Nascar Sprint Cup - Finger Lakes 355 at the Glen, Sunday 8/12/12 ESPN Noon ET

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[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's the Finger Lakes 355 at the Glen

August 12 , 2012

Track History



Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

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Watkins Glen International Raceway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Watkins Glen web site

Law student Cameron Argetsinger dreamed of bringing European style competition to the village where he spent his summer vacations. He drew up a challenging course that encompassed asphalt, cement and dirt roads in and around the village of Watkins Glen.

The dream became reality on Oct. 2, 1948. For five years, the top names in American sports car racing visited the small village and huge crowds came out to watch them race.

Competition moved to a temporary course in 1953, and 2.3-mile permanent circuit was built in 1956. The following year, The Glen hosted its first professional race, a NASCAR Grand National stock car event won by Buck Baker over Fireball Roberts.

The circuit itself was expanded in 1971, as the 1970s brought a wide variety of competition to The Glen, including the Can-Am, Trans-Am, Six Hours, Formula 5000 and CART IndyCar Series. Race winners included many of the top names in international motorsports, including Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter and Bruce McLaren.




Track Facts
Banking/Turns: --
Distance: 2.45 miles
Shape: Road Course

FRFLers - Deadline to select your drivers is Aug 11 2:00am PDT

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God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

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The FR Canteen
24 by 7

Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's the Finger Lakes 355 at the Glen

August 12 , 2012

Track History



Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

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Watkins Glen International Raceway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Watkins Glen web site

Law student Cameron Argetsinger dreamed of bringing European style competition to the village where he spent his summer vacations. He drew up a challenging course that encompassed asphalt, cement and dirt roads in and around the village of Watkins Glen.

The dream became reality on Oct. 2, 1948. For five years, the top names in American sports car racing visited the small village and huge crowds came out to watch them race.

Competition moved to a temporary course in 1953, and 2.3-mile permanent circuit was built in 1956. The following year, The Glen hosted its first professional race, a NASCAR Grand National stock car event won by Buck Baker over Fireball Roberts.

The circuit itself was expanded in 1971, as the 1970s brought a wide variety of competition to The Glen, including the Can-Am, Trans-Am, Six Hours, Formula 5000 and CART IndyCar Series. Race winners included many of the top names in international motorsports, including Mark Donohue, Mario Andretti, Jody Scheckter and Bruce McLaren.




Track Facts
Banking/Turns: --
Distance: 2.45 miles
Shape: Road Course

FRFLers - Deadline to select your drivers is Aug 11 2:00am PDT

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God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

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The FR Canteen
24 by 7

[NormsRevenge]

The Glen race thread is up Ping!!

[nascarnation]

Great job Norm but don’t be takin’ any Adderall or anything....

[NormsRevenge]

My wife is the one with the prescriptions around here.. fortunately ambien is not one of them. ;-]
Boy, did he pooch the dog or what.. big dummy.

[nascarnation]

BTW I just finished this book and it is one of the best I’ve ever read about the roots of Nascar. I enjoyed it very much.

http://www.amazon.com/Driving-Devil-Southern-Moonshine-Detroit/dp/1400082250/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344640222&sr=8-1&keywords=drive+with+the+devil

[NormsRevenge]

Those guys were good drivers, well, the ones that got away or lived were.. good and lucky..

[nascarnation]

More problems @ Penske:

http://www.ack.net/PenskeBreakIn080912.html

Now you know why TIM CINDRIC runs Penske Racing, not one of his kids.....

[NormsRevenge]

Yikes.. Two big dummies.. oh geeeez,, kids.

[al baby]

Is this where they turn left right do u turns and stuff yuck give me a super speedway or give me death

[nascarnation]

Jay Penske has his own Indycar team (Dragon Racing).

He's known around these parts as a party kind of guy. Often with Elaine Irwin, Mellencamp's ex.

[NormsRevenge]

Oh my.

and then there is this..

Dodge to pull out of NASCAR at year’s end
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ap-source-dodge-pull-nascar-161100814—nascar.html

[nascarnation]

From what I heard, the Italians didn’t think Nascar was a good advertising medium.

[Lockbox]

Too bad the don’t run the boot...

[NormsRevenge]

Fiat and Honda will be racing at Nascar at this rate.. hey, if it spices it up..

[NormsRevenge]

I want more gravel pits!!

http://www.na-motorsports.com/Tracks/NY/WatkinsGlen.html

The long course consists of an addition refered to as the “Boot”;

the driver on the long course takes a different, wider line through “The Loop”, following a short downhill straight into the lefthander known as “The Chute” (long course Turn 6); the track levels off somewhat and then enters a long, banked, climbing hairpin called “the Toe of the Boot” (long course Turn 7), and a goes up a steep hill onto a short straight; this is followed by a right hander of slightly more than 90 degrees called “the Heel of the Boot” (long course turn 8). A short straight ensues, followed by a left hander of more than 90 degrees called “the Off Camber” (long course turn 9), which rejoins the short course between short course turns 5 and 6 (long course turns 5 and 10).

[Venturer]

I bet he pays plenty for that.

[Venturer]

It gives me another Sunday to do something else. I never watch the road courses.

[tubebender]

In before ungood!!!

[tubebender]

Double Fail...

[Chode]

just damn...