NASCAR Daytona Shootout/Timed Qualifying/Twin 150's & Truck Race! The Season is close thread!!!

NASCAR/Self ^ | 02/09/2005 | ChefKeith

[ChefKeith]

Welcome to the 2005

For The:

This Thread is Dedicated to:

Our Troops All Around the World, We thank You and Pray for Your Saftey and Speedy return home to Your Loved Ones Everyday

And to:

Team Hendrick

[marine86297]

I LOVE IT, any Freepers got a couple million $$ laying around?

[WestCoastGal]

You're on, welsome to you both.

Saturday night!!!! WoooHooo

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ping the guys for ping list

[bearsgirl90]

Howdy, WestCoastGal!
We are ready for some racing, for sure!!

[WSGilcrest]

Maybe you rookies would like to join our fantasy league.

DETAILS HERE

[WestCoastGal]

welsome=welcome (wheres my beeber)

[WSGilcrest]

er, ah, didn't mean to imply you were a rookie! :)

[mt tom]

agreed : the stick and ball game crowd who don't believe that this a sport,has no idea what physical requirements it takes to be competitive. our son races in a hobby class at willow springs ca. when he won his class champion 04 his mom and me were there and it was hard to see the victory celebration because we had tears in our eyes.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I am so excited I can't wait. The Shootout is this close, and the NHRA Winternationals start tomorrow. I can watch NASCAR and NHRA this weekend.

[steveegg]

Still waiting for the Daytona 500 entry list, but we've got the Bud Shootout entry list...

Car	Driver	Hometown	Make	Sponsor	Owner
#01	Joe Nemechek	Lakeland, FL	Chevrolet	U.S. Army	Nelson Bowers
#2	Rusty Wallace	St. Louis, MO	Dodge	Miller Lite	Roger Penske
#6	Mark Martin	Batesville, AR	Ford	Kraft - Guess Who's Got The Groceries	Jack Roush
#8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Kannapolis, NC	Chevrolet	Budweiser	Teresa Earnhardt
#9	Kasey Kahne	Enumclaw, WA	Dodge	Dodge Dealers/UAW	Ray Evernham
#12	Ryan Newman	South Bend, IN	Dodge	ALLTEL	Roger Penske
#16	Greg Biffle	Vancouver, WA	Ford	National Guard	Geoff Smith
#18	Bobby Labonte	Corpus Christi, TX	Chevrolet	Interstate Batteries	Joe Gibbs
#19	Jeremy Mayfield	Owensboro, KY	Dodge	Dodge Dealers/UAW	Ray Evernham
#20	Tony Stewart	Rushville, IN	Chevrolet	The Home Depot	Joe Gibbs
#21	Ricky Rudd	Chesapeake, VA	Ford	Motorcraft	Glen Wood
#24	Jeff Gordon	Pittsboro, IN	Chevrolet	DuPont	Rick Hendrick
#25	Brian Vickers	Thomasville, NC	Chevrolet	GMAC	Mary Hendrick
#39	Bill Elliott	Dawsonville, GA	Dodge	Coors	Floyd Ganassi
#41	Casey Mears	Bakersfield, CA	Dodge	Target	Chip Ganassi
#48	Jimmie Johnson	Los Gatos, CA	Chevrolet	Lowe's	Jeff Gordon
#49	Ken Schrader	Fenton, MO	Dodge	Schwan's Home Service	Elizabeth Morgenthau
#88	Dale Jarrett	Hickory, NC	Ford	UPS	Robert Yates
#97	Kurt Busch	Las Vegas, NV	Ford	Crown Royal	Georgetta Roush
#193	Geoffrey Bodine	Chemung, NY	Chevrolet	Global Industrial Contractors	James Whitener

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Nemechek, Kahne, Newman, Labonte, Mayfield, Rudd, Gordon, Vickers, Mears, Johnson and Busch all got in by earning a pole last year (Gordon also won the Shooutout twice). Wallace, Martin, Earnhardt, Stewart, Elliot, Schrader, Jarrett and Bodine are here because they won the Shootout at least once and earned a lifetime invitation. Terry Labonte (eligible because he won the Shooutout in 1985) is not running this race.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Please add me to the NASCAR ping list.

[marine86297]

I just signed up, I'm Hellbilly Racing can't wait to get going.

[Pylot]

My wife holds the class B record at willow for a corvette she crew chiefed. We met at Sears Point.

I think auto racing is the purest form of being an American. Pure competition, rules to live by and let the best be first!

[nascarnation]

anybody remember the "old days"
this used to be the "Busch Clash of 19XX"
run on Sunday afternoon
barely got one hour tv time
after the race they had the 500 quals

[Fierce Allegiance]

I wanna see someone who thinks racing isn't a physical sport try to keep up with me in a 250cc shifter kart for more than 10 minutes without their head separating from thier shoulders and with both thumbs still attached.


I would have to borrow the kart from my buddy again, but he's mad at me 'cause I beat him too often.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

I remember the Bush Clash.

[angelwings49]

I'm MORE than ready!! Thanks for the ping, Chef!! GO TONY!!!

[Jackknife]

Can't wait for the season to start! Here are some images from last year's Daytona 500 with the POTUS in attendance.

[Fierce Allegiance]

That's what it was called when I was there in '79 and '80, back when my dad paid the bills.

[Pylot]

Zowie a 250cc shifter cart is some serious getting around!

I met Mario Andretti once. The man has hands that are built from all of those years of steering a 200 mph car thats always wanting to get away from you. I thought my hands were big but his were big and extraordinarily muscled.

Most people have not got a clue as to how much exertion goes into driving a race car. A couple of laps in a shifter cart driven at any serious pace would have most people parked and exhausted after just a couple of laps.

[Fierce Allegiance]

Physically I can only do about 30 minutes on the hardest of cone courses, but the smile lasts for weeks. A small oval I could run for hours.