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Reigning champion Raikkonen quickest in season-opening practice -…
ESPN – Mar 14, 2008
The defending series champion Raikkonen set the pace at 1minute 26. 461 seconds almost a half-second ahead of 2007runner-up Lewis Hamilton of McLaren. The Finnish driver had some difficulty with in the afternoon andwas sixth in the second session — 1. 649 seconds behind Hamilton’s1:26.
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SportingNews.com – Mar 14, 2008
com BRISTOL Tenn. — In case there was any question about it Tony Stewart likely won’t be invited back to a Goodyear tire test anytime soon. Stewart who said after last Sunday’s race that he would dismount any cars he had at home with Goodyears and questioned the integrity of the company because it had left other racing series did a Goodyear tire test at Las Vegas last December and Goodyear officials now say they were not happy with him. “Tony was invited to the Las Vegas tire test in December because he was very vocal about his displeasure with the Las Vegas race track and our tire recommendation previously” Greg Stucker Goodyear director of race tire sales said Friday morning at Bristol Motor Speedway. “We said ‘Hey we understand that so we want you to be involved in this test.
Games giant EA launches new bid to capture ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Channel News Asia – Mar 14, 2008
0 billion US dollars (1. US-based EA made a similar offer at the end of February that was rejected by Take-Two as too low given the company’s blockbuster titles and ownership of hot video game creator Rockstar Games. “Management did not act on that offer so we took the next logical step” EA spokesman Jeff Brown told AFP.
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SportingNews.com – Mar 14, 2008
com staff reports BRISTOL Tenn. — Penske Racing decided to swap owner points for drivers Kurt Busch and Sam Hornish Jr. before the start of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season giving both spots in the first five races. But one race before ’08 points are used to determine guaranteed starting spots Hornish Jr. is outside top 35 and would have to make the Martinsville race via qualifying if he stays there.
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SportingNews.com – Mar 14, 2008
– Sprint Cup Series points leader Kyle Busch respects teammate Tony Stewart for his outspokenness but he realizes there’s also a downside to it. Stewart made waves last Sunday after finishing second at Atlanta bashing the hard tire Goodyear supplied for the Kobalt Tools 500. Busch who took Toyota to victory lane for the first time in the Cup series that same afternoon says you always have to worry about the reaction when you speak your mind. “You always have to worry about the backlash — that’s always out there and you’re always going to have that” said Busch no shrinking violet himself.
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SportingNews.com – Mar 14, 2008
– Ask someone from NASCAR to name the vilest word in the English language and you might get a five-letter response: U-N-I-O-N. Historically the sanctioning body has resisted with all its might attempts to organize drivers into a unified body — if that’s even possible where the individualists who pilot racecars are concerned. In 1961 Curtis Turner earned a lifetime ban from NASCAR racing for attempting to create a drivers union — until Big Bill France commuted his sentence in 1965. NASCAR later squashed the Professional Drivers Association spearheaded by Richard Petty after France held the inaugural race at Talladega in 1969 despite a boycott of the sport’s top stars.