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NASCAR Sprint Cup - Bristol & The Food City 500 on FoX , Sunday , March 18 , 2012 - 1230 PM ET
NASCAR.com ^ | 3/14/12

Posted on 03/14/2012 5:40:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

On tap this go-around, racing in the hills, join us as we go short tracking at Bristol.. a friendly little track that can get intense real quick.. Just watch out for the jet dryers and bring a poncho .. Might be a little wet this week-end.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: bristol; foodcity; nascar; nrnascarthread
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Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's The Food City 500 at Bristol!


March 18, 2012



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NASCAR Broadcast Schedule


 

BROADCAST DATE TIME EVENT

SPEED

03|16|12 10:30 a.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 practice

SPEED

03|16|12 Noon Food City 500 practice

SPEED

03|16|12 2 p.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 final practice

SPEED

03|16|12 3:30 p.m. Food City 500 qualifying

SPEED

03|17|12 9:30 a.m. Food City 500 practice

SPEED

03|17|12 10:30 a.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 qualifying

SPEED

03|17|12 Noon Food City 500 final practice

ESPN

03|17|12 1 p.m. Ford EcoBoost 300

FOX

03|18|12 12:30 p.m. Food City 500



Bristol Motor Speedway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Bristol Motor Speedway web site

The land upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built used to be a dairy farm.

Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in Northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of the Charlotte track, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Officials scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

The land on which BMS now sits, as well as construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for BMS covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.







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1 posted on 03/14/2012 5:40:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge; glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; tubebender; A Cyrenian; ...

Bristol race thread Ping!!!


2 posted on 03/14/2012 5:42:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

wOOhOO! & YeeHaw!


3 posted on 03/14/2012 5:44:24 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: NormsRevenge

How many Chevy Volts are entered?


4 posted on 03/14/2012 5:44:40 PM PDT by MtnClimber (New 0bama Folks Wagons will run on Higgs Bosons.)
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To: NormsRevenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxKQ8xGBOSg


5 posted on 03/14/2012 5:48:19 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: NormsRevenge

Forecast says slight chance of a thunderstorm. The race should finish up Sunday even if it gets a bit wet.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 5:54:12 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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To: NormsRevenge

We’ve supposed to be getting a big storm here in northern Arizona this weekend too. Looks like we won’t be watching much NASCAR judging from the weather forecast for Bristol.


7 posted on 03/14/2012 5:54:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (“The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid." - Dem pollster, Tom Jensen)
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To: NormsRevenge

Yeah baby..... bring it on. Gotta luv Bristol.


8 posted on 03/14/2012 5:56:54 PM PDT by umgud (No Rats, No Rino's)
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To: umgud
My best friend was at Bristol last year. Had a great time.
Said, "This is what the Romans had in mind when they had the chariots."
9 posted on 03/14/2012 6:13:37 PM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama has NEVER given a speech where he did not lie!!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

10th!!!!!


10 posted on 03/14/2012 6:36:53 PM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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Thanks for the thread & ping, NormsRevenge!

11 posted on 03/14/2012 6:38:06 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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beat me by less than 1.5 minutes.


12 posted on 03/14/2012 6:40:37 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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Now I feel bad...


13 posted on 03/14/2012 6:43:38 PM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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To: AGreatPer
... or F-15's racing around a high school gym.
14 posted on 03/14/2012 6:46:01 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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To: NormsRevenge

May God Bless the Food City 500!


15 posted on 03/14/2012 6:46:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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To: NYTexan
wOOhOO! & YeeHaw!

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16 posted on 03/14/2012 6:51:11 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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LOL


17 posted on 03/14/2012 7:14:36 PM PDT by NYTexan
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To: NormsRevenge
Thank you for your continued work on the threads, Norm. Here are a few photos from last weeks race. View from our room at the Bellagio - Hauler parade on Thursday - Michael spoke at the hospitality breakfast and the wife and I were amazed that he was so small - 6-0 - seems bigger on TV. Mark Martin & other drivers going to drivers meeting. Mark is tiny but was most fan friendly. It was our first time on pit-road and it was a fantastic,. Two years ago at LVMS there were only a couple hundred folks in the Neon garage. This year there were several thousand.


18 posted on 03/15/2012 7:37:33 AM PDT by happydogx2 (How about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wonders if there really is a dog...)
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Forgive the jumbled photos. First time using iPhoto & am still learning. They looked fine in “preview”. :)


19 posted on 03/15/2012 7:39:17 AM PDT by happydogx2 (How about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wonders if there really is a dog...)
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I think they look just fine. Got more? :)


20 posted on 03/15/2012 11:06:30 AM PDT by SouthTexas (You cannot bargain with the devil, shut the government down.)
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