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We've moved from silly season right into stuck on stupid season. What are they smoking? If you're going to change the date of something, move election day from November 4th to April 15th! |
Daytona 500 to be moved to November? This week, sources within NASCAR told me [CTR] there has been closed door discussions to move the date of the Daytona 500, to November. Apparently, NASCAR is intrigued by the idea of switching the dates of the season ending Homestead race with the season opening Daytona 500. The allure of ending the NASCAR season and crowning a new Nextel Cup champion at the sports biggest race is something the France family is strongly considering. NASCAR and the International Speedway Corporation own both tracks so a change of date would be easy to accomplish. Each year since 1959, NASCAR has led off the season in Daytona Beach, FL with the sports biggest race, the Daytona 500. In 2008, NASCAR will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Daytona 500 on February 17th for what may be the final time ever in the month of February. Sources said the late Bill France Jr. was very much against moving the Daytona 500 and felt that it would hurt the integrity of the sport. NASCAR does not intend to have a final decision regarding the date change until the end of the 2007 season.(CTR-Captain Thunder Racing)(7-5-2007)
Drifters performer dies just hours before performance
By LYDA LONGA
Staff Writer
DAYTONA BEACH — Bill Pinkney, one of the original members of the popular musical group The Drifters — and sole survivor of the initial 1953 band — died Wednesday night at the Hilton Daytona Beach Oceanfront Resort, just two hours before he was scheduled to perform for Fourth of July festivities at the Bandshell.
The 81-year-old Pinkney, whose band had such hits as “Under the Boardwalk,” “Up on the Roof,” and “Save the Last Dance For Me,” died of a heart attack in his hotel room just hours after he and members of the band — which included Pinkney’s son — arrived from Sumter, S.C., said the group’s publicist, Donnie Lowery.
Despite the tragic loss, the band played nonetheless, Lowery said, and an announcement was made afterward concerning Pinkney’s death.
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We've moved from silly season right into stuck on stupid season. What are they smoking? If you're going to change the date of something, move election day from November 4th to April 15th! |
“Daytona 500 to be moved to November”
I’d love to see them add a roadrace at Sebring early before the rainy season.