Amy Reimann, the girlfriend of Dale Earnhardt Jr., posted two tweets to her personal Twitter account on Friday afternoon expressing her displeasure about someone – presumably a fan – giving NASCAR’s most popular driver the ol’ bunny ears during a photo opportunity at Texas Motor Speedway. Reimann, Junior’s partner of more than three years, used the hash tag “rude” to describe the prank, and tweeted, “If you get the pleasure to take a photo with a celebrity, don’t give em the bunny ears.” In a second tweet, she added that there is a “time and place” for such a practical joke. While…

By Aaron Burns Sam Hornish Jr. was a star in the Verizon IndyCar Series. He was a star in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, too. So, what’s happened? Hornish’s results in open-wheel and lower-tier NASCAR series didn’t translate to success in his first Sprint Cup go-around from 2008-‘10. That was excusable. He was still getting used to the heavier Cup cars. But Hornish hasn’t gotten up to speed this time around, either, and it’s a mystery as to why. Hornish’s No. 9 Twisted Tea Ford finished a respectable 12th in February’s Daytona 500. In the five races thereafter, he wound up 21st, 24th,…

By Ben White Albert “Buz” McKim, historian for the NASCAR Hall of Fame, has enjoyed numerous on-track fender smashing battles for over 60 years. At only two weeks old, he attended his first stock car race at Jersey City, N.J. when his Dad, Bob McKim, co-owned and wrenched a NASCAR Sportsman 1939 Ford. “My Dad had the old NASCAR logo on the rear glass of our family car,” McKim said. “That was one of the very first things I can recall as a human being was seeing that old logo on the back window.” Also in the 1950s, McKim’s father wrote press…