In-Progress At Daytona: Friday On SPEED Nascar Sprint Cup Series, Here we go with the big Friday of NASCAR coverage on SPEED. This will lead-up to the Nationwide Series race on ESPN2 starting at 7PM Eastern Time with a one hour edition of NASCAR Countdown with Allen Bestwick. Steve Byrnes will kick-off SPEED's coverage at Noon with a thirty minute edition of NASCAR Live. John Roberts and Bob Dillner will be reporting from the garage area with interviews. The same crew will come back at 12:230PM to host Go or Go Home. This should be an interesting program.

OBAMA's Going to NASCAR Remember what Obama said about Small town America.".You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced.em.".Obama said.".And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religi. Tickets.

Barack Obama may campaign at a NASCAR event Loudon, As Barack Obama continues his focus on states that usually vote Republican in presidential elections, word comes that he may campaign at a NASCAR event. Why? Well, to paraphrase a supposed Willy Sutton line that he robbed banks because that's where the money is, if Obama needs white working-class voters in the fall, there are few better places to find them than at a NASCAR event. Roll Call has the news, but it's behind their subscription wall. Briefly.y quote Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki.

Truex's Car Taken Ticket, DEI driver Martin Truex will be using his back up car as soon as its ready because NASCAR took his primary car and won't give it back. He missed the first practice session today in Daytona because his crew were getting the back up car ready.It has something to do with the roofline, the width of the car? John Story, vice president of motorsports for DEI, said.Certainly it was nothing intentional. It fit our templates at the shop; it just didn't fit NASCAR's templates here, apparently.

To Watch Tonight [Happy Birthday United States. Here's An Outback Steakhouse Gift Card] What to watch as you tearfully raise your fist with pride and chant .".USA! USA!". Major League Soccer: Houston at Real Salt Lake (10 p.m. ET). How to change the station without using my hands? [ESPN2] ? Motor sports: NASCAR Sprint Cup, Coke Zero 400, practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla (4 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. ET) [Speed]; NASCAR Nationwide Series, Winn-Dixie 250, practice, at Daytona Beach, Fla. (5:30 p.m. ET) [ESPN2]; Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, Brumos Porsche 250, at Daytona Beach. Nascar Sprint Cup Series at Loudon.

Coca-Cola Racing Family Drivers Will Attempt To Give Millions a ?Taste of Victory? With Free 20-ounce Coke Zero IT'S FREE COKE ZERO ACROSS U.S. IF ONE OF 13 NASCAR DRIVERS WINS INAUGURAL COKE ZERO 400? ATLANTA, July 1, 2008 ? For members of the Coca-Cola Racing Family, each victory in a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series? race is traditionally followed by a thirst-quenching chug of an ice cold Coke Zero in the winner's circle. This weekend, 13 of the sport's top drivers will attempt to give fans around the country their own ?taste of victory? by taking the checkered flag in the inaugural Coke Zero 400 Powered. Nascar Sprint Cup Series tickets.

British Horse Racing to Adopt Year Long Series The popularity of season long series like NASCAR's Sprint Cup and the PGA's new Fed-Ex Cup seems to be growing, both among fans and the participants. It is now spreading across the pond based on yesterday's announcement by the British horse racing industry of its new Sovereign Series. The new season long competition, kicking off in 2009, will be composed of ten Group I races (the European equivalent to North America's Grade I) stretching from May to October, contested at each of Britain's. Loudon ticket broker.

Dario Franchitti wont be turning left anymore Former IRL IndyCar Series champion Dario Franchitti (also known as Mr. Ashley Judd) has lost his job as a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver.  Team owner Chip Ganassi decided to scale back the three-car team to a two-car team leaving Franchitti the odd man out. Franchitti's #40 team had had an awful start to the season.   His best finish came with 22nd place at Martinsville.  He also had a dificult time finding permanent major sponsorship.  The team had to resort to using single-race sponsorship . ticket brokers.

Thursday At Daytona: It's Just Practice! tickets, As our friend Mr. Iverson would say.".it's just practice!".There is a very different kind of schedule at Daytona, so both the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series will be on the track Thursday, but only for practice. There will be no TV for the early Nationwide Series practice at 2:30PM Eastern Time. There are no additional details available to us about which network owns the TV rights or why this session is not being televised. Next-up at 4PM will be the first Sprint Cup Series practice sessi.

Ganassi shuts down Franchitti's NASCAR ride tickets, Filed under: Motorsports, Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, DodgeOkay, we'll admit it. Most of us here at Autoblog aren't big NASCAR fans. But we have been intrigued by the recent migration of championship-winning open-wheel racers to the stock car series. Former Indy 500 and Monaco GP winner Juan-Pablo Montoya seems to be making a go of it, while fellow Indy and F1 champ Jacques Villeneuve has all but given up hope of ever making it with the good ol' boys. But how about Dario Franchitti? After winning .