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Local businesses, VFW and Veterans Independence Project team up to gift Maryland veteran with a car
One Maryland veteran who said he had “lost all hope” and was facing homelessness said he “had no idea what was gonna happen… I didn’t how know I was going to pay rent, how I was gonna get around.” Then he got help from a Carroll County veterans group. (Facebook) WESTMINSTER, Md. (Tribune News Service) — Westminster veteran Anthony Morrissette several months ago found himself carless, unemployed, and on the brink of homelessness. Morrissette, 40, was quickly able to find a job with help from the Carroll County Veterans Independence Project, but a job is no good without reliable transportation. Morrissette said the CCVIP went above and beyond with long-term…
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NASCAR issues largest team fine in history against Hendrick
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR levied the largest combined fine on one team in series history Wednesday, hammering Hendrick Motorsports for modifying air-deflecting pieces last weekend at Phoenix Raceway. Hendrick was issued a combined $400,000 in fines — $100,000 to each of its four crew chiefs, along with four-race suspensions for the quartet — and docked the drivers 100 regular-season points and 10 playoffs points each. Although NASCAR has issued larger monetary fines and suspensions, the Hendrick penalties are the largest combined punishment for one organization. NASCAR’s winningest team said it would appeal. William Byron has won back-to-back races for Hendrick to give HMS two wins through the first four races…
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Dethroned King: Petty hurt as Johnson takes over race team
DAYTONA Beach, Fla. (AP) — Richard Petty might even now reign as NASCAR’s King, but with Jimmie Johnson wresting management of Petty’s aged race team, he is definitively not the manager. The Hall of Famer effectively has been stripped of energy inside of his previous eponymous workforce that speedily rebranded and rebuilt considering that November. Johnson and Petty are the only dwelling seven-time NASCAR champions — and that seems to be where the similarities close inside of Legacy Motor Club’s front business. The 85-year-aged Petty, who is officially Legacy’s ambassador, mentioned Saturday he has bruised thoughts and minor say in the way of the race group considering that Johnson bought…
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How a Spinout Destroyed the Michael Waltrip Racing NASCAR Team in 2013
Clint Bowyer’s late spin at Richmond in 2013 led to race-fixing accusations and an episode that would appear to be acknowledged as “Spingate,” a enormous incident that would guide to many suspensions. Michael Waltrip Racing was hit with a NASCAR-record $300,000 good, the dissolution of a significant sponsorship and other lesser sponsorships. In the long run, it was a spinout that led to the closure of Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR). A person of the strangest and most controversial episodes in NASCAR’s 75 several years of existence occurred in the course of what at first experienced all the trappings of a typical NASCAR Cup race, the Federated Vehicle Sections 400, on…
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Chase Van Sant to Tell Trick-Tools Story with NHRA, White Alligator Racing Pro Stock Motorcycle Team – Drag Illustrated
Iowa-dependent steel fabrication software experts Trick-Equipment is hunting to NHRA, Pro Inventory Motorbike, White Alligator Racing (WAR), and rookie rider Chase Van Sant to unfold the term about their enterprise. “We are tremendous-energized to race the 2023 season with Trick-Equipment wrapped around a WAR Suzuki system,” stated Trick-Instruments proprietor Bruce Van Sant—Chase’s father and a previous racer himself. Bruce applied to race a nitrous-huffing Professional Mod Bicycle and can still be observed racing 4.60 index and a no-bar Hayabusa. “Chase is my son, but in truth, racing has constantly been at the coronary heart of Trick-Tools. We established this business 25 several years back to help fund our individual racing…
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LA Rams OL woes show signs that the team has no solution
