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Jamie McMurray Takes Pepsi Max 400 Pole in California

FONTANA, Calif. -- Jamie McMurray's admittedly inconsistent season doesn't apply to the front row at Auto Club Speedway. The Earnhardt Ganassi Racing driver won the pole for the second consecutive race at the two-mile oval Friday with a lap time of 38.859 seconds, edging Elliott Sadler to make it a front row comprised of...

Reckless Rules: ESPN to Debut 'Backseat Driving' Race Broadcast

Typically, back-seat drivers are annoying and intrusive. But when it's five NASCAR champions -- three crew chiefs and a pair of drivers -- doing the talking, well, that's a little different. At least that's what ESPN is betting on when it debuts an innovative race broadcast for Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Michigan...

Rusty Wallace Inc. to Sprint Cup? Really?

One of the bigger stories of the weekend's Nationwide Series activities at Nashville Superspeedway, thanks to the fine folks over at Scene Daily, involved a potential move of Rusty Wallace Inc.'s two teams to Sprint Cup in 2010.According to the story, team owner Rusty Wallace said that he'd like to make the move in 2010,...

ESPN's NASCAR Crowd Noise Not Normal

We've heard plenty about "Coltgate" lately and the accusations that the Indianapolis Colts had pumped in crowd noise during the New England Patriots game two weeks ago. CBS took the rap for the incident, but ESPN's NASCAR coverage apparently took note of the idea.Judging from the TV I watched it on (ABC-HD with surround...

Jeff Burton Agrees: ESPN on ABC is "Absurd"

I feel bad for Marty Reid, I really do.Dude got shoved into a segment on ESPN2's NASCAR Now showing ESPN's impressive NASCAR coverage. Or, well, I hope he got shoved into it.Before I rip the whole segment apart, let me allow Jeff Burton, ESPN's token driver voice for their coverage to do so as he did in the video:"Well the...

Rusty Wallace News From the Web

05/31/12 Behind the Wheel: Legacy of "Blue Deuce" drives... Source: NASCAR Some kids grow up wanting to play shortstop for the New York Yankees or quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, but I never wavered in wanting to be a Cup Series driver.
05/31/12 Trimming NASCAR's schedule would be easier said than... Source: The Mississippi Press - Pascagoula MS Starting with February's Speed Weeks at Daytona, the season chugs along until the weekend before Thanksgiving.
05/31/12 Fans pick Montoya as greatest driver in Chip Ganassi... Source: The Brainerd Daily Dispatch - Brainerd MN There were a lot of acclaimed drivers to pick from, but fans voted for Juan Pablo Montoya as the greatest driver in Chip Ganassi Racing history.
05/31/12 City offers proposal to pay for Convention Center... Source: mySA City officials Wednesday laid out a plan to fund a $325 million expansion and partial demolition of the Convention Center, a project designed to attract more business to the facility and free up additional green space for adjacent HemisFair Park. The city has proposed issuing $544 million in public facility corporation lease revenue bonds to fund the renovations and to refinance an existing $254 million hotel occupancy tax debt on previous Convention Center expansions, rather than use only occupancy tax revenue.
05/29/12 Full Throttle â Beating the dead schedule horse Source: The Frontstretch This Full Throttle column is going to be about not decreasing the NASCAR schedule, just changing it up.

Background on Rusty Wallace

Russell William "Rusty" Wallace, Jr. (born August 14, 1956) is a retired NASCAR race car driver and a former NASCAR Winston Cup Champion, currently a broadcaster on ESPN and a co-host of NASCAR Angels.

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