Nascar Sprint Cup - UAW-Dodge 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway - Sun. March 2 - FOX 330 pm ET

Nascar.com ^ | 2/27/08

[afnamvet]

Thank you for a great thread.

[glock rocks]

2-11-24-35

“Bruton, you need a soft wall and to change the wall back there on the back straghtaway ... cause that’s the hardest I’ve ever hit.”

[tubebender]

To calculate your score Click Here

[glock rocks]

That link goes to Mdme Ouisseau’s House of the Future Oracle...

$29.95 for a reading??

[NormsRevenge]

Anything you didn’t win this week?

The MegaMillions :-)

[glock rocks]

Yah, I’ll meet ya in Reno, and we can lose a few pounds of quarters :o)

[NormsRevenge]

It’s our pleasure and Thanks!

[NormsRevenge]

mmmm buffet bars a football field long..

[glock rocks]

... and we could afford to lose a few pounds :o)

[budman_2001]

Well, that'll about do it for this week!

A 300 pointer for the FRFRL, not a bad day for the bunch! See ya'll next week from 'Lanta!

Thanks for hosting the thread!!!

[AGreatPer]

That’s a neat calculator. 313 here for Hershey

[B Knotts]

Bookmarked! Thanks!

261 this week. :-/

[SouthTexas]

STR got 239. Sure started good.LOL

[NormsRevenge]

i got it figured out, the more times ya go back for another dessert, the more exercise yur get .

[NormsRevenge]

Edwards wins Vegas to make it 2 straight

JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer

LAS VEGAS - Carl Edwards raced to his second win in six days, holding off Dale Earnhardt Jr. on a pair of late restarts Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Edwards, who scored his first win of the season in Monday's rain-postponed event in California, celebrated win No. 2 with his trademark backflip. The victory moved Edwards to the top of the Sprint Cup points standings for the first time in his career.

It was the fifth victory for team owner Jack Roush in Las Vegas, and ended Jimmie Johnson's string of three straight wins in the desert.

Edwards caught a break to be in position to win, escaping a penalty when one of his tires rolled onto pit road during a late service stop. NASCAR ruled that a television cameraman shooting from inside the pit box was in the way of crew members and it contributed to the tire breaking free.

The decision kept Edwards in contention to run for the win, but two late restarts gave the competition a chance to run down his No. 99 Ford.

Kurt Busch's wreck with 11 laps to go brought out the caution, and Edwards was in front of Earnhardt on the restart with five to go. But Earnhardt appeared to spin his tires at the start, and Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon had to split his car to avoid running into him.

As Gordon and Kenseth raced side-by-side, Edwards pulled away. Then Gordon drifted into the side of Kenseth's car, starting a spin that led to Gordon slamming into the inside wall. His Chevrolet broke into tons of part and pieces, and NASCAR had to red-flag the race to clean the debris.

That set up a two-lap sprint to the finish, but the wait time cooled Earnhardt's tires and he was unable to mount a charge on Edwards on the restart. Earnhardt's losing streak stretched to 64 races.

"The red flag just really killed us," said Earnhardt, who settled for second. "We were terrible on cold tires. It's real frustrating."

Greg Biffle was third and was followed by the Richard Childress Racing cars of Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton. Kasey Kahne was sixth, followed by David Ragan, Travis Kvapil, Denny Hamlin and Mark Martin.

Kyle Busch, who was trying to become the first driver to win from the pole at Las Vegas, struggled with adjustments to his Toyota the entire race and had to settle for 11th on his hometown track.

Johnson, the two-time defending series champion, was looking for a fourth straight win in the desert. But his team struggled the entire weekend, he fell two laps down in the race and finished 29th.

Two-time series champion Tony Stewart bruised his foot 108 laps into the race when his right front tire failed and he hit the wall for the second-straight day.

"I was kind of worried, my legs, my entire legs from my hips down were just tingling," Stewart said. "And I had pain in my lower back and that kind of scared me a little bit. I've not had my legs tingle like that before.

"I was kind of worried about, `What's going on here?'"

He slowly climbed from his car and gingerly walked with the assistance of two emergency personnel into a waiting car that took him to the infield care center. He said the tingling sensation had improved before he left the care center, and said he still planned to participate in the Cup test scheduled for Monday and Tuesday in Phoenix.

"It's going to be a miserable next two days," he said. "I was already sore. We'll do what we've got to do the next two days."

[NormsRevenge]

RESULTS

2008 Unofficial Race Results : UAW-Dodge 400

FIN	ST	CAR	DRIVER	MAKE	SPONSOR	PTS/BNS	LAPS	STATUS
1	2	99	Carl Edwards	Ford	Dish Network	195/10	267	Running
2	8	88	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet	National Guard / AMP Energy	175/5	267	Running
3	6	16	Greg Biffle	Ford	3M	165/0	267	Running
4	17	29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	Shell / Pennzoil	160/0	267	Running
5	24	31	Jeff Burton	Chevrolet	AT&T Mobility	160/5	267	Running
6	38	6	David Ragan	Ford	AAA Insurance	150/0	267	Running
7	37	9	Kasey Kahne	Dodge	Budweiser	146/0	267	Running
8	29	28	Travis Kvapil	Ford	Yates Racing	142/0	267	Running
9	27	11	Denny Hamlin	Toyota	FedEx Kinko's	138/0	267	Running
10	3	8	Mark Martin	Chevrolet	U.S. Army	139/5	267	Running
11	1	18	Kyle Busch	Toyota	M&M's	135/5	267	Running
12	10	19	Elliott Sadler	Dodge	Stanley Tools	127/0	267	Running
13	11	5	Casey Mears	Chevrolet	Pop-Tarts / CARQUEST	124/0	267	Running
14	15	12	Ryan Newman	Dodge	ALLTEL	121/0	267	Running
15	18	1	Martin Truex Jr.	Chevrolet	Bass Pro Shops / Tracker	118/0	267	Running
16	23	70	Jeremy Mayfield	Chevrolet	Haas Automation	115/0	267	Running
17	39	43	Bobby Labonte	Dodge	Cheerios "Circle of Helping Hearts"	112/0	267	Running
18	35	41	Reed Sorenson	Dodge	Target	109/0	267	Running
19	31	42	Juan Montoya	Dodge	Texaco / Havoline	106/0	267	Running
20	13	17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	USG Sheetrock	108/5	267	Running
21	19	49	Ken Schrader	Dodge	Qtrax.com	100/0	267	Running
22	40	15	Paul Menard	Chevrolet	Johns Manville / Menards	97/0	266	Running
23	34	38	David Gilliland	Ford	FreeCreditReport.com	94/0	266	Running
24	43	83	Brian Vickers	Toyota	Red Bull	91/0	266	Running
25	36	26	Jamie McMurray	Ford	Crown Royal	88/0	266	Running
26	26	22	Dave Blaney	Toyota	Caterpillar	85/0	266	Running
27	30	96	J.J. Yeley	Toyota	DLP HDTV	82/0	266	Running
28	21	07	Clint Bowyer	Chevrolet	Jack Daniel's	79/0	265	Running
29	33	48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	Lowe's	76/0	265	Running
30	5	27	Mike Skinner	Toyota	Bad Boy Mowers	73/0	265	Running
31	22	55	Michael Waltrip	Toyota	NAPA AUTO PARTS	70/0	265	Running
32	41	45	Kyle Petty	Dodge	Wells Fargo	67/0	265	Running
33	42	40	Dario Franchitti *	Dodge	Target	64/0	265	Running
34	28	01	Regan Smith *	Chevrolet	Coors Light	61/0	264	Running
35	4	24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	Nicorette / DuPont	63/5	262	Off Track
36	7	66	Scott Riggs	Chevrolet	State Water Heaters	60/5	260	Running
37	14	00	David Reutimann	Toyota	Aaron's Dream Machine	52/0	258	Running
38	9	2	Kurt Busch	Dodge	Miller Lite	49/0	255	Off Track
39	16	44	Dale Jarrett	Toyota	UPS	46/0	231	Out of Race
40	12	10	Patrick Carpentier *	Dodge	Valvoline	43/0	182	Off Track
41	20	77	Sam Hornish Jr. *	Dodge	Mobil 1	40/0	152	Running
42	32	7	Robby Gordon	Dodge	Jim Beam	37/0	142	Off Track
43	25	20	Tony Stewart	Toyota	The Home Depot	39/5	107	Out of Race

* Denotes Rookie

[o_zarkman44]

Once again My 99 pick has prevailed!!

Them Fords are strong!!

[NormsRevenge]

They brung home the bacon today...

[SouthTexas]

Thanks for the thread.

Good race until Flash crashed. :(

[LasVegasMac]

I don’t know personally where the slots are at the track. I was told that by a friend....

I've been going to that track since 2000, and I have never seen a one-armed bandit - except for the ATM's.

You are, of course, right about them being everywhere else.

Must be a Nascar thing, as in, "WE want your money..."