Welcome once again, folks, to another rendition of Loose in Turn 3 with your weekly hosts, Bruce Simmons (Bruce’s Bits & Pieces), Tim Zaegel (Do You NASCAR), and Charlie Turner (On Pit Row). Please be sure to visit all three websites to get caught up on the complete discussion between this week’s three topics, and always, please leave plenty of feedback. Thanks and enjoy!
Will Tony Stewart still be 100% committed to Toyota in the Cup Series in 2009?
TZ: Yes. I truly believe he’s 100% committed to Joe, and I think that goes a long way with a guy like Tony. …read more

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Last week, Aaron Fike stunned the entire sports world when he revealed to ESPN the Magazine that he had been using heroin on race days during his rookie season in the Craftsman Truck Series, and ever since, NASCAR’s substance abuse policy has been the hottest subject in the garage area.
For over two decades, it has been NASCAR’s policy that they would reserve the right to issue random drug testing, and would do so if there were “reasonable suspicion.” Several of NASCAR’s top stars, however, feel that this policy has …read more

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Former Craftsman Truck Series driver, Aaron Fike, admitted to ESPN the Magazine, that he had been injecting himself with heroin on race days while competing in the series last year. Fike had been arrested on July 7th of last year in a King’s Island parking lot when he and girlfriend, Cassandra Davidson, were in his truck with a towel draped over the back window. When approached by security officers, Fike attempted to drive off, hitting one of the officers with his sideview mirror.
He was later arrested and consequentially suspended by NASCAR and released …read more