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Sarah Fisher Wins Kart Endurance Race

Note: Everything below is true. Info courtesy of Sarah Fisher's PR peeps:

Indy Racing League driver and three-time World Karting Association Grand National Champion Sarah Fisher scared up a P1 finish at a 100-mile Halloween Grand Prix karting event in Norway, Ill. Saturday.

Fisher, teaming with her fiancé, Andy O'Gara, took first place in the 30-kart Yamaha Supercan division. The victory comes two weeks after Sarah teamed with Champ Car World Series rookie Katherine Legge at NewCastle MotorSports Park for a go-kart endurance race. Fisher and Legge finished 31st in that race after a broken chain forced extensive repairs.

IRL Stunned to Learn of the Existence of Dreyer & Reinbold Racing

Note: Below is satire. Fiction.

Indy Racing League officials were stunned Sunday to learn that Dreyer & Reinbold Racing has been a racing in the league for years.

Indy Racing League Embraces "Niche Strategy" for 2007

Note to the humorless. Everything below is satire. Stuff made up in order to express an opinion.

The Indy Racing League officials Tuesday confirmed they are abandoning their quest for mass appeal and instead "going after targeted, incredibly tiny and potentially somewhat profitable" audiences.

"We've tried filling barns like Texas Motor Speedway and who are we kidding?" said an Indy Racing League official who asked not to be named. "No matter how many posters of Danica we put up around town we're not going to fill that place. So we decided to do some very target marketing."

For example, an internal IRL memo obtained by pressdog cites research indicating "97% of all American race fans would rather undergo unmedicated dental surgery than watch a street/road race."

Notes from the TV broadcast of the Champ Car World Series in Surfers Paradise, Australia

Notes taken during the international broadcast of the Champ Car World Series Lexmark Indy 300 in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia.

(Note: grabbed the replay of the race off Champ Car's most excellent "Race Director" -- go to www.champcar.ws and sign up for it right now! -- and it was the international broadcast version. No Derek Daly and Rick Benjamin! Some dudes named Jeremy Shaw and Jamie Hinchliffe. So no Dalyisms this time! Bummer.)

Sarah Fisher Gives Her PR Guy and Katherine Legge Props

Sarah Fisher PR Czar Klint Briney poses with his boss at a go-kart track during a team outing. Rumor has it soon after this picture was taken Sarah gave Klint a serious smackdown on the track.

Open-wheel driver and three-time World Karting Association Grand National Champion Sarah Fisher today refused to confirm rumors that she gave her PR Czar Klint Briney a serious spanking on the track during a recent team outing.

Team pressdog Hits the Road, Team Officials Fume

Team pressdog (Katherine Legge, left, and Sarah Fisher) hit the road this week after finishing 31st in a 56-kart, 200-mile endurance go-kart endurance race last week in New Castle, Ind.

A broken chain forced the KatFish kart into the pits for extensive repairs and led to the P31 showing. Team pressdog officials were reportedly hot over the dissing of Champ Car's Legge in the photo gallery on the Indy Racing League's official site.

KatFish Fans Freak Out, Wheldon Fights Through the Pain

pressdog moles and operatives tell us that Indy Racing League driver Sarah Fisher and Champ Car World Series pilot Katherine Legge are representing at Newcastle Motorsports Park even as we speak in preparation for the RoboPong.com 200 go-kart endurance race.

The two are aiming to dislodge reigning race champion, shoe enthusiast and Jamie Little (get her in a car!) fan Dan "Yellow Race Booties" Wheldon. Game faces are on. Knickers are twisted. There has been some hope that Wheldon will be so morose over the departure of Jamie Little from covering the IRL in 2007 that he won't be able to see through the tears to drive the kart. Earlier today Danno gave MoneyCJ at So. Damn. Indy. his interesting reaction to Jamie's leaving.

Bloggers Lament Potential Little Departure

Note to the gullable: Jamie Little is, in fact, probably going to cover NASCAR in 2007. The rest is made up. Except the fact that I do, in fact, think it's a kick in the testicles.

Indy Racing League bloggers reacted to the news that sports hotty Jamie Little (get her in a car!) may not be working the IRL pits in 2007 with everything from tears to unbridled rage.

"No J-Lil'? No way!," said MoneyCJ, operator of the IRL-focused blog, So. Damn. Indy. Police apparently found MoneyCJ babbling incoherently next to an exhausted keg in the early morning hours of Oct. 11. No charges were filed, however. "When we heard that he was drinking out of remorse for Jamie leaving, we cut the guy a break" said one police officer who said Money was found babbling something about "SuperStu" getting a new keg.

Fisher and Legge to form Team Estrogen for Go-Kart Race

Note: Sarah (left) and Katherine are, in fact, on the same go-kart team but the quotes about and reasons for their teaming up are all fiction. Totally made up. Fabricated.

Open-wheel drivers Sarah Fisher (left) and Katherine Legge will form a  rare IRL/Champ Car united team for a go-kart race in New Castle, Indiana on Oct. 15.

The Fisher/Legge team will participate in the 200 Mile TaG Endurance Race at the New Castle Motorsports Park.