Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie

Bench Racing caption contest - win a Boris Said hoodie

Come up with the best caption for this picture taken of Mark Martin at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday, prior to winning the Sam’s Town 300 and I have a great prize for ya.

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New NASCAR Sports Blog Index likes Bench Racing

The Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog has been recognized as the fourth most influential NASCAR blog by the folks at Sports Media Challenge in their all new NASCAR Sports Blog Index™ (SBI).   The full press release is here. Pretty cool stuff.

The only trouble is, they got the link wrong in the announcement. I have emailed them and hopefully they will get it corrected.

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Steve and Charlie

What next for Dale Junior and His Siblings, Inc?

Dale Earnhardt Jr is looking forward to washing away the bad taste that Nextel Cup 2007 has left him.

Before leaving for Australia and a couple weeks in the relative outback and after winning another of NASCAR's Most Popular Driver awards he told listeners that he wished he could start 2008 right now.

"I'd trade it in if I could start the Daytona 500 tonight or tomorrow,"

Say what you will about Junior's 2007 season in Nextel Cup - off the track, life has been pretty good to THE REAL DALE EARNHARDT INC.

Let's see, there's the new contract with Hendrick Motorsports - that just has to be the biggest in the sport, doesn't it?  Couple that with whatever he has worked out with new sponsors, Amp, the National Guard and Adidas.

His JR Motorsports is thriving, with a new-found star in-the-making in Brad Keselowski driving the #88 Navy sponsored Nationwide Series entry. 

Infield Parking is goin nuts with growth.  Alabama Motorsports Park is being named Dale Earnhardt Jr Speedway, with a 7/10 mile D-shaped oval, a three mile road course and cart track.

Now Junior is down in the land of Kangaroo Meat telling worshippers that in a perfect world, someday he would come back there and race Holdens in the V8 Supercar Series full time.

We had David Poole ON PIT ROW Tuesday and he said that he had seen the quote and thought that Junior was just being nice.

I'll be surprised if the Earnhardt bunch doesn't buy the whole series.  Afterall, they don't have one of those yet.

Picture credit: Autoracingdaily.com