This weekend is the Corona Rally Mexico.  If you aren’t familiar with World Rally Championship, and you are a car person, you are missing the boat.  It is an incredible form of motorsport…  Dirt, gravel, snow, asphalt.  The cars are blindingly quick, and rather than covering the same course over and over, many of the stages are only seen once in an event.

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My favorite motor sport is World Rally Championship (WRC).  It is the motocross of auto racing.  It is truly 3 dimensional, as the cars can get significant air time in addition to turning left and right.

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In 1992, Geoff Bodine was a stock car racing good ol’ boy (albeit, one from New York).  He was knee deep in being one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time.  In fact, he hold a Guiness Record for the most wins by a racer in one season… 55 Modified wins.

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Ok, it’s hard to call them Buschwackers now, since NASCAR has had Nationwide Insurance as a sponsor for its penultimate national series… but it used to be sponsored by Busch Beer.  And the term for Cup drivers (Winston Cup, Nextel Cup and now Sprint Cup) that that were moonlighting from the top series became Buschwackers…

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Today is the day of the Great American Race.  NASCAR puts their biggest event at the front of the calendar… and over the years it has been an amazing event.

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