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!!

[GRRRRR]

HiYa Per, Sounds like a wonderful time with the family. Very valuable in this day, we're seeing LOTS of families together here. Today we're going to the Maui Ocean Center, it has a 760M gallon aquarium tank that you walk thru a tube in the center.

White asparagus is grown in the dark, I think, so little to no chlorophyll-A is produced by the plant. Supposed to be sweeter that way.

I brought a series of my fav Nutscar shirts with me. Yesterday was the 24car and a guy came up and we started yakking about racing. He was a Jr. fan and was just as disappointed that neither Jr. or Flash seemed to have a decent shot at winning races this past season. We both concluded that NEW CREW CHEIFS are needed, someone with more "creativity" like the 48 car???!! LOL>

Go Notre Dame
GO BEARS!!

G

[angelwings49]

Does anyone know when the Award ceremony will be televised?? TIA!

[tubebender]

Gas Price Update... Octane 87 is $2.75 to 2.80 here on the streets of Eureka. Costco is $2.56 and Renner/CVN cardlock was $2.58 when I filled up yesterday...

[steveegg]

Some brief Jayski items:

• If Robert Yates can't convince the Rooster (Ricky Rudd) to return to the fold full-time, it will be Johnny MiniSauter in the #88.
• SlowCasey Mears was sporting National Guard colors and a National Guard/GMAC/Hendrick firesuit at Irwindale's Turkey Night Grand Prix (also in attendance, Tony "Smoke" Stewart, Jason "LeftTurn" Leffler and Bobby East).
• BAM Racing will be back, PPI won't be, and former PPI crew chief James Ince is trying to put together his own team.
• WCG, were you in the vicinity of Fort Worth between November 5th and November 12th? A firesuit which belonged to Dale Earnhardt Sr. was stolen from Texas Motor Speedway.
• I'll still be screaming, "Bring Back Hooters!!!!" next year; despite the strike at Goodyear, NA$¢AR won't talk to Hooters about supplying tars for any of the national series.

Busch Series news:

• Greg Biffle has a "winner" of an idea to limit the Buschwhacker effect; make Busch teams running Buschwhackers ineligible for the top 30 guarantee.
• Hell has frozen over; Hendrick wants Mark Martin to run some of the Busch races in their cars.
• Danny O'Quinn is your Busch Rookie of the Year. However, he has lost his ride at Roush as the Busch Roushketeers will be David Ragan and Carl "Flipper" Edwards doing a full schedule and Todd Kluever and Biffle splitting a third full-time team. There may be a 4th Roush Busch team, but the talk is that will go to Michel Jourdain.
• JJ "Yellers" Yeley will be driving the Phoenix #1 Busch car for at least the first part of next year (no word on whether James Finch is abandoning the Cup series as his Busch drivers had been running his partial Cup schedule). Meanwhile, his JGR #18 Busch ride will be split between Smoke, Aric Almirola and Brad Coleman (sponsorship still in flux; hence no Yeley), while Almirola and Denny "Hambone" Hamlin will split time in the JGR #20 Busch car.
• Brewco has the number set for one team but no driver, and drivers set for the other team but no number. The soon-to-be-ex-#66 (Rusty Wallace is taking the number back next year) will see Biffle and Jamie McMurray split time (with a possible third driver for the non-"companion" events), while no driver is set at the #27.
• Matt Crafton is the leading candidate to take over the #22 ppc ride being vacated by Kenny "Herm" Wallace (he's committed full-time to the Furniture Row Cup team, AutoZone got out of that zone as well).

And some Truck news:

• Darrell Waltrip will field 1 truck in 2007 (down from 2), but doesn't have a driver yet.
• Brendan Gaughan may well be the latest casualty of Dodge's slo-mo disappearance from the Craftsman Truck Series, but he'll find another manufacturer.
• With Bobby Hamilton Jr headed to the Busch Series full-time in 2007 and Bobby Hamilton Sr still suffering aftereffects of his cancer (in remission), Dennis Setzer will likely take over the Hamilton #18 Fastenol Dodge.
• Martin will run at least 10 races in a Wood Brothers truck. Meanwhile, Travis Kvapil will run what was supposed to be Martin's Roush #6 truck.
• Kerry "The Other" Earnhardt is likely out at ThorSport.

[WestCoastGal]

THANK YOU for putting that together!!

I'm innocent on the firesuit.....although it appears to be an inside job. If it was a red one missing with the driver inside I could be guilty. :)

[WestCoastGal]

Speaking of red firesuits........keep an eye on the 4 DP in the Rolex 24 at Daytona.

Seems as though Bud may be relaxing their grip on him next year. Daytona....January 25 - 28, 2007

Also, Four-Time NASCAR Champion Jeff Gordon to Join Wayne Taylor & Max Angelelli for 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona

[WestCoastGal]

7 p.m.: NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Awards Ceremony (9 p.m. ET/PT on TNT)

[WestCoastGal]

Morning GRRRRR did you feel any earthquake aftershocks yet?

They have a fabulous aquarium there!!

A new crewchief will never happen for Jr, unless he goes to RCR some day. Anyway he needed more horsepower and better equipment off the truck rather than the CC. IMO of course. DEI needs to decide whether they want to be competitive and spend the bucks to get there.

Last I looked at the game last night USC was way ahead.....I missed the final score.

[angelwings49]

Thank you!!

[SouthTexas]

I sure wish they'd find 24 hours of sunlight to run this race, or maybe invest in lights! Once it gets dark, you can't tell who is who until they pit.

[GRRRRR]

The USGS site only has on 2.0 aftershock, hardly worth a wiggle. We did the Maui Ocean Center yesterday and got some fantastic pics. Notre WHO??? It's ALL THE OhioStU now.

[WestCoastGal]

That's true, I remember watching last year and wondering who was where.

I will be disconnecting from AOHell sometime tomorrow and won't be back until Thursday if I'm lucky. I've heard horror stories about them billing people for a year or more after their disconnect. I had some twit on the phone reading me all this giberish. I told her to stop reading from the paper and just tell me when my service will end and that I would NOT be billed after that. Of course, they couldn't give me a confirmation number for my cancellation date.

[SouthTexas]

I wish you luck! You can always write them a letter and send a copy to the AG's office.

[tubebender]

Is she gone? Can we talk about her now? You go first...

[SouthTexas]

Yeah she's gone, but she'll be baaaaack!

[tubebender]

I saw a impostor using your South Texas handle today. He tweaked it a little and almost fooled me.

Between you and me I am sending a big batch of icy weather over to SLC to surprise our FRiends there.

Brrrrrrrrrrrr...

[steveegg]

Link to the birthday cake of the year (Flash fans, you might not want to click ;-)

[SouthTexas]

There are a couple of names that are very close to mine, even fool me every once in a while. ;)

We do not need any cold, please send it to Kansas.

[tubebender]

LOL... sent it on to my daughter, the Flash Fan of the family...

[tubebender]

100?