Nascar Busch Series: Telcel-Motorola 200 - Mexico City
On the pole!!
Posted on 03/04/2006 2:49:47 PM PST by WestCoastGal
Agreed!! :)
It will be interesting to see what they eventually come up with to change the track at Vegas. Then look for Fontana to do the same.
How about dHamlin ie Dhamlin...
Knock it off, no driver bashing.
Honest debate is fine...or else you'll have to go to the Oval Office, lose points and pay fines.
The Chairman
Hey lookee here.....
"Thursday during preseason testing at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Wallace made eight laps on the road course in a Honda-powered Dallara prepared by Penske Racing.
Wallace was suitably impressed.
"I tell you what, I gotta get one of these at home," Wallace said. "I had a good time. I feel like I need to breathe a little while and then try it again."
And he does intend to try it again. Wallace said he plans to take the IRL two-seater out at every track, just to get the feel of each one, but he might like to go a step further at one venue.
"I need to talk to (Roger) Penske about running a third car at Indy," Wallace said. "You never know."
http://www.pjstar.com/stories/030506/JAN_B9588KUM.067.shtml
ALSO HOF announcement at 4pm ET today - Charlotte Convention Center. Hint hint!
Speed live now re: HOF announcement.
What a rich wuss looks like...
I can't take it anymore. I think the WWF is on somewhere...
I couldn't take my eyes off Brian France. He kept fidgeting with his tie, his collar, his fingers, his face. Making faces like a little boy who couldn't sit still.
HOF by 2009 in Charlotte.
Charlotte the pick for NASCAR's costly hallPlan adds office tower uptown for NASCAR, adds $17 million to price tagBy RICHARD RUBINThe Charlotte ObserverCharlotte is getting the NASCAR Hall of Fame, and plans released Monday show provisions for a new office tower and an additional $17 million in costs.
NASCAR will get city land on the Hall of Fame site off Brevard Street for $1 per year, plus $4 million in city money toward parking spaces for the 300,000 square foot office building, city and NASCAR officials told the Observer in an exclusive interview before this afternoon's announcement.
The new building would include NASCAR's licensing office and become the home of the sport's media operations. NASCAR's headquarters would remain in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The hall of fame, at the corner of Second and Brevard streets, could open as soon as 2009. The Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, which will operate the building, will start hiring the hall's top employees soon.
http://www.thatsracin.com/mld/thatsracin/14032386.htm
That $155,000,000 budget will be closer to $300,000,000 by completion if it's anything like other public projects of this type...
There has to be a nickname in here somewhere......
Sim racing helps Hamlin get road win
I run Dale Jr's DMP Online Racing League, and I am a friend of Jr., Martin Truex Jr. and Denny Hamlin. It was awesome to see Denny Hamlin win that road course race last weekend. Let me tell you something funny about all of that.
As you know, Denny is a big NASCAR simulation racer. Well, with the sim we use, you can set ratings on the race servers to keep out the rookies. You can set the ratings to different types of race tracks — road courses to speedways to short tracks. This all took place early in 2004, and Denny was just starting to race with the DMP gang then. He would whoop our rears all the time on the short tracks and the speedways, and he had a high rating for those types of tracks.
The ratings can be set from 0-10, and Denny had a 0 in the road courses. We had the race server set to 2 on the roadies so Denny couldn't get in to race on them. We would use a voice chat program to talk to each other when we raced. Well, after Denny would hand our rears to us on the ovals, then we would tell him we were going to race a road course, and he would get so mad cause he couldn't get in.
Well, after a few weeks, we decided to lower the ratings to 0 so he could race with us. Oh man, he was so bad it was funny. We would tease him all the time 'cause he was all over the place and wrecking all the time. It makes me laugh hard remembering all of this.
But after awhile, he got to be real good at them, and he was so determined to win a few races against us. He finally got to where he could win or finish in the top 3 to 5. You have to understand we are some of the best sim racers in the world, and Denny has to be probably one of the top 3 to 5 sim racers in the world also.
So to see what he did in Mexico was so awesome, and I think we had something to do with it.
Dan DeNayer is the president of the DMP Online Racing League. For more information, go to DMP-Racing.com .
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