Month: August 2008

We’re all used to major league baseball scouting young players. Pro football team scouts make sure no college football game goes without any spectators. Likewise, the NBA also scouts the college crowd. This past Saturday I did some scouting at my local short track,

I’ll admit it, I used to hate Randy Moss.  There is something about narcissistic pro athletes that really bugs me.  The sense of self entitlement, the smugness, the ego, it all drives me completely nuts.  In the past, Randy Moss was the definition of the classic pro sports athlete.

Ralph Harvey, left, with his 1964 Corvette, and son Mike, with his ’66 model, are anxious for this weekend’s 40th reunion of the Corvettes of Western Ontario.

I’ll admit it, I’m still a little in shock from the race from Indy this Sunday…if you can call that 400 mile parade a race, that is.  I debated even posting anything this week, I was so miffed at that debacle.  I decided that like all good bloggers, I had …

FastMachines.com Radio Podcast Episode #4 – We are joined by THE PRESSDOG! We get in depth on the IRL in general, and this past weekend in Edmonton. What’s the deal with AGR!? We rap about NASCAR’s horror show at the Brickyard, and get a little F1 talk in …

Since the initial spotting of this unidentified concept on the set of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen movie, popular opinion has pegged it as a Chevrolet Corvette concept that will likely forecast the …

The Western Swing is in the books for another year and all anyone can still talk about is the shortening of the race distance from a quarter-mile to 1,000 feet for the Nitro cars. This major change to the way the NHRA conducts business was a direct reaction to the …

Mike Angeliadis has always had a passion for Corvettes. The love affair started when he was seven and he and his brother received a model road-racing set containing a miniature pair of the Chevy sports cars.

Mike Angeliadis has always had a passion for Corvettes. The love affair started when he was seven and he and his brother received a model road-racing set containing a miniature pair of the Chevy sports cars.

The Allstate 400 was a complete debacle, because the tires wouldn’t hold up more than ten laps without blowing up. So NASCAR, in the name of safety, put a tire caution out every 12 laps.