NASCAR NEXTEL CUP AUTO CLUB 500 FONTANA CALIFORNIA_____February 27, 2005 2pm ET FOX

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[WestCoastGal]

AUTO CLUB 500 CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 27, 2005 2pm ET

Busch Race- Stater Bros. 300 FX Sat. 5:30 p.m.
Auto Club 500 Bud Pole qualifying FX Sat. 3 p.m.
Truck Race American Racing Wheels 200 SPEED Fri. 9 p.m.

All Times are ET

CALIFORNIA SPEEDWAY, FONTANA CALIFORNIA

Track Facts

Land
Total Site	568 acres
Speedway Interior	130.7 acres
Track Information
Track Size	Two-mile D-shaped oval
Track Width	75 feet wide with 15-foot apron
Turns 1-2; 3-4	14-degree banking
Front Stretch	11-degree banking; 3100 feet in length
Back Straightaway	3-degree banking; 2500 feet in length
	21 turns, 2.36 miles
Garages	3 garages with 100 spaces
Composition	Asphalt track, pit lane and parking areas; concrete pit stalls
Pit Road	2200 feet in length with 44 individual pit areas

[WestCoastGal]

Boogity Boogity Boogity Let's Go Racing Boys...

[glock rocks]

Hey there, steve... lotsa cuppers runnin today.

[steveegg]

Yep. Front 4, 10th, 13th-15th, 18th, 20th.

Mark Martin grabs the lead out of turn 2.

[steveegg]

Check-out in aisles 9 and 33. They have a 2.6 second lead on the rest of the field.

[steveegg]

Jeff Fuller out, Kertus Davis smoking on pit road.

This looks like a rerun of 2002 (the Smoke and Martin Show).

[glock rocks]

Yahoo! and it's way early. Mark and Smoke are rockin!

[WestCoastGal]

Here's two of them in the lead, Smoke & MM.

[steveegg]

Only Reed Sorenson between us and a Buschwacker Top 5 (Martin, Smoke, Happy, Front Row Joe, and Kenseth chasing).

[steveegg]

Mikey with a flat. Oops.

[WestCoastGal]

One thing about California the only interesting pics will probably be pitting. Mikey is there early.

[steveegg]

Here he comes, here comes Matt Kenseth. 3-wide through Turns 3 and 4 past Happy and Reed Sorenson.

[tubebender]

I did a few years ago but they closed the restaurant and just concentrate on their bottled Tomasos Sauces which we buy at Costco here in Eureka. I don't know if Tom Pagano still owns the firm or not. He is a hell of a chef. I met him when he ran Ramons in Opera Alley in Old Town across from his Tomasos in the late 70s

The old Tomasos is a Italian restaurant run by Iranians...

[tubebender]

I'm off to the Casino with my son. His wife is out of town...

[steveegg]

Good luck.

Bifflage headed into the pits with a hot engine.

[NYTexan]

looks like he got biffeled!

[WestCoastGal]

Biffle in the pits with a plastic tear off on the grill. 270 degrees, I would say toasted. That happened several times last night in the truck race.

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[steveegg]

25 of 150 laps -

9
33
87 (-3.5)
41 (-7.4)
17
21 (-10.5)
27 (-11.3)
2
60
90
40
32
12
64
25
47
8
14
38
59
35
22
11
18
20
44
43
6
1
36
4
10
34
58 (-1 lap)
5 (-1 lap)
23 (-1 lap)
28 (-1 lap)
49 (off; -3 laps)
66 (-3 laps)
99 (off)
72 (out)
0 (out)
7 (out)

[steveegg]

Note to crew chiefs - PULL THE TAPE OFF!!!

[steveegg]

Caution (of course, it's during a commercial).

[WestCoastGal]

10 of the top 14 are cup drivers. :)