Not at all Le Mans related and maybe will never make the news in Britain, but Dale Earnhardt Jr has just been fined $10,000 and had his points lead in The Nextel Cup scrubbed, because he used a little industrial language in the post race interview scrum at Talladega on Sunday. When asked to comment on his 5the Talladega win he said on live TV, "It don't mean sh*t to me, my daddy wone here 11 times. It's the points that are important to us today".
Bear in mind that he had just got out of the car, was probably fairly pumped, as the win had put him into the championship lead and was being mobbed by his crew and the NASCAR media.
I'm not a huge fan of Little E, but I think that the faceless arsehole who imposed this (the points deduction - let's face it $10K to Earnhardt is chump-change), should try blasting around the Alabama tri-oval for a couple of hours at 200mph - and see if he's a little wired at the end of it.
Does NASCAR (or anyone else, for that matter) seriously think that any fans are going to be offended by some good ol' boy loosing-off an "S-Bomb", seconds after clambering out of his car, having won a race in which the tenth placed car crossed the finishing line on it's roof!
What a set of w**k*rs
