Buck's Shorts

Watching the video podcast earlier this week---just one suggestion, Buck. Put on some pants.

please.

love the show.

• 2 Comments
• Buck, Pants, Shorts, What were you thinking

Going to Bristol

I have to say I'm really pumped about his weekend. For the first time in my life I will be going to the fastest half mile out there--Bristol. Granted, I'm only going for the Nationwide race on Saturday, but being that I get to take my un-Nascar-ized wife with me and we're sitting in the Kulwicki Terrace section, I'm (shall we say) stoked.

If you don't know about STUBHUB.com, you may want to check it out. I got these mazing 67.00 tickets for about 15 a piece. I have heard about Bristol ever since I was a kid, and can't believe that I'm finally going. If anyone has any suggestions for my trip, please let me know!!

• 5 Comments
• Bristol, Nationwide, Sharpie Mini 300.

WRONG WINNER on NASCAR Webpage!! (Unbelievable)

If you go to NASCAR'S Official webpage (Nascar.com) and go to the video, race rewind section, you will notice that Nascar has put the wrong winner for the Daytona 500, 2007. This is totally unbelievable. It says, "Mark Martin Wins in a Wild Finish." That was one of the most exciting moments I've ever seen on Sports TV, and Martin did not win. Harvick won!

I just emailed them and hopefully tthey'll be fixing it

Okay, everyone who reads this post needs to email customer.support@nascar.cust-serv.com and tell them about this.

It's embarrassing that our own official website can't get the winner of our super-bowl right... how did that ever make it on the webpage??

• 3 Comments
• Mark Martin, Kevin Harvick, NASCAR.COM

Lowe's.....

Lowe's Motor Speedway will remain open in Concord, N.C., the Charlotte Observer reported on Wednesday.

No details were immediately released. The speedway spokesman said more information would be released Monday.

Speedway Motorsports chairman Bruton Smith had said he would decide before Thanksgiving whether an incentives deal in the range of $70 million would convince him to spend $100 million to $200 million to renovate the 47-year-old speedway and build a $60 million drag strip at the racing facility.

Concord City Council members initially blocked Smith from building his planned drag strip near the speedway, saying they were worried noise from the hot rods could carry into nearby neighborhoods. Smith then threatened to move Lowe's Motor Speedway, one of the county's biggest taxpayers,

Cabarrus leaders have offered Smith incentives, which were outlined in an e-mail County Manager John Day sent to commissioners, county officials have said.

(COURTESY NASCAR.COM)

_____

Good call. :) - marshall

• 2 Comments
• Lowe's

All these foreign dudes

A funny thought occurred to me as I was watching Phoenix on Saturday (Busch race): Isn't it funny how all these foreign, snotty-nose open wheelers come into the league with their nose stuck up in the air? Now, granted I don't know all the politics ' and have nothing against these guys, but this thought just struck me as terribly ironic. I mean, all these Europeans with their fancy accents come to their garage in North Carolina and expect to run all over these rednecks, but end up getting their backsides handed to them on a platter.

Maybe it is even funnier to hear Rusty Wallace try to pronounce their names
.
But if nothing else comes of this invasion, NASCAR should at least be smiling big. These boys want a piece of the pie, and in doing so, they realize they aren't all they're cracked up to be. How's that for a little old-fashioned southern humble pie?

(clarification: Juan Pablo hasn't done that bad for a rookie, but he hasn't 'cleaned up' like a lot of people thought he would do either. So, even in his case, I stand by my assessment)

• 19 Comments
• Villeneuve

Jimmie

Congrats to Jimmie. Well done. I guess that vacation in Mexico really helped him out.

I tell ya, I am simply amazed at how that guy can flat out race. As much as I was hoping to see Jeff with a cup championship (after all these years), a guy like Jimmy really deserves the trophy.

Great job. Keep up the good work.

• 0 Comments
• Jimmie Johnson, Cup, Champion

Phoenix

Have to shout out to the guys on the Podcast making just a terrible literary analogy with the whole "will Jeff rise like a Phoenix from the ashes at ... Phoenix." I think I actually laughed out loud while chugging my morning coffee.

Oh, and speaking of one-car-wreck-wonders, I'm predicting that Phoenix is going to have its fair share, especially from the guys who are, shall we say, strugglin.

• 4 Comments

All this talk about moving Lowe's...

Moving Lowes is about the dumbest thing I've ever heard. In Charlotte (where I live) we've had our share of business men who threaten the community with pulling out (think George Shinn and the Charlotte Hornets back in the day). Whenever someone starts talking like Shinn, everyone gets nervous. Charlotte isn't too keen on being handled like this, especially with our Nascar History. Charlotte won the Nascar Museum location "competition" hands down! Nobody has that kind of history and tradition like Charlotte---and to think of just moving the track!?

So, anyway, just a random thought--please don't move Lowe's. It was hard enough remembering to call it Lowe's instead of Charlotte; now are we going to make it "Fort Mill Motor Speedway" or "Chester" or "Rock Hill"?? Maybe something south of the border?

Puhlease.

• 1 Comment
• Charlotte, Lowe's Motor Speedway

Getting Hooked on NR2003

Ever since I got NR2003 for my little 12" Power Mac and went on Ebay to purchase the cheapest USB steering wheel I could find, I've been suffering from the whole armchair-driver disease/problem/whatever-you-call-it. In case you don't know, NR2003 (short for Nascar Racing 2003 by Papyrus) is the best race car emulation game in the world. Ever. Period. It has some (to borrow from John Wayne) true grit. And since I've become pretty adept at playing this game, I usually feel like I know what problems the drivers are going to face on the track when they get there on Sunday... see, I've been testing all week already!

But the honest truth is that I'm not nearly as good as these other guys (I know, you're shocked, aghast!) and probably couldn't take a car around Atlanta at 190 mph... but inwardly, I think I can.

So, I become an arm-chair driver. GET INTO THAT TURN, CARL! I scream at the TV while watching Martinsville. And I forget that my race was 27 laps, while theirs is 500.

So every week before the race is run, I have to sit at my computer, put on my headphones, crank up NR2003 with the COT MOD (fun stuff), jump in the 99 car and take her for a few spins around the track of the week... and then I feel like I'm ready to watch the race.

• 4 Comments
• NR2003, Computer games, Video games, computer, simulation

Great time to be a sports fan

WOW! With four races left in the chase, the World Series getting ready to kick into high gear, and everybody in College Football losing, this is a great time to be a sports fan! I can't remember a better time to be checking the rss feeds every five minutes to see who else admitted to steroids use! Just hope we don't get that from NASCAR...

Speaking of which, what will happen if someone comes out as a steroids user? Anybody seen Mark Martin recently? That man's putting on some serious muscle.

At least Marion Jones isn't driving stock cars...

• 4 Comments
• steroids, world series, football, College