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manny
4/22/2007 3:22:03 PM

nice im glad gordon won ...
i had a feeling it was this week or last week.
i said this before and im going to say it again
its a HENDRICK year lol
man im so glad to be a gordon fan
win or lose
wiz kidd
4/22/2007 5:00:48 PM
i think this is gordons year...look @ the top 5's and 10's and now a win...i think he's only had one race where he's been out of the top 10 and he was 12th...awesome year going so far...hopefully it keeps going this way...he was in the top 5 all night last night..so i was glad when he won! on the edge of my seat for the last 30 laps :)  great finish :)  GO GORDON GO!!        
04 Intimidator
4/22/2007 7:59:35 PM
This soooo burned me!!!  I thought the race was today (Sunday) and was thinking next week was the Saturday race!  I've been waiting for Gordon to win all year and when I turn my back, BAM!
 
Oh well, glad he won and glad Jr. is starting his crawl back into the top 10.
SpaceRider
4/26/2007 6:07:55 PM
Updated:2007-04-25 17:24:53
Car of Tomorrow Is Failing to Win Fans
Much-Hyped Project Is Prving Unpopular With Drivers
By MIKE HARRIS
AP Sports
 
NASCAR's grand experiment, the Car of Tomorrow, took the next step last Saturday night in Phoenix, and it was not a big hit with many of the Nextel Cup

Other than an exciting late-race duel between eventual winner Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart, the 312-lap Nextel Cup race on the 1-mile oval at Phoenix International Raceway appeared to most to be a plodding affair.

The COT is the culmination of a seven-year project by NASCAR's research and development division, an effort to make a safer car and one that also provides better competition - passing and side-by-side duels.

The Phoenix race was the first COT event on a track longer than a half-mile and what the drivers considered the first real test of the aerodynamic features of the new car.

If this is what they have to look forward to as the COT continues to be worked into the schedule, nobody is going to be very happy.

"I could see the leaders almost the whole race, and it was like we all were just out there running the exact same lap times," said Dale Earnhardt Jr. "It was a parade. I was bored.

"No one could pass anybody else - we were all equal it seemed."

Greg Biffle, who finished two spots ahead of Earnhardt in 17th, wasn't too thrilled with the new car, either.

"I only saw what was around me, but it didn't look like a good race, really, to me," Biffle said. "I didn't see a lot of side-by-side, I didn't see the big everybody equal. I saw everybody sliding all over the place.

"And NASCAR's claim to fame is they want them hard to drive. Well, it's not that they're hard to drive, it's just that they're not like driving a race car. They're like giving us Pinewood derby cars and saying, 'OK, everybody, this is what you're going to race."'

Biffle said he thought the biggest problem was that the new COTs weren't racy.

"You couldn't race anybody - and that's what we want to do," he said. "It's our passion, it's in our blood - we want to race them."

Strangely, one of the drivers who complained the most was Denny Hamlin, who overcame a speeding penalty on pit road that set him back to 31st and ended up finishing third. To do that, he had to pass more than half the cars in the 43-car field at least once.

"To be as nice as I can ... it's frustrating," Hamlin said. "People will say, `But you went from the back to the front.' But, yeah, it took us 300 laps to do it when it shouldn't have.

"Our car was just that much better than everyone else's. ... I don't know how we're going to run these cars on bigger tracks without changes."

Robin Pemberton, NASCAR's vice president of competition and a longtime crew chief, said it isn't surprising that drivers are complaining, because the COT is very different from the cars that have been raced in the top stock car series and been in development since 1981.

"We are satisfied with the progress that's been made by the teams," Pemberton told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "The races were good, with fewer DNFs (did not finish) than we've seen historically, and the finishes were close.

"And, from my viewpoint, there was more racing going on around the whole racetrack. I'm really pleased about what I see behind third place, the intensity."

Pemberton noted that drivers such as the 26-year-old Hamlin haven't been through major changes before, which makes it more difficult for them to adjust.

"We have a lot o
SpaceRider
4/26/2007 6:26:36 PM
 

Stewart's Opinions Air in Wrong Place, Wrong Time
Posted Apr 26th 2007 12:33PM by Geoffrey Miller


By now, I hope you've heard all about Tony Stewart's all-out lashing of NASCAR's debris cautions, going so far as to compare NASCAR to professional wrestling. While it's hard to disagree with this point of "phantom cautions"-- we've seen time and time again cautions that at the least were very questionable -- I just wonder if this is what one of NASCAR's top stars should be doing during his off time.

Maybe Tony needs to be following that line of "don't bite the hand that feeds you".

I totally get Tony's frustration with NASCAR, but why does he have to make it so public? In reality, his stunt to avoid the media at Phoenix was nothing more than for sheer publicity. You've got to remember that he is getting a paycheck for the radio show he does on SIRIUS -- where he lambasted NASCAR from -- and that ratings are going to skyrocket after revelations like this.

Tony is not just another racing columnist writing about how the sport should do this or that. He is an icon with NASCAR which makes his credibility in discussing the sport that much more astounding. And with that credibility comes a load of responsibility not to tarnish the reputation of a sanctioning body that has worked so hard to achieve some credibility in the mainstream sports scene.



Earnhardt Jr. Gets .51% Ownership
Posted Apr 26th 2007 11:55AM by tallglassofmilk
Filed under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., Lowes, NASCAR Videos, Talledega
In exchange for certain services, Lowe's Motor Speedway President and General Manager Humpy Wheeler is prepared to offer Dale Earnhardt Jr. .51% ownership in the speedway.

Junior discusses the offer and the running of the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway on the anniversary of his father's birthday in this video from a press conference at LMS:






Posted Apr 25th 2007 5:17PM by tallglassofmilk

You weren't expecting him to stay quiet for long, were you?
Just because Tony Stewart didn't go to the media center after Saturday's race, doesn't mean he didn't have anything to say.
This week he saved his commentary for his own radio show so that the media wouldn't twist his words.
"... with my reputation in the sport and with my outbursts and everything we've become smart enough to know if it's something where I'm going to make as ass out of myself, we're better off to actually just leave than sit there and create even bigger issues than what we did by not going this week."
Ag
04 Intimidator
4/26/2007 10:05:32 PM
I think Tony's right on the money with the debris cautions.  If they were in the normal driving lanes fine, but some really aren't and were just their for a caution to call.
 
As far as the COT, I think it sucks too.  NASCAR started as souped up stock cars, bumped to not so stock but resembled, moved to more of a "you can sorta tell what the cars make is" to a Honda Civic.
 
I'm not sure that was such a good idea.
wiz kidd
4/26/2007 10:11:49 PM
i think the whole debris thing though...even if its out in lanes that aren't used, sometimes the car's go up there...maybe they're pushed up there or they lose control..and if tony was to go up there and hit that debris and it dameged his car and his chances @ winning he would have been singing a different tune, he would have been saying it was very unresponsible for them not to call the caution...

i do get where he's coming from though with waving the cautions and its unfair, but i think he would have been caught either way...he just wasn't the faster car...guess we'll never know though
SpaceRider
4/27/2007 6:51:28 AM
Members, how's your predictions going for 07 ?
 







Driver Rankings
RANK
DRIVER       Updated: Apr18. 2007

1.  
Jeff Gordon
The points’ leader has always been great on the short, flat courses and nearly won at the sister track of Martinsville Speedway earlier this month.

2.   Jeff Burton
Burton owns two career Phoenix victories and, since 1998, he has only missed the top 10 there on three occasions.
3.   Jimmie Johnson
Johnson already owns a Car of Tomorrow win on a short, flat track, now he will look to add to that total on a track where he was second in November.
4.   Mark Martin
Martin has not missed the top 10 in any of his starts in 2007. He led several laps in both Phoenix races last year and has never finished outside the top 20 there.
5.   Kevin Harvick
There were none better on the short, flat tracks in 2006 than Harvick. He was particularly good at Phoenix and swept both events.
6.   Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Phoenix is a rhythm track and Earnhardt has not been able to find the magic there since he had two wins and four consecutive top-fives from 2002 to 2005.
7.   Tony Stewart “Smoke” has been hit or miss at Phoenix, though he did win there in his rookie year of 2000 and was second there in last year’s Subway Fresh 500.
8.   Denny Hamlin
Joe Gibbs Racing has their COT program down pat, and Hamlin had a top-10 at Martinsville already this season and was third at Phoenix in November.
9.   Kyle Busch
He had bad luck in Phoenix last year, though Busch managed to get his second career win there in the fall of his rookie year of 2005.
10.   Carl Edwards
Edwards has four straight top-10s at Phoenix and the last two were top-fives.
11.   Matt Kenseth
Kenseth was not as good in the first two COT races as one would have expected, but he cannot be counted out on any track.
12.   Jamie McMurray
McMurray has finally found his groove with his new team, racking up three consecutive top-10s, including a strong run at Martinsville.
13.  
Greg Biffle
Biffle led the most laps in Phoenix last spring before a pit road accident took him out of contention.
14.   Clint Bowyer
Bowyer was not so great on the other short, flat tracks last year, but he did manage a fifth in the 2006 Subway Fresh 500.
15.  
Kurt Busch
Busch failed to notch a top-10 in the first two COT races and has just one top-10 this season.
16.   Kasey Kahne
Evernham Motorsports fielded strong cars in the first COT races, even if the finishes weren’t there. Kahne swept the top 10 in Phoenix last year.
17.   Juan Montoya
Montoya has the experience of a 16th-place run at Martinsville to help him adjust to Phoenix. Keep an eye on him during practice.
18.   Brian Vickers
When Vickers makes the race and his equipment holds, he notches Toyota’s best finishes. For his Phoenix career, he has only once finished outside the top 20.
19.   David Stremme
Stremme finally cracked the top 10 last week at Texas Motor Speedway. Now he goes back to where he started his seven-race top 20 streak last year.
20.   Martin Truex Jr.
Truex struggled mightily in the COT at Bristol and Martinsville, though he rebounded for a top-10 at Texas. He also finished 12th at Phoenix in November.
21.   Ryan Newman
Newman has the talent to finish in the top 10 this weekend, but his cars have not been up to snuff in quite a while.
22.  
SpaceRider
4/27/2007 6:59:31 AM
 Tony Says:
I'm gona retire & become a Wrestler
 Click pic 2 Make me BIG

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I should be Number #1, I'm the best driver on the track...
I'm Rich/Powerful/Great : )
SpaceRider
4/29/2007 6:59:20 PM
Congratulations to Jeff Gordon & Chevrolet  Monte Carlo.
I hoped, it would have been Denny Hamlin : )
Jeff Gordon is a super talented driver, & has a super team/car/owner.
Plus,
 he has more of this, then any other driver, and that is
RAC'IN-LUCK
The Race Gods have blessed him.
`amen
 
_____________________________________________________________________-
 
 
 
TALLADEGA, Ala. -- As beer cans bounced around his car, Jeff Gordon crossed the finish line Sunday for win No. 77 -- breaking a tie with the late Dale Earnhardt on NASCAR's career victory list.
It was only fitting that it happened at Talladega Superspeedway, where Earnhardt -- who would have been 56 on Sunday -- won 10 times in his Cup career.
But it was anticlimactic and confusing, ending under caution to leave Gordon unsure if he'd actually won and taken over sixth place on the wins list.
"Is it over?" he radioed his crew. "Is it over? Is it official?"
Nobody knew after two separate accidents on the first lap of a three-lap shootout to the finish froze the field and had NASCAR scrambling to make sense of the finish.
Gordon, who was 14th on a restart with 10 laps to go, stormed to the lead a second before NASCAR called a caution after David Reutimann's engine failed and dumped oil all over the track.
It set up a three-lap sprint to the finish, but NASCAR makes only one attempt to complete it. If caution comes out, the race instantly ends. So when Elliott Sadler bumped the back of Greg Biffle to trigger a wreck, the race was effectively over.
But Tony Stewart was knocked into the wall far ahead of that accident and went spinning down the track into the inside wall. He was fuming as the field passed by him under caution, angrily gesturing at Jamie McMurray.
The fans, meanwhile, figured out that Gordon, who tied Earnhardt last week in Phoenix, was the victor and reacted with the shower of beer cans.

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manny
4/29/2007 8:57:09 PM

another win lol
without luck hes just good lol

and look at the fans giving him free drinks now that was kool

i just want to say this one more time .....HENDRICK YEAR.....
wiz kidd
4/29/2007 9:23:52 PM
WAHHOOOOOO!! ANOTHER WIN FOR JEFF :)

my predictions could be pretty good this year :)  lol
SolaraSlayer
4/30/2007 12:52:30 PM
To bad I missed the checkered flag!  YAWN!!!  I fell asleep with 11 laps left.  I had 2 Rock Stars and 1 Red Bull and I still couldn't stay awake for a whole restrictor plate race.  Maybe its just me.
Laserblue06ss
4/30/2007 1:59:49 PM
I took Space's advice from a previous post and set up a portable TV in my garage and waxed the SS while watching the race.I didn't mind the commercials and cautions nearly as much.


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SpaceRider
4/30/2007 2:27:43 PM
quote:

ORIGINAL: Laserblue06ss

I took Space's advice from a previous post and set up a portable TV in my garage and waxed the SS while watching the race.I didn't mind the commercials and cautions nearly as much.

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Hi David, be very careful about tak'in advice from `Space
That's 4 $ure, he doesn't even listen to himself
Oh David, your Monte looks awesome....You Win : )
SpaceRider
5/5/2007 8:58:14 AM
Members
Pick Top Three (3) in Richmond for tonights Race
_______________________________
Space Predicts
1. Denny Hamlin
2. Kasey Kahne
3. Carl Edwards : )
- Your Turn -
 
* Posted B-4 Race Start : )
wiz kidd
5/5/2007 9:29:56 AM
wiz predicts

1.Jeff Gordon
2. Jimmy Johnson
3. Kyle Busch


43. Dale Jr :) haha jk
SpaceRider
5/6/2007 8:23:15 AM
Rain forces Richmond Cup race to move to Sunday 5-6-07
Post your predictions B-4 the start of the RACE : )
wiz kidd
5/6/2007 9:47:05 AM
now that its a day race all the car's are going to be setup wrong...however i still stick with my predictions of

1. Jeff Gordon
2. Jimmy Johnson
3. Kyle Busch

2nd and 3rd may be reversed
SpaceRider
5/6/2007 4:50:48 PM
quote:

ORIGINAL: wiz kidd

now that its a day race all the car's are going to be setup wrong...however i still stick with my predictions of

1. Jeff Gordon
2. Jimmy Johnson
3. Kyle Busch

2nd and 3rd may be reversed

Mod Wiz, of all the Members that posted, you WIN : )
but, my kid `Denny Hamlin took 3rd : )
Good Pick's Mod Wiz : )
Jeff G leading in Points. J.J. 2nd : )
wiz kidd
5/6/2007 4:56:29 PM
yah i was close..just got them reversed..lol...and one off...good race though...i missed the finish on the drive home from my cottage..but caught all the replays..
too bad gordon couldn't win his 3rd in a row..that would have been nice..but another top 5 is great! :)
04 Intimidator
5/6/2007 11:57:07 PM
Hehehe, just noticed 2 things today at Nascar.com standings.
 
1.  Kyle Petty is now beating Kasey Kane in the standings.  That is too funny!!!
 
2.  Mark Martin is in 14th place and didn't race 3 of the 10.  If he would have gotten just 100 points in each of the other races (finished above 21st place), he would solidly own 6th place.  If he placed in 10th position each time, he would be solidly in 3rd.  He currently averages around 6.5th place and if he stayed consistant he would be in 2nd.  To bad he didn't race those other 3 :(
SpaceRider
5/7/2007 11:41:32 AM

Johnson, Henrick Motor Sports continue to dominate COT, in 2007
Reigning champ wins first at Richmond, fourth of year
Do you think they will rename NASCAR to
Henricks Motor Racing ?


Look for updates every week
 
Whose going to be the Winners ?
 
I wish Mark Martin was racing full time : )
SolaraSlayer
5/7/2007 1:01:12 PM
Darn, missed the races.
 
Just want to know one thing.
 
Were there any yellow flags in the last 10 laps or any invisible debris?
c6g2
5/7/2007 11:10:01 PM
I'm getting a little bored with the Hendrick wins week after week. It's getting to the point where I'm losing interest in watching the races. As a avid Stewart fan I figure I can count on him leading the most laps in any given race, then having some stupid unheard of part failure (fuel pump drive cable) or get caught up in someone else's bulls*%t. I figure I can just check Nascar.com on Sunday evening to see which HMS driver, except for Casey Mears of course, won the race. Hell at this point I'd even settle for a Rousch driver winning & I never, ever thought I would wish for that! I guess I have to begrudgingly admit the HMS guys got their stuff together. Hopefully the Gibbs team & others will soon follow suit.
In the end I'm sure I will continue to faithfully watch the races.
Cheers,
Glenn
 
 
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