WOO-HOO!

And another motorsporting Aussie kicks butt & takes names... beating the Yanks at NASCAR, no less!

From his site www.marcosambrose.com/index.asp:

09/08/2008 AMBROSE TAKES FIRST NASCAR WIN AT WATKINS GLEN

Marcos Ambrose has scored his first NASCAR win with victory in the Zippo 200 at the Watkins Glen International road course in the NASCAR Nationwide Series in New York state today.

Ambrose is the first Australian to earn a NASCAR victory and his historic feat on the 2.45-mile road course lifts him into the top 10 in the NASCAR Nationwide Series standings.

(If this paragraph break doesn't show up on the blog, after the 3rd attempt, I'm going to spit the dummy BIGTIME!)

Now, if Mark Webber would just read the article in Top Gear Australia (issue 2), and make some uncomfortable but necessary changes (ie, suck up to the teams with race-winning cars), we'd rule the world in sport-on-wheels.

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To hell with the Olympics. This is real sport!