NASCAR - UAW-GM 500 - from Lowes - on NBC, Saturday 10/15 at 7:00pm ET

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UAW-GM 500

Saturday 7:00 pm Eastern

from Lowe's Superspeedway

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[tubebender]

Humpy Wheeler...Doomed if you do and Doomed if you don't...

[WestCoastGal]

Jimmy Spencer just said on NVL replay that Goodyear brought the wrong tire. They knew from testing that the surface needed a different tire.

[tubebender]

I heard that just after I posted. I missed that line last night...

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BTW...did you see that DW will drive a Truck next weekend. He will get in on owner points. Unnnngh

[SouthTexas]

Guess everyone is all rested up by now. Was starting to wonder if everyone had slept all day! ;)

[tubebender]

Well, I'm not here to talk about my FRFRL performance last night but I did get around that sand bagger that has been holding me up for 38 races...

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Well, I'm not here to talk about my FRFRL performance last night but I did get around that sand bagger that has been holding me up for 38 races...

And thank goodness we're not here to listen.

Congrats tb. There's always next week. Yo, Pete, got mirror?

[tubebender]

I swear to Nascar they had me in 24th and you in 27th at 10AM this morning and now you have manipulated the score and are in 24th 3 points ahead of me!!!

[SouthTexas]

I thought the same last week. Could be selective memory on my part though.

Whatever I do in FRFL position is usually opposite overall. Makes no sense.

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I was in 25th and you were in 24th when I wrote post #1067.

Good boy Bo! I have no idea what it means... other than I've got a drafting partner, and Pete's in the sights.

[tubebender]

I should have known it was that low down dog!!! Sorry for saying it was you.

BTW...you are up late tonight. Fixing lunches for the kids tomorrow or do they do that anymore?

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Actually, I'm working on my theme park... Spackle World. I'm on my second bucket. My hair is (mostly) a lovely shade of Sherwin Williams antique white. I think I have latex poisoning.

As for the kids, naw, they eat cafateria food. It's actually good stuff.

[WestCoastGal]

Good show CNN had on last night. Great info for those folks who think they just go around making left turns and aren't athletes.....


Doctor: Racing a good workout

After researching, interviewing and conducting medical tests for an hourlong prime time special, NASCAR: Driven to Extremes, which debuts at 10 tonight on CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta can vouch that NASCAR drivers are indeed athletes, like no other.
"The perception was they were hard-driving, cigar-smoking, beer-swilling guys," Gupta said.

The practicing neurosurgeon and CNN senior medical correspondent found that today's NASCAR drivers run the gamut from fitness fanatic Carl Edwards to Tony Stewart, the 2002 Winston Cup champion and current points co-leader who demonstrated his fitness routine on the show: "Channel up. Channel down. Volume up. Volume down."..........

But whether they can run a marathon, a-la Michael Waltrip and Kyle Petty, or can't climb a 20-foot fence without breathing hard a-la Stewart, Gupta found that all NASCAR drivers are endurance athletes.

"They sustain heartbeats in the mid 100s, similar to serious marathoners," Gupta said.

And the drivers perform with incredible strain on their bodies from extreme heat that can reach 120 degrees, G-forces similar to what astronauts experience during a shuttle launch and the constant requirement of sharp mental focus -- or else. [I would say the shuttle launch is just once, the drivers get about 4 G's on a midsized bank track on every turn for 400+ miles, who knows what Dega or Daytona push.]

"The other things people don't understand is we're in a life or death situation for four hours," championship contender Greg Biffle said Thursday. "So it's walk that tight rope from here to there over an alligator pit. Your butt is going to be sweating."......>>>

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[WestCoastGal]

For the Nascar thread record.......

More lingering will be images of the ponderous press conference in the wee hours of Sunday morning in which NASCAR officials Mike Helton, Jim Hunter and Robin Pemberton, joined by Goodyear’s Phil Holmer, tried to explain away the mess.

Another is the stricken look of LMS president H.A. “Humpy” Wheeler as he listened from the press box and offered his own analysis of what had transpired.

They all, to one extent or another, circled the wagons. We did all we could do. Yet Goodyear chose to bring the same tire compound to the track where it had failed in May. After trying to evade the prying questions, Holmer had to confront the reality that the tire manufacturer had not formally tested other options.

According to track officials, Goodyear officials had stopped by to “take a look” at changes made in the track between the race weekends of May and October. Those track representatives felt the need to clarify that point after Helton hinted that steps had been taken after the Coca-Cola 600 in May.

As much as everyone tried to subtly rationalize what happened and shift the blame, there is a fundamental flaw in blaming the debacle on Wheeler’s “levigation” of the track surface. The track didn’t cause the wrecks. The tires did.

NASCAR officials roared in during the race, demanding that uniform tire pressures be maintained and checking to ensure compliance. The problem with that was that at least two drivers, Tony Stewart and David Stremme, complained afterward that their tires had been working perfectly until NASCAR tampered with them. Then they blew up. [I'm glad to see that here because I thought the same thing. Smoke was fine until the mandatory air pressure change and a few laps after that... BOOM]

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[WestCoastGal]

Actually I couldn't sleep for hours after that race. Whew!!

Then gone all day Sunday so I fizzled out last night.

I see another hurricane on the horizon. :(

[tubebender]

3 or 4 of those tire failures were cuts from debris on the track. There may have been more but the tires was destroyed beyond inspection.

Didn't Humpy grind the track because the driver were whining about crashes caused by the bumps...

[WestCoastGal]

Busch Series reported moving to ESPN2

SCENEDAILY - 1:53PM ET MONDAY OCTOBER 17, 2005 -

Speaking on conditions of anonymity, officials at ESPN said the Busch Series races would be exclusive domain of ESPN2 under terms of a new television contract, reporter Andy Bernstein writes.

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[WestCoastGal]

Menard sells engine company to...Honda? Word from England is that billionaire home improvement magnate John Menard, whose engine company has been building racing engines for Robby Gordon's #7 team, has sold his racing and engine-building shop to Honda. Does that mean Gordon will have to start looking for another engine supplier?(Yahoo Sports)(10-16-2005)

[NYTexan]

That is Great news! (at least for those who have cable / sat)

[tubebender]

Maybe Crash has a shot at a Honda ride because of some of his other racing endeavors?