NASCAR - Offseason 2006-2007 Withdrawal Thread #3

Various - Jayski -Nascar -That's Racin ^ | 11-20-06 | Me & Jack

[WestCoastGal]

WELCOME RACE FANS



Welcome to the offseason withdrawal thread which is here for everyone to post racing news during the time between Nov 20, 2006 and Feb 10, 2007 when The Budweiser Shootout begins the new season.

As always this thread is dedicated to our military men and women serving our country. A big thank you to all of them. Hugs and prayers to those who have been wounded and are recuperating at Walter Reed, Bethesda and Brooke Army Med Center. And, to those combat field medics who care for them - THANK YOU!!

[steveegg]

Groovy.

[GRRRRR]

Merry Christmas and God Bless our Military.

The 2007 Nascar season could be the transition year. Factors like, too many secret rules, COT, single race venues, cookie cutter tracks, ESPN and the pressure to win could make this season the "Jump the Shark" year...

[WestCoastGal]

HO HO HO.....on Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen..and Bud......oops.

I hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and Happy and healthy New Year. Daytona is not that far off now.

Please say a prayer for the troops deployed and those here at home in the hospital. They suffer so we are free to have these special days to celebrate Christmas safely with our friends and families!!

[tubebender]

Good Morning Gal. It's still dark here behind the Redwood Curtain but the Head Chef and Bottle Washer has been for her walk and has the days festivities well in hand. Amazing Woman!!!

Speaking of food... CARLO IS BACK

[FlingWingFlyer]

Thanks WCG and Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you. The same goes out to all my other Freeper NASCAR fanatic pals here. 2007 is shaping up to be a very interesting year for NASCAR. I read yesterday where the retired Mark Martin will be driving the U.S. Army 01 car for 22 races. Retirement just isn't what it used to be. But hey, I guess driving a stock car on the NASCAR circuit beats being a Walmart greeter as a retirement job. LOL! Best Wishes to everyone! Daytona is coming fast! I've already got my tickets for the April and November races at PIR. I guess I'm sitting in the catbird seat. LOL! Yeee Hawww!

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas to all!!!

[SouthTexas]

Normally our Christmas Eve cuisine, but we started early.

[SouthTexas]

Gear head tree.

[LasVegasMac]

WCG, so I was rudley awakened this morning by my children, they were in panic mode..."Dad, something is wrong with the TV...."

Yep. Very colorful display of three ghosted images, and it's bowed - down from the top, up from the bottom! Against my better judgement, I knew the hammer was not going to fix this one.

Diagnostics say it's something to do with the vertical deflection. Right. Spent a few hours on the Internet chasing down a service manual, even got the suspect chip indentified!

Now I'm really sure (always hope!) the hammer will not work. The boy said, "looks like it needs a few rounds of wedge cranked in to it." Where's the hole?

Crap...what next? Can't do anything today, or tomorrow. Repair prices I saw were not pretty.

I told the kids, "You can still watch it, you just get the bonus of seeing 3 of everything!" I thought it was funny, they didn't.

From the CupScene - Amy Hair, on Ricky Rudd...I'd forgotten about some of this......

"One of his most infamous moments was back in the Holly Farms 400 at North Wilkesboro Speedway. In the first turn of the last lap of the race, Rudd attempted to pass the late Dale Earnhardt. Needless to say it didn’t go as planned and Rudd took Earnhardt with him when he wrecked. They both managed to squeeze over the finish line in 9th and 10th place, but the fireworks after the race were the real attraction. Earnhardt was angry to the point that he thought Rudd should be suspended through the end of the season. Crew members from both teams were fighting…it was a grand day at the old track.

The “Iron Man” of NASCAR, Ricky had 788 consecutive starts (as of the end of the 2005 season). He was the Rookie of the Year in 1977, and beginning in 1981, went 16 consecutive seasons in NASCAR with at least one win. And 1992 saw Ricky bring home the IROC series championship trophy.

In 1984, during the Busch Clash, as he was sliding toward the wall, Rudd remembers thinking…"Don't get knocked out. This thing could catch on fire."

He squeezed the steering wheel and braced for impact. "All of a sudden it got real quiet," he said. The car was airborne. "I was glad it got airborne because it allowed me to hop over that wall, but then it came down the first time," Rudd said. "I remember hitting the first time and hearing the air go out of me. Like those game films in the NFL when a guy gets hit and all the air rushes out of his body. That 'ugh.' I heard that."

He doesn’t remember the rest of it, but his seat broke sometime during that crash, allowing his body to get thrown back and forth inside the car, hitting the bars and dashboard, resulting in torn rib cartilage. The bruising and soreness alone would have been enough to keep any man down for a few days, but Rudd was determined to get back in the car for the Daytona 500. Two days later he was back at the track, but going into the turns presented a new problem. His badly bruised and swollen eyes kept him from seeing clearly. To compensate, he duct taped the lids back so he could see. It must have worked, because he took seventh place home that day.

He tore ligaments in his left knee in a crash in 1988 but kept racing. He suffered second-degree burns on his back during the 1998 fall Martinsville race but won and was back in the car three days later."

I liked the "All of a sudden it got real quiet..." part.

Another "old guy" to root for! lol

[tubebender]

It could be worse Mac. You could be at the Bender house watching reruns of Lawrence Welk on PBS with me..

Merry Christmas to ya!

[tubebender]

The Boss is on the line over here... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1758201/posts?page=1

[SouthTexas]

Merry Christmas race fans

[FlingWingFlyer]

Merry Christmas to you too! I've been watching Speed's "Beyond the Wheel" marathon the last couple days and it's been helping a lot with the withdrawals! LOL!!! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

[SouthTexas]

We've been eating. :)

[tubebender]

And a SMELLY KALEAKY KAKA to you Sot.

I've been practicing my Hawaiian just for this...

[Pete-R-Bilt]

Good morning and Merry Christmas my FRiends.

I hope Santa visited and brought you all the wonderful things you hoped for.

LVM now that I don't have to worry about my posts being read, Thank you for your advice about LVMS I decided to let my s i l choose where we are, but we now have our seats in the D E terrace for the weekend and we'll be down from Thurs. night till Sunday, Thanks again for your help.

The rest of you, this last year was certainly an original one unlike any I can recall in recent history, I hope on average it was a positive one for you all and that '07 takes us somewhere toward the bigger and better.

Again Merry Christmas and God bless us everyone...

PRB

[GRRRRR]

Merry Christmas to all...The new year will be here in just a few days, just another day? Naw, it's all new and good.

So, what did ya'll get from Santa?
I got a new game for my iMAC, Bears Jersey with my old High School number (82) and my name on the back.
Golf stuff, Couple of books...and lots of love from my wife and daughter.

[SouthTexas]

A south Texas Christmas dinner.

[tubebender]

Now I know why my parents gathered up my elder siblings and fled South Texas in 1922...

[SouthTexas]

Just plain ol' shrimp and oysters...ya'll do have those out west, don't you?

[tubebender]

You'll be happy to know that Santa was a woman and she was driving a Peterbilt Chevy van to deliver my new office chair so I can sit for longer periods of time in front of my computer.

We had roast beast and trimmings yesterday and everyone came back today to exchange presents. We gave the kids a framed 11 X 14 portrait, representing 50th our wedding anniversary, we had taken in our back yard a couple of months ago.

Here's wishing you a safe and sane New Year...