NASCAR team owner Jack Roush was in serious but stable condition after walking away from a plane crash in Oshkosh, Wisconsin at 6:15 p.m. (CST) on Tuesday night.

Video showed Roush and another passenger, identified by the Experimental Aircraft Association as Brenda Strickland of Plymouth, Michigan, walking away from the crash.  Roush, an aviation buff, was attending the Experimental Aircraft Association’s annual Air Venture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this week.

“There are injuries. Possible surgery,” Roush Fenway Racing president Geoff Smith said in a text message to The Associated Press. “But he walked out of the plane.”  Smith confirmed that the plane belonged to Roush, and he was flying it. Smith said Roush’s injuries include facial lacerations.

It is the second close call for Roush, who crashed a plane into a pond in Alabama in 2002, nearly drowning before being rescued by an ex-Marine who lived nearby. Despite serious injuries in the 2002 incident, Roush continued flying.

Incidents of this nature are not new for the EAA Air Venture.  Each year Air Venture brings in about 10,000 planes from around the world, increasing the risk of a crash by five times.  Since 2000, there have been 59 crashes associated with the event — with at least one resulting in a death each year.

There’s no doubt that Sunday’s Cup race at Dover International Speedway was going to come down to a two-man duel between Kyle Busch and Jimmie Johnson.

Busch seizes the moment

Kyle Busch took advantage of a costly mistake by the four-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and pulled away for the win this past Sunday in the Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway.

Johnson was flagged for speeding while exiting the pits during a round of green-flag stops on Lap 363 and forced to return to pit road to serve a pass-through penalty.  This rare, but unwitty mistake by Johnson cost him a race that he clearly could have won.  Johnson was attempting to beat Busch off pit road at the time. He said he knew his penalty came shortly after he left his pit stall because by the time he reached the stall occupied by Busch, he already had conceded that Busch was going to beat his No. 48 Chevrolet back out onto the track. Johnson had been leading the race, with Busch second, when they came to the pits.

“It definitely cost us a top-two finish,” said Johnson, who led a total of eight times for a race-high 225 laps. “I’m frustrated. I think we’ve got to be a little bit more aware of our acceleration of the car off pit road, and how we can get busted there. But outside of that, I can’t say we did anything else wrong all day. We led a bunch of laps, had great pit stops. I mean, across the board it was a great day. I just hate, that at the end, one small mistake knocked us back to a 16th-place finish.”

Johnson owns his mistake

As a direct result of the incident, Johnson dropped two spots in the point standings and was leap-frogged by Busch, who jumped two places to second.  Yet Johnson did not seem too disturbed by the development.  He politely answered all questions for several minutes afterward and blamed no one but himself for the costly mistake. And he also made it very clear that his frame of mind is right for the the next points race at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway in 2 weeks (May 30th).
Only time will tell whether this is a lesson learned, or whether Johnson gets a bit jumpy when he’s under pressure?  His record dicatates that this was probably just a somple mistake…

NASCAR History:

The date was November 22, 2009.

The place was the Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida.

His 5th place finish crowned him the 2009 Sprint Cup Series Champion, and it was almost predictable when Jimmy Johnson cinched his record-breaking 4th NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at the Ford 400.  Watching from afar with brave anticipation, the event was breathtaking and chilling for any NASCAR Racing fan — even if Jimmy Johnson was not your favorite driver.  In doing so, Jimmy Johnson has joined Richard Petty (7 wins), Dale Earnhardt (7 wins) and teammate Jeff Gordon (4 wins) as the only NASCAR Racing drivers to win more than three titles.

At age 33 the profile of Jimmy Johnson speaks loud for the making of NASCAR history. He has finished in the Top 5 a remarkable 64 times in the last four years.  Never did he expect to become a champion; all he ever really wanted to do was to have a chance to race against the very best.

Going back to the 2002 Winston Cup results, Jimmy Johnson started all 36 races, completing 10521 of 10695 racing laps, and leading 838 of those laps.  The latest of this recent four year trek speaks a little differently, however.

• In 2006 he had 36 starts, completed 10577 of 10660 laps, with 854 laps led. Overall he had 24 Top 10 finishes, 13 Top 5 finishes, and 5 wins.

• In 2007 he had 36 starts, completed 10318 of 10582 laps, with 1289 laps led. Overall he had 24 Top 10 finishes, 20 Top 5 finishes, and 10 wins.

• In 2008 he had 36 starts, completed 10643 of 10726 laps, with 1959 laps led. Overall he had 22 Top 10 finishes, 15 Top 5 finishes, and 7 wins.

• In 2009 he had 36 starts, completed 10298 of 10492 laps, with 2238 laps led. Overall he had 24 Top 10 finishes, 16 Top 5 finishes, and 7 wins.

Overall, Jimmy Johnson has a 9 year NASCAR Racing career total of 291 starts, completing 83810 laps, with 9681 laps led.  He has 180 Top 10 finishes, 117 Top 5 finishes, and 47 wins.

When it comes to the making of NASCAR Racing history, could anything have been more predictable than the current reign of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion?

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For the past few weeks Tiger Woods’ image has taken a beating following a car crash outside his home — with a string of women coming forward claiming to have had affairs with the world’s number one golfer.

But regardless of his bad choices, Tiger Woods’ main sponsor Nike reports they are looking forward to the player’s return to golf after he announced he was taking an indefinite break to repair his troubled marriage.  Essentially Nike is  supporting him by silently stating that they respect the decision of Tiger Woods, and so should everyone else!

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