Twitter Item of the Day: Kyle Petty teases fans

Today’s TIOTD involves something close to good, old-fashioned public relations, courtesy of Kyle Petty, son of famed stock car racer Richard Petty and now a NASCAR analyst. He also is involved in a bunch of good causes and seems like a genuinely terrific bloke.
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Piquet to debut at Daytona

Deliberate crasher Nelson Piquet Jr. will make his debut in stock car racing next month at Daytona. Competing in the ARCA series, a minor league series to NASCAR, Piquet will be driving a Toyota fielded by Eddie Sharp racing.
“I’m very excited. I can’t wait to reach 200 mph…
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Friday snark: What’s fast to Jr Jr is slow to Danica

OK, I’m going classic “media” here and twisting things a bit, but I couldn’t help make the connection between Danica Patrick’s comments after her first stock car test.
On Friday, Patrick tested at Daytona and was 12th out of 24 cars during a rain-shortened…
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Trulli ‘open’ to NASCAR future — and Lotus to announce driver soon

Somehow, these two stories are linked together.
As noted here last week, Jarno Trulli’s NASCAR test seemed to be a bit more serious than he was making out. Now, that seems ever more true as Trulli is being a bit more stock car positive in comments to Autosport, made while he is in Arizona…
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Toyota pledges to stay… in NASCAR

I know everyone has been worrying about this.
Now that Toyota has announced its withdrawal from Formula 1, surely the company would follow suit and quit competing in NASCAR.
We all can rest easy. Toyota will stay in American stock car racing.
Lee White, Toyota Racing Development president,…
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F1: Massa to team up with di Grassi

Still recovering from his accident at the Hungarian GP, Felipe Massa has said that he will partner with Renault reserve driver Lucas di Grassi and Brazilian Stock Car regular Popo Bueno in this year’s Granja Viana 500 Mile kart race.
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