Posted on 04/08/2007 8:29:59 AM PDT by WestCoastGal
11:00 am NASCAR Live! Texas (LIVE)
11:30 am NASCAR Nextel Cup Practice Texas (LIVE)
12:30 pm NASCAR Live! Texas (LIVE)
1:00 pm NASCAR Nextel Cup Final Practice Texas
2:00pm NBS O’Reilly 300 (200 Laps, 300 Miles / TV: ESPN2, Local Radio: Live 105.3 KLLI - FM )
BTW, Childress does have the #3 runing in late models with his grandson Austin DIllon.
http://www.tommysracingphotos.com/id132.htm
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RACE LINEUPSamsung 500 | Texas Motor SpeedwayApril 15, 2007 | Race 7 of 36
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Happy Saturday Morning...
Again, Waltrip doesn’t make the show...such a disappointment for his fans and his team. Really, I mean it...
And, I screwed up my picks...it’ll be a weird race.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR. PRESS CONFERENCE TRANSCRIPT
April 13, 2007
Dale Earnhardt, Jr., No. 8 Budweiser Monte Carlo SS and NASCAR’s four-time Most Popular Driver, with Budweiser are saluting the troops this NASCAR season with two military-themed paint schemes and collectible diecasts, the proceeds from which will provide college educations for surviving dependents of fallen Special Operations soldiers.
DALE EARNHARDT, JR. OPENING REMARKS: “This says a lot about what the Special Operations Warrior Foundation does. It is great way for Budweiser and myself to get involved. Obviously, we have had some relationships with the military in the past, most recently with the Navy and their sponsorship in the Busch Series on our JR Motorsports car. Budweiser works with the military in many different ways. We have come up with an opportunity to continue and further that relationship. I am really excited, I think the cars look great and hopefully we will see a lot of them and benefit the foundation. We are going to run the camouflage paint scheme at Charlotte.
“The other car (red, white and blue to run at Daytona in honor of Independence Day on July 7. 2007), a friend of mine actually helped me design. We thought that over the years there really hadn’t been a well-done red-white-blue patriotic race car, there has been a lot done, but none done well (laughs). So we came up with our idea and we are very proud of it. We think it is one of the best looking ones we have actually seen.
“The camouflage one speaks for itself. It is pretty radical and will look great on the race track in Charlotte.”
ON WHO HELPED WITH DESIGN OF RED-WHITE-BLUE PAINT SCHEME: “That car was designed by a friend of mine, his name is Kevin King, he does all of the designs for JR Motorsports, licensing, logos, race cars, t-shirts, whatever. I met him on the internet racing about five years ago. He has studied design and whatnot and we became pretty good friends. He always comes up with some pretty cool cars for the games so I thought I would give him a shot. He is pretty excited that his car is actually going to be on the race track. He is trying not to brag too much to the other guys”
ON EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT WILL BE RAISED FOR THE FOUNDATION: “I probably can’t speak in specific numbers but knowing how successful we have been in the past, it will be pretty significant. Again, I can’t speak in specifics, I would say that whenever we have done special paint schemes in the past, we are 70% of the sale in market, 60% on a bad day, none-the-less, we cover the Motorsports Authentics, what used to be Action, it should be pretty significant and with this being a combination here is really going to make a big difference.
“I don’t know if you guys find the facts and figures of the concert car, the Gossimer car, all those things, but it was pretty amazing what the special paint scheme stuff can do and especially if it has some meaning and substance to it like this one does. So I think this will have a huge impact on the foundation, as far as the amount we are able to raise.”
ON BEING SUPERSTITIOUS ABOUT SPECIAL PAINT SCHEME CARS AND WANTING TO RACE THEM AGAIN IF HAD GOOD LUCK: “Several times actually. Budweiser likes to be very consistent. They like to have the red car on the race track. They like to do special paint schemes when it has substance to it, some meaning. They just don’t just want to throw a silver car on the track just to be doing it. It is rare that we get to change it up in the shop. It really pumps the guys up and the team to be able to do something new and different. These cars I personally really like the paint schemes on these two cars. The car we ran on Father’s Day last year at Michigan was a favorite of mine; I would love to run it again. The original baseball car was also a favorite of mine I would like to run again.
“If you run good and finish good or win a race in a special paint scheme, that will impact the souvenir sales as well and it frames up an image of that scheme in your mind and plants it in a memory that is a good memory. You always have good thoughts about it.
“I could go back and talk about special paint schemes for ever. The Father’s Day car last year thought was pretty cool. I really enjoyed that car.”
ON IMPORTANCE OF THIS PROMOTION TO HIM: “Budweiser is very adamant and very serious about their relationship with the military and so am I. Very proud of it. I think that with the country at war and everything going on right now, we have to try to show not only that we are patriotic, but also show our support for the troops. The biggest thing right now, is trying help those guys’ morale any time we can. To have been in that situation for so many years and now cycling back through, every little bit of show of support helps those guys and makes them feel better. I am sure it isn’t an easy road over there like I said, to be over there and cycling back there. They have all been there longer that I think they anticipated. Any kind of show of support that we can give them from over here will hopefully make a little bit of difference.”
Morning GRRRRR weather looks good for today.
Last night was pretty rocky for us as well.
Seems everytime NYT comes to Texas we have tornado warnings. :)
Thanks. A large snow storm in April. Ahhhhh. My daffodils are confused.
Last week we had bluebonnets with icicles dripping off.
I hope that storm calms down a bit before it reaches you, it was a dilly.
WEATHER SCARE: A severe weather threat fizzled into nothing more than heavy rain at Texas Motor Speedway, but not before fans scattered for whatever cover they could find.
``We grabbed our butts and grabbed a beer,’’ said 44-year-old Jay Newsom of the Fort Worth suburb of Watauga. Newsom was part of a group in two RVs on the infield.
Thousands scrambled for tunnels, bathrooms and other covered areas. Track officials had to implement a severe weather plan for the first time, opening covered lobby areas usually reserved for suite holders and letting fans on the infield go to indoor facilities at the adjacent dirt track.
The crowd at the time of the storm was estimated at 35,000.
When Newsom and several family members encountered an overflow bathroom, they settled in with a group of firefighters in another covered area.
Don Jordan, 32, of the Dallas suburb of Midlothian, said fans made the best of it.
``They were doing the wave and everything else in the bathroom,’’ he said.
Earnhardt was asked his thoughts on the repairs made to improve the dip at Texas Motor Speedway.
“I read about how they fixed it [drilling holes and adding putty to raise the asphalt],” Earnhardt said. “I never heard of that. It’s sort of like implants for tracks.”
bumpity
Those are some amazing pics of Michael’s crash! Thank goodness he’s okay! I’m wondering, what was he doing out at 2 am? And before Easter morning?
Looks like temps in mid50s today , Partly cloudy and close to 70 Sunday and sunny. Whew... make that WooHoo!
No word from our FReepers on the ground.. Folks back East will now feel the brunt of the storms rolling across the South and East ..
The young lady who happened upon this wreck right after it happened said she walked around it for about 10 minutes thinking someone must be dead. Then Michael stuck his leg out the back drivers side window and got out. He was bleeding and in his socks and just took off walking home.
He said later he was coming from Charlotte which is not the direction of his shop. The timing is suspect. I think I read somewhere that Buffy was in FLorida, not sure about that. But nobody was at the house to open the door when the police came. Michael said he went to the pool house to take a shower and didn’t hear the gate buzz.
He was very lucky indeed.
Hi Norm, how’s the weather out there?
Cold here today after being 80 yesterday before all the tornado stuff.
It’s currently raining,, maybe some thunderbumpers this afternoon,, we need the moisture,, all my fruit trees have blossomed and most of muh weed crop are yanked or will be soon., let it pour. :-)
Those bumpity bumps that were fixed between turn 1&2 appear to be causing some cars problems.
Shrub crashed in first practice today, the bigger Shrub crashed yesterday...not sure why or where on the track for him.
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