--Now that the championship seems to be down to two drivers, be prepared for ESPN to cram Jimmie Johnson and Brad Keselowski down your throats for the next three weeks.
--Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing will no longer use Earnhardt-Childress Engines, switching to Hendrick power in 2013. For those of you keeping score at home, that means that a company won't be using its own product. Um, yeah.
--AdvoCare has announced that they will sponsor Austin Dillon in all 35 Nationwide Series races next year, looking to build brand-awareness though a guy who wears a stupid-looking cowboy hat.
--Representatives from Trios-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada will be traveling to Texas this weekend to try and bring a Nationwide Series race to their city. Doesn't that sound like the plot to a bad movie that plays on TV when there's a rained-out baseball game?
--Texas brands this race as the "Nitro Circus". By that logic, shouldn't the Nationwide race be the "Thunder Circus", and the Truck race be the "Saturday Night Circus"?