Police in Cincinnati arrested NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Aaron Fike on Saturday, along with his fiancé. Both were booked into the Warren County Jail on charges of possessing heroin.
The couple were arrested in the parking lot of King’s Island, a popular amusement park. Police were tipped by a caller in the late afternoon. The caller reported “suspicious activity” occurring in a Toyota Sequoia in the King’s Island parking lot.
Fike drives a Toyota Tundra in the NASCAR Craftsman (... > Full story
Dave Blaney has won the first-ever pole position for Toyota in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup competition. His lap at 129.437 miles per hour at the New Hampshire International Speedway topped all other competitors and represented one of the few bright spots for Toyota in its first season as a Nextel Cup competitor. Blaney drives for Bill Davis Racing, one of the first Nextel Cup teams approached by Toyota in anticipation of a full-scale Cup effort.
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Just how important NASCAR racing is to corporate sponsors is evident in the lawsuit between NASCAR and telecommunications company AT&T. It now involves potentially as much as $100,000,000. That’s right: a hundred million.
NASCAR, of course, has a series sponsor: Nextel. When it made its very lucrative deal with Nextel, both parties had to agree that communications companies already sponsoring a Cup car would be allowed to continue doing so. But, the deal between Nextel (...) > Full story
NASCAR will debut the Car of Tomorrow (COT) this weekend at Bristol Motor Speedway in the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race. The COT was designed from the ground up to be safer, more competitive and more cost-effective for NASCAR teams. Bristol is the first of 16 scheduled appearances for the COT in the 2007 season.
For nearly all of the 21st century, auto manufacturers – including Ford – racing engineers, and NASCAR have worked together to develop a new, safer race car. (...) > Full story
The Dodge Avenger, which joins the Dodge Charger in NASCAR NEXTEL Cup competition this season, makes its racing debut Sunday in the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway — the first NASCAR Car of Tomorrow (COT) race.
Preparing for NASCAR’s 16 COT races in 2007 has kept the candle burning at both ends for most NASCAR NEXTEL Cup teams since the end of last season. The Avenger, Dodge’s racing version of the COT, has been tested at tracks throughout the country getting ready for (... > Full story
The winds of change are blowing at gale force in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series. The imminent debut of the Chevrolet Impala SS "Car of Tomorrow" and the impending introduction of GM Racing’s all-new R07 small-block V-8 racing engine are signposts that point the way to a new direction in technology in America’s most popular racing series.
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Year: 2006 Cast overview:
Will Ferrel... Ricky Bobby
Monica Ivey .... Bar Patron
Amy Adams .... Susan
Sacha Baron Cohen .... Jean Girard
Cybill Besse .... Bar Patron/Concert Fan
Leslie Bibb .... Carley Bobby
William Boyer .... Rescue Worker
Gary Cole .... Reese Bobby
Toyota Motorsports have unveiled the first three teams that will run its Camry in Nextel Cup and Busch Series races in 2007: Bill Davis Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing and newly-formed Team Red Bull.
BDR brings long-time sponsor Caterpillar, while NAPA remains the primary sponsor for Waltrip. Bill Davis Racing was an early Toyota partner in the Craftsman Truck Series, while former Cup champion Darrell Waltrip is Toyota Motorsports most visible NASCAR spokesman.
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