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NASCAR LIVE: BRISTOL Saturday Night, August 26, 2006 - Sharpie 500 on TNT 7pm ET
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Posted on 08/22/2006 1:18:18 PM PDT by WestCoastGal

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801 posted on 08/27/2006 12:11:12 PM PDT by monkapotamus
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To: glock rocks

LOL good shot.


802 posted on 08/27/2006 12:22:38 PM PDT by SouthTexas (It's summer, of course it's hot.)
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To: GRRRRR
You should have seen the racing action at my local short track. It was AWESOME! My kids went in the pits afterward, got all kinds of autographs, and got to climb into a bunch of race cars! I'm glad I didn't stay home to watch Bristol.


803 posted on 08/27/2006 12:40:58 PM PDT by Toby06 (The 'Holier than thou" types who call women sluts and whores are just pure psuedo-Christian trash.)
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To: monkapotamus

Newt and Rudy for 08?


804 posted on 08/27/2006 1:10:18 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: Toby06
Good Job T6!!! Support your local race track by bringing the young uns...
805 posted on 08/27/2006 1:12:47 PM PDT by tubebender
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To: tubebender

They drag me! For 10 year old girls, they are VERY knowledgeable! They love it, and they don't mind the 2 1/2 hour ride as much as i do.

I'll have to go a bunch more next year, as they are now members in a spostsman division drivers unofficial fan club. He was real good to them. He looks for them in the stands to wave to them, but they are right down on the fence to wave.

I love the access to the drivers at the short tracks. They are all decent folks and will hold up laoding up the trailer so another kid can sit in their car. They will autograph tear-offs, anything to make the kids smile.

That stuff right there is what it's all about to me, besides, the racing is way way better, and the french fries are only $1.50 and actually taste good!


806 posted on 08/27/2006 1:18:24 PM PDT by Toby06 (The 'Holier than thou" types who call women sluts and whores are just pure psuedo-Christian trash.)
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To: SouthTexas

I'm just trying to be diplomatic. Bo has you in his sights.

HAHAHAHAHAHA.



sigh.


807 posted on 08/27/2006 6:31:20 PM PDT by glock rocks (will you tell me a story?)
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To: glock rocks
Yeah, but we have one in between us now so you will have to do the double bump!

Gained two spots this week but are there enough laps left??? LOL

808 posted on 08/27/2006 6:40:02 PM PDT by SouthTexas (It's summer, of course it's hot.)
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To: GRRRRR; don-o
On an off topic subject

24

won best drama series last night as did Kiefer Sutherland. Unfortunately Jean Smart and Gregory Itzin who played President Logan definitely deserved to win but didn't!! I couldn't watch the entire show it was disgustingly liberal cr!p. But I knew the last 15 minutes would be the 24 time. :)
809 posted on 08/28/2006 6:28:56 AM PDT by WestCoastGal ( "He can say what he wants. He got run over because he got off the gas." He's uncouth too. LOL Jr!)
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To: WestCoastGal; GRRRRR
WEll that's great. I am totally out of television now. I guess I am going to have to break down and get me another, just for 24 and college football.

Mrs don-o frowns very seriesly on the TeeVee; but I think I can get it done w/o too much.....uh, carnage.

810 posted on 08/28/2006 6:35:36 AM PDT by don-o (Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
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To: don-o; WestCoastGal; glock rocks; tubebender; steveegg; Swordmaker

http://web.mac.com/gmarsh75/iWeb/Site/Photos.html

Check it out kids...using iWEB on my NEW NEW NEW iMac...I have actually published some pics to a website...MAC technology...it just WORKS!!

Will post more as I have time...also does VIDEO!!

G


811 posted on 08/28/2006 7:49:26 AM PDT by GRRRRR (WHERE is the next Ronald Reagan? Virginia?)
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To: GRRRRR

N-I-C-E (drool).


812 posted on 08/28/2006 7:53:39 AM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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To: WestCoastGal

Thought this was an article about Flash.


813 posted on 08/28/2006 8:35:03 AM PDT by SouthTexas (It's summer, of course it's hot.)
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To: GRRRRR
Grrrrreat!!! When can you come over to my house and show me how you did that?

I took a vow three years ago I would never replace that my 15" Gooseneck iMac because it was the coolest most functional machine I'd ever need. I did upgrade to a 17" model when one was going cheap on eBay a year ago. Now my daughter has a G5 20" iMac and it looks like the coolest most functional machine I could ever own.

Visual obsolescence, just like automobiles...
814 posted on 08/28/2006 9:23:38 AM PDT by tubebender
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To: WestCoastGal

BRISTOL, Tenn. -- In the wee hours of Sunday, Bristol Motor Speedway president Jeff Byrd drove through the emptying parking lots in a golf cart, apologizing to people.

Sadly for the image of Byrd's notorious domain, not a single outrage had occurred during Saturday night's Sharpie 500. Not a single driver had left here furious. (Oh, Jeff Gordon was miffed for a moment at Scott Riggs, but got over it too quickly to make a real Bristol-esque show of it.)

There would be no suspense this week waiting to see whether NASCAR would issue penalties for bad behavior.

[snip]

The crowd of 160,000-plus -- the 49th straight sellout here, purely due to the magnetism of melees -- had filed out unfulfilled. They hadn't seen enough of the fury that makes Bristol's night race the toughest ticket in NASCAR. "It happens to us," Byrd said dejectedly, "about once every 10 years."

[snip]

It could have gotten nasty near the end, but the key to good behavior may have been Dale Earnhardt Jr., who settled rationally and calmly for third place rather than trying to overdrive his sometimes-fitful Chevrolet into a fight with Kenseth for the win or even Kyle Busch for second.

And Earnhardt's rationale included a word that could be devastating to Bristol's wild reputation: respect. "With the Chase [imminent after two more races] and everybody being so close [in the standings], there was a lot more respect out there on the track tonight," Earnhardt said. "A lot more than you've seen in the past."

Uh-oh.

Respect was the one human element that had been flouted and stomped on for decades at Bristol. Why, if drivers respect one another here, then how are they to continue stuffing one another into the wall, with the victim usually retaliating within a few laps? How are they to stand amid their wreckage and make raging, sometimes obscene, gestures?

"When I caught guys, they moved over," Earnhardt said.

Oh, no.

"And I did the same for others."

Ouch.

"You don't normally see that here."

No kidding.

"He let me go," Busch said of their late encounter, "so I didn't have to waste much time on him or use a front bumper . . " And then, Busch said, he "never could get to" Kenseth. That, Busch concluded, was probably for the best.

[snip]

Of the top five finishers here, four ? Kenseth, Busch, Earnhardt and Gordon ? are all in the Top 10 which is the cutoff point for the Chase. Kenseth clinched a berth Saturday night, but the other three mainly wanted to make sure they didn't knock themselves out of contention by indulging their tempers and aggressiveness here.

Then again, Earnhardt reckoned, "I don't know if anybody is on any better behavior. I guess opportunities didn't arise for some of those guys to get into trouble."

So maybe there is hope for Bristol's hot August night after all.




Link: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/motorracing/orl-nascar2806aug28,0,7457578.story?coll=orl-sports-headlines-motorrace


815 posted on 08/28/2006 1:24:35 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Mobil 1 Command Performance Driver of the Race Dale Earnhardt Jr. ~ Bristol Baby)
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To: WestCoastGal; All; tubebender; glock rocks; don-o; steveegg

No question about it...see my post 788...Possible the Demise of Bristol??


PS: Updated the Website

http://web.mac.com/gmarsh75/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html


816 posted on 08/28/2006 3:08:38 PM PDT by GRRRRR (WHERE is the next Ronald Reagan? Virginia?)
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To: GRRRRR; WestCoastGal; glock rocks; tubebender; steveegg; don-o; NYTexan; SouthTexas
Thought you might like to see the new addition...

Command Center

iMac 20" on the left, then dual monitors for WinXP machine...

817 posted on 08/28/2006 3:24:21 PM PDT by GRRRRR (WHERE is the next Ronald Reagan? Virginia?)
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To: GRRRRR

Wow great set-up. I always love to see how everyone has their computer TV etc. for tacing. I will have to get a pic of mine.......I have one computer......lol

Great pics on your website also....From friends who went to Bristol Jr stayed in his motorhome at the track. Everyone had a great time, hot during the day. Headaches from the carbon monoxide and you can't hear anyone next to you say a word because it's so loud.

I really hate that they've made Bristol so peecee and forced the drivers to be "respectful" or else.


818 posted on 08/28/2006 3:32:45 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Mobil 1 Command Performance Driver of the Race Dale Earnhardt Jr. ~ Bristol Baby)
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To: steveegg

Cup Teams to test at Milwaukee Aug 28-29: The Milwaukee Mile will play a key role in the performance of select Nextel Cup Series teams this coming Monday, August 28 and Tuesday, August 29. Richard Childress Racing’s three ‘Cup drivers, #29-Kevin Harvick, #31-Jeff Burton and #07-Clint Bowyer will be testing over the two days, in preparation for similar ovals ahead on the Nextel Cup Series schedule, including Martinsville, Va, Richmond, VA, and Phoenix, AZ. Potentially all three Evernham Motorsports teams are expected, and there may be others. “In a show of appreciation to our fans, we welcome all to come out and watch these Nextel Cup teams conduct valuable test sessions from our all-aluminum grandstands free of charge,” commented Milwaukee Mile president & CEO Andy Randall. “We are pleased the teams allow us this opportunity for our fans to watch.” The grandstands will be open from 9:00am until 5:00pm both days. There will be no infield access to view the test sessions. Limited concessions will be available.(Milwaukee Mile site), also hearing Joe Gibbs Racing may also attend the test.(8-24/28-2006)


819 posted on 08/28/2006 3:33:13 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (Mobil 1 Command Performance Driver of the Race Dale Earnhardt Jr. ~ Bristol Baby)
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To: WestCoastGal

Testing was almost certainly rained out today, as we're now on Day 3 of "the rain's going to stop tomorrow". Between that and the constant and massive shifting of the Ernesto forecasts, I'm shocked, SHOCKED that the lieberals are still pushing "global warming caused by us decadent Americans" as gospel.


820 posted on 08/28/2006 3:59:08 PM PDT by steveegg (Let's make the deeply-saddened Head KOmmie deeply soddened in Nov. - deny the 'RATs the election)
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