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Posted on 08/22/2007 3:57:41 PM PDT by glock rocks
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I got around 194 points Norm, but please don’t tell that evil Bo...
I got this in email, today - if it has already been posted, please accept my apologies.
This is especially for all of us who loved Dale Earnhardt.
The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Dale Earnhardt_
(http://www.news-journalonline.com/speed/special/dale/dale1.htm)
This is the newsjournalonline front page today. Dale’s interview w/Matt Yocum
was his last.
If you scroll thru the pictures you can follow the day as it unfolded.
Good to see Jim Hale, um, Carl win again. I never did understand the point system, so I won’t even ask why he is still 5th. That he is in the chase is all that matters.
Boy, Jr. looked pretty down tonight, almost resigned to the fact he won’t make it in the chase and that he can’t take the 8 with him.
As far as the flip, the Russian judge was pretty harsh, giving a 5.4.
Thanks for that link, yorkie....
I'll catch up on the thread tomorrow.
YW, P4E. I needed to get out the kleenex. Seems like yesterday, doesn’t it?
Wow. Thanks yorkie. Haven’t seen such a complete set of pics in one place like that.
Seems like yesterday.
Thanks as well!
Yeah, it sure does ~ :`-(
Do you know about that movie about Dale coming out soon? I think it’s showing on September 4th.
That’s a great one
Wave when you blow by me.
Yeah, I know~~~~
Howdy neighbor. I’m over in Johnson City. It rained off and on (Mostly on) fron six oclock yesterday. Go figure.
If you read the threads, we don’t do a lot of woofin’ for favorite drivers nor much dogging of our unfavorites.
There is some amount of fantasizing, wishful thinking and delusions of grandeur and a lot of fun and good cheer. Be sure to come next week
Nice to meet my close neighbor...we live in the “best place on earth”! Others certainly feel the same about where they live.
I have read some of the thread, but not all! Enjoyed! They don’t like the track. Who knows what the future will bring on the concrete. I haven’t heard from the drivers yet but will in the coming days, I expect!
I met a girl recently on another thread and she lived in Johnson City, too! My family and I come down to eat a lot and occasionaly shop!
Did you ever eat at that Fishtales Seafood Rest.? It was ours and we lost everything there! Our business was great on Thurs. Fri. Sat. and part on Sunday, but Mon. Tues. Wed. nothing! We just couldn’t make it longer than 2-1/2 years and very much money! We put so much money into it remodeling, etc. that it was pathetic! Gotta go...see ya late!
Meant later on the last word! Not late~~~~LOL
Robert Yates Racing and Newman/Haas/Lanigan Join Forces: Robert Yates Racing (RYR) and Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing (NHLR) have entered into a letter of intent for a partnership in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup and Busch Series. The team will be named Yates/Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing effective immediately. “This is a wonderful partnership,” said Robert Yates, founder of Robert Yates Racing. “This gives us a clear vision how to get to the top. It is our goal to continue to build so this team will be better positioned to contend for the championship.”
“I am very proud of our accomplishments in the Champ Car World Series and hope we can have the same success in NASCAR,” added Carl A. Haas, who has been a team owner in NASCAR’s Cup series on two previous occasions. “We have been looking to add other forms of racing to our Champ Car program and when the opportunity came along to work with Robert Yates Racing, a team that shares the same drive for success that we do, it was too good of an opportunity to pass up. I think that the NASCAR and Champ Car programs can learn something from each other and only enhance the championship level that Robert Yates Racing and Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing have competed at in previous years.”
“We have always been an engineering driven team,” said Paul Newman, a partner in Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. “We think we have something special to add to the benefit of both. This in no way lessens our commitment to open wheel racing — we want to broaden our horizons.”
“The opportunity of joining Robert and Doug Yates is an opportunity of a lifetime,” added Michael Lanigan, a new partner in Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing. “The Yates family has been competing against the best and winning for many years. We look forward to a long and productive association.”
Since Robert Yates Racing was formed in 1988, the now two-car team has posted 57 victories and 48 poles in addition to winning the 1999 NASCAR championship with Dale Jarrett. Current Nextel Cup drivers Ricky Rudd and David Gilliland pilot the #88 and #38 Ford Fusion’s, respectively. The agreement also includes RYR’s Busch program with Stephen Leicht, driver of the No. 90 Ford Fusion. Drivers such as Davey Allison, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett, Ricky Rudd, Kenny Irwin, Elliott Sadler and David Gilliland have driven for RYR. RYR and NHR/NHLR have had close ties with Ford Motor Company for many years. RYR has been powered by Ford all 20 seasons. Of NHR/NHLR’s 101 wins and 103 poles, 55 of each have been earned with Ford power. In addition, four of their seven titles were powered by Ford (1993 – Nigel Mansell; 2004-2006 – Sebastien Bourdais).
“NASCAR Nextel Cup racing is rapidly moving, technology-wise, to engineering areas that Newman/Haas/Lanigan has years of experience with already,” said Dan Davis, director of Ford Racing Technology. “And Robert Yates Racing brings years of engine development and race craft in the sport that is invaluable to this operation. Put that expertise together, along with joint ownership that is clearly committed to winning, and we have a Ford program that will be a contender for years to come.”(RYR PR)(7-29-2007)
Think they'll bang fenders?
At least we will have real honest fights instead of the faked ones like Flash and Robot and Happy and 1 Pablum...
NASCAR team owner pleads guilty Monday
By Associated Press
LOS ANGELES —
A NASCAR team owner pleaded guilty Monday to defrauding the government of more than $34 million in taxes.
Gene Haas, the 54-year-old owner of Oxnard-based Haas Automation and NASCAR’s Haas CNC Racing, agreed to pay a fine, back taxes and interests totaling more than $70 million, the U.S. Attorney’s office said.
Haas pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge for orchestrating a plan to list bogus expenses that could be written off as business costs and save Haas Automation millions in taxes.
Haas, of Camarillo, was scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 5. Prosecutors recommended he serve two years in federal prison and six months probation, according to his plea agreement.
A call Monday to Haas Automation, which makes computerized machine tools, was not immediately returned.
Four others have pleaded guilty in connection to the scheme and are scheduled to be sentenced next year. They include Haas Automation’s former general manager, Denis Dupuis, of Newbury Park; and a former salesman, Robert Cable, of La Crescenta. The remaining defendants were Charles Todd, of Minden, Nev. and Kenneth Greene, 53, of Simi Valley.
and by the way... 500,500
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