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Dave
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Posted: Thu Aug 28th, 2008 11:59 am |
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I'm actually surprised they didn't take any points or a $10,000.00 fine this time. But, 6 race probation? That sucks. Probably put the both of 'em on "Good Behavior" and take some of the fun out of it. Especially going into the "Chase" in a couple weeks...
Busch, Edwards placed on probation for Bristol antics
By NASCAR.COM
August 27, 2008
12:07 PM EDT
NASCAR announced on Wednesday that it has placed Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards on probation for the next six races in the Sprint Cup Series, as a result of their on-track incident Saturday night at the conclusion of the race at Bristol.
Busch and Edwards violated Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing; hitting another competitor's car after the race had concluded) of the 2008 NASCAR rule book.
The probation takes effect beginning with this weekend's event at Fontana, Calif.
Executing an adroit bump and run on Lap 470, Edwards passed for the lead and pulled away over the final 30 laps, winning by 1.969 seconds over Busch.
"It's one of those deals where I couldn't get by him, I couldn't get by him, and I just had to ask myself, 'Would he do that to me?' Edwards said after doing his trademark backflip off the car in Victory Lane. "And he has before, so that's the way it goes.''
Unhappy with the way Edwards passed him for the lead, Busch bumped Edwards' No. 99 Ford after the checkered flag. Edwards bumped back, and Busch's No. 18 Toyota went spinning (watch video).
"He'll always come back and say he's sorry," Busch said. "He did it at Milwaukee and he's done it a few other times. It's just his normal fashion. That's fine. I've grown to know that now.
"You know, to pass a guy, to hit him getting into the corners ... is very tired. But that's what he did. ... I had been getting into the corner light all day, and I don't know, maybe I over-braked and drove myself right back into his nose."
NASCAR summoned Busch to the sanctioning body's transporter after the race.
"Let's make it real clear -- I'm not apologizing for it," Edwards said, citing several instances where he felt like Busch took him out of races to gain positions. "We're even.
"They keep talking about rivalries,'' Edwards added. "We might have one now.''
http://www.nascar.com/2008/news/headlines/cup/08/27/cedwards.kybusch.probation.bristol/index.html
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 03:03 pm |
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zippo wrote:
Dave wrote: Didn't one of the F1 teams get a $500-million dollar fine last year for something? Damn...
A million a week ain't too bad when you've got fines like that... I'm not sure of the exact amount, but it was McClaren. One of the team was accused of spying on Ferrari somehow. Yeah, thats who it was. I remember they said $500-mil and wondering how they could stay in racing with a fine that large...
A fine like that would kill a NASCAR team...
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zippo
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 02:34 pm |
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Dave wrote: Didn't one of the F1 teams get a $500-million dollar fine last year for something? Damn...
A million a week ain't too bad when you've got fines like that... I'm not sure of the exact amount, but it was McClaren. One of the team was accused of spying on Ferrari somehow.
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 02:31 pm |
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Didn't one of the F1 teams get a $500-million dollar fine last year for something? Damn...
A million a week ain't too bad when you've got fines like that...
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zippo
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 02:30 pm |
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Just watchin the F1 race and they said that Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari's driver gets paid $1 million a week to drive. (Just blew an engine as I write this, that probably cost Ferarri another mil.) I wonder how much they paid Michael Schumacher who won 7 world championship for them?
F1 racing is another whole different world. Very little on course passing and pit stradegy is real big. But talk about high tech, this sport has it. 2.4 liter engines turning 19K rpm. have heard that some of these teams have over 200 people (including R and D and building) and cosys over 100 mil a year per car.
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 01:45 pm |
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Well, I watched a good part of the race. But, I had the BBQ goin' with some steaks and had some real good oak smoke in there too. Plus, a few beers. I sat down after we ate, got nice and relaxed and the next thing I knew I ended up missing about the last 20 or 30 laps...
Woke up and sports center or something was on (what ever was on ESPN at 11:05...) and saw an interview with Carl Edwards tellin' how he WASN'T sayin' he's sorry...LOL
Hey, its Bristol, right? Gotta do what ya gotta do. It's only a half-mile track...
There's a pretty good video of it on http://www.nascar.com too. Just a nice little "bump 'n run" that pushed Kyle up a bit and out of his way. Interviews with both Edwards and Busch. Busch was PISSED. Guess he hates to be raced the way he races.
Should make the rest of the season pretty interesting...
Edwards ain't the only one ya see at the track without a girl. Seems as though Stewart don't bring one very often. I've never seen Jr. with one either...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 01:34 pm |
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| We got to watch about 1/2 of the race from Bristol there last nite over in Salem at my buds house. We decided to ride on home cause it was gettin foggy... I never did know the ending- last count- Kyle Bush was leadin, Gordon was still in 2nd. Course all I gotta do is look on nascar.com to find out, but I'd rather have you tell me the juicy details.. LOL!! Did Kyle get rear ended taken out?
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zippo
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 12:44 pm |
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| Ever notice how all the other drivers except Edwards have wives, girlfriends, etc. hanging around. Not old Edwards, he has his mother We refer to him as "mamas boy"
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 24th, 2008 12:19 pm |
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Kyle sure was pissed off last night...LOL
Edwards did a great job!!
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2008 05:18 pm |
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Here it is...
Swapping 3 races around for the 2009 season...
Speedway getting into the Chase
Fontana gives up Labor Day race for playoffs in October
Louis Brewster, Staff Writer
Article Created: 08/18/2008 11:13:21 PM PDT
FONTANA - Gillian Zucker's two-year quest to move the Labor Day Sunday NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race further into the schedule is headed to fruition.
The president of the Auto Club Speedway will join NASCAR president Mike Helton and four of her counterparts in a national teleconference call announcing parts of the 2009 schedule.
At the heart of the call will be a date swap among three tracks - Auto Club Speedway, Atlanta Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway - that will give the Fontana track relief from a Labor Day Sunday weekend that never caught on and a date in the Chase, NASCAR's playoff format.
Atlanta, which has struggled with various dates for its second Cup date, will take the Labor Day Sunday race. Auto Club Speedway will assume the October date now occupied by Talladega, which in turn will move into the late October date vacated by Atlanta.
As a result, the 2009 Pepsi 500 will be run Oct. 4 at Auto Club Speedway and Talladega's second race is set for Oct. 25.
According to industry sources, Atlanta would follow the Auto Club Speedway's lead in running the race at night.
There will be no change for the Auto Club 500, the first of two Cup dates at Fontana. That race will once again follow the season-opening Daytona 500 on the NASCAR schedule and will be run Feb. 22.
The track has not been able to sell out its 92,000 grandstand seats in its four Labor Day Sunday events.
As of late as last week, Zucker said she had lobbied NASCAR to change the date of the Labor Day Sunday race, which will be run for the fifth time Aug. 31 as the Pepsi 500. She cited the extreme temperatures - the track surfaces registered more than 130 degrees - as a major reason for requesting the move.
Even the drivers took notice.
"Hopefully it's nothing like it was last year because it was the most miserable race we went to on the whole circuit last year," Kevin Harvick said last week prior to racing at Michigan of the second race at Fontana.
Zucker's standard line since she first proposed moving the date after the 2006 race: "Everyone is in agreement that a later date for the second race is in the best interests of the sport." However, in a call on the track's economic impact on the region, Zucker was cautious of a possible swap.
"We have to make sure there is proper separation for the tracks involved," she said, noting the proximity of Fontana and Phoenix and Talladega and Atlanta. "We have to do what is right for the sport and the fans."
Under the new schedule, Fontana and Phoenix would have five weeks of separation while there would be a month between Atlanta and Talladega.
Although a source of speculation for some time, the swap between Atlanta and Fontana took on new life after Bruton Smith confirmed in March he had spoken to NASCAR on the matter.
"It is the thing to do," said Smith, chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which owns the Atlanta track."
International Speedway Corp. owns Auto Club Speedway, Phoenix International Speedway and Talladega.
Also expected to be announced today will be a Nationwide Series race for Iowa Speedway and a later date for the spring Cup race in Bristol, Tenn.
The Bristol Herald Courier reported Monday NASCAR will officially move the Sprint Cup and Nationwide spring races back to the weekend of March 20-22, a week later than this year.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_10241865
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Dave
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Posted: Tue Aug 19th, 2008 04:25 pm |
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Stream the radio here at work. Station is saying that NASCAR is going to run California in October. Not able to find anything on nascar.com about it. I know it was or has been rumored for awhile...
Didn't catch whether it will in 2008 or 2009 season...
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Dave
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 02:28 pm |
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Missed the intros. But, they have what's known as "Jr Nation". Probably had a bunch of 'em up near the stage and they tend to "Boo" everyone else. He's got a real loyal following in that bunch. Jr ain't ever gonna be the driver his dad was.
Yeah, Kyle Busch is havin' a great year!! Bet that Hendrick wishes he'd kept Kyle and unloaded Casey Mears last year when he picked up Jr. Hendrick is havin' enough trouble this year gettin' anyone in the winner's circle. Bad year for Gordon and Johnson too...
I was sorta surprised at the whole magnet thing. At least it was in the Nationwide series and not Cup. Still going to be real interesting before its all over with. Gibbs is gonna have to do some fast talkin' to take care of it...
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marc
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 02:18 pm |
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Magnets...Never herd of this before...
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1833578,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:41 pm |
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zippo wrote: Well Momma's boy won it.
I really dislike Jr. All hype, unlike his dad. I gotta say ol Wild Thing sure can drive.
I was amazed this year when we were at TMS, as they introduced each driver there were some boos for each of them except for Jr.
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zippo
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Posted: Mon Aug 18th, 2008 01:22 pm |
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Well Momma's boy won it.
I really dislike Jr. All hype, unlike his dad. I gotta say ol Wild Thing sure can drive.
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 17th, 2008 07:19 pm |
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| Yeah, 2 miles...
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17th, 2008 05:39 pm |
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Dave wrote: Yup...
Jr won the race in the spring at Michigan too. I'm sure he's favored to win...
It should be a good race. What is it? 2 or 2.5 miles? 2, I think Dave.. or 1 3/4 mile ?
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Dave
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Posted: Sun Aug 17th, 2008 03:02 pm |
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Yup...
Jr won the race in the spring at Michigan too. I'm sure he's favored to win...
It should be a good race. What is it? 2 or 2.5 miles?
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17th, 2008 02:34 pm |
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1
Brian Vickers
2
Jimmie Johnson
3
Elliott Sadler
4
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
5
Jeff Gordon
Line up for todays Michigan race at 1 pm EST on ESPN.
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jeffy ole boy
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Posted: Sat Aug 16th, 2008 04:19 pm |
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Dave wrote: This is the part of the season that its on ESPN (3 more races) Last race on ESPN is at Fontana...
Then it switches to ABC for the rest of the season... Good, once Nascar starts on ABC I'll be tuned in again.... Thanks for the schedule there Dave.
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