By Karan Singh

StreetFire.net

For those of you who missed the NASCAR Nationwide race this weekend, Kasey Kahne was forced into the wall and rode along the curve on 2 wheels before finally landing right side up and then sliding to the bottom of the track. Not exactly a sight you see too often so check it out!

2010 Food City 250 – Kasey Kahne Near Flip

By Jen Dunnaway

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Kasey Kahne won the pole position for Sunday’s Sprint Cup race, and will share the front row with Jimmie Johnson, who will start from the second position. Kasey claims to have surprised himself a bit by running the fastest lap through Infineon’s tight turns during qualifying yesterday, but he’s often qualified well here, having scored a win last season and started from within the top ten in the last five consecutive races here. And at a track where passing is rough and track position is all-important, that’s no small thing. Meanwhile, Australian road-course phenom Marcos Ambrose, who’s an extreme talent but not always a top finisher elsewhere in the season, will also get his chance to shine this weekend at Infineon: he qualified 6th for Sunday’s race. Check out the complete starting-lineup rundown here.

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By Jen Dunnaway

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I’ve never been one for wanton groupieism, but I was struck with a mild case of starry-eyed surprise earlier today when I saw the Sprint Cup drivers lined up on pit row waiting for their turn to qualify. And yes, their presence made it kind of difficult, at times, to get the whole car in the shot. Hey, cut me some slack—just because you do this for a living doesn’t mean you’re not human, and when my dog Clint got to within about a foot of me, I couldn’t help but go a little wobbly. If you’re curious to see some candid shots of NASCAR’s big guns alongside their race-winning rides, check them out below the jump.

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By Jen Dunnaway

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Check out this cute time-waster from the Allstate site: you can apply your own number, colors, and custom graphics to a Dodge race car, all to the delight of Allstate’s Kasey Kahne Girls (thanks to them, I can no longer hear the phrase "sponsorship opportunity" without picturing Kahne dancing around in a heart-covered firesuit). Anway, I decided to sign Franzia as my imaginary sponsor—and the car’s number is 13 because, well, mixing boxed wine and racing is just bad luck. Want your own? Have at it!

Here’s the perfect addition to any NASCAR-obsessed kitchen: the ever-popular Crock Pot, now in your choice of drivers. Whip up some pork-n-beans for the critters with the help of Kasey Kahne, or let Jeff Gordon keep your casserole warm for you. Heat settings include Start Your Engines, Pace Lap, Wide Open, and In The Fence. Dinner is guaranteed to taste like it’s been cooked with the exhaust of an 800 hp motor. Get yours!

By Jen

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Ok, so you only get one lap with them, and it’s not a hot lap in a stock car. But for those who’ve always wanted to wave regally to 160,000 screaming fans from the back of a pickup truck alongside their favorite NASCAR driver—which, if you think about it, is a pretty specific fantasy—head on over to Bristol Motor Speedway’s "Ride of a Lifetime" auction and plunk down a bid. Among the drivers for sale are Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Kasey Kahne, Clint Bowyer, defending series champ Jimmie Johnson—and last week’s Daytona 500 winner, Ryan Newman. I’m kind of curious to see what kinds of prices everyone will all fetch, but beware: the auction site requires registration, even just to watch.

By Jen

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So those’re Challenger mules—Charger-bodied, but with all the new Challenger internals. Watch as a bunch of off-duty NASCAR Dodge drivers—Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, and Daytona 500 runner-up Kurt Busch—put the mules through their paces. Those who like to endlessly parrot that tired line about how NASCAR drivers can "only turn left" might be surprised at how adeptly the guys throw these cars around.

NASCAR’s Car of Tomorrow is designed to be slower, safer, and less aerodynamic—in other words, kind of a snore. But today’s race at Daytona—particularly the last 50 laps, where things started really heating up—proved that the CoT isn’t about to take the fun out of NASCAR. Up close, too, the cars aren’t as boxy and awkward as I expected them to be, despite their increased bulk. Check out these walkarounds of Kasey Kahne’s No. 9 CoT and the Daytona ’08 show car I found on the infield. I think the detached spoiler actually looks kind of trick.

Kasey Kahne is getting sued after a little match of pushy-pushy between the petite NASCAR driver and a security guard resulted in "severe physical injuries" to the guard. The slender Kahne, who is all of 5’8" and 150 lbs, allegedly dealt the crippling blow to the presumably much burlier rent-a-cop by simply pushing him over on his back. No word yet on whether the guard’s underestimation of Kahne’s strength stemmed from a recent ad campaign that depicted Kahne as a cardboard cutout. While only $15,000 in damages is being sought by the plaintiff, Kahne could also face up to a year in jail if convicted.

Dreamboat NASCAR driver Kasey Kahne has long been the victim of playful objectification in TV ads by Allstate Insurance, one of the major sponsors of his No. 9 team. Allstate’s best-known campaign casts Kahne as the prey of a group of mirthful and accident-prone NASCAR ladies who cause a moderate degree of carnage in their efforts to get close to him. The most controversial of these features one of the women as a cop who pulls over Kahne’s Charger and then orders the racer to assume a couple of mildly compromising poses while he’s photographed by her cackling friends. That’s all very well and fine (admit it, no one would even bat an eye if the subject of this ordeal was a girl), but the new generation of Kahne commercials takes the antics to a new level of creepiness. The bumbling fan-girls of the previous ads have been replaced by a series of eerily neurotic men and women who do things with a life-sized Kasey Kahne cardboard cutout. I’m not making this up. Check out "Kasey Kahne playing ping pong" and the genuinely psychotic "Kasey Kahne dinner date," below.