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NASCAR Nextel Cup: Dodge Dealers 400 at Dover International Speedway, Sunday 9-23-07 ~ 1:30 p.m. ABC
NASCAR.com, Jayski.com, various others | Sept. 18, 2007 | NYTexan

Posted on 09/18/2007 5:20:52 PM PDT by NYTexan


FREE REPUBLIC NASCAR THREAD

The Chase for the NEXTEL CUP
continues with the Dodge Dealers 400

Welcome all to the Nextel Cup race at
Dover International Speedway

(Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.)

Current Standings:

Rank-Car-Driver-Points
1) #48 Jimmie Johnson 5210
2) #24 Jeff Gordon 5210
3) #20 Tony Stewart 5200
4) #07 Clint Bowyer 5195
5) #5 Kyle Busch 5175
6) #1 Martin Truex Jr. 5170
7) #17 Matt Kenseth 5156
8) #99 Carl Edwards 5147
9) #11 Denny Hamlin 5128
10) #29 Kevin Harvick 5122
11) #31 Jeff Burton 5119
12) #2 Kurt Busch 5108


DOVER INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
NEWS/RUMORS


David Spade, R. Lee Ermey to kick off the “Dodge Dealers 400”


Kasey Kahne to appear in the Monster Mile Club


Track Schedule for the NASCAR Dodge Dealers 400 at DIS


Dodge Dealers 400 Entry List

Qualifying: Friday 9/21 3:00 pm Nextel Cup Qualifying ~ ESPN2
Race: Sunday 9/16 1:30 pm Nextel Cup Race ~ ABC

Speed's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 11:30 am/et
NASCAR Countdown pre-race ~ 1:00 pm ABC

Jayski.com TV listings

Track Details with Current & Historical Track info from:
NASCAR.com, That's Racin', SceneDaily.com, Wikipedia, na-motorsports.com

NASCAR News, Info and Stats from JAYSKI'S silly season site





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DALLAS – So we now have a pretty good idea of how this whole Dale Earnhardt Jr. deal with Hendrick Motorsports and his new car number and sponsors went down.
Based on the conversations and interviews done at Wednesday’s news conference at the Dallas Convention Center, the leading number in the clubhouse was, for quite a while, the 81.

Somewhere along the way, though, as trademarks and things like that were being researched, it was discovered that there’s an apparel company called Company 81 that sells a lot of the same kind of shirts and things you’d sell to race fans with a car number on it.

Hendrick Motorsports could have trademarked a particular design of an 81, but there’s nothing that could have been done to stop that company from putting out its own shirts with that number on it. That would have caused a type of confusion in the marketplace nobody wants any part of.

(There also was the fact that “81” is a number sometimes associated with the Hell’s Angels motorcycle group. Supposedly, members of that group sometimes have that number tattooed on them because the “H” is the eighth letter of the alphabet and the “A” is the first, so “81” also can stand for “HA.” Team owner Rick Hendrick, though, said that wasn’t a factor in the decision to move away from the 81.)

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But it took a woman to get the 88 thanks Kelley!! :)

http://turn-lane.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-dale-jr-got-no-88.html


61 posted on 09/20/2007 4:02:44 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (MTN DEW/AMP/NAT'LGUARD=88 "HMS is like going to Toys R Us When your coming from Kmart"~ Tony Jr)
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To: WestCoastGal
Well, well, Jrs. in the 88 next year?

Then I'd better put this pic up instead.

I talked to this Marine for about a half hour, he had been in Afganistan and had just got back a couple of days before the Vegas race...

facinating tales he told...


62 posted on 09/20/2007 4:09:24 PM PDT by Pete-R-Bilt
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To: tubebender

Yo, gotchyer drivers picketed?


63 posted on 09/20/2007 7:06:15 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: Afronaut
I found him under the bleachers before the race.

Unnngh? Drop your keys?

64 posted on 09/20/2007 7:07:40 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: Pete-R-Bilt

Awesome. Gunny lookin sharp!


65 posted on 09/20/2007 7:12:25 PM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: glock rocks

Would you be so kind as to quickly ask Bo how he wants his Rib Eyes grilled :(


66 posted on 09/20/2007 9:54:37 PM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: Pete-R-Bilt

That’s a great pic. Thnaks :)

Now for the nutty news and I mean it must be the M&M with the nut inside.......


67 posted on 09/21/2007 4:40:44 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (MTN DEW/AMP/NAT'LGUARD=88 "HMS is like going to Toys R Us When your coming from Kmart"~ Tony Jr)
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Mars Inc., which has sponsored both Nextel Cup teams at Robert Yates Racing this season, is finalizing a deal to become the sponsor of driver Kyle Busch at Joe Gibbs Racing next season, The Charlotte Observer and ThatsRacin.com have learned.

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Must be the M&M with the nuts inside.


68 posted on 09/21/2007 4:42:12 AM PDT by WestCoastGal (MTN DEW/AMP/NAT'LGUARD=88 "HMS is like going to Toys R Us When your coming from Kmart"~ Tony Jr)
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To: tubebender

He’s on a health kick these days, probably slimming down for the holidays. He likes fuji apples.


69 posted on 09/21/2007 4:46:48 AM PDT by glock rocks (Please pray every day for our Patriot Armed Forces fighting to protect our way of life.)
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To: glock rocks; NormsRevenge; All
Some local WWII War Heroes...LOCAL NATIVE AMERCIAN VETERANS
70 posted on 09/21/2007 5:50:45 AM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: glock rocks
TWO SHOT NEAR DOVER SPEEDWAY Brian France is not a suspect at this time...
71 posted on 09/21/2007 6:47:52 AM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: glock rocks

Life is good! I’m watching qualifying while my First Wife is washing my pickup...


72 posted on 09/21/2007 12:59:34 PM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: tubebender
How far as Rocket's star fallen? He's being talked over in qualifying.

Speaking of Q, it's a good day so far for Mikey's team - with 30 cars gone so far, the Big Brown Truck's 9th and locked in, and the NAPA machine is 21st. Meanwhile, your polesitter as the continue qualifying is JPMoveover.

73 posted on 09/21/2007 1:01:59 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: tubebender

I wonder if Gibbs is giving Mikey some technical advice; all 3 of his cars are in.


74 posted on 09/21/2007 1:09:33 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: WestCoastGal
Very nice paint job on the 17 this week.

Mikey's officially in the show now. Is this the first race all three MWR cars have made a race?

75 posted on 09/21/2007 1:19:41 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: tubebender

Your pole-sitter; JJ, and the bastard did a second lap faster than JPMoveover’s without putting it in the wall.


76 posted on 09/21/2007 1:23:37 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: steveegg
Heh Heh Heh...
77 posted on 09/21/2007 2:45:13 PM PDT by tubebender (My first great grandson is a Miniature Schnauzer...)
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To: tubebender

What gives me hope is Robot qualifying 10th in Black Beauty.


78 posted on 09/21/2007 2:46:33 PM PDT by steveegg (I am John Doe, and a monthly donor)
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To: steveegg

I haven’t seen Matt’s car yet.

I’m not sure if MWR has had all three in a race yet or not. I thinking not. I just hope they can be competitive rather than be in the way like Mikey was a few weeks ago several laps down blocking people.


79 posted on 09/21/2007 3:25:15 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (MTN DEW/AMP/NAT'LGUARD=88 "HMS is like going to Toys R Us When your coming from Kmart"~ Tony Jr)
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To: WestCoastGal
Eury Jr. eager to get fresh start at Hendrick Motorsports
By David Newton ESPN.com

Updated: September 21, 2007, 6:10 PM ET

DOVER, Del. — Tony Eury Jr. often felt like the lone wolf at Dale Earnhardt Inc.

If things didn’t go well with Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s famous No. 8 machine, he felt there was nowhere to turn for advice, nobody to help him figure out how to get better, nobody to make sure what was a problem one week wouldn’t be a problem the next.

That’s one reason he can’t wait to get to Hendrick Motorsports, where he’ll officially move the Monday after the Oct. 7 race at Talladega Superspeedway.

“It’s going to be better over there because when something happens, it’s going to be addressed,” Earnhardt’s crew chief said on Friday at Dover International Speedway. “It’s some credibility. Somebody is going to take some responsibility.

“There’s none of that over there [at DEI]. If we blow up, everybody goes, ‘OK, this happened. Let’s go to the next one.’ Over there, they’re going to take care of the problem to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”

Eury began thinking about an early exit to HMS in June shortly after Earnhardt announced he was going there so he could get a head start on how things work at NASCAR’s strongest organization.

The decision became easier after Earnhardt blew his fifth engine of the season three weeks ago at Richmond. That was the third blown engine in eight races, taking NASCAR’s most popular driver from a Chase contender to a spectator.

“At Watkins Glen, we over-revved the motor [in practice],” Eury said. “We talked about changing the motor. They said, ‘We’ll check it out.’ We changed two valve springs. Sometimes you’re asking for trouble, and we got it.”

There are enough checks and balances to keep that from happening five times at HMS, where Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson are tied for the points lead.

There’s been only one blown engine — Casey Mears at Darlington — this season between four HMS drivers.

“Like that power steering going out at Chicago,” Eury said. “There’s going to be a guy there going, ‘Hey, we need to do away with this pump bearing after two races.’ They’ve got nothing like that over [at DEI].”

The size of the staff alone at HMS will be a step up from DEI.

“We’ve got a lot of great people at DEI, but their staff is probably doubled,” Eury said of Hendrick. “So you’ve got a lot more people you can put more responsibility on to come up with ideas. The more ideas that are out there, the better you can make the cars run.

“You’re not making a decision on your own. You’ve got three people just as good as you that can help you make those decisions so you don’t feel like a lone wolf.”

While DEI has spent the past few months reorganizing and growing — the merger with Ginn Racing took it from a three-car to four-car organization — Eury said the company may be four years from being as strong as it was with Earnhardt and him.

He’s concerned that the No. 1 team of Martin Truex Jr., which is in the Chase, will feel the pressure he has for much of the past eight seasons.

“With Dale Jr. and me leaving, they’re losing a lot,” he said. “It’s a lot more than what they think. A few guys on this team are going to go with me and a few are going other places.

“When you’ve got two teams running as good as these are and break one down, then you’re putting the load back on one again.”

Eury plans to take four members of the No. 8 crew with him to Hendrick, and he expects others to go elsewhere once the season ends. He said one has already committed to JR Motorsports, the Busch Series team run by Earnhardt and HMS.

“They’re taking a little setback with this deal,” Eury said of DEI.

LINK

80 posted on 09/21/2007 3:32:32 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (MTN DEW/AMP/NAT'LGUARD=88 "HMS is like going to Toys R Us When your coming from Kmart"~ Tony Jr)
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