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Posted on 11/21/2008 5:30:10 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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“ServiceMaster Clean announced that it has signed a unique partnership agreement to be the first-ever official sponsor of the caution period during races at International Speedway Corporation (ISC) and Speedway Motorsports Incorporated (SMI) race tracks across the nation. When there is a problem on the track, the ServiceMaster Clean Yellow Flag will wave, and the company’s familiar yellow trucks will be dispatched to clean the track. In racing, a yellow flag means cleaning. Restoration must be done quickly and professionally in order to get back to racing. In homes and businesses across North America, a yellow ServiceMaster Clean van means cleaning and restoration is being done quickly and professionally by America’s number one cleaning team. ServiceMaster Clean will have official and exclusive sponsorship of the Yellow Flag– now to be known as ServiceMaster Clean Caution periods – at all 19 ISC and SMI race tracks around the country. These racetracks feature 31 Sprint Cup, 24 Nationwide and 17 Camping World Truck Series races and hundreds of other racing events. In fact, there will hardly be a race for the next five years where ServiceMaster Clean does not have a large presence. All cleaning and drying vehicles and equipment will feature the ServiceMaster Clean logo and colors, and the clean-up teams will wear bright yellow ServiceMaster Clean jumpsuits. The multi-year agreement is not limited to what happens on the track, but also includes national coverage on the Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Performance Racing Network (PRN), hospitality events for franchise owners, the right to create and sell promotional merchandise and a host of other marketing opportunities designed to generate consistent visibility.”
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Dale Earnhardt Jr. was asked a rather innocuous question about the best advice he had ever gotten, but the answer turned into a passionate plea against the use of illegal drugs.
Dale Earnhardt Sr. constantly preached about staying away from drugs, and Earnhardt Jr. said it worked.
“I had a pretty decent head on my shoulders, and I was actually scared to death of that stuff when I was 13,” Earnhardt Jr. said Saturday at Daytona International Speedway, where NASCAR hosted its Preseason Thunder Fan Fest. “I had never seen what weed looked like or what cocaine looked like, and if somebody would have showed me I probably would have run in the other direction.
“For some reason my daddy was real adamant, and he mentioned it almost on a daily basis or a weekly basis at least about staying away from it, stay away from people who were doing it. I think he was worried because he was out of town racing.”
Earnhardt Sr., of course, was racing every weekend, so he was worried about what Dale Jr. and sister Kelley were doing on the weekends.
NASCAR exec can’t recall jet’s impact, but comes away with much more
THATSRACIN.COM OPINION
By David Poole
dpoole@charlotteobserver.com
Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009
Every time she takes off in an airplane, Amber Wells silently counts to 120.
“If something’s going to happen,” she says, “I figure it’ll be in the first two minutes.”
Thursday afternoon, Wells made it just past 90.
Sitting in a window seat - 20F - on US Airways Flight 1549 from New York to Charlotte, she heard a loud thump. Then, she says, she saw fire and then black smoke come from the plane’s right engine.
“The first thing I said was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’ “ she says. “As many times as I’d counted to 120, it had happened.”
There was the smell of smoke.
Then, Wells says, “a flight attendant behind us said, ‘We need a fire extinguisher.’ “
Then things quickly got quiet, says Wells, the Charlotte-based senior manager of licensed attractions for NASCAR. She was on her way home after meetings with exhibit designers for the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
“The only thing you could hear,” she says, “was people mumbling prayers.”
Wells found her cell phone. She typed out a text message to her husband, Josh, who works at World Racing Group in Charlotte. She wanted him to know she loved him and their 8½-month-old daughter, Rayley, in case the worst happened. She sent it at 3:29 p.m.
The pilot’s voice came over the intercom. “Prepare for impact,” he said.
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http://www.thatsracin.com/topstories/story/21774.html
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Richard Petty's name survives team merger
By MIKE HARRIS – 1 hour ago
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Amid all the economic turmoil in NASCAR, fans can take some comfort knowing Richard Petty is still around.
Petty, stock car's king and at 71 still the most recognizable face in racing, will have a presence under a rebranding of the new team created by the merger of his organization with Gillett Evernham Motorsports.
The new team will be called Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM), capitalizing on the seven-time champion's marketability. The announcement was made Monday during the first day of the annual NASCAR Sprint Media Tour hosted by Lowe's Motor Speedway.
Petty and GEM principal owner George Gillett agreed to merge their teams this month in a partnership that keeps the sponsor-strapped Pettys in racing. Reed Sorenson will drive Petty's famed No. 43 Dodge for RPM this season. Petty's No. 44 Dodge will be run by A.J. Allmendinger in at least the first five races of the season as the team attempts to find more sponsorship.
Those two drivers join GEM holdovers Kasey Kahne and Elliott Sadler, who both have full-time rides.
Auto repair has always been a haven in a downturn as motorist generally spent heavily on repairs rather than buy new vehicles but not this time.
I wonder if things would have been different for Richard if his Grandson Adam had not been killed...
That’s possible about Adam, but I personally think their equipment was never up to par with the larger teams.
I should add that the economy doesn’t seem to be a problem in Texas. Our town is still booming and the big city stores are all full of shoppers.
Racing News, “Tony Stewart to drive for Hendrick Motorsports” - http://tinyurl.com/9guwmb
Well, Jr, I'll tell ya this....you're late, great Dad is / was not the only Dad that is just real adamant about this subject.
I have a 14 yr old that will testify to that fact, no oath required---just ask him and he'll tell ya.
Ya did good in listening to the old man, Jr.
This afternoon my youngin' is nursing a sore shoulder. In honor of the MLK holiday we went out shooting.
About 200 rounds with his Christmas gift, 22 rifle. And four rounds with Dad's 20 gauge, his first with a gauge. Definitely hesitant to try it after hearing it in action, little assurance from the 'wise one' and it was time to do it.
A great experience. I told him, "Skeet shooting is next!"
Anyway, one of my efforts in the battle against drugs.
Side story: we go about 30 miles out of town to shoot. The wife says this morning, "are you going to Apex to shoot?" - "No, we are about 15 miles past that, why?" - "Everybody at work says that Apex is where the gangbangers go to shoot." - "Wow, glad to know that. They say what the bag limit is?" :)
Nascar related, I'm sure.....bullets / pellets / slugs got to the target really, really FAST.
Awaiting WCG's approval before posting.
Way to go about teaching the youngun how to shoot. I thought the gangbangers just shoot in town.
Here’s Jr at Fanfest talking Daytona, the draft and the new car and Memphis ribs.
Part 2
Who were most surprising Nascar fans and his thoughts on the Shootout format.
DUH! Wonder why it's never been thought of before?
Given careful consideration, on such a hysterical day, I think it an appropriate tagline.
On Air Mistake Finally Shows Nascar’s real problem
After the first commercial, the program returned but something was just not quite right. What fans were seeing at home was the casual conversation between the panelists and Crawford as he was leaving. There was little doubt that this content was not intended to be on the air. What happened next was amazing.
The panel was addressing the real problems NASCAR was about to experience. For some reason, this type of content has been banned from SPEED so far this season. Polite talk and softball questions have been the order of the day since SPEED returned to the air with NASCAR programming.
“When we get to California, I have a feeling it might look like a ghost town,” said Darrell Waltrip. “Everybody that’s broke drags everything they got down here (Daytona) because they know they can make a buck if they can get to start the race.”
Apparently, the discussion on the set was about the reality of the season after the Daytona weekend. This is exactly the kind of frank talk that fans have been waiting for and not getting on SPEED. Waltrip had more to say about the Camping World Truck Series.
“NASCAR did this market study and they said that fans did not like the fact that there were no pit stops,” said Steve Byrnes. He was talking to Waltrip about the truck series and the recent talk about changing the rules.
“Oh, they are not going to,” answered Waltrip. “But, if there are no fans there, who cares?”
DW may be silly at times occasionally downright irritating, but he sure nailed this one!
I imagine the race teams trying to stay alive and the sponsors would care.
I’m off to work, not sure what I can watch on TV today...probably nothing.....bringing a book.:*(
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