“Shake and Bake?”…”If you’re not first, you’re last.” NASCAR racer Kurt Busch brought the sport’s greatest movie spoof to life. Sort of.
His Phoenix Racing team didn’t have a sponsor for this weekend’s Sprint Cup race at the Talladega Superspeedway, the Aaron’s 499, so Kurt Busch’s girlfriend Patricia Driscoll, came up with an idea while watching the Will Ferrell comedy “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”
And the awesome paint scheme is all for a good cause. See the pics after the jump. From Sporting News:
Driscoll, the president and executive director of the Armed Forces Foundation, wanted her boyfriend to run the “Me” cougar paint scheme from the 2006 movie to help promote the foundation.
“Why leave the car blank when we could do something to promote the foundation?” she said Friday. “So a few months ago, we started talking about this and I decided we were going to do this and I would convince (team owner James) Finch and everybody else they would follow
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Kurt Busch's car got a special paint job for the race at Talladega. They're matching some of the car designs and words from Ricky Bobby.
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((HT: NASCAR on FOX/youtube))Because, after all, it's all about me...Admittedly, when TBH informed the HQ about the idea that Kurt Busch and Phoenix Racing had for the Talladega race, we were looking forward to seeing Laughing Clown Malt Liquor on the hood of the 51 car since Wonder said "No."Party poopers...But they were having a good day until the eventual winner...
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Kurt Busch to double dip at Iowa Speedway in 2012
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Kurt Busch’s Ricky Bobby impersonation Talladega right
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Full disclosure: I’ve watched “Talladega Nights” all of once.
And as I tell everybody who cares to listen and quite a few who don’t, I left the movie theater unimpressed, considering that they made essentially the same movie — 1983′s “Stroker Ace” with Bert Reynolds, Loni Anderson, Jim Nabors and Ned Beatty — 23 years earlier. It did a far better job poking fun...
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Joey Logano Slingshots Past Kyle Busch For Talladega Nationwide Checkers
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TALLADEGA, Ala. -- With a slingshot move past Sprint Cup teammate Kyle Busch five laps into overtime, Joey Logano won Saturday afternoon's Aaron's 312 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway.
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