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Posted on 02/15/2007 4:39:06 PM PST by WestCoastGal
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Hey don-o doncha like my cube?? :)
Thanks so much for the comment IWTK.......I'm always cruising looking for "stuff" for our threads!!
NYT did the lineup screencaps........I should have given him credit on that!! I was so pooped last night I wasn't thinking straight.
Just on Fox cable....Jeff at the after race news conference interview. They asked about the car failing... He say's "are you serious, that sucks" Then he said something about do I get to start the Daytona 500? He got blindsided by that question because he didn't know the car failed inspection. He was actually shocked. [no pun intended]
But thanks to global warming we had ice this morning and with a frozen faucet, I had to go back and forth for water to thaw it out.
It just ain't natural! ;)
Per, yeah it's amazing...we either got a MORON installing shocks or somebody in tech mismeasured or there's some magic bolt jiggymabob that undid itself and realigned itself at 190 mph during the race.
The Yahoo story said a fastener BROKE?...the whole thing stinks.
It would be MUCH EASIER if NASCAR would PUBLISH their super secret rule book to the public. Then, we could ALL see the rules.
We have ice outside as well and it's darn cold. Even the dog didn't want to do his long walk......he just about pulled me back to the house!!
I am going to watch the two races on tape this AM...
Did you see Flash's reaction at the post race conference when a reporter told him his car flunked? "You've GOT to be kidding me, that sucks"...
Yes I saw that, I posted above he looked "shocked" LOL
Go Tony Go!!
Hydraulics!
Post race report.............
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: Well, we had a pretty good car and had Michael out front there leading. He was pretty much a sitting duck there. Had Tony pushing me, really, really good out of the tri-oval. I was going to try to make a pass on him. I was around him. I really wasn't looking in the mirrors, I just know one minute I was going straight and then I was going toward the inside fence.
I guess looking at the replay, Michael pushed up on the corner, which it's a common place to get real tight, and he obviously hadn't had a lot of laps on that car. We'll give him the benefit of the doubt there, mainly because we didn't hit the wall (laughter).
Yeah, I was pretty happy we didn't have too much damage. The car suffered a little bit of suspension damage, a little bit of body work. When we spin around like that it changes the pressure inside the trunk and underneath the crush panels and in the rear, and it just changes the pressure so drastically that it can beat some of that stuff around.
The trunk is a little tore up by looking at it, and it bent the right rear trailing arm a little bit, and we might have buckle a front lower A-arm, too, because the car was traveling more in front and bottoming out more after that, so normally that's the lower arm that's buckled.
snip~to Q&A
Q. With you being a former teammate of Michael Waltrip, does it bother you some that this may cast some questions on all the restrictor plate dominance and success DEI enjoyed or are you positive there was never anything like that at DEI with the jet fuel?
DALE EARNHARDT, JR.: You must not have been around here long (laughter). I never really thought about that as far as it really linking to DEI at all. I think it's NASCAR's job to police as best they can, and they don't pull any punches and they don't really let you get by with too much. They catch the good guys and the bad guys when they're cheating. You know, but I don't think that I've never smelled any jet fuel in my car, and I know what it smells like when it's burning because I count the dollar signs every time we fire my jet up (laughter). I ain't never smelled that smell, either. I think I've been running standard here the last several years.
We are dog-sitting brother's and he was doing some "high stepping" when he realized how cold the grass was. LOL
Cheating is one thing, but its not cheating when the car is too low because of a broken shock mount. Seems an unfair penality for this. They don't put you up in position if you have a dent or other problem that slows you down, why should they dock you for a mechanical problem when it actually helps?
If he wins the race from 42nd; he will be the3 first to do it.
Oh! The bolt was missaligned? Last night I heard that the shock mount was broken. How is it that the crew did not measure the height of the fenders? Maybe someone in Waltrips crew accidently spilt Sterno down the carb while warming up lunch. Or maybe the other crews accidently failed to cover up the holes, allowing trapped air to go through, thus reducing drag. I mean if its possible to missalign a shock bolt on purpose, shouldn't they be fined also?
And how would that bolt know exactly when to drop?
Seems obvious to me that they simply missed this during pre inspection. Doesn't change the fact that this could easily have been on purpose. If there is a technical infraction then they should not make judgments of if they cheated or not, just give out the same penalties to everyone.
Truex on pole so far.
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