Nascar Nextel Banquet 400 NBC HDTV, Sun. 10/9, 1:30 p.m. ET, Chase for the Cup, Race #4

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[NormsRevenge]

Chase to the Cup - Race #4

Sunday's Banquet 400 at Kansas Speedway

October 9, 2005



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Nextel Banquet 400 NBC HDTV Sun. 10/9 1:30 p.m.

Busch United Way 300 NBC HDTV Sat. 10/8 2 p.m.

Banquet 400 Bud Pole Qualifying Sat. 10/8 11:30 a.m.

No Craftsman Trucks racing this weekend

all times Eastern time.

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Kansas Speedway
Race Menu for the weekend series

Kansas Speedway boasts great views from every seat and easy access in and out of the 1 1/2-mile,
state-of-the-art facility, a response to growing interest for motorsports entertainment in the Midwest.
Though the tri-oval track design is not unique to Kansas Speedway,
a slight difference in the banking makes this track unique.



Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 15 degrees
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: Tri-Oval

[Eaker]

Astros top of the 18th!

[Eaker]

Astro's WIN!!!!

Chris Burke HOMER!!!!

[WestCoastGal]

"My first win. :-)"

Did you do a burnout? :-D

[SouthTexas]

And the Cowboys are ahead too, imagine that!

[NormsRevenge]

Did you do a burnout? :-D ---- Nope.. we're still working on driving on 2 wheels..;-)

[WestCoastGal]

Two weeks in a row for the old guys!!

Rusty next?

[don-o]

Thanks for the ping Norm.

Been out of pocket for the last several races, due to pressing matters. Hope to find time to read the thread and maybe things will shake out here so I can play with y'all some Sunday.

[glock rocks]

I'm going to change my FFL name to Team Hoover next season.

As bad as it was, I still managed a position out of it.

EEEeeeesh.

[WestCoastGal]

Busch not happy with Kenseth: #97-Kurt Busch wasn't happy with his teammate, #17-Matt Kenseth, early in Sunday's race because he wouldn't let him lead a single lap - and gain five bonus points in the championship race. Kenseth said there are no company orders to help teammates, especially when that teammate is a competitor in the playoffs. "When you get in the Chase you've got to get all the points you can," Kenseth said. "You can't give points away. I'm sure (Busch) is mad at me." Jack Roush said he doesn't want his drivers to play favorites. "I don't expect them to do that," he said. "In fact, I'd be disappointed if they did that."(Augusta Chronicle)(10-10-2005)

Thanks Jayski

[I wouldn't think 5 points would help Busch at this point anyway]

[WestCoastGal]

NHIS had a little flooding in the garage area with several feet of water due to a backup in Gues Brook south of the track this weekend.

[AGreatPer]

Why have teams if your not going to help each other?

Thanks Norm for running the thread. It gave me a chance to catch up since I missed most of the race watching the Eagles get crushed.

Loved the pix from everyone. Look at that chace for #11, amazing.

[NormsRevenge]

You're welcome.

11th place is worth a cool million by itself .. not bad

[NormsRevenge]

wow.. there have been some pretty deluges all over lately. the remnants of a hurricanes I think.

or is it Global warming? :-o

On to Charlotte, I think..

[WestCoastGal]

Levigated Saturday night racing,

What could be better!!

[WestCoastGal]

Gupta: NASCAR ride 'more than a little terrifying'
Dr. Sanjay Gupta describes life behind the wheel


Programming Note: Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets behind the wheel to examine safety and athletic performance in NASCAR racing, "NASCAR: Driven to Extremes," Sunday, October 16, 10 p.m. ET.

(CNN) -- Driving in NASCAR is a lot more than hitting the gas and turning left, as I learned working on "NASCAR: Driven to Extremes."

NASCAR drivers compete in physically challenging conditions. The temperature inside the cars can be more than 100 degrees and humid. Scott Sutherland, a racing consultant, likened it to sitting in a sauna for three hours with a roll of nickels in each hand.

Not only is it hot, but it is stressful. NASCAR drivers race at up to 200 miles per hour, nose-to-tail with the competition, sometimes three across on the racetrack. There is very little margin for error.

As part of the special, I was lucky enough to experience the speed of NASCAR, or close to it. Wally Dallenbach, a former NASCAR driver who now does commentary for TNT and NBC, offered me a chance to ride shotgun on the oval track at New Hampshire International Speedway. The ride was thrilling and, as we sped down the straightaway inches from the wall, more than a little terrifying.

I got my chance behind the wheel a couple of weeks later at Homestead-Miami Speedway with the Richard Petty Driving Experience. After attending a safety class, I climbed into the stock car built to NASCAR specifications. The temperature outside was in the 90s. Inside the car was sweltering.

I was wearing a vest called a LifeShirt, which measured my core body temperature and other vital signs. Before I'd driven out of pit road, my body was measuring a temperature of 101 degrees, a fever. I forgot about the heat once I stepped on the gas. There is something both primitive and exhilarating about the roar of an 850-horsepower engine.

In the Richard Petty Driving Experience, you follow an instructor around the track as he takes the fastest line around the oval. My top speed for a lap was 139 mph. Another 50 mph, and I'd be ready for NASCAR.

Reporting "NASCAR: Driven to Extremes," I was fascinated by the personality of the successful drivers, who need to combine hours of focus and split-second timing, hours of patience and moments of aggression.

In the special, we profile NASCAR veteran Rusty Wallace and relative newcomer Carl Edwards, a rising star. Off the track, they are so outgoing and personable it's difficult to imagine them as hard-nosed competitors.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/30/gupta.nascar/index.html

[proudofthesouth]

I've been following Mark Martin's career for almost 20 years now. He is my favorite driver and I'm so happy he won yesterday!!! I was jumping up and down in my living room and yelling for joy!

[WestCoastGal]

The politics of NASCAR and Mr. Woo's Golden Pagoda
By Greg Engle
Cup Scene Daily,October 8

Michael Waltrip won his appeal last week from the National Stock Car Racing Commission. This is a rarity of course since almost no one ever wins an appeal.


So how did he do it? Well to understand that you have to know how the highly secretive and complex world of the entity known as the National Stock Car Racing Commission works.

The members of the Commission are actually chosen at random from whoever happens to be around NASCAR headquarters in Daytona Beach at the time they actually need one.

In Waltrip’s case the members consisted of: Larry the janitor who recently retired from Passaic New Jersey to Florida and is working part time at NASCAR. Raul who was working with the lawn service and running a weed eater and an Asian fellow who happened to be delivering lunch to NASCAR employees from the Chinese restaurant down the road and who goes by the name of Joey.

The panel was moderated by Brian France via a teleconference. France was in Oakland California and just happened to be at the general offices of the Oakland Raiders because, um…well because his cell phone quit working and um…he just happened to be going by there and needed to, well use a phone so wow, look at that, bet you the nice folks at the Raiders office will let me use their phone.

And it was just a strange coincidence that he was wearing that Raiders jersey.

--(Cont'd From Page 1) The panel met in the break room at NASCAR and the first thing they agreed on was that Joey made a mean won-ton soup. Waltrip then made his case for overturning the fine that was given to him after he allegedly gave a friendly wave to Robby Gordon a few weeks earlier. Waltrip’s case was simple: Either overturn the fine or he would have NBC hire his older brother Darrell as a commentator and everyone would be forced to hear the words ‘boogity, boogity, boggity” the entire season instead of only the first half.

The panel immediately voted 2-1 in favor of overturning the fine with Larry leading the way and Raul, whose command of the English language was questionable at best, agreeing with Larry only after Larry told Raul he’d buy him a ‘Snickers’ bar from the candy machine.

Joey was the lone dissenter, especially when he found out he was only getting a $2 tip.

“Those Indy people, they give me bigger tip than you guys. I not coming here again!” Joey said.

When it was all over, the panel finished all of Mike Helton’s sweet and sour chicken (with fried rice not white) and considered their mission accomplished. Larry still had bathrooms to clean, the grass wasn’t getting any shorter and Joey still had deliveries to make.

Now it’s Todd Berrier’s turn to go before the panel. He better hope for two things; That Larry is done cleaning the bathrooms and that no one ordered lunch from Mr. Woo’s Golden Pagoda.

He’d better bring a few extra bucks for a bigger tip, just in case.


http://www.cupscene.com/100805lead1.htm

[SouthTexas]

Why have teams if your not going to help each other?

Because this is the finals.

[SouthTexas]

Congrats on high score for the week!

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks ST. I wish I had written down my scores from last year. I really don't remember having been so lousy one week and good the next like this year. It seems the new rules have hurt the league players as much as some of the drivers.

I seem to do better on impound races. This week is not an impound according to my notes. [unless Nascar changed it again]