NASCAR - Race for thr Chase Race #1, Loudon, N.H.Sun. 9/17 TNT/12:30 p.m. E.T.

Well, I was waiting for Nawthurn Burton to speak up....I knew he would.

It's also done something virtually unheard of. Unflappable Jeff Burton is livid.

"It's pissed us off," he said. "It's made us mad. It's made us very mad. We've done nothing wrong. We have no trick that's made us run well.

"We've worked hard. We've worked smart. And someone in the media who chose to use unreliable sources has tainted that. And it pisses me off and it pisses my team off and I have little patience for it."

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Journalists have a responsibility to report the facts. If you want to pretend to be an investigative journalist then do a full job of investigating," Burton said.

"And if a true investigation had been done this story never would have been on air. He'd have found it to be erroneous. But he's chosen to stand his ground on half the facts. If you're going to be investigative get all the facts. That hasn't happened in this case.

"We had nothing wrong with a wheel. Nothing. There was nothing NASCAR looked at that NASCAR had a problem with. There's nothing we're not able to take back. Bob's story is a fabricated story by someone.

"When I say that, I'm not saying Bob fabricated this story, I'm saying someone did, and Bob chose to believe someone that.......{Ack I missed that and I'm not going back to Nascar.com they foul up my computer with all that moving stuff. Not much more there anyway}

http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/09/19/jburton_rcr_speed/index.html

Oh yea I'm ready for the truck race this weekend! Finally!!

Some bad news in that area, though. The Doc just told us this morning that she is convinced the boy has mono. Blood test results to follow but she says virtually all of the signs are there. Mono = no truck race, obviously. The boy ain't happy, to say the least. :-(

And I just gave away two garage passes - got to be 18 yrs old to get in! Arrrrr.........

And it appears I will have an extra ticket for a primo seat...you get first dibs! lol

I think you have been following this mess with the tires and RCR, something is not right.

The first article I read about it (forget where !!) said they were laser cutting a channel on the inside of the rim - something like 0.004 deep (maybe mistaken on the actual depth) for the bleeder action. Now, in articles since, I see no mention of that. Nascar is saying things like, "We've been checking stem valves for four months now..." So flippin what - got nothing to do with it!

Conspiracy, I tell ya! And yes, my tinfoil is Nascar tested and approved! lol.

Anyway, I think Bob Dillner needs to avoid Jeff Burton for a race or three....from Nascar.com.....

"We've worked hard. We've worked smart. And someone in the media who chose to use unreliable sources has tainted that. And it pisses me off and it pisses my team off and I have little patience for it."

Jeff be pissed!

I think Dillner got this from someone who wanted to start this fiasco.

Really? Holy cow.

If that is true, then I'm more than a bit disappointed.

1) In Dillner for not checking it out more. Jayski, ok. Speed Channel, no. 2) Has Nascar sunk that low? That someone would intentionally start this crap? Silly me for thinking that only politicians would get this low.

If that is how this turns out, that this was nothing more than someone starting sh!t, then maybe you were right after all.

I sure hope not......

Look back over Tubebender's and my comments on the "groove".

The more I think about it, the more absurd it seems.

I read .003 and that is the thickness of a human hair. Who saw this and did they put the rim under a microscope to see it????

Hope your son get's well before the race!

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