To: WestCoastGal
Was anyone else as annoyed as I was with the tragically poor NBC coverage of the cup finale??
I think they showed about 25 green flag laps and the rest was commercials! I like BP and the crew, but there were just too many commercials and not enough racing....sheesh!
The producer(s) need to find other work.
Kit.
2 posted on
11/20/2006 5:30:30 AM PST by
KitJ
To: WestCoastGal
3 posted on
11/20/2006 5:31:41 AM PST by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: WestCoastGal
Thanks for putting this one out there. :-)
10 posted on
11/20/2006 9:49:30 AM PST by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ...... Cornyn / Kyl in '08)
To: WestCoastGal
Thanks for the ping! Hope everyone has a safe and fun off-season, including a wonderful Thanksgiving this week.
Remember our troops in your prayers and be grateful and thankful for our freedoms.
17 posted on
11/20/2006 3:29:25 PM PST by
vox_freedom
(Matthew 5:37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no)
To: WestCoastGal
Thanks for da ping!
Great lookin' thread, WCG. That didn't take long, did it. lol
And "Holiday Hello's" to all the good folks at Walter Reed, Bethesda and Brooke. May your recovery be 'unrestricted' and lightning fast!
My tickets for the race in March came last Sat.
tick...tock...tick...tock...tick...tock.....is it time yet?
Actually, I only have to wait until Jan - two days of testing!
24 posted on
11/20/2006 3:42:11 PM PST by
LasVegasMac
(Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
To: WestCoastGal
Hey, WCG,thanks for setting up this thread!
82 days until the shootout!
25 posted on
11/20/2006 3:45:19 PM PST by
Fierce Allegiance
(<h2>SAY NO TO RUDY! I know how to spell, I just type like s#it.)
To: WestCoastGal
ESPN is getting back into the game? Hallelujah!
They have the best sound. You can actually hear the cars.
And no Darrell Waltrip!
71 posted on
11/23/2006 11:19:57 AM PST by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
To: WestCoastGal
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.
84 posted on
11/25/2006 9:56:32 PM PST by
steveegg
(UNNNNGGGHHHH! Seeking new state, will travel)
To: WestCoastGal
The NASCAR season is over? I didn't even know it had begun. :-) NASCAR ignores Minnesota, so I ignore them. Michigan is as close as they get, isn't it?
Condolences to all the fans though. At least you have a short off-season. By the time it starts again the Super Bowl will be a memory, the days will be getting noticably longer, pitchers and catchers will be about ready to report to spring training, and winter will be starting to lose its grip on those of us in the Great White North.
Here's to a safe and short winter for all of us!
116 posted on
11/30/2006 5:53:52 PM PST by
NorthWoody
(A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. - Theodore Roosevelt)
To: WestCoastGal; glock rocks
from autoextremist.com
International Speedway Corporation, Lesa France Kennedy. It's not often that the first family of NASCAR gets rebuffed in its ongoing efforts to take over the world, but that's exactly what happened yesterday when the Daytona Beach-based marketing juggernaut threw in the towel and ended its campaign to build a new NASCAR track in Staten Island, New York, after local political factions convinced everyone that it would be a disruptive undertaking and a bad idea. In a stinging and extremely costly defeat, International Speedway Corporation will now be forced to pursue "alternative strategies" for the 676-acre parcel of land it currently owns in the borough - the largest undeveloped acreage of land in the five boroughs of New York City. Even if ISC were to sell it off for $100 million (according to their estimates but highly optimistic), the decision to discontinue the speedway development efforts on Staten Island will result in a non-cash, pre-tax charge in the company's fiscal 2006 fourth quarter results of approximately $75 to $85 million, or $0.90 to $1.02 per diluted share after-tax. ISC has spent $150 million in pursuit of the deal through November 30, 2006. Let's see, declining attendance, declining TV ratings, disgruntled sponsors and now this embarrassment? NASCAR insists that 2006 was a mere "bump in the road" and that things will return to normal for them in 2007. We, on the other hand, are seeing genuine signs of the "NASCAR Bubble" that we predicted well over a year ago.
To: WestCoastGal
I thought I was the only one tweeking, I need to see some good ole boys making lefthanded turns at 165mph soon.
651 posted on
01/10/2007 2:11:53 PM PST by
Trueblackman
(Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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