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Why Are NASCAR Ratings Down? You Decide

The one-trick pony is back to kick ESPN on ABC while they're down. Way down:ABC's broadcast of last Sunday's Pep Boys Auto 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway earned a final Nielsen Media Research rating of 4.0 ... 20 percent lower than the 4.8 NBC earned for the same race in 2006.20%?! Can't blame that...

Cup Watergate: Sunoco Fuel Gone Bad?

In the internal combustion process, water doesn't burn too well. Actually, it doesn't burn at all.Denny Hamlin's Chevrolet engine tried to burn water Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and the result wasn't pretty. Martin Truex Jr. slammed into the No. 11 as it stalled leading the field to a restart, Kyle Busch spun through...

Atlanta Throws Stewart Out of the Chase

Don't expect the the No. 20 Home Depot driver to be opening up and talking candidly with the media a whole lot any time soon.That is, though, unless he wants to start talking about the 2008 Sprint Cup campaign.Tony Stewart finished 30th Sunday at Atlanta Motor Speedway after some motor troubles during the middle section of...

Nationwide Series Gets New Car in 2009

That didn't take long.NASCAR confirmed Sunday morning at Atlanta Motor Speedway that they will switch to the new generation race car in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The new car (I'm tired of calling it the Car of Tomorrow when its here today) will be raced full-time in the top NASCAR series next season. "We're working on...

Is DEI Giving Junior Horses or Hamsters?

What do you suppose DEI pulled out of the Garage Mahal and put under Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s hood this weekend?Will he get an engine that lays all it's cylinders on the track up front and craps out before the halfway mark like in Fontana? Or will he get a teaser that takes him all the way to the end providing hope of a top 5...