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Nascar Sprint Cup - Auto Club 500 at California Speedway - Monday 02-25-08 - Fox 1pm ET
Nascar.com ^ | 2/19/08

Posted on 02/19/2008 8:55:10 PM PST by NormsRevenge

The 2008 Auto Club 500 weekend will mark the highly anticipated Southern California debut of the Car of Tomorrow and feature a special pre-race concert by blues-rock legends ZZ Top.

Actor And Comedian Brad Garrett To Serve As Grand Marshal For California Speedway's Auto Club 500

FRFL'rs --- Deadline to select or edit your drivers is Feb 22 2:00am PST


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: autoclub; california; nascar; nrnascarthread
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Welcome to the weekly Nascar at FR thread!

This Week - The Auto Club 500 at California Speedway

February 24, 2008



Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR


Sprint Cup --- Auto Club 500 - 02|24|07 - FOX Sun. 330pm ET /~/ Qualifying 02|22|08 630pm ET SPeed

Nationwide --- Stater Bros. 300 - 02|23|08 - ESPN2 Sat. 7pm ET /~/ Qualifying 02|23|08 1230pm ET SPeed

Trucks --- San Bernardino County 200 - 2|23|08 - FOX Sat. 3pm ET /~/ Qualifying 02|22|08 Sat. 3pm ET SPeed




California Speedway
TUNE IN NASCAR Broadcast Schedule

California Speedway California Speedway has a history that you might expect a track just 50 miles from Hollywood to have.

The speedway sits on a 568-acre site that once hosted the first steel mill located west of the Rocky Mountains, Kaiser Steel. The mill produced the steel that helped build the Liberty ships used by the Allies to win World War II.





Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 2.0 miles
Shape: D-shaped Oval


1 posted on 02/19/2008 8:55:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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The FR Canteen


2 posted on 02/19/2008 8:56:11 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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Pre-race concert by blues-rock legends ZZ Top. Look forward to that.


3 posted on 02/19/2008 8:57:59 PM PST by CTSeditor
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To: NormsRevenge; glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; tubebender; afnamvet; Afronaut; ...

Auto Club 500 thread is up Pingaroo!!!


4 posted on 02/19/2008 8:58:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

Welcome to the early club!!

Thanks for hosting this week Norm!

Unlike Daytona, the boys will be on their own...


5 posted on 02/19/2008 9:04:19 PM PST by NYTexan
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I only hope we’ll see that on TV.


6 posted on 02/19/2008 9:08:18 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NormsRevenge
"Ya know it never rains in Southern California" Updating Doppler...


7 posted on 02/19/2008 9:11:21 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: NYTexan

8 posted on 02/19/2008 9:12:36 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: NYTexan

We’ll see how the CoTs like running on wide track.

Youtube has all kinds of ZZ Top vids.

http://youtube.com/results?search_query=ZZ+ToP&search_type=


9 posted on 02/19/2008 9:12:40 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: glock rocks

It’s pouring like the dickens here in san josie..


10 posted on 02/19/2008 9:13:17 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

11 posted on 02/19/2008 9:16:23 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: NormsRevenge

We’re caught up in a high pressure clear sky smog inversion. It’s just the way it happens here in the basin. Pray for snow!


12 posted on 02/19/2008 9:17:19 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: glock rocks

Good Job!

That graffiti job was pretty rough. ;-)


13 posted on 02/19/2008 9:18:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

I sprayed the first one... stole the second.


14 posted on 02/19/2008 9:18:50 PM PST by glock rocks (...an orange Toyota? Tell me I'm going to wake up soon...)
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To: glock rocks

There is a lot of moisture in the forecast for the west coast the next week, fingers crossed..


15 posted on 02/19/2008 9:18:52 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’ll be at the race Sunday, section 117, row 12.


16 posted on 02/19/2008 9:19:47 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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Here’s to clear skies.. shpuld be a good race,, and try not to throw too many hot dog wrappers on the track, OK? ;-)


17 posted on 02/19/2008 9:22:02 PM PST by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: NormsRevenge

Bookmarked and thanks!

“Legs” wOOhOO!!


18 posted on 02/19/2008 9:23:28 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NormsRevenge
Jayski.com TV listings
19 posted on 02/19/2008 9:28:06 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NormsRevenge
Thanks!


20 posted on 02/19/2008 9:30:30 PM PST by South40 (Amnesty is a slap in the face to the USBP!)
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