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pressdog Gets His Name on an F1 Car

On Feb. 26, alert pressdog reader Turtle tipped me that Honda was ditching the logos on its new F1 cars and instead decorating them like a rolling chunk of mother earth.

The design is meant to bring attention to issues like global warming, pollution and other earth-hostile dangers.

The best part is that you can get your name on one pixel of the car. All you have to do is go to myearthdream.com and promise to adopt one easy, earth-friendly behavior.

So when the Honda F1 car hits the track, it will have "pressdog" on one pixel of the monocoque.

Check out the car and make your promise to change behavior at myearthdream.com

IndyCar Bloggers Frothed About Season

Indy Car bloggers presdog, Jeff from MyNameIsIRL.com and MoneyCJ of So Damn Indy fame chatted on Feb. 23 about the results of the Homestead test, the new ABC/ESPN pit hotty and whether or not Danica will win in 2007.

AGR Demands Inspection of Rice's Car

Note to the gullible: this is all fiction.

Andretti Green Racing team officials Wednesday angrily demanded that Buddy Rice's car be "completely dismantled and thoroughly inspected."

AGR officials even suggested calling in some NASCAR inspectors, "the ones who busted Waltrip and those people," to take a look at Rice's car.

Indianapolis May Create Non-NASCAR Racing Fan Refugee Camp

Note to the slow: all this satire (fiction and humor used to illustrate a point).

The Indianapolis City Council is considering creating a refugee camp for non-NASCAR race fans near the famed speedway.

"We've been somewhat alarmed, frankly, at the number of people who just show up on our doorstep asking for sanctuary," said Earnest Johnson, mayor of Indianapolis. "Just last Tuesday, we had some guy in the fetal position on the front lawn of City Hall clutching a sign that said 'Not all race fans like NASCAR, goddammit!' Kind of spooky."

Johnson could not confirm that the unidentified white male was wearing a shirt with "pressdog.com" scrawled on the back in black Sharpie.

Drivers Excited About "Year of the Pig"

(Note to the humor impaired: Everything below is made up, except the fact that 2007 is really the year of the pig.)

Drivers in both the Indy Racing League and the Champ Car World Series hope the Chinese "Year of the Pig" will lead to some flying oinkers on the track. 

The coincidence of the Year of the Pig (more exactly, the Year of the Boar, which is an adult male pig with all its gear in tact) coming as drivers head into a year where many of them will be driving chronically slow cars, known as "pigs," was not lost on the drivers.

pressdog Howls for So Damn Indy

Bang the drum slowly, my friends, for the passing of the most-excellent IRL blog: So. Damn. Indy.  My boy MoneyCJ is hanging up the keyboard. The day job and home life are squeezing him out of time to keep the blog going. Props to Money for keeping the priorities real.

We'll miss SDI. Money had a fun, irreverent reverence for the IRL going on that made him unique. Money promises to haunt the dog blog and pop in frequently on our boy Jeff over at My Name is IRL. We're looking forward to it. Jeff and I will try to do you proud, hoss.

And every time I type "I'm just sayin' " I'll remember from whom I blatantly ripped off that coolio phrase.

Peace out, blog brother. Somewhere Jamie Little is wiping an ultra-hot tear.

NASCAR Fixin' to Get Somewhat Tough on Cheaters

Note to the rubes: most of this is made up.

NASCAR officials said Tuesday they are "definitely fixin' to talk about getting somewhat tough" on teams who "cheat."

After three teams failed inspection during qualifying for the Daytona 500 Sunday, NASCAR announced it was mulling over some kind of stepped up something to "get a handle on this cheating stuff."

The inspection failures come a year after NASCAR sent crew chief Chad Knaus home after cheating while preparing Jimmie Johnson's car.

Apparently any memo NASCAR meant to send with Knaus' suspension got caught in the teams' spam filters. Even with crew chief Knaus banned for a month, Johnson still won the Daytona 500 -- the Super Bowl of racing -- and a second event two weeks later.

Champ Car Ponders Mystery Driver Program

(If you think this is true, seek medical attention immediately.)

The Champ Car World Series Powered by Cosworth is pondering a "mystery driver" promotion that will "get everyone over their fixation on having individual drivers assigned to individual teams."

Champ Car insiders said recently that since most of the drivers technically work for series owner and sugar daddy Kevin Kalkhoven, the plan to keep drivers' identities secret just might work.

Sarah Fisher Goes on Record with pressdog

Even though she's just 26, it seems like Sarah Fisher has been around the Indy Racing League forever. That's what happens when you bust into the bigs at age 19.

A lot has changed for Sarah since first getting into the car for Derrick Walker nearly eight years ago.

When she blew by Eliseo Salazar to get second at Homstead in 2001, (prompting Salazar team boss AJ Foyt to radio to Eliseo: "You just got passed by a girl!") the racing world hit the rev limiter about its new star.

A story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, on May 25, 2001, captured Fisher Fever:

Simmons Reports Vague Familiarity with the P-Dog

Indy Racing League driver Jeff Simmons reportedly played it cool when confronted with the  name "pressdog" during a visit to Des Moines, Iowa on Monday.

One of the p-dog's operatives who works at the Meredith Corporation in tony Des Moines reportedly dropped the p-dog name along with his true identity when Jeff visited Meredith.

"I mentioned your name and pressdog and he (Simmons) said that it seemed very familiar," said the operative. "He might have even remembered meeting you."

For the record, Jeff and I haven't met. I did unknowingly steal a cookie from an RLR hospitality tent once, though. Perhaps if she would have said "obscure IRL blogger, pressdog." Little did Jeff know he was not two miles from me on Monday. You'd have thought he would have felt a shift in The Force.