Posted on 07/13/2006 12:56:25 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt
Welcome to the Loudon New Hampshire, not a short track, not a Speedway, a little of both.
Be sure and stop by and bump the Fundraiser thread and even better drop a little coin or cash or become a monthly donor so we can end them.
Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 12
Distance: 1.058 miles
Shape: Oval
Television Schedule
| Lenox Industrial Tools 300 | ||
| TNT HDTV | Sun. | 1:30 p.m. |
| O'Reilly 200 | ||
| SPEED | Sat. | 9 p.m. |
| New England 200 | ||
| TNT HDTV | Sat. | 3 p.m. |
| Lenox Industrial Tools 300 qualifying | ||
| SPEED | Fri. | 3 p.m. |
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thanks!
Holy Moley!!!
You may need to put some tape on that front end.. and the front shocks look a little loose too. :-}
Thanks!!!
Wow! Fun with gravity bump!
Are you aware that McClaren have summarily dismissed Montoya?
car of tomorrow, big wide front end!
I've gotta get out of here and head to Twin Falls, 1 today and 1 tomorrow, so I'll pop in as I get in front of the mochine.
I saw a great big smoke cloud from the top of the hills behind your house as I was loading in S J yesterday, was that from the Patterson fire, or did y'all get your own fire up there?
BBL
keep the shiny side up bro. thanks for the ping.
I think I figured out the truck number... Now I need some graphic design ideas...
LOL on the ping! Thanks, made my day!
uhhhhh, yah.
You may need to put some tape on that front end.. and the front shocks look a little loose too. :-}
Yea, and it looks really tight on the corners too!
You gut it tricked out inside? I've only been inside one once and it was pretty plain jane. See ya on the thread and thanks fer hosting!
LMAO! Great ping! Be safe out there!
Indy car driver Danica Patrick arrives at the 2006 ESPY Awards in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles Wednesday, July 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Danica Patrick loves the thrill and excitement of the Indianapolis 500, the attention and all those fans. She has dreamed of winning the top prize for open-wheel drivers since she was a little girl, a goal that remains unchanged.
But NASCAR features that fervor on a weekly basis with more money and challenges. With only six races left in her contract with Rahal-Letterman Racing, Patrick said Thursday a driver has to look at all the options.
"It's not a lie that I'm interested. It's definitely something that I look at because it's racing. I'm a race car driver. It's what I do. It's so big it's hard to ignore," Patrick said of NASCAR.
Patrick's parents were guests of Roush Racing last Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway for NASCAR's Nextel Cup race. Patrick said it was funny that caused such a stir. She went to Phoenix last year and almost got into a stock car before noticing a bunch of photographers nearby.
"Contract time is always interesting, and I'm lucky enough you guys pay attention to what I do. What I'm doing is figuring out what I'm up to for the next couple years of my life. Every decision I make is going to be based on who can get me a car that wins," Patrick said.
Patrick was patient through her first season on the IndyCar Series, saying all the right things about how tough winning races really is. She won three poles, finished fourth at the Indianapolis 500 — the highest ever by a woman — and had two top five finishes in being named rookie of the year.
Such production mixed with glamorous looks and charisma created "Danica Mania" with endorsements, commercials and magazine spreads, making her the most popular open-wheel driver in the United States. Just mentioning Patrick and NASCAR in the same sentence is enough to start fans pondering how she would match up with Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.
Patrick said she has watched NASCAR drivers bump and rub cars, something she remembers only too well from her go-cart days when she nudged others out of her way.
"It's beautiful. I do like that. I do like that. Rubbing's racing like they say, right?" she said.
There's also the money involved with NASCAR, which is booming and hasn't had the problems of the open-wheel split that cut into an already diminished fan base and sinking TV ratings and scared away big-money sponsors. Both the IRL and CART-successor Champ series have struggled since, and have recently been negotiating a possible reunification.
Patrick said the split caused enormous confusion for fans.
"I don't even get it all, and I've seen it. I've been in it," she said.
The chance to win will be Patrick's top consideration.
Rahal-Letterman has struggled this season now that everyone in the IndyCar series now has the Honda engines that gave the team an edge in 2005. The team switched from Panoz chassis to Dallara before Texas last month.
The Firestone Indy 200 on Saturday night at the Nashville Superspeedway will be only their fourth race since making the change, and Patrick finished seventh here as a rookie.
Patrick, held out of the opener at Homestead with teammate Buddy Rice after the death of Paul Dana, has finished each of the last seven races. She has four Top 10 finishes yet nothing higher than her sixth at St. Petersburg in April and ranks 12th in points.
She said she understands that Rahal-Letterman really wants her back and is working hard for a contract that will work.
"My biggest thing in everything is that I want to win, and I don't care who it's with. I just want people that are going to give me the opportunity and spend every last dollar they have to make the car go faster and every last second they have on making it faster," she said.
"If they're prepared to do all those things, then so be it."
Actually, no I wasn't. I'm still adjusting to Jeff Gordon winning at Chicagoland last weekend.
Well, I shall be gone this weekend to another Retriever Hunt Test up in Wisconsin. It looks like a good week for me to miss. In all likelihood I am playing Rubberhead in FRFL, and the last thing I want to do is have to cheer for him. >:-/
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