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2008 NASCAR running thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Jan 7, 2008.

  1. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    That was the guy - works on the crew in some capacity. Not sure what.
     
  2. imjustagirl

    imjustagirl Active Member

    Pigeon's the jackman. The guy who went and asked Junior to get in Busch's car last year when Busch disappeared at Texas. Now on Junior's crew since he replaced Busch.

    Jesus Christ. I had 12 inches written on Denny Hamlin. Then I had five written on Earnhardt.

    Sorry, Clint Bowyer. Aside from the winner of the September race at Richmond each year, you may get the least ink of any race winner.
     
  3. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Starting on the pole, in the #70 Bass Pro Shops Chevrolet Impala ... That fat guy?

    From the notes section of Mulhern's gamer Sunday, which also mentions the impending evaporation of the Target sponsorship in NASCAR.
     
  4. Chi City 81

    Chi City 81 Guest

    Awesome.

    "As expected, Kyle Busch was raucously booed during driver introductions, where fans made it loud and clear how they felt about his late-race accident last week in Richmond that might have cost Dale Earnhardt Jr. a win.

    But NASCAR’s newest villain took it all in stride, enticing the crowd to keep it coming by raising his arms in the air and cupping his ear as he passed by the stands on the back of a pickup truck.

    As the truck rounded Turn 1, Earnhardt’s crew rushed to the pit road wall to jeer Busch on his way by, and the driver responded by turning and flipping his middle finger at them. Crew members up and down pit road marveled at Busch’s bravado, while Earnhardt’s No. 88 team simply smirked as he passed by."
     
  5. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Punk won the race, though. As usual, Earnhardt's car was better at the green flag than anytime else.

    And Punk hit the outside wall three times trying to find victory lane. :D
     
  6. budcrew08

    budcrew08 Active Member

    Dear SportsJournalists.com,
    Can Punk be Kyle Busch's SportsJournalists.com name from now on? Thanks.
    BC08
     
  7. Moderator1

    Moderator1 Moderator Staff Member

    Call him what you want, but Punk can drive.
     
  8. sportschick

    sportschick Active Member

    Makes him the perfect villian really. He's a brat and he wins. Hard to root against somebody if they suck.
     
  9. FreddiePatek

    FreddiePatek Active Member

    Wow, the E-bay ad at the bottom of this page when I viewed offered a Reed Sorenson autographed crash photo.

    I've got nothing to add to that.
     
  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    He needs a white hat though, and Junior ain't it (except in fans' eyes) unless he starts winning.
     
  11. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    From GM Motorsports flackery, via Jayski:

    <blockquote><b>JR Motorsorts could move to Cup:</b> #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr. from a weekly top 12 drivers press conference:
    THE OWNERSHIP THING, WHEN YOU’RE OUT THERE RACING WITH BRAD KESELOWSKI, ARE THERE THINGS THAT GO THROUGH YOUR MIND AND ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT HIM OR ABOUT THE RACE? “Well, I get mad when he messes up and I see him in a wreck or something. But normally I just hope he’s doing what he’s supposed to be doing and running good and having a good night. But his night doesn’t go right or something happens to the car, it’s sort of bums you out a little bit and it’s hard to revert back to concentrating on what you’re trying to do with your car.”
    IS THERE ANY CHANCE YOU’LL MOVE UP TO THE CUP LEVEL WITH THAT TEAM ANYTIME? “I used to say no way, no way. But it’s almost as expensive to run in the Nationwide Series. And their going to bring a CoT in and we won’t be able to race in the Nationwide Series with the CoT probably. That’ll just be too expensive to switch all that over.”
    <u><i>WOULD YOU DO IT AS EARLY AS NEXT YEAR? “Yeah, maybe. If the right opportunity comes along with the right sponsorship and driver, we’d love to do it. And it would cost the same amount of money to do that, as it is to run the Nationwide Series. It’s harder to get sponsorships. And the CoT program is going to be too expensive for me to justify creating a whole new program with CoT stuff, so I’d just as soon go into the Cup Series or get out of the Nationwide Series altogether.”</i></u>
    COULD YOU GET MARTIN TRUEX JR. IN THAT CAR? “No. Why would he want to come drive for me? He’s in good stuff now and he’s going to have great opportunities from other people. And I would never do that to him (laughter). For the first year coming out of the box, man we’ll struggle like hell. Come on, man. He’s going to have deals offered to him by these great companies around here and from DEI. I’ll be at the bottom of that list, right there with Haas and a couple of other people (laughter). I don’t know with Tony (Stewart) if he goes over there (Haas), he might be able to talk Martin into it. But I don’t know man. I mean no way would I even do that to Martin, even if he wanted to.”(GM Racing PR)(5-17-2008)</blockquote>

    Ital/underline stuff is my emphasis.

    Interesting.
     
  12. Sxysprtswrtr

    Sxysprtswrtr Active Member

    Change the venue, the week and the race, and you have the exact same scenario. Busch gets booed. Again.

    And now he's out of the All-Star race.
     
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