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Nascar Nextel Cup - Auto Club 500 at California Speedway - Sunday 02-25-07 - Fox 3pm ET ^
Nascar.com ^ | 2/21/07

Posted on 02/21/2007 4:21:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Week 2, and it's Off to California with a banjy on muh knee..

What'll happen this week?

This thread is posted on a weekly basis during the season and is intended for folks to get together on a family-safe thread, have a little fun and share a little bit about the sport, your favorite drivers and keep the conversation out of the mud and weeds while doing it.

We also run a Ping list, if you would like to be added, let one of the race thread posters (normsrevenge,WestCoastGal,glock rocks,NYTexan) and we'll make sure you're on it.


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To: WestCoastGal

The story behind the bow
Published by DaleJr March 5th, 2007


I’m up early this morning because we had a weekend off. I figure I’ll go over to the shop here in a little bit and see if my guys made it back from Mexico City OK. That was a crazy Busch race yesterday! Shane finished 21st in the Navy car. He was running 11th with just a few laps to go but was hit from behind by another car and knocked off course. It was the first time Shane had raced on a road course, so all things considered I was pleased with the outcome. As for me, I’m getting back into the grind this week. We head to Vegas in a few days and desperately need a good run.

A big thanks to everyone who left supportive comments on here. I wish I had time to reply to all of them, but just know I appreciate it very much. Some of you have asked questions or made comments about my bow to the crowd at Fontana. Well, here’s the story… The day was already a disaster (for a recap, you can click over to www.DaleJr.com and read by journal entry.) The motor had gone bad, and after spending 20 minutes in the garage trying to fix it, the decision was made to fire it back up and return to the track to log a few more laps. Well, a “few” more laps was a few too many for that engine. When I fired it back up, it sounded like a cross between a lawn mower and a chain-smoker’s cough. I wasn’t on the track long before it gave way for good. My car spun out, I kept it off the wall, and it came to rest right in front of the grandstands full of fans. They were screaming, hollering, cheering, and I could hear every one of them. They weren’t heckling me (well, a few might’ve been) but for the most part they were wearing red and showing me some love. So as I climbed out of the Bud car to end a bad day, I took a bow to the fans in the grandstands. Whether they were cheering for me or not, hopefully it gave them something to remember. Ya’ll have a good week, and I’ll holler back when I get to Vegas. JR

http://blogs.infieldparking.com/DaleJr/


1,041 posted on 03/05/2007 4:03:41 PM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: WestCoastGal
Having had to deal with OSHA and it's rules I really wonder how the teams seem to be exempt. The brake dust alone would send us to Jail...
1,042 posted on 03/05/2007 4:59:36 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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To: WestCoastGal; NormsRevenge; NYTexan; steveegg; tubebender; glock rocks; LasVegasMac; All

Several years ago Benny Parsons offered $100 for the first pit stop in how many seconds?


1,043 posted on 03/05/2007 5:58:06 PM PST by SouthTexas (It's race time again!)
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To: tubebender
The brake dust alone would send us to Jail...

Somethings you talk about in publiC, somethings you don't.

You sir, shall be remembered as THE ONE that gave OSHA the idea.

Gas - 4 seconds.

Tires - 4 seconds.

Brake Dust Abatement Program - One hour and 37 minutes.

Oh, your off my Christmas Card list, too.

:)

1,044 posted on 03/05/2007 6:03:39 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
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To: tubebender; LasVegasMac
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1,045 posted on 03/05/2007 6:15:52 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NYTexan
You fire me and I'll call the IRS about that cash that disappears every night...
1,046 posted on 03/05/2007 6:23:19 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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To: tubebender
You squeeler!

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1,047 posted on 03/05/2007 6:38:57 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NYTexan
Now I'm calling the INS and the health dept and building dept about about the "night crew"
1,048 posted on 03/05/2007 6:44:37 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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To: tubebender

Yark!

Just give enough lead time ta get this weeks thread posted first before I hold up in my cave. (sharpening spears)


1,049 posted on 03/05/2007 6:53:29 PM PST by NYTexan
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To: NYTexan

What cash?


1,050 posted on 03/05/2007 6:53:31 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam........not fit for human consumption.)
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To: LasVegasMac
The cash he saved by not bringing the workplace up to ADA standards...
1,051 posted on 03/05/2007 8:01:30 PM PST by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)
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To: WestCoastGal
The man behind The Pits is drawing again over at Matt's website. I guess the Robot CAN make up the points with two hands behind his back.
1,052 posted on 03/05/2007 9:58:31 PM PST by steveegg (Now playing in Hell - the Hussein family reunion, produced by President Bush, directed by the Iraqis)
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To: SouthTexas

12 seconds, so far no one has quite made it. One team almost did last year but I can't remember who.


1,053 posted on 03/06/2007 4:07:55 AM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: tubebender

Don't give Nascar any ideas.

Next they will do away with brakes on the COT and attach a parachute. :)


1,054 posted on 03/06/2007 4:11:01 AM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: steveegg
He really has a great website!

I love all the current pics they post on there and the message board.

Jr has 3 sites, his own DaleJr.com, the IP site and Jr Motorsports which is the only one that usually has current pics of the Navy car. Probably because Kelley runs that place. He does keep a journal and now he also does a blog, which I posted and a place we can post to him on the IP site. He currently has almost 19,000 friends on that site so getting a response from him is difficult at best. They stopped letting us post pics to him, I have a feeling some woman probably went waaaaaay too far and ruined it for everyone. :( I sent him my "bow" slide show. I did get a response from his PR guy several times though.

Do you all vote everyday for the MPD, I saw the link on there?

And I guess I know where you will be in August.

Matt Kenseth will return to the Milwaukee Mile on Sunday, Aug. 26, in a 50-lap late model event.

1,055 posted on 03/06/2007 4:31:58 AM PST by WestCoastGal (NO MORE MR NICE GUY!! 5-31-07 ~ MIDNIGHT GIT-R-DONE)
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To: WestCoastGal

I was thinking it was either 13 or 14, but did not remember. It was actually a question, just didn't phrase it that way.


1,056 posted on 03/06/2007 5:46:53 AM PST by SouthTexas (It's race time again!)
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