tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-116970032011-12-13T21:56:25.377-06:00Welcome to the open-wheel freak show. If you don't have a sense of humor, please leave now.pressdoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14116626812974787639noreply@blogger.comBlogger1221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11697003.post-73730379783008677572007-01-02T22:36:00.001-06:002007-01-02T22:40:13.134-06:00

Pressdog is moving. Check out the new place. Just go to www.pressdog.com.Change your bookmarks! I will no longer be updating this site.

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Ah, 2006. A colorful year for both the Indy Racing League and the Champ Car World Series. Although they remain technically separate series, pressdog joins ESPN in sort of ignoring that technicality and presenting the one, the unified, Year End Representation:Best Finishes -- The last-lap, turn-four pass of Marco Andretti by the freakishly charging Sam Hornish in the Indy 500. A real "No (rhymes

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Note: Most of this is made up, except the parts about Joie Chitwood. NASCAR points champion Jimmie Johnson and Champ Car World Series veteran Paul Tracy will soon form a touring troupe that features stunt driving with golf carts, according to several sources.The revelation came days after Johnson admitted he was ``horsing around'' on top of a moving golf cart when he fell off and broke his left

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Um, yep, much of this is made up.Michael Andretti's desire to return to the Indy 500 is part of a marketing strategy designed to appeal to "middle-aged white guys with bails of cash," according to league insiders.Others insisted that a thinning field of legitimate Indy 500 contenders were "starting to shift the odds in Michael's favor."The speculation came days after the Indianapolis Star

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It's all TRUE. I swear.Alerted by the ever-vigalent Jeff at My Name is IRL, Scott "The Iceman" Dixon cracks many smiles as he proposes to his Welsh girlfriend. The bride-to-be gets the all-important public thumbs up from Dixon's mum. Video here.pressdog raises a pint of New Zealand's Steinlager and gives a howl of congratulations for the Iceman. (Photo: Dana Garrett, Indy Racing League)

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Fellow Iowan Jeff Olson, now of Indy and RACER Mag, posted a most excellent Q&A on our beloved corn state. Jeff mentions the most excellent Iowa Speedway (right). His article is so good I wish I had written it. Damn you, Jeff Olson! It's just too good.Check it: The IRL's Field of Dreams.

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Um, yeah, this is all made up.A team of grief counselors descended on Rahal Letterman Racing in Hilliard, Ohio, Friday to help a team struggling to cope with the departure of Danica Patrick."It's just a very difficult time right now," said one teary PR operative. "It's like the phone service is on the blink or something. The phones just went dead at midnight Nov. 30."As of Friday, IRL

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Note to the gullible: everything below is made up.The multi-year agreement between the Champ Car World Series and ESPN is really part of a stealth unification scheme, according to multiple sources within both series."The ESPN deal is just the tip of the iceberg," said one IRL insider. "Underneath the water line a bunch of us are working toward merging together one little thing at a time, when no

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Come on. Do I have to? OK. Everything below is made up. Sheesh.The jobs of engineers, pit crews, PR people, even transport hauler drivers in the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series may soon be determined by how much sponsorship the applicant can bring to the table.Strapped for cash, the premier American open-wheel racing series are considering extending the practice of hiring drivers in

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Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of Champ Car World Series Grand Premio Telmex presented by Banmex, Mexico City on 11/12/06.pressdog's muy frio beer of the race is race sponsor Tecate. Una cerveza muy excelente.Sebastien Bourdais montage. First guy since 1948 to win three points championships in a row.Welcome to Mexico City. 14th and final race. Wet weekend off and on. Rookie of the Year

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It's seem silly to have to say this, but 99% of everything below is made up.Champ Car World Series veteran Paul Tracy is preparing to jump the Snake River Cannon in a golf cart, according to sources close to the driver. Speculation has swirled since the weekend of Nov. 4 when Tracy (show at right modeling a possible jumping costume) broke his shoulder blade in an accident in his home town of Las

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Photo: Shawn Payne and Indy Racing LeagueReacting angrily to rumors of oppressive sponsor behavior, pressdog today formally launched a "Free Danica!" campaign."It's just wrong man," said obscure racing blogger pressdog. "Danica wants to run the Daytona test so she should be able to run the Daytona test. I mean, why is everyone getting so knotted up about it? You know what that is? It's The Man,

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Our boy Jeff at My Name is IRL is laying down some smack about the Indy Racing League's apparent indifference to the incredibly negative ROI that comes from sponsoring many of its teams. The lack of real steps to help reduce the cost of competing (competing for the win, not just showing up to finish behind Ganassi and Penske) makes us wonder if everyone at IRL HQ is drinking cheap Scotch all day

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The blogosphere cried out for a few, measured words from Scott Dixon (left), who responded by talking about Honda power, Kiwi beer and his stoic demeanor. Mega props to Ganassi PR Czarina Pat for getting these 100%, swear-to-God real answers from the freakishly fast New Zealander who won the 2003 Indy Racing League points championship. pressdog: You seem eerily calm before, during and after the

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Note: Everything below is true. Info courtesy of Sarah Fisher's PR peeps:Indy Racing League driver and three-time World Karting Association Grand National Champion Sarah Fisher scared up a P1 finish at a 100-mile Halloween Grand Prix karting event in Norway, Ill. Saturday.Fisher, teaming with her fiancé, Andy O'Gara, took first place in the 30-kart Yamaha Supercan division. The victory comes two

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Note: Below is satire. Fiction.Indy Racing League officials were stunned Sunday to learn that Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has been a racing in the league for years."We were having one of our three-a-daily meetings with Andretti Green Racing -- you know, to make sure they had enough sponsorship money and Danica was happy -- and they kept mentioning this 'Dreyer and Reinbold Racing' team," said an IRL

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Note to the humorless. Everything below is satire. Stuff made up in order to express an opinion.The Indy Racing League officials Tuesday confirmed they are abandoning their quest for mass appeal and instead "going after targeted, incredibly tiny and potentially somewhat profitable" audiences."We've tried filling barns like Texas Motor Speedway and who are we kidding?" said an Indy Racing League

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Notes taken during the international broadcast of the Champ Car World Series Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.(Note: grabbed the replay of the race off Champ Car's most excellent "Race Director" -- go to www.champcar.ws and sign up for it right now! -- and it was the international broadcast version. No Derek Daly and Rick Benjamin! Some dudes named Jeremy Shaw and Jamie

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Sarah Fisher PR Czar Klint Briney poses with his boss at a go-kart track during a team outing. Rumor has it soon after this picture was taken Sarah gave Klint a serious smackdown on the track.Open-wheel driver and three-time World Karting Association Grand National Champion Sarah Fisher today refused to confirm rumors that she gave her PR Czar Klint Briney a serious spanking on the track during

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Team pressdog (Katherine Legge, left, and Sarah Fisher) hit the road this week after finishing 31st in a 56-kart, 200-mile endurance go-kart endurance race last week in New Castle, Ind.A broken chain forced the KatFish kart into the pits for extensive repairs and led to the P31 showing. Team pressdog officials were reportedly hot over the dissing of Champ Car's Legge in the photo gallery on the

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pressdog moles and operatives tell us that Indy Racing League driver Sarah Fisher and Champ Car World Series pilot Katherine Legge are representing at Newcastle Motorsports Park even as we speak in preparation for the RoboPong.com 200 go-kart endurance race.The two are aiming to dislodge reigning race champion, shoe enthusiast and Jamie Little (get her in a car!) fan Dan "Yellow Race Booties"

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Note to the gullable: Jamie Little is, in fact, probably going to cover NASCAR in 2007. The rest is made up. Except the fact that I do, in fact, think it's a kick in the testicles.Indy Racing League bloggers reacted to the news that sports hotty Jamie Little (get her in a car!) may not be working the IRL pits in 2007 with everything from tears to unbridled rage."No J-Lil'? No way!," said MoneyCJ,

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Note: Sarah (left) and Katherine are, in fact, on the same go-kart team but the quotes about and reasons for their teaming up are all fiction. Totally made up. Fabricated.Open-wheel drivers Sarah Fisher and Katherine Legge will form a rare IRL/Champ Car united team for a go-kart race in New Castle, Indiana on Oct. 15.The Fisher/Legge team will participate in the 200 Mile TaG Endurance Race at the

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Note to the humorless. Everything below is made up.Indy Racing League Driver/Fashion Model Danica Patrick is preparing to launch a music career, according to advisors close to Danica.The source, who asked not to be identified, said Danica decided to record an album after her less-than-ideal performance of Take Me Out to the Ballgame at a Chicago Cubs baseball game in September and the success of

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Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of the Champ Car World Series Grand Prix of Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI, 9/24/06.pressdog beer of the race is Leinenkugel's Honey Weis. "Select malted wheat, cluster hops and a hint of Wisconsin honey give this unique refresher a clean, crisp, slightly sweet taste." Party on, heirs of Jacob Leinenkugel and your beer-making posse in Chippewa Falls,

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When the history of open-wheel reunification efforts is written, the "tipping point" in the whole deal is going to be traced back to the day I put two decals on my flamin' hot ride.Just email me your congratulations right now, my friends, because on Sept. 18 I slapped a Champ Car decal right under my IndyCar Series decal on the back window of my high-performance, 2001 Ford Focus. Kevin, Tony, no

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Note to the overly serious: everything below is made up.The Indy Racing League hopes a page out of the tried-and-true sprint-car program will help increase interest in the IRL.Starting in 2007, the Indy Racing League will introduce "B Feature" races. Long a staple of dirt-track racing, the IRL hopes the B Feature will help hold the interest of people who are "getting a little sick of watching

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Notes taken during the ABC broadcast of and at the track during the Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 Presented by Mr. Clean at Chicagoland Speedway.pressdog is in the house! Section 431 at Chicagoland Speedway. Keeping a low profile. Hanging with my peeps. Hobknobbing back by the haulers. Marco Andretti nearly ran me over several times with his scooter, for example. I felt something pass between us. I'm

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Notes taken during the SPEED tape-delayed broadcast of theGrand Prix of Montreal on Sept. 6, 2006.Welcome to Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWS) in Montreal. The race was originally scheduled for August 28, but it rained really, really hard, so they ran the race on Monday, August 29. Speed aired the race on Sept. 6.pressdog's beer of the race is Peroni.

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Danica Patrick/JoJoIndy Racing League officials Wednesday admitted they are investigating the possibilty that driver Danica Patrick and singer JoJo may be the same person."Yeah, we're taking a look at it," said a league official who asked not to be named. "Nobody thought twice until one day when one of our interns said, 'Wow, you dye JoJo's hair black and she could be Danica (5'1", 100 pounds).

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Note: below is 100% fiction.Indy Racing League officials confirmed Thursday that a NASCAR publication was discovered dangerously close to an area used by IRL teams.IRL officials said unidentified track workers found a NASCAR playbook in the trash outside the garages at the Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA."We found what appears to be a NASCAR playbook outside the garage area at Infineon/Sonoma/

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Note to the easily fooled -- Rusty was in a crash and did thank Dodge afterward, but the rest is made up. Read a real story about the crash here.Former NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace today named Dodge as his "Official Crash Sponsor."Rusty, who drove to fame in the #2 Dodge Deuce, made the announcement a day after a woman chattering on a cell phone T-boned her Mercedes into Rusty's 2006 Dodge

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Note to the peeps: Don't miss a pressdog update ever. Sign up to be on the update email list. Use the boxes at the top right of the home page. Notes taken during the ESPN broadcast of the Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma at Infineon Raceway, Sonoma, CA. on Aug. 27, 2006.Pressdog's beer of the race is Sierra Nevada Wheat brewed in Chico, CA. Big fan of the wheat. Fruity finish. Light. Fabulous. And, I

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Note to gullible: Katherine Legge was put on probation for rough driving at San Jose, but most everything else is made up.English rookie Katherine Legge was put on probation for "childish, foolish" honesty immediately after the series' race in San Jose July 30, according to league insiders.In her online diary, Legge admits that she hipchecked Andrew Ranger into the tyres late in the San Jose race

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Our boy Jeff over at My Name is IRL gets Sarah Fisher on record re: her driving universe and the drama therein. Includes a most excellent quote from Sarah on the difference between the IRL and bowling league. I got a real feeling that the drivers may be friendly off the track, but once the helmet goes on driver's brains go into "general agression mixed with episodes of rage" mode.Pressdog says

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Note to the slow-witted. The Paul Tracy quotes below are accurate, but everything else is made up.A spokesperson for the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF) confirmed Wednesday that the organization had launched a full-scale search for a set of balls.“We know we had some testicles around here somewhere,” said the spokesperson who declined to be named, “We

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Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of Denver Grand Prix sponsored by Bridgestone on Aug. 13, 2006."Under Pressure" montage. Dan pounding steering wheel. Pitting action. Cars going everywhere. Katherine Legge gets air. Lots of drivers walking after the crash. Speedy Dan Clarke kicking his tires after his car roasted. Video of Paul Tracy putting it into climbing gear over Bourdais at Cleveland.

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Notes taken during the ABC broadcast of the Meijer Indy 300 Presented by Coca-Cola and Secret on Aug. 13, 2006.pressdog's beer of the race today is Bavaria, an import from the Netherlands, and Spaten Oktoberfest, an import from Munich, Germany. Snooty!Open with dramatic video of TJ Patrick (Danica's dad) standing almost on the apron during morning practice. TJ appears to be on the cell phone to a

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The ultra-wired MoneyCJ, kingpin of the most-excellent IRL blog, So. Damn. Indy. has busted through to Jeff Simmons, driver of the Rahal Letterman Racing #17 ethanolmobile. Money put some questions to Jeff who fired back in a candid fashion. Included is this nugget about Jeff's interaction with Danica Patrick:"I've talked to Danica a lot of times, but after some things I heard she was saying on

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Note to the gullible. AGR and Danica did get $21 million from Motorola, but the rest is fiction.Indy Racing League fans around the country reacted with sighs of relief Wednesday at news that Andretti Green Racing would get $21 million over the next three years."Thank God," said one fan. "I was worried that Andretti Green might have to start eating at thee-star restaurants rather than the

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Continuing note: Once again, everything below is made upIndy Racing League officials Monday said they were stunned at the success of the NACAR-focused comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and revealed they had scrapped a similar movie revolving around open-wheel racing months ago.The open-wheel version was to be called Sparta Afternoons: the Legend of Wilbur Fitzhue and focus on a 5

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Note: Sarah is back in the IRL for at least one race, but the rest is made up.The makers of Depend undergarments reported a run on supplies early Thursday afternoon as word came out that Sarah Fisher will return to the Indy Racing League on Aug. 13.As the news flashed across leading IRL-related sites like So Damn Indy and My Name is IRL, the makers of Depend reported servers crashing around the

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Notes taken during the NBC broadcast of the San Jose Grand Prix presented by Taylor Woodrow on 7/30/06.Intro montage: AJ Allmendinger has won three. Sebastien Bourdais has won four. Justin Wilson has won one. Who will win this week? Video of cars getting airborne over railroad tracks in the race course last year. Rick Benjamin -- It looked like a motocross course!Derek Daly and Rick Benjamin on

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Note to the posse: To ensure that you are alerted every time the p-dog updates, sign up to be on my email notification list. Use the boxes to the right. No sharing of email address. No spam. Nothing but pressdog alerts.pressdog's beer for the race is Miller Lite. Everybody on the Michigan car assembly line, it's Miller time!Notes taken during the ABC/ESPN2 broadcast of the Firestone Indy 400 at

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Everything below is made up for smart-ass purposes only:Officials at Andretti Green Racing headquarters spent Tuesday drinking heavily, relieved that they had finally found a driver who really, really wanted to win.The drinking bindge came late Tuesday after the team announced they had signed that rare racer who wants to win, Rookie of the Year Sensation Danica Patrick. Danica (5-1, 100 pounds),

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Note to the posse: To ensure that you are alerted when the blog is updated, sign up to get my alert emails. No names are shared. No salesmen will call. Use the boxes at the right to sign up for the list. It's a double opt-in deal, so you'll get an email that you need to respond to to be on the list. Be sure to put pressdog@pressdog.com in your adress book to keep me out of the spam filter tire

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Note to the posse: To ensure that you are alerted when the blog is updated, sign up to get my alert emails. No names are shared. No salesmen will call. Use the boxes at the right to sign up for the list.pressdog's beer for the race is Miller High Life, Milwaukee, Wisc., U.S. A., baby.It's Milwaukee, so how about a Laverne and Shirley intro montage? 1976 sitcom set in Milwaukee, redid the intro to

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Note: this is all made up. Fiction. Driven by frustration and for humor purposes only.Leaders of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series vowed today to match each other's shrinking entry count car-for-car.The estimated 34,292 race fans who still pay attention to open-wheel racing in America have noticed that car counts for both series have dropped steadily this year. Both Champ Car and

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Notes taken during ESPN's broadcast of the Firestone Indy 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on 7/15/06.Sam Hornish montage! Marty -- It's been a picture perfect (Todd Harris-ism) season for Sam. Who can challenge the all American? Dario, the guy who calls Nashville home?Welcome to Nashville Superspeedway, the concrete track. Temps are in the mid-80s. Going to get hot on the track. Much cleverness

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Note to the slow: below is all (at least mostly) fiction.Indy Racing League officials Friday worried that fewer and fewer people in the world were willing to drive race cars that have virtually no chance of winning.A decline in the demand among drivers for ill-handling, under-funded, just-plain-bad cars -- known in the business as "pigs" -- could greatly damage the league's ability to put more

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Note to the low IQ -- everything below is made upIndy Racing League officials said Wednesday they are treating the discovery of an empty Krispy Kreme doughnut box near Danica Patrick's motor home "as an issue of grave concern.""Frankly, this has sent a ripple of terror throughout the Indy Racing League," said Bernie Jameson, director of security for the IRL. "The implications of finding a

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Notes taken during the CBS broadcast of the Molson Grand Prix of Toronto on 7/9/06.Welcome to Toronto. It's a street fight. Rollerball on wheels. Bourdais, AJ, Tracy montage. Everyone has something to prove. It's the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF).Recap -- Bourdais won first four. AJ the next two. Paul Tracy has a chance to win one, maybe. Rest of the

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Note to the highly gullible: Everything below is made up.Emergency rooms around the United States report a dramatic rise in people complaining of being "f*cking sick of hearing about open-wheel reunification.""Just the other day we saw a man who could stop shrieking 'Any day now! Any day now!' " said Dr. Abe Lentelsith of Indianapolis General Medical Center. "We finally figured out he was talking

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Notes taken during the ABC broadcast of the Kansas Lottery Indy 300 on July 2, 2006.pressdog's beer of the race this week is Boulevard Wheat, brewed in Kansas City, Mo. Opaque. Unfiltered. Slightly fruity. The 'dog digs it.Intro montage. Welcome to the heart of the Midwest. Many "Midwest images." Corn. Barn. Windmill. "America's Heartland." Texas and Richmond flashbacks. "Who can rise above the

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Notes from the CBS broadcast of the Grand Prix of Cleveland presented by U.S. Bank 6/25/06.Welcome to Cleveland, home of the Airport Grand Prix which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Since 1982, great names in CART have raced at Cleveland. Why? Because it's a 185 mph festival of speed, baby. It's the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF).A.J.

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I did get the CCWS Cleveland race taped, some how. Notes coming soon.

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Sucks to be me. I was out of town this weekend and a power outage screwed my VCR program so I got SQUAT for tape on both the IRL race (shocker: Penske wins again) and the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford which sounds like a demo derby. Heavy circus music.

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Notes from the G.I. Joe's Presents The Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland taken during the CBS broadcast on 6/18/06.To recap the craziness over the last week: AJ fired from RuSPORT. Nobody seems to know why. AJ goes to Niagara Falls and gets engaged to a former Miss Champ Car. Da Matta hired away from Dale Coyne racing. Dominguez fired from Forsythe, possibly for hip checking half the contenders

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Note to everyone: Thisis totally made up. For humor purposes only.The Bridgestone Presents Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF) today announced its only American driver will return with his sights firmly set on second place.The news came after Forsythe Racing hired American AJ Allmendinger. Allmendinger, the only American in all of BPCCWSPF had been canned by team RuSport a week

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Notes taken during the ESPN broadcast of the Bombardier LearJet 500 from Texas Motor Speedway on 6/10/06.pressdog's beer of the race is Molson Candian. Beauty beer, eh?Intro with the appropriately western music and the Complete Waste Eddie Cheever montage. It's the "Showdown at Sundown."Welcome to Ft. Worth, TX where it's about a hundred degrees out. We're here to see if Penske and Ganassi will

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Please note: If you think any of what is below is true you need medical attention. I made it all up.If you thought Marco vs. Eddie was great, the Indy Racing League hope's you'll really go for Jamie vs. Danny.In a bold marketing move, the Indy Racing League Sunday announced that driver Dan Wheldon and ABC/ESPN Pit Reporter Jamie Little would hold an exibition mud wrestling match during the

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Note to the gullable -- everything below is made upIn a daring move to increase popularity in the U.S., the Champ Car World Series today announced the departure of the only American driver on the circuit and renamed itself the Zero Americans League."We really believe this is the key to making Champ Car into an American success," said Zippy Tzerdoff, Director of Marketing for Champ Car. "If this

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Notes from the ABC broadcast of the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix on 6/4/06.pressdog's beer of the race is Budweiser Select. Not bad for an American light beer.Holy Tape Delay! Pressdog blows the tape timer and misses the first nine laps. Shades of Motegi. We'll pick it up at lap 9. But first ...Starting lineup: Helio Castroneves, Tony Kanaan, Marco "Rookie Sensation" Andretti, Scott Dixon, Dan

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Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of the Time Warner Cable Road Runner 225 at the Milwaukee Mile on 6/4/06Welcome to the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF) at Milwaukee, the oldest continually operating oval tack in the world (Since 1903)In a shocking development, Sebastien Bourdais has won the pole. Derek Daly tells us that Bourdais has never led at

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Notes taken during the ABC broadcast of the Indy 500 on May 28, 2006.pressdog's beer of the race is the German St. Pauli Girl, in honor of them sponsoring Danica's mirrors.Legends montage. Dig it. First mention of Danica is at the 2:22 mark.Up to Brent Musburger and Rusty Wallace. Rusty says he never felt this much excitement in his life.Brent -- Danica flashback. One year ago. Danica montage to

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Note to the humorless: all of this is made up.An uncharacteristic outburst from Indy 500 pole sitter Sam Hornish, Jr. caused a stunned silence in the Indy 500 garage area Wednesday.“I think maybe the pressure of being on the pole at Indy is wearing on him," said Buster Jarsma, a mechanic for Dreyer and Reinbold Racing. “You could have heard a pin drop after Sam went off.”According to several

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Notes taken during the SPEED broadcast of the race in Monterrey on 5/21/06.It's "Bump Day" at Indy so naturally all the drivers who should be bumping their way into the race are now in Monterrey, Mexico. Welcome to the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPB) from Monterrey.Broadcast starts with an ode to the mechanics. Rick Benjamin hails the Champ as "the most

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Note to the slow among you: this is all made up. Fictional. Leaders of anti-violence groups today issued a terse warning against televising any of the Indy 500 practice sessions."Given the level of ass-kicking the Penske Twins are putting on the field, it's safe to say any televising of practice would bring immediate FCC scrutiny," said Chester McClinkengard of the Coalition to Stop Televised

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Notes taken during the SPEED TV telecast of the ChampCar World Series Grand Prix of Huston on 5/13/06.Welcome to Houston for the 2006 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford (BPCCWSPF). This event is held at "Reliant Park" according to the officail line, but it's really at "Reliant Park-ing Lot." It's on the parking lot between Reliant Park and the AstroDome, complete with

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Note: is humor. It is not true. I made it all up.The Indy Racing League today announced a marketing partnership with eBay that would "take Indy 500 field-filling to a new level.""In our continuing effort to broaden the appeal of the Indy Racing League, we've created an alliance with eBay that will let more people than ever before bid for rides in the Indianapolis 500," said Marty Certoffilov,

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Note: Hold your outrage. Everything below is made up. Do not call law enforcement or boycott the AGR merchandise trailer in protest.In a daring midnight raid, Indianapolis Motor Speedway security forces claim to have broken up a fuel doping scheme by Andretti Green Racing.IMS yellow shirts raided the AGR garages at the speedway earily Wednesday and confiscated 50 gallons of Everclear, a 190-proof

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Notes taken from the ESPN broadcast of the Indy Japan 200 at Twin Ring Motegi on 4/22/06.Holy budget cuts! Jerry Punch, MD, goes solo on the track reporter front. No Jamie (maybe her height and blonde hair scared the Japanese fans). No Vince. No Jack the Root.First mention of Danica is under two minutes in! Someone must have sent the ABC/ESPN guys a memo: "MORE DANICA." After relatively little

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Note to the gullible: this is all made up.Tens of hundreds of Indy Faithful chanting "I am MINDY" converged on the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Good Friday to hold a vigil for any of a dozen drivers they hope will be on the starting grid on May 28.The occasion was the release of the entry list for the 90th annual Greatest Spectacle in Racing. Along with the expected drivers were cars

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Notes taken during the NBC broadcast of the ChampCar World Series' Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, 4/9/06.The first-ever notes from a ChampCar broadcast for me. Be gentle. Before we get to the race, let's kick this season off with a ChampCar season preview on SPEED TV. The star of this show is Kevin Kalkhoven's $47 million airplane. Much air time for the plane. Jetting from city to city for a "

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Notes from the ESPN coverage of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg on 4/2/06Something like 15 seconds into the broadcast and we're talking to Danica. Danica-fo-fanica. D-D-Danica! She's wearing possibly the world's largest production sunglasses. Looks like someone stapled a tinted visor to her head. Massive. Let's do this: Let's give the Danica interviewers some new questions. Let's veer

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Note: Everything below is fictionIRL Vice President of Spontaneity Gunter Yugoff today said the IRL is "bouncing back" after the loss of Todd Harris in the booth."Todd, he was fabulous," said Yugoff said. "I mean, wake up the queen, you never knew what he was going to say. For someone like me -- it was manna from heaven. Someone to add some spark amid all the 'dirty air' references. But now Todd

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Note to the slow: virtually everything below is made up.Clergy persons around the world registered alarm today that recent events in the Indy Racing League might actually be "signs that the apocalypse is upon us."Religious leaders pointed to recent merger talks between IRL headman Tony George and ChampCar World Series leader Kevin Kalkhoven and the hiring of KISS rock star Gene Simmons to lead

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pressdog represents on Gene Simmons and the state of the IRL circa March 2006:Gene Simmons. A fine guy, I'm sure, and he may be doing some good stuff for the IRL. Time will tell. He is definitely getting out of the carbon-fiber box the IRL has been in for about 5 years. I give him major props for trying something new, and more props for getting the league to go along. Given he made a

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No race notes for the Toyota Indy 300 at Homestead today out of respect and mourning for Paul Dana who died in a warm-up crash. Rest in Peace, Paul.

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Note: All this stuff is made up. For satirical purposes only.Open wheel racing fans everywhere greeted the news about the U.K.'s Katherine Legge moving up to a Champ Car ride with "at last, something fresh to bitch about."On Valentine's Day PKV racing co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven announced that Legge will become the first woman to have a full-time ride in the Champ Car World Series in a really long

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Note to the humorless: What follows is fiction. Satire. Humor. Not real.Stung by the cries from teams who find it more and more difficult to afford to compete in the Indy Racing League, league officials today unveiled plans to "save teams hundreds of dollars on office supplies and other bulk-purchase items."League director of Purchasing Bernadette Swarthow said that as of Nov. 21, all teams have

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Disclaimer: Everything below is made up as part of a sorry attempt to get a laugh.Indy Racing League today revealed that it's "looking into" a confrontation between rookie sensation of the year Danica Patrick and former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.The league said the probe centers on a dustup that happened during the first day of Saddam's long-awaited trial in Baghdad on Oct. 18.During a break

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Female Rookie Sensation Roundup: Rookie Sensation Sarah Fisher started 17th, raced as high as third, and finished 7th at Mesa Marin Raceway in Bakersfield, CA on 10/15. Rookie Sensation Katherine Legge will test an F1 car for the Minardi team at Vallelunga at the end of November.Welcome to California Speedway at Fontana, CA where the crowd seems to be at least as large as that drawn by a college

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Note for the humor-challenged: The following is all made up and presented for chortling purposes only.The Indy Racing League today unveiled a new strategy "to inject some drama and raw emotion" into the IRL starting in 2006.At the center of the plan is the appointment of Gunter Yugoff as Vice President of Spontaneity."My purpose is to add some fire, some honest emotion, some -- how you say --

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Notes from the ABC broadcast of the Watkins Glen Indy Grand Prix on 9/25/05Female Rookie Sensation Roundup: Erin "No relation to Betty" Crocker started 9th and finished 35 in the Busch race at Dover on Sept. 24. Some ya-ya got under her left rear and spun her. Erin was pissed post-race. You don't want to piss off those dirt trackers. Rookie Sensation Sarah Fisher started 10th, raced up to 7th,

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Attention fellow Indy Racing League freaks: Thanks to my friend, Lou Ann Baker, PR Czarina for Dreyer and Reinbold Racing, pressdog went "behind the pit wall" during the IRL race at Chicagoland Sept. 10 and 11 and tackled the key issues. (Gratuitous traffic-driving mention: I talk about DANICA.) Get the complete story on the mother site, www.pressdog.com.

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Note: This is all made up. There was really no gunfire. For humor purposes only.NASCAR officials said they would "take a serious look at" reports that drivers exchanged gunfire on the track during the Sylvania 300 in Loudon, N.H. on Sept. 18."The discharge of firearms inside the city limits without a permit is a pretty big deal," said one NASCAR official, who said the drivers involved may get

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Notes from the ABC broadcast of the Chicagoland race on 9/11/05Female Rookie Sensation Roundup -- Busch Rookie Sensation Erin "Country" Crocker crashed in qualifying, started dead last (43rd), crashed in the race and finished 39th in her first Bush race ever on Sept. 9 at Richmond. Not all bad news, though, because Erin's mom, Betty Crocker, announced she will sponsor Erin for the entire 2006

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Notes taken and observations made during the ESPN broadcast of the Argent Mortgage Indy Grand Prix and Infineon on 8/28/05.First, a Female Rookie Sensation Roundup:Not much action this week. Rookie Sensations Sarah Fisher and Erin Crocker didn't race. Rookie Sensation Katherine Legge started fourth and finished fourth at the Toyota Atlantic race in Montreal.ESPN opens with pit reporters and Scott

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This week's Female Rookie Sensation Round Up: Rookie sensation Katherine Legge continues to rip it up in the Toyota Atlantics by coming in second at Road America on 8/21. Rookie sensation Sarah Fisher started 7th and finished 9th in her 150-mile Pikes Peak race run right after the IRL race. No word on how Rookie Sensation Erin Crocker did this weekend (or if she even raced).Toyota front row in

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Note: This is all made up. Fiction. You'd be surprised how many people think this stuff is true.The Indy Racing League today unveiled a new "Bad Bearing Bingo" initiative that they hope will put more mystery and excitement into league races for the rest of the season."Let's face it," said one IRL official. "AGR was pretty much giving everyone a bitch-slapping every time out. They won seven of the

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Notes from the ABC broadcast of the IRL race at Kentucky Speedway on 8/14/05.Female Rookie Sensation Round Up: Tough week for female rookie sensations. Toyota Atlantic Rookie Sensation Katherine Legge got tangled up on the start of the Toyota Atlantic Grand Prix of Denver on 8/14 and ended up 17th. Rookie Sensation Sarah Fisher started 17th, ran as high as 11th until her rear end blew and she

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Note to the gullible: this is all made up.Leaders of the Indy Racing League and Champ Car World Series today confirmed they have entered into a suicide pact "for the good of open-wheel racing in the U.S."Once-secret documents reveal that IRL headman, Tony George, has an agreement with Champ Car owners Gerald Forsythe, Kevin Kalkhoven and Paul Gentilozzi "to choke each other to death and never let

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Here's the deal: I made all of this up. It's fiction.Fans of rookie sensation Sarah Fisher today angrily demanded that the SPEED Channel hire ABC/ESPN announcer Todd Harris.Fisher Fans said their move came after SPEED failed to fawn over Fisher during a tape-delayed broadcast of the NASCAR Grand National West Series King Taco 150 at Irwindale, CA.Fisher is a rookie sensation in the West Series

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Note to the humorless: this is all fiction. I made it up for humor purposes.The Indy Racing League announced today that it will implement several changes to help the league capitalize on the growing fan attention for rookie sensation Danica Patrick."Good god, we're not stupid," said one IRL insider. "When a cash cow walks into your living room, you milk it."Spurred by the Danica-only autograph

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Notes taken during the ABC broadcast of the Firestone Indy 400 from Michigan on 7/31/05.Female Rookie Sensation report: Katherine Legge wins again! Wins the Toyota Atlantic Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose on 7/31. Rookie sensation Sarah Fisher started 21st and finished 8th in her West Series race in Irwindale, CA on 7/23 and started third and finished 11th in Monroe, Washington on 7/30. ABC

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Note to the humorless: this is all made up.Andretti Green Racing today filed a formal protest with the Indy Racing League alledging, among other things, that the league "loves Danica more." The protest stemmed from an autograph session before the July 24 race at Milwaukee in which a separate line was created for those waiting to see rookie sensation Danica Patrick (5-foot-1, 100 pounds).

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Sorry. No notes this time. I set the VCR to tape it, but I set it wrong. Because I'm an idiot.

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Note to the overly trusting: this is all made up.Indy Racing League perennial back markers are rumored to be working on a marketing plan that calls for intentional, strategic crashes among other unorthodox moves."We were sitting around the other day talking about how we could drive around with 'Screw Yourselves' on our sidepods and get maybe four seconds of air time," said the owner of one

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Notes taken during the ESPN broadcast of the race in Nashville on 7/16/05S-a-tur-day-NIGHT, S-a-tur-day-NIGHT. Saturday late afternoon, actually.Before we fire up the race coverage, let's note that Toyota Atlantic Rookie Sensation Katherine Legge got black flagged for blocking during her race in Toronto on Saturday. Got a drive-through penalty and finished sixth. I'm here to tell ya Danica could

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