NASCAR - The Kobalt Tools 500 - from Atlanta - on FOX, Sunday 3/9 at 2:00pm ET (Race #4 of 36)

Jayski / NASCAR ^

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The Kobalt Tools 500

Sunday 2:00 pm ET on FOX

from Atlanta Motor Speedway

SPEED Race Day at 11:30 ETFOX Pre-race show at 1:30 ETGreen Flag approx 2:00 ET

Please visit the FR Canteen - Dedicated to our troops, veterans, and their families:

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God Bless Our Troops

Please pray on this day, and every day, for our Patriot Armed Forces standing in harm's way around the world in defense of our liberty, and for the families awaiting their safe return.

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Heads Up! FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Deadline to select or edit your drivers is
Friday, March 7 at 5:00am EST
(so you'd best make them by Thursday night!)

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Practice Dates/Times/TV

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• Practices:
  Friday, March 7, 3:00 - 4:30pm/et, TV-SPEED;
  Saturday, March 8, 11:00 - 11:45am/et, TV-SPEED
  
  
• Happy Hour Practice: Saturday, March 8, 12:20 - 1:20pm/et on TV-SPEED
  
  

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Qualifying Information/Times/TV

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• Qualifying Draw [ping pong balls]: Friday, March 7, 2:00pm/et
  
  
• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-42 [if no past champ prov used, then 43rd goes next fastest non top-35 driver], Friday, March 7 at 6:45pm/et, TV-SPEED, no re-air;
  AND live via radio at PRN Radio and Sirius Satellite NASCAR Radio.

Info courtesy Jayski.com

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Peachy, Updating Hampton, Georgia Doppler.

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Nationwide Series:

Nicorette 300
Saturday 3/8 at Atlanta Motor Speedway (2pm race tape delayed) TV: ESPN2- 7:00 p.m. ET

Craftsman Truck Series:

American Commercial Lines 200
Friday 3/7 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on SPEED - 8:30pm ET

Weekend TV/radio race coverage, all series, all events

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Track/Race Length: 1.54 mile quad oval, 325 laps, 500.5 miles
Degree of Banking: Turns: 24 degrees; Straightaways: 5 degrees
Straights: Frontstretch - 2332 feet; Backstretch - 1800 feet
Pit Road Speed: 45mph
Pace Car Speed: 55mph
Grandstand Seating: 124,000
Opened: 1960

National Anthem: Jason Michael Carroll
Military Flyover: A-10 Warthogs USAF

[WestCoastGal]

6th?

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Atlanta PING!

just FReepmail if you want on or off the NASCAR Ping list.

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6th?

Yes indeed! Okra for everyone!

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Atlanta Nuggets:

AMS Announces record purse: NASCAR drivers competing in the March 9 Kobalt Tools 500, the March 8 Nicorette 300 and the March 7 American Commercial Lines 200 Craftsman Truck Series races at Atlanta Motor Speedway will be battling for nearly $7 million in posted prize money. The awards for the events are part of a $6,763,848 purse announced for the three days of racing that comprise the March 7-9 Kobalt Tools 500 race weekend schedule of events. This exciting weekend of racing will kick off Friday night, March 7 with Georgia Power Sprint Cup Qualifying night, immediately followed by the American Commercial Line 200 Craftsman Truck Series race, where the tough trucks of NASCAR will hit the 1.54-mile quad-oval and battle for more than half a million dollars. Racing action will heat up on Saturday, March 8 when the Nationwide Series regulars try and beat select Sprint Cup drivers in the Nicorette 300, with $1,151,315 up for grabs. On Sunday, the stars of the Sprint Cup series will take on the high banks of Atlanta Motor Speedway in the Kobalt Tools 500, racing for a record purse of $5,060,012. This is the first time in Atlanta Motor Speedway's history the purse has exceeded five million dollars.

Info courtesy Jayski.com

[don-o]

Welcome South Brother

[NYTexan]

Thanks for the Ping GROK!

Let’s go racin’!

[NYTexan]

I was stalking Grok for a bit till I got pinged elsewhere. Good job!

[NormsRevenge]

I got yur Okra right here!

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Welcome South Brother

It’s good to be back to where the folk are hospitable, the women are gorgeous, and the food is the finest. Thank you sir.

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That’s just evil. I’m going to make a note to discuss that with my analyst.

[tubebender]

>>>>>>rack/Race Length: 1.54 mile quad oval, 325 laps, 500.5 miles
Degree of Banking: Turns: 24 degrees; Straightaways: 5 degrees
Straights: Frontstretch - 2332 feet; Backstretch - 1800 feet
Pit Road Speed: 45mph
Pace Car Speed: 55mph
Grandstand Seating: 124,000
Opened: 1960

National Anthem: Jason Michael Carroll
Military Flyover: A-10 Warthogs USAF<<<<<

That’s all fine and good but I need a hot tip on the winner this weekend. After Calif i was tied for 12th. Now I’m tied for 11th and I need a 98 point advantage...

[NormsRevenge]

LOL..

Weather looks iffy friday and OK rest of the week-end.. and a litle cool for HotLanta but heck it is March..

[tubebender]

You too?

[SouthTexas]

Got it!

I'm sure glad you posted this, I HAVE to get off the election threads before I end up declaring war on someone.

[NormsRevenge]

19th and climbing here,, I’ll toss ya a line when I go by. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

LOL..

I HAVE to get off the election threads before I end up declaring war on someone.

A man has to know his limits.. I hear ya. ;-)

[SouthTexas]

I already have everyone in two offices running away from me when I walk in. LOL

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When I get frustrated about the upcoming election, I go dig in my back yard. I figured I’d bury enough food for eight years. If all else fails, I can cement it and have the pool I’ve always wanted... or, sponsor neighborhood mud wrestling matches. I figure I’ll have about one chance in 150 million of changing the outcome... how’s that for a reality check?

OTOH, there’s a race on this weekend!

Too bad we don’t have a LasVegasMac in Atlanta!

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the ping!

[NYTexan]

Yep, GROK took his sweet ol’ time ta git-r-done! ;)

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That’s all fine and good but I need a hot tip on the winner this weekend.

Bo won't give out his new cell number, so I'm in the same boat, which is, coincidentally, steadily sinking. I'll see ya halfway.

[NYTexan]

LMAO...Don’t mess with Texans!

[SouthTexas]

Thankfully I got tied up on a job all day today waiting for a 3:00 meeting that got canceled at 2:30.

[tubebender]

It was a lovely day here in the Land of Big Trees so I ventured out into the garden to watch wife spade a strip 3’ by 50 feet for a flower bed. Took her 65 minutes. Not a record but a new model is out of the question...

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Kobalt tools are kool!

I use them whenever I am traveling around our great Kountry, especially when I stay at KOAs.

You'ld be Krazy not to use Kobalt tools!

[SouthTexas]

I just don't get some people's mindset. Sure glad all of our drivers are not part of the "pick up my ball and go home crowd".

I think I need to go short trackin so I may miss the tape delay Saturday night.

[SouthTexas]

How about a new model as an “assistant”?

[umgud]

THX for the ping

[NYTexan]

Yep, there’s a tough crowd out there ta be sure.

Luckily we got this place to decompress.

(till someone bashes our favorite drivers, that is) ;)

[vox_freedom]

Did ya'll see what Nascar did to Flipper today?

Carl Edwards was docked 100 points and car owner Jack Roush 100 owner points because of the oil reservoir unbolted cover issue. This drops Edwards from 1st to 7th in points.
Crew chief Bob Osborne was fined $100,000, suspended from the next six races until April 30 and placed on probation through the end of the year.

In addition, Edwards will not receive a 10-point bonus for last Sunday's victory if he qualifies for the Chase.

[SouthTexas]

That’s just racin’ though and by the end of the day, OK end of the week maybe, we’ll get over it and go on.

[LasVegasMac]

Thanks for da ping, GR!

I wish I could be in Atlanta!!!

Working on loading all the pics I took to a hosting site....this site has a 3 MB limit on image size....sorry Norm...

Will let ya know...

[NYTexan]

IMHO the COT sucks and so do many if not most of the NUTSCAR rules about them.

Where is inovation? Locked in a cage!!!

The rule book should be torn in half with only the safety provisions left!

[B Knotts]

Wow. From the severity of the penalty, NASCAR seems to be saying that they believe this was something that helped the car go faster somehow.

[SouthTexas]

I was not a fan of COT when it first arrived, but have warmed to it. When Flash and JJ totaled out their cars in the Shootout, they were able to replace them with cars technically for another track. And then in the race, there was far more passing than I’ve seen in quite a while at Daytona or Taladega. They would start their normal train thing and someone would just drop out and go forward. Don’t know if they showed it on TV or not, but it was happening well back into the pack too.

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Kobalts are Snap-On tools priced for us kommoners. I rank them pretty klose to Kraftsman.

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The COTs don’t fly as well unless they’re rear ended.

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Yep, GROK took his sweet ol’ time ta git-r-done! ;)

I seem to have lost a day this week (don't tell Quix).

[tubebender]

NOTHING TO SEE HERE

[vox_freedom]

NASCAR seems to be saying that they believe this was something that helped the car go faster somehow.

LOL. Yep, knock me over with a feather...

[SouthTexas]

Or broadsided. ;)

[vox_freedom]

The rule book should be torn in half with only the safety provisions left!

On that I agree. They could start by granting freedom of speech to the drivers and even allowing them to throw two but not more than ten punches at others after a wreck.

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Don’t stop now... if the drivers wanted to throw more than ten punches, Nascar could offer pay-per-view for WWN All Star Racer Wrasslin. Hell, I’d pay to watch it. Smoke vs. Karl Busch, $20! Oh yah. Jimmy Spencer vs. Mike Helton, $50. WOOO!

I could go on...

[NYTexan]

Karl Busch?

And just what pub was yer meeting at? ;))

[vox_freedom]

Cage fighting. They already have the fence material at the track...