NASCAR - Pepsi 400 - from Daytona, on FOX Saturday 7/1, at 7:30pm ET **VP Cheney speaking live**

Nascar/Jayski ^

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The Pepsi 400

Saturday 7:30 pm Eastern
Speed Pre-race at 6pm, FOX Pre-race 7:30pm

Green flag 7:55

from Daytona International Speedway

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VP Cheney to attend Pepsi 400

From Daytona International Speedway:

Vice President Dick Cheney will attend the 48th annual Pepsi 400 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series race scheduled for Saturday, July 1, at historic Daytona International Speedway, Daytona International Speedway President Robin Braig announced.

Vice President Cheney will speak to race fans during pre-race ceremonies for the mid-summer classic as well as meet NASCAR drivers, teams and executives during his visit to "The World Center of Racing."

"We're honored that Vice President Cheney will visit Daytona International Speedway and participate in Pepsi 400 pre-race festivities," Braig said. "Vice President Cheney continues the tradition of high-profile elected officials that have visited the 'World Center of Racing'."

In the 1984 Pepsi 400, the late President Ronald Reagan gave the starting command from Air Force One. Reagan, who became the first sitting President to attend a NASCAR race, witnessed Richard Petty earn his 200th NASCAR win.

President George H.W. Bush attended the 1992 Pepsi 400 at Daytona International Speedway, and current President George W. Bush served as the Grand Marshal for the Pepsi 400 during his 2000 presidential campaign.

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attended last year's 2005 Pepsi 400.

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• Practice Dates/Times/TV

• Thursday Practice: Thursday, June 29, 4:00 - 5:00pm/et, TV-none
  
  
• Happy Hour Practice: Thursday, June 29, 6:05 - 6:50p/et on TV-Speed Channel Live
  
  
  
  

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  Qualifying Info

• Qualifying Draw: Thursday, June 29, 3:00pm/et
  
  
• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-43, Friday, June 30 at 4:35pm/et, TV-Speed Channel, re-air Saturday at 12:30am/et on Speed AND live via radio at MRN Radio and XM Satellite NASCAR Radio.
  
  
• Impound? cars will be impounded for this race after qualifying

  Info courtesy Jayski's

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The Sunshine State (ahem) Updating Doppler...

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Daytona Speedway

Track Specs:
Track/Race Length: 2.5 mile oval, 160 laps, 400 miles
Tri-oval with 31-degree banking in the turns
18-degree banking in the tri-oval and 6-degree banking on the straightaways
Date track opened: 1959
Banking in turns 1-4: 31 degrees
Banking in tri-oval: 18 degrees
Banking on backstretch: 3 degrees
Banking on the straightaway: 6 degrees
Length of frontstretch: 3,800 feet
Length of backstretch: 3,400 feet
Grandstand Seating: 168,000.
Pit Road Speed: 55mph
Pit Road Length: 1,600 feet
Pit Road Width: 50 feet

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FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Your selections are due Friday at 5am Eastern
(so best make them by Thursday night)!

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Busch Series:

Winn Dixie 250

from Daytona International Speedway
Friday, June 30, 2006 8pm/et on FX.

Craftsman Truck Series:

O'Reilly Auto Parts 250

from Kansas Speedway
Saturday, July 1, 3:00pm/et on Speed.

Weekend TV/radio race coverage and calendar for all series, all events

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Saturday Night's Alright for Daytona PING!

just FReepmail if you want on or off the NASCAR Ping list.

[don-o]

First? What did I win?

Talk about from the outhouse to the penthouse.

Daytona, baybee!!

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Could be a colossal flyover this week :o)

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Outstanding! How do dono?

[steveegg]

You get to put up the entry list :-)

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I'm glad you told him

[SouthTexas]

Got it thanks.

[don-o]

Do good, g r. Tar Smokers moved up a spot despite the disasterous pick of Scriggs, though he acquitted himself well, in that driveabout - I refuse to call it a race.

Kissen, I am open minded to a point. I'll even get interested in soccer once every four years. But this foolishment at Sedona and Watking Glen? Never!

[don-o]

You get to put up the entry list :-)

I thought that required years of study and training and a double top secret secutity clearance.

[Jackknife]

Thanks for the ping, Glock!

[tubebender]

Ya done good Glock! I want to be just like you when I grow up...

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I want to be just like you when I grow up...

Checking my actuarial tables... I don't know if I'm gonna be around that long.

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Welcome!

[icecold]

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