***NASCAR WC Sharpie 500 at Bristol Saturday Nite 8/23 on TNT 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET***

NASCAR.com ^ | 8/22/03

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Bristol, the shortest track on the Winston Cup circuit, also has the highest banking, making for an appealing combination for driver and spectator alike. Added to the schedule in 1961 and resurfaced from asphalt to concrete in 1992, Bristol's attendance has increased from 18,000 to well over 150,000.

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NASCAR Winston Cup Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway

TNT Saturday 4 pm PT / 7 pm ET

Bristol, the shortest track on the Winston Cup circuit, also has the highest banking, making for an appealing combination for driver and spectator alike. Added to the schedule in 1961 and resurfaced from asphalt to concrete in 1992, Bristol's attendance has increased from 18,000 to well over 150,000.

Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 36 degrees
Distance: 0.533 miles
Shape: Oval

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Pos.
1	#24	Jeff Gordon	Chevrolet	DuPont	127.597	15.038	Leader
2	#6	Mark Martin	Ford	Viagra	127.588	15.039	-0.001
3	#15	Michael Waltrip	Chevrolet	NAPA Auto Parts	127.334	15.069	-0.031
4	#01	Mike Skinner	Pontiac	U.S. Army	127.165	15.089	-0.051
5	#97	Kurt Busch	Ford	Rubbermaid	127.106	15.096	-0.058
6	#12	Ryan Newman	Dodge	ALLTEL	127.073	15.100	-0.062
7	#7	Ted Musgrave	Dodge	Sirius Satellite Radio	127.064	15.101	-0.063
8	#21	Ricky Rudd	Ford	Motorcraft Quality Parts	127.031	15.105	-0.067
9	#8	Dale Earnhardt Jr.	Chevrolet	Budweiser	126.997	15.109	-0.071
10	#17	Matt Kenseth	Ford	DeWalt Power Tools	126.838	15.128	-0.090
11	#23	Kenny Wallace	Dodge	Stacker 2	126.695	15.145	-0.107
12	#74	Tony Raines*	Chevrolet	BACE Motorsports	126.562	15.161	-0.123
13	#5	Terry Labonte	Chevrolet	Kellogg's/got milk?	126.536	15.164	-0.126
14	#32	Ricky Craven	Pontiac	Tide	126.503	15.168	-0.130
15	#77	Dave Blaney	Ford	First Tennessee Bank/Jasper Powered	126.445	15.175	-0.137
16	#48	Jimmie Johnson	Chevrolet	Lowe's	126.403	15.180	-0.142
17	#38	Elliott Sadler	Ford	M&M's	126.395	15.181	-0.143
18	#20	Tony Stewart	Chevrolet	Home Depot	126.254	15.198	-0.160
19	#18	Bobby Labonte	Chevrolet	Interstate Batteries	126.229	15.201	-0.163
20	#2	Rusty Wallace	Dodge	Miller Lite	126.204	15.204	-0.166
21	#4	Johnny Sauter	Pontiac	Kodak EasyShare	126.179	15.207	-0.169
22	#31	Robby Gordon	Chevrolet	Cingular Wireless	126.096	15.217	-0.179
23	#29	Kevin Harvick	Chevrolet	GM Goodwrench Service	126.088	15.218	-0.180
24	#22	Ward Burton	Dodge	Caterpillar	126.021	15.226	-0.188
25	#9	Bill Elliott	Dodge	Dodge Dealers	125.972	15.232	-0.194
26	#49	Ken Schrader	Dodge	BAM Racing	125.947	15.235	-0.197
27	#88	Dale Jarrett	Ford	UPS	125.831	15.249	-0.211
28	#27	Scott Wimmer	Dodge	TBA	125.807	15.252	-0.214
29	#19	Jeremy Mayfield	Dodge	Dodge Dealers	125.724	15.262	-0.224
30	#0	Jason Leffler	Pontiac	NetZero HiSpeed	125.699	15.265	-0.227
31	#42	Jamie McMurray*	Dodge	Havoline	125.675	15.268	-0.230
32	#10	Johnny Benson	Pontiac	Valvoline	125.666	15.269	-0.231
33	#150	Larry Foyt*	Dodge	Harrah's	125.609	15.276	-0.238
34	#16	Greg Biffle*	Ford	Grainger	125.584	15.279	-0.241
35	#30	Steve Park	Chevrolet	America Online	125.395	15.302	-0.264
36	#40	Sterling Marlin	Dodge	Coors Light	125.273	15.317	-0.279
Provisional
37	#99	Jeff Burton	Ford	CITGO	125.134	15.334	-0.296
38	#25	Joe Nemechek	Chevrolet	UAW/Delphi	124.987	15.352	-0.314
39	#1	Jeff Green	Chevrolet	Pennzoil	125.093	15.339	-0.301
40	#154	Todd Bodine	Ford	National Guard	124.090	15.463	-0.425
41	#41	Casey Mears*	Dodge	Target	125.232	15.322	-0.284
42	#45	Kyle Petty	Dodge	Georgia Pacific	124.517	15.410	-0.372
43	#43	Christian Fittipaldi	Dodge	Cheerios	124.695	15.388	-0.350
Did not Qualify
44	#02	Hermie Sadler	Pontiac	Virginia Cavaliers	124.816	15.373	-0.335
45	#79	Billy Bigley	Dodge	Arnold Development Companies	124.622	15.397	-0.359
46	#37	Derrike Cope	Chevrolet	Friendly's/SP Films	122.474	15.667	-0.629
47	#189	Morgan Shepherd	Ford	Racing For Jesus/Red Line Oil	-	-	-

* Denotes Rookie

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Flash Gordon edges Martin for Bud Pole

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Punishments send stern message about fighting

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Busch drops appeal of NASCAR's probation ruling

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Wallace and Kulwicki, forever linked to Bristol

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Busch: It wasn't intentional

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[NormsRevenge]

Friday Night Pre-Race Ping for a Saturday Night Race at Bristol..... Woo Hooooo!!!!

Here's a few links to stories and the starting lineup!

[hoosiermama]

Tony Stewart will have "2021" on the back of his race car. It's the number of our local Home Depot!.....Don't usually root for TS, but will enjoy watching him this weekend.

[Charlotte Corday]

Nice qual for Ted Musgrave subbing for Spencer. Never did think that he got the shot he deserved in WC.

[LasVegasMac]

Friday Night Pre-Race Ping for a Saturday Night Race at Bristol..... Woo Hooooo!!!!

My usual reply to someone that does not know we were talking Nascar is, "High speed left hand turns."

That was modified today, for this weekend, "Bump, Bang, Grind, Whack! - Get the he!! outta my way!!!"

I wish there was a short track out this way.

Truck race coming up at the end of Sept - tickets in hand.

Just purchased tickets (wife was NOT happy with the price. Oh well.) for '04's events.

Nascar....ROCKS!!!!!

LVM

[Dog Gone]

Is the Busch race tonight at Bristol? I don't usually watch that series, but any race at Bristol is worth watching.

[LasVegasMac]

I see all your links were to Nascar.com. You do know about Jayski's racing site, right?

LVM

[Charlotte Corday]

8 PM Eastern, TNT

[Dog Gone]

Cool, thanks. I can freep for a little while longer.

[tubebender]

You're famous in my book due to your report on the Columbia live thread last Feb 1st. How did you fair during the recent flood...

[glock rocks]

I've become a Smoke fan... no good excuses I guess :o)

[anncoulteriscool]

I love watcthing this race. If I could get 1 ticket to a race it would be this one. I think NBC/FOX are out of their minds to not put this on non cable channels.

[norraad]

why asphalt to concrete?

[LasVegasMac]

Did just fine in the flooding, thanks for asking. Some rather serious water came close to the house, about 2 - 3 blocks away, but ended up being nothing more than a hassle to drive through (tons of dirt, gravel, garbage to navigate through) the next day or two. Lots of folks lost everything.

The strange part about this one was that in my 17 years in this house, flooding has never come that close. I don't know if all the detention basins, flood channels they put in directed it this way or if the storm cell was just in an unusal spot. 2.8" of rain in 30 minutes. Bad news when you have this type of ground. That translates into 2.795" of instant run-off. And it was running!

LVM

[glock rocks]

these weather maps update every few minutes (when you refresh/reload)

here's the regional doppler... (we're just left of the "G" in Greensboro on the right side of the map)

here's the local map... track is at the (+) by Kingsport...

[Pete-R-Bilt]

evening bro, i'm tuned in and turned on.

i'm rooting for Harvick this weekend, he said in and interview on XM that he's donating EVERYTHING from EVERY race he races this weekend to Kyle Pettys' kid camp charity!

[glock rocks]

that's too cool. ... hey, and Harvick is leading!

[tubebender]

Check this out...http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/968608/posts?q=1&&page=1#1

[Pete-R-Bilt]

we're biffling everywhere...

oh the humanity!