NASCAR Nextel Cup UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at LVMS - Sunday 3/11/07 - Fox 4:30pm/et

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[NYTexan]

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UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400

Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Welcome all to the the 3rd Nextel Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway!

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Smaller Fuel Cells for LVMS on the new 20-degree banking track

Qualifying Info/Practice Dates/Times/TV

Practice: Friday, March 9, 2:30 - 4:00pm/et, TV-SPEED
and Saturday, March 10, 12:00 - 12:50pm/et
Happy Hour Practice: Saturday, March 10, 1:20 - 2:20pm/et
(on TV-SPEED via tape at 5:30pm/et)

Qualifying Draw: Friday, March 9, 9:30am/et
Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-43, Friday, March 9 at 6:10pm/et, TV-SPEED

Race: Sunday, March 11, 2007 in Las Vegas, NV
TV: FOX 4:30pm/et
FOX Pre-Race Show: FOX - 4:00pm/et
Speed's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 2:00pm/et
Green Flag Scheduled: 4:40pm/et
Race Re-Air: Thursday, March 15 at 3:00pm/et on Speed

Current & Historical Track info

Track Details
Distance: 1.5 miles
Shape: D-shaped oval
Banking: 20° turns, 9° frontstretch, 9° backstretch
Frontstretch: 2,275 feet, Backstretch: 1,572 feet
Seating: 142,000

Thunderbirds open the race
The United States Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the start the UAW-Daimler Chrysler 400 Nextel Cup race
(March 13, 2006)

The Thunderbirds are based at Nellis AFB, Nev.
(across the highway from the track)

[SouthTexas]

Just wait for Bristol.

[tubebender]

The Car from the past tomorrow...

[SouthTexas]

Finally finished the project I was working on.

I think you spun me when you passed!

Glock pulled off the high score of the week! Good job.

[tubebender]

Gads Man. Don't encourage him and ruin his school boy charm...

[tubebender]

BTW...daughter called from Austin about a hour ago to report on the thunder storm in the area. They fly out Tuesday morning. Also said there was a big music festival there this weekend...

[glock rocks]

I'm more surprised than any of y'all are.

I'm taking a screen print of that and having it bronzed.

We're going to Atlanta, so all bets are off...

[tubebender]

Bo ran away again?

[NormsRevenge]

HotLanta or Not,,
If you get high score next week..
There will be an investigation.

It just don't fit the template. lolol:-}

[glock rocks]

My attorney, Bo, has advised me to refrain from discussing it at this time.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a ribeye to grille...

[barker]

The Little Debbie car is #21. Today it ran under it's Air Force paint scheme and was driven by Jon Wood. Ken Schrader normally drives it and should have today. Jon Wood is also the son of one of the co-owners of the team.

Ken crashed the car he was to drive during practice so didn't race.

[NormsRevenge]

I like mine medium well.. ;-)

[SheLion]

You always have the neatest pictures of Dale and the #8 car! I love them!!

[SoftballMominVA]

Oh yeah! I saw something about Jon Wood - first race and all. So, he finished the race - no crashes - great accomplishment for him!

[SouthTexas]

We did have some weather last night. WCG spoke of it during the race. Woke me up about 4:00 this morning. Front yard is under water.

We didn't get as severe as further north, just wet. It's supposed to hang around for a couple of days, hope they make it out on time.

[SouthTexas]

Are you still all in one piece?

[LasVegasMac]

Great weekend and some good racing!

The new Neon Garage was just awesome, fan heaven!

Will post only a couple of pics as they are huge, need to figure out how to shrink to fit. Any suggestions?

Lower level of the Neon Garage. One happy Jr fan! Look through the window and the car and crew are right there. The box below window opens up, autographs, talk to crew, etc.

Smoke's ride.

Upper level of Neon Garage. Three workers and one supervisor. Must be union.

We spent hours in the garage. Couldn't get enough of the action.

Smoke whinning about something else! Somebody yelled, "Gimme Hoosiers!"

Happy.

At least it looks good!

The work is non stop.

Tech inspection. Not everything is high-tech.

Check out what his pinky finger is in.....courtesy Kasey Kahne's garage.

Almost game time!

Could not ask for better weather.

After awhile I felt like Nascar Paparazzi...we saw Jack Rousch, Ray Evernham, loads of drivers, etc. Sadly, we saw the paramedics take Robert Yates from the #38 hauler. Have heard nothing, hope he is ok.

Just one fantastic Nascar weekend.

[Wurlitzer]

"He'd have won nothin if NASCAR had seen that tire rollin off the pit box. Lucky-dudes"

Unlikely they could have missed it. The tire was stopped by an official in front of the car and yes out of the pit box.

I have no axe to grind regarding JJ but rules are rules.

[WestCoastGal]

Try this, it came on my computer and I haven't tried it yet.

http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm

[WestCoastGal]

It got pretty hairy around here last night. We went into full tornado warning mode for about 1/2 hour. They blow the siren from the fire department which is a little disconcerting. Seeing the red banner is one thing, but hearing sirens is another. Fortunately nothing happened. I was actually outside walking the dog again when they started blowing the siren.

[LasVegasMac]

Thanks, WCG. Will check it out shortly.

Played hooky from work. 3 days of sun and fun wore this OM out!

At least Jr had a decent race. Would have been better had he not followed Burton into the pits. Doh!

Test - more to follow