Since football season is over, it’s that time of the year when we watch cars go around in circles again.

And in case you didn’t get that, the 2010 NASCAR season is kicking off on Valentine’s Day weekend with the Daytona 500. For all ya’ll who didn’t know, they say the Daytona 500 is NASCAR’s equivalent to the Super Bowl. I still have no idea why they have this race to kick off their season though.

Still, NASCAR will have the annual Daytona 500 at the Daytona International Speedway to generate some hype for the whole year. And since this sport really doesn’t have anything else to offer other than cars going around in circles for three freaking hours, they need all the hype they can get.

So with the 52^nd Daytona 500 kicking off the brand new season, what’s in store for NASCAR racing fans this year? Well, for one, NASCAR has made headlines over the last couple of weeks following several rules changes that will take place this season. These changes will encourage more aggressive driving from drivers AND more importantly, to captivate fans.

The recent changes have been made due to the continual poor ratings that…

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At least this chick won’t give her guy a hard time on where to take her on Valentine’s Day.

Because Danica Patrick will be making her NASCAR debut this weekend at the Daytona International Speedway for Daytona 500. Fresh off a pretty impressive sixth-place finish last week on the same track in an ARCA race, Patrick decided it’s time to make the move to NASCAR and what better to do it than on NASCAR’s grandest stage, Daytona.

”Racing in the Nationwide Series race was my goal during this entire two-month preparation process, but we wanted to make sure it was the right thing to do,” Danica Patrick said in a statement. ”The ARCA race was a blast, and I’m not ready for my first Daytona Speedweeks to end just yet. I want more racing.”

Patrick was originally scheduled to debut on Feb. 20 at the Nationwide race in California, but that’s been bumped up to the 2010 NASCAR season opener at Daytona because she felt so comfortable in the ARCA race. She started 12th in the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 and finished sixth, including a late rally from 23rd position all the way to the front pack in just under 20 laps.

Crew chief Tony Eury Jr., who initially was against Patrick beginning her limited Nationwide schedule at Daytona, didn’t hesitate to give a yes vote after the ARCA event.

Patrick has been hesitant to make her debut at Daytona because…

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You can just imagine how high will the TV ratings be once Patrick makes the move.

In case you didn’t know, there are some teams looking to make their debut in Formula One once the 2009 F1 season is over. One of which is the new USF1 team looking to make a splash next season.

Of course, since USF1 is American owned, it’s understandable for those guys to go look for American drivers to race for them. And ever since the team made their intentions to compete in Formula One public, it sparked some speculation that they’ll sign the popular and sexy Indy race car driver Danica Patrick as one of their two pilots.

With Patrick’s contract with Andretti Green Racing expiring at the end of the year, the timing is perfect for her to make the move. The question is, will she make one?

Unfortunately for F1 fans looking forward for this one, Danica Patrick already poured cold water over the ”very hot” rumors like a pissed little bitch, leaving us hanging, curled up in a corner with a pulsating crotch.

”I’d say it’s probably not F1,” Danica Patrick said on which series she may race in next season.

”I’ve had opportunities to take it a step further with Formula 1, and I don’t want to lead anyone down a path. It’s not in my heart to go there. I’ve explored Europe before.”

”I particularly like to be here and I like my family…

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You just know they hate each other’s guts now.

The feud between Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson is starting to heat up this 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup season as both drivers got into some late-race bumping at Chicagoland Speedway that left each of them wondering if one has a problem with the other.

Hell, both might still be upset when the Sprint Cup series picks up July 26 at Indianapolis. Jimmie Johnson had lost his lead to Denny Hamlin late in the race and fell back into three-wide racing with Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon. Gordon appeared to get under Johnson, and the three-time defending Cup champion’s No.48 Chevrolet got loose and made contact with Busch.

Angry at the contact, former champion Kurt Busch appeared to deliberately turn into Johnson. Their cars connected, causing a spark of excitement in a 400-mile race that Mark Martin won in mostly dominating fashion.

”The No. 2 (Busch) and I touched and he bodyslammed me after that,” Johnson said.

Busch and Johnson also spun together and tangled at Sonoma, perhaps one reason for Busch’s ill feelings. Johnson slid into Busch and later apologized. Another reason could be while Johnson salvaged an eighth-place finish after seemingly having the race won until Hamlin caused him to lose control, Busch fell all the way to 17th.

”It looked like it was pretty crazy up there, but…”

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It’s this Sunday too.

Race 15 of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series will be held this weekend June 14th at the Michigan International Speedway, for the LifeLock 400.

The Michigan International Speedway is a two-mile intermediate D-Shaped track, and is often referred to as one of NASCAR’s many ”cookie-cutter” tracks. This D- shaped oval will be the home for the finest drivers in the world this Sunday and you can bet that each of these guys will be gunning for the win.

First off is Tony Stewart, who is coming his first win as an owner-driver. He has literally smoked the competition in recent weeks with 2043 total points. With Hendrick Motorsports equipment below him, Stewart is leading the points and entering his favorite time of the year, summer. Summer is Stewart’s season, and is when things typically get on a role for the two-time champion.

This year, however, Stewart has hit his stride already, and could easily knock off a few wins between now and September, when the Chase starts. Stewart’s record is one win, nine top fives, 13 top 10s, and an average finish of 12.5 at MIS. In NASCAR’s Loop Data, Stewart has an Average Running Position of 14.6 (10th-best), a Driver Rating of 94.5 (eighth-best), 52 Fastest Laps Run (11th-most), 570 Green Flag Passes (seventh-most), an Average Green Flag Speed of 173.455 MPH (sixth-fastest), and 1,024 Laps in the Top 15 (66.7 percent, seventh-most).

He is closely followed by Jeff Gordon at second with 1972 total driver points. Gordon, who will drive a specially painted No.24 DuPont/National Guard Chevrolet this weekend, has ”only” two wins at MIS. But he has run well at the…

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For the first time ever, popular website GoDaddy.com will be presenting us something other than a half-naked bombshell.

The 2009 NASCAR Southern 500 is the annual spring NASCAR Sprint Cup race held at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina, USA, that runs on May 9. This will be the 11th race on the Sprint Cup Circuit and for the first time ever, GoDaddy.com is presenting the event.

How’s that to create some hype around the usually boring 2009 NASCAR season eh? The 2009 Southern 500 is the only Sprint Cup race the Darlington Raceway will have all year.

Thankfully, the International Speedway Corp., Darlington’s parent company, has one more title sponsorship to sell for its August race at Michigan.

As far as GoDaddy.com is concerned, how in the hell did they ended up with things NASCAR?

The Internet domain name provider has sponsorships with Hendrick Motorsports and JR Motorsports of Dale Earnhardt Jr., as well as a handful of track deals. The site is also well-known for its creative and edgy commercials so giving them a go at NASCAR was inevitable considering the fact that the sport really needs an awesome…

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This week, NASCAR travels to the portion of Tennessee known as Thunder Valley.

It’s time once again for the semi annual demolition derby at the Bristol Motor Speedway where the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series resumes this Sunday for the Food City 500.

Twice a year, NASCAR lines up 43 cars on this half mile, high banked, track and hopes for the best. In most cases the best scenario involves over time for the team’s fabricators at the race shops who will be spending next week repairing wrecked cars.

Here’s the breakdown for Sunday’s Food City 500: The Bristol Motor Speedway is a 0.533 mile concrete oval with 30 degree banking in the turns. The race is 500 laps.

The first NASCAR Sprint Cup race was held at the speedway in 1961. The race was won by Jack Smith with some driver relief help from Johnny Allen. There has been 96 Sprint Cup races there since that time. The speedway’s asphalt surface was changed to the now famous concrete oval in 1992.

The speedway has a seating capacity of 160,000 and is unique because the grandstand circles the entire oval track. It also has 197 sky boxes. The speedway stands have been sold out well in advance for 53 consecutive races. However this year, with the nation’s economy…

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It looks like no one is counting Jeff Gordon out just yet.

2008 was probably the worst season Jeff Gordon had in his career, which is saying something considering he finished in the top 5 nearly 40 percent of the time. Again, he failed to win for the first time in 15 seasons, and that’s really all anyone cares about when it comes to the most dominant driver of his era.

But this year is a different story and the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series promises to be better. Gordon may not win five or six races, but he will win. In fact, if he hopes to have any shot at that elusive fifth title, he’ll have to win.

Gordon enters 2009 sixth all-time in victories, with 81. He needs just four to claim sole possession of third place on that list. He will lead his 20,000th lap this year. And some feel NASCAR’s testing reduction stands only to benefit Gordon’s established No.24 team.

Gordon remains supremely confident in crew chief Steve Letarte, who shouldered much criticism throughout Gordon’s winless season.

Gordon’s No.24 team is using 2008 as the motivation to prevent a second straight winless season in 2009. Gordon went without a victory for the first time since his rookie season in 1993, just one year removed from winning six times. He also had eight fewer top-five finishes and 11 fewer top-10s than in…

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At least for one Sunday afternoon, Las Vegas won’t be about gambling.

Then again, we all know sports gamblers will still be betting on this race anyway. And since it’s still a free-for-all in these early stages of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, betting on these races and cashing in with an underdog should still be a breeze.

The 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Shelby 427 this Sunday is one of the most exciting stops on the NASCAR schedule since it’s just a few miles north of The Strip and the Las Vegas Motor Speedway sits like a diamond in the desert.

Fifty-one teams have filed entries for this year’s event, that’s the second-most entries ever for a Sprint Cup race at the Las Vegas Motor Spedway. The most entries happened during the 2007 season, when a whopping 53 entires were filed.

Every former Cup winner at Las Vegas entered, including 2002 race winner Sterling Marlin, who did not attempt to qualify last year. Six Sprint Cup Series champions also are in the field.

This race has a history of multiple winners, as Jimmie Johnson, Matt Kenseth and Jeff Burton have repeated as champions in Las Vegas. Johnson won three consecutive races (2005-07), while Kenseth (2003-04) and Burton (1999-2000)…

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He didn’t care if there were 48 laps left to race too.

Matt Kenseth won the 51st Daytona 500 on Sunday in a race that was called early due to rain. The race was called after 152 laps with 48 laps remaining.

Kyle Busch had led most of the day before being taken out by Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a multi-car crash late in the race. Dubbed as ”The Great American Race,” the Daytona 500 is NASCAR’s premiere event scheduled right at the beginning of the NASCAR season.

Matt Kenseth, the quiet, unassuming former NASCAR champion who had never been in contention at the Daytona 500, cried as he celebrated the biggest victory of his career. It was an unexpected show of emotion for one of NASCAR’s most underappreciated stars.

Elliott Sadler prayed for the sky to open up when he was out front, but he was answered a tick too late. Kenseth used a huge push from Kevin Harvick to slide past Sadler 54 laps from the finish, and mere seconds before Aric Almirola spun to bring out a caution.

That’s when the rain began, and after two caution laps, NASCAR sent the drivers to pit road to wait out the storm. Most drivers climbed from their cars to await NASCAR’s decision, but Kenseth stayed put through the delay.

The race was called after 152 of 200 laps. It was just the fourth rain-shortened…

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