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In keeping with the non-profit theme of open-wheel racing, I have changed pricing in my Cafe Press pressdog logo merchandise store so I make nothing on each sale. Zip.
Cafe Press gets all the money. I'm sure they appreciate it.
Shop today for your coveted pressdog merchandise before my store goes belly up.
This just in from Flirty Curty Cavin at the Mighty Indy Star, a press release ... er ... story from the IRL that makes a good point about the economy and last year's mergification with the Champ Car World Series.
A key point that I had not thought of is: the IndyCar posse is glad they merged last year consensually, because the economy this year would have forced them to merge in a somewhat less consensual manner.
Former Champ Car chief Kevin Kalkhoven, for sure, has to be thinking "bullet dodged" because his series in this economic climate would probably have the value of a popcorn fart. Good thing he sold when he did. There is no comment from Kalkhoven in Curt's story, sadly.
There is plenty of happiness about the relative state of open-wheel for you to read HERE, though.
pressdog homeslice Joe from Trackside Online is deployed for the IndyCar test at Homestead this week.
Joe is kicking out interesting tidbits plus TSO is posting photos of the event. You could see it all if you were like the pdog -- a subscriber to TSO.
Trackside Online is an entirely fan-funded and fan-focused news service. Subscribe today and have the inside scoop, yo.
Dutch bank/insurance company ING will reduce its F1 sponsorship from $100 million to a paltry $60 million in 2009 and may pull the plug entirely after this year. Not good times for Renault boss FABIO! Read the ESPN.com story here.
Our favorite ragin' Candian, Meesh Beer, spoke directly to Danica Patrick during Dankier's recent trip to Toronto to shill -- er -- promote the Toronto IndyCar Race.
Meesh runs the always-saucy www.meeshbeer.com and claims she and Daniker didn't even GO!
Thrill to Meesh's coverage of the vent and her exclusive photos thereof HERE.
In a sign of the times, Robin Miller reports that Justin Wilson, the world's tallest open-wheel driver, will drive for Dale "Very Little" Coyne in 2009.
No word yet on the fate of Bruno "Baby Bird" Junqueira. Check it.
Chris, Josh and your racing servant throw down on Helio, F1 and the frequently semi-naked Danica Patrick in the latest installment of the most excellent FastMachines.com podcast.
Apologies to the fellas for my sucky Skype connection which caused me to drop off several times during our discussion. I think it was my super-anal Norton firewall interfering. I welcome all Skype dropped-call advice.
The Toronto Sun caught up with Her Worship, Danica Patrick, and asked her about USF1's dropping her name as a driver they are interested in.
As many suspected, the first Danica had heard of it was when she read it in an Associated Press story.
I could use the traffic on my site, so, here we go: "I'm thinking about forming an IndyCar team for 2010 and Danica Patrick is a strong candidate for my driver."
If dropping a Danica Name Bomb worked to get USF1 a million dollars worth of free pub, maybe it will work for pressdog.com (even though there is just as much chance that Danica would drive for me as there is she would drive for USF1).
Read the entire story, including stirring quotes from Her Ladyship, HERE.
