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Graham Rahal Joins Sarah Fisher Racing for Kentucky

Graham Rahal will reunite with owner/driver Sarah Fisher to race at Kentucky this weekend, according to an article in USA Today.

The article said the deal came together over the last 48 hours. Rahal will be in the 66 car while Sarah drivers her usual 67 machine.

Jay Howard drove the 66 car at Chicagoland, but was not scheduled to drive it at Kentucky.

Cameron Haven: Trophy Girl with a Trophy Brain is Hot Literally and Figuratively

Don't try to stick the "dumb model" label on Cameron Haven, the IZOD Trophy Girl who appears relentlessly in the background of IndyCar winner's circle interviews. It's one of the few things that doesn't look good on the magna-cum-laude graduate of Florida State University.

Fans Can Design Sarah Fisher's helmet for Homestead Miami

For the second year in a row, Sarah Fisher and Sarah Fisher Racing (SFR) is going pink for the Susan G. Komen foundation. Here's your chance to design Sarah's lid for the Homestead Miami race. Check the link below for how to submit your ideas.

DEADLINE IS SEPT. 7, so click below for details!

Design Sarah's Helmet

Deluxe Notes from the 2010 IndyCar Race at Chicagoland

Notes taken at the track and from the VERSUS broadcast of the Peak Antifreeze and Motor Oil Indy 300, Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, Ill., Aug. 28, 2010.

Welcome to Mighty Chicagoland, home of the four-wide freak-showish festival of pink urine that makes veteran race car drivers weep like small children.

Programming Update and Chicagoland Post-Race Transcript

I'm heading back to pressdog WORLD headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa, from Joliet today. Many many things to come on the dog blog in the next few days. It's a festival of digital recording that I'll turn into posts very soon.

Looking forward to seeing the DVR of the race as well. I watched the race with Pippa Mann, who completely randomly showed up in the same section of stands with her dad right before the race. Viewing enhanced. I gave Pippa shout outs for her legions of fans for her P2. She said she was disappointed, but not pissed, because winner James Hinchcliffe beat her fair and square. Good for you, Pip.

When Sarah led on a restart during the race and then went 20-plus in P2, I was in full breathe-into-a-bag mode, I don't mind saying. More thoughts on Chicagoland soon, but to tide everyone over for now, here's the IndyCar PR-provided transcript of the post-race Top 3 press conference.

How to Survive LUNACY? Situational Awareness, Disassociation from Death

Chicagoland. Home of three-wide racing labeled "lunacy" by Eddie Cheever Jr. Open-wheel cars four inches apart, traveling with all the precision on of bumble bees (that is bobbing all over the place as they move forward) around a 1.5-mile oval at about 218 mph. One wheel touch and someone is going AIRBORNE.

Do you have to be completely psycho to do this for a living? This insanity makes for too-freaked-to-breathe moments for spectators, but what about drivers? Are they wide-eyed and sweating with adrenalin squirting out of various orifices during the entire race?

I asked a couple of them, and the answer was ... no. Calm, relaxed, focused, detached from possible consequences? Yes. Freaked out and bathed in their own urine? No.

Insurgent Tweet-Up Scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at Chicagoland Speedway

TWEET, ye BASTARDS. Fueled by alcohol and huge slabs of animal protein, a posse of Tweeters last  night decided to launch an insurgent, last-minute Tweet Up her at Chicagoland Speedway. (A "tweet up" is a meet up of Tweeters.) Feel free to wear your black mourning clothing!

2:30 p.m. Saturday in Champion's Park. That's the park-ish area where many activities happen outside the main entrance, near the merchandise trailers. Look for a bunch of crisscrossing walkways. Also look for 23 people standing together yet focused on their phones.

I will be there at 2:30 but will have to bolt reasonably soon thereafter for a very high-level interview. Assistant chief janitor for Chicagoland is going on record! Kidding. But I have something at 3, so if you want to time your arrival for 3:01, I will understand.

And if you don't tweet, yet happen to be in the area, free country! Stop on in. It could be YOUR BUSINESS.

Watch Knoxville Nationals on SPEED Tonight (Aug. 28)

Don't miss the replay of the Knoxville Nationals on SPEED tonight (Aug. 28), 4:30 p.m. Eastern.

You'll get a super-freaked-out finish to the A-Main for your trouble.

For the first-ever Finals Twittercast in Nationals history, go here.

Live from Chicagoland Speedway Friday -- 5:26 p.m.

Inside sources say that Danica Patrick watches this You Tube video every morning to get centered in her kittens and rainbow schwerve on. Just what I heard.

Live from Chicagoland Speedway Friday -- 2:55 p.m.

Qualifying is over and the usual pit road bullpen parade is over. Let's catch up to Danica Patrick, specifically the issue Chicagoland and how many F-bombs are too many F-bombs on the radio.

pressdog: Chicagoland may not be on the schedule next year, does that make you sad?

Danica: Really? Well, have never been shy about being honest about the fact that I don't like getting rid of ovals on the IndyCar schedule and I would be yet again disappointed if we lost another oval, especially a good one like Chicago, where we put on really good racing for the fans.