I know what ya’ll are thinking, ‘’why are these morons from OddJack writing about a godforsaken thing like Dale Earnhardt’s number?'’

Well, in case you haven’t guessed it, the 2007 NASCAR season just bores us like crazy that we really don’t have ANYTHING to write about the sport OTHER than Dale Earnhardt’s new number next season.

And in case you’ve been living under a rock lately, Dale Earnhardt Jr., after all his troubles with DEI Racing (yep, that’s the team built by his father, the late Dale Earnhardt…) this year, will be racing for Hendrick Motorsports next season, forming one ridiculously powerful and talented crop of drivers in a team that already has Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Gordon.

Yep, and since Dale Earnhardt Jr. will be joining the Hendrick Motorsports stable next season, the Hendrick guys were determined to keep their new driver’s identity, THAT being the familiar Budweiser sponsor logo on the hood of Earnhardt’s car and of course, the famous No.8 he carried since making a career out of racing in an oval track.

Well, judging by the way things went so far, it looks like…

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Yep, it’s Sunday once again. And yeah, NASCAR will try to entertain us with another one of its oval tracks.

The 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season returns to the Pocono Raceway for the second time this year as 47 of the best NASCAR drivers in the world (at least that’s what they want to appear to be…) resume the race for the Nextel Cup after Indianapolis.

The last time NASCAR was at the Pocono racetrack, Jeff Gordon was pouring champagne all over himself, all over his team and all over the goddamn place after winning last June. Can Jeff have the stuff to win at Pocono for the second straight time?

Well, if Jeff Gordon do win the Pennsylvania 500 this Sunday at Pocono, it will be his fifth win at the racetrack, tying Bill Elliot for the most Nextel Cup wins there.

Oh yeah, mysteriously, TEAMS seem to dominate these races at the Pocono Raceway. That means if Jeff Gordon won the first one of the season, somebody from Gordon’s Hendrick Motorsports team might just win it if Gordon himself won’t.

One thing going for drivers outside Hendrick Motorsports is the fact that Chevrolets seem to always win after Indianapolis. Don’t ask me why. THAT means, my boy, Dale Earnhardt Jr. still has a chance to steal this one away from Gordie on Sunday when it’s time to step on the gas.

19 Chevrolets will be racing the Pennsylvania 500 this Sunday at the…

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It’s that time once again when the city of Indianapolis gets crowded with rednecks.

Yep, the 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season resumes this Sunday as the top NASCAR drivers of the world converge at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to race what they believe will get them the 2007 Nextel Cup title.

In six of the last nine NASCAR Nextel Cup seasons, the driver who wins the race in Indy went on to win the Nextel Cup title. Yep, apparently, Indianapolis has good karma going for the city and the rest of the NASCAR drivers who want that elusive Nextel Cup by season’s end will all be looking to become Indy’s new champion on Sunday.

This infamous ‘’Indy blessing'’ so to speak has amazingly continued on despite going through changes in the Nextel Cup championship points system.

It happened FOUR consecutive years, from 1998-2001 in the old points system and has happened in two of the three years in the ‘’Chase for the Nextel Cup'’ playoffs.

Winning the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard in Indy this weekend can prove to be vital for any driver’s quest for the Nextel Cup. Not only will a win award the driver as Indy’s new…

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After all the drug-related issues we have in sports these days, it was only a matter of time before it got NASCAR.

You know, the sport where athletes simply sit their asses flat on their seats, drive around in circles and then awards the one driver who can do all that the fastest. Surely, you don’t need steroids to do that right? Heck, those guys don’t even sweat for chrissake.

Well, the subject of drug testing in the 2007 NASCAR season was a result of Craftsman Truck Series driver Aaron Fike getting arrested and charged with possession of heroin and drug abuse instruments. The incident made two NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers, Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton, to ask for random testing at least twice a year.

NASCAR has this policy that drug testing will only occur on reasonable suspicion and not randomly and these two NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers feel different.

‘’I think we owe it to the sponsors and the fans to 100 percent know that this is a clean environment,'’ Kevin Harvick said. ‘’It would eliminate a lot of those problems of the younger drivers that disrespect the sport and the system. Shame on NASCAR for not policing our garage better than what they police it right now.'’

Seems to me that Mr. Harvick has a beef with the…

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Tony Kanaan and Sam Hornish Jr.

Yep, if you’re tired of watching Ferrari and McLaren dominate the 2007 F1 season or even more tired of watching NASCAR drivers go around an oval track 300-plus times, then it could be time for you to switch to the ongoing 2007 Indy Car Series.

Apparently, the Indy Car racing season created some kind of a buzz lately with Tony Kanaan and Sam Hornish Jr. almost killed each other inside the pit lane after the Watkins Glen Grand Prix last Sunday.

Tony Kanaan finished fourth at Watkins Glen while Sam Hornish Jr. finished second. Kanaan became irate when Hornish bumped him trying to pass early. The agitated Brazilian felt that Hornish cost him positioning and ALMOST knocked him out of the race.

So what did the Brazilian do? When the race ended, Tony Kanaan sent what was, according to him anyway, ‘’a quiet message'’ by cutting in front of Hornish as they drove toward pit road. The altercation broke out as soon as both Kanaan and Hornish exited their cars.

Tony Kanaan approached Hornish but before…

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Yep, NASCAR returns to Daytona International Speedway for the last time this year as the Pepsi 400 resumes the NASCAR season Saturday.

The 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season returns to Daytona for the Pepsi 400 as the best NASCAR drivers of the world visit the Daytona International Speedway on Saturday night for another set of laps going around in circles like complete morons.

Jeff Gordon owns the most Cup wins of any active driver coming to Daytona with six. Although Gordon had two disappointing Nextel Cup races on the said track, this year’s Nextel Cup standings leader won at this very circuit back in 2004 at the Pepsi 400 and 2005 at Daytona 500.

However, as good as Jeff Gordon is this 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup season, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is still the master of Daytona, probably.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. owns the MOST Top 10s and Top 5s in the past ten years at the Daytona International Speedway. Yeah sure, Earnhardt only managed to have 14 of the maximum 20 races this season but during the times Earnhardt raced, he made the most out of it, registering two Top 5s in his last three races.

Besides, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is out to prove something this season, especially after all the controversies he had with…

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Yep, the premiere racing series of NASCAR will now be called the NASCAR Sprint Series beginning the 2008 season.

Well, that’s what they’re saying anyway and yep, NASCAR hasn’t made any official comments yet on the said name change at this point of the 2007 NASCAR season. Then again, who cares anyway?

Call it Nextel, call it Sprint, watching a hundred cars go around in circles for about gazillion times still is a waste of valuable TV time. (Unless of course, you’re a redneck…)

Sprint’s NASCAR marketing director, Dean Kessel, claims that Sprint and Nextel is still sorting out the proposition with NASCAR officials. He also said that multiple outstanding details must be finalized internally before a decision can be made either way.

If the Nextel Cup do gets renamed to the Sprint Cup, it would be the third time NASCAR’s premiere racing extravaganza gets a name change since 2003.

R.J. Reynolds tobacco, through its Winston cigarette brand…

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NASCAR is apparently STILL searching for a star.

Of course, this came out yet again when Formula One found its new star after the Michael Schumacher era in Lewis Hamilton. (Well, it’s a little early for Hamilton to claim that spot yet but F1 is definitely hoping the British rookie will be the one…)

With F1 having a Lewis Hamilton, and the Indy Series having Danica Patrick, NASCAR racing has who?

When McLaren - Mercedes rookie driver Lewis Hamilton won the North American leg of the 2007 F1 season, (winning BOTH the Canadian and U.S. Grand Prix…) the United States’ premiere racing spectacle began looking for their next big star that can take NASCAR to another level.

And they want the guy to be black, just like Lewis. Sorry Jeff.

NASCAR officials say they desperately want a driver like McLaren - Mercedes rookie Lewis Hamilton who can win at the Nextel Cup level, but it’s still a long way from becoming a reality. A total of 43 drivers start a 2007 NASCAR Nextel Cup race every single weekend and guess what, 42 of them are white.

Who’s the only black driver driving around in circles with his cracker buddies? It’s former F1 McLaren - Mercedes star, Juan Pablo Montoya.

If NASCAR is looking for their own Lewis Hamilton, then…

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Beginning 2008, Hendrick Motorsports will probably be running over EVERYBODY on a NASCAR racetrack.

As ya’ll know by now, Earnhardt Jr. will be leaving DEI Racing at the end of the 2007 NASCAR season after his stepmother expressed her desire to have sole control of the family car.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. had three options on where he will end up at the end of the NASCAR year. Hendrick Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing were all potential destinations for the guy and it looks like he has finally made his choice.

Earnhardt will be joining NASCAR stars Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and Casey Mears in the already powerful Hendrick Motorsports stable, forming probably the most dominant team in NASCAR beginning in 2008. Terms of the deal were not revealed but team owner Rick Hendrick has already said that Earnhardt will not be the highest paid driver in his ridiculously powerful side.

The Hendrick Motorsports owner also said he’s not going to force Earnhardt to change his image, even though Earnhardt jokingly said he’d been told to lose his trademark blue jeans and t-shirts.

‘’I'm flattered he said something,'’ Rick Hendrick said. ‘’The rest of them don’t even ask me. They just do it. It’s important for Dale to be…'’

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Yep, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is leaving the company his father built and will now let his stepmom drive the family car.

After going back and forth with his stepmother, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has finally surrendered and will now let his stepmother do whatever she wants with DEI after announcing that he will leave DEI Racing at the end of the 2007 NASCAR Season.

Earnhardt didn’t say where he will end up at season’s end but after stating that he wants to remain in a Chevrolet, that leaves him with merely three options; Hendrick Motorsports, Richard Childress Racing and Joe Gibbs Racing.

Oh yeah, Dale Earnhardt Jr. also wants to keep Budweiser as his primary sponsor too, which makes you wonder why he decided to leave DEI at the end of the season in the first place.

‘’Personally, it would be hard for us,'’ said team president J.D. Gibbs, referring to the company’s stance on companies that sell alcoholic beverages. ‘’[Budweiser] is a great partner in the sport, but for us it would be tough.'’

Gibbs also said the organization isn’t looking to expand to four teams next season, saying, ‘’We know how hard it is to add a team and we’re in no big hurry.'’

Richard Childress Racing could be the obvious choice for Mr. Earnhardt since junior here is at the same age of 32 years old when his father joined RCR to drive the No.3 car back in 1981. I guess history WILL…

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