Sprint Cup ~ Samsung 500 ~ Sunday, April 06, 2008 - TV: Fox 1:30PM/ET - Texas Motor Speedway

Nascar Jayski Photobucket | 03-31-08 | Me, Jack and Jr

[WestCoastGal]

WELCOME TO TEXAS *** Samsung 500 (334 Laps, 501 Miles ~ Sunday, April 06, 2008 - TV: Fox 1:30 PM/ET ~ green flag 2:15 ET Amdro Fire Strike Pre-Race Show starring, the Doobie Brothers *** Nationwide Series O'Reilly 300 (200 Laps, 300 Miles / TV: ESPN2 ~ Saturday, April 05, 2008 ~ 2:30PM Nationwide Series Live from Texas on ESPN2: After a weekend off, the Nationwide Series returns to action this weekend and ESPN2 will have live, flag-to-flag coverage of the 300-mile race from Texas Motor Speedway Saturday, April 5, beginning at 2:30 p.m. ET with NASCAR Countdown. The telecast is presented by Star Motorcycles All practice and qualifying times - click here. TMS Info for those attending the race click here *** WCG - PIT REPORTER

[WestCoastGal]

SALUTE TO OUR TROOPS
WE HONOR YOU ALL - OUR HEROS

[WestCoastGal]

Click for info......AND PING

[GRRRRR]

I are Here...way good looking openers WCG!!!

[WestCoastGal]

Thank you :)

[LasVegasMac]

Thanks WCG! Great looking thread!

And take some pictures!

[tubebender]

Got you loud and clear. Nice intro. Did you have to join the Pit Reporters Union?

[Coldwater Creek]

Go Denny Go!

[NYTexan]

Great job WCG!

Looking forward to yer pit report and pics!

[umgud]

Gud job WCG, we might just have to hire you on permanent.

[WestCoastGal]

Oh yeah, I have almost 400+ in the camera card. :)

[NormsRevenge]

MOO MOO!!!

Great stuff!!

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks, me too. :)

[glock rocks]

Moo?

[WestCoastGal]

Awwww thanks umgud, but we all like to share. :)

[WestCoastGal]

I think those longhorns snort rather than moo........It’s the California cows that go mooooooooooo. :D

[NormsRevenge]

OH, yeah, Right. :-)

Is this where ya get longhorn cheese from. .. the horns. :-}

[WestCoastGal]

That’s Steve’s territory I think. Cheeeeeeeese

[NormsRevenge]

I found that out after I did a search.. :-]

I love a good colby..

[WestCoastGal]

Denny had a good run Sunday that’s for sure!

[glock rocks]

Lone Star Updating Doppler

[WestCoastGal]

It’s your job to keep the green away from Justin Texas this week!!

Remember, there was a tornado there last April on race weekend.

[glock rocks]

I’ll do my best ma’am.

[Coldwater Creek]

I hate to rub it in, but my Memphis Tigers defeated your Longhorns Sunday as well.

On to the Final Four GO TIGERS!!!!!!!

[tubebender]

I was HERE. Interesting place Texas style...

[NYTexan]

Cool place cowboy dude!

Lauren, you gotta take me there next time I’m in town!

[AGreatPer]

"On to the Final Four GO TIGERS!!!!!!!"

And let's hope they get more than a 32% graduation rate this year.

[AGreatPer]

Wonderful introduction.

[Coldwater Creek]

16 out of 19 isn’t bad. Coach Cal makes scholastics a huge priority. Freshman Derrick Rose won’t be graduating for a while, but then making a living is the name of the game anyway, and when one is a multimillionaire, who cares whether the sheep skin is on the wall or not.

[Coldwater Creek]

P.S. We CAN shoot free throws.

[WestCoastGal]

All the Nascar festivities are right around the corner from there Friday night.

[WestCoastGal]

Thank you.

I was beginning to think I broke Free Republic. :D

[WestCoastGal]

Well my speculation on Truex just went out the window. BUT< Chad McCUmbee is still taking on the 45 for Kyle Petty. Some pretty big shake ups there.

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Labonte, General Mills to RCR
By Bob Margolis, Yahoo! Sports
2 hours, 26 minutes ago

Richard Childress Racing will field a fourth car in 2009 with sponsorship from General Mills, and Yahoo! Sports has learned that Bobby Labonte, the 2000 Cup champion, will be the driver.

Labonte, who has spent the past two-plus seasons driving for Petty Enterprises, will drive the No. 33 car.

Yahoo! Sports originally reported in February this exact story – that Labonte would be the driver of a fourth RCR car, with sponsorship from General Mills. At that time, Richard Childress acknowledged that he would field a fourth car, but denied Labonte would be the driver.

“No, no, no,” Childress told Fox Sports.

But sources close to the negotiations continue to confirm to Yahoo! Sports that a deal between Childress and Labonte is done.

Rumors of Labonte’s move to Childress began at the start of the 2008 season when Labonte signed to drive the No. 21 Nationwide car for Childress. It is expected the majority of the No. 21 team, headed by crew chief Shane Wilson, will move up to work on the new Sprint Car team.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar;_ylt=AlsgokU08V4McOBvEMH1pTw5nYcB

[LZ 129]

Thanks for the ping, this race is close to home. Bad news for the beloved 43. Don’t think the Petty’s expected that when they hired blabonte if he were to go he’d take their primary sponsor with him. Gotta be some other Cup owners nervous, doesn’t RCR lose AT&T next year?

[WestCoastGal]

It’s hard to keep up with but I think AT&T is good at RCR for quite some time.

It’s not definite that Labonte will go to RCR but if I were him I would.

I was speculating when I first heard the sponsor announcement that Truex would go there as his contract is up thankfully at DEI the end of the year.

[LZ 129]

Didn’t they have to stop using the AT&T logo on the 31 as part of a settlement they reached with NASCAR over the Nextel lawsuit? RCR got to keep the logos on for only one or two more seasons at most, I thought.

[vox_freedom]

Nice thread start, WCG!!!

& thanks for the ping!

[vox_freedom]

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[afnamvet]

Awesome job on the thread WCG!

[SouthTexas]

I don’t know about ya’ll....

[SouthTexas]

Not even to the spring Texas race and they are beginning “silly season”. Almost as bad as politics starting two years before the election!

[NYTexan]

That place looks like a lot of fun!

WCG, I need a recon report from there!

[WestCoastGal]

Ok, but I’m not riding the bull. :)

And in other news LMAO

...”Cottonelle, which introduced the slogan “Be kind to your behind” in January, plans to ask fans at NASCAR races this week to stand up for the Lap 100 stretch. Texas Motor Speedway will be the site for Nationwide and Sprint Cup events Saturday and Sunday.”....

[SouthTexas]

I think I was 19 or 20 the last time I was on a bull. It takes entirely too long to heal anymore.

[glock rocks]

That’s the spirit!

[WestCoastGal]

Thank you both.

It was a tough one this week as FR crashed the other night while I was putting it together and lost half of it. Fortunately I got it in last night before the big crash. :)

[SheLion]

Super Terrific Thread!  Thanks for the ping!!!!

 

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks girl, did you see that I’m going up for the two practice and qualifying days? Jr is running both races this weekend and I have pitpasses. :)

[WestCoastGal]

If anyone has Schrader on their team, best to replace him as he’s out this week per Nascar.com

[vox_freedom]

...did you see that I’m going up for the two practice and qualifying days? Jr is running both races this weekend and I have pitpasses. :)

me = envy

[NYTexan]

Dude, yer a grampa...stay off of those mechanical bone breakers!