Posted on 09/15/2015 7:57:46 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
Homestead-Miami Speedway introduces "Banana Caramel Champanada": New for the 2015 Ford Championship Weekend, Homestead-Miami Speedway is introducing a specialty food item: the "Banana Caramel Champanada." A dessert twist on an empanada, the Champanada is a banana-lover's dream. The Champanada consists of caramelized plantains in fresh-made banana pudding, wrapped in a crisp, flaky crust, drizzled with Carmel sauce and dusted with powdered sugar and crushed Nilla wafers. A full Champanada weighs more than one pound, and contains 650 calories per portion, and is the perfect dish to share with friends or eat on your own. The Champanada will be available for purchase in the Midway Display area for $9 each.(HMS)(11-19-2015)
Now if you put a little chocolate on that.....
NBC Sports presents dual coverage of Sprint Cup Championship: In an unprecedented offering, NBC Sports Group will present dual national coverage of the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship race from Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 22. While NBC provides the primary broadcast of Jeff Gordon's quest to close out his Hall of Fame career in storybook fashion, NBCSN offers a simultaneous live feed dedicated to each of the Championship 4 drivers racing for a historic victory on Sunday in South Florida. Live race coverage on both NBC and NBCSN begins at 3:00pm/et.
The NBCSN Hot Pass multi-window display provides viewers an in-depth look at Gordon, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Martin Truex, Jr., with up to three different angles from in-car cameras. A dynamic track map keeps viewers aware of Championship 4 driver positions and changes throughout the field, while a pane of race facts and figures illustrates live point differentials and key shifts in the race. Race announcer Leigh Diffey and NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Dale Jarrett host NBCSN Hot Pass coverage as the Championship 4 compete for the 2015 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship.
"Get ready to experience history in real time from the drivers' headset and perspective," said Dan Steir, SVP of Production for NBCSN. "NBCSN Hot Pass will deliver a constant spotlight on the Championship 4 drivers and allow the race fan to access the strategy and drama in a more focused manner." NBCSN Hot Pass also provides a simultaneous cycle of in-car audio, showcasing team communications between the driver, crew chief and spotter as each Championship 4 driver turns laps around the 1.5-mile track. Diffey and Jarrett punctuate the in-car audio, explaining key situations and communications among the four teams. NBCSN Hot Pass and NBC's broadcast of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship race are both available for live stream via NBC Sports Live Extra.
NBC Sports Live Extra - NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs - will stream this weekend's NASCAR coverage via "TV Everywhere," giving consumers additional value to for their subscription service, and making high quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms. The NBC Sports Live Extra app is available on the iTunes App Store, Google Play and Windows Store, Roku Channel Store and Apple TV.(NBC)(11-19-2015)ï·¯
Yikes! I missed the lack of Chocolate DAMNED SLACKERS!!!
Rain expected for NASCAR's championship weekend: Homestead, Fla., the site of Homestead-Miami Speedway where NASCAR will crown three series champions, can expect rain each day of the race weekend, forecasters say. There is an 80% chance or rain for Sunday's Sprint Cup championship. The question now is whether race officials would end a championship race early because of rain. Fans can expect long delays or even a race the next day should the weather worsen.(Sporting News)
The current (as of 11/19/2015) weekend forecast from the National Weather Service:
Friday:A chance of showers, with thunderstorms also possible after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. Calm wind becoming east around 6 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Friday Night: A 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. East wind around 6 mph becoming calm in the evening.
Saturday: A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 81. Calm wind becoming southeast 5 to 8 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Saturday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 71. Southeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 80. East wind 6 to 10 mph becoming northwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Sunday Night: Showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm before 8pm, then a chance of showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69. Breezy, with a northwest wind 10 to 16 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
See links to other weather sites on the Homestead Race Info page.(11-19-2015)
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EVENT SCHEDULE
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Event Schedule times are local to the track
Thursday, November 19
7:00 PM NSCS HAULERS ENTER
Friday, November 20
7:30 AM - 8:30 PM NSCS GARAGE OPEN
11:00 AM NSCS ROOKIE & SPOTTER MEETINGS & RANDOM DRAWING
12:00 - 1:25 PM NSCS PRACTICE
1:30 PM NSCS QUALIFYING INSPECTION BEGINS
6:15 PM NSCS QUALIFYING
Saturday, November 21
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM NSCS GARAGE OPEN
10:00 - 10:55 AM NSCS PRACTICE
1:00 - 1:50 PM NSCS FINAL PRACTICE
Sunday, November 22
9:00 AM NSCS GARAGE OPENS
1:00 PM NSCS DRIVER/CREW CHIEFS MEETING
2:20 PM NSCS DRIVERS INTRODUCTION
3:00 PM NSCS RACE
NSCS = Sprint Cup Series
SUBJECT TO CHANGE
All event schedule times above are listed in LOCAL track time
PRACTICE & QUALIFYING
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(these times in eastern time)
Practices:
Friday, November 20, 12:00 - 1:25 pm/et, TV-NBCSN
Saturday, November 21, 10:00 - 10:55 am/et, TV-CNBC
Happy Hour 'Final' practice: Saturday, November 21, 1:00 - 1:50 pm/et, TV-NBCSN
Qualifying: group qualifying for positions 1-36, Friday, November 20 at 6:15 pm/et, TV-NBCSN, no re-air scheduled.
Rain. Just great. Need to put up Christmas lights anyway as a COLD front (highs in the teens, lows near zero) is coming in next week.
Somedays I run on just coffee and chocolate.
Forecast to be cold here on Thanksgiving and weekend after. Probably put up lights on Wednesday.
Dale Earnhardt's Black GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Crowned "Lord of the Schemes": In the beginning, there were 64 paint schemes. Fourteen weeks and six rounds later, only one remains. And it's one of the most iconic paint schemes in NASCAR history. Dale Earnhardt's black GM Goodwrench Chevrolet (60.4% of the votes) beat out Earnhardt's yellow and blue Wrangler Chevrolet (39.6%) in the championship round of Lionel Racing's "Lord of the Schemes" bracket challenge. The challenge began on Wednesday, August 19 - on the heels of the announcement that Jeff Gordon would be bringing back his popular rainbow-designed car at Bristol Motor Speedway - and ended on Wednesday, November 18. More than 138,000 votes were received throughout the campaign's run. Lionel Racing, The Official Die-Cast of NASCAR, hosted the bracket challenge on its Facebook page. Earnhardt first slipped into the seat of the black #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet in the 1988 season opener at Daytona International Speedway. Although he had already won 31 races and claimed three of his seven titles by this point, some of his best racing still lay ahead. He piloted the car for the next 13 seasons before passing away after sustaining injuries in a last-lap accident in the 2001 Daytona 500. During this span, he won four championships (1990-91, 1993-94) and celebrated in Victory Lane 45 times, including his memorable 1998 DAYTONA 500 victory. At the conclusion of the race, as Earnhardt steered his car to Victory Lane, crew members from every team lined pit road to congratulate the already legendary driver on winning the "Great American Race" after 20 attempts. Before facing the #3 Wrangler Chevrolet in the final round, the winning paint scheme faced an admirable lineup of contenders. In the first round, the #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet went up against Tony Stewart's #20 The Home Depot/It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown Pontiac. It was then pitted against Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s #8 Budweiser/Intimidator Chevrolet in the second round. In the third round, the black GM Goodwrench paint scheme battled Davey Allison's #28 Havoline Ford followed by a match-up with Petty's #43 STP Pontiac. In the semifinals, the winning paint scheme squared off against another of Earnhardt's paint schemes - the #3 Goodwrench/Silver Select Chevrolet - before the championship round.(Lionel Racing)(11-20-2015)ï·¯
Three cars for Furniture Row? Furniture Row Racing [#78-Martin Truex Jr.] has big changes on the horizon, with a manufacturer move from Chevrolet to Toyota coming in 2016 and an expansion to two cars coming in 2017. The team may not be done at two teams, either. During Thursday's live chat with Miss Sprint Cup Madison Martin, Furniture Row Racing general manager Joe Garone answered a fan question of where he saw his team in five years. "I see three race teams, with a super strong relationship with Joe Gibbs Racing," Garone replied.(NASCAR.com)(11-20-2015)
Side note- Was out to the store this last Monday and waiting at a Light to turn and the 21 Hauler turned the corner headed to I-77. While not unusual to see Haulers here in Race City (Moooresville) I got to thinking that in the 3-4 years I've lived here that was the first time I saw the 21 Team Hauler.
personally i think 3 and the black scheme should have been retired, but it belongs to Childress and it's his to do as he sees fit... maybe when he retires
Trucks Green Flag for the last time this year.........
Brian France defends 'quintessential NASCAR' comments on controversy: NASCAR Chairman Brian France defended his "quintessential NASCAR" comments in reference to #22-Joey Logano bumping #20-Matt Kenseth in the closing laps at Kansas Speedway during his year-end state-of-the-sport news conference Friday morning. The second year of the elimination-style Chase for the Sprint Cup has been clouded by Kenseth's retaliation against Logano in the Nov. 1 race at Martinsville Speedway when Kenseth was 10 laps down and Logano was the leader. Logano failed to advance out of the Eliminator Round to be one of the four finalists this weekend at Homestead. That was Kenseth's goal, since Logano had wrecked Kenseth while they battled for the lead with five laps remaining two weeks earlier at Kansas. France called the Kansas contact "quintessential NASCAR," but when Kenseth retaliated, NASCAR suspended Kenseth two races. In talking about what makes something "quintessential," France talked about Brad Keselowski's move that resulted in contact with Jeff Gordon late in the race last year at Texas, a move that resulted in a cut tire, a Gordon spin and an eventual pit-road brawl. "That's quintessential NASCAR [on the track] -- late in the race, wham, they're going at it," France said. "You've got to understand, that's us. That's what we do. That's what those guys do." France said no drivers have asked to sit down with NASCAR about where the line is on what they can and can't do. "The reason that they don't ask is that they know," France said. "They know that circumstances late in the race, blocking -- although I'm not a fan of blocking, that is part of racing -- contact, the short end of some of those exchanges that happen are all part of it and do not look to NASCAR to deal with that. They are part of racing. The line is if you intentionally ... banzai-ing into some situation with the sole purpose of taking somebody out, we'll deal with that. We dealt with that at Martinsville, as a matter of fact." See the full transcript of the interview on the Brian France State of the Sport Transcript page.(11-20-2015)
Truck Championship Won by Eric Jones
Truck Race Won by Matt Crafton
We shall see.
1 down, 2 to go then I’ll start the “Off Season Withdrawl Thread” to get Us ‘round to Daytona...
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