The RP's Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Speed

The Politics of Speed

Here is a really nice article explaining how the feud between ESPN and Comcast/NBC is killing the already sputtering sport of Indycar racing. Even though Indycar racing in America is old and well-established, in today's sports world if you aren't making money, you're out. [The Daly Planet]

A street-legal, modified Ford GT set the record in a newly-established category for the Guiness Book of World Records: "standing-mile speed by a street-legal car." The official record...