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Steven Wallace Channeling Elvis Presley Calling Kyle Busch a Girl

In the confrontation between 'Big Baby Kyle' and 'Elvis,' I mean Steven Wallace who has finally figured out how to avoid hitting walls, the  grab of Kyle Busch's helmet by Steven was well shown but what grabbed me was Steven's voice. He sounded agitated and upset but his delivery was very similar to Elvis Presley. Click on this link to go to a YouTube video wherein at the 3:50 mark you can hear it yourself. I have always been distracted by his constant eye blinking, but if you just listen to his words and how he phrases them you'll hear a direct connection to how Elvis used to speak his lines in all those classic movies of his.

Of course that whole deal got overshadowed by the next nights taking out of NASCAR's most popular driver. It will be a great story line to follow the rest of the season how white hat Junior gets treated by black hat Kyle as the next races go on, particularly coming up this weekend at Darlington!

This string of fabulous races, 'Dega, Richmond and Darlington provide great drama as these drivers confront each other up close and personal in a short three week span and the fact the last two are under the lights with sparks, shiny cars and glowing brake-pads add to the already colorful and hypnotic displays these races possess.

Its a fine time for NASCAR fans and shouldn't be missed, even with other sports being in the playoffs, it's hard not to make NASCAR my primary sport in this beautiful time of year.

No High Definition Coverage of Tonight's Nationwide Race

It’s Friday so it’s hard to find fault

But I do find fault all the same with ESPN’s decision to run the Nationwide race tonight on ESPN Classic due to the fact that there are three NBA Games tonight and something had to give and guess what, NASCAR gets the short stick tonight.

Now I can’t berate ESPN because they have been my primary pusher of sports programming and being a devout Sports Junkie they keep me satiated with all their great programming and I certainly understand that NASCAR fans gets slighted in deference to the NBA Playoff audience.

Being a High Def freak I won’t be able to see the race in High Def and as such will be groaning mightily. I can only hope the Cav’s/Wizards game runs short and the race runs long.

The fact the race is a night race and as you may already know ZuD is a fan of night racing over all others and it’s a short track so I have great excitement brewing even if it won’t be in wide screen, high-resolution splendor I am addicted to.

And as long as we are complaining HBO Saturday night has Oscar De La Hoya's warm-up fight at 10pm and that of course will conflict with Fox’s coverage of the Richmond Sprint Cup race.

It's on to Talladega's 'The Big One' and Let's Wreck There

One of the most popular races of the year is Sunday.
Anticipation of the Big One is a huge part of the race.
You know its like chasing women
Anticipation is the thing.
Random Quotes:

Sadler says: "Each driver has a different mentality going into Talladega where we're going to ride in line and we're going to behave until we get to the last quarter of the race, or we need to get to the front as soon as we can and keep the wreck behind or we're just going to ride in the back and let the guys fight in the front and let them wreck and then we'll go to the front. Each driver has a different strategy, a different mentality, and it's tough racing like that."

Jeff Gordon says: . "It's going to tighten the cars up that much more. The tighter the packs, the easier it is to make mistakes. We all make mistakes. At Talladega you make a mistake and there is a 20-car pileup."

Harvick says: "There is always a chance for somebody to make a mistake, and when that happens at Talladega, it's always big.

"What some people don't know is the banking at Talladega is like six stories high. When we round the corner, I can look to my left and see the roofs on campers in the infield."

The corners at 'Dega are banked 33 degrees, allowing drivers to almost slingshot their way around the track. But you have to stay with the pack or risk going to the rear.

"I know I catch flak for saying this, but I honestly believe that 99 out of 100 times, the Big One is started by driver error," said. "Some teams come in with a strategy on how to avoid it, but it's really a game of chance."

I have been longing for this weekends race because it is Talladega and the feature of that race is the fact the cars run at 200 miles per hour in a very confined space
Now that 200 mph isn’t reached quickly cause it is a restrictor plate race
And as they get up to speed after a caution and start closing in one another the announcers start going on and on about the big one and that any minute Boom Bang Bash Boom here it is.

Now the real dilemma is going to be how we juggle the race coverage and preliminaries with the NFL Draft. Two mega events not to mention that Game 4s of the NBA will be going on as well.

Such dilemmas for sports addicts such as myself!

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.

Withdrawal Symptoms Setting In For This NASCAR Junkie

Starting to get a runny nose
Legs and arms starting to ache
Feels like the flu, but I know what it really is.

Withdrawal Symptoms
No, not for Dope, but for NASCAR!
Classic withdrawal symptoms realizing there will be no NASCAR worth watching.
Sure the Nationwide series goes to Mexico City Saturday, but road racing doesn't really count.

The only comfort I have is that when the Sprint Cup schedule does resume, we will be in Talladega and that being one of my favorites, I take great comfort, because 'The Big One' always looms. And that race, quite frankly, is about as good as NASCAR gets.

Not that I am a freak for crashes
But damn, thats what I call a wreck
The Big One
start drooling, just thinking 'bout Talladega.

But what do I do for this withdrawal pain? Here it is Wednesday and the next race isn't for 10 days. What will you folks do, fellow NASCAR Fans.
I am open to ideas. Any port in the storm.
Help me with my withdrawal.
I need a NASCAR fix fast!

BurnOut TV Sampler

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

Phoenix Aftermath, NASCAR Bloggers FT Digest Debut and FOX Sports Disappoints

I'm writing this post as the BoSox beat the Yanks for the hundredth, oh wait, the third time this weekend!

And I celebrate the victory of Hollywood Jimmy over WWE's Cena, I mean Carl Edwards Saturday night. Even though we missed the green flag drop and DW's Boogity routine because of Fox's inability to get their priorities straight.

Glad to see Hendrick back in Victory Lane for this so far paltry NASCAR Season. It was good to have a Night Race wasn't it? Love the way those cars shine and glow in the desert light of Phoenix Raceway.

I struggled to stay up, but I did thanx to the fact I am featured over at NASCAR Bloggers FT Digest. A site that has put together a fascinating collection of NASCAR Bloggers under one banner. Since joining that blog I have experienced dazzling traffic from all over the blogosphere and surges of super human strength and prowess. Hell even Charlie Turner from On Pit Row has visited ol' ZuD. Now that is cool!

If you too blog, you should go on over and look into signing up or if you just like to read NASCAR blogs you should bookmark or burn a feed and get in on the latest of NASCAR blogs. A list of contributors so far appear to the right of this post.

Ovalscream from NASCAR This Week reports this occurred:

In Central Florida, rioters in supercharged Monte Carlos tore up baseball fields on Saturday night, chasing Little Leaguers howling into the arms of their mamas. The Fox commentators, splattered with mud and pieces of turf, were not amused.

Kevin Harvick Wants to Pee in the Cup

Kevin Harvick wants NASCAR to institute drug testing. According to this article from ESPN.com Terry Blount these Quotes stand out:

"In the 10 years that I've raced, I've never been drug-tested," Harvick said. "To me, that's not a proper drug policy for a professional sport. We haven't made any headway whatsoever on the drug-testing policy."

Harvick and Stewart were reacting to an ESPN The Magazine story this week in which former driver Aaron Fike said he competed in Craftsman Truck Series races while he was on heroin.

"I have been in a race with him and I know for a fact that he's not the only one," Harvick said. "There's another driver that was suspended that I can almost guarantee you was in the race car while he was under the influence, and that pisses me off.

"I'm sure I'll be blasted for saying what I feel, but I don't want to be on a race track with people like that. It's irresponsible more than anything."

"I'm sure I'll have to do it for speaking my mind," Harvick said. "But if I have to pee in a cup 15 times a year, I'm happy to do it.

Regardless how you may feel about Happy Harvick, the dude speaks his mind and from a distance seems to be concerned about the integrity of NASCAR and his participation in it.

How Did Michael McDowell Survive This Wreck?

The Car of Today now establishes itself as a Safe and Reliable Race-car, when a driver can withstand this kind of destruction.

Complete Coverage of Tony Stewart Wax Job

Ripped from Tony Stewart's Sirius Satellite Radio Webpage:

           

"OPERATION WAX SMOKE" RAISES OVER $125,000 FOR CHARITY

Tony Stewart has proven that not only would he give you the shirt off his back, he'll give you the hair off of it too. Operation Wax Smoke was a huge success, raising over $125,000 for the Victory Junction Gang Camp. DeLana & Kevin Harvick, and national motorsports correspondent Ford Martin joined Tony and Matt Yocum at an "undisclosed location" for a rip-roaring good time. There was no shortage of donations to hear Tony suffer throught the pain and indignity of having his famously-furry back waxed live on the air. It remains to be seen if the procedure will improve race times for the sleeker and more-aero Smoke. Next Show: Tuesday, April 1 at 8 pm ET Tony "Chia Pet" Stewart follows waxing with a haircut Where did they wax for donations from JD Gibbs & Jimmie Johnson? Listen to pull-by-pull analysis of Operation Wax Smoke Tony’s back wax Montage: Listen at your own risk!   Hear more audio from Tony's show on sirius.com/tonystewartlive. Email Tony & Matt Yocum at tonystewartlive@sirius-radio.com or call the guys at 866-PIT-LANE.