Whether you're a NASCAR lover, IRL nut, F1 freak or just looking for the Big Johnson trailer on the midway, you'll want to listen every week and call in! The first thing you'll realize when listening to NASCAR Girl Summer Santana and Steve "Sparky" Fifer is that they like having fun and both are very passionate. Roush Racing is the favorite of Summer while Kevin Harvick is the favorite of Sparky. Both of them are not fans of Dale, Jr, Danica Patrick, and races on TNT.
05/11/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 2
Sparky and Steve Zautke discuss last week's Nationwide race...Paul Dalbey of morefrontwing.com joins the guys do discuss IZOD IndyCar series...Zautke discusses Danica impact on IndyCar and chances she would have in F1....
05/11/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 1
Sparky and Steve discuss what happened last week with David Ragan...Discuss the appeal process in NASCAR as Gibbs/Penske both had reductions to original penalties...ASA SuperBike rider Larry Pegram joins the show
05/04/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 2
Discussion of what the future holds for Road America...IndyCar racing update...Milka stories from ARCA race..Denny Hamlin presser as he returns to Cup this weekend..predictions for race weekend...
05/04/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 1
Kurt Busch to IndyCar?...Sparky joins twitter @SparkyRadio...Review of Richmond race and Juan Pablo's horrible luck...Tim Allen fantasy racing...John Ewert of Road America talks about upcoming schedule...
04/27/13:Sparky's Final Inspection
Show starts talking about Matt Kenseth penalties...F1 racing analyst David Hobbs from NBC Sports Network joins the show...Tim Allen does Fantasy racing...John Close of CloseFinishes.com talks about Nationwide Race fight from Friday night..
04/20/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 2
Eddie LaPine of RacingNation.com checks in from Long Beach Indy Car race...Paul Tracy inducted into Long Beach Walk of Fame, is he overlooked as one of the best drivers of our time?...F1 preview of Bahrain race...Sprint Cup predictions...
04/20/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 1
Review of Texas Sprint Cup race...Penske penalties..fantasy racing with Tim Allen...NASCAR double standard involving Ron Hornaday incident in Truck series...
04/13/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 2
Interview with IZOD Indy Car driver Will Power...should Penske bring Power to NASCAR?....F1 36 show on NBCSN...rumor of Ganassi selling team to John Menard in Cup Series...predictions for the weekend...
04/06/13: Sparky's Final Inspection HR 2
Indy Car rookies attempting the Indy 500...who really has a chance?....Alabama this weekend for IZOD Indy Car series, preview of that race...F1 with a week off, we look at the standings through two races...predictions for this weekend's races
Why? Why Derrick Rose? Why did you have to get hurt last year? Why did you have to get cleared in March by doctors? Why did we have to know you got cleared? Why did your brother have to tweet about it wasn't worth it for you to come back after the trade...
Normally these blogs are sports related but I've decided to use it for another purpose and that's to promote a very worthy effort in CPS3. It's the third Cancer Prevention Study that the American Cancer Society has put together, the first linked...
I've tried to let this topic go since last week's Robert Haack Diamonds Post Game Show, but I simply can't! I received an e-mail during the show talking about the problems a listener had getting a bar to turn the Bucks game on. After reading that...
Are you a Brewers fan? If you are and you've never been to spring training before, let me tell you to add it your bucket list. I know in the middle of the winter in Wisconsin, you probably can't wait for baseball to start at Miller Park. There isn't...
The NFL Combine experience has really changed over the course of the years. My first time coming here about four years ago at the RCA Dome, I was able to broadcast Sparky's Midday Madness in a hallway along with another radio station from Texas....
As many people that listen to the Wendy's Big Show know, I am a person that tends to hold grudges and not let things go all that easily. If you know me or listen to the Wendy's Big Show fairly regularly, you also realize my dislike for Indiana head coach...
I decided this weekend to go see some good high school basketball, as I normally don't have a chance to, with the Bucks schedule the way it is. The game I chose to go to was packed, so I was forced to stand in a corner of the gym packed in with others,...
You may or may not be aware that the PBA announced a while back that they will be returning to Southeastern Wisconsin for their Summer Series. Now if you haven't heard, then you haven't listened to the Spare/Time Bowling Show on Sunday mornings at 9am...
Below is my take from the games I watched between Monday, July 16th and Thursday, July 20th.
Atlanta Hawks
Keith Benson- F/C- 6'11"- I was impressed from what I saw a year ago. He seems more comfortable around the rim and looks like he belongs...
Steve Zautke grew up at the Milwaukee Mile. His father, Bill was a movie photographer at The Mile in the 1960's and 1970's. Steve loved following the exploits of exciting USAC Stock Car drivers Norm Nelson, Don White, Bay Darnell, Ramo Stott and Butch Hartman. Also a fan of Indy Cars, the first racecar he sat in was Bobby Unser's exquisite Olsonite Eagle in the early-1970's. Steve's favorite drivers were the aforementioned Unser, SuperTex A.J. Foyt, Jim Hurtubise, and of course Wisconsin's own, Alan Kulwicki.
Today Steve likes Tony Stewart and Robby Gordon, two throwbacks to an earlier era and thinks it's a travesty that Erik Darnell does not have a full-time ride. A fan of all racing, Steve loves Road America, would love to visit the Nurburgring in Germany and still loves to see the USAC boys mix it up on the dirt. Steve has worked in track safety as an EMT, as a videographer, media center volunteer, on-line reporter, editor of RacingNation.com and the Harry Miller Club Newsletter and Milwaukee Mile Historian. Steve has co-hosted Sparky's Final Inspection when his busy racing schedule has allowed since the beginning.
