NASCAR - Pep Boys 500 - from Atlanta - on ABC, Sunday 10/26 at 2:00pm ET (Race #33 of 36)

NASCAR/Jayski ^

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Pep Boys 500

Sunday 2:00 pm ET on ABC

Atlanta Motor Speedway

SPEED Raceday at 11:00 ETABC Pre-race show at 1:00 ETGreen Flag approx 2:17 ET

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Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.

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Heads Up! FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Deadline to select or edit your drivers is
Friday, October 24 at 5:00am ET

(so you'd best make them by Thursday night!)

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Practice Dates/Times/TV

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• Practices:
  Friday, October 24, 3:00 - 4:30pm/et, TV-SPEED;
  Saturday, October 25, 10:30 - 11:30am/et, TV-SPEED
  
  
• Happy Hour Practice: Saturday, October 25, 12:00 - 12:50pm/et on TV-ESPN2 via tape at 6:00pm/et
  
  

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Qualifying Information/Times/TV

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• Qualifying Draw [ping pong balls]: Friday, October 24, 2:00pm/et
  
  
• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-42 [if no past champ prov used, then 43rd goes next fastest non top-35 driver], Friday, October 24 at 6:45pm/et, TV-ESPN2 at 7:00 pm/et, no re-air scheduled;
  AND live via radio at PRN Radio and Sirius Satellite NASCAR Radio.

Info courtesy Jayski.com

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Peachy-keen, Updating Hampton, Georgia Doppler.

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Nationwide Series:

2008 KROGER ON TRACK FOR THE CURE 250
Saturday, October 25 at Memphis Motorsports Park, TN, simulcast on ESPN Classic & SPEED - 3:00pm/et

Craftsman Truck Series:

E-Z-GO 200
Saturday, October 25 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, SPEED - Prerace 1:00pm/et; Race 1:30pm/et

Weekend TV/radio race coverage, all series, all events

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Atlanta PING!

just FReepmail if you want on or off the NASCAR Ping list.

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Track/Race Length: 1.54 mile quad oval, 325 laps, 500.5 miles
Degree of Banking: Turns: 24 degrees; Straightaways: 5 degrees
Straights: Frontstretch - 2332 feet; Backstretch - 1800 feet
Pit Road Speed: 45mph
Pace Car Speed: 55mph
Grandstand Seating: 124,000
Opened: 1960

National Anthem: American Idol’s Michael Johns
Military Flyover: C-130, 919 Special Operations Group, Eglin AFB, FL

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Atlanta Nuggets:

• At Atlanta Motor Speedway:
  • Originally called Atlanta International Raceway, the track was then a 1.5-mile paved speedway.
  • The first Sprint Cup race was on July 31, 1960, won by Fireball Roberts.
  • Jeff Gordon won the first Nationwide race at Atlanta held March 14, 1992.
  • The first Craftsman Truck series race at Atlanta was held March 13, 2004 and won by Bobby Hamilton.
  • The track was re-measured to 1.522 miles in the spring of 1970.
  • The track layout was reversed and the track was re-configured to 1.54-miles between the two races in 1997.
  • There have been 98 Sprint Cup Series races at Atlanta Speedway, two races per year except 1961, which had three.
  • Fireball Roberts won the pole for the first Sprint Cup race in 1960.
  • Fireball Roberts won the first Sprint Cup race.
  • 43 drivers have won poles, led by Buddy Baker and Ryan Newman, each with seven.
  • Six of Newman’s seven poles came in the six races between March 2003 and October 2005.
  • 42 drivers have won races; 20 have won more than once there.
  • Dale Earnhardt scored nine victories, more than any other driver. Cale Yarborough is second with seven.
  • Bobby Labonte heads the list of active drivers with six Atlanta victories. Labonte is tied with Richard Petty for third on the all-time Atlanta win list.
  • 14 races have been won from the pole.
  • 55 races have been won from the first five starting positions.
  • Bobby Labonte won the 2001 fall race from the 39th starting position, the deepest in the field a race winner has started.
  • There have been seven season sweeps at Atlanta, most recently by Jimmie Johnson in 2007.
  • There has been one green-white-checkered finish at Atlanta: 2007-2 (329 laps).
  

  Hot Facts
  Atlanta has produced three of the 12 closest finishes since the advent of electronic timing in May 1993.
  * Dale Earnhardt finished 0.010 seconds ahead of Bobby Labonte in the sixth-closest race (tied with Rockingham-2004) on March 12, 2000.
  * Kevin Harvick beat Jeff Gordon by 0.006 seconds on March 11, 2001, in the fourth-closest finish.
  * Carl Edwards beat Jimmie Johnson by 0.028 seconds on March 20, 2005, in the 12th-closest finish (tied with Texas in April 2004).
  
  
  Info courtesy Jayski.com
  
  

[chet_in_ny]

I personally don’t care for NASCAR but John Zogby told me today that 50% of NASCAR fans support the One.

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John Zogby must be smoking crack.

[GBA]

The One? You mean Dale Earnhardt? I think it’s more than 50%, though Dale Jr. is probably around 50%.

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this is cool...

Atlanta Motor Speedway To Honor Bill Elliott and 1988 Championship Team: Atlanta Motor Speedway will honor Bill Elliott's 1988 Melling Racing Team to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the team's 1988 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship as part of the pre-race activities for the Oct. 26 Pep Boys Auto 500. Many of Elliott's crew members from the 1988 Championship team will join the Dawsonville native on stage for a recognition ceremony. Elliott's team, based in his hometown of Dawsonville, is the only team located outside of North Carolina to win both the driver and owner championships.(AMS PR)(10-14-2008)

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Hopefully the One has a run-in with Jerome Corsi while in Hawai’i.

It’s time to put this fraud Presidential candidate to sleep.

Thanks for ze ping, glock!

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Yer welcome... and nice to see you’ve been cured of the +++’s :o)

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Flipper’s been very very good for my fantasy league team this year!

[McGruff]

John Zogby told me today that 50% of NASCAR fans support the One.

Yeah. I heard Barak and Michelle are Big Time NASCAR fans.

[cleveland gop]

It’s nice not to have that proplem anymore. New cellphone with text capabilities and the ability to play more video than ever.

Especially youtube where a certain late night skit featuring a certain soon to be VP.

Watching the World Series? The story with the Rays fans and the cowbells is based on the team owner watching the SNL skit with Christopher Walken and going crazy when he saw it.

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Absolutely. Just what this thread needs... more cowbell!

[B4Ranch]

CUT OUT THE SUGAR!