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OvalScream Has The Answer to NASCAR Withdrawal

A faithful ZuDDie Ovalscream has the answer to my previous post about dealing with my withdrawal symptoms:

Three times a day til April 27, take the loudest appliance you have and lock yourself into the bathroom with it. (Me, I'm taking the vacuum into the shower stall.) Crank that sucker up as far as it will go, scream "Talladega" til you're hoarse and whack the appliance against the wall till it sounds like car parts sprinkling all over the pavement. Dunk your head under the spigot and pretend it's hillbilly champagne showering all you as you do burnouts in Victory Lane. File your teeth in the mirror and pray to the spirit of the Intimidator that every Sprint Cup driver gets so riled up that they howl at the moon every night until the next race.

BurnOut TV Sampler

Guest NASCAR Blogger David Rubin with excellent taste in NASCAR Blogs...

Cancer Won't Get This NASCAR Blogger Down

Every so often life comes and kicks ya when your down. But it is the strong that overcome such injustices and rise above. ZuD found such a person in the NASCAR blogging community:

I have a big Daytona 500 Party every year. If the Oncologist pushes Monday morning for chemotherapy I will put him off. Nothing needs to or will happen until after that race. In the past I have had friends fly in from the Florida Keys, Central Florida and Texas, just for this party.Cancer does not get my party this year and I’m hoping, not any year after that.
I’m choosing my friends, family and love of racing over cancer. It’s a disease. It is not who I am.

Indications are she is doing OK and was able to have her party prior to dealing with her Cancer. I cite this person as a testament to the courage life demands of us and how gracefully women deal with crisis.

NASCAR Fans Get on Twitter

Lets meet on Twitter! The video below explains the concept and how easy it is to Join. Yeah it's free so what's stopping you from joining this year old phenomena. And if your on it already or soon to join add ol' ZuD to your follow list and I shall do the same.

I am trying to get fellow NASCAR fans on it cause right now there are mostly just Techies and Geeks.
Let's get the NASCAR nation Twittering!

Fashionably Themed Affordable NASCAR Attire

Ace out the typical NASCAR vendors at the tracks and online with these unique offerings at a fraction of the cost. Be unique yet have money left over to buy other essentials. At your service night and day, ZuD's looking out for you:

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US Armed Forces Using NASCAR to Solicit Young Men

According to this article in last months’ NASCAR.com it does. The demographics of NASCAR fans match up well with the recruitment target of the United States Armed Forces. So that’s why you see so many military branches of the government going after the top racing teams in NASCAR.

ZuD is a bit beyond that demographic group but I can tell ya there are racing days that I used to get an uncontrollable urge to buy Reese’s peanut butter cups cause Harvick was up in the top 10 most of the day. So why not attract the attention of kids leaving high school and seeing few options ahead for employment, do what dad or uncle Jed did and join the Army?

I think that’s what makes some of these fine, intricately decaled cars do to us subliminally, so amazing. Drawing us into all kinds of involuntary attractions for products and services we may or may not need. I just hope the end result is good for these young men and women and don’t get confused with corporate greed or military staffing levels that may not be the best for America’s young.

Dale Dodge Jr. Has a Name With a NASCAR Ring To It

This dudes name caught my attention as someone we may hear from down the road. He left a comment to an earlier post with a link to his site. Thought we would get his name out there and see what happens. So if your thinking of commenting here at ZuDfunck it can pay off. Give Dale Dodge Jr a ride.

NASCAR Themed Wedding Captured in YouTube Video

Jay Busbee at Yahoo Sports Blog 'From the Marbles' posted this Video and captioned it with:

You've gotta love it when NASCAR mania bleeds into your brain, like it has with the happy couple below, who take their love of NASCAR to a ridiculously high level at their wedding.

There's so much to love about this video -- the NASCAR-style introduction of the wedding party, the ultradorky ushers sliding in, the choreographed entrances of the bridesmaids and groomsmen (leapfrog at a wedding: ALWAYS welcome), the Eddie Van Halen wannabe on the straight-outta-the-80s guitar, the bride and groom entering to "Kickstart My Heart," the vaguel holy-crap-what-did-I-get-myself-into look on the groom's face during that first dance ... folks, this wedding is some kind of awesome. I'd lay odds that the marriage will last at least two full Cup seasons.

Lets all wish these folks that the energy displayed at the wedding translates into a long and happy bond:

NASCAR Fantasy Racing Resource: RotoWorld.com

Now ZuD has played Fantasy Football for giggles maybe the last three years and regretted it by week 4 but with NASCAR Fantasy Racing if you were to be able to lock on to the Hendrick team for example, you could have a delightful run. Don't know if that is possible, to have all the drivers of a particular owner and what's involved in drafting drivers, but it could be a tortuous run if you had some so so snake bit driver.

Saw this site RotoWorld that is certainly a prime resource for football it might be of some guidance for NASCAR. If you've had experience in this, drop a comment.

Fantasy Cheat Sheet:

Top 5

No. 48 Jimmie Johnson:  Johnson has won the past three Las Vegas races…enough said.
No. 24 Jeff Gordon: Gordon has three consecutive top five finishes at Vegas.  He should be in the lead pack again this weekend.
No. 17 Matt Kenseth:  Kenseth has won two of the last five races at Vegas.  He is a great bet to crack the top five again this weekend.
No. 18 Kyle Busch:  Busch has three straight top 10 finishes at his hometown track.  He is a great pick this weekend.
No. 20 Tony Stewart: Stewart has been a top five finisher at Vegas four times. There is a great chance he could find his way to victory lane for the first time at the track this weekend.

Give the Fox Gopher Cam a Name

Fox is looking for You to provide a name for the little gopher click on Image to go to it.

Television's never-ending goal is to bring the viewer as close to the action as possible," said FOX Sports Chairman David Hill. "We've had great past success with Catcher-Cam and Diamond-Cam in our MLB coverage and Grass Cam and Wall-Cam in NASCAR on FOX broadcasts.

"However, Gopher Cam, and forgive us for having some fun with the name, is different. These are HD cameras developed specifically for this use. The pictures are phenomenal, and the audio that the mikes provide is mean and loud. It's a tremendous complement to our Emmy-caliber NASCAR broadcasts."

In fact, there's just one problem: The poor gopher doesn't have a name.

But that's where you come in.

Send us your best suggestion as to what we should call the little fella. We'll sort through the best and come up with a name.

Until then, the gopher will continue to provide the most unique perspective the sport has to offer ... anonymously.