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First off Happy Halloween my friend

Second I hope you have a great weekend

The Dickies 500 is a NASCAR Sprint Cup stock car race held at
the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. The inaugural
race took place on November 6, 2005. The race is held on the first
weekend in November each year; TMS has expressed interest in changing
the date, which is also the opening weekend of deer hunting season
in Texas.

The race was acquired as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, which forced
NASCAR to relinquish the sport's fourth major, the Mountain Dew Southern
500 and in the process end its Grand Slam, as the Southern 500 was one
of the four races that made it up.

Two racetracks formerly on the Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup Series)
schedule were closed to make room for Texas Motor Speedway's two
race dates, with the North Wilkesboro Speedway being one and
The North Carolina Speedway in Rockingham being the other.
There was a lot more to this lawsuit but to much to explain the details.
eddie

Hello my friend
The Intimidator Dale Earnhardt's Record at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Most wins :___9 _____Dale Earnhardt
Most Top 5s:__ 26 ____Dale Earnhardt
Avg. finish:__ 9.5___ Dale Earnhardt

Bruton Smith changed a lot when he purchased Atlanta
International Raceway on Oct. 23, 1990, and renamed the
facility Atlanta Motor Speedway. A year later, the addition
of the East Turn Grandstand expanded the seating capacity by
25,000, and the 30 suites that rimmed the top gave the track
a high-class look.

In 2006, more than 13,000 seats were added with the building
of Winners Grandstand in Turn 1, as well as new luxury seating
called Club One and the East Turn grandstand was renamed the
Elliott grandstand. Additionally, more than 90 motorcoach
parking spaces were added along the backstretch, strengthening
the fan-centric atmosphere of Atlanta Motor Speedway.

The Toyota Tundra will make its ninth NCTS start at Atlanta Motor
Speedway this weekend. In eight previous starts at the track,
Tundra drivers have combined for three victories including the
spring races in 2006 (Todd Bodine), 2007 (Mike Skinner) and 2008
(Busch). Earlier this year, Busch led 39 of 130 laps for the win
at Atlanta, driving the No. 51 Tundra for Billy Ballew Motorsports.

Johnny Benson, driver of the No. 23 Bill Davis Racing Tundra won
the NCTS race at Martinsville Saturday after passing race-leader
and championship foe Ron Hornaday, Jr. with 46 laps to go. He
held off all challengers to make his first victory lane visit
at Martinsville's "Paper Clip".

Founded in 1986, Memphis Motorsports Park is located just
minutes from Graceland and world-famous Beale Street in
Memphis"Home of the Blues, Birthplace of Rock 'n' Roll.
"The multi-track facility includes a three-quarter-mile
NASCAR oval, a one-quarter-mile NHRA championship drag strip,
a 1.77-mile road course and more than 400 acres that host
more than 200 events and 550,000 racers and race fans each year.
The race can be seen on ESPN Classic/3 p.m Eastern Time.
The race is also supposed to be simulcast on Speed.

Have a great weekend
eddie

Hello my friend

A year after Martinsville Speedway opened in 1947, NASCAR was formed.
NASCAR began operation in 1948 and Martinsville Speedway ran its first
NASCAR race on July 4th of that year. In 1949, Martinsville ran the
sixth race in the series that eventually became the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

At slightly more than half a mile, Martinsville Speedway is the shortest
track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Circuit, but it's one of the biggest when
it comes to action. It has 800-foot straights, turns banked at only 12
degrees and has been called "two drag strips with a turnaround on each
end." The demanding layout consistently produces some of the wildest
fender scrubbing, push and shove racing of the year.

Martinsville Speedway opened in 1947 with 750 seats and has grown
continuously over the years. But, other than being paved in 1955,
the track configuration has not changed.

Richard Petty, now a car owner, remains the track's
leading winner with 15 victories.

They’re $2 a piece and they come wrapped in wax paper.A couple of years ago,
soon after International Speedway Corp. bought the track from the family of
the late Clay Earles, who had founded it, we got here one Friday and something
had changed The hot dogs were being served in little foam boxes. You got them
pretty much plain and had to go apply your own condiments. And they weren’t
quite red enough.It was, quite frankly, an outrage.

Eddie Wood, co-owner of the Wood Brothers team from nearby Stuart, Va.,
was fighting mad about it. He found NASCAR president Mike Helton and
demanded things be put back the way they were. Immediately.Before long,
word of the crisis got back to hot dog connoisseur Bill France Jr.
and phone calls were immediately made. This was serious business.

Have a great weekend

eddie

Hello my friend the Talladega Track has to be one of my
favorite,Bristol being another one.

Talladega Superspeedway is located in Talladega, Alabama,
United States. It was constructed in the 1960s in place of
abandoned airport runways by International Speedway Corporation,
a business controlled by NASCAR's founding France family along
with Daytona International Speedway and several other racetracks.
At 2.66 miles long, Talladega is the largest oval track in the
Sprint Cup Series and has seating provisions for over 175,000 patrons.

In the 2000 season, Earnhardt had a resurgence,He scored what many
considered the 2 most exciting wins of the year - winning by .006
seconds over Bobby Labonte at Atlanta, then gaining seventeen
positions in the final four laps to win at Talladega, claiming
his only No Bull million dollar bonus.

The Craftsman Truck Series race is 250 miles (94 laps) and the
ARCA race,was shortened to 300 miles in 1998, and to 250 miles
in 2006 when it was moved to Friday.

Have a great weekend

eddie

Hello my friend

In 1996, International Speedway Corporation began exploring the
idea of building a track in the Midwest. Bonds were sold in 1998
and construction on the 1.5-mile tri-oval began a year later.

Tickets for the 2001 season went on sale on Aug. 17, 2000,
and within a week, nearly 80 percent of the season tickets
had been sold. Paving on the track begin in September of that
year and construction was completed in the spring of 2001.

Jeff Gordon won the first two Cup events there,
starting with the inaugural race on Sept.30, 2001.
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Soldiers from the U.S. Army Special Operations Command
will thrill race fans with a daring pre-race demonstration
prior to the start of the Camping World RV 400 presented
by Coleman at Kansas Speedway on September 28, 2008.

NASCAR fans will get a first hand and up-close look at a
Special Operations infiltration demonstration, including
a high-altitude, low-opening (HALO) parachute jump by the U.S.
Army Special Operations Command’s Black Daggers.

Also, the official Ford Fusion pace car is going on a special
“ride” as part of the pre-race demonstration. It will be
airlifted and then offloaded onto the track by an MH-47 Chinook
helicopter from the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne).

Following the pace car “delivery”, eight Special Forces Soldiers
will fly into action on two MH-6 Little Bird helicopters for a
simulated tactical infiltration.

Here are some fun Race Track Facts

#1 Throughout a NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series weekend at Kansas Speedway,
Americrown, who handles all concessions, catering and merchandise
for the track, sells more than 31,600 gallons of soda. How far could
a NASCAR stock car go on 31,600 gallons of fuel? It could circle
the earth 16 times before it had to make a pit stop. That's 129,272
laps around the 1.5-mile Kansas Speedway.
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#2 Race fans eat 14,504 hot dogs on a typical race weekend at the track.
That's enough wieners to cover 437 NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock cars from
nose to tail.
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#3 About 25,000 hamburgers, which equals about 6,615 pounds, are
eaten over the course of the weekend. That much meat adds up to
49 Mark Martins, the lightest driver on the NEXTEL Cup circuit
at 135 pounds.
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#4 Around 26,203 gallons of beer is sold. That's enough to fill a
NASCAR NEXTEL Cup stock car gas tank 1,191 times.
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#5 Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold.
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#6 About 23,200 orders of French fries are sold.

Have a great weekend!!!

eddie

Hello my friend
The racetrack is home to the second race in the Chase for the Sprint
Cup and will celebrate its 40th anniversary during the 2008 season.

Dover is unique in many ways. It is exactly one mile long;
technically this means that it is neither a superspeedway nor
a short track. The speedway surface is concrete; most NASCAR
track surfaces are asphalt. The concrete surface is notoriously
hard on cars, bringing about its nickname of The Monster Mile.

The speedway's mascot is called "Miles the Monster" which
is a concrete monster spawned from the track's nickname,
"The Monster Mile." The monster is featured on the winner's
trophy, the track's tickets, memorabilia, website, and more.
A previous nickname that the track had was the "White Lightning."

New for 2008, Miles the Monster will become the largest
attraction at a NASCAR track and will be one of the tallest
fiberglass structures in the world. The Monster Monument
stands 46 feet-tall amongst race fans in the newly created
Victory Plaza at Dover International Speedway.

Have a great weekend

eddie

Hello my friend !!!

Since 2004, the race has served as the opening round of the
"Chase for the Sprint Cup", a ten-race "playoff" designed
among the top ten (twelve as of 2007) drivers in the standings
of the series following the Chevy Rock and Roll 400.

The 2001 fall race, originally scheduled for September 16, 2001,
was postponed due to the 9/11 terror attacks. Not wanting to cancel
the event outright, NASCAR decided to reschedule the race to the next
available date, November 23, 2001, the day after Thanksgiving.The race
had Robby Gordon, driving the #31 Lowe's Chevrolet for Richard Childress
Racing, win his first ever race in NASCAR.

Have a great weekend.

eddie

Hi guys! I’m sorry I haven’t been around lately. I love all the comments you have left and thanks for not giving up on me. What can I say. I just don’t seem to have the time anymore. I hope things get better.

So I guess I owe you a treat. I went to my very first Bristol race. I finally made it to the coveted Bristol Motorspeedway. That’s right, the one where Dale Jr pulled a DUH before crossing the S/F line.

Let me tell you, it was very physically demanding on this 63 year old. My nephew was supposed to take the camper up on Wednesday for us, but to make a long story short, he didn’t, and we tail gated instead. Now, that should not have been so bad, after all, we did have nice clean room to sleep in at night. Yeah right. We didn’t leave Bristol until 3 o’clock Sunday morning. I didn’t get to bed until 4:30AM the same morning. Did I mention I got 5 hours sleep the night before?

Now listen up! When people tell you to be prepared to walk up hill, there’s a reason they mention this. I’ve walked a many a mile around Talladega and Atlanta, but Bristol is a whole different animal. It’s hilly guys. Up and down, up and down and we aren’t talking little grades. We are talking STEEP! You can just about crawl up them without looking odd. LOL On the bright side, we parked behind a Church and they were nice people who let us use their bathroom. It doesn’t get better then that. Ok, it does get better. Our seats were in the shade and directly across from Dale Jr’s pit stall.

It was all worth it though. I totally enjoyed being there even with my driver a lap (or two) down the entire race and that’s saying a lot. I took a little video with my diggy, so here’s your treat.

This is the parade lap. I took these from my seat on row 1.



6 seconds of racing.

Hello my friend its Labor Day weekend and time for football and racing.

In 1999, Penske Motorsports Inc. merged with International Speedway
Corporation, bringing California Speedway into the ISC family of tracks.
Beginning in 2004, California Speedway's 2-mile oval became the host
of two Cup Series races each year, adding a Labor Day weekend
event to its roster of activities.

The track was renamed in February 2008.
It is now called the Auto Club Speedway.

2007 Race Results

Sprint Cup Series
Sharp AQUOS 500 : Jimmie Johnson-09/02/07

Auto Club 500 : Matt Kenseth-02/25/07
Cup Historical Race Winners

Nationwide Series
Camping World 300 presented by RVs.com:Jeff Burton-09/01/07
Stater Bros. 300 : Matt Kenseth-02/24/07

Craftsman Truck Series
San Bernardino County 200: Mike Skinner-02/23/07
Carl VS Kyle
In the wake of last weekend's bump-and-run and post-race altercation
at Bristol, is it going to get ugly between championship leaders
Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards? We have a new rivalry in nascar!!!

Have a great Labor Day weekend.

eddie

Hello my friend its time for Bristol Night Racing.

Bristol is a legendary short track with a larger than life reputation.
A lot of things make it unique, the high banks, all the grandstands
surrounding the track, it sounds different than any other track. It
is just a very special place. You realize it as soon as you step foot
in the place. You definitely know that you are at Bristol. Some tracks
you go to and it is just another intermediate track with no real
character to it.

In case you've ever wondered why Bristol Motor Speedway packs more
than 150,000 fans into a half-mile racetrack on a steamy Saturday
night in August, you only have to look at a pair of "tag, you're it"
incidents between Terry Labonte and Dale Earnhardt under the lights
to understand a little of the intensity.

In both 1995 and 1999, it was a hard-charging Earnhardt who rammed
leader Labonte's rear bumper on the final lap. In the first instance,
Labonte somehow skidded across the finish line first to win. In the
second, it was Earnhardt who wound up in Victory Lane amid a chorus
of boos, adding another chapter to his legend as the Intimidator.

And it led to one of Earnhardt's greatest post-race quotes:
"I wanted to rattle his cage."

The last time Sprint Cup visited Bristol RCR finished 1st,2nd and 3rd.
With Jeff Burton in 1st, Kevin Harvick in 2nd and Clint Bowyer in 3rd.

Have a great weekend
eddie

Hello my friend,I hope your week is going good.
Johnny Benson shares the Craftsman Truck Series record for consecutive
victories at three with four drivers: Mike Skinner, Ron Hornaday, Greg
Biffle and Todd Bodine. He can break out of that select group and become
the first driver to win four in a row tonight in the O'Reilly 200 at
Bristol Motor Speedway.

Jimmie Johnson,NO.#81 KOBALT TOOLS SILVERADO:“I’m excited.I got my
start racing off-road trucks, so it’s going to be cool to be back in
a truck. I’ve never driven one before. I’ve always wondered how they
drive and what they’re about.

Ron Hornaday,NO.#33 CAMPING WORLD SILVERADO:“Bristol is different
with the new surface.It’s slower and has more aggressive banking than
On the old surface, you could run on the bottom of the track
through the turns. With the new surface, it opens the track up a
little more. We’ll be on a new tire this year, one that we have
never used in the NASCAR Truck Series.

eddie

Hello my friend,well we are getting closer to the chase.
Here are the winners in points paying races to date.

With its wide banked turns and multiple grooves, Michigan
International Speedway has a reputation for some great
side-by-side racing. In fact, the first NASCAR event there
in 1969 resulted in a last-lap battle between Cale Yarborough
and LeeRoy Yarbrough, with Cale winning.

But that combination can also result in a lack of caution flags.
On three occasions, a Michigan race has gone the entire 400-mile
distance without a break, the most recent coming in Dale Jarrett's
dominating 1999 victory.

eddie

Hello my friend
Have a great weekend
Watkins Glen is one of only two road courses on the NASCAR Cup
schedule, and its also one of only two stops on the schedule where
drivers have to make a right hand turn,in other words they go clockwise.
The 2.45 mile racing circuit is very fast,twisting and challenging
turns all with variable banking that ranges from 6 to 10 degrees.
The frontstretch is a downhill plunge to a hard right hander,
shortly followed by a charge uphill through a series of esses
and out onto the long backstretch.

NASCAR weekend at the Glen received a double shot-Zippo Manufacturing
announced a three year extension of the Nationwide Series race, the
Zippo 200.The Sprint Cup series is now known as The Centurion Boats
at the Glen,another multi-year deal that goes through 2009.

And lets not forget the truck race on the speed channel tonight.

eddie

Hello my friend its time for the roval again

Pocono is not an oval track nor is it a road course hence the term roval
Pocono Raceway has a unique design. Each turn is modeled after turns
at 3 different tracks. Turn One (14 degree banking) was modeled after
the now defunct Trenton Speedway, Turn Two (also known as"The Tunnel Turn")
is like Indianapolis Motor Speedway (8 degree banking),and Turn 3 has 6 degree
is similar to The Milwaukee Mile. It could be said to be a tri-oval, but the turns
are much more severe than those of a more typical tri-oval such as Daytona and
the track is really nearly a triangle. They have been likened somewhat to the
hairpin-style turns of road courses.For its unique characteristics, Pocono
is sometimes referred to as a roval.


The NAPA Auto Parts 200 is a NASCAR Nationwide Series race that takes
place at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada,
The inaugural race took place on August 4, 2007,which Kevin Harvick
won the inaugural race at Montreal.

The track sits on a man-made island in the St. Lawrence River.
It was named after the late Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve,
father of 1997 F1 world champ Jacques Villeneuve.

Have a great weekend

eddie

Hi there...sorry I haven't been around to much....hope everything is going well with you and the family...hot, humid and dry up here...take care...Bob

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Hello my friend

The Allstate 400 at The Brickyard, introduced as the Brickyard 400
in 1994, is an annual 400-mile NASCAR Sprint Cup points race held
at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Speedway, Indiana. The event,
when first held in 1994, marked the first race other than the
Indianapolis 500 to be held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
since 1916. Since the inaugural race, the Allstate 400 has become
NASCAR's most-attended event, drawing an estimated crowd of more
than 250,000 fans annually. It also has become NASCAR's second
highest paying race in dollars (behind the Daytona 500).

The term "Brickyard" is in reference to the Indianapolis Motor
Speedway's nickname. The course was paved in brick in 1909, and
they remain under the asphalt pavement to this day,with 3 feet
for the entire width of the track at the start/finish line.

Several NASCAR teams were invited to a one-day test session
at the speedway by track president Tony George in 1993, and
the inaugural Brickyard 400 was held one year later.In 1994.
Which Jeff Gordon won and Dale Earnhardt won in 1995

There are 14 races left in this 2008 Nationwide Series season,
but we could possibly know who the champion will be when the
checkered flag flies Saturday in the Kroger 200 at O'Reilly
Raceway Park.In seven of the past 11 the winner at ORP has
gone on to win the series title that same season.

While Indianapolis Motor Speedway is the most popular racetrack
in the Hoosier State, the vast majority of motorsports events
held in Indianapolis are held at O'Reilly Raceway Park,
including a NW Series race and a Craftsman Truck race.

Craftsman Trucks Only on the Speed Channel

eddie

Thank you for stopping by
this one is an updated version pass me around

Yes, Richard Childress is monumentally superstitious. He is, after all, a Southerner. And a racer. Which gives him twice the number of superstitious bones as the normal Southerner. Earnhardt was like that, too. He always walked out the same door he walked in. No exceptions. And neither Earnhardt or Childress would ever lay a hand on a fifty-dollar bill. Bad luck, you know. One race day I watched as they were getting up the weekly pool for the race — $200 a draw — and someone handed Childress a fifty-dollar bill. You would have thought it was a rattlesnake. He jumped back, threw it down then ran away from it, trying to escape its deathly bite.
this below is from kyle bush
How did you know about the 50-dollar superstition? "Is it bad luck? Somebody told me that it wasn't bad luck, that it was the two-dollar bill. I thought the 50 was too, I guess they both are. I learned something from being a Vegas boy. He did give me 50 bucks technically because when we were here testing he took a 100-dollar bill out of his pocket, cut it in half and signed the half to me and then he kept the other half. He told me I get the other half when I win the 600. Today when he was out on pit road, he took a 50 out of his pocket and then he was signing it and I told him I didn't want that. He tried to give it to one of the crew guys and I put it back in his pocket. Now I want to know where it's at -- he left early. Humpy (Wheeler), I want my 50 bucks. First I'm going to go to the bank and make a 20, a 20 and a 10 out of it. Then it's fair. It was a real 50 and his 100 is a real 100. I need to tape that back up and see if I can cash that -- if I win the 600."

eddie

Hello my friend

The 2008 LifeLock.com 400 will be the nineteenth race of the
2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season,and the final race under the TNT
coverage for the year. It will be held on July 12 of this year
at Chicagoland Speedway as the race moves to a night time event
for the first time in the event's history.In 2007 it was announced
that the 2008 race would become a night race after being held as
a day time race for the past 7 years.

Jimmie Johnson was the first NASCAR driver to visit Victory
Lane at Chicagoland after winning a Busch Series race on
July 14, 2001. A day later, Kevin Harvick won the speedway's
first Cup event.

Introduced in 2001 to the NASCAR circuit as the Tropicana 400,
the LifeLock.com 400 is a relatively new race. It has seen five
different winners in its first six years, with Kevin Harvick
and Tony Stewart being the only repeat winners.

On September 25, 2007 speedway officials announced the installation
of lights for the 2008 season. With this new addition to the 1.5-mile
D-shaped oval,Chicagoland Speedway will become only the tenth Sprint
Cup facility able to hold night racing.

Have a great weekend

eddie

Hello my friend

The Coke Zero 400 powered by Coca-Cola at Daytona is a 160 lap,
400 miles NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on the
first Saturday night of July, usually around Independence Day
weekend, at Daytona International Speedway.

The 2008 Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola will be the eighteenth
race of the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup season, marking the official
halfway point of the season. This race will be held on July 5th
of that year at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach.

This 4th of July the Nationwide series sets off fireworks under
the lights in beautiful Daytona Beach Florida, for the final
time this season to run the Winn-Dixie 250. Previous race
winners are Kyle Busch (2007) Dale Earnhardt Jr. (2006),
& Martin Truex Jr.(2005).Good Luck everyone.

Dale Earnhardt Jr will be among the Sprint Cup drivers
pulling double duty on Independence Day "night race".
Other NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers that expect to
pull double duty in Friday’s Winn-Dixie 250 Powered By
Coca-Cola NASCAR Nationwide Series race Kyle Busch and
Denny Hamlin,Nationwide Series points leader Clint Bowyer,
David Ragan, Carl Edwards, Kevin Harvick, Kasey Kahne,
Brian Vickers and David Reutimann.
I hope you have a great weekend
eddie