Posted on 11/21/2008 5:30:10 PM PST by WestCoastGal
Very cool! Wish I had my old Datsun.. I’d sacrifice it to a few barriers. ;-)
Very nice!
After his own contract demands forced him to another car with fewer budget constraints in 2009, this driver’s ego was bruised repeatedly when several crew members honored their sponsor’s request to stay with their car and crew chief, thus declining his invitation to come along for a new ride. While his teammates gave season end gifts/bonuses upwards of $2,000, he “thanked” the crew that put him in the Chase with $100 gift cards, the value of which many consider an inadequate reward and share of the team’s 2008 season winnings.
Jayski 12/29 story “Bowyer gets a new plane” then see comments it says Bowyer givs his team Walmart gift cards. ALso see in nascar.com he won over 8million last year.
Belated congratulations to NASCAR Crew Chief Bootie Barker and new bride Donna Peele who were married over Thanksgiving weekend.
... and to former driver Steve Park and Jessica Skarpelezos who were married Dec. 6.
17:54 - Car
Stage 2 summary
Pending validation of the results, Spaniard Carlos Sainz (VW) won his 10th stage on the Dakar and his first of this 31st edition, 1.14 ahead of Frenchman Stéphane Peterhansel (Mitsubishi) and 1.56 in front of South African Giniel de Villiers (VW). Sainz also takes the lead in the general standings and now leads team-mate De Villiers by 2.19, with also a 3.51 lead over Peterhansel. In the Open category, Robby Gordon (Hummer) was triumphant, finishing 10th in the day’s special stage. Lastly, in the Production Category, Japan’s Jun Mitsuhashi (Toyota) was victorious.
NASCAR’s Mafia connection?
News came out this week that couple of ex-employees of ISC (NASCAR’s “sister” company that is completely separate … wink, wink) were sentenced to probation for their role in the failed efforts to bring a speedway to Staten Island, New York. It appears the Gambino crime family was throwing extra money in the direction of these ISC officials in relation to the trucking of dirt for the speedway. Also, the indictment indicates that several Gambino family members were working to make the speedway a reality, which indicates they had something to gain from its creation.
I fully recognize that NASCAR was founded by moonshiners, and I have no issue with that, but dealing with real-life gangsters is a whole new deal that I hope was isolated to this incident. When I buy my $4 hot dog at Daytona, I don’t want to be supporting the next whacking by the Gambinos.
http://beyondthetrack.blogspot.com/2009/01/gem-made-mistake-by-signing-sadler-long.html
GO CRASH!!!
At $4 per hot dog, me thinks they’re already involved!
LOL True!!
Crash is on a roll, I hope his luck holds!!
He actually has an account on Twitter. Well even the White House is on there along with many congresscritters......Michelle Malkin, Greta etc. Quick way to get news. Have to be careful as they have MORE trolls and hackers there than here!! I actually have to go look at a response here from onw.
I followed the mess in India on Twitter since it had far moe info than anywhere else. There are trolls and there are those with loose lips.
Not so much in the Israeli operation.
They were definitely on top of the Mumbai attacks.
BTW - weather is turning ugly - COLD - WINDY and supposedly wet tomorrow.
It changed direction about 30 minutes ago down here. Still have limited sun, but it’s fading fast.
42 right now and dropping! Dogs are fed and walked and we’re in for the night and I’m off tomorrow. Whew!
Good job! I have to go back at it and I don’t know how I am going to manage without my afternoon nap!
I feel your pain!!! I just finished applying for jobs online this morning because the money to hire independent drafting contractors in this area seems to be pretty dried up. I've been scraping by on savings for the last 2 months so guess it's time to bite the bullet and think about not being an independent again for a while. ~sigh~
CARBONDALE — NASCAR celebrity Jeff Gordon has sold most of nearly 2,000 acres he owned in the high country above Missouri Heights to a development group headed by the man who created the Dallas National Golf Club in Texas a few years ago.
And John MacDonald, formerly of the Ernst & Young accounting and consulting firm, said he plans to build much the same kind of project here as he did in Dallas. The course designer is to be golf architect Tom Fazio, who also designed the Dallas National course.
The deal has yet to close, said broker Scott Davidson of the Aspen Associates Realty Group.
The due diligence work, including applying for development approvals from Garfield County, is in the early stages, and the deal is not expected to be completed until mid-2009, MacDonald predicted. Neither man would disclose the selling price.
Gordon, who reportedly bought the land outside of Carbondale in 2006 for $9 million, was not even thinking of selling the land until MacDonald approached him. But over time he became convinced it was the thing to do, according to John Bickford, Gordon’s stepfather and business manager.
“I found it by actually driving around and looking for golf property,” MacDonald said of the deal, adding with a hearty laugh, “It took a while, but I wore him down.”
Gordon retains a 50-acre parcel of his own, as well as “a couple of memberships in the club,” MacDonald said.
The pastures and rolling hills of the property are some of the most secluded and scenic terrain that remains undeveloped in the valley. The property has only a humble old ranch house and a tiny log cabin, along with a few barns and sheds. There are no opulent displays that would indicate it’s owned by a popular, multimillionaire race car driver.
Gordon’s parcel overlooks the proposed golf course site but is not near it, MacDonald said, stressing that the 300-acre golf course will not be peppered with homes, as are a number of other golf subdivisions that have sprung up in the Roaring Fork Valley.
The land actually is two ranches — known formerly as the Gould and Gordon ranches — divided by a small parcel of public land that Bickford described as a “driveway” along which the ranchers would once drive herds of cattle.
http://vyous.com/sports//nascar/2009/01/05/nascar-star-selling-missouri-heights-ranch-—aspen-times
Wow. That is a very cool blessing. And may it be yours through this year and all the rest.
Good Morning, hopefully the weather isn’t too bad where you are. I just had to take the dogs out and all the steps and sidewalk were ice!!
I hope you find a job, times are indeed tough.
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