Right Sides Only: California

Race four of the NASCAR Chase finds us in Fontana, California for the Pepsi 500. Do they make Double Caffeine Pepsi?

It might be interesting to see how moving this race from the Labor Day holiday to the Chase will affect ticket sales. Surely, having to be at work the following day, instead of it being a holiday, should increase sales. No?

Could NASCAR be *this* close to giving up on Auto Club Speedway? Moving this race to the Chase won't help attendance. By giving the Labor Day date to Atlanta, NASCAR helped that track to sell out.

Previous plans to increase the degree of banking in Fontana's turns, and narrow some parts of the track have been put on hold. Why? Why isn't NASCAR in a hurry to dump more cash down this money pit? Are they really making more money from TV and movie shoots at the track than from their version of 'racing'?

NASCAR listened to the fans and will start races at 1 pm/et next year. Hey, it works great for the NFL. Five western races will start at 3 pm/et, and night races will all start at 7:30 pm/et. The lone exception is the Coca Cola 600 which keeps it's 5:45 pm/et start. Indy is moving it's 500 start up next year, but couldn't the 600 have moved back 45 minutes, to help any drivers looking to double dip?

A movie (infomercial) on HMS airs this Sunday before the race on ABC. "Together" celebrates the 25th anniversary of Hendrick Motorsports. The narrator is Cole Trickle.

GoDaddy would like Danica Patrick to run a limited NNS/ARCA schedule next year. She has met with Stewart/Haas Racing, and Mike Waltrip has thrown his team into the mix. But JR Motorsports, which already has GoDaddy funding, appears to be the front runner. When she and Jr finally go public, ratings will skyrocket. Even more so if she joins his race team.

Carl Edwards is one of six 'coverboys' on ESPN The Magazine's "Body Issue" out this week. Anyone? Anyone at all?

I'll be in Rockingham this weekend, covering the ARCA finale. Look for interviews, pics, and live race updates at racingforthewin.com, and on facebook. In depth interviews will be posted here at SRM in the future.

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written by Beaverly, October 13, 2009

Do you think the lil'lady will out drive little E?

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written by DD's racing, October 11, 2009

DD's......Danica & Dale......they ought to dump GoDummy and get Hooters back into the show.......Seeing Danica in a Hooters girl outfit....that would grab some ratings....

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written by Robin Pemberton's bung-hole....tweeting, October 11, 2009

Tweet this Robin say's "I had 6 chilli cheese dogs...6 orders of carnival fries......4 elephant ears and going back for a double fudge chocolate shake and a cherry sno-cone".......The chase blows chunks.......Fontana has the WORST two races on the schedule.....followed by Kansas and Homested.......Ratings are in the toilet.....When will they put Bristol and a road course in the chase?.......The lame-est 10 races of the season won't get ratings just from the chase format......It's easy to see why they put the worst tracks in the final 10................I didn't even watch highlights of the race.

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