NASCAR - Bass Pro Shops 500 - from Atlanta - on NBC, Sunday 10/29 at 2:30pm ET (7th Chase Race)

NASCAR/Jayski ^

[umgud]

Next 4 races will be dull, but not as bad as California.

[WestCoastGal]

All these guys invading Nascar and all the money being flung around is getting a bit too much.

Schumacher to run Cup road courses? Rumors that Michael Schumacher has signed a $10 million deal to drive the two NASCAR road races at Sears Point (Infineon) and Watkins Glen in 2007 could not be substantiated at [autoextremist.com] launch time.(autoextremist.com)(10-26-2006)

[Pete-R-Bilt]

I have hundreds of old picture post cards from the turn of the century. I didn't know there was a market for them.

OK you set the next question up that begs to be asked...

Which centry are you talking about?

[Pete-R-Bilt]

centry = century

[steveegg]

Rumors that Michael Schumacher has signed a $10 million deal to drive the two NASCAR road races at Sears Point (Infineon) and Watkins Glen in 2007 could not be substantiated at [autoextremist.com] launch time.

If there's any bit of truth to that rumor, it will be for either Mikey's team or Red Bull<rest of the word deleted>. Only they have the combination of money and piss-poor road-course drivers.

[B4Ranch]

Are these pictures of you posing for the cameraman?

[Pete-R-Bilt]

If they're not this last turn o the century, they'd be way way way before my time...

[WestCoastGal]

Speaking of Toyota......

October 24, 2006
Robert Yates Racing: A Casualty of Toyota?
by Carol Einarsson

Speed's televised interview with Robert Yates last month was like a train wreck. You know, when you can't stop watching no matter how terrible it is to see? It was a heart-breaking interview with a man that has given so much to our sport, sounding like he was about to give up.

We saw reminders of the glory days. Robert is a self-made man who, through hard work alone worked his way up to the top and was one of the most respected team owners in NASCAR. He weathered loss after loss, and often without the public realizing how his heart grieved.

When Davey died, all sympathies were with the Allison family. How could they NOT be? But what most didn't stop to realize is that Robert was grieving, too, not for the loss of an employee, but as if he'd lost his own son. He'd known Davey since he was a little boy. But Robert rebuilt.

When Ernie Irvan crashed at Michigan and was hanging on to life by only a thread and a 10% chance of survival, few knew that Robert was plagued with guilt. Wondering if his car had somehow failed. Were the roll bars not quite right, was the cockpit too small, was there something mechanical that put the car into the wall? Despite nobody else blaming Robert Yates for that near-fatal accident, he blamed himself. But Robert rebuilt.

And when Ernie came back and won at the track that tried to kill him, Robert was finally relieved of that burden.

That crash, though, brought something good to Robert Yates - a temporary driver to fill in for the injured Irvan - Dale Jarrett. Dale Jarrett signed on with Yates knowing that it would be only until Ernie returned. But he was so good that Robert decided to create a second team just for DJ. That was 10 years ago.

The relationship between DJ and Robert Yates was solid. DJ had every intention of finishing out his racing career with Yates Racing, and he so much as told Robert that was his plan.

But then Toyota and Michael Waltrip came knocking.

Continued Here>>>>>

[glock rocks]

They're grampa's. He was a civil engineer... traveled the west, worked on the Panama Canal... built stuff... collected picture post cards. He bought a herd of em in europe too. I sorta ended up with them.

[vox_freedom]

Interesting and provoking. NASCAR is such big business now, it seems there is little left over for loyalty and friendships.
The seeking of $$$ over loyalty compromises those things which are important in life and inevitably leads to difficulties. Such is the struggle.

[WestCoastGal]

Check out this article.

Time IS Ripe For a Racing Revolution Voices From The Heartland Jeff Meyer · Thursday October 26, 2006

It is no secret that in the eyes of NASCAR, the racing game is NOT a democracy. It purely is, and most always has been, an outright dictatorship. Throughout the course of history, such dictatorships have their peak…and then, inevitably, a tragic downfall. Recent happenings have me thinking a downfall is close at hand.

[LasVegasMac]

Thanks for that link. great read.

RYR sure has had some tough times as of late. Really hard to watch your driver trying to struggle through that.

I really do think that they were just too wrapped up in the "RYR world" to pay attention to what was changing around them.

Hopefully, RYR will be around for some time. I just read that Robert said they were real close to signing a major sponsor for the 88 car next year. Hope so.

Did you catch DJ's power ranking on Nascar.Com? 88 - 44 - 22...lol

and from Catchfence (I think)....

Q: I see where David Ragan won’t be allowed to run Atlanta. That’s odd for NASCAR to do something like that. Why do you think they’d keep him from running? Krystal

A: The NASCAR receptionist just called; Ken Schrader left that piece of his bumper on Mike Helton’s desk.

lol

Thanks again for the link.

[tubebender]

I talked to my young co-worker today. He just got back from his trip and ride at the Vegas track. He wanted the "Harvick" Chevy but had to settle for the "Shrub" car.They ran a pace car in front of him to keep him under 140.

He said he heard that Kurt Busch ran 203 on the new track...

[SouthTexas]

Texas will be good. You don't have to wade through commercials when it's live. :)

[SouthTexas]

He said he heard that Kurt Busch ran 203 on the new track...

More restrictors?

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the link/article.

I esp. liked the line:
Oh, did I mention the FANS?

Oh, those darn fans again. "If only we (NASCAR) had to deal with team sponsors and TV commercials..."

[tubebender]

Don't put too much stock in what he said. He thinks Harvick will win the championship also...

[SouthTexas]

Discussed that very fact with a guy today. Wouldn't it be something with a Busch and Cup championship in the same year?

[tubebender]

I think I have lived in Eureka too long. I knew 3 of the 4 guys in the obituaries today. ;(

[WestCoastGal]

Looks like rain all day...that stuff went through here the last couple of days.