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Posted on 05/25/2006 1:59:14 PM PDT 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.
argh and shoot.
I'm stuck with Smoke, Happy, Fast K and Ya Ya
Ah well. Say, Gal, I heard that Jr has a show on XM and is interviewing Flash today. I can't find it on the schedule though
11:30 tonight ET for some reason, usually it's on at 8 I think every Thursday. They tape it Tuesday.
They skip Fridays for the 600 because they have something called Speed Street which takes up the whole track with concerts and such. So the next Cup practice is not until Saturday.
Where did you find that?
Which means what?
On Jr's board. My error it's usually on at 7:30pm Thursdays but they put it later becaue of qualifying...maybe he's live this week. And Flash is the guest.
I hope Captain Kirk does make the show, just because of his sponsor.
I've been getting that a lot since I gave up decaf and went back to regular coffee.
Qualifying on time means they are not locked into the top 35 in owners points or have prior championship provisionals. Only eight of the "field fillers" can make it into the 43 car field, all the rest go home.
Here's Jayski's list for this week....
The Top 35 Owners Points is now set for Charlotte [Coca-Cola 600]:
no moves into or out of the top-35 in owners points
32) #22-Blaney/Bill Davis +146 points ahead of 36th
33) #45-Kyle Petty/Petty +142
34) #14-Marlin/Nelson Bowers +135
35) #19-Mayfield/Evernham +64
these drivers/teams are out of the Top 35 and would need to get in the races via speed only
36) #55-Waltrip/Doug Bawel -64 points behind 35th
37) #4-Wimmer/Larry McClure -108
38) #40-Stremme/Felix Sabates -116
Current owners [NOT drivers points] points are used for the remainder of the season, the points and positions will fluctuate each week and settle as the season progresses.
They are outside the top 35 in points and are not guaranteed a spot. The top 35 in points are guaranteed a starting spot.
What is Catdaddy Carolina Moonshine?
Thanks. I get it.
How did the non Top-35 teams do in practice?
Eight in and ten out [53 entered for 43 spots]:
if things stayed the same, these drivers would make the race
#32-Travis Kvapil, 10th fastest
#40-David Stremme, 25th
#44-Terry Labonte [CH], 31st
#70-Johnny Sauter, 33rd
#15-Paul Menard, 37th
#49-Kevin Lepage, 38th
#4-Scott Wimmer, 39th
#95-Stanton Barrett, 42nd
if things stayed the same, these drivers would miss the race
#78-Kenny Wallace, 43rd - Ack Herm!!
#51-Mike Garvey, 44th
#74-Derrike Cope, 45th
#61-Chad Chaffin, 47th
#72-Kertus Davis, 48th
#00-Hermie Sadler, 49th
#55-Michael Waltrip, 50th
#34-Chad Blount, 51st
#37-Carl Long, 52nd
#27-Kirk Shelmerdine, 53rd/last :{ The Captain
Probably something that Junior Johnson ran in the day :-)
Seriesly, take a gander at website. I swear I didn't take a look at their history page before I brought up Junior's name.
LOL It is moonshine!! Only 80 proof unlike the old stuff. The whole group from driver to sponsor are small businesses, I hope they make it in.
Just damn!
I like the bottle, I'm sure I wouldn't like the stuff in it. :)
"Sucking Air"? engines at the Daytona 500?
It's taken a while for word to leak out, but the big Daytona 500 trick this season - which NASCAR discovered but made no announcement about - concerned engines "sucking air" to gain horsepower. That's the word from a top NASCAR crew chief, who asked not to be named, and it was confirmed by a top car owner, who likewise asked not to be named. "When they did the chassis-dyno tests on the Daytona engines, they found that a number of teams had made huge gains in horsepower, from 18 to 25 more horsepower over the last chassis dyno tests of restrictor-plate engines," the crew chief said. "You couldn't pick up that much horsepower with a restrictor-plate engine if you worked for seven years on it. And those teams picked up that much in just one year? It's because they were sucking air. You wouldn't believe how many teams at Daytona were sucking air."
NASCAR rules are strict about sucking air - getting extra air into the engine cylinders by bypassing the restrictor plates that are designed to limit horsepower by choking down the air - and the penalties can be stiff. However no penalties were levied at Daytona. One key trick apparently was semi-legal - using a steel gasket instead of an aluminum gasket, and taking advantage of the gap of 10-thousandths-of-an-inch created when engine heat distorts the steel gasket.
NASCAR officials realized they had a problem when they discovered that some of Daytona's fastest qualifiers were using engines that couldn't pass NASCAR's post-qualifying manifold leak tests. NASCAR officials were unable to confirm the legality of front-row qualifiers Jeff Burton and Jeff Gordon until six hours after qualifying had ended. In response, NASCAR quietly changed some of its rules for Talladega, and some teams that had qualified very fast at Daytona were noticeably slower.(Winston Salem Journal)(5-22-2006)
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137836236827&path=%21sports&s=1037645509200
Since it is the Memorial Day weekend, I would like to raise a toast for two friends of mine - one, a WW2 vet, the other a Vitnam vet. They both live near my folks in the N.C. mountains and attend church with them. They are both great American heroes.
JD Wetterling - Top Gun F-100 Super Sabre pilot ; Rene Schmidt - Paratrooper, 101st Airborne - D-Day/Bulge
JD with his bird
Take time to read JD's website, including his installment this week 'A Memorial for Vietnam Veterans'. Visit this link to read Rene's story.
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