NASCAR Nextel Cup: Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400 at RIR on FOX 7:00pm/est

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Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400

Richmond International Raceway

Welcome all to the the Nextel Cup race at Richmond International Raceway!

Since the first race in Richmond in 1953, the track has undergone three name changes, four configuration changes and one surface change, from dirt to asphalt.

Lights were also added to the facility in 1991. RIR is the only track to hold all of its major events under the lights.

Richmond's unique, .75-mile layout produces tremendous side-by-side racing, yet drivers obtain high enough speeds to give it a superspeedway feel. That rare combination still allows for the beating and banging that fans love, with the drivers' skill playing a major role.

The track's fall date is now the final race leading up to the 10-race Chase for the NextelCup.

Crown Royal Presents The Jim Stewart 400 at RIR is named after Jim Stewart from Houma, Louisiana, The winner of an essay contest sponsored by Crown Royal during the festivities leading up to the 2007 Daytona 500.
As guest of honor, Stewart will wave the green flag to start the race, as well as participate in the check and trophy presentations to the race winner in Victory Lane.
Crown Royal judged the finalists based on written and video submissions chronicling consumers' favorite "Crown-Worthy" moments, which is defined as a memorable moment or occasion deemed "worthy" of toasting with a Crown Royal cocktail in a responsible manner. Stewart's winning entry chronicled his moments growing up fishing with his father and later christening his own fishing boat with a toast to his father.

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Practice: Fri 5/4 11:00 am Nextel Cup Practice (LIVE) SPEED
Qualifying: Fri 5/4 6:00 pm Nextel Cup Qualifying (LIVE) SPEED
Race: Sat 5/5 7:00 pm Nextel Cup Race on FOX

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RICHMOND INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY NEWS/RUMORS
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[glock rocks]

Congrats Roccus (Mountain Williams) on high score...

Rank	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
1	Rainbow Freeping Warriors	226	324	290	333	179	356	322	267	381	302	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2980
2	Junk in a Box	212	230	292	323	300	306	282	301	332	329	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2907
3	Ward Burton's Translator	166	284	283	280	326	328	274	268	281	296	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2786
4	Doggone Loose Lugnuts!	164	253	268	306	295	323	268	293	279	284	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2733
5	Armadillo Wreckers	196	264	305	314	209	310	268	289	287	288	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2730
6	Bubba Q Racing	176	341	347	298	174	321	224	253	270	294	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2698
7	Tar Smokers	206	247	249	297	297	300	260	327	277	236	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2696
8	24 Karat Gold	178	125	290	332	297	330	330	284	232	274	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2672
9	Bud Drinkin' BBQ Smokers	146	228	298	262	292	334	266	279	239	300	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2644
10	Rexford's Rollers	172	246	232	267	316	319	192	233	329	328	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2634
10	Mooresville8crew	196	164	219	306	316	323	208	325	361	216	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2634
12	Benders de Fenders	146	325	316	288	260	216	254	264	255	274	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2598
13	Alabama Gang	156	205	336	241	221	279	268	255	311	294	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2566
14	Duck!	166	253	217	324	227	271	248	254	298	266	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2524
15	smoke20	192	253	230	260	184	324	210	283	288	296	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2520
16	fnord fnusion	104	300	259	202	216	332	268	251	287	294	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2513
17	whiskeyriverracing	202	197	280	211	241	270	180	288	369	274	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2512
18	Budman's Wrong Wray Wracing	170	244	268	275	231	256	276	237	308	236	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2501
19	The Fawns of Narnia	154	137	315	265	261	283	280	240	282	264	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2481
20	Goodyear Destroyers	214	191	301	250	176	317	120	267	362	281	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2479
21	Team Truth	204	208	226	252	291	268	142	319	334	234	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2478
22	cpprfld	168	234	185	289	158	281	244	246	320	334	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2459
23	MBR Motorsports	176	266	226	262	220	345	176	220	254	310	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2455
23	Norm's Beer&Donuts Inn	226	205	298	324	202	271	258	280	259	132	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2455
25	Mountain Williams	226	194	214	271	211	245	324	242	191	335	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2453
26	SouthTexasRacing	226	281	184	251	239	334	268	311	355	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2450
27	Eastfenderbenders	226	143	232	280	245	301	156	281	356	214	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2434
28	Hershey Motor Sports	140	209	300	283	313	250	200	184	254	283	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2416
29	Afronaut	166	195	263	289	276	268	212	207	298	214	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2388
30	Thundering Herd Of Turtles	164	219	207	263	218	295	196	262	264	288	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2376
30	Lime City Racing	168	266	198	232	261	347	114	339	169	282	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2376
32	Grimey Pits GMC Nokia Racing	212	222	286	263	215	241	196	220	233	273	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2361
33	Sith Racing	148	266	236	232	287	305	214	297	129	186	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2300
34	smokey_yunick	174	306	315	231	247	334	140	335	181	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2264
35	Fierce!	110	193	151	280	122	334	178	301	237	324	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2230
36	Lowe Rider	98	292	222	249	222	240	214	238	68	308	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2151

[tubebender]

I guess we taught Norm not to go to Reno without us...

[tubebender]

And don’t you tell him what I said or I will get ZZZotted...

[glock rocks]

And don’t you tell him what I said or I will get ZZZotted...

You know I'd never tell Nork anything that went on in his absence. But in my advanced age, I seem to have forgotten just what it was that I wasn't supposed to tell him. I'd hate to let something slip that I shouldn't have... perhaps you could refresh my memory before he gets back?

[Pete-R-Bilt]

missed em was outside putting a new set of Shakespeare vhf antennas on the cruiser

[don-o]

Excuse the butt-in - but is that for CB radio? Do y’all still talk on those things?

[Pete-R-Bilt]

HI! no I installed new antennas for the marine radio on my boat.

The kids pulled it out of the water last year without folding down the antennas the boat is a cruiser and sits about 12.5 ft tall on the trailer at the radar arch, with the ant’s up they were about 16 ft and at first trees they drove under wasted the fiberglass

OPPS, DAD SORRY!

[don-o]

Kids again, eh? They do keep us on our toes.

[tubebender]

Lots of weird and interesting stuff in the right hand column here... THATS RACIN

[don-o]

Weird and interesting, indeed. Bookmarking THAT site. Thanks.

"I broke the engine. I don’t know why I broke the engine,” Burton said. “We were only turning like 3,800 rpms here with this car. It just ate itself up.”

[Roccus]

Even a blind chicken finds a kernel or two if it keeps peckin’. ;)

[WestCoastGal]

During the broadcast they mentioned that someone on the 31 team dropped something in the engine and they couldn’t find it. They didn’t say what or where but DUH, like DW says when in doubt take it out. Starting last is better than not finishing.

[af_vet_rr]

Yes...get rid of the COT!

NASCAR put too much money into, and hyped it up too much, and they are too arrogant to admit when they made a big mistake, so we will have the COT for a long time to come.

I had a NASCAR official/PR type gush to me earlier this year about how the COT would level the playing field and would give a chance to the teams who might not be running a bunch of cars and had a ton of money. Funny, the teams winning the COT races seem to be big teams with lots of money.

I'll say it again, NASCAR came up with a solution to a problem that didn't exist. All of the safety features could have been implemented in the existing cars (which were already pretty safe).

NASCAR is just going downhill, and I'm not sure that they can reverse it at this point. Let me rephrase that - they could fix a lot of the problems they have going on, but they might anger some of the big money that's floating around.

[B Knotts]

I agree on all points...they won’t dump it now, even though they should, for the good of the sport.

The level of competitiveness is obviously better with the car of yesteryear. I’m a Jeff Gordon fan, mostly, but no one wants to see one team just dominate, as Hendrick is with the COT races.

The COT races have been boring, IMO. When I see they’re going to be racing COT, I anticipate a boring race.

I just hope they come up with a face-saving way to dump the COT (maybe by “refinining” it out of existence) in the next few years.

[WestCoastGal]

“I’m not looking forward to driving the car of tomorrow at Darlington,” he said. “People say the cars are ugly. Well, I don’t care what they look like, but they don’t drive as good as they should. In this day and age with all of the knowledge and technology we have, it’s ridiculous that these cars are so bad. That’s my opinion, which may not mean much, but I hope NASCAR listens to the drivers and teams when we say these cars don’t drive worth a damn.
“I mean, look at all the camber we have to run in the front end to make them turn - it’s just ridiculous, and there’s no reason why they should be that way. It’s still a new car, so maybe they’ll listen and make some changes to make it better.” Jr.

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks to a nice lady in So Carolina for the report from Lowe’s testing today.

Claire B talked to Jr a little bit ago and just played a bit of it on her show. I can’t quote because I didn’t write it down and I don’t remember it all but I can give you the gist of it. I really feel for him because he is frustrated but it was right comical the way he said it.

Jr said that the COT is the most frustrating thing he has ever been through in the sport. They need to talk to the drivers and especially the crew chiefs and mechanics about these cars. He will assist as much as he can but he can only tell them how the car feels. Tony Jr could tell them more. Jr said “I didn’t go that route.”LOL He said NASCAR had to do something. It won’t turn, it won’t do anything. Talked about the camber again. That it was just ridiculous to be running that much camber.

Then he proceeded to tell Claire and the assembled media there that the track at Richmond was part of the problem. He said that a few years ago when that track was so good to race on that they were resealing it every year. He said the racing was great. He just didn’t understand why they stopped resealing it. The COT makes it worse. He said its impossible to run the top groove with the car. You take it up there and try to turn the car and it just won’t turn. He said Richmond could help themselves ALOT by resealing the track. He didn’t understand WHY that hasn’t registered in somebody’s head yet. The racing would be so much better.

“I mean, HELLO!” He said he is one of the few drivers who can afford to speak up about this because his sponsor and place in the sport allows him to do so. Alot of other drivers can’t speak out like he can. He hopes NASCAR listens to criticism like they did as they were building the car along the way.

He is on a roll today.

[WestCoastGal]

http://www.oldjoeblack.0nyx.com/thinktst.htm

[glock rocks]

19 - channel 1, duh :o)

[WestCoastGal]

Don't laugh but I missed the lugnut question. :)

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Here is a really nice tribute to LCDR Kevin Davis.

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