Word: nascars
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...Chrysler Ordered Out of NASCAR Caranddriver.com "In a move sure to spark outrage, the White House announced today that GM and Chrysler must cease participation in NASCAR at the end of the 2009 season if they hope to receive any additional financial aid from the government. Companies around the globe - Honda and Audi, to name two - have drawn down racing operations, and NASCAR itself has already felt the pinch in the form of reduced team spending. A complete withdrawal from America's premier racing series is expected to save more than $250 million between GM and Chrysler, a substantial amount...
...that means big shifts for the global industry behind Formula One, and especially for the 3,500 firms specializing in high-performance engineering in England's Motorsport Valley. About a third of those companies, which craft everything from engines for rally cars to brakes for NASCAR racers, service the half-dozen Formula One teams based in the area. "While they play the Marseillaise when Renault win" a Grand Prix, says Aylett, much of the French-owned team's work is "actually done in Oxfordshire...
Turns out your average gun-toting, Bud-drinking, Nascar-loving Republican watches just as much—if not more—porn than their liberal counterparts...
...fishing like NASCAR at all? When anglers talk trash to each other, do they get into fights, like the drivers...
...vegetarian, they will also hunt and kill other animals for food; young male chimpanzees in Africa have been known to fashion crude weapons and use them to hunt bushbabies for meat. Attacks on human beings are rare, but they do happen - and the results are often catastrophic. The former NASCAR driver St. James Davis, who raised a chimpanzee as a pet, was attacked by escaped chimps at an animal sanctuary in 2005; he was left with injuries and disfigurement so severe that doctors kept him in a medically induced coma for three months. (See pictures of the 50th running...