Hello my friend Well the 2008 Sprint Cup season is done and its time for the holidays.I have not been feeling to good. But i just wanted to come by and say hello. I am thankful for what i do have and my friends and I want to say thank you to all of my friends. I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving. eddie
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
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.
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
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. ______________________________________________________ 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. ________________________________________________________ #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. ________________________________________________________ #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. _________________________________________________________ #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. _________________________________________________________ #5 Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold. _________________________________________________________ #6 About 23,200 orders of French fries are sold.
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.
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
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Well the 2008 Sprint Cup season is done and its
time for the holidays.I have not been feeling to
good. But i just wanted to come by and say hello.
I am thankful for what i do have and my friends and
I want to say thank you to all of my friends.
I hope you and your family have a Happy Thanksgiving.
eddie
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
______________________________________________________
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.
________________________________________________________
#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.
________________________________________________________
#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.
_________________________________________________________
#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.
_________________________________________________________
#5 Nearly 250 yards of bratwurst are sold.
_________________________________________________________
#6 About 23,200 orders of French fries are sold.
Have a great weekend!!!
eddie
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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
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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