NASCAR - Food City 500 - from Bristol - on FOX, Sunday 3/26 at 2:00pm ET (LIVE THREAD)

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Food City 500

Sunday 2:00 pm Eastern

from Bristol Motor Speedway

SPEED Pre-race show at 11:00 Eastern (90 min)FOX Pre-race show at 1:30 Eastern

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You just playing, right?

absolutely.

[tubebender]

Lows in the 20s...and no anti-freeze in the radiators! I hope they leave the block heaters plugged in...

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Upper 20's... no prob, jes far it up ever 4-5 hours er so.

[don-o]

I can't remember it THIS cold at the Spring race

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That is pretty chilly isn't it. Makes that machinery, of all varieties, get awfully cantankerous. Hope the crews have some good gloves and such... the bumps and bangs just seem to hurt that much more when it's cold.

[WSGilcrest]

Rank	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
1	DMP_Crew	300	295	344	270	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1209
2	Bud-Drinkin' BBQ Smokin' Team	296	288	331	288	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1203
3	Rainbow Freeping Warriors	254	305	304	307	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1170
4	Loose Lugnuts	346	219	346	239	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1150
5	Alabama Gang	314	248	239	343	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1144
6	this time it's personal	318	288	299	234	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1139
7	24 Karat Gold	254	256	328	298	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1136
8	Todd's Barathrum	356	178	302	296	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1132
9	Afronaut	304	221	282	323	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1130
10	Norm's Bar&Grill	276	208	347	291	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1122
11	Tar Smokers	302	238	284	296	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1120
11	Truth	296	187	291	346	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1120
13	Slingshot Pass	248	211	342	307	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1108
14	8 BALL RACING	364	171	336	234	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1105
15	Thundering Herd of Turtles	318	222	337	220	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1097
15	Big Papa's Crew	324	187	313	273	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1097
17	Fierce Freepin!	326	258	270	224	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1078
18	Ward Burton's Translator	226	227	309	315	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1077
19	keokuk29	304	288	240	235	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1067
19	Freepin Oldie Racing...Go MM!!	218	228	283	338	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1067
21	Jolly Ranchers	228	214	294	328	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1064
22	BRF1	236	230	292	304	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1062
23	Duck!	198	268	342	252	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1060
24	Red State Racing	284	286	225	258	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1053
25	Eastfenderbenders	216	193	320	302	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1031
26	vikingvxx	292	250	184	303	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1029
27	Armadillo Wreckers	258	230	282	247	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1017
28	Lime City Racing	158	253	303	302	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1016
29	chuckwagonracing	290	248	151	320	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1009
30	Benders De Fenders	296	192	280	239	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1007
31	Back up!	294	238	245	226	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1003
32	statsbymike.com	314	253	282	146	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	995
33	Badboy Racers	180	278	225	293	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	976
34	Burning08	308	221	180	266	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	975
35	Cherokee Fire	274	214	296	190	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	974
36	Rexford's Rollers	260	161	245	302	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	968
37	BushCountry	224	159	255	318	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	956
38	Racing_Rebels	234	165	298	257	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	954
39	Semi High Racing	276	272	257	145	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	950
40	Dog Gone Loose Lugnuts!	326	228	244	125	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	923
41	Bubba Q Racing	230	148	293	238	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	909
42	Triple Boogity	242	196	218	244	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	900
43	South Texas Racing	198	149	282	265	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	894
44	San Antonio Scorch	224	168	248	253	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	893
45	Mort's Motorsports	0	246	283	274	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	803
46	cpprfld	192	173	244	157	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	766
47	coondogracing	216	206	205	135	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	762
48	Speed Stars	178	167	226	182	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	753

[GRRRRR]

Weather like this at BRISTOL?!?

Them folks at the Red Barn Campground will NOT BE HAPPY!
Close to 100,000 human beans will be camping in the area around the track. From lowly pup tents to the $2million RV Class A busses...

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LOL just put one o' them TennDOT snow plows with a V-blade out front as the Pace Truck. Clean the SNOW and DayBris off the track in one swell foop.

Seriesly tho, Bruton Smith has kidded about putting a roof over this venue...it could and SHOULD be done! It doesn't have to be a 'real' solid, permanent roof but could be sort of an 'umbrella' design. open around the rim with lightweight tentpoles extending out from the rim and covered by a durable yet water protective skin. It could be hoisted by helo in multiple parts...

Call me BRUTON!!! I gots the VISION!

[LasVegasMac]

Currently 36 with rain / snow.

lol

I can hear them whinning now. They sure did at Las Vegas. Too funny.

[WestCoastGal]

Morning don-o - everyone. I see it's very wet at Bristol this morning, reports indicate it was pouring overnight. However, they are going through tech right now which could be a good sign. Thinking positive thoughts here......

I really want to see qualifying happen today!! I would rather see my driver start 7th than 19th. :)

[don-o]

Morning Gal and all! There may be a window this afternoon according to local forecast; but, it does not look good right now. Rain / snow mix.

There is a good stpey in the JC paper - Rusty and Kenny were at the Storyrelling olace in Jonesboro yesterday telling some tales. I'll try to post it at lunch when I go home.

[WestCoastGal]

Stories from Rusty and Herm.........ooooooooh that's gotta be good!!

[don-o]

Several about #3.

Still drizzling, but the sky is several shades lighter that a couple hours ago

[WestCoastGal]

What is the elevation at Bristol?

[don-o]

What is the elevation at Bristol?

1500 - 1600

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Can you imagine how loud it would be inside an enclosed Bristol? LOL. The vortex from the cars would probably exert enough torque to levitate the stadium like a toy gyro. Could be interesting... I can hear Mike Joy now... well folks, banking in turn three is now up to 135 degrees, and traction in turn one has really become a problem as it is flatter than Phoenix...

[don-o]

Wallace brothers swap racing stories at charity event
03/24/2006

By JEFF BOBO

BRISTOL, Tenn. - As Bristol Motor Speedway began to grow and expand throughout the 1990s, one of the biggest attractions that put people in the track's new grandstands was the fierce rivalry between Rusty Wallace and Dale Earnhardt.

That rivalry spawned a lot of classic stories, some of which Rusty and his little brother Kenny Wallace shared Thursday night at BMS during a charity event to benefit the National Storytelling Association in Jonesborough.

BMS hosted one of the most famous races of all time in 1995 when Earnhardt wrecked Terry Labonte as he crossed the finish line, and Labonte drove his crashed car into victory lane.

Rusty told a story Thursday about the beginning of that race, and the end of that race. He said Earnhardt felt threatened by the success of the young upstart Jeff Gordon. Earnhardt and Rusty were starting that race nose to tail, with Gordon on their outside.

"Dale Earnhardt used to hate Jeff Gordon," Rusty Wallace said. "He learned to like Jeff Gordon because they started doing business together - selling T-shirts - but he still had this thing that really burned him up for a long time because he was the man and then this kid comes along and starts beating him up. So we were getting ready for driver introductions, and he's got me back behind the stage. He said, ‘This kid's on the outside, you and me are on the inside, so let's just hook up, blow this cat off and hang him out to dry.'

"At Bristol, if you don't get on that bottom lane pretty quick you can get stuck on the top and go to the back. He said, ‘Look. This punk don't deserve this. You and I will hook up, and we'll drive off.' I said ‘OK, fine.'"

Six laps into the race, Earnhardt plowed into Rusty's back bumper and knocked him into the wall. Rusty said he drove the next 494 laps "mad as a hornet," and after the race he went looking for Earnhardt.

"(After the race) Earnhardt stops off of turn four, and the crowd's down there all high-fiving each other - the rednecks are all jumping up and down going ape sh-- because it's the biggest thing that happened in a long time," Rusty said. "I walked down to him, and somebody gave me a bottle of water because it was hot, and I just wanted to get to him and say, ‘Hey, what happened? We had a deal.' I said, ‘Hey Dale' and he kept waving at everybody like, ‘I'm the man, I'm the man.' This went on for what felt like forever, and I couldn't get his attention, so I took that bottle and I went ‘Boom!' and hit him right in the head.

"I couldn't have hit that shot again in a million years, and he turned around and boy, the match was on then."

Kenny started another Dale Earnhardt story which Rusty finished. In was the late 1980s, and Kenny was racing in the American Speed Association at St. Paul, Minn., on Labor Day.

The Sunday before Labor Day, the Cup series was at Darlington running the Southern 500. Kenny said he watched that race on TV with Rusty right on Bill Elliott's tail the entire race. Kenny said he just knew Rusty was going to win that race, but in the end Elliott prevailed in a close battle.

After that race, several drivers including Rusty, Bobby Allison, Harry Gant and Earnhardt got on a plane and flew to St. Paul to make an appearance at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds and attend the ASA race the next day, which was an important stock car race in the Midwest at the time.

"Earnhardt looked at me and looked at Rusty and said, ‘I told Rusty all he had to do was knock the sh-- out of Elliott and spin him out, and he'd have won the Southern 500 - fans would have forgiven him in about a month,'" Kenny said. "I went, ‘Oh my gosh. It's true.'"

Rusty had another story to tell about that same event. He said they were all sitting in the plane heading to St. Paul, and Earnhardt was saying, "I wouldn't have put up with that. I would have knocked him off the track and won that race."

Rusty said that after Earnhardt had said that, Bobby Allison leaned over and told him, "I respect you for racing that guy clean like you did. Don't listen to that idiot," and Allison waved his hand at Earnhardt as if to brush him off.

The Wallace brothers told a lot of stories Thursday evening, and most of them didn't involve Dale Earnhardt. Some of the biggest laughs came when Rusty told about the antics of Kenny as a little boy helping Rusty with his short-track career in the early years in Missouri.

One night they raced in Fort Smith, Ark., and loaded up three carloads of crewmen to drive the next day to St. Louis to get ready for another race. Kenny was about 8 years old.

They stopped in Springfield, Mo., for breakfast, and about 100 miles out of Springfield they were stopped by the police.

"The cop said, ‘Hey, you left somebody back there,'" Rusty said. "I said, ‘What are you talking about?' He said, ‘You left somebody named Kenny Wallace back at this restaurant.' I said, ‘No I didn't. He's in the car behind us.'"

Rusty and the officer looked in the car behind them, and they said Kenny was in the car in front. Kenny wasn't in the third car, either.

"Kenny went in to use the rest room, and they had the toilet paper roll with the springs on the side, and he kept pulling the paper, and it kept breaking off," Rusty said. "He said he pulled and pulled and pulled, and it broke and broke and broke, and the whole time this toilet paper is breaking off I'm in the truck and we're gone. We thought he was there."

Kenny walked from the restaurant to the highway and started walking home, but he was walking in the wrong direction.

"I was walking to Florida," Kenny said.

Fortunately the police were kind enough to drive Kenny 100 miles to where the police had stopped Rusty's team.

"He chewed my a-- out," Kenny said.

"I said, ‘Don't you ever go to the bathroom without telling me,'" Rusty said. "If I'd made it home Mom would have killed us."


Published: March 24, 2006
Contact this Times-News contributor- JEFF BOBO

[don-o]

Odd chairs

[don-o]

(After the race) Earnhardt stops off of turn four, and the crowd's down there all high-fiving each other - the rednecks are all jumping up and down going ape sh--

Wonder if Rusty knew there were reporters present?

I'm sure there were good ol boys and girls jumping up and down and going ape sh--, as well as rednecks.

We must have accuracy in these matters.

[don-o]

might as well

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