Sunoco Red Cross 500

Ignorance is Bliss!

I am writing this article before the Indy race because I am going on vacation and won’t have Internet access until later next week. So, I don’t know the results of the race at the Brickyard while I am writing this.

My Pick To Win

Once again this should be one of the most boring races of the year and you just have to go with past performance to pick your drivers this week. With that said I am picking Denny Hamlin to win this race. In 5 career starts at Pocono, Denny has 2 wins and a worst finish of 6th. He knows how to get around this track.

Pocono Frontrunners

Brian Vickers is another guy who really has a handle at Pocono. He might not be driving for a high profile team right now but they are very close to getting a win. Brian finished 2nd here in June and could pull off an upset this weekend.

Kurt Busch has really been running well at Pocono over the past few years with 2 wins and 2 runner-up finishes in his last 6 Pocono races. He also finished 8th here earlier this season.

Kasey Kahne won the race here earlier this year but that was only his 3rd top 10 finish in 9 races at Pocono. I would rather use Kasey on some of the intermediate tracks where he really excels.

Mark Martin is the long time master of Pocono. Although Mark has never gotten a win here, no one has finished in the top 5 more than he has. Mark has finished in the top 10 in more than half of his races here throughout his long and illustrious career.

Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson are both good at Pocono and should come away with decent finishes once again this weekend. However, I wouldn’t put either of them in victory lane at the end of the day.

Tony Stewart has really run well at Pocono over the past few years and this is the time of the year that Smoke gets it going. The question is if JGR is going to give Tony the best shot at winning or use him for some experimental purpose for the rest of the season.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has run well at Pocono over the last 2 races but had a long stretch of struggling before that. Junior didn’t crack the top 10 in the 6 previous races to his last 2 top 10 finishes but he is driving for Hendrick now.

Matt Kenseth is usually very consistent at Pocono and Carl Edwards has been getting better and better with each race he has under his belt at Pocono. Both of these guys have a great shot at a top 10 finish once again this weekend.

Yahoo! Fantasy Picks

Group A

• Denny Hamlin (starter)
• Jimmie Johnson

Group B

• Mark Martin (starter)
• Ryan Newman (starter)
• Kasey Kahne
• Kyle Busch

Group C

• Brian Vickers (starter)
• Travis Kvapil

Stay Away From

• Jamie McMurray

Dark Horse

• Brian Vickers

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Sunoco Red Cross 500

Here is a quick run down of trivial facts and statistics for this weekend’s Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA.

Pocono Motor Speedway History

• Opened in 1968 as a .75-mile track, Pocono Raceway held the first race on the 2.5-mile oval in 1971.
• The first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race was in 1974.

Track Numbers

• NASCAR Cup Series Races: 61
• Pole Winners: 35
• Race Winners: 28
• There was one race from 1974 through 1981, and two per year since.
• Buddy Baker won the first pole at Pocono.
• David Pearson won the pole there in June 1984 but did not race. Only 14 drivers have more than one pole there.
• All NASCAR Sprint Cup races at Pocono have been scheduled for 500 miles. By design, the inaugural race was run to a length of 480 miles due to the energy crisis.
• There have been 21 pole winners in the last 25 races. Denny Hamlin, Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne (two each) are the only repeat pole winners there since 1995. Qualifying was canceled once.
• The pole has been swept just three times: Bill Elliott (1985), Ken Schrader (1993), Denny Hamlin (2006).
• Richard Petty won the first NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Pocono.
• Bill Elliott leads all drivers with with five victories; 18 drivers have won more than once there.
• There have been 14 different race winners in the 17 races since Bobby Labonte swept in 1999. Jimmie Johnson swept 2004 and Denny Hamlin 2006. Kurt Busch won the July race in 2005 and 2007.
• There have been six season sweeps at Pocono, including two of the past four seasons.
• Bobby Allison and Tim Richmond each won three consecutive races at Pocono.
• 45 of 61 Pocono races have been won from a top-10 start; 13 by the pole winner.
• The June 2005 race was won by Carl Edwards from the 29th starting position, the deepest in the field that a race winner has started.
• Rick Hendrick leads all other car owners with 11 Pocono victories.
• There have been eight car owner season sweeps, including three of the past four seasons (two of the car owner sweeps were with different drivers).
• There have been two green-white-checkered finishes: June 2005 (201 laps) and July 2005 (203 laps).
• Denny Hamlin, Paul Menard, Juan Pablo Montoya, Brian Vickers and J.J. Yeley are the active drivers that have finished on the lead lap in all of their races.
• Denny Hamlin won his first two appearances at Pocono Raceway, claiming both victories from the pole. Hamlin has two third-place finishes and a sixth-place finish in his other races for an average finish of 2.8 in five races – the all-time best of any driver at the Pennsylvania track. He also led 300 of the 906 laps raced in the five races.

Track Records

• Track qualifying record: Kasey Kahne (172.533 mph, 52.164 secs., 6-11-04)
• Track race record: Rusty Wallace (144.892 mph, 7-21-96)

Qualifying/Race Data

• 2007 pole winner: Dale Earnhardt Jr. (169.975 mph, 52.949 seconds)
• 2007 race winner: Kurt Busch, 131.627 mph, 8-5-07)

Pocono Race Day Data

• Estimated Pit Window: Every 28-30 laps, based on fuel mileage.
• Race #21 of 36 (8-3-08)
• Track Size: 2.5 miles
• Race Length: 500 miles (200 laps)
• Banking/Turn 1: 14 degrees
• Banking/Turn 2: 8 degrees
• Banking/Turn 3: 6 degrees
• Frontstretch: 3,740 feet
• Backstretch: 3,055 feet
• Shortstretch: 1,780

What does a trip for four to Florida with airfare and accommodations, $500 cash, a 42″ Plasma television, a home theater system, a Blu-Ray DVD system and a new X-Box have in common?

That’s the load of loot that Jon Rodgers won for steering his team “AMOZONS” to first place in the Gillette Young Guns challenge for segment #1.

And, if you think those prizes are good, Gillette is really getting serious for segment two.

The Grand prize for segment two is $20,000.00!

I caught up with Jon Rodgers to hear what it was like to win all those goodies. Read the whole interview here.

Gillette has been running a fun (and rewarding) NASCAR fantasy game this 2008 season.

The object is to pick the two best Gillette Young Gun Drivers (Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Kasey Kahne, Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch & Clint Bowyer) along with four other drivers from two groups that you think will score you the most driver points for that week.

Segment One of the game wrapped up after the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona.

Segment two started with the Chicagoland race.

But, since the game lets you ‘throw out’ your worst three weeks there is still time to get in the game as this weekends race is just the second week.

Plus, Gillette is giving away weekly prizes, so you can join anytime during the remainder of the 2008 NASCAR season and still be a winner.

I had the pleasure to recieve an email from the segment one winner a week before that segment ended. His name is Jon Rodgers and he lives in New Jersey.

Jon is a friendly, easy guy to like.

As he shared with me the stress and excitement of winning the Gillette Young Guns game with his team, “AMOZONS”, I knew I wanted him to share his story with you as well.

Q: The Gillette Young Guns game site says you won:

• 4-day/3-night trip for you and 3 guests to your choice of city in Florida including round-trip air transportation.
• Hotel accommodations.
• $500 spending money.
• 42″ plasma television.
• Home theater system.
• Blu-ray DVD system.
• Xbox.

That’s a pretty sweet prize package! Is that what you are getting?

Jon: I am sure that is what I will get. I would like to have been able to tell you things like the brand name of the TV and how much I have been enjoying everything but unfortunately it takes 8-10 weeks to deliver my prizes and that is after all the paper work is complete and I have filled out and returned the affidavit. So I have not received my prizes yet.

Q: Ahh, more waiting hunh? Well, where do you plan to go in Florida, and what do you plan to do on the Grand Prize trip?

Jon: I am going to Daytona Beach in February of 2009 so that I can go to the Daytona 500.

I have been to Daytona Beach once before and it is where I had the best vacation of my life. So I knew right away which city I would go to but then a family member reminded me of driving right by the Daytona race track when we were there and how we had said too bad it was not race season or we could go see a race.

Then they suggested that we wait until the February race to take the vacation so that we could go to the Daytona 500 while we were there, and my eye’s lit up as I knew that was going to be the plan.

How better then to spend the vacation I won playing the Gillette Young Guns challenge then to go see next years Daytona 500? I feel as I am giving something back to the people who got me there.

Q: Have you won other fantasy NASCAR games or is this the first?

Jon: No, I have never won anything playing fantasy NASCAR games.

I have only been playing fantasy NASCAR games for a few years now as there really has not been the same amount of options as there is to play the fantasy games from other sports.

I will tell you that I have been playing all kinds of fantasy games for many years now and have never won anything close to this.

Q: So there is hope for the rest of us to maybe win someday too? How long have you been a NASCAR fan?

Jon: Since about the mid 80’s.

What first got me into racing of any kind was the fact that I have lived in New Jersey my whole life I was not even a teenager yet in the very early 80’s and there used to be (and it still is played today) a radio advertisement where you would hear this crazy laugh and then a voice screaming “Raceway Park” followed by what ever that weeks attraction was by this unforgettable obnoxious voice.

Well, that was an advertisement for Raceway Park in Englishtown, New Jersey which was and is still known for funny car races. There in lay’s the “funny” advertisement.

So ever since my parents took me to see that I have always been interested in racing.

I used to watch the IROC races in the 80’s and I am right now restoring the 1986 Camaro Z28 that my parents bought when it first came out. It has just under 90,000 original miles on it. I hope to have it fully restored by it’s twenty fifth anniversary.

I remember the day we drove it home and now I am thinking about the time when I can have antique licence plates on it. WOW.

Q: So, do you have a favorite driver or team or track?

Jon: It is weird, in every sport I am a true fanatic and live and die with my favorite teams but in NASCAR I like too many of the guys to pick a favorite.

I will say that if I had to pick one, because of his dad and the way he carries himself, I would say Dale Earnhardt Jr..

But, unlike so many fans who love some and hate some I can truly say that I do not dislike anyone and do not root for a specific team as well.

I may lose some fans right now but I like Kyle Busch and think what he is doing is unbelievable.

I do not have a favorite track, but I can tell you that I do not enjoy the road races as much so I would have to say the two road tracks are my least favorite.

Q: How about the Gillette Young Gun drivers? Who is your favorite out of them?

Jon: I like them all, but if you put me on the spot, I will say Denny Hamlin.

Q: How many fantasy NASCAR games are you playing this season?

Jon: I am playing three full-lineup, full-season fantasy NASCAR games this year. Plus, a bunch of the week-to-week games that you find on the Internet and of course the Gillette Young Guns challenge.

Q: How much time do you spend each week deciding who your picks will be?

Jon: That depends on many things like, which week it is, where the race is and so on.

There have been week’s that it only took about five minutes to decide who to play. Then, there were a few weeks that it took me days to decide who to put in, or who to leave in, as I have changed my team as many as ten times in a week.

Q: I’ve got to ask this. Did you use the OneBadWheel.com statistics presented on the Gillette Young Guns website to help make your picks or just go with your gut?

Jon: Yes. I looked over them statistics every week because they are right there.

For the most part I do not go by statistics as anyone can win any race but it helps a lot when trying to decide between two drivers.

Q: How long were you in the lead on the Gillette Young Guns game?

Jon: I was tied with six others for the highest weekly score with 972 points for week 14 (Pocono).

I lost the weekly first prize due to the tie breaker method but that is when I got my team into first place and I stayed there all the way until it was over.

What was the biggest help was that I had my worst score for that CRAZY week 17 (New Hampshire) race but because my lowest score of the season up until that race was 668 points I did not have to use that week 17 score as one of my 15 best.

Q: At what point in the game did you realize that “Hey, I might win this thing!”?

Jon: It must have been around week 13 (Dover) when I got up to third place that I thought I had somewhat of a chance.

But, in my heart it was not until the last 2 races that I started to believe with a lot of luck that this dream may really be coming true.

Q: That must have been a crazy two-week wait. Just how tough was your competition?

Jon: Very very tough!!!

I know that there are people playing this game that know way more then me and could teach me a thing or two about NASCAR racing.

As well, there are some I am sure who just were taking a shot. I realized before I ever put my first lineup in, that there were going to be some players who really know the sport.

Q: So did you study your competition and try to anticipate how they would set their roster? Did you try to play conservative, aggressive, or just ignore them and play your own game?

Jon: I never cared about what any one else was doing.

I went to the site and tried to put the team that would score the most points in. At the end I almost went to see who the few players right behind me had in, but I realized if I looked and that changed my line up and I did not win, I would have a hard time living with that decision so I NEVER looked to see who any other player had in.

Now once the deadline had past for week 17 and 18, I did go see who my closest competition did have in. That was so when I was watching the race I would have a better idea of how I was doing, but I learned very young that in sports if you are out front, you are in control of your own destiny.

Q: That’s a great strategy, but how crazy was it knowing that you could make a wrong pick and get knocked out of first place?

Jon: ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!

I drove myself crazy every minute that I was awake for about three weeks.

No matter what I was doing I always had the challenge on my mind. It seemed like years. When it was over I just sat back and smiled as I am SO HAPPY THAT IT IS OVER!!!

Oh, and so is my family!!!

Q: You made it stressful on them too, hunh? So tell us, how did you celebrate winning?

Jon: The real celebration was in my head.

Once it went final I was able to think about other things again. I was able to concentrate on life and take a deep breath and relax. I got my small, very close family together and just had a nice time.

Q: Well, congratulations Jon. So, are you going to win segment #2 also?

Jon: HAHAHAHAHHA. Great question. Let me put it this way, I am going to try just as hard, but I know the odds are stacked against me and I am not the person who would ever answer that question by saying yes, but you also will not ever find me saying…No!!!

Q: Did I miss anything else you want to cover?

Jon: Well, I want to thank the best family in the whole world for putting up with me and supporting me at the same time. All the hours, time and effort that I put into this was never for me, it was for my family.

So to Mom, Dad, Harry, Carry & Aunt Dona THIS ONE’S FOR YOU !!!!!! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart. I love you and GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Thanks to Proctor and Gamble and to Gillette for running the Gillette Young Guns challenge.

Thank you to everyone who played and is playing in the Young Guns challenge. I know if it were not for you there could be no winner.

Thanks to everyone who made it possible. Thank you to Nascar.com and to Onebadwheel.com

Thank you Darren for this interview and for all that you have done for so many. Thank you and GOD bless.

Iconic celebrations. They seem to be a fairly common occurrence at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Often one driver’s unique celebration becomes a tradition that future race winners will also perform. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway was the birthplace of what may be the most iconic celebration, the drinking of milk in victory lane. But regardless if the tradition began at the Brickyard or not, when they do occur there they just seem to be on a grander scale. While some open wheel drivers have started a few traditions of their own, the NASCAR boys have added a couple as well.

Long before the “Got Milk?” campaign was even born, the drinking of the milk by the Indianapolis 500 champion was started by Louis Meyer in 1936. Milk companies soon thereafter began sponsoring the race and thus the tradition of the race winner drinking milk during the victory celebration.

Though not actually started at Indianapolis, the climbing of the fence was first made famous by Helio Castroneves in the 2000 Detroit Grand Prix. In 2005 Tony Stewart started doing his own version of the fence climb. Tony took it a step further and scaled the fence to the top to personally claim the checkered flag from the flag stand. While he made the fence climb a total of four times that year, the climb at the Brickyard was surely the most famous.

Another traditional post-race celebration was born at the Brickyard thanks to the NASCAR Cup series team of Robert Yates Racing. It was the kissing of the bricks. This iconic celebration was born in 1996 after Dale Jarrett won his first of two Brickyard 400 races. Jarrett’s crew chief, Todd Parrott, is credited with starting the tradition of having the entire race team kneel down along the row of bricks that make up the Start/Finish line on the speedway. The team members then turn their caps around backwards and proceed to kiss the bricks in celebration of the win. This iconic celebration has since been adopted by the open wheel drivers after winning the Indianapolis 500.

Considering the above mentioned celebrations, the kissing of the bricks is my favorite. I cringe at the thought of a driver or crew member falling off the fence and facing injury or death. The drinking of milk has it’s roots primarily from sponsor commitments, and frankly, don’t we have enough of that going on at every race and interview? But kissing the bricks, that’s classy and shows the entire race team’s enthusiasm and appreciation for their accomplishment.

So, which post-race celebration or tradition is your favorite? Maybe it’s the Polish victory lap? Surely it’s not the snow-angel, right? But maybe it’s the Icky-Shuffle, the back flip off the car, or simply taking a bow. Check out these iconic examples below and let’s hear your choice!

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Allstate 400

Kyle Busch by 50 Points

As of right now this is the year of Kyle Busch. The way things set right now, when the Chase starts, Kyle will have a large lead over the next driver. He would start 50 points ahead of Carl Edwards and Kasey Kahne who have 3 and 2 wins respectively. Carl will not get 10 bonus points for his win at Las Vegas after he was docked 100 points for failing post race inspection.

My Pick To Win

So I am going to stick with Kyle Busch to win this weekend at the Brickyard. In 3 races Kyle has never finished outside of the top 10 and he is hot. The only thing that can really stop him is someone else’s mistake, a mechanical failure or just plain aggressiveness.

Indianapolis Frontrunners

Two of the Indiana natives have 5 wins at the Brickyard between them. That’s half of the Sprint Cup races that have been run there with Jeff Gordon winning 3 times and Tony Stewart winning twice. Ryan Newman on the other hand has only finished in the top 10 here once in 7 races.

Kevin Harvick is another driver who fairs pretty well at Indianapolis. Kevin has a win and 5 top 10 finishes in 7 races here. His worst finish is 19th and this is the time of the year to start to shine for all of the drivers who are serious about contending for a title.

Matt Kenseth came away with another good finish at Chicagoland after having early race troubles. Matt has been very good at the Brickyard with 5 top 10 finishes in 8 starts. Matt has been the runner-up twice and finished 3rd another time.

Kasey Kahne has only run 4 races at Indy and finished in the top 5 in his first 2. The last two races Kasey has really struggled here but then he struggled both of those years everywhere. This year he is back on top of his game and this weekend should be no different.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has finished in the top 10 only twice in 8 races at the Brickyard. Junior doesn’t like the flatter tracks as much as the higher banked ones because he likes to run the high line and it is tough to keep it off the wall and to pass on a track like Indy when you are running up there.

Brian Vickers has really been coming on lately and could be a big surprise this weekend. This team is going to get a win before the end of the year and could be a legitimate contender to make the Chase next season.

Mark Martin has always run well at the Brickyard with 6 top 10 finishes in his 10 starts there. I’m not sure if the DEI engines have the power it takes to visit victory lane here right now though. You need a lot of power to get down the long straight-aways at Indy.

Carl Edwards has only run 3 races at Indy and has a best finish of 9th. This team is starting to turn things around once again and just needs to get rid of their mechanical issues to give Kyle Busch a run at the title.

Yahoo! Fantasy Picks

Group A

• Tony Stewart (starter)
• Jeff Gordon

Group B

• Kasey Kahne (starter)
• Kyle Busch (starter)
• Mark Martin
• Reed Sorenson

Group C

• Brian Vickers (starter)
• Travis Kvapil

Stay Away From

• Jimmie Johnson

Dark Horse

• Bobby Labonte

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“I live in a house with girls. Lot’s of them. Four to be exact. Hell, make it six…even my cat and dog are girls.

There is the saying that girls that live together start to all menstruate together.

Maybe that’s the phenomenon happening over in the IRL.

If you haven’t seen or heard of the Danica Patrick and Milka Duno towel fight, check out Ray’s article here, or watch it unfold before you with the glory of YouTube.

So there is your introduction to these two ladies in case you are such a NASCAR Junkie that you tune the IRL out.

My question is “Which of these two ladies is hotter looking in a firesuit?

Cast your gaze on these two photos and then your vote in the comments section. I’ll put all the commenters names together…mix ‘em up real good and award the winner with a free Biker’s Barbecue Box from the fine folks at Full Throttle Sauces. The Biker’s Box has two 20-ounce bottles of BBQ Sauce (Mild & Hot) and two 12-ounce shakers of Rub (Roadkill Chicken & Hog Rub).

If you missed my review of Full Throttle’s BBQ Sauces it is here.

*Be sure to use a valid email address when you comment so if you win I can contact you. This contest will run through the end of the day July 29, 2008. You can keep track of all the contests past and present here.”

Allstate 400

Here is a quick run down of trivial facts and statistics for this weekend’s Allstate 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, IN.

Indianapolis Motor Speedway History

• Indianapolis Motor Speedway has existed since 1909, and is the original “Speedway,” the first racing facility historically to incorporate the word into its name.
• With a permanent seating capacity for more than 257,000 people and infield seating that raises capacity to an approximate 400,000, it is the largest and highest-capacity sporting facility in history.

Track Numbers

• NASCAR Cup Series Races: 14
• Pole Winners: 7
• Race Winners: 9
• The first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was held in 1994.
• Five drivers have competed in all 14 races at IMS: Jeff Burton, Bill Elliott, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte and Mark Martin.
• Rick Mast won the first pole in 1994.
• Jeff Gordon won the 1994 inaugural race.
• Jeff Gordon leads all pole winners with three.
• Nine drivers have won, led by Jeff Gordon with four.
• Dale Jarrett (two) and Tony Stewart (two) are the other multiple winners.
• Hendrick Motorsports has won five races, more than any other organization.
• Seven races have been won from a top-five starting position.
• The furthest back a race winner has started at Indianapolis was 27th, by Jeff Gordon in 2001.
• There has been one green-white-checkered finish at Indianapolis: 2004 (161/160).
• The only time in the modern era that three brothers led at least one lap in the same race occurred in the inaugural race at Indianapolis (1994): Geoffrey, Brett and Todd Bodine.
• Dale Jarrett (1996) and Jimmie Johnson (2006) are the only drivers to win both the Daytona 500 and the Allstate 400 in the same season.
• Kyle Busch has an average finish of 7.0 in three Indianapolis races, the best of any driver with more than one race.
• The winner of the Indianapolis race has won the championship in the same year six times in the 14 years the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series has raced at Indy:
  • 2006: Jimmie Johnson
  • 2005: Tony Stewart
  • 2001: Jeff Gordon
  • 2000: Bobby Labonte
  • 1999: Dale Jarrett
  • 1998: Jeff Gordon

Track Records

• Track qualifying record: Casey Mears (186.293 mph, 48.311 secs., 8-7-04)
• Track race record: Bobby Labonte (155.912 mph, 8-5-00)

Qualifying/Race Data

• 2007 pole winner: Reed Sorenson (184.207 mph, 48.858 seconds)
• 2007 race winner: Tony Stewart, 117.379 mph, 7-29-07)

Indianapolis Race Day Data

• Estimated Pit Window: Every 30-32 laps, based on fuel mileage.
• Race # 20 of 36 (7-27-08)
• Track Size: 2.5 miles
• Race Length: 400 miles (160 laps)
• Banking/Corners: 9 degrees
• Banking/Straights: 0 degrees

I hope you’ve seen the change on our experts weekly fantasy NASCAR articles that include an article sponsor.

I’m very happy to have Full Throttle Bar-B-Que Sauces on board as the featured company.

Paul*, the owner of Full Throttle BBQ Sauces contacted me after reading my Official NASCAR BBQ Sauce post. (Many kudos still to Chef Jason on his BBQ sauce recipes.)

Anyways, Paul sent me a sampling of Full Throttle BBQ for our family to try out. We did.

Delicious!

Full Throttle BBQ sauces come in two flavors: Mild and Hot. This is perfect for our family, because I like things hot and the wife & kiddo’s likes ‘em mild.

We all dipped our fingers in the jars and tried a taste while the grill was still warming up. The sauces were sweet, but not overly so. The Hot one left a nice aftertaste with a hint of a little zing on my tongue.

Both sauces were so good by themselves, I couldn’t resist licking the spoon clean each time I spread it on the meat in the final minutes of grilling.

Full Throttle BBQ sauces were a big hit with everybody. It didn’t overpower the great taste of the grilled pork ribs and chicken breasts. Although, my oldest daughter was spotted with her own little dipping bowl of BBQ sauce.

Paul sent me two of their ‘Biker Barbecue Boxes’ to share with two lucky site visitors.

Each Biker Box contains:

• Mild BBQ Sauce
• Hot BBQ Sauce
• Hog Rub (for your Pork, Beef, Chicken or Fish)
• Chicken Road Kill Rub (for, you guessed it, your Chicken)

I’ll be posting in the blog and the NASCAR fantasy newsletter the details on how to win those soon.

If you want to try Full Throttle BBQ sauces or rubs, check out Paul’s website and order some. You’ll be glad you did. Trust me.

*Not sure if I should be referring to Paul as the owner. Their website says, “Full Throttle Sauces was founded by the wives of two motorcycle enthusiasts who share their passion for bikes and barbecue.” So maybe Mrs. Paul is the owner :)”