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The minimum a NASCAR Winston Cup car could weigh in 1998 was 3400 pounds.
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Petty: finishes 11th, on the lead lap, $84,000
$84,000 What a joke !!!!!!!!!!! Looks Like Petty was Well Over paid…by about $83,999 Petty is about the biggest jerk on the track, he is not worth the sweat off my butt cheeks..
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This is in regards to some of the comments you have received.
1. On your little quote from Dale Sr.: it's cute--but I
never liked him alive and don’t feel a loss with him gone, But that's me.
2. Your site is extremely biased at the start of each news letter.--but
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3. Most of the content are from many sources and give a wide
scope of NASCAR news.
4. I want NASCAR news, so I skip outbursts about Jr.-and anyone
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3’s race shop becoming museum: The race shop where Richard Childress
Racing worked on the cars that won six Winston Cup championships is being
transformed into a museum. A building now connects the shop to a small,
existing museum at the RCR complex in Welcome, N.C., making it one big
showcase for nearly 50 race cars driven by the late Dale Earnhardt -- winner
of those six titles -- and Kevin Harvick, Mike Skinner, Childress and others.
The 47,000-square-foot museum, which will open May 16, will also have lots
of other RCR memorabilia, including trophies, photographs and banners.
The original shop area will be dedicated to Earnhardt's No. 3 teams, which
earned championships in 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1994. RCR moved
into the building in June 1986, with the entire operation at under the
roof of the 33,000 square-foot building. - AP/CBS SportsLine
2003 AWA National PWC Jamboree - Polaris events also include NASCAR memorabilia
auction to benefit Victory Junction Gang Camp and autograph sessions for
the first 200 visitors who enter the Polaris activity area at Nashville
Shores: Ever dream of racing a NASCAR legend around the track?
On Sunday, May 18, at 10 a.m., AWA National Jamboree participants can make
that dream come true at "The Polaris MSX Challenge with Rusty Wallace,"
held at the Nashville Shores Park in Hermitage, Tenn. Just one day after
racing at the Winston, Rusty Wallace will don a wetsuit and race the new
Polaris MSX watercraft around a slalom course to set a time for other racers
to beat. The person with the best time will receive a racing trophy presented
by Rusty Wallace at 1:30 p.m. While the racing competition heats up, Polaris
will feature watercraft demo rides and Rusty Wallace fan events, including
an autograph session and NASCAR memorabilia auction benefiting the Victory
Junction Gang Camp, founded by NASCAR's Kyle and Pattie Petty. "I am excited
about taking my racing experience to the water," says Wallace. "I know
from experience that the performance of the Polaris MSX will help me set
a pretty tough time for people to beat. It is an awesome performance boat
- and that compliment doesn't come easily from a race car driver!"
Kurt Busch lapped Richmond International Raceway at 121.076 mph in Roush Racing's No. 97 Ford to post the fastest lap of the two Winston Cup testers on hand Tuesday, but five Busch Series teams reported faster speeds. The other Cup tester, Derrike Cope, had a lap reported at 121.038 in his No. 37 Chevrolet. Stacy Compton led the Busch contingent with a lap reported at 122.471, followed by Martin Truex Jr. (122.330), Kevin Grubb (122.283), Ron Hornaday (121.896) and Chad Blount (121.567). Testing is scheduled to continue today and tomorrow, with Winston Cup drivers Ricky Rudd, Sterling Marlin, Dave Blaney and Larry Foyt expected to be on hand.
National Speed Sport News says Speedway Motorsports Chairman Bruton Smith is willing to pay $1 million of his own money to redesign and rebuild International Speedway Corp.'s Talladega Superspeedway, according to today's Sports Business Daily. "They tore up $6.4 million of race cars [during NASCAR races] last weekend," Smith told the weekly. "That's more than the purses." Smith estimated a reconstruction of the 2.66-mile oval would cost $10 million. Talladega Vice President and General Manager Rick Humphrey told the paper, "We would gladly take his $1 million, but we don't see it being used to redesign the track."
Speed Channel says it added another 500,000 households in March, bringing its Nielsen total to 57.1 million U.S. homes. The racing channel says it has added 6.2 million U.S. homes in the last 12 months, making it the 15th fastest-growing cable station. It is also available in 4.5 million homes in Canada.
04/17/2003
By TERRY BLOUNT / The Dallas Morning News
Spencer continues diatribe against Busch
Jimmy Spencer admits that Kurt Busch isn't one of his favorite people. The two Winston Cup drivers have been involved in several on-track incidents, and each man has publicly criticized the other.
"I don't get along with Kurt," Spencer said. "I think Kurt is a heck
of a competitor and a great racer. Once he gets things straightened out
personally, I think he's going to be a lot better competitor than he is
now. The drivers I talk to say he's cocky, and he doesn't respect them.
"He's no Bobby Labonte, Bill Elliott, Jeff Burton or Mark Martin. And
he's no Matt Kenseth. He needs to learn to get along with his fellow competitors
and not have that chip on his shoulder."
For the record, Busch is fifth in the standings, which is higher than
everyone Spencer mentioned expect Kenseth, the points leader. Spencer is
28th.
Ricky Rudd was one of the drivers who benefited and got back on the lead lap from the controversial decision by NASCAR during the Samsung/RadioShack 500. But Rudd thinks it's wrong for the race leader to allow other drivers to go by him and get a lap back while racing back to a caution.
"To me, that's not part of racing," Rudd said. "It doesn't need to be part of the team concept. It's not a safe situation. You race the wheels off a guy to try to keep him a lap down. To turn around and hand that lap back is wrong. It has been wrong for twenty-some years."
A.J. Foyt doesn't get riled up too often these days, but he went off on NASCAR last weekend in Japan, where his IRL team was competing in the Indy Japan 300. Foyt gave some angry opinions that were posted on FoxSports.com.
On racing back to the yellow flag: "It's bad deal, and one of these days, someone will get killed over it. I'm glad to see Jeff Gordon speak out against it."
On recent NASCAR rule interpretations and judgment calls: "NASCAR is so crooked. If you can't see that, then you are blind."
• Kansas Speedway president Jeff Boerger was asked Tuesday if the 3-year-old facility will have two Winston Cup dates next year? "Chances are fairly good," he said. A proposal on the matter called "Project Blitz" will be presented to NASCAR next month.
• Winston Cup team owner Jack Roush said teams are forced to spend too much of their annual budget on the four restrictor-plate races at Daytona and Talladega. Roush said cars totaled from the inevitable "Big Wreck" costs teams a fortune: "For our five teams, it's probably a $15 million proposition."
Credit: Autostock
The Winston gets format, purse
upgrades for 2003
By Lee Montgomery, Turner Sports Interactive
CONCORD, N.C. -- R.J. Reynolds has tinkered with the format for The Winston again this year. And the company has increased the purse again, too.
So let's see if we've got this straight: more money, and more cars going for the money. Isn't that a recipe for disaster?
Perhaps, but Jeff Burton and Mark Martin said Wednesday that's just the nature of the beast.
"I think this race pays a million dollars to win -- $50,000 a lap for the last segment -- because there's a good chance we will wreck," said Martin, drawing laughter at the press conference at Lowe's Motor Speedway to announce the changes.
"It all works together. I wouldn't bring my very best, number one car
to The Winston. I did that
two years in a row and tore 'em up, but we do the same thing at Daytona
for the Bud Shootout. I think it's a fantastic event. I'm real excited
about it, and I think there's a good chance you'll see some action."
The Winston has been all about action since its inception in 1985. The format has been changed almost as many times as there have been races, but the shorter race distance and high purse has pumped up the intensity, Burton said.
"The rules promote aggression," Burton said. "The rules promote taking chances, and I think that's OK. It's the drivers at the end of the day that make the cars wreck or not wreck. The rules don't necessarily make that happen, but it certainly puts you in a position where you've got to go, but that's what racing is all about.
That's what we do and that's what racing ought to be. So it's on a limit, but I think being on a limit is a good thing."
The changes are a lot more subtle than last year, when Sports Marketing Enterprises officials -- the promotional arm of RJR -- began using the "Survival of the Fastest" theme, where drivers were eliminated after each of the first two segments.
That will still happen, with the field being cut to 20 drivers after Segment 1. After Segment 2, however, 14 cars will remain, up from 10 a year ago, when Ryan Newman held off Dale Earnhardt Jr. to get the victory.
Also, whoever comes out ahead on the final segment will pocket $1 million from a $3.5 million purse.
Some other changes:
• Officials implemented the "Jeff Burton Rule" during the first segment, saying a driver has to pit for four tires under green, and the stop must be completed before the final lap. Last year, Burton pitted on the last lap and made up a number of positions because he didn't have to get back up to speed.
• An inversion will be done for the final segment, but exactly how many and the process for picking how many has yet to be determined.
• The Winston Open will be split into two segments of 20 and 10 laps. After the 20-lap segment, the field will be pared down to 14 cars. The yellow flag will be waved, and the remaining drivers can choose to pit, but if they do, they will lose track position. The final 10 laps will determine the one and only transfer spot. Last year, two drivers -- one from the Open and another from the No Bull 5 Sprint -- advanced to the main event.
• Qualifying, held Friday night, will again include a four-tire pit stop. The stop, however, must be completed for the final lap, and drivers must finish the qualifying run on the track. Drivers must observe the speed limit on pit road before the stop but can go as fast as they want after it is finished.
With two races left before The Winston, 23 drivers are qualified. The field is set by drivers or car owners who have won races in 2003 or 2002, any Winston Cup champion, any winner of The Winston in the last five years and the winner of the Winston Open.
The Winston is divided into three segments, totaling 90 laps. After the first 40-lap segment, drivers and teams get a 10-minute break to work on their cars without losing track position.
Drivers will restart double-file for the next 30-lap segment, with another 10-minute break. There is not a mandatory green-flag stop during Segment 2. Caution laps count in the first two segments.
There is a double-file start for the final 20-lap dash, and caution flags don't count.
Burton is not one of the drivers qualified, but he has raced in The Winston before, and he knows how crazy it can get.
"What makes the intensity different in this race is just the number of laps that you have to get it done in," Burton said. That's the only difference. You don't race any harder at the Open in The Winston than you do for the 600, it's just that you have less laps to get it done.
"You make more aggressive moves because you've got to get it done right then and there, but we race that hard every week. It's just that we have to make faster decisions to get it done in a shorter amount of time, which is what makes the racing exciting."
By Lee Montgomery, Turner Sports Interactive
CONCORD, N.C. -- There will be a NASCAR all-star race next year, but what it will be called and where it will be held is open for debate.
R.J. Reynolds signed a five-year contract with NASCAR last year to stay as title sports of the Winston Cup Series. Included in that contract was a provision to hold The Winston, NASCAR's all-star race.
But in January, RJR said it had talked to NASCAR about getting out of the sport, and there is a chance the sanctioning body's top series could have a new title sponsor.
"We've said we've had discussions with them about the possibility of exploring a new sponsor," said Ned Leary, president of Sports Marketing Enterprises, the sports promotional arm of RJR. "I don't have anything to say about that, other than to say while we're here ... there will be an all-star event."
The Winston has been held at Lowe's Motor Speedway, which is located near the majority of the NASCAR team's shops, for 17 of the 18 times it has been held. But there is a chance it could be moved. NASCAR has looked at the possibility of moving the race among various sites, much like other professional leagues do for their all-star events.
That would be a no-no, LMS president and general manager H.A. "Humpy"
Wheeler said.
"The Winston's not going anywhere, because NASCAR is going to have
to shoot me and drag my body down to Daytona and bury me right next to
Bill France," Wheeler said.
"Where else would you have it? We're going to have it here, we're going
to put a bunch of people in the grandstands again, we're going to have
a great race and we're going to work hard to keep it here."
Driver Mark Martin said he supported Wheeler "100 percent."
"I think this is the greatest racetrack that we race on for putting
on a show," Martin said.
Wheeler and LMS officials got together with local civic, business and
government groups in the Charlotte/Mecklenburg County area last year to
ensure The Winston would stay at Lowe's Motor Speedway.
UNC Charlotte did an economic impact in 2001 of The Winston's effect on three counties surrounding the track and estimated it to be $75 million. Wheeler said the 2003 race could pump $100 million in the local economy if it stays at his track.
Leary said the procedure for picking the site of The Winston is the same as in 2002.
"It will be the same procedure we went through last year," Leary said. "We'll have discussions with all parties involved. A decision will be made in a timely fashion."
By Dave Rodman, Turner Sports Interactive
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Professional golfer John Daly has long admired the action in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from afar. Two weeks ago he got to attend his first race, the Aaron's 499 at Talladega Superspeedway and he said it won't be his last.
The proof? Daly, who was introduced at the pre-race drivers' meeting
as one of the special
guests at the race, did not leave until a little bit after the checkered
flag had flown over Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Budweiser Chevrolet.
"It was just a great finish -- seeing Dale win again," Daly said. "(Jeff) Gordon was up there for a while. I hated to see some of the big names get put out early-on, but it was intense -- it was cool to watch."
While the intensity of three- and four-wide action and fender banging at 195 mph was not lost on the 1995 British Open champion, he said the experience of standing over a potential winning putt on the 18th green was a crucible of a different kind.
"It's a little different -- a little quieter when you're doing that," Daly said with a grin. "But you can see these guys just race their hearts out. From what I've understood on TV, that looked like a hard race.
"It was just an awesome finish and I'm pretty excited about it."
Daly has a 56-event PGA Tour schedule ranging from January through December, but of course the four-time winner can pick and choose events. He'd like to include some more racing on his calendar.
Daly has signed a promotional partnership with Featherlite Coaches, whose guest he was at Talladega. He said the drivers' schedules on this weekend didn't allow for any driving tips from the pro.
"Now that I'm with Featherlite, they've got me in a coach that I just love to death, and they've been wanting me to come," Daly said. "I didn't get to see Gordon -- he's a good buddy of mine and I've played golf with him a few times.
"I was hoping to see some more of the racers but I just didn't have a chance to do it. I met a few of them but I didn't really get to set and chat with them -- that would have been cool.
"I'd like to come to some more and Featherlite would like me to."
Learning your ABCs
NASCAR team owner Andy Petree is the latest to go the "ABC route" to breaking a youngster into NASCAR racing.
Petree has made a commitment to run Paul Menard, 22, a winner in NASCAR's
Touring Division,
in an 18-race program of events this season in NASCAR's Winston Cup, Busch
and Craftsman Truck Series and the ARCA RE/MAX Series.
Menard, who was victories in both the RE/MAX Challenge Series and Featherlite Southwest Series, caught Petree's attention with a victory against former Andy Petree Racing driver Ken Schrader last fall at Phoenix.
"To be honest, I didn't even see the race -- I was driving like crazy to get to the track to see as much as I could because I promised Kenny (Schrader) I would watch it," Petree said. "I got there a few minutes too late and called Kenny as I was crossing the bridge to find out what happened.
"He said he got beat by some kid and finished second."
That "kid" was Menard, the son of Indy car owner and Midwest businessman John Menard.
"What I do know is this," Petree said of the introduction. "If you beat Kenny at Phoenix, I don't care what type of car it is, you've done something significant."
Menard's 18 races will include both Winston Cup road races as well as the fall event at Phoenix.
Can't wait to get back?
Joe Nemechek won the inaugural Bud Pole Award at California Speedway in 1997, but has had a hard time duplicating those results since then. He's managed only one top-10 start in events since then at the two-mile oval outside Los Angeles.
Nemechek has shown some revived competitiveness in Hendrick Motorsports' No. 25 UAW/Delphi Chevrolet so qualifying on April 25 for the Auto Club 500 may be just what he needs.
Looking for a breakthrough
In the six previous editions of the Auto Club 500 at California Speedway, neither Pontiac nor Dodge has scored a victory. Chevrolet and Ford have three each, with Jeff Gordon scoring two of Chevy's wins. The highest finish by a Pontiac driver is second by Bobby Labonte (2000) while Bill Elliott posted the best California finish for Dodge with a fourth place (2002).
By Mike Mulhern
JOURNAL REPORTER
Winston Cup teams have a rare off-week from racing, but an "off-week" doesn't mean the same thing to Kenny Schrader as it does to others in the business.
Schrader most likely will find a track or two or three somewhere, get hot and sweaty at the wheel and then kick back with a cold one and laugh for a while.
If NASCAR's Bill France Jr. were looking for the perfect guy to run this sport for him, he might not be able to do better than Schrader.
Schrader knows it all - all the tricks, all the bull, all the excuses. He also has common sense and a great, wicked sense of humor. It's difficult to imagine anyone pulling anything over on him.
He's well respected among the touring media, and he has excellent TV presence.
But, even though Schrader is 47 - albeit a Red Farmer-Dale Earnhardt-Bobby Allison 47 - and even though it has been more than 10 years since his last Winston Cup victory, Schrader doesn't appear ready to hang up his helmet anytime soon.
At the moment, Schrader is trying to revive his career. And he has been
doing a pretty good
job of it this season, with a team that is one of the circuit's lesser
lights, a new team owned by Beth Ann Morgenthau ("BAM"), not quite a household
name but certainly a determined lady.
Schrader's 10th-place finish at Martinsville on Sunday impressed even him.
"What probably was most satisfying about it was it's not like we ran 18th all day and four guys blew up and four got in an accident," Schrader said "We started fourth and ran between (there) and ninth all day. That made us feel good.
"Without the last yellow, we thought we were looking at a top-five.
"It did feel good, the first top-10 for the BAM team. Their previous best had been a 17th at Darlington, which still wasn't very good.
"But 10th isn't what we're shooting for; we want to do a lot better than that. But it was a real good start.
"What we probably feel best about - even though it doesn't show at all - at Rockingham and Darlington, the car ran real good. We just got caught a lap in the pits at both places.
"At Bristol, we were one of the seven cars on the lead lap when we cut the right-front tire.
"The car has had plenty of speed. It's been fast enough to have top-10s at half the races this year. But we hadn't done it yet, so this is the first one we did it like we were supposed to.
"We weren't really getting frustrated, but everybody wants to finally make something happen. We finally made something happen at least."
Running for a one-car team in this era of mega-teams might intimidate another driver, but Schrader is rarely intimidated. He's the ultimate pragmatist.
"Robbie Reiser and Matt Kenseth sit down at their shop and look over their resources and try to do the very best they can," Schrader says, referring to the Winston Cup points leaders, part of Jack Roush's five-team company. "And we sit down at our shop, lay out a plan and look at our resources and try to do the very best we can.
"We're very blessed that Beth Ann and Tony Morgenthau have invested a lot into the BAM team already. We have a lot of resources there.
"I don't feel like we're out sitting on a little island by ourselves and it's just a matter of time before we're in big trouble.
"It was pretty neat to see Ricky Craven win Darlington, and that was a single-car team. We just take all the stuff we've got and do whatever we can."
Schrader has provided more to the team than just experience at the wheel. His political connections have helped, too. Dodge wasn't very interested in this team at the start of the season, but corporate interest has definitely picked up.
How much support? Schrader is cagey: "I couldn't really answer that because I'm not really in on that," he said. "I just drive the thing. I do know that we have an agreement with Dodge. I think it's the first year they've had one.
"We have been to the wind tunnel. We've been in on some conference calls, and there's some technical help there. I don't know to what extent, but we're definitely getting some help from Dodge."
And that help is desperately needed this season, with all the new body rules. Single-car teams such as Schrader's are really under pressure.
"Single-car team or not, everyone had to go through the body change," Schrader says. "But the bodies are simpler now. They're very complicated with all the templates and everything, but it's a no-brainer where it all goes - it's got to go right where NASCAR says it has to go. It has to fit these templates.
"Actually there's a lot less wind-tunnel time that you actually need because you're so restricted with what you can do. You've only got so much to work with."
Perhaps part of the key to Schrader's success this season is his new crew chief, Scott Eggleston, who has been around the block a few times.
"I had never worked with Scott, I had never really talked with Scott a lot, I didn't really know Scott," Schrader said. "But he came highly recommended: Michael Waltrip was very high on Scott and said we'd get along just fine. I've got a lot of confidence in what Mikey says. Someone else I look up to is Andy Petree, and Scott helped him when he had to field two cars at Talladega last year. Andy was very high on Scott.
"I can explain to him what the car feels like to me. I tell him what I would do to it if I were by myself; that's how I always describe it. I don't claim to be a chassis man, but I can bluff my way through some of it.
"He makes it feel like I want. I need someone I can talk to. And what Scott is real good about is he doesn't care what we do to the car as long as it makes it feel better. He doesn't care whose idea it is. He just cares about the stopwatch."
Schrader, of course, does more than just race the Winston Cup tour. His time off is usually spent flying around the country looking for another track to race at. He has been known to make unplanned stops just to make a race. "I'm going to run somewhere between 90 and 100 races this year, not because they're a good deal or anything but because I've got an off-night and there's a race and I want to go race in it.
"I'd say I've probably got more desire to race now than I ever have."
And if he had another shot at life, how would he like to replay his hand? "I'd probably like to do the same deal just one more time and try to do it better. My little boy, I keep telling him that golf is the way to go. That looks like a whole lot better deal to me.
"But I'd probably want to take another stab at what we're doing.
"I didn't get to Winston Cup until I was 29 or 30. I grew up in the Midwest, racing for a living, carrying a helmet bag around a hundred times a year all over, with Dirt and Sprint cars and stuff. Maybe I should have concentrated earlier on getting in Winston Cup, but I don't really have any regrets. I enjoyed all the other racing I did, and I still do. I wouldn't do it a whole lot different....
"I'm not working. I'm playing full time. It wears you out, but that's what I'm doing - I'm playing full time. I'm living the dream."
By-Lisa Humes
“Grampa, tell me a story”, the little boy said as he climbed up on Grampa’s lap, on a Saturday summer afternoon. “Tell me about when you used to go to the races.”
“Well, son. It was different when your dad was your age. We used to be able to take the whole family to see famous drivers beat and battle their way to the front. We saw Bobby and Donnie Allison, Richard and Lee Petty. Lot’s of dirt tracks back then, and if you weren’t there, you couldn’t see it on TV, or even hear it on the radio. I’ll tell you what, if you finished all your work on Saturday night, well, you just headed for the track. Never knew who might show up, but the regulars were always there. They were the guys you saw in town, with local names on their cars. Sponsors were just businesses you knew by their first name. You didn’t have to plan ahead, and make sure you got to the bank so you could pay your way in. Heck, you could always get tickets, and good seats the day of the race. Kids even got in free, well, maybe for a big NASCAR race, it was kids half price.”
“Drivers back then were just regular guys. They didn’t get mobbed by the fans. Drivers had a chance to actually talk to you, sometimes they’d even recognize you, if they’d signed a couple of autographs for you. Course, they didn’t have shirts with their names on them, or hats either. They just signed whatever cap you were wearing, or whatever piece of paper you had handy. I know it’s hard to believe, but they didn’t have all those souvenir trailers back then. When you went to the race, you went to see the race, and meeting a driver was about the best thing that could happen. They were just regular people, that went around in circles faster than most of us.”
“Used to be a great place for a young boy like you, to say hi to your heroes, and watch some good racing. There didn’t used to be so many rules. Usually, the fastest car, and the smartest, well maybe not smartest, but the driver willing to take a few chances, would be out there up front and win the race. And let me tell you, they’d race anywhere. They didn’t complain. They just raced, on dirt, on concrete, quarter mile, half mile. Didn’t matter. They wanted to race, and if the people wanted to watch, well, then, that’s fine.”
“Grampa, will you take me to a race?” the little boy asked.
Grampa got lost in thought, thinking how far they’d have to travel, and if they could even get tickets. He wanted his grandson to be able to have the same experience he’d had when racing was young, before the majority decided what racing had to be to be popular. The sounds, the smells, and the excitement of the race itself, not the hoopla.
Then he remembered. “Son, there’s an ARCA race tonight over at the fairgrounds. I think that will give you the idea. Go get your grandma, and we’ll head on over, so you can see some racing.”
Your
Momma
"Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up there and eat that candy ass." - Dale Earnhardt – 1998
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