Obligatory Friday post
There's a Cup race in two days, but for whatever reason I'm not all that up for it.
Maybe because it's a Sunday night race that's more than 48 hours away. Maybe because it's at the California track, which gave us a Greg Biffle win in February and a caution-fest last Labor Day weekend. And, yeah, what's going on in New Orleans is weighing on me, too. (Help out if you can; the Scotsman has more, and so does Full Throttle.)
I don't have much to add to the millions of words that will be written about Sunday's Cup race, so I'll direct you to some that already have made their way from brain to a Web page:
Diecast Dude will be at the race.
Jeff Burton goes all stream-of-consciousness on the California track.
NASCAR doesn't have a gas shortage, though it still uses that cruddy leaded fuel.
The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram finally realizes that Junior is out of Chase contention.
"Jeff Gordon rocks" according to 159 Web pages. But he, ah, doesn't rock according to 5,720 other sites.
The American driver with the best-ever racing name -- Scott Speed -- has signed with F1's Red Bull team.
And if you need more, USA Today's race preview is online, along with about a million other racin' stories you can plow through.
Time to work. There's a newspaper I need to help get out.
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