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Posted on 03/23/2006 5:07:15 AM PST by glock rocks
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Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.
I took a good nap during the snow break. You are excused by all means, sir. Last 50 were some good stuff.
I will miss almost all of tomorrows race. Gotta go watch some fights.
Dang, just when i was gonna make my move, too. LOL!
Not meaning to be a thread nanny here....
Greats hot of a flurry. What a season so far.. 2 snow delays today,, i missed most of the race, caught most of the snow. ;-) lol
A pit crew member waits out a brief snowfall as it causes a delay in the Busch Series Sharpie Mini 300 on Saturday, March 25, 2006 at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Bristol, Tenn. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
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Heck, if I knew you were coming over, I'd have bought some more artichokes! |
Feed me artichokes and not that good stuff from your grill and we WILL throw down, especially after I went and rented the refrigerated ryder truck for all this beer for you, me and Bo!
I am posting this late at night so no one will see it...
A Living Will
A man and his wife were sitting in the living room, and he said to her, "Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug."
His wife got up, unplugged the TV and threw out all of his beer.
Poor guy, dead at 27 years old!!
LOL!!!!!
Where do I send the flowers...
Morning all.
I would never forget Pete :) I just thought you kept the ping for him.
Remember guys under green enter pits in 2 & 4, under caution enter in 2 and go around to your pit. [Jeff!!]
Here's a good explanation......
There will be a lot of cautions today and a lot of hot tempers.
Under caution, once pit lane has been opened, all cars will now enter the pits in Turn 2. If they are pitting on the frontstretch they must proceed at pit road speed down the backstretch, accelerate through Turns 3 and 4 on the apron without passing the pace car, then re-enter the frontstretch pits to complete their stops.
Cars pitting on the backstretch will exit their pit lane in Turn 3, proceed on the apron to the frontstretch pit entrance and re-enter it, proceeding at pit road speed to exit the frontstretch pits at Turn 1.
Good morning all. 31 and yes it's a little flaky out there. Anyone want to see a story about the 8 from the Kingsport paper?
Low profile OK with Earnhardt, at least for now
03/25/2006
By JOHN MOOREHOUSE
BRISTOL, Tenn. - It's hard to imagine Dale Earnhardt Jr. doing anything in a nondescript fashion without the aid of a complex disguise.
Yet despite his fame, Earnhardt's strong start this season has been greeted with little fanfare.
"It's considerably more low key than it has been in the past," acknowledged Earnhardt, who sits seventh in the Nextel Cup points standings heading into Sunday's Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Coming off a career low is one of the factors. Earnhardt finished 19th in the points last season, his worst effort since becoming a full-time Cup driver in 2000.
Meanwhile, other drivers like Greg Biffle, Carl Edwards and Kurt Busch - the new would-be villain on the circuit - carved out their own slices of national notoriety.
"Last year took a lot of the spotlight off us and put it on a lot of the other drivers who'd come into the series," Junior noted. "In a sense, it's fine with me, but you want to be as successful as you can in this sport. We want to get back into form on the racetrack, and I think everything else will take care of itself."
So far, so good.
Earnhardt already has two top-10 finishes to his credit, counting a third-place showing in Monday's Golden Corral 500 in Atlanta. His position would be even stronger if not for a speeding penalty that had him tumble to a 27th-place finish there.
That misstep aside, all is much brighter in the world of DEI these days, thanks in large part to the return of Tony Eury Jr. to the No. 8 team. Eury had a rather public split with Earnhardt, though he stayed in-house to helm the crew on teammate Michael Waltrip's ride last season.
"It's really a great feeling, to have put all that nasty stuff that had come between us aside and not see that anywhere around us now," Earnhardt said. "You can kind of tell when you work with people whether that's still gonna be a problem. I don't have that feeling at all. I've changed and he's changed and it's really a good feeling to be able to get in his race cars."
Eury's return has been coupled with a renewed sense of resolve inside Earnhardt.
"This is all I ever wanted to do. Just because I don't look like I've got the killer instinct doesn't mean that when I'm on the racetrack that I don't drive like it," Earnhardt said. "I'm as determined as I've ever been and as focused as I've ever been. I think a season like last year definitely solidifies that inside you.
"I found there's a lot more to me as a driver and a lot more inside me as a driver than I knew about. … I come in here with a lot more confidence as a driver and definitely determined to get back where I feel like I need to be."
Earnhardt is already in impressive company at Bristol after winning both the Cup and Busch races at Bristol back in the fall of 2004. That achievement finally gave Junior something he had wanted ever since he watched his late father run on the high banks.
"I came here year after year after year wanting to go to victory lane at Bristol as a kid, because it was the track he won his first race at," the younger Earnhardt explained. "When you win a race here, you feel like you successfully navigated a minefield. It's half elation and excitement and the other half relief. To sweep that weekend was amazing to me."
Published: March 26, 2006
Contact this Times-News contributor- JOHN MOOREHOUSE
From that article....
"Yet despite his fame, Earnhardt's strong start this season has been greeted with little fanfare"
The writer of this article obviously has no clue as to how devoted Jr's fans are to him. Little fanfare? hahaha....We are rocking with joy in the Earnhardt camp!! Even if he doesn't win another race his fans will still be with him, he has so much more to offer us than just winning a race. He's the most fun to listen to on the radio both incar and XM. He has the best show on Speed "Back In The Day" because he respects the veteran drivers so much. He is someone we can be proud of with his actions on and off the track which some other drivers will never get. Jr lives under a huge microscope which has to be so very difficult.
And, finally he KNOWS we are behind him through thick and thin. Just watch his interviews and the wink at the end for us. He knows we are out here and ride with him every week and support him no matter what.
Drive fast, pit fast, but most of all be safe!
Its coming down pretty good - my street is wet. However the Blountville radio (closer to the track) says the snow has come and gone there.
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