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Dale Earnhardt won his first race in 1979 driving for Rod Osterlund. The win was at Bristol. Earnhardt went on to win at the half-mile track nine times.
from David
Who do you think was hollering louder..... You or me..... What a race....
I'm so proud of that kid.... A chip off of the ole' block..... From last
to first..... And of course, you know his competitors are talking.... Jr's
the man to beat when you unload at Tallegeda or Daytona.... It was also
nice to see Teresa in Victory Lane and smiling..... He did everyone proud,
including his Dad, who you know had to be looking on from the heavens up
above.... The local paper had an article this morning comparing Jr. to
his dad at Daytona.... As I read it to my wife, I ended
up getting all choked up..... And I thought I was over it.... Just
goes to show, Dale Earnhardt's legacy lives on.... He is on my mind at
all times when NASCAR goes to Daytona or Talledega.....
Enjoy your vacation.... I know you'll have plenty of racing to watch
this week.... In fact, I'm sort of jealous...
Best Wishes,
David Robertson
Well, I did tell my friend that I heard ya hollerin clear up here in Colorado...but figured that you heard me too! If my friend hadn't been here during that race, I would have bawled like a baby when Jr. won...lol
from MamaBigPat
Thanks for all the info on the Bud Shootout. And YES I plan on
having a ball. I printed out some daily papers with your info, HOPE
YOU DON'T MIND, for the crowd going up and WE ARE IN GEAR!!
MamaBigPat
Any time, that’s what I’m here for! You can print whatever you want...be sure to pass this to your friends....they may want to get it too!
from lugs
Willy T Ribbs was another black driver but he only ran the Crafsman
truck races for one or 2 seasons.
...lugs
Wendell Scott was the only African-American driver to win a NASCAR Winston Cup Series Event. that is a Nascar fact, but i can find more info about him.
......Lugs
There is also another driver in the Craftsman Truck series right now. He drives for Bobby Hamilton.
from Jo
Something worked! After two years of getting the runaround from
Time Warner, my daughter got SPEED on cable installed this morning!!!
Yeah.
Jo, Lake Alfred, FL
Just in time for 77 hours of televised Speedweeks. Way to go!
From DE3FAN
This is a link to a 2002 article on African-Americans in NA$CAR.
http://www.aaim1.com/aaim1%20web2/Web%20pages/2002_winston_cup_schedule.htm
Momma,
Yes I will be glad to post, and host, any polls you would like.
Larry
So there you have it. Once again, DE3...you come to the rescue! Thanks Larry.
from Mike
How about the Square D-Cup? Pamela Anderson could be the Official Mascot.
Mike Cary
LMAO Mike….good one!
from Kate
I was like you so thrilled to see Jr. win! Disappointing to see qualifying
rained out tho. Just delays the tension. How about doing a stat list on
all the drivers in this season. I see a lot of new names. By stats I mean
name,age,car number, etc... Oh and how many rookies are there this year
and who do you think will be the rookie to watch?
I’ll see what I can do…it may take awhile, but will get most of it done!
from Dave and the dogs
ok hi we won the 1st one - Good job - thanks for
the sunday edition
dave and the dogs
from Judy
Momma, Received a newsletter today. Sunday. Still nothing
else. Glad Jr. won. Will be getting a large cardboard cutout of him
from my beer store. Have to wait til november. It is cool.
Hubby is going to be riled.
Judy
At this point Judy, I went in and fixed you on the site, but I’m thinking it has to be AOL on your end. Don’t know what to tell you!
INDY DOUBLE POSSIBLE FOR 2
The Indianapolis Star reports today that John Andretti has Petty Enterprises'
OK to try to run in the Indianapolis 500 as well as the Coca-Cola 600 Winston
Cup race this year and says Robby Gordon may try the same double. The paper
says Andretti has Petty Enterprises' permission for the first time since
1994, when he became the first to run both races on the same day. The story
says the race is significant to Andretti because his cousin Michael Andretti
will retire after the race. The story also says that Gordon, the Richard
Childress Racing Winston Cup driver who ran in both races last year, is
close to lining up a sponsorship deal that would enable him to run as well.
Former Winston Cup driver Chad Little is joining Fox Sports Net and the Speed Channel as a driver analyst on each network's Sunday NASCAR programs, "NASCAR This Morning" and "NASCAR Victory Lane." He will join host John Roberts and technical analyst Barry Dodson. Little, a Spokane, Wash., native who competed in more than 200 Winston Cup races between 1986 and 2000 and drove as recently as last year, says he is also continuing to look for sponsorship to return to driving.
The International Race of Champions series announced today that it is looking for a title sponsor to take over after the True Value hardware chain departs after this season. The four-race series that brings together drivers from various series to compete in identically prepared cars has been dominated by NASCAR competitors in recent years.
First out: Geoffrey Bodine, who drew the pole position for the Budweiser Shootout, was the first driver out of the race. Bodine was only able to compete three laps before suspension problems ended his day in the No. 11 Hooters Ford.
Film Honored: The remake of The Daytona 500 was honored as “Best Sports Documentary” at the Los Angeles Film and Video Festival on Friday. The new Daytona 500 movie began showing in DAYTONA USA last week.
By JIM UTTER
ThatsRacin.com Writer
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Joe Nemechek had a warning when Saturday's final Winston Cup practice was over: "Somebody better watch out for us, because we're coming."
Nemechek registered two second-place finishes in Hendrick Motorsports' No. 25 Chevrolet in the final four races last season and appears ready to build on that momentum.
He was fifth fastest in Saturday morning's practice and fastest in Saturday's final practice, followed closely by Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
"I think we're pretty good. You never know until it's time to go out (and qualify) and show everything you have," Nemechek said. "We just don't know how much everybody else is going to pick up.
"We should have a good shot at a top 10, hopefully a top five tomorrow. You know DEI is going to be strong."
Nemechek's No. 25 was among the first cars to clear inspection Friday, which the drive attributed to his team's preparation.
"The biggest thing is that they've got so many templates - trying to make all the templates fit - and all of ours fit when we went through," he said. "We didn't have to work on our car."
Ken Schrader was sixth Saturday night in the Bud Shootout.
Credit: Dave Rodman/Turner Sports Interactive
Strong Shootout gives Schrader
hope for future
By Dave Rodman, Turner Sports Interactive
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- If anyone thought otherwise, Ken Schrader proved Saturday night in the Budweiser Shootout at Daytona there's plenty of raciness left in the wily veteran.
Schrader, who little more than a month ago had serious questions about whether his NASCAR Winston Cup career would continue in 2003, was second -- by only .088 seconds -- to race winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. with only three laps to go in the 70-lap special event.
The decision to take only fuel on a pit stop with less than 20 laps remaining and what Schrader called a minor miscalculation in traffic cost him three spots at the finish.
"I'm just the oldest, not the worst," Schrader said, shaking his head. "I threw two spots away at the end and that really aggravates me.
"I left (Matt) Kenseth about an extra foot, but he deserved it. He had been knocking the hell out of me for the last 10 laps to get us up there but I left him an extra foot and he got up in there."
In the end, the fact that Schrader, 47, was disgusted with his sixth-place finish was proof enough that there's plenty of spark left in the Fenton, Mo., driver.
At Daytona, Schrader showed signs of becoming a Daytona legend when he won three consecutive Bud Poles for the Daytona 500 in 1988-90 and two straight editions of the Busch Clash, the forerunner to the Shootout. But Schrader hasn't won a Winston Cup race since 1991.
"Another day at the office," Schrader said after clambering out of his cockpit. "Last I remember I led most of this damn thing last year -- a fourth of the (Daytona) 500 and I qualified second the next week (at North Carolina Speedway).
"Then stuff started falling off and we had problems."
The fact is despite the resounding start Schrader had no top-10 finishes, nine DNFs and finished 30th in the standings. MB2 Motorsports decided to go in a different direction well before the end of the season and Schrader picked up the last full-time seat available for 2003, with Beth Ann Morgenthau's BAM Racing.
"We're just trying to make 1-800-CALL-ATT proud," Schrader said of his team's sponsor. "The Morgenthaus committed to run the full year, with or without (sponsorship) and we signed seven races (with ATT)."
NASCAR brought a new aerodynamic package to Speedweeks 2003 in the Shootout, the first race of the new season; the racing was two- and three-wide all night -- similar to all four restrictor plate races last season.
"I didn't see where it was a lot different," Schrader said. "I mean, I think the rules are good. It's just teams -- crew chiefs, chassis guys, pit stops -- that make the difference.
"When everybody was complaining about the Pontiacs, Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart won championships with them. I was driving a Pontiac and not doing very good with it, but I was smart enough to keep my mouth shut about the Pontiacs with those guys winning.
"It's teams (that excel), and what they've (NASCAR) done is just eliminate all that aero stuff so you don't have an excuse -- just go race."
"It's all about momentum," BAM team manager Eddie Jones had said the day before, talking about his team's strong testing performances, at Daytona and Las Vegas Motor Speedway in January.
Schrader was only too happy to oblige Saturday night.
"Whose fault was that, anyway," Schrader said of the no-tires decision on his pit stop. "I was sitting there running fourth and saying, 'it isn't going to be too good if we put on tires,' so we didn't. It was getting a little wobbly, but it was OK -- it was a short race."
Schrader couldn't count on anyone remembering that he had led 46 laps in the 2002 Daytona 500 before he finished 26th.
"I got up to second and I knew that Jeff (Gordon) was going to have an entourage follow him on the inside and knew that Kenseth wasn't going to be happy keeping pushing me. I just screwed up that last lap and I hate that."
By DAVID POOLE
The Charlotte Observer
NASCAR's new policy limiting access to fans during Winston Cup races and practices met with general approval after its first live test in Saturday night's Bud Shootout.
"It was a lot less crowded last night on pit road, I thought," said Mike Smith, the rear-tire changer on the Wood Brothers' No. 21 Ford. "It was nice."
Smith understands why race fans would want to be on pit road during races. "I know the people want to get close," he said. "I don't blame them a bit; the closer you get the more you're going to be into it."
Still, having fans standing around a few feet outside a race teams pit stall can sometimes be vexing.
"What would happen is that you'd stack the tires two high and people start standing on them," Smith said. "They step in the middle of them and knock lug nuts off but don't tell you that. Then you go to put the tire on and the lug nut falls off."
Smith also said he's noticed a difference during practices. Under the new policy in effect this year, fans with "cold" pit passes must leave the garage and pit road a half-hour before practices or qualifying sessions begin. Only those with "hot" passes are allowed during those sessions.
"In practice, the cars come in coasting and people step out to take pictures and get cleaned over by a car that's not running and they don't hear it," Smith said. "You need to really pay attention, you can get hurt bad.
"Practice has been real clean. The ones who are in there are the ones who've been around Winston Cup racing and they know how to stay out of the way."
By JENNA FRYER
The Associated Press
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Rusty Wallace peered under the hood of his new
Dodge
Intrepid, his brow crinkled with concern and his eyes glistening with frustration.
The first practice sessions for the Daytona 500 can be the most agonizing time for a team. When the cars hit the track Saturday, Wallace was slow and his crew had no idea why.
"It's humiliating when you run like we just did," Wallace said. "I'm as mad as can be about this because we do not know what the problem is."
Wallace, making the switch from Ford to Dodge this season, was 42nd out of 51 cars after the final practice session before Sunday's official qualifying session.
Only the top two qualifiers earn a spot in the field for the Feb. 16 season opener. In Daytona's unique qualifying format, the rest of the 43-car field will be filled by a combination of qualifying speeds, results of two 125-mile qualifying races run on Thursday and car owner provisionals.
So teams want their cars as fast as possible in the two rounds of time trials, otherwise they've got five days of hard work ahead to improve the car before the qualifying races.
Ryan
Newman, Wallace's teammate, also struggled Saturday with the 19th fastest
speed.
It was baffling to the Penske Racing South teams because they had strong testing sessions at Daytona last month and made no changes to the cars.
"We're as stumped as anyone," Newman said. "We changed nothing and we lost speed."
The Penske cars at least had some hope of learning a few things in Saturday night's Budweiser Shootout. Because both Newman and Wallace were entered in the race, they had a chance to see how their secondary cars ran in race trim and apply it to the primary cars if they have to race their way into the 500.
"The Shootout cars are so good, that's what makes this so confusing," Wallace said. "Neither of us are as good as we were in testing and we don't have much time to figure out why."
The Associated Press
The season hasn't even started yet and Jeff Gordon already is tired of the often-asked questions about his personal life.
Gordon
is in the middle of a divorce from his wife, Brooke, and spent much of
last season denying the split was a distraction in his racing career.
The offseason did little to silence the skeptics.
"I still have a hard time believing that breaking a rear-end spring at Sears Point had anything to do with (the divorce)," Gordon said Saturday when asked about the distraction.
Mechanical failures aside, Gordon is now admitting that attention paid to his personal life sometimes caused his mind to wander last year.
"I didn't maybe think it was going to be as big of news as it was," he said "There's no doubt that that stuff was a distraction - more of just the actual events going on than the media."
Earnhardt Jr. and Waltrip may have plenty of reason to smile Sunday.
Credit: Autostock
Junior, Waltrip like chances for Bud Pole
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. has established himself as a favorite any time he takes to the track at Daytona International Speedway.
What he doesn't have on his racing resume is a Daytona 500 pole -- yet.
Junior, who still loves this track despite the painful memories it brings to mind, is considered one of the strong favorites to get that pole Sunday when the two front-row positions for the race Feb. 16 are determined.
Earnhardt led the first Winston Cup practice on Saturday with a lap of 184.521 mph. Several hours later, he improved to 184.759, but finished third on the day behind Joe Nemechek's 185.189 and Michael Waltrip's 184.953.
Earnhardt didn't mind being third in practice.
"The car is good," he said. "I don't want to say too much and jinx us."
Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR's biggest and fastest tracks, are the only places where carburetor restrictor plates are required.
The steel plates, with tiny holes drilled in them, limit the amount of air mixing with the gasoline, thereby sapping horsepower. As NASCAR intended, that keeps the cars under 200 mph on the big tracks.
Earnhardt Jr. and Waltrip, teammates at Dale Earnhardt Inc., the team founded by the late Dale Earnhardt, have become the drivers to beat at Daytona and Talladega since the beginning of the 2001 season.
Two years ago, Junior's famous father was killed in a crash on the last lap of the Daytona 500.
At the moment Dale Sr. was hitting the fourth-turn wall, Little E was following Waltrip across the finish line for what would have been a joyous 1-2 finish for DEI Chevrolets under other circumstances.
To that point, it was Junior's best finish on NASCAR's most famous track.
Since then, Waltrip and Earnhardt Jr. have combined to win six of the last eight plate races. That includes a victory by Earnhardt Jr. in the 2001 Pepsi 400 at Daytona and wins in his last three Talladega starts.
Waltrip added a victory in the 2002 Pepsi 400, with Earnhardt Jr. finishing second.
Junior's father openly disliked plate racing, but he was acknowledged as the master at Daytona and Talladega. Junior has inherited the knack but not the distaste.
"I like the tracks," he said. "I like the speed. I like racing in the close packs, bumper to bumper.
"It's a little bit different than what we normally do throughout the year. I don't feel like I get enough of it."
Nobody will be surprised if the teammates sweep the front row Sunday.
"Our cars are capable of doing that," Waltrip said. "Even if we don't, though, they'll have to think about us in the 500."
Waltrip, who had never won until he ran his first race with DEI in 2001, loves being a favorite.
"I was so confident about running the 2001 Daytona 500," he said. "No one really thought much about our chances, except us. Then we won.
"Last year, I had the same mentality. We won the 125 (qualifying) race and we were leading the 500 when we had a failure on a part of our car, which kept us from defending. Once again, that same state of mind is present and I feel good about winning."
Nemechek, starting his first full season in the No. 25 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy, isn't sure he is really a pole contender.
"Everybody has got to go through the 'Room of Doom,' " Nemechek said, referring to NASCAR's inspection area. "So I think we've got as good a shot as any to be close.
"A top 10 would be great. But, just to have a shot at the pole is going to be pretty cool."
1. Matt Kenseth
2. Ricky Craven
3. Mike Skinner
4. Norm Benning
5. Jimmy Spencer
6. Jeff Burton
7. Michael Waltrip
8. Jack Sprague
9. Mike Wallace
10. Ward Burton
11. Ricky Rudd.
12. Kyle Petty
13. Sterling Marlin
14. David Green
15. Elliott Sadler
16. Terry Labonte
17. Greg Biffle
18. Jeff Gordon
19. Hermie Sadler
20. Bobby Labonte
21. Jamie McMurray
22. Ken Schrader
23. Mike Harmon
24. Mark Martin
25. Rusty Wallace
26. Tony Stewart
27. Joe Nemechek
28. Jerry Nadeau
29. Jeremy Mayfield
30. Derrike Cope
31. Casey Mears
32. Kirk Shelmerdine
33. Johnny Benson
34. Steve Park
35. Todd Bodine
36. Dale Earnhardt Jr.
37. Jeff Green
38. Kurt Busch
39. Larry Foyt
40. Bill Elliott
41. Jimmie Johnson
42. Robby Gordon
43. Kevin Harvick
44. John Andretti
45. Ryan Newman
46. Tony Raines
47. Dave Blaney
48. Dale Jarrett
49. Christian Fittipaldi
50. Kenny Wallace
51. Brett Bodine
Well, that’s it for now. Until the next time, I remain
Your
Momma
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