Archive for December, 2006

A new Chevrolet Impala SS Car Of Tomorrow, built in-house over the past 30 days and authentic to current NASCAR specifications, will join the fleet of Jeff Gordon Racing School cars. The car of tomorrow features JGRS’s new graphic design palate which was designed by NASCAR Artist Sam Bass. A #24 DuPont Impala SS COT-design [...]

Felix Sabates, a minority owner of the Charlotte Bobcats wants to donate his share of the basketball team to a charity, but is being blocked by team managing partner Bob Johnson, The Charlotte Observer reported Sunday.

Motorsports and automotive enthusiasts will be able to continue their celebration of the New Year during the first weekend of January with three new television programs that will premiere on ESPN2. All part of the new ESPN2 Garage block of programming, Truck Stop, Chopper Nation and Autotrader.com DRIVE in HD will debut on ESPN2, while [...]

NASCAR Nextel Cup driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr will be appearing on the Regis & Kelly talk show tomorrow (Friday) which is on ABC.
Check your local listings for airing times.

Toyota is about to become the world’s largest automaker. But you didn’t hear it from them.
At a news conference Friday, Toyota executives laid out a production target that likely will allow it to steal the bragging rights from General Motors next year. But soft-spoken company president Katsuaki Watanabe (pictured right) chose to focus on the [...]

Ford Motor Co. and Toyota acknowledged a meeting of their top executives, feeding speculation about an alliance of the surging Japanese firm and the sputtering Detroit giant.
The number two US automaker said in a statement that chief executive Alan Mulally met with Toyota’s leadership, after Toyota confirmed that its chairman, Fujio Cho, met last week [...]

Goody’s Headache Powders, the official pain reliever of race fans, announced today that three of country music’s top stars – Jo Dee Messina, Josh Turner and Rodney Atkins, will headline the Goody’s Country Concert at the Sprint Sound & Speed festival presented by SunTrust, January 13, 2007 in Nashville.

The United States Air Force has announced that they will be returning as both a primary and associate sponsor of the No. 21 Wood Brothers/JTG NASCAR NEXTEL Cup team. 2007 will mark the seventh consecutive year in which they have backed the famous No. 21 car.

Faith Motorsports will debut a bi-monthly radio show on January 4, enabling Morgan Shepherd fans to enjoy regular updates on the team’s progression through the 2007 race season.

In racing terms, Christmas came early for Kyle Petty.
In personal terms, the charity run held earlier in December at Victory Junction Gang Camp — the facility founded by Kyle and wife Pattie for chronically ill children — might have done more to touch Petty’s soul, but his racing gift came more than a month ago [...]