Posted on 02/17/2006 8:19:46 AM PST by WestCoastGal
Watch that bump drafting boys!!
Coverage of the 2006 Daytona 500 airs live on NBC on Sunday, February 19 starting at 12:00 p.m. ET.
See you all tomorrow and we'll do it again for the Busch Boys!
And you too!
Great nite, good nite, thanks all.
back at ya
think I'm off to pluto for awhile
later all
'Till tomorrow. :-)
Tah-tah....until tommorrow!
| Junior declines beer bet against Busch |
| By MARK LONG, AP Sports Writer February 17, 2006
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. driving a blue Miller Lite Dodge? Kurt Busch in a red Budweiser Chevrolet? Don't laugh. It could have happened.
``This is joke, right? I'm focused on the season and winning races, so I'm not interested in a stunt like this,'' Junior said. ``I'm the Bud guy and this deal is something dreamed up by the guys in Milwaukee to create something out of nothing.'' Miller's chief marketing officer Tom Long sent a letter to Anheuser-Busch vice president of brand management Marlene Coulis, proposing a deal in which the driver who finished lower in the points race in 2006 would drive the other car's paint scheme in a 2007 race. Two Budweiser cars at Martinsville? Two Miller Lite entries at New Hampshire? Earnhardt and Busch in a season-long battle that could be comparable to racing for pink slips? Busch, the 2004 series champion, was in favor of the deal from the start, saying it would create more excitement and give his entire team more incentive to win. As intriguing as the thought might be, it won't happen -- at least not this year. Earnhardt and Anheuser-Busch declined the beer bet without much debate. |
| Fin | St | Car | Driver | Make | Sponsor | Pts/Bonus | Laps | Status |
| 1 | 1 | #6 | Mark Martin | Ford | Scotts | 190/10 | 102 | Running |
| 2 | 8 | #30 | Todd Bodine | Toyota | iRacing.com Motorsport Simulations | 175/5 | 102 | Running |
| 3 | 17 | #9 | Ted Musgrave | Toyota | Team ASE/Germain Mtr Co. | 170/5 | 102 | Running |
| 4 | 5 | #5 | Mike Skinner | Toyota | Toyota Tundra | 165/5 | 102 | Running |
| 5 | 7 | #60 | Jack Sprague | Toyota | Con-Way Transportation | 160/5 | 102 | Running |
| 6 | 15 | #99 | Erik Darnell * | Ford | Roush Racing | 150/0 | 102 | Running |
| 7 | 18 | #08 | Bobby Hamilton Jr. | Dodge | Tech-Net | 151/5 | 102 | Running |
| 8 | 12 | #14 | Rick Crawford | Ford | Circle Bar Truck Corral | 147/5 | 102 | Running |
| 9 | 13 | #17 | David Reutimann | Toyota | Toyota Tundra | 138/0 | 102 | Running |
| 10 | 31 | #10 | Terry Cook | Ford | Power Stroke Diesel | 134/0 | 102 | Running |
| 11 | 29 | #04 | Kevin Hamlin | Dodge | Dodge Motorsports | 135/5 | 102 | Running |
| 12 | 28 | #4 | Timothy Peters | Dodge | Dodge Motorsports | 127/0 | 102 | Running |
| 13 | 25 | #85 | Dennis Setzer | Chevrolet | Flex Fuel E85 Silverado | 124/0 | 102 | Running |
| 14 | 6 | #11 | David Starr | Toyota | Red Horse Racing | 121/0 | 102 | Running |
| 15 | 10 | #23 | Johnny Benson | Toyota | Toyota Certified Used Vehicles | 118/0 | 102 | Running |
| 16 | 4 | #20 | Jon Wood | Ford | U.S. Air Force | 115/0 | 102 | Running |
| 17 | 35 | #1 | Robert Richardson * | Dodge | WinYourMortgage.com | 112/0 | 102 | Running |
| 18 | 21 | #13 | Kerry Earnhardt * | Chevrolet | ThorSport Racing | 109/0 | 102 | Running |
| 19 | 34 | #8 | Chase Montgomery | Dodge | BHR2 | 106/0 | 102 | Running |
| 20 | 30 | #07 | Sean Murphy * | Chevrolet | Garden Fresh Chips & Salsa | 103/0 | 102 | Running |
| 21 | 26 | #18 | Bobby Hamilton | Dodge | Fastenal | 100/0 | 101 | Running |
| 22 | 19 | #16 | Mike Bliss | Chevrolet | Xpress Motorsports | 97/0 | 101 | Running |
| 23 | 20 | #33 | Ron Hornaday | Chevrolet | Kevin Harvick, Inc. | 94/0 | 101 | Running |
| 24 | 32 | #77 | Brendan Gaughan | Dodge | Orleans Hotel & Casino | 91/0 | 101 | Running |
| 25 | 3 | #21 | Stacy Compton | Ford | State Fair Corn Dogs/Edy's Ice Cream | 88/0 | 100 | Running |
| 26 | 22 | #88 | Matt Crafton | Chevrolet | Menards/Energizer | 85/0 | 100 | Running |
| 27 | 24 | #98 | Erin Crocker * | Dodge | Cheerios/Betty Crocker | 82/0 | 100 | Running |
| 28 | 23 | #15 | Kyle Krisiloff * | Chevrolet | ditech.com/Nat'l Land Liquidations/Krud Kutter | 79/0 | 98 | Out of Race |
| 29 | 36 | #02 | Kelly Sutton | Chevrolet | Team Copaxone | 76/0 | 88 | Out of Race |
| 30 | 11 | #47 | Kraig Kinser * | Chevrolet | CENTRIX Financial | 73/0 | 73 | Out of Race |
| 31 | 16 | #59 | Mike Wallace | Dodge | Melling Eng. Pts/M-Select/Harris Trkg | 70/0 | 72 | Out of Race |
| 32 | 33 | #75 | Aric Almirola * | Chevrolet | Spears Manufacturing | 67/0 | 72 | Out of Race |
| 33 | 9 | #12 | Joey Miller * | Toyota | Curb Records | 64/0 | 72 | Out of Race |
| 34 | 14 | #29 | Brad Keselowski | Ford | K Automotive Performance | 61/0 | 72 | Out of Race |
| 35 | 2 | #22 | Bill Lester | Toyota | Checkers/Rally's | 63/5 | 43 | Out of Race |
| 36 | 27 | #25 | Boston Reid * | Dodge | Woodard & Sharp Racing | 55/0 | 55 | Out of Race |
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Good Morning! A frightfully Frigid morning...
Air temp is -10 Deg F
Air speed is 11 mph from the NW
EQUALS a WIND CHILL of -29DegF.
The wife and I SERIESLY Discussed going to Daytona next year for the 10 days. Maybe an RV in the infield or a condo on the beach?
A year ago we were cruising in Hawaii when JEFF GORDON won...
Hmmmm there are some possibilities here..
Happy SATURDAY!!
That's because Jr.'d be driving a Miller car and he knows it. :-)
You only got down to -10? I hit -11, and the hinterlands hit -20.
Don't you just love "global warming"?
Happy Hour is DONE>...some close calls out there but no major fendering.
Temp is in the 80's there!
Race at 1230 CENTRAL...On TNT/TNT HiDef
Right click the last link I sent, and choose 'Open in new window', so that it won't resize your existing window (especially if you are in Firefox.) I didn't realize it would do that when I made the link.
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