The Blurbs

Good news for Panther - the one-car team has announced that Lincoln Tech was so thrilled with their one-race sponsorship in Kentucky they will serve as primary sponsor for The Mirror Man for the last two races in 2006. He's a lock for another 2nd place finish.

Bringing new meaning to the term “puff piece”, the Sacramento Bee reports Dan Wheldon likes to shop, owns several hundred pairs of shoes and loves San Francisco. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but is “European” a code word? Yikes.

In case you really wanted to know, Scott Sharp won the Grape Stomping contest. Kosuke Matsuura was second and The Rainman finished third in the continuation of his disappointing season. Looks like Andretti 3.0 showed up after the stomp, but forgive him since the poor kid isn’t even old enough to drink. Pics are here.