*** 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.

[Overtaxed]

He can't change cars in the middle of the race. If they wreck their primary on qualifying or in practice, they can start the back-up.

[NormsRevenge]

2 TVs , 2 satellite dish receivers , 2 remotes, 2 separate locations. I'm set .. LOL.. I feel yur pain!

[CougarGA7]

No, once the race starts you are committed to the car that is entered. If you wreck that car beyond repair, you are out of the race. In addition. If you wreck the car you qualified in and have to go to the backup car for the race then you have to go to the back and start 43rd.

[WSGilcrest]

Checkin' in. (Guess I won't get the lawn mowed afterall!) Good luck everyone, and pray for a safe race.

[tubebender]

Leaving the house here shortly for a recon mission in the desert. I am searching for a shortcut to LasVegas Motor Speedway for next weekends races - going both days. Traffic is terrible, only two ways in and out

Been there...Done that. I'll stay home and watch it on TV.

[glock rocks]

once the race starts, you stay in that car... for the most part you can fix it, but if the engine goes, you're done.

[NormsRevenge]

Damn, I messed up. The Pre-race starts at 930 PT , 1230 ET. Oh, well.. More coffee drinking time.

[CougarGA7]

Oh, by the way, thanks for the PING.

[Lokibob]

LEA forced my son to turn toward LV (he lives in Logandale) leaving the speedway. Son did a ewe turn on I-15 a couple of miles down the road (I didn't say he was smart) and drove right past the very same LEA officer. Sent a patrol car after him and he paid a $150 fine.

Ya, the speedway needs to figure a better access.

[tubebender]

Thanks for the ping...the line up and weather is a nice touch.

[glock rocks]

the patio receiver is operational. today's entree will be

grilled nuclear chicken wings

everything else is just filler.

[CAfraudPI]

No, the car that starts the race is the only car that can finish the race or DNF as the case may be(Did Not Finish for example due to a crash or mechanical failure). Back up can only be used if a car is crashed in practice or qualifying (prior to the race).

[xp38]

Ladies and Gentlemen...Let's Roll!!!

[glock rocks]

over here!

[SamAdams76]

That makes sense now. It wouldn't seem right if a driver could switch cars in the middle of the race once it started. Anyway, my 12-year-old son is into NASCAR in a big way so I'm starting to watch the races with him. I was hoping to get him interested in NFL football as some of my fondest childhood memories was watching NFL games with my uncles in the den. All my uncles smoked pipes so the smell of pipe smoke always brings back memories of watching the NFL games of the 1970s.

[#3Fan]

Another thing I don't get is when cars go in for pit stops. How is it that when they get back out on the race track, they are still in the race. You would think that the cars have already done at least a full lap during the time they were in the pit stop and they'd be automatically in last place or pretty much close to it. (I'm guessing it's because the other cars need to make pit stops too and it all comes out in the wash.)

If there is a caution and many cars pit, then the line at the end of pit road decides how cars line up for the restart behind any cars that did not pit on the lead lap. If a car pits on a green flag, then indeed that car will be nearly a lap down or over a lap down to the other cars that did not pit until the rest of the cars pit and they are brought together again. If a car pits on a green before the other cars pit and loses a lap and and there is a caution before the other cars pit, then it's disaster because the other cars will be able to pit on yellow and not lose a lap and the only way to get laps back is to pass the leader and hope for another yellow. You saw this in Daytona when Dale Jr. had to spend two green flag laps replacing a battery. When there was a caution, he was able to line up on the inside of the leader because he wasn't on the lead lap, he was still 2 laps down. He was able to pass the leader to get one lap back on the next yellow, but since the race was rained out, he was not able to continue to try to get back on the lead lap and finished in the 30s even though he was arguably the fastest car.

[ewing]

Weather lookin good for racin!

[Tijeras_Slim]

I knew you'd be here.

[CougarGA7]

NASCAR and NFL football are my two favorite sports. My oldest boy is a big fan of both of them. When the NFL season starts I find myself wishing that I had two TVs so I could have them both on at the same time.

[CougarGA7]

Of course, I have to maintain my redneck image.