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NASCAR SPRINT Cup: SAMSUNG 500 at Texas Motor Speedway ~ Sunday 4/05/2009 2:00 pm/et ~ FOX
Jayski.com / various others | 3-30-2009 | NYTexan

Posted on 03/30/2009 3:26:40 PM PDT by NYTexan


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Qualifying: Friday 4/03 4:40 pm/et Sprint Cup Qualifying ~ SPEED
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To: WestCoastGal

Refer to post 46...


61 posted on 03/31/2009 6:03:20 PM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: WestCoastGal
So far I’ve only seen it on Car & Driver website.......so I guess it’s hold yer fire until confirmed.

Oh, you KNOW this is going to happen. Obama and his Chicagoland bullies know too well who voted for them and against them and NASCAR fans are on the sh*t list. They will do everything possible with their federal power and new-found influence to punitively harm those "not with 'em." This one fits perfectly, and there will be many more.

Wait until the gun control and taxing ammo agenda is displayed for all to see.

We'll be watching solar powered electric go-carts at Daytona within five years.

62 posted on 03/31/2009 6:15:28 PM PDT by vox_freedom ("If God be for us, who is against us?" -- Romans 8:31)
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To: tubebender

You were ahead of everyone with that prediction. Mr zero is going to be in a world of hurt with Nascar fans.


63 posted on 03/31/2009 6:16:05 PM PDT by WestCoastGal (If he wants to come by the bus after the race and get his a$$ whooped, I'll do it. - Dale Jr)
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To: WestCoastGal; tubebender

Like he was in our good graces to begin with....


64 posted on 03/31/2009 7:46:42 PM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: WestCoastGal

Have a great time!


65 posted on 03/31/2009 7:47:20 PM PDT by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: SouthTexas
Drivers doing double duty this weekend ???
66 posted on 03/31/2009 8:13:56 PM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: SouthTexas
Oh My...Lookie Here
67 posted on 03/31/2009 8:18:34 PM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: tubebender

There always has been quite a few BuschWhackers at TMS. maybe because there is no truck race in the spring???


68 posted on 03/31/2009 8:37:57 PM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: tubebender

With no more cars and no more track owners, our pastime is just about toast.


69 posted on 03/31/2009 8:40:18 PM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: WestCoastGal; All

Gordon continues to drive National Guard’s message
At Texas, No. 24 car will spotlight GED Plus program

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/business/03/31/jgordon.national.guard.ged/index.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — Four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon has been racing in NASCAR for almost 20 years, but there is one thing that still sends chills up his spine: prerace festivities. There’s just something about the first note of the national anthem that gets Gordon’s adrenaline pumping.

“There’s hundreds of thousands of people standing there getting ready to watch the race with their hands over their hearts,” Gordon said. “They’re looking at the American flag and then the flyover — I don’t think it gets any more patriotic than that.”

Gordon and his Hendrick Motorsports team have a chance to share their patriotism publicly this season by featuring National Guard community-related initiatives on the hood of the No. 24 Chevrolet in eight Sprint Cup Series events.

The National Guard’s mission is to use the No. 24 car as a platform to help create awareness on some of the special programs it has to offer. These programs provide such incentives like job opportunities, valuable career training, college tuition, salary and benefits and the guidance needed to excel in life.


“The more I get to learn about the National Guard and what they have to offer, the more impressed I am with what they are doing.” Jeff Gordon


70 posted on 03/31/2009 9:12:29 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: afnamvet

This is gonna be two weekends I won’t be home to watch NASCAR. I missed last Sunday’s race because I was working a club race at Sears Point and will be at Laguna Seca next weekend for a vintage race weekend (and possibly some rain, yuck).

One of our SCCA flag chiefs works for Sears Point and had some pictures of a brand-new Audi RS4 that had been totaled at the track. Audi has a program where you can pick up your new car at any track where the Jim Russell Racing School runs and take a few laps. The owner of this RS4 drove it into the wall at Turn 11 at around 110mph; he hit hard enough to break two posts on the catch fence, bend several other posts, and flip two sections of K-wall around so hard that they swung around and hit the sections they were attached to. The driver’s okay, but they had to cut the whole left side of the car off to extricate him.

And then on Sunday while I was there, we had a GT2 car hit the wall in T11 only a few feet from where the Audi went in on Thursday. He didn’t move the wall as far, but it did break two posts on the catch fencing (the same two; they had been spot-welded back together). We had to finish the day running the “short” T11 they use for motorcycles and IndyCars.

I gotta tell you, blue-flagging Formula Atlantics from the end of a K-wall just a few feet off the course will really get your blood pumping!


71 posted on 03/31/2009 9:17:37 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Common courtesy, like common sense, isn't.)
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To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
I missed Martinsville and will probably miss more. We just finished our second Civil War Living History reenactment. We do an artillery demonstration for the kids, teachers and parents on a Friday with 2 full battles on Saturday & Sunday.

My wife and I really enjoy being very involved in this hobby.

72 posted on 03/31/2009 9:35:44 PM PDT by afnamvet (Born Again American)
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To: NormsRevenge; SouthTexas
Rumor # 666... Jeff Gordon has joined the National Guard and will be assigned to protect Texas Motor Speedway from domestic attack...

More news on this before midnight...

73 posted on 04/01/2009 8:05:02 AM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: tubebender; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; mylife; NormsRevenge

I think we already have troops enroute.


74 posted on 04/01/2009 8:10:16 AM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: SouthTexas

See... TMS is already under assault!!!


75 posted on 04/01/2009 9:45:09 AM PDT by tubebender (99% of Lawyers give the rest a bad name...)
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To: tubebender

I’m holding in the reserves.


76 posted on 04/01/2009 1:51:13 PM PDT by SouthTexas (When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people.....)
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To: tubebender; glock rocks; NYTexan; All
Pizza for everybody!

An undated handout photo shows workers assembling pizza vending machines in a factory in Trento. A vending machine that bakes fresh pizza in minutes for a few euros has got Italian chefs in a whirl before it hits the streets in the coming weeks. The bright-red "Let's Pizza" machine uses infra-red rays and technology developed at the University of Bologna to knead flour and water into dough, spread it with tomato sauce and a choice of topping, and cook it -- all in less than three minutes. REUTERS/Sitos/Handout

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An undated handout photo shows a man eating a pizza baked in a vending machine (at rear). A vending machine that bakes fresh pizza in minutes for a few euros has got Italian chefs in a whirl before it hits the streets in the coming weeks. The bright-red "Let's Pizza" machine uses infra-red rays and technology developed at the University of Bologna to knead flour and water into dough, spread it with tomato sauce and a choice of topping, and cook it -- all in less than three minutes. REUTERS/Sitos/Handout


77 posted on 04/01/2009 5:13:52 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Three minute pizza?

I’ll pass!


78 posted on 04/01/2009 5:16:00 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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To: NormsRevenge

I’m still waiting for the enchilada machine...


79 posted on 04/01/2009 5:29:50 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: WestCoastGal
"With their racing budgets deemed “unnecessary expenditures,” GM and Chrysler are ordered to cease racing operations at the end of the season"

Obummer flagging his nose at real Americans?

80 posted on 04/01/2009 5:35:47 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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