Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/02/red-bull-forced-to-remove-floor-holes-for-canada/
Thursday
Red Bull forced to remove floor holes for Canada
As expected the FIA has clamped down on the controversial Red Bull floor by clarifying its position and stating that the holes in front of the RB8?s rear wheels are not permitted. The ruling, given via the traditional route of … Continue reading
Wednesday
Create-a-caption: Danica, I think I see your problem
Here's what's left of Danica Patrick's car after Sunday's Nationwide race. Create your best caption right here. (And no hack "women drivers" lines. You're better than that.)
After the jump, we observe Jimmie Johnson's unconventional pit road strategy.
Furiousd:
Jimbot: "Pit entrance processing error404. Pit entrance processing error404. Pit entrance processing error404"
Kevin H.:
"Just gettin' her ready for inspection, boys. Be there in a bit!"
Kingsharky:
Hey Jimmie, we'd love to get down and shake your hand, but Kurt Busch is still loose. It's just not safe yet, man.
Kingsharky
There is, alas, a speed limit on the Jeff Gordon Expressway
Jeff Gordon has his very own highway! On Friday, North Carolina and Mecklenburg County officials dedicated a 1.6-mile section, or about the distance Gordon had left to win Martinsville this year before getting taken out, of Interstate 85 in Gordon's honor. The section of the highway will run from the city of Charlotte to the Cabarrus County line.
"I'm going to have a big smile on my face because I travel on that road every week," said Gordon, who was the first non-North Carolina native NASCAR driver to have a state road named in his honor.� "Every time I see that sign, I'm going to smile and be very proud of this moment. ? Not every day you have an expressway named after you."
Gordon joins Richard Petty, Junior Johnson, Dale Earnhardt, and Benny Parsons as NASCAR drivers with North Carolina roads or highways named in their honor. How awesome would it be if he got a speeding ticket on his own highway?
And now, since we're an environmentally sensitive blog, we're going to recycle some of the jokes from the first time we ran this story. Join us, won't you, in speculating what the highways named for other drivers would look like. For instance:
? The Tony Stewart Expressway, naturally, would run right through the drive-thru of a Burger King.
? The Jimmie Johnson Freeway would actually be the fastest, most efficient route to get to your destination, but people would still bitch and say that the old-timey cracked-pavement roads were much better.
? The Dale Earnhardt Jr. Expressway would start out smoothly enough, but strangely, your exit that's only supposed to be a mile away never seems to get any closer ...
? The Kurt Busch Freeway would get you almost to your destination, then put you right into a wall and force you to rent a far cheaper car to go the distance.
And...you're up!
Eric Bernard Enrique Bernoldi Enrico Bertaggia Tony Bettenhausen
2012 Catalunya MotoGP Test Round Up: Progress For Some, But Honda Hampered By New Bridgestone
Timesheets don't tell you everything. That much is clear from looking at the results of Monday's MotoGP test after the race. After a race weekend where everything has been focused solely on going faster than the others, the finishing order is not quite as important during testing. Cal Crutchlow summed it up perfectly: "You know when a test is just a test when the race winner by 5 seconds is 7th or 8th. So you can't take anything from today's results."
Crutchlow's day did not start off as planned. The Englishman had a 200 km/h crash on the way into turn 4, which completely wrote off his bike and took a good deal of skin off his shoulders and leg. Crutchlow said it was entirely his own fault, but it is not an unusual crash at Barcelona, as Andrea Dovizioso explained. "I had exactly the same crash in FP1 two or three years ago," he said. The problem is caused by the bridge which runs over the track, which provides just enough shade that when a track is drying after the rain, a few wet spots can still remain, but these are impossible to differentiate from the dry tarmac.
Tuesday
2012 Catalunya Moto2 And Moto3 Sunday Post-Race Press Releases
Press releases from the Moto2 and Moto3 teams after the races at Barcelona on Sunday:
Year:
2012
Jack Brabham† Bill Brack Ernesto Brambilla Vittorio Brambilla
Robby Gordon?s Stadium Super Trucks Series: Awesome thing or awesomest thing?
We haven't seen Robby Gordon much around the ol' track this year, and this is a major reason why: he's launching Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Trucks Series in 2013. It's a whole new offroading experience: offroading in a stadium. (What? There aren't any roads in a stadium.)
"Stadium racing helped Jimmie Johnson, Casey Mears and myself launch our careers," Gordon said in a promotional stop this week. "SST offers attractive racing venues, remarkable track designs, substantial purse, and opportunity for network TV a lot like NASCAR because you can visualize the whole track."
The series will kick off next year with a 10-race slate to include stops in Los Angeles and San Diego. Each race will be a two-day event, featuring qualifying, heat racing and showdowns as the sun sets on Saturday night. Both Bigfoot trucks and SSTs, featuring stock parts and 600-hp engines, will race in various events. Drivers will draw numbers at each track, so they won't race the same truck each race.
Gordon noted that each race will have a $60,000 purse, with money going to the top 3 finishers, and the overall series champion will pocket a cool $500,000.
With its fan-friendly angle, SST is clearly looking to fill the "NASCAR doesn't care about us" niche in the hearts of racing fans. And given Gordon's perpetual outsider status, he could well be onto something. Starting a new race series in this economic climate seems borderline insane, but then "borderline insane" could be the title of Gordon's biography. We'll be watching this one closely.
Inappropriate Twitter name makes it onscreen during ?Wind Tunnel?
Mistakes happen.
It's what we tell ourselves, anyway, and speaking from NASCAR Live Chat experience, you sometimes don't know that you've let in something a tad inappropriate until it's a little too late.
That's what happened on Sunday night's episode of "Wind Tunnel." Dave Despain and Larry McReynolds were taking questions from Twitter, and when they went to answer the final question (about drivers and anger issues, of course), well, you can see from the picture above that it's highly unlikely that Mr. McGee is using his given name.
Video can be found here. Props to Despain for catching himself and rolling right along with it as he's reading the teleprompter. But how in the world did McReynolds not react? That's either the greatest stifle of amusement in history or he totally missed it.
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Monday
Power Rankings: Jimmie Johnson retakes the throne
The race is done, and that means it's time for Power Rankings. Each week throughout the season, we'll size up who's rising and who's falling, based on current standings, behind-the-scenes changes, expected staying power, recent history and general gut feelings. It is not scientific, nor is it meant to be. And remember, whoever your favorite driver is, we're biased against him and like someone else better. We continue with a guy who knows his way around the top of the charts...
7
Lucky Dog: Bobby Labonte. Wait, Bobby Labonte won the fan vote? Over The (former) Beard? How the heck did that happen? Great news for LaBobby, though. You think he's still got enough to warrant another big-time ride? Maybe yes, maybe no, but he's not embarrassing himself.
The Jeff Gordon DNF: Jeff Burton, Jamie McMurray, Truex and all the other cats who couldn't quite transfer into the main event. Race better next time, dudes!
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Pedro Matos Chaves Bill Cheesbourg Eddie Cheever Andrea Chiesa
Sunday
Roy Salvadori 1922-2012
Former Grand Prix driver Roy Salvadori has passed away at the age of 90. His death comes just a few weeks after that of Carroll Shelby, with whom he shared the winning Aston Martin DBR1 at Le Mans in 1959. … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/06/03/roy-salvadori-1922-2012/
Francois Cevert Eugene Chaboud Jay Chamberlain Karun Chandhok
Danica Patrick is now the face of women in sports, according to ESPN
Granted, this isn't an endorsement of Patrick as a superstar; this is, after all, the magazine that made the curious decision to paint Michael Vick in whiteface, among other peculiar editorial choices. But it is a recognition that, in this world, success in your chosen profession runs hand in hand with your ability to bring in eyeballs and dollars. In the latter metric, Patrick has almost no equal in racing and few in sports as a whole.
It's a simple calculation, really. Patrick's detractors can scream all they want, but the quieter masses have, so far, spoken far louder with their numbers (Patrick was Yahoo!'s most-searched athlete last year) than with angry message-board postings. Yes, Patrick gets more notice finishing 31st than most drivers get for winning. The Miami Heat, Tiger Woods, Notre Dame ... they all continue to draw attention that far outweighs their actual in-competition performance now.
We're in the midst of a three-year experiment with Ms. Patrick (Introduction, Ramping Up, Sprint Cup). Yeah, she's getting shoved down everyone's throats because of all the money that's at stake and invested in her performance. Can she become a top-flight stock car driver? Sure. Could she fall short, riding around with the rest of the better-than-most-but-not-good-enough crew? Absolutely.
Patrick is a pioneer, but not in the way that, say, Shirley Muldowney or Janice Guthrie were. Patrick is pioneering a new model of female-athlete-as-brand, where style often trumps substance (sometimes by a large margin). There's plenty to dislike about that model, yes. But for the moment, it's the standard. At least until the next Danica comes along ... and starts winning.
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Robby Gordon?s Stadium Super Trucks Series: Awesome thing or awesomest thing?
We haven't seen Robby Gordon much around the ol' track this year, and this is a major reason why: he's launching Robby Gordon's Stadium Super Trucks Series in 2013. It's a whole new offroading experience: offroading in a stadium. (What? There aren't any roads in a stadium.)
"Stadium racing helped Jimmie Johnson, Casey Mears and myself launch our careers," Gordon said in a promotional stop this week. "SST offers attractive racing venues, remarkable track designs, substantial purse, and opportunity for network TV a lot like NASCAR because you can visualize the whole track."
The series will kick off next year with a 10-race slate to include stops in Los Angeles and San Diego. Each race will be a two-day event, featuring qualifying, heat racing and showdowns as the sun sets on Saturday night. Both Bigfoot trucks and SSTs, featuring stock parts and 600-hp engines, will race in various events. Drivers will draw numbers at each track, so they won't race the same truck each race.
Gordon noted that each race will have a $60,000 purse, with money going to the top 3 finishers, and the overall series champion will pocket a cool $500,000.
With its fan-friendly angle, SST is clearly looking to fill the "NASCAR doesn't care about us" niche in the hearts of racing fans. And given Gordon's perpetual outsider status, he could well be onto something. Starting a new race series in this economic climate seems borderline insane, but then "borderline insane" could be the title of Gordon's biography. We'll be watching this one closely.
2012 Catalunya MotoGP Warm Up Result: Crutchlow Tops Difficult Session
It started to rain at the start of MotoGP warm up, making conditions treacherous, and causing a spate of crashes. Dani Pedrosa, James Ellison, and Randy de Puniet all went down, and countless riders found themselves running straight on and into the gravel. Ellison's crash brought out the red flags, as it took so long to clear his bike from the gravel traps.
Cal Crutchlow ended the session fastest, ahead of Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi, though conditions were so difficult and changing so fast that the results were rendered meaningless. It is uncertain what the weather will do during the race, but it is unlikely to be dry, with light rain expected on and off during the afternoon.
Results:
Horner says no reason for Webber to leave RBR
Christian Horner has indicated that Mark Webber?s expected departure from Red Bull Racing at the end of 2012 is not a foregone conclusion. The consensus in the paddock has long been that Webber will either retire at the end of … Continue reading 
Source: http://adamcooperf1.com/2012/05/28/horner-says-no-reason-for-webber-to-leave-rbr/
Dave Charlton Pedro Matos Chaves Bill Cheesbourg Eddie Cheever
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