK, here?s your 2012 Danica Patrick Super Bowl ad
Here it is, a week or so early: the latest Danica Patrick Super Bowl ad, this one featuring the Pussycat Dolls. Ads are going for $3.5 million for 30 seconds during the game, scheduled for next Sunday on NBC. Danica has now appeared in 10 Super Bowl ads, which makes her the all-time Super Bowl champion, and ... you're not even reading this any more, are you?