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I forgot about SF!
She does have a great personality and I wanted to see her win a few.
She balances her 'girly-ness' with racing.
Could that mean nice gals finish in the pack? :(
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I know the cable guy and hadn't seen that bit. I write my own material! :eek: :( :o
Did anyone see the guy on the tube that had "Git r done" tattoed on his forehead? It was some kind of a police mugshot. :rolleyes:
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I'll stop now and let's get back to NASCAR! ;)
Let silly season beging....Will Truex stay with DEI? Is Tony really leaving Joe Gibbs to take part ownership of Hass CNC? IS Bobby Labone going with General Mills to RCR?
Seems like the rumors start ealier every year!!!
I hate restrictor plate tracks. It's just not racing to me. Plus all I get to hear on the scanners is "clear" "inside" "two wide" "you're in the middle"...blah blah blah. I do love ya Kole. :D
Kole isn't a driver, he's Kasey's cousin and spotter. Kasey isn't a big talker anyway. And I've also been a NASCAR fan for over 20 years, before there were restrictor plates. I understand the restrictor plate racing concept and strategy. I just don't care for it. Just my opinion. It seems that most Earnhardt fans enjoy it. Needless to say, I'm not one of those either. To each their own!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cat Daddy
I just like racing...short track, restrictor plate, ARCA, Truck, Nationwide, Sprint Cup...doesn't much matter. Put the cars on the track and I am happy!
That being said, I did not like the Talledega race as much last fall in the COT. Too many people "rode around" in the back and then waited for the end to move up. It is always an exciting finish, but I think the overall racing is better at the shorter tracks.
Oh I watch it all too, or listen to it on the radio if I am away from TV or not there live. I just prefer some tracks more than others, and the restrictor plate tracks are at the bottom of my list.
I couldn't post until this morning, cause I had to watch the end of the race first...who-hoo!!! Always good to see a #20 car win :D
As much as I liked seeing Tony get his first win at 'Dega, I have to admit, with a few to go and Mike Wallace charging on the outside, I was sorta rooting for him. Wish he had been able to stay up there and finish better then 10th.
And how bout Morgan Shepherd? When is the last time he finished a rce, led alone on the lead lap!
It sure is Amy:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Cincy'sMom
Wasn't too happy about Tony's wreck, but it sure was nice to see JGR finish 1st and 3rd:D
People at work are commenting what a boring race it was yesterday...I thought is was much more exciting then the fall race last year. Maybe it is becuase I don't just watch it on TV, but also race the radio broadcast, and the computer so I can see what is going on "back inthe pack", but I thought it was a great race. And JGR finished 1 and 3 so the outcome wasn't too bad (Poor Tony :( )
A great Sunday of racing!
Racing? Boring?
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Racing Jesus?
Please, no more KB. Amen. ;)
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What?
No Ashley Force fans out there? Friggin awesome racing!!!!
Why are all the NHRA gals babes? :D
The NHRA stats for women are pretty amazing.
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Burnouts. Sorry Carl...
Me likes the smoke. :cool:
I did see AShley beat her dada nd became the first woman to win an NHRA event. Didn't get quite the same attention as Danica...but another vicotry for women racing!
Cha Cha Muldowney, Angele Seeling and a couple others would be surprised to find out they never won an NHRA event....
Ashley is the first female FUNNY CAR winner. :p
Sorry...NHRA Funny car. I knew it sounded wrong when i heard them say it, but I guess cause I only heard half of it!!
Shows how closely I pay attention!!!
Why do the honorary race starters have to yell?
The engines haven't turned over yet!
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I heard that NASCAR will not run a Sprint Cup race in MEXICO because there is no Spanish translation for "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity!":confused:
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A note to Tony Stewart.
Run over the other driver's pit crew! NOT YOURS!:eek:
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I will not cheer for the 8 car..... Yet!
Bad juju?;)
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NASCAR day on May 16th?
FOOLS! Everyday is NASCAR DAY!
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WHO was the guy with the accent that was interviewed after the Friday night race?
I was laughing because I couldn't understand a word he said.....but the captioning person could!!!
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Can I adopt a Cup car if it is impounded after a cup race?
:eek:
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Poor Dale Junior! :(
I don't care what the Talking Heads say ...
Looked like a Cheap Shot by the Shrub, to me!
:mad:
And Poor Denny Hamlin :( drove a Super Race!
NUTZ to that leaky tyre!
Punkyle BuschoyQuote:
Originally Posted by Cinder & Smoke
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There's no crying on NASCAR....:(
Looking at the J.R. interview, I was almost in tears.
I haven't got to see the race with sound yet, but caught the last 38 laps at Frickers...I was going to reserve comment until I could hear what was going on.
I can't believe that I, a true Shrubinator, am saying this, but I really didn't think Kyle did anything wrong. He had the inside lane, he held it, and Junior came down into him. Maybe I am going soft cuase he dries for JGR, but I can't falt him (this time).
I was crushed for Denny. I said Friday morning I felt like he was going to have a good weekend, and boy did he...Nationwide win, POle start, and a track record laps led. He deserved to win. Although even after I said that I picked Mark Martin as my top 10 driver for the week....
After the Nationwide race I don't remember them interviewing anyone with an accent...but it sure was hard to understand Steven Wallace. That boy sounds like Bumhauer (from King of the Hill). Doesn't seem to have his dad or uncle's abiity to speak clearly!
Racing returns to the Rock....ARCA race is underway...Tony Stewart waved the green flag and Joey Lagano (JGR develoment driver) brought them to it...
Ken Schrader is running as is James Harvery Hylton, the 73 year old wonder.
How would you like to be the auction winner, to runt he parade laps with Ricky Rudd? I would have been trying to slip him some more $$ to stay onthe track at least for the first few laps!!!
I DID get to hear (and see) the end of the race and I don't think Kyle did it on purpose. He was just trying to correct his car.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincy'sMom
And ask anyone (especially my husband Mark), I'm not a Busch supporter at all!
I was too. And yep, he sure deserved that win...too bad:(Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincy'sMom
Gosh Amy, I couldn't have said it better myself...LOL!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincy'sMom
Who-Hooo!!! Another 20 car win!! 4 in a row!!
JGR drivers have won 8 of 12 Natonwide races. How much better can they get?
Tony said in Victory Lane is wasn't the driver's, it is the crew. I'm sure that the crew is great, but you aren't exactly talking low talent drivers with Tony, Kyle and Denny. If they can win with anyone behind the wheel...give me my shot!!! Let's see how they do with a amateur!
Like WTF, Carl?
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Was that bad CARMA for KB tonight?:confused:
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Thanks for the thrill, Mark....:mad:
I hate when that happens.
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Ummmm,
You think that DP is giving women drivers a bad name by running over pit crew members?
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Who is watching the FIM Supersport races? The Assen race was rad!
This week, one rider- he was showing third place pulled off the track a few hundred feet before the finish line. He lost something like four places before he realized he didn't hit the finish line!
DOH!
Don't forget ... it's a Saturday NIGHT Race at Darlington tonight >>>
Darlington | 7 p.m ET Saturday | FOX TV Network
Let's go RACING!! :D
Got to say, even though they thought he was driving too hard and is such a bad guy....Kyle won! Another win for JGR!!!! Sorry Jr:p
And Denny got a Top Ten, and even though he got wrecked on Lap 3, Tony battled back and dang near got back on the leadleap the old fashioned way. I would have loved to see what would have happened if he hadn't wrecked....by the end of the night, that car was strong! Way to go JGR!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by anna_66
What's with Rousch and their loose wheels? All 5 of them complained at one point or anther they thought they had a tired issue.
The reason I love NASCAR is the way fans conduct themselves, for the most part.
It's fun to see the way fans support their drivers- jackets, t-shirts, bags and even underwear....:eek::confused::o Even the booing a driver at the intros is a practice that I encourage...But, I really hate the tossing of crap onto the track and the flipping the bird after the race.
Nascar is probably the last family sport - baseball held it's own for a while but sitting in the stands, with drunken louts yelling 'YOU SUCK' at players, gets old, fast!
Yeah it's part of the game/race to root your favorites on, but it's really disturbing to see people take it so seriously that they have to ruin it for everyone else-especially those who take kids to the track.
I am not an angel when I sit in my house and curse out a driver for being a chump, causing a crash or getting out of the pit box and losing the lead.
But, I am really irritated when I see people act like idiots.
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I did take execption to KB taking off the glasses and wiping his eyes - in homage to the DE jr. fans - I guess if you provoke the paying customers you have to take their grief.
Maybe the announcers and other drivers aren't lying when they bring up the subject of security having to escort drivers from the track.:eek::mad::confused:
Richard, just wanted to let you know that "flipping the bird" goes on through out the whole race. It isn't saved for just after the race. It also wouldn't surprise me if there were more "drunken louts" at a nascar race than at a baseball game. At the races you are allowed to bring your own beer in and you are lucky if you aren't sitting next to a very drunken lout who either spills his beer on you or maybe even barfs on your shoes (happened to a friend of mine). I've actually watched children help their dad carry in the cooler full of beer. The last race I went to I sat behind a family with two small children. The parents were putting away the beers and the group in front of them were a drunken rowdy bunch. Not for sure how much of a "family" sport that is considered to be.
That being said I LOVE going to the races!
Thanks for the insight.
I have never seen a race from the stands at a large speedway-and only a few from a motorhome in the infield.
The "local" track closed about 7 years ago. It was a 1/3 mile deal and they raced Sportsman and Winston events-it was Ron Hornaday's home track for a while. The crowds there were very well behaved and the most visible way of showing your disgust was the 'shoo' or 'getouttahere' hand motions. It was great because it was a small track and security didn't put up with the BS and you were not allowed to bring booze in.
It's been a while since I have attended a motorsports event-one of the last ones was a motocross event and I'll never go back. The fans there were rude and obnoxious. This is a generalization but the worst of the bunch were the long haired, tattooed bunch in racing jersys and the stacked up beer cups-smoking pot next to the family groups and enhancing every cheer with "effing" or "eff".
I'm really sorry to hear that the crowds have become that stupid in such a short time.
Don't get me wrong though, because I think NASCAR fans are the best. I have been to several different kind of sporting events and in my opinion nothing beats a Nascar fan. They are usually the nicest and easiest people to talk to and be around
I've been to Michigan, Phoenix, California, and Kentucky for Nascar races of one series or another. Of those, only Michigan allows you to carry in alcohol. And of those tracks, only in California did I see obnoxious drunks and really I would only call them bobderline. That was also the race that was delayed over and over and over again, giving people plenty of extra time to indulge. I was sitting in front a group of guys working in CA from Florida. They were mid 20-30's and didn't bother me at all. The family in front of me wasn't as amused, being their first time at a race with their 2 young children, but the kids had on the big radio ear muffs so I doubt they could hear much of what was being said, or with many of the phrases they were using doing describe Jeff Gordon, the kids shouldn't have understood what it meant!
Sorry Richard, Mark and I were a couple of people who actually got a chuckle out of him doing that. I think that boy can take all the grief they give him...I even think he kind of likes it...lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
Jr fans are going way too far in blaming him for that wreck, wearing their Busch hater t-shirts and such. Stupid if you ask me (I know, no one did:p)
Still can't believe I'm sticking up for him:rolleyes:
I'm with you Anna!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by anna_66
I really hate BUSCH, I'm a PABST man.:pQuote:
Originally Posted by anna_66
I thought the wiping eyes thing was funny too. I just feel that he should have let it go. It bothered me that the announcers and some of the drivers were suggesting that KB have security escort him out.
Going to the Raider games there was always the player who would make gestures to the fans when coming from the dressing room, if you were standing by the tunnel you might as well wear a helmet. The jokers from up above would start to throw trash - cups, empty bottles, batteries and god knows what else.
A DE jr fan at home isn't going to toss stuff at the screen-but what is stopping him from paying a few bucks to tour pit row and taking it out on KB in person? I remember the tennis gal that was stabbed a few years ago at a match? That was a weird situation. I love the fact that there are fans on PR and the drivers are accessible....But there is always one nut job in the crowd and the good fans suffer for his sins. For the most part SCS fans are pretty good and passionate. Passion and alcohol really are a bad mix......sometimes:)
In all the years of attending events there was only one time I felt threatened with my safety.....and the home team won.:(
CM,
See how the people that come to Cah Lee Fuh Nee Ah act?;) In the past few years I've cut back from my attending events for a few reasons. I don't have my BGFF-did I actually use that term just now???-to go with me and the idea that I have to be wary of the crowd -if I am attending with any females or kids, it takes the fun outta it for me.....
I attended an off-road race in Vegas and my GF and dad were almost part of a fight. I always tried for aisle seats-being tall I could stick my legs out onto the steps. After a few bathroom runs I ended up with the GF and dad near the aisle when a fight broke out. Two idiots bumped into each other, one spilled his beer and it was on.
I grabbed them both, slid them over and stood at the end seat. The fight started to move into our seats and I managed to put a hand on one guy and keep him from falling down. Eventually one of the idiots was body slammed on the seats right in front of us.
It really sucks when you have to think about an emergency plan when you to a sporting event. Before, you just had to worry about spending the extra 15 bucks for the sweat shirt instead of the t-shirt.:D
Today? i don't wanna think about it.
Pit crew competition tonight on SPEED!
I set the DVR last night!!! (CSI Season Finale is on at the same time. Have to record both!)Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD
I got a flyer in the mail from Mario Andretti and Jeff GOrdon.
They need 350 dollars from me.
The only thing I have to do is to drive down the AutoClub race track and drive one of their cars around the track.
I'm not a fan of either so I'll have to use the money for something else.;)
I got one of those flyers too. It's in the trash right now.
This year the Nashville Speedway was allowing all season ticket holders the chance to drive their own personal vehicle around the track. I'd been a season ticket holder for the past few years but didn't renew this year. That might have been fun though.
At the Saugus Speedway, since closed and made into a swap meet, they used to host a segment -and I cannot remember the name for it - where fans could come out and race their vehicles to try and set the lap record. The prizes were something like a dinner at Luigi's, a subscription for the local news paper and six cans of motor oil....Quote:
Originally Posted by Moesha
It was a small 1/3 mile track where the barriers are pieces of steel plate backed with dirt.
One night a guy shows up with a BRAND FRICKING NEW Mustang. I don't think it was two weeks old, if that. I bet the ciggie lighter was still new, the ashtrays clean and the the rear seat still not broken in.:eek::rolleyes:
Into the wall it went....and the crowd went wild....I just wanted to know how he explained that to the insurance company!:p
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Originally Posted by RICHARD
Fan or not, if you get a chance to drive a car, DO IT!!!! It is an awesome experience!
Oh, I would love to......I want to do it in a truck, I know the Petty Experience has a truck ride....right now I can't afford the the gas!;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Cincy'sMom
You ever make it to Ohio, I'll see what we can do to get you in a truck at MIS. I know my friend's school has trucks...I'm just not sure if he has any fit with a second seat to ride, so you may have to drive yourself!Quote:
Originally Posted by RICHARD