Nascar 2009

[lizbud]

Another top 5 for Tony! And how impressive Joey, coming from dead last, battling it out with JPM, and finishing 12th!
Too bad Denny and Kyle had such a rotten day finishing 34th and 38th, Mark was a very unhappy man.

I have to say, watching it in person is much more fun than watching it on TV. The cars just go by too fast to see any more than a blur...200 mph, no wonder they're just a blur

Yep, we were there (we really missed you Amy), had a blast and wow what a gorgeous day it was! We did lots and lots of walking. If you ever go, don't wait to pick up your tickets there and by all means....get a parking pass!!!

As usual I took WAY too many pictures, but if you'd like to see them here's the link:
http://share.shutterfly.com/action/w...0QZt2LRoycMWHR
And I'll upload a few here.

I ordered the best weather possible just for you guys.

I don't know much about NASCAR, so can anyone explain why Montoya
was cited for speed out of the pit lane? I thought you would want to
hurry back to the race quickly.

[Moesha]

There is a speed limit on pit road. This helps to insure the safety of the pit crew members that will be vulnerable while working on the cars during pit stops. The pit road speed is given and the drivers are given a 5 mph grace period. So if the speed limit is 55 MPH, they are allowed to go 60 MPH without incurring a penalty. If they go even .01 over 60 MPH, they are given a penalty, where they have to pass back down the length of pit road at the while maintaining the proper speed. NASCAR now electronically scores eac car's pit road speed by using timing and scoring areas. They judge a car's speed between each of those areas. JPM was scored going over the 5 MPH grace speed in two of those areas.

[RICHARD]

When it rains?

Time to pull out the red flag, pack up the car and go home.
http://motorsports.fanhouse.com/2009...-outside-home/

[aTailOf2Kitties]

Mark on the pole. THANK YOU STOCK CAR JESUS! Gimme 5!

[Moesha]

I am so ready for him to retire.

[RICHARD]

I am so ready for him to retire.

Come on,
No love for the Mummy?
He does have a bit of "The Favre" in him?

[anna_66]

I am so ready for him to retire.

Couldn't agree with you more.
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Great race tonight, well except for Kyle's wreck (he did a very good interview for being so upset)
....go Ragan!

[Cincy'sMom]

I am so tired of hearing Mark talk about how scared he was during qualifying. Really? I think you loose the right to be scared when you are doing it every week for 100 years!!!

Great race. Congrats David!!!

[Lady's Human]

Just because someone does something constantly doesn't mean they don't get scared doing it.

A stock car set up for qualifying is normally set up loose as heck, and the driver is doing a slide job for two laps.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I am so ready for him to retire.

yeah 'cuz clearly he can't cut it anymore

[RICHARD]

Holy Crap,
Just tuned into the qual runs for the Indy Car race in Sonoma. Will Power hit car that had spun out on a blind corner.
Tossing a prayer out to both drivers!

[Moesha]

yeah 'cuz clearly he can't cut it anymore

That's not it at all. I am SO tired of listening to him. I turned the radio off today during his pre-race interview. I mute the TV when he is on. He drives me crazy. Like was previously mentioned by someone else, I can't stand his post qualifying interviews lately either. I think he is full of baloney (and maybe bologna too.) He just rubs me the wrong way. I've listened to his scanner. He wants everyone to pull over for him because he is trying to get in the chase. He had his "farewell tour" years ago. I'm just ready for him to be gone. I even like Junior better than him, and believe me, that's saying a lot! But I know that is the beauty of NASCAR, there are drivers we love and drivers we love to hate and drivers we just hate. He happens to fall into that last category in my house. I'm glad there are others that like him though.

[Lady's Human]

Tony Stewart Whines on the scanner, Jeff Gordon whines, Jr Whines, Robby Gordon whines.

I've heard Mark complain about other drivers. Mainly under the heading of "Why is XXX runnin me so hard, it's lap 15?"

He drives clean, drives against other drivers the way they do to him, it used to be incredible watching Mark/Earnhardt Sr/Rusty run against each other.


They rubbed each other, but rarely punted each other.


I love Mark's comments about burnouts...."Man, those are stupid. If these kids had to FIX those engines after a race they wouldn't do that."