NASCAR SPRINT Cup: Goody's Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway, Sun 3/30/08 ~ 1:30 p.m. ET FOX

NASCAR.com / Jayski.com / various embeded links | March 25, 2008 | NYTexan

[NYTexan]

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Goody's Cool Orange 500

Welcome all to the Sprint Cup race at
Martinsville Speedway

(Click on the Pics, Graphics, & Links for related news & info.)

Current Cup driver standings

VT's Beamer Cool Orange Grand Marshal

Virginia Tech’s Military Marching Band
will Perform National Anthem for Goody’s Cool Orange 500

Fans In South Terrace Seats Will Get Martinsville Hotdogs Delivered

Track Schedule for the Goody's Cool Orange 500/Kroger 250

Goody's Cool Orange 500 Entry List

Qualifying: Friday 3/28 3:40 pm Sprint Cup Qualifying ~ SPEED
Race: Sunday 3/30 1:30 pm SPRINT Cup Race ~ FOX

Speed's NASCAR Raceday Pre-Race Show: 11:30 am/et
Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 2:15pm/et

Jayski.com TV listings

Track Details with Current & Historical Track info from:
NASCAR.com, That's Racin', SceneDaily
Answers.com, JAYSKI'S, RacingOne.com, Wikipedia

NASCAR News, Info and Stats from JAYSKI'S

[NYTexan]

Deadline to select or edit your drivers is March 28, 5:00am EDT

(if you post about the food you cook, pics are mandatory!)

[NYTexan]

Martinsville thread is up.

[vox_freedom]

In before the ping!!!

[NYTexan]

Close, but no cigar!

[vox_freedom]

Well, within a minute.

[umgud]

Ya’all beat me.

[vox_freedom]

Am I too late for the caution pool?

[NormsRevenge]

Excellente!!!

[NYTexan]

Plenty of time yet, but choose carefully as the steaks are enormous!

[tubebender]

Very Nice Job NYT!!!

[vox_freedom]

Very nice NYTexan and nice to see you TB.

[tubebender]

Thanks... I spend more time here than with my First Wife. We had the family over yesterday for a Prayer and a Perfect Ham dinner. Glad the 2 grand kids can still it make as they are 19 and 23.

Time for bed for this old worn out body...

[LasVegasMac]

What the heck are you doing?

There is no race this weekend!

No race last weekend....so.....I mean......

Is there really a race this weekend? Serious, like?

Giggity!!!!!!

I'm in.........:)

Thanks for the life line!

[NYTexan]

Sheesh, one week off and your into withdrawal?

Hate ta see what yer like during off-season! ;)

[B4Ranch]

You need a VCR so that you can play old races. It really cuts down on the shock of not having a race every weekend.

[budman_2001]

Thanks for the ping!!! We're club racing at the local track this weekend, so ya'll have fun, eat well, and be here the week following.

[NYTexan]

Have a great time!

Hope ya can post some pics.

[afnamvet]

Thanks for the thread NYT! I'll see all y'all here Sunday. Gotta git muh caution pick in. LOL!

Time to hit the sack.

[TexasCajun]

Woo-Hoo!!

Texas is only two weeks away!!

I've been packed for weeks.

[TexasCajun]

Re: Tag line

I taught my dad how to use the Internet and email.

I get a couple of calls a week and usually includes a service call, err I mean visit.

[WestCoastGal]

I think I’m going up for qualifying day, I have pitpasses. I can’t afford to stay any longer because the dang hotels are 3 times the regular price. My neighbor is sending e-mails to friends to find me something.......so we’ll see.

[WestCoastGal]

Thread looks great NY!

[SouthTexas]

Day late and a dollar short, but I got it!

[SouthTexas]

Just stay at the track! Weather has to be better than last spring.

[TexasCajun]

I know what you mean, I've stayed at the Best Western in Denton (15 miles north of the track) before and they charged 175.00/night on race weekend.

Last year we stayed in Lewisville at the Roadway Inn (70/night).

I called they have rooms still.

Rodeway Inn (TX173)
1102 Texas St , Lewisville, TX, US, 75057
Phone: (972) 221-2121 Fax: (972) 221-2121

It's not the Hyatt, but works fine for race weekend.

[WestCoastGal]

Where> In my car? LOL

[WestCoastGal]

I’m going to check, thanks. :)

[SouthTexas]

Beats the rocks on the side of the road! :)

[SouthTexas]

I normally stay with family in Plano. Went through downtown Lewisville 6-7 years ago to avoid construction and have gone that way on Sunday morning raceday ever since.

[B4Ranch]

Son, you can tell yer wifey anytin you want about why you have to git over to yer Pops place right away but we both know it ain’t got nuttin tado about fixin his computer. Jus’ remember to be a nice fella and ask if there’s anytin you can pick up for the wifey while yer out.

[LUV W]

Awesome-looking thread, NYT! Ya did good!

[WestCoastGal]

Oh oh.........

Roush Says Toyota Team Stole “Proprietary Part”: ESPN the Magazine has an interesting and potentially explosive quote from Roush Fenway Racing co-owner Jack Roush as part of its 10th Anniversary issue, which is on newsstands this week. Two weeks ago at Atlanta Motor Speedway, the magazine quotes Roush as saying, “We had a proprietary Roush Fenway part go missing from one of my race teams, and we recovered it from a Toyota team. I’m not going to say which team it is, but we are considering legal action, or getting NASCAR involved.” If Roush’s allegations prove to be true, this could become NASCAR’s version of the recent spy scandal that rocked Formula One racing, in which the McLaren-Mercedes team was caught with confidential, proprietary test information belonging to rival Ferrari. We contacted Roush Fenway Racing today in search of further information – including team was involved and the specific part in question — and we [SIRIUS Speedway w/ Dave Moody] hope to have a statement from them later today.(Motorsports Soapbox)(3-25-2008) Comment here

[SouthTexas]

Guess they shouldn’t be leaving “Proprietary Parts” laying around eh? LOL

[WestCoastGal]

I didn’t know Toyota teams had a position for ‘kleptos’ :D

[WestCoastGal]

We could go back and look to see which Toyota team would have been parked next to one of his teams in the garage. :)

[tubebender]

I had a few errands to do around town this morning before a 1PM app at a medical equip store to have my C-PAP machine calibrated. I also had lunch at my favorite joint. When I got home wife asks what I had. I told her I had Grains - Vegies - Potatoes - Meat and Dairy at old time wholesome eatery.

Not satisfied with that she called our daughter and asked. Of course daughter is always looking for a way to get even and told her I had s Chili cheeseburger with lettuce, pickles, onions and tomatoes. Garlic French Fries and a Strawberry Milk Shake. Hey they make the shake with low fat milk... MIKES DRIVE UP since 1946.

[glock rocks]

Carry Me back to Old Sic Temper Updating Tyrannis Dominion Doppler:

[SouthTexas]

Sounds like a balanced diet to me!

[tubebender]

Right! I meant to add that...

[NYTexan]

I love a NASCAR soap opera scandal. This could be series!

[WestCoastGal]

I just wonder what kind of part that could be? :)

[NYTexan]

Maybe ya should have bought yer daughter lunch too! ;)

[glock rocks]

Now, now. Helton told us that this would be the year of the kinder, gentler Nascar to keep us nascar fogies around.

Heh.

[NYTexan]

That prolly won’t be disclosed. But when names are named is when the excitement will start!

[B4Ranch]

tube, what yer doin wrong is yer not bringin nuttin home for Momma. A Coke and a bag of fries keeps most young gals smiling. Yeah I know mine’s a bit older it takes a 1/2 pint of likker to keep her warm and smilin but that’s only since I taught her them cold weather survival skills.

[NYTexan]

Thanks for the Grok weather map. Let’s hope for clear sky on race day!

[glock rocks]

The friction is almost palpable.

You made the mistake of raising a fine daughter, and now she’s gonna follow your example. Did ya ever stop to think she’d be the one with the foresight and energy to keep you whooped into shape? LOL... if you had it to do over, you’d want her to turn out just the same. She’s an angel.

My daughter seems to be turning out the same way, and, sadly, something in her tells her, also, that she’s in charge. What’s up with that??

[NYTexan]

Lucky dawg! Hope ya got good seats.

And don’t forget the camera!!

FReeperette Laurenmarlowe will be there too.

[af_vet_rr]

So ole Jack "Everybody is treating their tires but me" Roush is at it again.

I feel for the guy, I really do. For whatever reason, Ford has been quietly reducing their NASCAR presence, and sponsors have picked up on that - witness the Yates' problems at SponsorYates.com. Roush is the Ford team these days.

Much like his tire treatment stuff, Roush had better back this up - there is a reason why people mock him so much. I do feel sorry for him, it sucks that Ford is abandoning NASCAR (or reducing their presence down to just a handful of cars), but Ford has done this with other racing series, and maybe the bean counters didn't feel the amount of money they were putting into it was giving them the return they needed.

[SouthTexas]

It was all a set-up to take someone out that’s high in the points!