Dale Earnhardt Jr. will make the long awaited and much rumored announcement tomorrow about his plans for the future in NASCAR tomorrow morning. He has been in negotiations for quite some time with DEI, but hasn’t been able to reach agreement on receiving 51% ownership in the company. His stepmother Teresa Earnhardt is oddly enough the one he has been unable to reach agreement with to date. Will he leave DEI? Will Martin Truex, Jr go with him? Will he stay at DEI? We will find out his plans tomorrow at a press conference in Mooresville, NC tomorrow.
Michael Waltrip has been docked 100 Nextel Cup driver points, his crew chief and competition director have been suspended, and his car provider has to be extremely disappointed. This all happened because jet fuel was found in his engine after Sunday’s qualifying round for the Daytona 500. Call me whacky, but adding jet fuel to your car seems like a wee bit much especially when NASCAR officials can point out when one bolt is 1/8 inch too long therefore causing some sort of advantage. I mean seriously these officials are good and they are going to figure out jet fuel and Waltrip’s team is definitely paying the price. His crew chief could be fired before week’s end and Toyota is going to do some serious bitch slapping with Waltrip after they have been embarassed in their first year on the circuit.
This week it was actually a close call between Jimmie Johnson and Terrell Owens for our prestigious award. Jimmie Johnson appeared to take out Dale Earnhardt Jr. on purpose yesterday at Talladega therefore pretty much eliminating any chances of “Little E” winning the Nextel Cup. While we would love to give the award to anyone associated within the “Rainbow Warrior” entourage we can’t do it this week. Terrell “Overdose” Owens ends up taking the cake as the Dumba$$ of this week. TO after much hoopla and smack talk rolled into Philly yesterday as a Dallas Cowboy and laid an egg. Owens had no catches at halftime and ended up with 3 for 45 yards while his arch enemy Donovan McNabb went off for 354 yards and a big 38-24 win for the Philadelphia Eagles. Hat tip McNabb and thumbs down Owens.
Each Monday we give away this extremely prestigious award to a very deserving candidate based on fan’s feedback and our own biased opinions. 😉 This week there is no doubt the award goes to Tony Stewart. Tony “the untamed Tiger” Stewart showed us again yesterday he can’t stay under control. He decided to try and wreck Clint Boyer after he felt Boyer pushed him too close to the wall in a turn and this attempt sent Boyer right into Carl Edwards car. Edward’s car was pretty much done for the day and it could hurt his chances for the Nextel Cup series based on the poor finish at Pocono. Carl Edwards did however get his revenge by spinning Stewart out in the pits, but the #20 car was barely damaged.
This seems to be one hot rumor after her dad was spotted this past weekend in Chicago talking to team owners stating he wants to find Danica a team. What a huge win this would be for NASCAR if they could add Danica Patrick into the already interesting mix of personalities housed within their empire. It makes a lot of sense to me that both parties would want to do it so don’t be surprised if we receive confirmation on this very soon. Juan Pablo Montoya of the IRL has already confirmed he will be racing with Ganassi in 2007.