Saidhead Heaven

Fans of our buddy Boris Said will be riding high this weekend at The Glen!

Boris will be driving in the NASCAR Busch race, the Zippo 200 on Saturday, anD the Nextel Cup race, Centurion Boats at The Glen on Sunday. And in all likelihood, he'll run the Grand Am race, too.

He's great to watch, especially on road courses!

Here's the lineup for The Glen.

Friday, on tape delay at 8 p.m., SPEED Channel, The Crown Royal 200 Grand Am.
Saturday, live at 3 p.m., the Zippo 200 NBS race.
Sunday, live at 1 p.m., Centurion Boats at The Glen.

Friday's going to be a bear for Boris, with or without the Crown Royal race, there will be Cup and Busch practice and Cup qualifying, too.

Run, Boris, run!

ODDS AND ENDS

FREE AGENT IN 2008: Kentucky's Jeremy Mayfield will be looking for a ride at the end of the season. He'll be released by Bill Davis Racing. There have been a few qualifying problems, OK a LOT of qualifying problems, with the Toyotas. But you didn't really expect them to come out of the chute competing, did you?

BUSCH BROTHERS: Kurt and little bro Kyle are making some moves. One to a new team, the other to a possible post-racing career.
Rumor has it Kyle will be signing with Joe Gibbs Racing, joining a stable of proven racing talent in 2-time Cup and Brickyard champ Tony Stewart and former Rookie of the Year Denny Hamlin. Hey, JGR is starting to burn as hot as Hendrick, so it’s a good place to be. And it’s time for Smoke’s end of the regular season heading into the Chase hot streak.

Kurt has become a regular co-host (along with Elliott Sadler) on Fast Talk. The former co-bad boy of racing (a title held with the legendary hot head, speak before you think Stewart) is downright pleasant, poised, thoughtful and incisive. I’m enjoying every time he’s on the show.

NASCAR in Primetime on ABC: Thank goodness we’re getting away from the “Preditors” programming. The six-part series premiers Aug. 15 at 10 p.m. It will peer into the lives of drivers, including Juan Pablo Montoya and his family.

Will this be a purely PR piece or actually get to the heart of racing and the sometimes turbulent personal lives of drivers? After all, no matter how much we like a driver, they’re not squeaky-clean, golly, gosh, gee-wilikers, kind of guys.