NASCAR - Food City 500 - from Bristol - on FOX, Sunday 3/25/07 at 2:00pm ET (Race #5 of 36)

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Food City 500

Sunday 2:00 pm Eastern

Bristol Motor Speedway

SPEED Pre-race show at 11:00 Eastern (90 min)FOX Pre-race show at 1:30 Eastern
Green Flag at 2:10

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Heads Up! FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Deadline to select or edit your drivers is Friday, Mar 23 at 5:00am EDT
(so maybe you'd best make them by Thursday night!)

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Bristol Motor Speedway

0.533-mile concrete oval
500 laps, 266.5 miles
Degree of banking in corners: 36 degrees
Degree of banking in straights: 16 degrees
Straightaways are 650 feet long.
Concrete racing surface is 40 feet wide.
Seating capacity: ~160,000
Bristol has two pits roads: 21 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the back stretch(1 must be shared)
Pit Stall Size: 25.5 feet long, 15.5 feet wide
Pit Road Speed: 35 mph
Pace Car Track Speed: 40mph

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The Volunteer Doppler.

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• Practice Dates/Times/TV

• Practice: Friday, March 23, 10:30am - 12:00pm/et; and Saturday, March, 24, 10:00 - 10:50pm/et
  
  
• Happy Hour Practice: Saturday, March 24, 12:50 - 1:50pm/et on TV-SPEED
  
  

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  Qualifying Info

• Qualifying Draw: Friday, March 23, 9:30am/et
  
  
• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-43, Friday, March 23 at 3:45pm/et, TV-SPEED, NO re-air date/time found AND live via radio at PRN Radio and Sirius Satellite NASCAR Radio.
  

Info courtesy Jayski.com

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Busch Series:

Sharpie MINI 300
Saturday 3/24 at Bristol Motor Speedway on FOX - 3:00 p.m. ET

Craftsman Truck Series:
Sorry, no truck race this weekend.

Weekend TV/radio race coverage and calendar for all series, all events

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Bristol to be resurfaced after March Cup race: Bristol Motor Speedway will be getting a new look this summer that should make for even more exciting racing as the .533-mile oval receives a new concrete surface after the March 25 running of the Food City 500 Nextel Cup race. And just like the one-of-a-kind racing fans get at Bristol Motor Speedway, officials commissioned a one-of-a-kind machine to do the job. Baker Concrete Construction, Inc., of Monroe, Ohio, developed the Gomaco Slope Paver, an all-new machine, to handle the specifications of Bristol's unique high-banked oval. A pair of unrelated Baker Construction companies (Baker Construction Services of Bluff City, Tenn., is the other) head the project that should be completed by mid-July. SMI's Development team hopes the new surface promotes even closer racing and a much smoother ride for the drivers. The famous Bristol banking will remain the same. Crews plan to begin demolition for the entire racing surface, track apron, pit road, inside retaining walls and 80 percent of the outside walls March 26, the day after the Food City 500. This project marks the first time since 1992 that the entire track undergoes a complete resurfacing. In the summer of that year, then-track owner Larry Carrier made NASCAR history when he created NASCAR's first all-concrete racing surface. Project specifications call for more than 14,520 square yards of concrete to be used for the track surface alone. Bristol's resurfacing project will employ a crew of 130 and cover in excess of 30,000 worker hours.

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Bristol sells out Food City 500, 50th sellout in a row: The Food City 500 Nextel Cup race at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 25 has sold out, a consecutive streak of Nextel Cup sellouts, which reaches 50 began in August 1982 a stretch of 25 years. back in 1982, the track capacity was 71,000, now the is close to 160,000. "It's a pretty significant accomplishment," said BMS President and General Manager Jeff Byrd. "I don't know of any race track that can even come close to 50 straight sellouts.

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It's Bristol, Baby!



just FReepmail if you want on or off the NASCAR Ping list.

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[LasVegasMac]

Thanks for the thread and the Ping, GR.

This is gonna be a good one.

For the newest media wonder boy, Juan Pablo.....Nascar Nation welcomes you to the real deal. Wish ya the best!

...barely suppressed giggle.....

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Nascar really should hire Ricardo Montalban to introduce him as our racer from Coloooooombia :o)

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SMI's Development team hopes the new surface promotes even closer racing and a much smoother ride for the drivers.

Closer? Dang! Well it's Bristol, let the smash and crash begin!

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Flip's first law of vehicular physics: Two cars cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

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Will Anyone Be Legal at Bristol?
Stan Creekmore

NASCAR officials apparently have been telling crew chiefs in the NEXTEL Cup garage no one should fail inspection prior to the first practice session at Bristol Motor Speedway in two weeks.

If there was a car that passed every template during the recent Bristol test for the COT, no one can point it out. The Ford nose missed the template by 3/16's of an inch on both sides and there was a minor issue with the hood that must be worked out in a hurry. Chevrolet teams also had issues in the nose and tail sections. Dodge and Toyota were also not without issues but individuals in those camps were not talking.

The word now is NASCAR is going to relax the process, requiring teams to meet just four of the eight required points in the overall template.

CircleTrackPlus

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I am going to a community meeting where they will name a skate board park after me...

More news at 11...

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Will there be many cautions in this race?

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I am going to a community meeting where they will name a skate board park after me...

That's too cool. I'm going to name one after you. Welcome to the Greater Salt Lake After You Skating Park.

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Will there be many cautions in this race?

No.

um, yes.

Yes.