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Stewart-Haas to Use “Talladega Nights” Schemes for Superspeedway Race
Stewart-Haas Racing has announced that two of its cars will race at Talladega this weekend in the Wonder Bread and Old Spice paint schemes made famous in “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.” Love it or hate it, it’s impossible to deny the impact that the 2006 sports comedy had on NASCAR. While there have…
$170K Toyota Century SUV to be Available Worldwide | Giga Gears
Toyota recently revealed the Century SUV and, while details are scarce for now, the biggest story might not be the car itself but the possibility that you’ll be able to get one outside of Japan.
Jean Girard’s Participation in the 2005 U.S. Grand Prix: A Jalopnik Investigation
On this day in 2006, one of motorsport’s finest movies hit the big screen. Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby tells the story of a NASCAR driver fighting to save a career threatened by a French Formula 1 driver named Jean Girard. I recently introduced this classic of American cinema to some friends overseas,…
Killer Whale Yacht Attacks Spread 2,000 Miles to North Sea
Orcas opened another front in their war against yachts and their rudders this week when a sailing yacht making its way from England to Norway was rammed by killer whales in the North Sea.
Titan Dives Had Catastrophic Problems, Passengers Confirm
One passenger called their experience a “suicide mission.” Another felt he was “incredibly lucky,” to have survived a deep-sea dive aboard the Titan. Passengers who previously bought an expensive ticket to dive down to the wreck of the HMS Titanic are coming forward with harrowing tales of their dives.