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Posted on 05/26/2009 7:52:15 PM PDT by NYTexan
7,10,15, 23
Worst in a long time...
Flash ended up 26 but that’s better than 42nd where he started.
Not much, but...
JJ really saved my bacon with that charge to the front for the final. I guess he has been watching KyBu...
BRITAIN'S Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle was in the Priory clinic last night suffering from exhaustion. The singer, dubbed SuBo, had an "emotional breakdown" following Saturday's final in which she was runner-up.
I finished 3, 13, 21 & 36 and lost 6 spots for the summer, 2 spots for the season.
What really hurts is that I changed my drivers at the last second and if I hadn’t I’da been 2, 3, 5 & 11.
tubebender - I don’t want none of this again this week:
WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S TOO LATE TOO CHANGE DRIVERS!!! :)
OUCH!!! Coulda Woulda Shoulda...
Britain is getting sadder by the day!
Little more on what I had yesterday........
Dale Jr has TALK with Kyle Busch
Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch had an impromptu meeting prior to Sunday’s Autism Speaks 400 at Dover International Speedway.
Shortly before the start of Sunday’s pre-race meeting, Earnhardt left his seat and walked across the room and sat down in the row in front of Busch and began engaging him in conversation.
The two spoke for less than two minutes, then Earnhardt stood up and walked back to his seat. Busch turned to his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Joey Logano, who was seated alongside him, with a smirk on his face.
Michael Waltrip, who was sitting directly behind Logano, tapped the rookie on his shoulder and could be heard saying, “What’d he say? What’d he say?”
Logano burst out laughing.
On Friday, Busch, who lost his ride at Hendrick Motorsports so Earnhardt could be hired, was asked about team owner Rick Hendrick’s decision to replace Earnhardt’s crew chief.
Busch said, “You got to make the most popular driver in the sport competitive, so you got to do what you got to do, I guess.”
When told of Busch’s comments, Earnhardt replied, “He’s (Busch) always had a chip on his shoulder for me.”
Then........on Sirus radio this morning.
Mike Bagley said today Kyle Busch deserves to be thrown under the bus for taking off on Saturday. He was a factor in both races and just took off when things didn’t go his way. Mike said it is time for Kyle to put his big boy panties on and give a comment after a race even when it doesn’t go well. He said Saturday it got ridiculous. It is hard to defend him when he does stuff like that. When people call into the show today, Mike feels is it valid to call Kyle a sore loser. They did commend Joey Logano for standing up to the media after the Nationwide race and being a man. As a dominator of both races, Kyle owed it to his fans to give an explanation of what happened. It is about maturing as a race car driver and his antics are getting old and stale. If Kyle is going to take jabs at people (such as Jr), then stand up after a race and take it. He is cocky when winning, foul when not. Mike said there will come a point when the media will not run after him after a race. You have to take your lumps. Kyle should be able to talk in good times and bad times. One caller asked if the girl with Kyle is his girlfriend or nanny to change his diaper. Then, they played a crying baby sound in background.
No more Mayhem in NASCAR
Sunday, May 31, 2009
By Dustin Long
Staff Writer
NASCAR WEEKEND
SPRINT CUP
What: Autism Speaks 400
Where: Dover (Del.) International Speedway
When: 2 p.m. today
TV: WGHP-8
Related Links
* Article: NASCAR notes: Reutimann enjoying best week of Cup career (May 31)
* Blog: Dustin Long’s NASCAR blog
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You might have seen him a few years back. You know, big, beefy guy with the bleach-blonde crewcut and goatee. He often wore camouflage pants or shorts, combat boots and a T-shirt that read “I hate this town” or maybe one that stated “I love the dark side” or even “Your wife is coming home with me.”
If you saw him, you didn’t like him. No one liked Mike Mayhem.
It’s different now.
Mike Mayhem is gone.
Instead, there’s Mike Houston, front-tire carrier on Jeff Gordon’s pit crew. Even in a sport that looks to former athletes to fill pit crew positions, Houston likely is the only person on NASCAR’s pit road to have been a professional wrestler.
Houston isn’t the bad guy he portrayed when he competed along the East Coast in the National Wrestling Alliance. He was so convincing in the ring that more than once fans met him in the parking lot wanting to scuffle. A woman even followed him on the circuit and tried to persuade him to be a good guy so he’d quit beating up her favorite wrestlers.
“I guess she didn’t get the point,” Houston says laughing. “It’s a show.”
How Houston became a professional wrestler — enjoying a six-year career before he quit in 2003 to focus on his pit crew work — is a story in itself.
A defensive tackle on Western Carolina’s football team from 1994-96, Houston returned to the Charlotte area after college. He worked as a bouncer before a tryout with MB2 Motorsports in 1997 led to a job as a tire carrier. That same year he met a trainer who used to wrestle. They became friends and the trainer made him a business proposition: If Houston would teach him how to jack a race car, he would teach Houston how to wrestle.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/05/31/article/no_more_mayhem_in_nascar
Hearing that Truex will go to MWR. His brother is a development driver for MW so it’s looking like something will be said in a week or two.
1) I'd give a couple of dollars to hear what was said by Jr. :-)
2) That Mike Bagley has some keen insights, eh?
3) This rivalry can only be good for NASCAR. Let the fun begin...
Yeah me too :) They did ask him after the meeting but Mike put the kibosh on it - ‘no comment’
And NASCAR leaders confident GM support to continue http://snipr.com/j8kv7
Mikey was waxing eloquent for Truex on the show a littler earlier. My guess is Mikey has embarrassed himself once too often and TruJr will take his seat. (fingers crossed)...
Maybe, that is if his ego will let him step aside.
Sometimes I do think I would rather have him racing then thinking about being in the booth *Yikes* He gets really wound up on the truck race broadcasts.
Danica should know cheating is no joke
Commentary By Christine Brennan
Eye-opener
It’s not every day that a sports star says she would use a performance-enhancing drug if she knew she wouldn’t get caught. But that’s what Indy-car driver Danica Patrick said in this week’s Sports Illustrated.
Columnist Dan Patrick asked Patrick if she would take a performance-enhancing drug that she could get away with, if it allowed her to win the Indy 500.
Danica: Well, then it’s not cheating, is it? If nobody finds out?
Dan: So you would do it?
Danica: Yeah, it would be like finding a gray area. In motor sports we work in the gray areas a lot. You’re trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
Even in a sports world where our senses often are dulled by the outrageous comments of big-time athletes, this exchange stands out.
What in the world was Danica thinking?
“The whole interview with Dan, and every other interview I’ve ever done with Dan, the questioning comes from left field,” she said Sunday by phone from Milwaukee, where she finished fifth in the A.J. Foyt 225. “It was just a joke and I really apologize if it came across any other way.”
OK, but why joke about performance-enhancing drugs when you’re a role model for kids?
“It was a bad joke,” she said. “There is a lot of sensitivity in our culture about (performance-enhancing drugs). With all the baseball stuff, I’ve followed it and this is a real problem. It’s a shame kids think they have to do this to get ahead. It’s very dangerous.”
Sounds like this is something she won’t laugh about again.
“It’s absolutely not what I’m about,” Patrick said. “I’ve learned my lesson on what I should be joking about.”
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Joke? Please let her stay out of Na$car - she can stay in Indy Car.
Rick Hendrick on today’s General Motors announcement: “GM will emerge from this stronger.” http://tinyurl.com/mmrfg6
MartySmithESPN Carl Long’s appeals hearing is this morning at 10. Here’s hoping common sense prevails. The dude was 50 hp down. Come on...
This season, the SPEED broadcasts of the Truck Series have been the best of the three major NASCAR series, despite having a situation where some races do not have full fields, and up to six or seven trucks every week S&P. They are the only one of the three major series to post ratings gains this year as compared to 2008. In regards to the Nationwide and Cup Series, the Nationwide Series is roughly flat, ratings-wise, while the Sprint Cup Series is down 13 percent.
Why is this so? My best guess is that there aren’t as many gimmicks in a Truck broadcast as in the other two series, the commentators (including Michael Waltrip) seem to pay more attention to the on track action, and actually act professional most of the time. Don’t get me wrong, I want the booth commentators to have fun and enjoy themselves up there, but they have a job to do.
Also, SPEED does have some production cards up their sleeves as well. On Saturday, they stuck a camera in the undercarriage of Mike Skinner’s No. 5 Toyota (it appeared to be right about in the middle of the car, looking back towards the rear end). The idea behind this was to show the stress that the trucks are under at the concrete one mile oval. First, they showed it during a caution to provide a baseline under relatively “tranquil” conditions. As far as I’m concerned, 50 mph behind the Pace Car under yellow is about as tranquil as NASCAR gets during a race. Even then, you could feel some of the bumps on the track. Later, they returned to the view under green to show what kind of stress the truck was under during regular racing conditions. Viewers could see the right rear spring in action, doing its job. The only thing I wish could have been there was a shot of the No. 5 running on the track in a small inset picture in the lower right corner of the screen. That would have been perfect.
The only other thing that I wished that SPEED showed more of were the tires that came off of trucks that had not blown tires. Reasoning for this? I wanted to see what these tires looked like before they blew out. ABC showed one of these during their broadcast, and it looks like cords were showing on the outside shoulder of the tire. I don’t know if this was repeated during the Truck race, however, because they only showed tires that had either blown out or been cut down.
Despite the fact that the race ran long (due to ten cautions and countless blown tires), SPEED managed to give the fans comprehensive post-race coverage, unlike ABC. I think it says something about some of the TV coverage that the SPEED crew almost managed to fit in as many interviews in their post-race coverage as FOX and ESPN/ABC did combined.
And, now, for the Cup Series’ Autism Speaks 400, presented by Heluva Good Sour Cream Dips and Cheeses.
As many of us are well aware, FOX likes to play some stuff up and essentially create something out of nothing. The whole argument between David Reutimann and Tony Stewart, which was really basically nothing at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, got kicked up a notch when Tony Stewart called Dwayne Bigger, David Reutimann’s crewmember, the now-infamous “Billy Bad Butt” name. Now, “Billy Bad Butt” is famous, since he got a bunch of media attention over the past week, and FOX felt the need to run a feature on him during the pre-race show.
Much longer but I thought interesting thoughts re: TV coverage.
Ping to article above
Truck races have been the best of the three for the past several years.
Some is in the coverage, most is in the product.
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