If anyone in the sports world needs a particularly potent prayer before revving it, it’s the men and women of NASCAR, and before a race this weekend, Pastor Joe Nelms of Lebanon, Tennessee delivered. “Thank you for the Dodges and the Toyota,” the pastor began, blessing every mundane detail in the race– from the fuel to the motors to his “smokin’ hot wife” in an invocation for the ages.

Coincidence? Maybe. But there’s no denying the stories Matt Drudge puts on his Drudge Report get plenty of attention. For bloggers and media types, a Drudge link feels like winning the lottery–suddenly the world’s at your door, eagerly consuming your content. But what if the content in that Drudge link is bad news about your business? Well, that’s a lot of eyeballs reading something you’d rather see buried. Instead, the Drudge link can grab hold of your stock price and sink it six feet under.

Ever since the magazine declared the Chevy Volt to be its 2011 Car of the Year, Motor Trend has been driving Rush Limbaugh mad. As ThinkProgress reports, the radio host, who has long been at odds with the car, publicly slammed the publication for its decision. This prompted a Motor Trend editor to shoot back with a long, strongly worded letter. And by letter we mean blog post.

This afternoon, President Obama spoke before the press about GM’s new public stock offering. His brief, optimistic speech noted that the American auto industry has begun to bounce back after nearly going bankrupt—”For the first time in six years, Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all operating at a profit. In fact, last week, GM announced its best quarter in over 11 years,” he said.

Ann Coulter visited Fox Business’s Follow the Money this week to talk about the relationship between corporations and the White House. Speaking to host Eric Bolling, who had laid down his argument for the unhealthy relations between the government and private enterprise, Coulter boiled down the argument to the President Obama being both “a socialist” and “a fascist.”

We may not be the biggest car experts on the road, but everyone can appreciate a good old-fashioned duel. So when we heard that Jalopnik Road Test Editor Wes Siler accepted a challenge from General Motors bigwig Bob Lutz to race against the brand new Cadillac CTS-V, our interest was piqued. In the words of GM’s new ad slogan: “May The Best Car Win.”