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Posted on 08/28/2007 5:24:20 PM PDT by WestCoastGal
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Marty Smith on NN said he spoke with Kelley and at THE END OF THE WEEK..... they will have the number and sponsor..
I think the fan investigators are getting to close to the answers so they better hurry up. :D
Adding on to that, BUT they may not be able to announce it. They will have them all set. :( *SIGH*
Is it possible the #8 was not completely trademarked by DEI until 1-2007? That’s what a lawyer said on Claire B this afternoon.
Looking forward to seeing the rest. :)
Not on the radar, but occasionally the weather tracks up here, usually resulting in a statewide net cumulative IQ drop of around 50 points. Most of us just go to the range.
Which car are they run’n this week?
Normal American good old Nascar racecars.
Good! Glad it ain’t the POSCOT!
Jr’s running chassis 42 the Indy car. Not sure on the engine, but we all know how Indy turned out with the pulley coming offf and losing the engine. Prior to that he was running fast!!
<broken record mode> Give him the 3, Richard.
Would put the 8 into obscurity!
He doesn’t want to drive that 3 now.
I’m pretty sure he won’t even run a number with the 3 in it like 38. IMO the various trademark register requests for about 5 numbers is just to throw off the media. These are the numbers requested.... 38, 82, 81, 58 and 51. It will more than likely be the first one requested the 81. The 5 will run in Busch from JRM with Hendrick as the owner IIRC.
Ted Kennedy?
I like that SeaBee 88 Navy car, reeeal purty!
Thanks for the thread. I am at a loss who to pick this week-end, been taking a real shellacking of late.
At least we won’t be looking at the radar for rain.
We’re looking at 100 plus all weekend.. WHEW!
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=ontario%2Cca
Earnhardt Jr. has hot number
Whatever it is next year, it will be a bestseller
03:12 PM PDT on Tuesday, August 28, 2007
By GREGG PATTON
The Press-Enterprise
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. says he’s going to turn the page, now that it’s clear he won’t be driving his signature No. 8 car next year.
If Sunday looks like the last go-round at California Speedway for Junior in his familiar red Budweiser wheels, that doesn’t mean his fans are ready to see him drive some other, pedestrian number unworthy of his special, uh, eight-ness. Think of all those “8” flags proudly flying from pickups and camper shells that will have to be ceremoniously shredded and torched when the season ends, and Teresa Earnhardt, head of Dale Earnhardt Inc., snatches the iconic digit back from Junior.
She must know she just blew Stepmother of the Year.
Anyway, Junior’s army of followers is steamed. An Internet petition is circulating in protest, ever since DEI and his future team, Hendrick Motorsports, reported that no deal was reached to keep driver and number together next year.
Seems kind of dumb that DEI would want to keep the “8,” since it has no particular mystique without Junior inside. After all, when former driver Dick Trickle briefly had the number in the mid-1990s, it didn’t mean anything, other than, more than a decade later, it gives me a chance to check “Get the name ‘Dick Trickle’ in a column” off of my life’s to-do list.
Maybe Teresa thinks the “8” will maintain its aura, as long as any Earnhardt is driving it. So when she rolls it out to the local Safeway, NASCAR fans will go wild in the parking lot. They may, but for the wrong reason.
Junior, he has no choice but to look ahead. He has a better chance of actually winning this Sunday at California Speedway than reclaiming his old numeral, and we all know how that’s gone for him in Fontana the past 10 years.
Frankly, it doesn’t really matter what numeral Earnhardt ends up with since he can’t have the “8.” Any number that he drives will be NASCAR’s newest, must-have piece of merchandise. He’s the sport’s most popular figure. He made the No. 8 car a national icon, it didn’t make him.
Put Junior in the “pi” car, sponsored by the Cal Tech math department, and you’ve got yourself a merchandising juggernaut.
In the meantime, the more pressing matter is that Earnhardt will have to drive his rear bumper off the next couple of races just to make it to The Chase, NASCAR’s version of the postseason, which includes only the top 12 drivers in the point standings. His rabidly loyal fans eventually will let go of their No. 8 fixation and latch onto whatever number car Junior straps himself into. More important for him Sunday is shaking his Fontana jinx and scoring some meaningful points.
The “8” was great, but right now, for him, the only number that counts is “12.”
http://www.pe.com/sports/breakout/stories/PE_Sports_Local_D_nascar_patton_30.20631e4.html
You’re welcome.........
I’m waiting for Fall to arrive, although we’ve been fairly lucky to not have 100+ days this summer. Lots of rain which kept it in the 90’s.
Thanks.
It is a pretty car, and I think they have found a good driver in K’Ski.
AND, Richard Petty is on deck!!
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