Nascar Nextel Cup - Auto Club 500 at California Speedway - Sunday 02-26-06 - Fox 330pm ET

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[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to this week's 2006 Nascar at FR race thread!

[NormsRevenge]

This Week - Sunday's Auto Club 500 at California Speedway

February 26 , 2006



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Nextel Cup Auto Club 500 - 02|26|06 - Fox Sun. 330pm ET /~/ Qualifying 02|24|06 630pm ET

Busch Series Stater Bros. 300 - 02|25|06 - FX Sat. 6pm ET /~/ Qualifying 02|25|06 4pm ET

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California Speedway
Race Menu for the weekend series

California Speedway California Speedway has a history that you might expect a track just 50 miles from Hollywood to have.

The speedway sits on a 568-acre site that once hosted the first steel mill located west of the Rocky Mountains, Kaiser Steel Mill. The mill produced the steel that helped build the Liberty ships used by the Allies to win World War II.

Kaiser Steel went out of business in 1983. Following that, the site fell into such disrepair that it was used in the movie The Terminator to portray a post-Apocalyptic world where men and machines battled each other for supremacy and survival.

Penske Motorsports Inc. purchased the land and completed the track in 1997. The first race held on the track was a Winston West Series race won by Ken Schrader on June 21, 1997. Later that day, Mark Martin won an International Race of Champions event at the new facility. Jeff Gordon won the track's first Cup race the following day.

California Speedway has also played host to races in the NASCAR Busch and Craftsman Truck Series, as well as events in the IndyCar Series and what is now the ChampCar World Series on its oval and road racing and motorcycle events on its road courses.

In 1999, Penske Motorsports Inc. merged with International Speedway Corporation, bringing California Speedway into the ISC family of tracks. Beginning in 2004, California Speedway's two-mile oval became the host of two NASCAR Cup Series races each year, adding a Labor Day weekend event to is roster of activities.

Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 14 degrees
Distance: 2.o miles
Shape: D-shaped Oval

[NormsRevenge]

Lots of hubbub as a result of the latest shenanigans on the circuit and at Daytona.

Please keep it civil on the thread and stay above the yellow line is all we ask. ;-]

As always, Thanks!

[NormsRevenge]

Let's start it off right... urrr,, get it out of our system early. ;-) (ducks&covers!)

No points were deducted from either Tony Stewart or Jimmie Johnson in this week's rankings, as they're a solid 1-2 heading west.

Power Rankings

[NormsRevenge]

Ok,, What could possibly happen this week? Ping
to
This Week's Nascar at FR thread. :-}

[RightCanuck]

Is that Yellow Line... in the snow?

[NormsRevenge]

Smith: NASCAR's message undelivered

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NASCAR: Knaus suspended until Bristol

[NormsRevenge]

Could you imagine ice racing with some of these clowns.? ;-) oh boy. lol

[sure_fine]

Ok,, What could possibly happen this week?




20 car in wall before lap 10.... lol

[westmichman]

Hope you are right. He's a cheater!

[NormsRevenge]

Support Our Troops!!!

[NormsRevenge]

10 on 20, got it. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

We're just going thru some growing pains as a sport, I hope.

We need to have some bad guys in black hats in the sport too.
;-)

[westmichman]

I was just getting to like him then he knocked out my favorite racer.

[barker]

The first race held on the track was a Winston West Series race won by Ken Schrader on June 21, 1997.

Let's hope Kenny has another good race there. He did well at Daytona.

[cripplecreek]

20 car in wall before lap 10.... lol

You would think he would be nervous about next week.

[NormsRevenge]

He nuked two former champions, matt and flash both got into it with him, but that's how some folks race these days.

I guess it is good to be 'the King' or reigning champ at least, look at Busch's behaviour the year before.


All I would ask of Nascar is consistency.

[sure_fine]

not only that, they can taunt hell out of him before AND during to bait him into a violation, but I bet officials will be watching for that too

[SouthTexas]

got it

[Wolfstar]

Ok,, What could possibly happen this week?

There was a good article posted elsewhere this morning that compared Tony Stewart to the rock-throwing, crazy mountain man Ernest T. from the old Andy Griffith Show.

Maybe what happens this week is that a bunch of drivers put Ernest T. Stewart in his place.

[umgud]

My take on an interesting year..........

We've got at least 10 top 5 drivers
15 top 10 drivers
25 top 15 drivers
And the best crop of rookies ever.

It's gonna be real hard on fantasy pickers this year.