Nascar Nextel Cup Allstate 400 Race at the Brick / Indianapolis on NBC Sunday 8/7 , 2pm ET - 11am PT

Nascar.com ^ | 8/3/05

[NormsRevenge]

Join us this weekend for some racing on hallowed ground.

God bless our troops, families and nation.

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This thread is dedicated to the men and women in our country's armed forces defending our freedoms.

Thank you for your service.

[WestCoastGal]

Wow 6 wins for Truex this year!!

It was a good race!!

Thanks everyone it was fun.

I will be late to the party again tomorrow.

[steveegg]

Thanks for being here. I'll be late tomorrow as well; the Badger Blog Alliance invited everybody to a little State Fair invasion tomorrow (maybe I'll use it as an excuse to actually start a blog :-)

[SouthTexas]

Thanks to all, great race after it got going.

See ya'll tomorrow.

[NYTexan]

Ill be uot to the countryside myself so I'll be late too!

Good luck to ya'll on the FRFL!

[steveegg]

UNCONFIRMED - Peter Jennings reported near death (has lung cancer; hasn't been back on ABC World News Tonight since the announcement) - REPEAT, UNCONFIRMED

[steveegg]

Unofficial Kroger 200 results -

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Make	Sponsor	Pts/Bonus	Laps	Status
1	9	#8	Martin Truex Jr.	Chevrolet	Bass Pro Shops/Tracker	190/10	204	Running
2	8	#2	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	ACDelco	175/5	204	Running
3	1	#41	Reed Sorenson*	Dodge	Discount Tire	170/5	204	Running
4	6	#35	Jason Keller	Ford	McDonald's	160/0	204	Running
5	2	#14	David Stremme	Dodge	Navy "Accelerate Your Life"	155/0	204	Running
6	7	#20	Denny Hamlin*	Chevrolet	Rockwell Automation	150/0	204	Running
7	13	#11	Paul Menard	Chevrolet	Menards/Moen	146/0	204	Running
8	15	#27	David Green	Ford	Kleenex/Marsh	142/0	204	Running
9	12	#1	Johnny Sauter	Dodge	Miccosukee Gaming & Resorts	138/0	204	Running
10	21	#64	Mike Wallace	Dodge	Miller High Life Light	134/0	204	Running
11	11	#22	Kenny Wallace	Ford	AutoZone	130/0	204	Running
12	18	#59	Stacy Compton	Ford	Kingsford/Bush's/Food 4 Less	127/0	204	Running
13	19	#18	J.J. Yeley	Chevrolet	Vigoro/The Home Depot	124/0	204	Running
14	3	#32	Ron Hornaday	Chevrolet	Win Fuel	121/0	204	Running
15	14	#25	Ashton Lewis	Ford	U.S. Marines	123/5	204	Running
16	4	#146	Robert Pressley	Ford	Edy's Ice Cream	115/0	204	Running
17	22	#34	Randy LaJoie	Chevrolet	Dollar General	112/0	204	Running
18	32	#10	Brent Sherman*	Ford	Hickory Farms/Serta	109/0	204	Running
19	10	#66	Aaron Fike	Ford	Duraflame/Kroger	106/0	204	Running
20	31	#60	Carl Edwards*	Ford	Charter Communications	103/0	204	Running
21	28	#23	Mark Green	Chevrolet	BMAR/Vassarette	105/5	204	Running
22	20	#44	Justin Labonte	Chevrolet	U.S. Coast Guard	97/0	204	Running
23	17	#33	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	James Dean	94/0	204	Running
24	5	#6	Tracy Hines	Dodge	Ragu	91/0	203	Running
25	26	#12	Joel Kauffman	Dodge	Supercuts	88/0	203	Running
26	38	#4	Kevin Hamlin	Dodge	GEICO	85/0	203	Running
27	29	#49	Steve Grissom	Ford	Advil Liqui-Gels	82/0	203	Running
28	30	#157	Boston Reid*	Chevrolet	Lowe's/Hitachi Power Tools	79/0	203	Running
29	39	#5	Blake Feese*	Chevrolet	Lowe's/Sta-Green	76/0	202	Running
30	35	#0	Kertus Davis*	Chevrolet	RaceGirl	73/0	199	Running
31	36	#52	D.J. Hoelzle	Ford	U.S. Cellular	70/0	199	Running
32	36	#72	Randy MacDonald	Chevrolet	Denver Mattress Company	67/0	199	Running
33	41	#143	A J Fike*	Dodge	Channellock/Curb Records	64/0	198	Running
34	16	#47	Jon Wood*	Ford	Clorox/Wisk/Kroger	61/0	196	Running
35	23	#58	Regan Smith	Dodge	Glynn Motorsports	58/0	196	Running
36	25	#36	Stanton Barrett	Pontiac	DCT Motorsports	55/0	195	Running
37	40	#38	Tyler Walker*	Dodge	Great Clips	52/0	194	Running
38	37	#40	Paul Wolfe*	Dodge	Jani-King	49/0	186	Running
39	27	#21	Brandon Miller*	Chevrolet	Reese's	46/0	183	Out of Race
40	24	#56	Tim Sauter	Chevrolet	Lester Buildings	43/0	182	Off Track
41	43	#280	Brian Tyler	Chevrolet	Eagle Castle Winery	40/0	102	Out of Race
42	33	#7	Jeff Fuller	Chevrolet	Big Boar Customs/Skindrux	37/0	25	Out of Race
43	34	#28	Shane Hall	Ford	Jay Robinson Inc.	34/0	14	Out of Race

* Denotes Rookie

[WestCoastGal]

I have to admit I didn't know this.


DEI director of motorsports Richie Gilmore said he is close to signing Tony Eury Jr., an employee of 15 years who is currently crew chief for the #15 for Michael Waltrip. "The Eurys have never had contracts; they've always just been there," Gilmore said. "It's always been an agreement and a year-to-year deal and Tony Jr. has told me he's not going anywhere. We're working on a deal and it would be his first contract ever."(St Petersburg Times)(8-7-2005)

[WestCoastGal]

Here is today's National Anthem scheduled peformers.

National Anthem: Country music superstars Diamond Rio will sing the national anthem before the start of the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Sunday afternoon. (IMS)(8-6-2005)

[steveegg]

Sunday morning Jayski update (at least the parts not covered yesterday)...

• Mikey's close to announcing his 2006 plans, and he won't be leaving the #15 before Homestead on his own.
• While the Fusion tested well at AMS, the Monte Carlo SS fell flat on its face.
• Rocket extends his contract with Penske South another 3 years, carrying him through 2009 (there's also another 3-year option).

[WestCoastGal]

I'm just about out of here for now.

Can we pick cautions now?

I will take 9 if it's ok.

[steveegg]

And some more "All My Silly Seasons" from Speed -

• More on the Kenseth/McMurray/Roush kerfuffle - Roush says he didn't want to discuss Kenseth's outburst (only that Matt will be with Roush in 2006), Matt said he overreacted, and one of the main reasons why Ganassi wouldn't allow McMurray to be bought out was that Havoline has a contract with McMurray through 2006 as well.
• Penske has zeroed in on a couple of drivers that "have alternatives" to do the "Next Call" in the blue deuce, and we should know more from the team by the end of August. Newman says he hopes to be consulted on Rusty's replacement.
• John Darby, Cup director, said that Toyota does not have any official tests scheduled for the possible Camry Cup/Busch car. Such a test would need to happen by Sept. 1 for Toyota to move up from the Crasftsman Truck Series next year.

[steveegg]

Well, it's the day of the race, so I don't see any harm. Besides, I'll be missing the start of the race as well.

The Brickyar...k, Allstate 400 at the Brickard Caution Pool...

WestCoastGal - 9
steveegg - 14

[NormsRevenge]

C'ya later WCG.

Morning steveegg

I be up early, just lurked in the crowd most of yesterday and last night ,, some good racing

got to go pick wifey up a book shelf early so I can make it back for the race, Thanks for all the info and stuff too!

Some folks DO have it bad. :-]

I'll pick 11 cautions.

[steveegg]

Mark Flash as one of those unhappy that Indy became a sudden-impound race. Quoth Gordon from Speed's Indianapolis NASCAR Notebook: Saturday - "They showed us they can pretty much do whatever they want to do at any time."

[NormsRevenge]

Do I smell the formation of a new renegade racing league in the near future? OH oh. lol

[NormsRevenge]

Be back in a couple...

[steveegg]

Completely-unofficial early-Sunday to-the-back list...

#99 - Carl Edwards (wrecked primary in practice, qualified 38th)
#2 - Rusty Wallace (wrecked primary in qualifying, was to start 41st)
#36 - Boris Said (wrecked primary in qualifying, was to start 32nd)
I could not find any definitive word on the #41, which also wrecked in qualifying. If they go to the backup, they'll give up the 40th spot.
ALso, no word on anybody making unapproved changes (this turned into an impound race).

[steveegg]

Do I smell the formation of a new renegade racing league in the near future? OH oh. lol

After the "success" of open-wheel racing after Tony George took the Indy 500 and ran home with it? Not even the return of the dominant pre-IRL CART teams to the Brickyard and Danikamania could bring the IRL close to the success that CART enjoyed before The Split (and I forgot to mention that CART had to reorganize under Chapter 11).

Proof; take a look at the Milwaukee open-wheel races. The old Miller 200/225, which was run the Sunday after Indy, was the biggest race at the Mile before The Split. Afterward, the CART event lost Miller as the sponsor and started losing fans (moving the race off its date one year didn't help either). With the expansion of the Grandstand, it's kind of hard to compare before-and-after, but the Busch Series has become so dominant that it outdrew both Champ Car and IRL combined this year (and that was with only 1 Buschwhacker and with Danikamania hyped by the local media).

[steveegg]

'Tis about time to get ready for church, then off to the Badger Blog Alliance invasion of the Wisconsin State Fair (no, I don't have a blog, but they invited their readers as well).

[SouthTexas]

Caution pool:

WestCoastGal - 9

steveegg - 14

NormsRevenge - 11

SouthTexas - 12