Get Over It: Gossage Does It Again, Media Whines

Texas Motor Speedway president Eddie Gossage is widely known in NASCAR circles as one of the most notorious promoters since Humpy Wheeler. From promoting races like boxing matches between two feuding drivers, to offering Dale Earnhardt Jr. a large sum of money to race IndyCars at the track, Gossage always finds a way to put himself in the news as the next Texas race approaches. This time, however, he's found a sure-fire way to ruffle the feathers of the media, when a planned April Fool's joke went awry. Gossage offered a local DJ $100,000 on March 30 to legally change his name to "TexasMotorSpeedway.com" for one year, and to get a tattoo of the URL somewhere on his body. The track's Twitter account even posted a photo of the check that Goss...

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