Junior moved in to Jimmie Johnson's garage -- and I believe Jeff now shares a garage with Mark Martin --

I knew Truex would wreck tonight

ABOUT TIME

the big one

pinball on the backstrech

that's why he's a hell of a color man...."Someone got into someone back there"........WHAT INSIGHT!!!

how can you see anything when fox has the camera on the top of the car's hood

Damn Regan Smith and Mark Martin collected because Truex ran out of ****ing talent. Truex is still shaky after that wreck last week.

NAPA KNOW HOWWWWW!!!!!

nascrap had to do something -- matt was running away with this thing

"You alright, Mark? You alright?" WHILE HE'S STILL CRASHING.

Yes, like let Michael Waltrip racing continue to field 2 teams.

fox edited it out but while the spotter was saying " mark you alright" mark was replying Ow Ow owwwwwwwwww napppa know how!

this is the 3rd or 4th week in a row truex ran out of talent

He "USED UP" about 4 Season's worth of "CRASHING LUCK" .... Glad he was able to crawl out of the car

15 on the lead lap. Another caution in about 10 laps so that another handful of folks can take a wave around would not shock me at all.

Ah stop it, Truex LMAO -- learn how freakin' lift

They had to do something, Ford was stinking it up.

I guess my second driver would be Bowyer since he is from Emporia

THIS WEEK FIRST (since the #33 is actually having a decent night*)




*knocks on wood

glad I knocked on wood there.....that was Clint's fault from my angle

Bowyer great... He build a community center for his hometown... how far is Emporia from Kansas City?

http://www.kansascity.com/2011/03/28...community.html

where's his car -- in the stands? LMAO






just kidding... please don't tear my flesh off

pits stops...

kurt is the temp. leader

Roughly 120 miles

where is jimijo?

oh, ok... thanks

i've noticed a few members live in Emporia -- nice

don't say anything... talk with us after the race


lol

Smoke's gonna be pissed

Huge mistake by Smoke after Grubbs set him up to possibly steal one.

with no one to blame but himself

just a couple hours.

Graduated from ESU

kid and future son-in-law are getting ready to transfer there. It is a nice community

yup

I'm looking forward to next week though. Talladega is my favorite track.

I wish someone would put Kenseth right through the wall

should be a great burnout -- this way he can drop his a couple of inches http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-14836.gif

LiveSteam clicked off the TV

Just not his night. :shrug:

SHUT THE HELL UP n00b

At least YET. He doesn't have to stop again.....everyone else still does.

they screwed tony -- speeding penalty put him a lap down -- kyle's a lap down

not too many cars on the lead lap

Whoa...is Busch gonna try to make a fuel run? 64 laps?

tony always starts out slow -- by summer he's in top form...

clint bowyer is on the move

having...trouble...staying...awake

its only 10 pm

I've been up since 6:30 am.

Barring a caution, the top couple of spots have been decided

and he's almost as old as me (I think) :)

phanthom caution please,

clint is 8 seconds behind matt crazy...

i hope nascrap goes over kenseth's car with a fine tooth comb

We need a caution.

aw...understand that.

Our school starts at 7 am so during the week I am up at 5:30 AM

way too early for kiddos

factortobe, come sit next to me... we'll have our own mini junior nation

meh, I'm going to bed

damn

Good ****ing god. :facepalm:

Matt wins -- Not a word out of the 113,000 fans in the stands

Clint should be in the top 12 after this and just out of Chase position.

Look at those rednecks get all excited over a cheap burnout LMAO




well, kenseth cut 2" off his car http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-14836.gif




just kidding...

You know, lost amidst the Roush/RCR hogging of the top ten was a nice little run by Ambrose.

DW will be back momentarily personalizing this race.


He's great. LMAO

he's a good racer... ambrose is an Australian road racing champion

he's having a good season -- think he had a top 5 two wks ago... i may be wrong... gotta look

Carl said, "We know what (Matt) has in his car." Carl trying to tell us something?

Wish we knew...



only kidding

Talladega will bring about changes in the Standings.

it's about time nascar let Ford win. they've won, what 5 races in the last five years? (excluding Carl)

Brian France, the drunk and failure needed to do something -- Ford's cars are too good

Standings updated in OP. Top 11 and J. Gordon woudl be in as of Texas

Gee whiz --We're not allowed to curse in here anymore?

I mean... We got Talladega this weekend.

What I’m saying is some our drivers will eat some wall...

(Naughty word) are we supposed to do? http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com...lies/crazy.gif

Who the hell said that? Whoever it was, "**** 'em".
Couldn't help it, I'm in a pretty good mood for a change today.
Hope ya'll have a great one.

I've only read the first five pages and the last two out of 120 pages. Seems, we're not allowed to curse.

truebigdog, do you know if any of the secret mods monitor our nascrap thread?

Hopefully, Mayor bugeater will be along before the Talladega races to straighten this all out.

I was pretty sure that is what you were alluding to, but in a nutshell (for some reason I read the first 1000 posts yesterday) he was given a temp (7-day) ban after someone reported him (apparently not anywhere near the first time) for word filter evasion (IE typing NASC*R rather than NASCAR so that the word filter doesn't catch it if NASCAR were filtered out). Then the poster who reported it came back and said for all intents and purposes, "take it back, I didn't mean it" so they unbanned him and then his very first post back was something to the extent of **** THE MODS in a picture, but with an asterisk in place of the U (the same thing he had been banned for) so Phobia gave him a 30-day vacation.
I haven't bothered to read the rest of it as I actually have some work to do at work today, but I'm sure it's all pretty much the same nonsense as teh first 1,000 posts. It doesn't really effect me one way or the other though as I don't see it as a huge loss.

You can still say whatever you want to and if folks don't want to see it they can set the filter where curse words (or anything else they desire) will show up as asterisks.

oh ok. thanks truebigdog.

It's safe to break the rules in this thread, none of the mods come in here.

I had no idea we could choose the filtered or unfiltered option below. Very useful thing to know.

We can spell out the naughty words... I didn't know that.

Who knew "Effin'' was a bannable word?

I can't begin to tell you how many times I've used that word in a game thread. http://planetsmilies.net/not-tagged-smiley-3587.gif

Randy Moss loving the NASCAR life

ESPN: Ryan McGee

These are rough times at Randy Moss Motorsports.

The offseason was marked with a bit of an ugly divorce from driver Mike Skinner, who had led the team to a third-place finish in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series standings in 2009. Like most teams in the series, Moss is struggling to rustle up sponsorship and just this week the team shut down one of its two trucks. After failing to qualify for the season's first two events, youngster Tayler Malsam is gone, leaving former series champ Travis Kvapil, who also has a Sprint Cup job, to carry the RMM banner alone.

But Moss, as usual, is all smiles, particularly when he makes it out to the racetrack to check on his team, which he has co-owned with longtime series owner David Dollar since mid-2008. I caught up with the seven-time Pro Bowl wide receiver two weeks ago at Darlington Raceway.

Little more than an hour before the green flag dropped on the most recent Truck Series event, he stretched out in the RMM hauler, dressed in a colorful polo shirt and jeans. It was also less than 24 hours after the start of the NFL lockout, so the free agent quickly laid down the ground rules.



Ryan McGee: So, no football talk …
Randy Moss: Yeah, I'd appreciate that. When I come out here to the racetrack, it's all about getting away from football for me. Right now, especially. Everything is so crazy. I'm a free agent right now. I guess everybody is. I'm a wanted man, so we just need to see who wants me. Right now, nobody wants anybody, so we have to get all that worked out.
But yeah, I'd rather talk about racing right now.


McGee: Fair enough. You bought into this team back in 2008. You're coming up on three years in the sport. At the announcement that year, you told us you were serious about it. But did you feel like people were rolling their eyes at you?
Moss: Oh yeah, definitely. Not even so much here at the track than in the locker room. Guys were like, "NASCAR? Really, dude?" But now here we are sitting up in the team's 18-wheeler, got some wins under our belt and I'm still here. It's like, "See y'all, I was serious about this."


McGee: We've had three races this year and you've already been to two of them, Daytona and here at Darlington. Easily the most we've seen you at the racetrack so soon. Am I reading too much into this?
Moss: No, I see where you're going, and you're right. I think you might see more of me out here this year, and not just because of what's going on in the NFL. My schedule has always been so crazy that I couldn't get out here very much. But now I want to, especially where its low-key like it is here at Darlington. Right now, I think it's good for me to be here, to show the guys some support. Especially right now.


McGee: Because it's been a rough year?
Moss: Not rough. Just not as successful as we want it to be. I think it boosts morale with the guys when I come and hang out. I'm not coming in here to tell David [Dollar] how to run things or tell the pit crew how to go over the wall or tell Travis Kvapil how to drive. And I'm not huddling anybody up and giving pep talks. But I think I can get everybody pumped up just by being here and being one of the guys.


McGee: Have you gotten involved in the business side, past being an investor? For example, during these lean economic times, would you leverage your name to track down sponsorship money?
Moss: I haven't done that. I trust David to do that. But if he feels like bringing me to shake a hand would help, then he knows he can call me.


McGee: You ever get behind the wheel of a race car?
Moss: Hell no! And I won't be doing it, either. People ask me all the time if I think race car drivers are athletes. Of course they are. I can't do it. I love it. But I can't do it. And I feel like I'm a pretty good athlete [laughs].


McGee: You know, I just did a story about all these former college athletes that are on pit crews now …
Moss: Exactly. You've got to be the real deal to go over that wall. But again, there's no way I'm doing it. I like my spot during the race sitting on this side of that wall, thank you very much. These guys aren't going to be showing up at my work, on the field and start running pass routes. I'm not coming to their place of work and start doing their thing.


McGee: There have been a lot of connections between the NFL and NASCAR on the ownership side. Before you, guys like Joe Washington and Brett Favre had stakes in lower-level teams. Tim Brown has tried for years. Troy Aikman, Roger Staubach and of course Joe Gibbs. Did you ever talk to any of them before you got into this?
Moss: Not really. Some chats here and there. But I did look at what they had done. Especially Coach Gibbs. And I think that having watched what they did and what Coach Gibbs is still doing helped educate me. When I first sat down with David in Atlanta way back when, I think he realized pretty quick that I wasn't just winging this. I knew what I was talking about. It's not like I hadn't ever even paid attention to NASCAR before.


McGee: So, you're a race fan.
Moss: Always have been, man. I'm from West Virginia. If you didn't know what was happening in NASCAR, you were on the outside. NASCAR is a big league sport, but it's still also country and redneck. Like here at Darlington or at Martinsville, where we're about to go. These are my people, man. Call me a redneck, blackneck, whatever. I'm as comfortable here as I am on the football field.


McGee: As a fan, who do you like to watch on the track?
Moss: Kyle Busch, man. That guy is … you know, you have your guys that have all the stats and have won championships and whatever, but then you have your guys where you are just like, "That damn guy can flat drive the hell out of a racecar!" Kyle Busch is that guy for me.


McGee: There are those who would point to Busch's raw talent and some of his troubles with other people and …
Moss: Yeah, I know what you're about to say. That's Moss, man. That's totally Moss.


McGee: So, are you naturally attracted to athletes in other sports who remind you of you?
Moss: I guess I am. Because you know who else I like? Tony Stewart. I love that guy. I was in Charlotte one day and I saw him in his car. He had stopped at an intersection, and I went over and knocked on his window. I was all like, "Tony! It's Randy Moss, New England Patriots!" But I think all he saw was a giant black dude running across the street yelling at him, banging on the glass, so he got the hell out of there. I don't blame him.


McGee: [Pointing to Kvapil, standing about 10 feet away] I'm assuming you like this driver, too.
Moss: [Speaks up loud enough to be heard] Yeah, he's alright! [Laughs.] He's a champion, you know. Even if he's a Packers fan. He's still mad at me about the whole Green Bay mooning thing when I was with the Vikings. I gave him my Super Bowl tickets this year, though, and he got to see them win it. So I think we're all even now.


McGee: [To Kvapil] All even?
Kvapil: Yeah. But I still want to see him play for Green Bay.
McGee: [To Moss] Well?
Moss: I want to play wherever they want me to play. Like I said, I'm a free agent. I know I'm 34. I know I didn't have a great season last year. But I also know that these still work [holds up his hands] and I know I can still play at a high level. We just need to get this season back on track so I can start working on finding that team that wants Randy Moss on their roster.


McGee: Uh oh … we're talking about football.
Moss: See? People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

http://espn.go.com/rpm/blog/_/name/m...ng-nascar-life

People who never even open the NASCAR thread miss out on some cool stories. Nice find, Dylan.

Kyle Busch Motorsports, a Camping World Truck Series team had signed Kimi Raikkonen, 2007 Formula One World Champion to a limited schedule.
Turun Sanomat newspaper

NASCAR chairman Brian France the drunk: This man has no shame

NASCAR Can Do Without Foster Gillett

It's difficult to tell why so many seem so consumed with the idea of Kimi Raikkonen trying his hand at NASCAR. The 2007 Formula One driving champion has announced plans to tackle the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series beginning next month at Charlotte Motor Speedway, driving a limited schedule of events for the new ICE1 Racing Team. His self-professed plans call for a quick progression to Sprint Cup competition by the end of the year, though that itinerary could be pushed back once he actually straps into a NASCAR machine for the first time.

Maybe the fascination is not with Kimi, after all. Perhaps the hubbub is really about the man Raikkonen threatens to bring with him as majority owner of ICE1 Racing, Foster Gillett.

You remember Gillett, the 190-pound silver spoon who carried water for his father, George, while they laid waste to the once-proud franchises known as Evernham Motorsports and Richard Petty Motorsports. After arriving in an explosion of hype and grandiose promises, the Gilletts proceeded to run Ray Evernham out of his own building and reduce Richard Petty from "King of Stock Car Racing" to "impotent ceremonial figurehead" in a matter of a few short months. Over-leveraged and overhyped, the Gilletts became a NASCAR version of Smokey and the Bandit's Big and Little Enos; bulling their way through a series of horrible decisions that left a wide swath of unpaid bills and broken promises in their wake.

Until recently, it appeared the Gilletts would join J.D. Stacy, Bobby Ginn, Alex Meshkin and Michael Holigan on the short list of the sport's all-time most inept owners, until reports surfaced this week that "Little Enos" is apparently game for another crack at NASCAR team ownership.

"Kimi Raikkonen must not be as smart as people say he is," said Evernham when told of the plan this week. "I can't imagine anyone doing business with them, considering (Gillett's) past history. There are a lot of people out there who are still owed a lot of money. It's a joke."

Evernham said he makes "absolutely no distinction" between George and Foster Gillett, saying both men "sat in all the meetings and made the decisions. One is as responsible as the other," said Evernham, for their mountain of unpaid bills and laid off former employees.

Foster Gillett's return to NASCAR -- if it happens -- is like John Dillinger dropping by the bank a day after the heist to ask if he qualifies for a free toaster, and anyone who deals with ICE1 Racing on anything but a cash-in-advance basis deserves the screwing they will almost certainly receive.

http://www.sirius-speedway.com/2011/...r-gillett.html


ICE1 Racing Team

Foster Gillett? Please, Not Again http://www.thenascarinsiders.com/tag/ice1-racing-team/
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