NASCAR'S almost here again
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Everybody starts at zero points. Its for them to win, not for him to give away. Watch 24/7 Jimmie Johnson on HBO, you'll see one of the biggest reasons why he has won 4 in a row. The Hendricks organization and Chad Knause and the team he is capable of putting together. The pit crew is at least half of the reason any one team wins anything, from a race to a championshiop, probably more than half.
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Nobody in the past 4 years has been able to touch the 48 team. PERIOD.
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Everybody starts at zero points. Its for them to win, not for him to give away. Watch 24/7 Jimmie Johnson on HBO, you'll see one of the biggest reasons why he has won 4 in a row. The Hendricks organization and Chad Knause and the team he is capable of putting together. The pit crew is at least half of the reason any one team wins anything, from a race to a championshiop, probably more than half.
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True, Mark Martin came close last year, maybe he can do it this year. I am hoping anyway. Rick Hendricks is a great owner as evidenced by his 1-2-3 showing in the Sprint Cup last season. I worked for Carquest until Mid-January and got to meet Rick at a company wide store managers meeting in 2008. Very nice man, I could work for him.
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If the team hits their marks, I think it'll be a great year for him.
I have a fantasy league going on Yahoo if anyone wants to join post and I'll set up the team name and password.It's me an two of my buddies we just play for braggin rights.
All in good fun.
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PM sent buddy. Hey OCC built a pretty nice bike last night for ole Smoke. They unveiled it at Haas/Stewart Racing
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Anyone watch the Arca race Saturday. Man Danica can drive she saved that car pretty good during Saturdays Arca race.
Pretty cool seeing Mark Martin on the pole,50 years old and the guy takes the pole for the 500...that's just awesome. Good to see Jr. on the outside also for the start of the race.
The bud shoot out was ok, that Arca race had more action though. Kevin Harvick really turned around for the better at the tail end of last year. It was pretty cool seeing him grab the checkers at the shoot out.
Pretty cool seeing Mark Martin on the pole,50 years old and the guy takes the pole for the 500...that's just awesome. Good to see Jr. on the outside also for the start of the race.
The bud shoot out was ok, that Arca race had more action though. Kevin Harvick really turned around for the better at the tail end of last year. It was pretty cool seeing him grab the checkers at the shoot out.
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At Louden the races were not starting until 2:30 -3:00 That's a huge pain at that track because we're watching the rain come in half the time while a great morning goes by.
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Anyone watch the Arca race Saturday. Man Danica can drive she saved that car pretty good during Saturdays Arca race.
Pretty cool seeing Mark Martin on the pole,50 years old and the guy takes the pole for the 500...that's just awesome. Good to see Jr. on the outside also for the start of the race.
The bud shoot out was ok, that Arca race had more action though. Kevin Harvick really turned around for the better at the tail end of last year. It was pretty cool seeing him grab the checkers at the shoot out.
Pretty cool seeing Mark Martin on the pole,50 years old and the guy takes the pole for the 500...that's just awesome. Good to see Jr. on the outside also for the start of the race.
The bud shoot out was ok, that Arca race had more action though. Kevin Harvick really turned around for the better at the tail end of last year. It was pretty cool seeing him grab the checkers at the shoot out.
As far as Danica goes,I will agree she did good,will be interesting to see how well she does on a track where she has to slide the car around and call for adjustments to the car to make it better.
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I wouldn't go singing the harvick praises just yet. Gordo is so used to ramming guys in the back side off the track,he decided it would be a good idea to do it on the track,and took out a lot of fast cars in the process. I do believe the end result would have been different if he wouldn't have tried to bump draft IN THE CORNER.
As far as Danica goes,I will agree she did good,will be interesting to see how well she does on a track where she has to slide the car around and call for adjustments to the car to make it better.
As far as Danica goes,I will agree she did good,will be interesting to see how well she does on a track where she has to slide the car around and call for adjustments to the car to make it better.
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Tony, my wife is joining up today as well. I think as racergirl? She watches more Nascar than I get to and boy does she hate lil E..lol.
BTW: she kicked my butt in the football pool this year
BTW: she kicked my butt in the football pool this year
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So I watched another episode of 24/7 jimmie johnson and what is pretty impressive to me is how fast they make this show. I mean they had scenes from Saturdays race and Sunday morning at Daytona, that was 2 days ago and they managed to compile all of that footage and edit it into a good show. Its to bad the show is done next Sunday because it would be sweet if they had it every Tuesday after a race weekend. I think it would give people a completely different perspective on NASCAR instead of just assuming its people driving in a circle.
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So I watched another episode of 24/7 jimmie johnson and what is pretty impressive to me is how fast they make this show. I mean they had scenes from Saturdays race and Sunday morning at Daytona, that was 2 days ago and they managed to compile all of that footage and edit it into a good show. Its to bad the show is done next Sunday because it would be sweet if they had it every Tuesday after a race weekend. I think it would give people a completely different perspective on NASCAR instead of just assuming its people driving in a circle.
Half the guys are on a backup car.
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