i was expecting as much, it's ~20 miles from the track, Elmira has/had a NASCAR night too - also ~20 miles from the track and NASCAR has put the screws to the souvenir vendors this year pretty good
Posted on 02/10/2015 8:46:34 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
Race Fever scratched in Corning NY: Race Fever, the annual block party on Corning's Bridge Street that kicks off NASCAR Sprint Cup weekend at Watkins Glen International - won't be held anymore, the Gaffer District announced Friday. A new event on Bridge Street, to be called Taste of Summer, will replace it on the city's downtown event schedule. Taste of Summer will be held July 23. Race Fever was discontinued due to the "exorbitant cost" of booking Sprint Cup drivers to sign autographs, Gaffer District officials said. Without the appearances by NASCAR stars, the crowds began to dwindle. Race Fever couldn't have been held this summer anyway, due to construction on the city's planned $465,000 "traffic-calming" project on Bridge Street. The project, expected to begin Aug. 1, will include pedestrian safety improvements and streetscaping. Race Fever was usually held during the second week of August. This year would have been the 30th Race Fever. The event - which featured show cars and NASCAR memorabilia vendors - began in 1985 after NASCAR returned to Watkins Glen. For many years, it was held on Market Street. During the height of its popularity, open containers of alcohol were allowed on the streets. The discontinuing of Race Fever may impact Corning Meals on Wheels, a volunteer-run non-profit that delivers daily meals to homebound seniors.(Corning Leader)(2-15-2015)
Good Morning,
I’m thinking Tire PSI and “I’m young and full of ___”
We shall see;)
I’ve been up all night with the G’Ma zone- gotta get a few hours before Q Starts.
New officiating system debuts at Daytona: In 2015, NASCAR will become the first major sport to employ an officiating system where the primary officials will not roam the field of play but instead huddle in a transporter that will travel from track to track. Other sports have instant replay, where an official uses video to rule on disputed calls. NASCAR will go way beyond that, using a combination of video and a computer software program that determines penalties followed by an automatic review by a human. The drivers, crew chiefs and teams have had tutorials on the system. It appears impressive, with its 45 high-definition cameras perched in clusters high above the racetrack capturing video and sending it to a hauler located in the television compound so it can operate with server capacity totaling 960 gigabytes of total ram. It appears well-thought-out; the officials screen the pit stops, and crews are alerted to penalties in real time. The officials have the ability to start and stop the video as well as fast-forward, rewind, zoom in and zoom out.
NASCAR Officiating Trailer Fact Sheet
- 53-foot 2014 custom Featherlite trailer
- Eight officials at work/review stations
- Four admin/technical work stations
- Work/shop area
- 24 tons of air conditioning; enough to cool a 12,000-square-foot building
- 960GB of total ram between all servers; equal to 240 desktop computers
- 60 video cards (2 per server); each with the ability to process 134 billion textures per second
- 40TB of storage; equivalent of 10,000 high-definition, full-length feature movies
- Ability to move 90GB of network traffic; enough bandwidth to move 18,000 songs per second
NASCAR virtually guarantees more accuracy with the new system, especially with two specific rules: (1) a driver, on entry and exit, cannot enter a pit box more than three stalls away from the driver's own pit stall; and (2) a tire changer, tire carrier and jackman cannot have their feet on the ground in the pit stall until the approaching car is one stall away. In the past, the official assigned to a pit stall would not have the vision to see those penalties. Now the software program will see that violation much easier than an official would standing on pit road, and much easier than the pit crews actually performing the work.(See full article at ESPN.com)(2-14-2015)
A FREEPERS DREAM WAGON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did Nascar possibly price themselves out of the market?
i was expecting as much, it's ~20 miles from the track, Elmira has/had a NASCAR night too - also ~20 miles from the track and NASCAR has put the screws to the souvenir vendors this year pretty good
Thanks so much!
Had I mentioned demolition derby?
Daytona qualifying up next.
It doesn’t look like many people have signed up yet.
well that was a giant clusterpuk
well this just got interestin
No boob tube here at the moment. What happened?
Is there a good website for nascar news?
Jayskis is great but they seem to tow the line with nascar and they don’t give us much in the way of gossip and rumors
Bowyer wrecked via
reed
sorenson all are pissed
"It's idiotic to be out here doing this anyway," Bowyer says, calling it a "cute show."
red flag on round 1A after big pile up due to NUTSCAR qualifying scheme
try this live online feed
Great song done well by Junior
I wonder how many here get the literal significance of that pic to the song
But where is one.....I see Galaxies and Mopar
Got to be a 409 in there somewhere ....stroker wasn’t it something like tha
A GM product ....wasn’t it
This is bad THC from 71-84 memory so correct me if wrong
The Galaxies were 406
Mopar had some optional 400 model didn’t they that went with a better shifter and some trim.....I thought 383 was bees knees already
400 was a Goat motor too I remember ...base model
I keep telling wifey I’m gonna peel off 25-45k from somewhere....her shopping budget she fears lol.....and buy a nice car from my formative years
Damn there are so many different labels now....matching numbers....replica....other terms to define authenticity
I had an MGBGT.....big muscle was forbidden
My cousin had a moss green RR 383 hurst 68 I think.....it was a blast for me as a 6th grader to ride in
My wife is like we have a paid for 16 year old Porsche that you have clocked at 179 on 840
Why so sad
Cause smooth whisperjet ain’t rumble and torgue baby
Hard for estrogenistas to grasp
A lear jet is fun but it ain’t a P-47
A Bimota is great cafe but it ain’t a hard tail or old Norton
I love this stuff.....we’ll see
Big league Galaxies less glamour but better deal than most
The early big motor Impalas are pricey now
So it goes....in a perfect world it’s Mopar or Goat for me
Hardtop
Gordon gets the pole! JJ outside front row.
409, unmistakably a Chevy... 
I’m in for 100
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