| Sprint opened voting for the Sprint Monster Moment, the only award voted on by the fans and presented to a driver at the nationally televised NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony. |  |
Fans who are a member of the Sprint Crew Community on NASCAR.com can vote for the 2008 Sprint Monster Moment at community.nascar.com/crews/sprint/videos. Voting is unlimited and ends at 5 p.m. (EST) Wednesday, Dec. 3. Membership is free and new members may also vote. Register for the Sprint Crew Community at community.nascar.com/crews/sprint.
A Sprint Monster Moment is defined as an action in a race where a driver exhibits extreme competiveness, passion or determination to win. Fans can choose from five clips. This year’s Sprint Monster Moment nominees are:
- Carl Edwards bumps Kyle Busch at the Bristol night race to take the lead and the win.
- Greg Biffle makes a late-race pass at Dover to hold off teammates Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards and capture his second consecutive win, making him two-for-two in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
- Carl Edwards’ valiant wall-brushing, final-lap pass for the lead at Kansas. Despite gaining the lead with the aggressive move, he was passed again on the final stretch by Jimmie Johnson and finished a heartbreaking second place.
- Jimmie Johnson’s rapid climb from 12th to second place at Atlanta with just six laps to go. The move earned him a commanding lead in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
- Carl Edwards dominates the season-ending Ford 400 by leading the most laps and winning the race and consequently putting as much pressure as he could on point leader Jimmie Johnson.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony will air at 9 p.m. (EST) Friday, Dec. 5, on ESPN Classic and will re-air at 2 p.m. (EST) Monday, Dec. 8, on ESPN2. Tune in to see the winning moment as selected by race fans.
A Jeep Wrangler entered by Clive Skilton and ATK North America driven by four time Baja Champion Darren Skilton and Co-Driver Jon Krellwitz took the win for 4×4 SUV’s at the 2008 SCORE-International Baja 1000 in Ensenada, Mexico. The race truck, branded with Team ATK decals, finished the race in 18 hours and 46 minutes. In addition to a class victory, the team was able to finish in 31st place out of 395 registered entries, beating all Class 7, 7S, Class 8, Baja Challenge and all but one Pro Truck to the finish line.
Take the hood of a Chevy Tahoe; bring it to six Major League Baseball parks; have more than 220 players sign it, including the biggest names in baseball today, Baseball Hall of Fame members and future stars of tomorrow; and what have you got? One of the most unique pieces of baseball memorabilia ever created. Baseball memorabilia collectors and auto enthusiasts will have the opportunity to bid on this one-of-a-kind vehicle on January, 16, 2009, at the Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction in Scottsdale, Ariz. A portion of the proceeds will be used to help create future stars, as they will be donated to non-profit youth baseball programs across the United States.
Shea Holbrook, 18, of Groveland, FL was named the inaugural recipient of the Cooper Tire & Rubber Company Scholarship for the first phase of the Women in the Winner’s Circle (WWC) Foundation Driver Development Academy.
“Cooper Tire’s decision to support the Academy and Shea demonstrates not only their support of training and educating young women drivers, but also their belief that women can be successful in all areas of motorsports,” said Lyn St. James, former professional motorsports driver and founder of the Women in the Winner’s Circle Foundation and Driver Development Academy. “By choosing to partner with this program, Cooper Tire is helping move motorsports forward as a gender integrated industry.”
In 2008, Holbrook raced in the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) ITS Class in her 1998 Acura Integra. She has also driven this car in the Formula and Automobile Racing Association (FARA) MP Classes and in National Auto Sports Association (NASA) events. Her next race is 25 Hours of Thunderhill in Richmond, CA on a four female team called DivaSpeed.
Formula One supremo Bernie Eccelstone said that a medal system will be introduced to prevent drivers becoming world champions “by not winning races”. The system, which will be introduced from next season, will replace the current structure that sees the top eight drivers in every grand prix earn points in the championship standings, with the winner of each race earns 10 points, second place 8 points and third place 6.
The medal system would see gold, silver and bronze medals being awarded for the top three positions, and the driver with the most race victories at the end of the season takes the championship. The proposal comes after Lewis Hamilton needed to finish in 5th place at the final grand prix of the season in Brazil to secure the driver’s championship. Hamilton would have failed to win this year’s title under the medals system, having only won 5 races to Felipe Massa’s 6. Eccelstone, the CEO of the Formula One Group, told a press event at London that he has the full support of both the teams and the sport’s governing body the FIA. “It’s going to happen,” he said. “All the teams are happy and the FIA are happy.
“I’m sick of people talking about no over-taking. If I (as a driver) need to get gold medals then I will do that. The proposal needs to be passed by Formula One’s governing body the FIA when F1’s world council meets next month. This report came from SportsBusiness.com.
Bernie, in his late 70’s, could have bigger problems according to The Guardian of London. It’s reported that his younger wife of 24-years is suing him for a divorce because he’s a work- alcoholic. The story tells that most of his money is already in his wife’s name and that she moved out of his multi-million pound estate in Kensington into an apartment. The report also went on to say that it could be a nasty split as the couples money is said to be over one-billion English pounds.
Let’s see what’s happening on the tube this weekend for gearhead action. On Friday it’s the A1 GP from Holland on Speed at noon while ESPNCL offers live coverage of the Sprint Cup banquet from New York City at 9 p.m. Saturday’s offering is a 4 p.m. airing of the IHRA National held in Tulsa, OK. Sunday has the German Touring Cars 2008 highlights at 3 p.m. on Speed with the Speed Report airing at 7 p.m. on that same channel.(END)
NOTE: INFORMATION FOR THIS COLUMN CAME FROM VARIOUS REFERENCED SOURCES, PRESS RELEASES, NOTES AND OTHER SOURCES.
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