2012 Nascar Budweiser Shoot-Out & Gatorade Duel 150s - Daytona, Fox+Speed Sat. Nite and Thu.

NASCAR.com ^ | 2/17/12

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to the 2012 Nascar racing season and our 11th year of posting&hosting race threads.

We've come a long way since 2001. We've seen wars and battles and friends and adversaries come and go but if there has been any one thing that has driven us here, it is a desire to 'Support Our Troops' in any way we can or to at least Thank Them for their service and to keep the flame of freedom and liberty burning for all of those who have and will serve our country.

Daytona is just the start of 9 months worth of racing.. Stand By to GiDDYuP!

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to the 2012 season of Nascar at FR!

For openers, it's the Budweiser Shoot-Out Feb. 18th and
the Gatorade Duel 150s Feb. 23rd at Daytona race thread!!

Join us in our 11th Year as we 'Support The Troops' here and have some fun and

keep it a place where it's family-friendly too.




Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

Event Schedule

Friday

Shootout Practice

5 p.m. ET

 

Friday

Shootout Practice

6:30 p.m. ET

 

Saturday

Bud Shootout Practice

11 a.m. ET

 

Saturday

Bud Shootout Practice

2 p.m. ET

 

Saturday

Shootout

8 p.m. ET

..and Don't Forget to Visit

The FR Canteen
24 by 7

[umgud]

boogity

[NormsRevenge]

Daytona Bud Shootout race thread is up Ping!!

Welcome to the 2012 Nascar at FR season!

Change? You want Change?

Stand By!

[Roccus]

Thanks, Norm

[NormsRevenge]

We’ll see if you say that to me at the end of the season. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

I’da had ya if I didn’t double check my Ping list. 8-]

Good shot!

[NormsRevenge]

Daytona Bud Shootout race thread is up Ping!!

Welcome to the 2012 Nascar at FR season!

Change? You want Change?

Stand By!

[umgud]

Daytona will be fun to watch. Aero and radio changes to stop the 2 car drafts. Plus 1st year fuel injection. Not to mention all the musical chairs.

[al baby]

Yes its been a very eventful 12 years

[NormsRevenge]

Apologies for the double Ping.. must be gremlins.

[NYTexan]

So good it needed ta be said twice!

[onyx]

The funds raised in these FReepathons go to pay our current quarter expenses. But we're also going to try to replace some of our older servers and failing equipment this year so we're going to add a little extra to our FReepathon goals. John is estimating ten to fifteen thousand to do this and I'd like to get it all in place and working before the election cycle is fully heated up, so we'll try to bring in a little extra now, if we can, and the rest next quarter.

Jim Robinson

Click to Donate!

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s been a long off season. It’s finally time to go racing again.

[nascarnation]

Didn’t take long for the wreckin’ to start.

Stewart has that Steve Urkel (did I do that?) look.

[NormsRevenge]

Budweiser Shootout

2012 Format

• 75 laps broken into two segments (25-lap Segment 1 and 50-lap Segment 2).

• Between segments will be a 10-minute break where crews will be allowed to perform routine pit-stop changes.

• Both green- and yellow-flag laps count.

• 2012 is the fourth season that the race distance is 75 laps and the 11th different format utilized in the 34 years of the Budweiser Shootout.

• Starting positions will be set by a blind draw.

2012 Eligibility

• Drivers who finished in the top 25 in 2011 driver points.

• Past Budweiser Shootout winners, who competed in at least one Cup event in the 2011 season.

• Past Daytona Cup points race winners, who competed in at least one Cup event in the 2011 season.

• 33 drivers are eligible for the 2012 Shootout; the record for the most entries in the Shootout is 28 in 2009. There were 24 drivers in each of the past two Shootouts.

* Entry List

By the Numbers

• Three drivers eligible for the 2012 Shootout are making their first start: Marcos Ambrose, Trevor Bayne and Brad Keselowski. Five drivers won the Shootout in their first start: Buddy Baker, Dale Earnhardt, Jeff Gordon, Dale Jarrett and Denny Hamlin.

• 12 of the 33 eligible drivers for 2012 won at least one of the 33 Shootouts.

• Kevin Harvick, with two wins, is the only repeat winner in the past eight Shootouts.

• Only two of the past nine Shootouts were won from a starting position better than 14th.

• Kurt Busch won last year's Shootout by 0.058 seconds over Jamie McMurray, the closest MOV ever in a Shootout.

• Last year, Kurt Busch, the only Dodge driver in the field, scored the first Shootout win for the manufacturer

• There were 28 lead changes in last year's Shootout, the most ever in the event.

• More than $17,900,000 has been awarded to drivers competing in the 33 Shootouts (since 1979).

• Tony Stewart is the only driver to win more than $1 million in career Shootout winnings; his average finish of 5.08 in 12 starts is the best among all active drivers. Dale Earnhardt Jr. ranks second in career Shootout winnings with close to $975,000.

• The most money won in a single Shootout event is $215,000, by Tony Stewart in 2007 and Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2008.

• Jeff Gordon is making his 19th consecutive Shootout start (1994-2012). Mark Martin has the most consecutive Shootout starts(20); Martin competed in every Shootout between 1989 and 2008.

• Mark Martin and Bill Elliott each have competed in 23 Shootouts, most of all drivers. Martin leads all drivers with 17 top-10s; Elliott leads all drivers with 22 lead-lap finishes.

• The final lead change took place with two laps to go or less in nine of the past 14 Shootouts including the last four; five of the 14 ended with a last-lap pass.

• The race winner led only the final lap in seven of the 33 Shootouts, most recently by Kevin Harvick in 2009.

• Dale Earnhardt Jr. led 47 laps in his 2008 Shootout win, the most laps ever led by a Shootout winner. Earnhardt has led 117 career laps in the Shootout, the most of all drivers.

• There were 14 leaders in the 2009 Shootout, the only race with double-digit leaders.

• The driver winning the Shootout went on to win the 500 in the same season five times: Bobby Allison (1982), Bill Elliott (1987), Dale Jarrett (1996), Jeff Gordon (1997) and Jarrett (2000).

• Dale Earnhardt won six of his 12 Shootouts and had 11 top-fives, both tops among all drivers; he had a 2.75 average finish.

• Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s win in 2008 is his only top-10 finish in his past five Shootout starts.

• Carl Edwards has only one top-10 finish in his five Shootout starts; his best finish of seventh came in 2009.

• Jamie McMurray has two second-place finishes and a third-place finish in his past three Shootout starts; he was passed on the last lap by Kurt Busch last season.

• Jeff Gordon has not finished worst than sixth in his past four Shootout starts; he has two Shootout wins but both came in his first four starts.

• 2012 is the fourth consecutive year that Kasey Kahne has competed in the Shootout in a different make.

• Kevin Harvick finished in the top 10 in all but one of his six Shootout starts; his average finish of 6.57 ranks second among all active drivers.

• Michael Waltrip has failed to finish in his past three Shootout appearances.

• Ryan Newman's third-place finish in last years Shootout ended a four-race streak of finishes of 17th or worse.

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[NormsRevenge]

One for you..;-]

Reminds me of my youthful shaggy days.
Creepy Dale Earnhardt Jr. welcomes you to Daytona

[NormsRevenge]

The Bad Dog Award goes to..

NASCAR seizes part of Johnson’s Daytona 500 car
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AnS98BfYGcptomFnDzVYGV_ov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-daytona500

NASCAR champ Stewart wrecks in Shootout practice
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AlufBEifD3ZTYHZ3vqGmoUjov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-daytona-wreck

Flag flap: NASCAR nixes Watson’s ‘General Lee’ lap
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AqygjN_rDg39UsGoxyb4kOHov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-confederateflag

[NormsRevenge]

Mission Impossible?

Kurt Busch trying to repair reputation

Kurt Busch making strides in repairing reputation
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AnnbTWf..mDVebake.7aSiLov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-daytonashootout

[WSGilcrest]

[AGreatPer]

Not yet, Punxatawney Phil saw his shadow.