*** NASCAR Subway 400 at Rockingham *** LIVE THREAD

NASCAR ^ | 2/23/03

[NormsRevenge]

North Carolina Speedway- Rockingham,NC A joint venture between Darlington Raceway builder Harold Brasington and landowner Bill Land, North Carolina Speedway's first race was held in 1965. Over time, the track came under control of L.G. DeWitt, a local trucking company executive who supervised reshaping the original flat mile track into the present, banked 1.017-mile oval in 1969.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

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J-Mar Express is a trucking company located in Searcy, Arkansas. NASCAR driver Mark Martin owns the company because his dad who owned the company died in a plane crash.

[Mo1]

Bobby Labonte is pitting

[twyn1]

flat tire ??

[steveegg]

Bobby Labonte with a vibration in the right side. Taking 4 and going 1 1/2 laps down.

[steveegg]

Speaking of DJ, he's up to 7th.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Yep, thats one of my favorites of the new commercials - the Pepsi one of the guys trying to jump into the truck window is another.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

I race online with Nascar Racing Season 2003. It is a very realistic sim. I have been working on a setup for The Rock all week.
What happened to Jr. is something a lot of guys are doing. It'll happen if you loose off and give it too much throttle. I can't tell you how many times I've done that exact same thing at that exact same spot all week in practice. Tough track!

[CougarGA7]

My son is dissappointed. He loves Bobby Labonte.

[steveegg]

Interesting on how much speed you lose on 10-lap-old tires. Bobby ran 145 and Wallace ran 143.

[glock rocks]

WHOA!!! wth was that they were SPRAYING on the tires just before we cut to commercial?

little clorox or somethin? huh?

[CougarGA7]

Maybe it will come to him as the track tightens up, but it will probably be too late.

[winodog]

I was never a big NASCAR fan till my now ten year old son became infatuiated with the sport.
That was over two years ago. Since Busch is from Vegas he is my favorite driver. They did not have a 1/24 scale #97 race car till last year before he won a winston cup race.
Anyway at last years race at Vegas I bought #215 of 2,400 copies of his first set of cars. Then we waited in line and he signed it,plus a few other things we bought.
I dont know much about the collectibles but I would imagine that if he continues to win that car might be worth something someday.
Anyone know much about that stuff?

[CougarGA7]

Yeah, clorox. It keeps the tires clean. LOL.

[steveegg]

I haven't quite got my NR2003 setups down to where I trust them online yet, but I know exactly what you're talking about. My gripe with this year's edition is that they have an illegal plate on the Daytona/Talladega engines.

[steveegg]

Running order after 202 laps...Rusty,Busch, Martin, Craven, Ward.

[NormsRevenge]

QVC sells a lot of NASCAR stuff. I am not a collector of much except debt. ;-)

[glock rocks]

chlorene breaks the sulphur-bonds in vulcanized rubber... makes the tires stickier... don't think it's legal in nascar.

[steveegg]

DJ's coming and Ward's fading. Jarrett now in 5th.

[StayoutdaBushesWay]

LOL-Yeah, I'd say! Very un-realistic at tona at last weeks race. I hope they come out with a patch for it.

[Mo1]

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*L* .. he said thank you

He says he knows more about the older drivers then the new ones ..

One christmas he got Smokey's book collection and was in heaven reading them ..