NASCAR SPRINT CUP: SAMSUNG MOBILE 500 at Texas Motor Speedway ~ Saturday 4/14/12 AT 7:30 pm/et ~ FOX

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[NYTexan]

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[NormsRevenge]

TMS swaps out circuit breakers in lighting system
http://www.nascar.com/news/120414/texas-swaps-circuit-breakers/index.html

FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Motor Speedway changed out all the circuit breakers in its lighting system prior to Saturday night’s Sprint Cup race at the facility to avoid localized outages like those that briefly interrupted the track’s Nationwide Series event.

Friday night’s Nationwide race was stopped under a red flag for a little less than six minutes as track technicians changed out a circuit breaker that had tripped and knocked out some of the lights in Turn 3. It was the second failure of the same circuit breaker that evening, which track president Eddie Gossage attributed to the piece of equipment being 15 years old.

As a precaution, Gossage said track maintenance workers changed out all 400 breakers overnight Saturday. The track had extras stored in a warehouse on the property.

“They simply went though and changed the breakers, putting new ones in, because they’re 15 years old,” Gossage said Saturday. “Just to be sure.”

[NYTexan]

Sure hope there is no more of that nonsense tonight!

[NormsRevenge]

NYT? Ya win a shotgun for the Pole? cool. Truex streaks to his first pole of 2012 at Texas

[NormsRevenge]

That was pretty bizarre.. heck just ducttape flashlights on their roofs and let em race.

[NYTexan]

Yes, life IS good in Texas!

[NYTexan]

[tubebender]

Are we there yet...

[NYTexan]

wait for it...wait for it...

[NYTexan]

NASCAR Pre-Race show is on Now!

The Caution Pool is OPEN! So let 'er rip!

[advertising guy]

funny thing about the Camaro.....folk are tradin em in fast as they can.....blind spots everywhere

[NYTexan]

Caution Pool:

NYT - 7

[NYTexan]

That’s sad ta know...I really wanted one!

[McGruff]

Radar looks ok.

[NYTexan]

Thankfully yes!

Storms not expected till well past checkerd flag!!!

[AGreatPer]

I would love to be the guy to go to Home Depot.
Give me 400 circuit breakers.

[nascarnation]

Looks like a fun night.

I went to the orchestra with my wife last night, so I’m good to go all evening with Nascar, LOL.

[advertising guy]

I loved the test drive......took a convertible out too

[NYTexan]

You were listen’n to that long haired music eh? ;)

Marriage Axiom #1: If she ain’t happy, you won’t be happy!

[advertising guy]

amen that

[NYTexan]

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