Welcome to this weeks race for the championship at Martinsville
Track Facts:
Banking/Turns: 12
Distance: 0.526 miles
Shape: Oval
Posted on 10/19/2005 5:37:06 PM PDT by WestCoastGal
Track Facts:
Banking/Turns: 12
Distance: 0.526 miles
Shape: Oval
Wow.. The Duck team scored high points 2 weeks in a row.
I guess the defense got busy second half, Brett was hot 1st quarter.
Look out for Detroit, they have a QB now.. Jeff Garcia..
The sad thing is that the Lions wasted their 2 wins agains non-conference foes.
like you said, 5 wins in the
North conference could take it all.. weird times, indeed.
It's 5 wins to have a chance; the Lions already have 2 non-division wins.
WOW!!! I'm just 1,204 points out of first place...
I hope you bookmarked Higgins' page. His past few stories have been great.
I hang out on several Jr/Earnhardt boards and I have never once heard that said about Jeff. I have seen that rumor on FR several times and although I don't like to add any kind of friction on threads there are times I have had to defend him and say that there has never been any factual reports of this attributed to Jeff Gordon and I will leave it at that.
That being said he's a heck of a race car driver, had a great race yesterday and will probably be someone to reckon with for the Chase contenders the rest of this season.
I think it's extra sharp cheddar, lead the way and ST and I will follow [for a while anyway] :) We've all been trading places for a few races now.
I spotted Dale Earnhardt Jr. sitting in the prerace driver's meeting listening to his iPod, complete with custom molded earpiece headphones – just like the ones he uses for his in-car radio. Sweet!
As part of the prerace driver introductions, the drivers are paired up on the bed of pickup trucks for a lap around the track. This week's best pairing? Jeff Gordon and Kurt Busch. Talk about the boos!
I know I'm starting to sound like a broken record here, but NBC missed numerous restarts, starting on lap 52 and continuing throughout the race. With a block of commercials ending just as the green flag was flying to restart the race on lap 91, NBC producers went to one more 30-second spot before rejoining the race. That's just plain disrespectful, pitiful and greedy.
Will someone please hire Ricky Craven – who won Saturday's Craftsman Truck race here – to drive a Cup car next season? He's a proven winner who unfortunately got the short end of the stick this season during his tenure with Roush Racing.
Didn't it seem like every time the caution flag came out you heard the names Riggs, Waltrip, Wallace or Green being mentioned?
It was another top-10 finish (eighth) for Denny Hamlin in Joe Gibbs' No. 11 Chevy. Also, Hamlin's teammate Bobby Labonte finished fifth for his first top-five since Loudon in July. It's been a tough couple of years for Labonte, and at this rate it seems he'll again go winless in Cup competition this year.
I hear that the 2000 Cup champion definitely is in play to make a move to another team at the end of this season.
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — On the 197th lap of Sunday’s Subway 500, reigning Nextel Cup champion Kurt Busch used his Ford as a battering ram, spinning out Michael Waltrip’s Chevy.
Two other cars — those of Carl Edwards and Scott Riggs — spun out behind the crash. On lap 202, NASCAR officials penalized Busch a lap for rough driving.
Then they gave him the lap back via the “lucky dog rule.”
“What I was told,” said NASCAR spokesman Herb Branham, “was that since the rough-driving call was a subjective call, therefore we determined he would be eligible to be a beneficiary of the lucky-dog rule.
“There’s nothing in our rules that is etched in stone, saying we have to eliminate someone from the lucky-dog rule if they’ve been penalized a lap,” he added later. “Every penalty situation is different. We felt like the No. 97 could’ve avoided spinning out the No. 15, but the incident wasn’t what you would call blatant rough driving. So, in our eyes, the penalty fit the circumstances. We held the ‘97’ for a lap, but at the same time, determined that he would remain eligible for the lucky-dog rule.”
Within a span of minutes, NASCAR took a lap away from Busch and then gave it back. The sum of the two actions was no penalty at all.
Cars involved in wrecks aren’t eligible for the handout rule, which places one car back on the lead lap during caution periods. In other words, Busch wouldn’t be eligible to have a lap restored had he merely been in a crash. Indirectly, though, he was eligible because he caused one, or at least that was the judgment of NASCAR officials.
That line of reasoning wouldn’t pass muster in a Marx Brothers movie.
Mentionable stuff they said later:
“I got hit from behind. He got me. If I could’ve got back up to him, I would’ve returned the favor.” — Jimmie Johnson, on Tony Stewart
“He’s an idiot. It’s no wonder Kevin Harvick’s wanted to kill him for so long.” — Tony Stewart, on Greg Biffle
“He’s got a problem running guys into the fence when he gets alongside them.” — Greg Biffle, on Tony Stewart
“He makes me nervous when I’m racing around him.” — Mike Bliss, on Scott Riggs
“I saw a lot in (crew chief) Steve Letarte a long time ago. His first victory was just perfect, because we won because he made the right call on strategy.” — Jeff Gordon
“See if Mr. Pessimist ever predicts another win.” — Mark Martin, after finishing 34th.
You ever see Jr. with a woman?
NASCAR and The Power of Mickey Mouse
Now that ABC/ESPN have taken over the television rights package to the second half of the NASCAR season, we can finally give a view on the inside of the intense negotiations that went on for the TV broadcast rights.
Not really of course this is just my take on it.
As you may or may not know, the parent company of ABC/ESPN is Disney…yes that’s right, the same folks who brought you ‘It’s a small world after all’ (and now you too will have that song stuck in your head the rest of the day) and charge you the same amount as a monthly car payment to stand in long lines in brutal heat just to watch your kids hug an oversized mouse.
Disney of course had an evil plot to take over the world several years ago only to have it thwarted by Wal-Mart (whose motto is ‘It’s our world you just live in it’). The ‘House that Sam Walton built’ as you know has the ultimate goal of forcing everyone in America to wear silly blue vests and yellow “happy face” buttons.
Disney, now hoping to regain its former greatness, pulled out all the stops and reportedly will pay 284 ‘gazillion’ dollars for the TV rights…of course those are Disney dollars which can only be spent on Disney property, but none of the NASCAR lawyers caught that before the contract was signed, prompting one to say, “Dang.”
There were other ‘small’ concessions made by NASCAR in order to secure this very lucrative package. Chief among them is that Disney will allow a team owner to have up to five teams, as long as they’re named, “Dopey”, “Sleepy”, “Doc”, “Sneezy” and ‘Bashful”.
Other concessions:
Jack Roush can continue to wear his famous trademark hat; it just has to have ears sticking out of the sides and ‘Uncle Jack” embroidered on the back.
‘Herbie the Love Bug’ will be given a champion’s provisional and will make the field of every race.
All drivers will have to wait in line just like everyone else will.
All drivers uniforms, while still reflecting their individual sponsors will be required to have a Disney related theme: for example, Tony Stewart will be ‘Tigger’, Michael Waltrip will be the bear from “Bear in the Big Blue House”, Bobby Hamilton Jr. will be “Donald Duck”, Carl Edwards “Goofy” and Matt Kenseth will be “Pooh”.
There will be warning stickers on each car reminding drivers to ‘keep their hands and arms inside the car at all times’ and ‘Women who are pregnant or people with back, neck or heart problems should refrain from using this ride’.
There will be no more ‘Victory Lane’, it will be known as “The Happy Place’.
http://www.cupscene.com/
[I think they forgot the Seven Dwarfs -Happy [Harvick]Sleepy [Rocketman for sleeping on pitwall], Grumpy [Crash], Doc [MM], Sneezy [Biff], Bashful [Jr], and Dopey [Rubberhead].
I hang out on several Jr/Earnhardt boards and I have never once heard that said about Jeff.
It was a joke. Those are lyrics from a well-known comedy song by country comedian Tim Wilson. He does several NASCAR songs. My favorite is a take off on Johnny Cash's "Boy Named Sue" entitled "Dale Darrell Waltrip Richard Petty Rusty Awesome Bill Irvin Gordon Earnhardt Smith...Johnson, Jr."
You ever see Jr. with a woman?
As I said above it was the joke lyrics from a comedy song. That is why I put it in quotes and in parentheses, so it could not be mistaken for my opinion.
But to answer your question, yes, in an episode of NASCAR 360, Junior is seen drooling out his RV window for a girl at a race. He later meets her, and arranges a visit. Flys her out to his home where she spends time with him, and she goes shopping with his mother.
It was all done very gentlemanly-like. He even asked the girl's mother for permission, although the girl was clearly of adult age. Junior came across as VERY shy.
Oh good, I guess I haven't heard that one. :)
I just cringe when I hear that said about Jeff and I must say it's mostly here on FR [not the Nascar thread] but mostly main board threads about anything having to do with Nascar. The only other place I've seen it is on the main Yahoo board where there are mostly whackos posting.
As far as the other subject on Jr., he's had several girlfriends including the one you mentioned. Her name WAS Kortney and come to find out she and her mother were trolling the garages to catch a live one and came up with the biggest fish of all until he got wise to her. This time the fish threw the fisherman/woman back!!
Sure was irritating when Gordon took the lead and the eventual win to not be able to gloat. :)
Most of my team destructed, but it looks like many others did too.
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