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Coca Cola 600 Bud Pole qualifying Thurs 7pm EDT SPEED
Coca Cola 600 Sun 5pm EDT FOX

Busch Series - Carquest Auto Parts 300 Busch Pole qualifying Fri 1:30pm EDT SPEED
Busch Series - Carquest Auto Parts 300 Sat 1:00pm EDT FX

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I don't know how many of you read this weekly off the Nascar site, but this weeks is especially hilarious:

Power Rankings: Charlotte

May 25, 2004
3:18 PM EDT (1518 GMT)

Biggest Gain this week: Tony Stewart, Mark Martin, up five spots

Biggest Drop this week: Kurt Busch, down five spots

New this week: Brian Vickers (21), Ricky Rudd (24), Johnny Sauter (25).

Dropped out: Brendan Gaughan (21), Jeff Burton (23), Ken Schrader (24).

Week 12 of 36, Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway

Rank	Prev	Number	Driver	Comments
1	1		Jeff Gordon	So he went to the F1 race two weeks ago in Spain. The race viewing went pretty well, except Tony Stewart got loose and knocked the Pepsi out of his hand.
2	3		Dale Earnhardt Jr.	He said his butt was burning during the All-Star race because his fire suit was too tight. See the sacrifices our boy Junior goes through for NASCAR’s 30 million female fans?
3	2		Jimmie Johnson	You don’t need Kirk Shelmerdine to tell you NASCAR is tough. Check this out: Johnson’s last four points races: 4th, 4th, 2nd, 2nd. And he’s only third in the points for the last six races.
4	6		Matt Kenseth	It’s a good thing that Kenseth won $1 million. That money will go to good use repairing his teammates’ cars.
5	5		Ryan Newman	He is holding a bake sale at the Penske Racing shop to raise money for charity. We heard that Jimmy Spencer got the first invitation.
6	11		Tony Stewart	You can almost hear Larry McReynolds say, “DW, reach up there, pull those belts tight, because Tony Stewart’s about to crash into us!”
7	9		Bobby Labonte	He is sponsored by Shrek 2 this weekend in the Coca-Cola 600. The team tried to get Fatback to help with the marketing by covering himself with green paint, but he declined.
8	13		Mark Martin	His full name is Mark Anthony Martin. He used to get jokes about being the guy who spoke about Julius Caesar. Now he gets jokes about bring the guy who dates Jennifer Lopez.
9	4		Kurt Busch	He apologized for all the wrecked cars. Which didn’t really help. He probably would have been better off to tell Biffle, “Dude, don’t feel bad. Your engine would have blown anyway.”
10	10		Kasey Kahne	He’s higher in the Nextel Cup standings than he is in the Busch Series standings. And you thought the only thing he had in common with Dale Jr. was a red paint scheme.
11	7		Kevin Harvick	In the latest FX promos for the reality show, he complains that his limo is slow. That is what he gets for hiring Kirk Shelmerdine to drive it.
12	8		Jamie McMurray	He kept his car out of the wall with a brilliant save after he was hit in the Nextel Open. Now, the debate will rage on whether he could have saved the car if Kurt Busch had been the one who hit him.
13	12		Rusty Wallace	The media is going berserk over the fact that Wallace’s winless streak in the All-Star race has reached 15.
14	14		Robby Gordon	Kurt Busch is pretty lucky that his team owner didn’t appear to be too angry at him, although there’s no telling what Robby would have said to him had he not been in a hurry to get back to Indianapolis.
15	16		Sterling Marlin	He said he’d rather run a points race during the All-Star weekend. Which means, if he's going to get taken out by Kurt Busch, he’d rather get 37 points for it than 0.
16	15		Greg Biffle	Man, this guy can’t buy a break. Poor guy flies up to Nazareth and DNFs. Instead of saying “done” after he eats the sandwich in the Subway commercial, he’s been saying it on Lap 81.
17	17		Elliott Sadler	He’s got his charity go-kart race this week. Apparently, Darrell Waltrip and Tony Stewart will be on hand. They should just put the boxing gloves on them and charge $1,000 a head.
18	17		Jeremy Mayfield	He turns 35 years old this week. Which means his hopes at becoming a Gillette Young Gun are officially over.
19	20		Michael Waltrip	Ways to make Darrell Waltrip mad 1. Don’t let him drive old Aaron’s Dream Machine. 2. Your brother fails to defend your honor when Tony Stewart is in front of him at Richmond or Charlotte.
20	19		Dale Jarrett	So all those stupid rumors are flying about Robert Yates retiring, which is just stupid. We can almost see the headlines now. Robert Yates retires, cites desire to spend more time with engine.
21	NR		Brian Vickers	He became the youngest Bud Pole award winner in the modern era when he took the top spot at Richmond. So young, in fact, that he couldn’t wear the Bud Pole award hat. So he gave it to Morgan Shepherd, who traded the hat for a set of scuffs.
22	25		Ward Burton	He was on the The Best Damn Sports Show, Period. He agreed to be interviewed because he thought the show was The Best Bass Sports Show, Period.
23	22		Casey Mears	He’s been one of the best on the 1.5-mile tracks in 2004. Even when he has to use a backup.
24	NR		Ricky Rudd	He landed a pretty nice fake punch to Casey Mears on Saturday night. Apparently, he pretended Casey was actually Kevin Harvick, even though Mears didn’t give him any of that yap-yap mouth.
25	NR		Johnny Sauter	He's completed all but 29 laps this year. So he's doing something right. And it's a good thing he didn't qualify for the All-Star Challenge. Kurt Busch could have been 3-for-3 in taking out RCR cars.

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I am on my way to see the Cardioligist about my sentencing, uh I mean the results of the stress test.

See y'all later...

More funny NASCAR news: (snipped out some 'boring' parts to be inline with Excerpting rules.)

Bottom line: Edgy sponsor name, OK'd by NASCAR

For a sure sign of NASCAR's mainstream appeal, one need only examine the logos of corporate titans displayed on the sides of race cars: The Home Depot. Lowe's. Target. DuPont. Boudreaux's Butt Paste.

As they say in NASCAR land, come again?

Driver Kevin Ray will attempt to make his Nextel Cup debut next weekend at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. Under normal circumstances, such an event would probably pass without much notice; Ray, 26, is a journeyman driver in the grassroots ARCA Re/Max series.

But with the Hollywood crowd wearing '70s-style mesh-back "trucker" ballcaps these days — are trucker hats still in, by the way? — there's a slight chance his car's offbeat sponsorship will achieve redneck-chic status. Plans to sell hats, T-shirts and scale-model cars already are in the works.

Ray says the product isn't a joke. His wife, he swears, actually was using it to soothe his two small children's sore tailpipes even before the sponsorship deal was struck. But yes, its name is intended to elicit a chuckle or two.

"I think it's going to get us a lot of publicity," Ray says.

Why? "Because it's the Butt Paste Ford."

Should he get the chance to plug his sponsor's product on TV, will he be able to keep a straight face?

"Of course, now that I know what the product is," he says.

NASCAR officials occasionally nix edgy sponsorships. Earlier this year they wouldn't allow one team to advertise a Web site with the word "redneck" in its address. But officials seem to be OK with this product, which, after all, is sold at Wal-Mart and Target.

"I think it's very fitting that Junie Donlavey, who has brought more drivers into the world of NASCAR than any other owner, is now being sponsored by a baby product," says Jim Hunter, NASCAR's vice president of communications.

Ray will be driving the No. 90 car owned by Donlavey, who just turned 80 and has been in stock-car racing since 1950.

*SNIP* (excerpting)

In a news release from the team, Boudreaux was quoted as saying he "can't wait to see Kevin in the Butt Paste Ford moving through the field."

But given the team's rustiness and Ray's inexperience, it's a long shot. If they even make the show, they'll likely be bringing up the rear.

OMG...The Lizards are back!!!

Rank	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Total
1	20 Wins Again	302	291	356	252	272	160	379	224	254	331	276	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	3107
2	Thundering Herd of Turtles	268	239	289	288	289	302	298	280	305	273	174	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3006
3	Rainbow Freeping Warriors	270	297	280	259	325	258	218	269	273	297	238	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2989
4	Wheels of Cheddar	250	250	229	247	317	234	306	274	303	295	273	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2984
5	Rexford's Rollers	188	257	319	262	318	229	299	297	279	320	203	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2979
6	bosco24	270	194	224	247	326	199	381	247	319	309	239	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2968
7	JuniorsDreamTeam	256	233	263	192	296	271	341	276	273	245	264	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2920
8	Colonie TwinEngines	274	239	286	280	232	196	341	257	279	246	252	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2883
9	Elmo's socks	256	184	168	302	283	292	292	266	268	278	256	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2858
10	fnord not ford	256	197	232	236	297	243	230	284	299	295	269	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	2854
11	Ward Burton's Translator	214	197	334	237	256	306	207	255	245	334	243	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2843
12	Dog Gone has fender damage	216	319	217	244	291	148	303	256	314	259	257	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2825
13	Norms Bar&Grill	216	253	315	227	224	214	258	277	296	278	233	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2795
14	Bubba Q Racing	274	158	274	245	258	208	335	214	269	254	263	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	2763
15	rednek's road apples	202	212	279	252	298	150	286	284	317	308	170	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2762
16	CarolinaGoldenKnight	134	192	370	257	258	229	320	208	258	266	217	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2713
17	cpprfld1	130	291	267	191	229	270	347	251	343	245	130	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2694
18	Deadeye Racing	282	234	319	234	164	272	249	198	264	242	218	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2681
19	HersheyKiss	226	216	301	190	264	227	297	251	187	253	258	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2680
20	Speed Stars	172	204	302	174	300	248	131	245	274	347	276	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2673
21	weaken wariors	136	253	291	260	244	231	268	219	295	309	160	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2671
22	Bodine's Secret Sponsor	266	239	221	277	244	206	184	265	272	270	202	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	2657
23	Marengo Short Tracks	278	283	183	282	310	197	310	222	254	227	86	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2633
24	countrydummie's boys	196	192	243	262	298	179	242	275	251	210	276	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2625
25	Dog Breath Racing	308	319	251	182	298	226	112	222	223	275	183	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2614
26	Good Year Destroyers	242	200	291	256	236	229	288	216	204	179	241	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2588
27	puny human number one	148	242	248	151	282	245	298	219	219	247	259	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2563
28	Benders de Fenders	250	183	289	225	214	267	176	200	246	309	170	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2542
29	FR-Drago-Go#6!	86	245	284	263	227	223	297	183	199	347	170	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2527
30	Uzimati Racing	188	142	205	294	247	202	331	262	265	219	147	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2503
31	Maui No Ka Oi	264	170	218	239	215	265	255	197	302	186	157	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2468
32	Afronauters	206	158	201	259	308	323	245	204	192	164	168	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2438
33	Godspeed Racing Team	0	252	270	234	287	240	292	223	212	237	189	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2436
33	Budman Racing	196	173	277	229	275	193	314	202	228	207	138	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2436
35	siouxland racing	0	209	184	273	304	223	260	241	236	222	253	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2415
35	Fierceallegiance	146	162	277	62	304	221	189	158	265	338	278	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	2415
37	Speedy	234	206	204	290	221	234	234	256	293	109	85	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2371
38	firewallfoward	124	258	220	166	247	190	269	217	211	230	200	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	2345
39	burning08	136	209	194	101	203	294	267	261	147	245	272	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	2340
40	Seaside 3 wide sideslide (FBD)	142	122	196	246	222	187	325	246	147	269	223	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2329
41	Harvick's Rescue Rangers	64	210	244	214	214	234	332	260	130	232	184	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2319
42	Bonforte Motorsports	134	152	303	276	233	209	307	242	213	203	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2292
43	Zionists	98	132	201	295	305	252	251	152	214	195	156	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	2261
44	Dead snake driving	196	157	161	181	168	213	303	220	232	140	191	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2166
45	Rodney King's Team	134	197	159	209	183	246	231	238	234	0	0	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1841

60 Seconds of Silence, Please

Blunt and to the point Marine Letter

His Wife is on the thread too (new FReeper)

'Tis good to be back after a week of fishing and freezing. Here's hoping that Matt can make it a LMS sweep.

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Do they still do the "Figure 8" on these junkcar race tracks, or what?

"That's going to be hard to score"

Nah, easy to score. Was very sloppy with too many inflexations that are not part ot the anthem. 4.5

Back from my bar, The Underdog. Shrimp and ribs were great. This is such a long race I better get the heck out of the bar while I can drive.

I do not drive drunk under any circumstances. To get killed must hurt, let alone what I could do to others.

Interisting race. My driver, Stewart, is frustrated. Johnson looks unbeatable.

I'm taking my dad and son to Dover next weekend. Is it usually a good race? We just went to the Busch race at Nazerath last weekend. It was a sleeper. My kid is already a Nextel Cup fan, but at 5 if the racing isn't good he starts to grumble.

Well HEY all! Got back from Charlotte last night...and boy oh boy, we were treated to the most dominant performance by a driver any of us had ever seen.

The weather was VERY hot and humid, thank goodness for air conditioning in the RV. In the RV area, there were hundreds and hundreds of American flags flying high in the great breezes, it was a wonderful sight. EVERY PERSON we spoke with also remarked how wonderful the flags were. There is NO WAY that John Effin' Kerry could EVER EVER appear at a NASCAR event and not get 'effin boo'd all the way back to Taxachusetts Gay Colony.

The qaulifying etc. was very exciting with the buildup to JJ's single lap run for a new track record. There were THREE track records made and broken, by Gordon and Ryan as well. The place went NUTS when JJ topped 197mph at Charlotte for the first time ever...

Busch race was very cool, instead of sitting up under the condos for the start, my buddy and I hung down on the very front seats, just 20 feet from the wall...they came thundering down to the start finish line and my buddy, his FIRST BIG race, was grinning from ear to ear!!

The CUP race was a huge let down, since 24, 25 and 48 had qualified so well, we expected them to race just as well...after 5 laps, well you ALL KNOW What happened...it was really embarassing...

All in all, the 600 was great fun, we met some super people in the RV area and at the track...the girls were..well, let's just say it was a HOT DAY!!! and leave it at that.

The pics below are large files, sorry, I took all pics in a larger, denser format for cropping etc later on...but these are just a few. My favorite is the Goodyear blimp over the track, you can get an idea of how large the place is...

Next year, we're doing RICHMOND in September, so if any of you have any contacts for tickets to all three races, I'd appreciate it.

Image #1 Thanks to our Marines and Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen

Image #2 SOME GUY...GRRRRR

Image #3 START of the Busch Race...LOUD and FAST

Image #4 You Know who...

Image #5--Wonder if I should ask the 48 about HIS set up...nahh...

Image #6