Archive for February, 2009
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Looking over the stats for Las Vegas Motor Speedway a name kept jumping out at me. Matt Kenseth. With 9 starts Kenseth has 2 wins, 4 top 5’s, 5 top 10’s, an average finishing position of 9.00 and no DNF’s.
Matt Kenseth won the 2003 and 2004 races at Las [...]
2 Races Into 2009 - Is It What You Expected
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(52 posts)
I was fooling around the other day looking at the Cup standings for the season so far this year and started wondering if things are starting out the way people expected or not.
For me, I am not surprised to see Matt Kenseth sitting in first place in the points [...]
2009: Ryan Newman And The Las Vegas Motor Speedway
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Ryan Newman and #39 Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS are in Las Vegas this weekend for the Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Newman has not had the great start to the 2009 season that he [...]
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By Popular Demand: The Secret Recipe For The Godfather’s APPLE PIE MOONSHINE!
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1 gallon apple juice
1/2 gallon apple cider
1 1/3 cup sugar
6 cinnamon sticks
Combine, bring to a boil, allow to cool
Add 1/2 liter of Everclear or other clear corn whiskey. (More to suit your taste)
Strain through cheesecloth or paper towels into mason jars or other container.
Enjoy in moderation!!!
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Saving Money, But At What Cost?
Submitted by The Motorsports Soapbox
It may be time to revisit NASCAR’s new Camping World Truck Series pit stop policy.
The procedure was implemented in an attempt to save teams money by reducing the number of over-the-wall crewmembers from seven to five, and prohibiting refueling and tire changes during a single pit stop. Unfortunately, the rule appears [...]
Texas Motor Speedway Media Day Will Feature Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart
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this info is from nascar.com
FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Motor Speedway will launch its redesigned Website — www.texasmotorspeedway.com, featuring several social networking enhancements — on Wednesday by offering a free live webcast of the speedway’s annual Media Day.
TMS Media Day will feature NASCAR drivers Tony Stewart, Ryan Newman and [...]
Auto Club Speedway - A Tad Disappointing
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zwriter
(11 posts)
Nationwide Green Flag
Well, we went to the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and Nationwide races at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Am I glad that we went – definitely yes; however, I was disappointed just a bit.But before I get to that, the Camping World Infield area, designated [...]
Ryan Newman’s Fontana Race Report From Stewart-Haas Racing
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Newman Endures Tough Outing In Fontana; Haas Automation Driver Fights Ill-Handling Racecar to 28th-Place Finish
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), battled a loose-handling racecar and numerous other issues en route to a 28th-place finish in Sunday’s Auto Club 500 [...]
Ryan Newman Finishes 28th In Auto Club 500 At The Auto Club Speedway.
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Ryan Newman started tonights race in 28th position after having a little bobble in qualifying.
He finished in 28th position as well. After 2 races into the 2009 season Newman is now 33rd in the points standings.
That was only the start of it though. When the first caution of the [...]
2009, 2 Races, 2wins - Matt Kenseth On A Roll
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I have been reading now for a week how California (Auto Club Speedway) will be the great judge in character for how teams will do in the rest of the 2009. So I got real curious about how drivers and teams did last year compared to where they finished [...]
Pre-Season Promo
Submitted by NASCAR Eclectic
Local promoter and owner of Albany/Saratoga Speedway Bruce Richards has developed some super ideas to help fans, drivers, owners and sponsors. He set up this show at a local mall this weekend at no charge to the owners, he has dropped some of the entry fees for ‘09 and has several ideas [...]
Underway Once Again…
Submitted by DaleJarrett4Ever
Hello to all my friends out there. Perhaps most of you don’t know it but I work for a Navy government contractor and occasionally we are tasked with riding submarines for various testing and operations. I will be going out on the USS Virginia SSN-774, the Navy’s newest submarine and the first in [...]
Ryan Newman Starting 28th For Auto Club 500 At Auto Club Speedway
Submitted by Ryan Newman News and Information
Been a little under the weather so I haven’t really posted anything.
But Ryan Newman will be starting 28th for today’s race in California. One reason Newman is starting so far back was his “luck of the draw” for qualifying. He was one of the first to qualify before the [...]
How Important Is California To The 2009 Chase?
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I have been reading now for a week how California (Auto Club Speedway) will be the great judge in character for how teams will do in the rest of the 2009. So I got real curious about how drivers and teams did last year compared to where they finished [...]
#47 McDowell - Raybestos Rookie of the Race
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zwriter
(10 posts)
Last week, I picked Michael McDowell as my pick of the driver to watch for the season opener. Driver McDowell did not disappoint. Driving the #47 Tom’s Snacks Toyota, his fourteenth place finish earned him the “Raybestos Rookie of the Race” award.
I was a bit disappointed with the television coverage [...]
Ryan Newman’s Auto Club Speedway Preview
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Ryan Newman and the #39 Haas Automation team are coming off a disappointing and trying week at Daytona. This week they are racing at the Auto Club Speedway for the Auto Club 500. Newman will be racing with this weekend with the Haas Automation sponsorship.
Ryan Newman At Auto Club [...]
NASCAR Made The Right Call About Rain
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I have to say that there are a of things coming out of the Daytona 500 that are amazing me.
Most of this is driven by the press so it is kind of understandable. No matter what they need a headline to write about whether it is how NASCAR should [...]
Petty Enterprises Gets A Ringer with AJ Allmendinger
Submitted by DaleJarrett4Ever
I do recall talking about AJ in my blog during last season as for one of those drivers to watch out for and low and behold, he jumps in the #44 and finishes 3rd in the grand event of Nascar in the Daytona 500.
When AJ was driving for Red Bull Racing, his career [...]
The 2009 NASCAR Camping World Series West Season Is Rapidly Approaching.
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(9 posts)
NASCAR Race Mom (NRM) is a blog dedicated to the 2008 NASCAR Camping World Series West Most Popular Driver, Moses Smith and the NASCAR Camping World Series West (NCWSW). You probably put it together from the blog’s title (NASCAR Race Mom); I am Moses’ proud mother. With that fact in [...]
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Kyle Petty Upset With RPM’s “Chicken Crap Diplomacy”
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Kyle Petty said yesterday that he is unhappy that Richard Petty Motorsports failed to inform him before running a retro-paint scheme commemorating his first career victory on AJ Allmendinger’s Valvoline Dodge in the Daytona 500.
Petty told reporters last week that he was “crushed” by the move, adding, “I was hurt and [...]
BOOB ALERT: Sportswriter Says NASCAR Drivers Are No Better Than Cooks At The Waffle House
Submitted by The Motorsports Soapbox
If ignorance is indeed bliss, Orlando Sentinel sportswriter David Whitley is surely the happiest man in America.
In today’s Sentinel, Whitley has penned a commentary entitled, “NASCAR Drivers Don’t Qualify As Being Athletes.” In it, he equates NASCAR racers to short-order cooks at your local Waffle House, whose primary skill is being [...]
Dale Jr. gets the Daytona 500 Spotlight
Submitted by DaleJarrett4Ever
There is no doubt that the talk of the race is all about Dale Jr. From the missing the pit box, to an inch over the pit box line, slicing and dicing his way through the field due to impending rain, to the unfortunate accidents that occured.
I am sure that all the Jr. [...]
Timing
Submitted by NASCAR Eclectic
Unfortunately.
The only cool thing about Matt Kenseth winning the Daytona 500 is he started 43rd. That made it somewhat worthwhile. He had an amazing march to the front making it up into the top ten somewhere around lap 35 and Tony Stewart wasn’t far behind him landing himself a respectable 8th place [...]
