NASCAR - Emory Healthcare 500 from Atlanta - ESPN, Sun 9/5 at 7:30pm/et (Race #25 of 36)

Jayski's ^

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Heads Up! FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Deadline to select or edit your drivers is
Saturday, September 4 at 5:00am ET
(so you'd best make them Friday night!)
... or drag your sorry butt up at 0-dark-thirty and figure it out

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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

Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: Emory’s 500th heart transplant patient in 2008, Terry “Mr. 500” Green
Command to start engines: Terry “Mr. 500” Green
Invocation: Joe Gibbs
National Anthem: Grammy-nominated Ernie Haase & Signature Sound
Military Flyover: 4 F-15's, 159th Fighter Wing, USAF, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base, Belle Chasse, LA

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Peachy-keen, Updating Hampton, Georgia Doppler.

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Practice Dates/Times/TV

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• Practices:
  Saturday, September 4, 11:00 am - 1:00 pm/et, TV-SPEED

• Happy Hour 'Final' practice: Saturday, September 4, 1:45 - 2:30 pm/et, TV-SPEED

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Qualifying Information/Times/TV

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• Qualifying Draw: Saturday, September 4, 10:00 am/et

• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-42, Saturday, September 4 at 4:40 pm/et, TV-SPEED, no re-air scheduled; AND live via radio at PRN Radio only on NASCAR.com.

Info courtesy Jayski.com

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Nationwide Series:

2009 Great Clips 300
Saturday, Sept 4 at Atlanta, ESPN2 - 6:30pm/et

Camping World Truck Series:

Built Ford Tough 225
Friday, Sept 3 at Kentucky Speedway, SPEED - 7:30pm/et

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

[tubebender]

First!!!

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Atlanta Ping !


... sorry, my photo server Fotki.com took a dive. No joy in photoville tonight folks.

[SouthTexas]

How did you do that?

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Yep. The kid drove your RC Smoke car up and down the lane this afternoon. Still a lot o fun :o)

[NYTexan]

There is a BIG green blob over the track...

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Too wet to grow okra in Humboldt?

[cleveland gop]

here

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Just humidity... no prob. So far.

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Hey, CG. Dang race withdrawl symptoms have been setting in.

[tubebender]

Would you check to see if Fotki opens for you as I can’t access it and I want to show you my Okra plants...

[SouthTexas]

We were too wet then too dry, no okra this year. :(

[tubebender]

Stealth and old age beats youth and exuberance every time...

[MtnClimber]

Scissors, Rock, Glock. How do you play and which Glock beats a Rock?

[cleveland gop]

That’s OK, there’s this tennis tournament on that’s kick ass!!!

And the number of times we get to here my tagline repeated in the media the next 3 days...

[SouthTexas]

That’s not fair!