Nascar Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at Loudon, NH - Sunday Sept 20 at 1 pm ET on ABC (Race #27 of 36)

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[NormsRevenge]

The field is set and Race #1 of 10 in the Chase for the Cup is set for this Sunday at Loudon.

[NormsRevenge]

Welcome to this week's 2009 Nascar at FR race thread!
This Week - Race #1 of 10 for the Chase for the Cup for 2009

The Sylvania 300 at Loudon (Race #27 of 36)

September 20, 2009


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NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Sylvania 300 - ABC - Sunday 09|20|09 1pm ET // Qualifying - ESPN2 - 09|18|09 3pm ET

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No Nationwide Racing this week-end.

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Camping World Heluva Good! 200 - SPEED - Saturday 09|19|09 230pm ET// Qualifying - SPEED - 09|19|09 10am ET

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New Hampshire International Speedway is one of the most unusual tracks on the Nextel Cup Series. How unusual? The track has been described as "Martinsville on steroids." Its roots in New England racing go back to 1964, when Bob Bahre acquired a track in Oxford, Maine, which he and his son, Gary, operated until 1986.







Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 12° turns, 2° straights
Distance: 1.058 miles
Shape: Oval

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FRFL'ers - Deadline to select your drivers is Sep 18 2:00am PDT





The FR Canteen

God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

Welcome to this week's 2009 Nascar at FR race thread!
This Week - Race #1 of 10 for the Chase for the Cup for 2009

The Sylvania 300 at Loudon (Race #27 of 36)

September 20, 2009


Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Sylvania 300 - ABC - Sunday 09|20|09 1pm ET // Qualifying - ESPN2 - 09|18|09 3pm ET

**********

No Nationwide Racing this week-end.

**********

Camping World Heluva Good! 200 - SPEED - Saturday 09|19|09 230pm ET// Qualifying - SPEED - 09|19|09 10am ET

**********

Tune In



New Hampshire International Speedway is one of the most unusual tracks on the Nextel Cup Series. How unusual? The track has been described as "Martinsville on steroids." Its roots in New England racing go back to 1964, when Bob Bahre acquired a track in Oxford, Maine, which he and his son, Gary, operated until 1986.







Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 12° turns, 2° straights
Distance: 1.058 miles
Shape: Oval

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FRFL'ers - Deadline to select your drivers is Sep 18 2:00am PDT





The FR Canteen

God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

Welcome to this week's 2009 Nascar at FR race thread!
This Week - Race #1 of 10 for the Chase for the Cup for 2009

The Sylvania 300 at Loudon (Race #27 of 36)

September 20, 2009


Click for Nascar race & news threads at FR

NASCAR Sprint Cup Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Sylvania 300 - ABC - Sunday 09|20|09 1pm ET // Qualifying - ESPN2 - 09|18|09 3pm ET

**********

No Nationwide Racing this week-end.

**********

Camping World Heluva Good! 200 - SPEED - Saturday 09|19|09 230pm ET// Qualifying - SPEED - 09|19|09 10am ET

**********

Tune In



New Hampshire International Speedway is one of the most unusual tracks on the Nextel Cup Series. How unusual? The track has been described as "Martinsville on steroids." Its roots in New England racing go back to 1964, when Bob Bahre acquired a track in Oxford, Maine, which he and his son, Gary, operated until 1986.







Track Facts
Banking/Turns: 12° turns, 2° straights
Distance: 1.058 miles
Shape: Oval

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FRFL'ers - Deadline to select your drivers is Sep 18 2:00am PDT





The FR Canteen

God Bless Our Troops and Their Families

[NormsRevenge]

Loudon race thread is up.

[afnamvet]

Norm, the date in the headline, should it be the 20th?

[glock rocks]

Wooooo!

Where’s my okra!

[tubebender]

Second place to Sac

[NormsRevenge]

Yes it should, Thanks, that’s my wifey’s Bday. lol..

[tubebender]

It starts with a capital B

[glock rocks]

that’s my wifey’s Bday.

At least you remembered!

May you sleep indoors and watch races! (Fair winds and following seas?)

[glock rocks]

Bokra?

[glock rocks]

Loudon New Hampshire Updating Doppler...

[teletech]

My Son and Daughter-In-Law will be at the race.

[NormsRevenge]

Looks to be a nice day.. should be a good time for them..
qualifying may be dampened, fingers crossed.

[NormsRevenge]

[glock rocks]

Any real estate available in that neighborhood?

[NormsRevenge]

not worth tilling.

[umgud]

bumpity

[SouthTexas]

Slightly off topic, but one of the comments qualified it.

They blowed up real good!
Ace

[teletech]

Looks to be a nice day.. should be a good time for them.. qualifying may be dampened, fingers crossed.

We have family in Nashua, NH so Mrs Teletech and I are going to visit family & watch our 1 Year old Grandson while my Son and Daughter-In-Law go to the race.

[vox_freedom]

Thanks for the thread & the ping, NormsRevenge.

[glock rocks]

Can’t get it to play...

[AGreatPer]

One of the best Anthums:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ETrr-XHBjE

[SouthTexas]

Trying again

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/292334.php

[SouthTexas]

Worked for me.

[glock rocks]

CNN zot! Thanks man.

[SouthTexas]

I know, but I couldn’t resist when I ran through the comments. :)

[happydogx2]

Thanks NormsRevenge, looking good.

Weather seems to be a “go” for now.

Dang, this is going to be a good series of races for the chase.

[happydogx2]

Ok, you salmon-stuffed fellow, here’s a story for you. I told my wife about your self proclaimed driving escapades and roadway damage after your tax wearing party before we left for Portland on Sunday. A couple of hours into the trip we saw signs of an accident - cones, flares, tape, skid-marks, etc. My wife sees the obliterated guard rail and says “look, Tubebender’s been here”. True story.

I’m afraid your name will now be proclaimed every time we see a damaged guardrail in the future. Yep, it’s a Tubebender”.

I send ya a fishing report tomorrow.

[happydogx2]

It becomes a bit clearer w/this CNN Money article:

Fiat CEO: Chrysler worse than we thought
Executives will present a revised business plan in November detailing steps to recovery.
by Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNNMoney.com senior writer
Last Updated: September 16, 2009: 2:13 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — The situation at recently rescued Chrysler Group is even more dire than first thought, the CEO of Italy’s Fiat — which came to the aid of the U.S. automaker — said Wednesday.

“We were surprised by how little had been done in the past 24 months,” Sergio Marchionne told reporters in Frankfurt, Germany.

Chrysler will present a revised business plan in November, Marchionne told reporters.

“We have to be absolutely clear about what we want to do with Chrysler and, as a management team, where the organization is going to be in five years,” Marchionne said, according to the industry newspaper Automotive News.

Unlike General Motors, which has continued to roll out new and redesigned products even as it entered and exited bankruptcy, Chrysler has had little to tout. Its most recent new market entries are the Dodge Challenger muscle car — essentially a re-bodied Dodge Charger sedan — and the Ram pick-up.

The only new product Chrysler has entering the market this year is an industrial-duty version of the Ram truck. After that, a new version of the Jeep Grand Cherokee mid-sized SUV isn’t expected until the middle of next year.

Even if the Grand Cherokee is a terrific product, its timing is unfortunate, said Michelle Krebs, senior analyst with Edmunds.com.

“The 2011 Grand Cherokee is an SUV being launched into a market that doesn’t favor SUVs,” she said.

In terms of smaller cars and more fuel-efficient crossover SUVs, nothing is expected from Chrysler in the near future.

Industry analyst Todd Turner of Car Concepts Automotive Research, speaking from the floor of the Frankfurt Motor Show, found it difficult to believe Marchionne’s assertion that he didn’t know how little work had been going on at Chrysler.

“I’m a little surprised that he was surprised,” he said.

More likely, Turner said, Marchionne is laying the groundwork for drastic actions that will be announced in November but may have been planned all along.

“That is that Chrysler is over, basically,” he said of Chrysler’s flagship car brand. “Within five years, you’re going to see nothing.”

Chrysler also makes Dodge and Jeep vehicles.

Even if the Chrysler name survives, Turner predicted, the vehicles marketed under that name will be Fiat products.

On the other hand, Marchionne may simply be enjoying his freedom to be more honest now that the Chrysler deal is completed and laying the groundwork to make himself and Fiat seem all the more like saviors. suggested James Bell, market analyst for the auto Web site KBB.com.

“If they didn’t come in as the proverbial white knight, Chrysler would be going through liquidation right now,” he said.

Chrysler had no comment about Marchionne’s statement to the press.

In its deal to rescue Chrysler, Fiat took a 20% stake in the struggling automaker in exchange for partnering with Chrysler on new products, especially small and mid-sized cars . Fiat did not invest any cash into Chrysler and, Marchionne told reporters, does not plan to do so now.

He said he hopes no outside investment will be needed as part of the new restructuring, according to Automotive News.

Marchionne said he expects U.S. auto sales, industrywide, to total about 11 million vehicles next year. If demand doesn’t go up to that level, from the current level of roughly 10 million units, Chrysler may have to close more factories, he said, according to the newspaper.

First Published: September 16, 2009: 12:30 PM ET

[tubebender]

Next years Nascar line will be Ford - Chevy - Toyo and Fiat. BRB...gotta go steal some milk crates to store my bummer crop of taters...and speaking of taters how IS Little Jimmy Dickens

[happydogx2]

You continue to expand my horizons in ways that I wish you wouldn’t.

May some Okra from Texas fly up your nose....

[tubebender]

May some Okra from Texas fly up your nose....

Is it any different from the Okra I got from Utaaah which came from Calif in the first place? You are so lucky I don't ping you to the weekly gardening threads to regale you with my vast knowledge of Dirt...

[tubebender]

OBTW... I got petroleum sticker shock in the plastic section of Kmart a bit ago in my quest for Milk Crates. (sweet young thing said what’s a milk crate)

[happydogx2]

Could you see the look in her eyes that said “you dirty old man!” when she asked you what a milk crate was????

Are you crack’n any corn, or do you care?

[tubebender]

Are you crack’n any corn, or do you care? I be Sleepin at the Foot of the Bed

She asked ME to follow HER to the back room to look...

[happydogx2]

Ya, I got little Jimmy Dickens ‘though I had to look. I thought I’d throw another back at ya w/:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1288/who-is-jimmy-and-why-does-he-crack-corn

Dunno why they call them olden days cause I was just a young-un but I remember we used to watch Grand Ole Opry and listen and sing to country music. I don’t know where those days went or the listening to country music either. I do know it was much better and simpler back then though when right was right and wrong was wrong. I know that’s why I like NASCAR. Straight shooters, patriotic & pride of trying to be the best.

[tubebender]

HEY TORK, DID YOU KNOW THAT Famous Rhodes IS THE DIRECTOR OF PARTS & ACCESSORIES FOR EBAY MOTORS?

[WestCoastGal]

Thanks for the ping Norm - I’m back to working Sunday’s so can’t attend here. AND, since Jr’s not in Chase he will not be mentioned - unless of course, he wins and that’s a longshot with the crap cars he’s had.

Last week the brakes were BAD even MM could see and reported from his car that something was very wrong with Jr’s brakes already during the beginning laps of the race. Towards the middle McGrew finally admitted he had no clue what was wrong with the brakes and why the car was not turning in the corners. *sigh*

[tubebender]

I think the phrase "Jimme Crack Corn" is a twist of "Gimme Crack Corn" referring to mash liquor or White Lighting from the stills in the hills.

Mean while back in the Pits Toy and Redbull extend deal

[happydogx2]

I’ve consulted my Nancy Reagan astrology charts and looked deep into the water dish and conclude two things: 1) you are due for a bad week 2) you’re running outa bullets.

Btn the Okra in your nose, the cracked corn in the jug and the cork you know where I bet your feel’n a bit uncomfortable.

And there’s always those double-file re-starts at New Hampshire:

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/headlines/cup/09/17/restarts.crucial.newhampshire/index.html

[NormsRevenge]

Pie, popcorn and racing as NASCAR hits NYC

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AtDP7vWM6C5B6znjnnqPPF7ov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-chase&prov=ap&type=lgns

JENNA FRYER, AP Auto Racing Writer

NEW YORK (AP)—Three-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson’s whirlwind day came to a close when four Knicks City Dancers presented him with a cake to celebrate his 34th birthday.

In between, there was a pie-throwing contest at “Live! with Regis and Kelly,” fashion advice from Brian Vickers to Kurt Busch, and Ryan Newman’s attempt to toss popcorn across a room and into someone’s open mouth.

[tubebender]

I think all 10 Chase Races should be run on Polish tracks in Craftsman Trucks...

[happydogx2]

Track-smack re: 2010 venues, RPM, tracks for the chase & legitmate chase contenders.

Since I live up here I’m one of those guys who’d like to see a race in the Pacific Northwest. Central Washington would be ideal but it probably won’t happen in my lifetime.

I know I haven’t seen a chase field this strong before. There are several legitimate contenders, 6-8 of them very strong. I have to agree w/the opinion that we need a bit more track diversity in the chase races - road course and another short-track or two.

I know everyone changed their drivers...

[happydogx2]

http://www.nascar.com/2009/news/features/09/17/track.smack.schedule.rpm.chase/index.html

Ah, here’s the link. It’s still 3:18am...not drinking my 2nd cup of coffee yet.

[tubebender]

Let me get this straight... You’ll get up at 3:00AM to go fishing but you won’t get up at 7:00 to take Mrs X2 shopping in Portland?

I think they should build a 5/8th mile track between Sacramento and Redding on EyE 5 and close the So/Cal

[happydogx2]

Fortunately not many clothing stores are open at 3am...A man does have to have his priorities.

I’d go for the track btn Sac & Redding. It’d draw the L.A. crowd & those north; btn Sonoma & PIR + Vegas the lower half of your great State has beaucoup opportunities to watch a race. I’m thinking of starting a community group (for race-deprived areas wanting a new venue) ala ACORN called “LUGNUT”. “Lets Unite Greatly Now Undoing Travel”.

Now I have to come up with a symbol.

[happydogx2]

Martin signs contract extension thru 2011:

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ap-nascar-martin-contract&prov=ap&type=lgns

[tubebender]

HOLY CUP RACIN Batman... More bad news for young Cup drivers HERE

[happydogx2]

Yeah, “Go Daddy” indeed.

I won’t point out the fact I beat you by 7/10th of a second...

[tubebender]

I suspected you had installed a key logger on my puter and this is the proof I needed...

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Just came across the bottom line on ESPN...Mark Martin signs a contract extension to drive full time through the 2011 season.

He added a year!!! WOO HOO