NASCAR - BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT AND 150 DUELS - DAYTONA SPEEDWEEKS FEBRUARY 2008 [Finally]

Me, Jayski, Nascar | 2-4-08 | Me, Jack and Jr

[WestCoastGal]

WELCOME BACK RACEFANS
DAYTONA SPEEDWEEKS: SCHEDULE

Broadcast Schedule SPRINT CUP SERIES

Feb 7

8:00P-9:00 - SPEED
NASCAR Bud Shootout Selection Show

Feb 8

4:00P-5:00 - SPEED
NASCAR Sprint Cup PRACTICE #1, Budweiser Shootout

6:30P-7:30 - SPEED
NASCAR Sprint Cup PRACTICE #2, Budweiser Shootout,

Budweiser Shootout - FOX
8 p.m. ET Saturday Feb 9th

Cup Series Qualifying - FOX
1 p.m. ET Sunday Feb 10th

Gatorade Duel - SPEED
2 p.m. ET Thursday, Feb. 14

[WestCoastGal]

Gatorade Duel's - Thursday, February 14, 2008
Daytona International Speedway - Daytona Beach, Fla. - 2.5 Mile High Banked
Total Race Length [each] - 60 Laps - 150 Miles

TV - SPEED, 2:00pm/et; MRN/Sirius Satelitte Radio coverage

Gatorade Duel #1

St Pos	Qual Rank	Car#	Driver	Manu	Qual Speed	Prev Year Ops
1	1	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevy	187.075	1
2	3	78	Joe Nemechek	Chevy	186.498	x
3	6	5	Casey Mears	Chevy	186.054	5
4	9	60	Boris Said	Ford	185.893	x
5	15	88	Dale Earnhardt, Jr.	Chevy	185.479	15
6	16	83	Brian Vickers	Toyota	185.475	x
7	19	84	AJ Allmendinger	Toyota	185.422	x
8	22	66	Scott Riggs	Chevy	185.193	31
9	23	12	Ryan Newman	Dodge	185.143	13
10	26	01	Regan Smith #	Chevy	184.964	17
11	27	87	Kenny Wallace	Chevy	184.953	x
12	32	70	Jeremy Mayfield	Chevy	184.612	33
13	34	2	Kurt Busch [CH1]	Dodge	184.540	x
14	35	19	Elliott Sadler	Dodge	184.521	27
15	36	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	184.487	9
16	38	15	Paul Menard	Chevy	184.415	29
17	40	1	Martin Truex, Jr.	Chevy	184.290	11
18	41	41	Reed Sorenson	Dodge	184.264	23
19	42	42	Juan Pablo Montoya	Dodge	184.241	21
20	43	77	Sam Hornish, Jr. #	Dodge	184.226	7
21	44	07	Clint Bowyer	Chevy	184.106	4
22	45	21	Bill Elliott [CH3]	Ford	184.009	x
23	47	43	Bobby Labonte	Dodge	183.857	19
24	49	45	Kyle Petty	Dodge	183.374	35
25	50	09	Sterling Marlin	Chevy	183.326	x
26	51	96	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	182.994	25
27	53	08	Carl Long	Dodge	180.796	x

DRIVER COLOR
RED = needs to finish top 2 of non top 35 owners pts
GREEN = non-top 35, in by speed from qualifying
BLUE = locked in at least, by use of champ prov
PURPLE = can use champ prov if #44 races in
ORANGE = can still make race via speed

Gatorade Duel #2

St Pos	Qual Rank	Car#	Driver	Manu	Qual Speed	Prev Year Ops
1	2	55	Michael Waltrip	Toyota	186.734	x
2	4	00	David Reutimann	Toyota	186.463	x
3	5	22	Dave Blaney	Toyota	186.120	34
4	7	28	Travis Kvapil	Ford	185.958	30
5	8	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	185.947	12
6	10	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevy	185.858	2
7	11	10	Patrick Carpentier #	Dodge	185.766	x
8	12	20	Tony Stewart	Toyota	185.651	6
9	13	6	David Ragan	Ford	185.594	24
10	14	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	185.517	4
11	17	27	Jacques Villeneuve #	Toyota	185.452	x
12	18	8	Mark Martin	Chevy	185.429	16
13	20	38	David Gilliland	Ford	185.410	32
14	21	44	Dale Jarrett [CH2]	Toyota	185.345	x
15	24	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	185.071	14
16	25	26	Jamie McMurray	Ford	185.010	18
17	28	7	Robby Gordon	Dodge	184.85	28
18	29	9	Kasey Kahne	Dodge	184.828	20
19	30	37	Eric McClure	Chevy	184.828	x
20	31	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	184.809	22
21	33	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevy	184.589	10
22	37	49	Ken Schrader	Dodge	184.483	x
23	39	40	Dario Franchitti #	Dodge	184.351	26
24	46	31	Jeff Burton	Chevy	183.884	8
25	48	34	John Andretti	Chevy	183.673	x
	52	50	Stanton Barrett	Chevy	182.823	x

[WestCoastGal]

Thank you to the racing god’s that Jr’s in the first Duel. I have to go to work by 4pm central time. :P

[tubebender]

Thanks for the Ping. What did I miss? and when do you leave...

[tubebender]

SCORE!!!

[SouthTexas]

Prit near everythang I'd say. Got pretty good there.

Had to come to work, too much slacking last week.

FRIDAY MORNING!

[NucSubs]

Thanks!

I dunno...just general dirt. Who they ae? Are any of them any good? Any predictions?

[tubebender]

I just heard Dave da Pain say the race has never been rained out?

[SouthTexas]

Just got home so I missed it.

That would be truly amazing, if true, in 50 years of racing.

[WestCoastGal]

2008 Rookie of the Year
Candidates (ROTY)
Patrick Carpentier, #10 - Gillette Evernham - Canadian Formerly Champ and Indy car driver. He ran the Busch race in Canada last year and the Glen for Evernham.

Dario Franchitti, #40 - Ahhhhh Scotish and quite handsome with a beautiful wife Ashley Judd. I had to copy his stats.

Career Racing Highlights

Signed with Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates to drive #40 Dodge Avenger in 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Won the 2007 IndyCar Series Driver Championship
Captured the 91st Indianapolis 500 becoming only the second Scottish born driver to win it since Jim Clark in 1965
Has 18 victories and 17 pole positions in his U.S. open-wheel career; is the winningest British driver in U.S. open-wheel history
Has accumulated 63 top-five and 95 top-10 results in his open-wheel career
Finished 8th in the 2006 IndyCar Series driver’s championship
Finished 4th in the 2005 IndyCar Series driver’s championship
Won at California Speedway from the pole in the final race of 2005
Scored his third career IRL win at Nashville in 2005
Earned two wins and one pole position in the 2004 IRL Season
Posted 10 wins and 11 pole positions in CART and finished runner-up in the 1999 driver’s championship
Finished among the top seven in CART in four of his six seasons

Sam Hornish, #77 for Penske - http://www.samhornish.com/sam/index.cfm?cid=2634&subnavkey=career

Michael McDowell, MWR #00 Will take over for Reutimann when he takes the 44 ride from DJ when he retires.
Regan Smith, #01 Do drove the US Army car for Ginn racing which has now been purchased by DEI mostly for their property. Most Ginn employees lost their jobs but Smith will pilot the 01 which is no longer the Army car, but I don’t know and don’t really care who their sponsor is. Sorry it’s a DEI thing with me.

Jacques Villeneuve, #27 for Bill Davis Racing - CART and IRL championships and the Indy 500. I remember his first race last year at Dega of all places. He did drop to the back so as not to be in the way.

Hope that helps

[WestCoastGal]

I forgot the predictions - Probably about the same learning curve as Montoya only without the hard headed stubbornness and temper for most of them except Hornish. :D

I predict Dario will do the best. What do I know, I mainly concentrate on Jr. If not for him I wouldn’t be watching anyway.

[WestCoastGal]

Hendrick dedication

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - While Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout win at Daytona International Speedway was special to everyone involved with the Hendrick Motorsports organization, and Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s team in particular, crew chief Tony Eury Jr. noted that it was especially so for team member Joey Arnold.

“My setup guy, Joey Arnold, his kid was 5 years old and had a terminal disease and died last Tuesday,” Eury said.

Returning from a recent test session at California Speedway, Eury said, he was surprised to see his crewman busy at work.

“I said ‘Joey, what are you doing here?’ His kid had died the day before,” Eury said. “He said ‘This is my best chance to win the Daytona 500 and I want to be a part of it.’”

Eury said that with men like that helping with his team, he doesn’t see how things can go wrong for the group.

“To me that kind of dedication from that guy, that meant a lot to me, so I told Joey that [the Shootout win] was for him,” an emotional Eury said shortly after the race. “You put yourself in a position where something like that happens; it is unbelievable that there is that much dedication and that much [desire] to win these races. A lot of people don’t realize how big these races are. I mean there are a lot of families out here that don’t get to come week to week and a lot of time ... people say this sport makes a lot of money. The way I look at it, you get paid to not have a life sometimes.

“When things like that happen, it hits me emotionally and I am so thankful that I have people that dedicated behind me and I go out here and perform for them.”

http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2008/02/04/scene_daily329.html?from_rss=1&from_chex=1

[vox_freedom]

Hey, I want one!

[WestCoastGal]

I really really really want this one

[WestCoastGal]

Hey ST, do you have infield passes?

We’re looking for a pic of the 88 hauler. :D If you can get it.

[SouthTexas]

Sorry, no such luck. :)

[NucSubs]

LOL!

A LOT! Thanks!

Guess we have a lot of new liberal types in NASCAR now.

[WestCoastGal]

Telephoto lens??

[WestCoastGal]

[WestCoastGal]

WOW Cool

Dale Earnhardt Jr. won the Budweiser shootout in Daytona driving across the finish line with new NASCAR accepted SPEK gauges made by ProParts. Dale Earnhardt Jr. and teammate Jeff Gordon are both planning to run the new gauges in the Daytona 500. The new gauges are brighter than the Autometer gauges and have built-in warning lights that flash the background lighting of the gauges if trouble is detected. The new gauges monitor engine pressure and temperatures and alerts the drivers of trouble for added safety. The tachometer has built-in Pit Road RPM lighting designed by ProParts to keep the driver focused on the car in front of them and not the pointer on the old style tachometer.

[WestCoastGal]

Article: Stewart-Busch fight brings extra attention to NASCAR

“With the web site, the hits over the last 24 hours, 48 hours, I’ve heard some good things about that,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “That just brought a lot of attention to this race, to Speedweeks. It needed a shot in the arm. What happened in practice gave it that.”

NASCAR is still deciding whether to punish Stewart and Busch, two former Cup series champions with a history of bad blood.

“On the race track, I think they’re going to let us go back to running over each it looks like,” Earnhardt said. “Get ready. That’s all I’ve got to say. I’ve got to get my dukes up. Be ready, I tell you. Got to watch those hands.”

Link: http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/7780684/Stewart-Busch-fight-brings-extra-attention-to-NASCAR