Now here is a favorite. Over at ESPN SportsNation preparations are underway for the Nextel Cup race, the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard. While ESPN will be showing several programs featuring NASCAR races and drivers, SportsNation has gone a different route.

We get a chance to vote on 5 of the greatest races ever. I always enjoy polls of this nature and it will be interesting to see what makes it to the top of the list. I’m sure you have a favorite as well. Vote and then let’s compare. Then we can see what actually takes first place.

After the incredible crash last week at the Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal, Robert Kubica says he is ready for this weeks race.

Considering the terrible wreck that occured to hear that all he recieved was a concussion and a sprained ankle is amazing. The chief medical doctor has not cleared him for US Grand Prix in Indianapolis yet, and BMW Sauber says they will go with whatever they say.

Safety improvements have surely moved along over the years because a crash of last weeks nature surely could have been far worse in years past. We’ll see if they were enough to allow Kubica to get back into the action this week.