[WestCoastGal]

This will be the last "Budweiser" shootout.

The Budweiser Shootout is a 70 lap, 175 mile all star NASCAR Nextel Cup (formerly Winston Cup) non points race held at Daytona, one week before the Daytona 500. The event is held on Saturday night, under the lights. Also new this year is the race will be broken up into 2 segments. The first segment is 20 laps. The teams get a 10 minute break and line up in the same order as at the end of the segment. The second segment must end with a green, white, checkered finish. All caution laps count toward the total of each segment. All restarts are double file (like the start of the race). Drivers qualify, not teams. If a driver leaves a team, the new team will be in the race. To qualify:

Each driver/team must participate in Budweiser's promotion of pole qualifying (a decal). The driver/team must qualify on the pole (or be the fastest program qualifier if the pole winner does not participate) of a Nextel Cup points event in the previous year. Past winners from previous "Budweiser Shootout", "Bud Shootout", and "Busch Clash" events are eligible. Drivers must finish in the top 50 in points the previous year. The field starting positions are chosen by random draw.

Fire em up and let's go racing boys!!!

[mnehring]

Bump
Let’s see if Newman can get out of last year’s slump.

[WestCoastGal]

WE'RE BACK!!!

[TexasCajun]

Woo Hoo !!

Let's Go Racing Freepers.

[afnamvet]

Finally. Talk about withdrawals.

[FlingWingFlyer]

It’s been a looooong off season. Go #88!!!

[TexasCajun]

Welcome to Team Hendrick!

[FlingWingFlyer]

I'm ready!!!!

[Randy Larsen]

Just curious, are you a Junior fan, and how do you feel about Junior moving over to Hendricks?

[WestCoastGal]

Our thread, as always, is dedicated to our men and women in the military serving our country, defending our freedom,

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[blastdad51]

Blastmom equats the Super bowl with Thanksgiving. the next big event is.........Christmas/Daytona!!!!!!

Thank G-d for NASCAR, let’s go racin!!!!

We’re all kids at heart :-)

[AGreatPer]

Love the intro. Great cartoon of you.

[buschbaby]

Hello fellow race fans! The excitement is building!

[athelass]

Happy Happy Joy Joy! Nascar Season!

[GeorgiaDawg32]

99 rules!!!!!!!!

if anyone is interested, please check out this thread regarding fantasy nascar. note team 2 has been taken, team 1 is now the only one available. freepmail me if you’d like to participate.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1963502/posts?page=1

[Go Gordon]

Has anyone started up the yearly Yahoo FreeRepublic Fantasy league?

[Uncle George]

Tony will kick ass with his Toyota powerplant and Zippy’s skill.

[glock rocks]

The Hanging Chad State updating doppler:

[steveegg]

Hate to point out an error in the title, but it's 150, not 125.

Let's go racin'; I need something to take my mind off the twin disasters that are politics and the NFL post-season.

[budman_2001]

YAHOO!!! Its 2008!! Hello to all of ya's!!!

Line 'em up, fire'm up, and let's see who's fastest for 35 weeks!

See ya later this afternoon.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I think I was watching last night and they said Dale Jarett has won the Shootout whenever there has been an election season.