NASCAR - The Food City 500 - from Bristol - on FOX, Sunday 3/21/10 at 1:00pm ET (Race #5 of 36)

Jayski ^

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The Food City 500

Sunday 1:00 pm ET on FOX
Bristol Motor Speedway

SPEED Pre-race show at 10:00 ET FOX Pre-race show at 12:00 ET
Green flag 1:13 ET

The FR Canteen

God Bless Our Troops

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Heads Up!

FReeper Fantasy League Fans...
Deadline to select or edit your drivers is Friday, Mar 19 at 5:00am EDT
(so make them perhaps on Thursday night, oui?)

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Practice Dates/Times/Television coverage

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(times in eastern time)

• Practices:
  Friday, March 19, 12:00 - 1:30 pm/et, TV-SPEED
  Saturday, March 20, 11:00 - 11:45 am, TV-SPEED

• Happy Hour 'Final' practice: Saturday, March 20, 12:20 - 1:20pm/et, TV-SPEED

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Qualifying Information/Times/Television coverage

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• Qualifying Draw: Friday, March 19, 11:00am/et

• Qualifying: 2 laps for positions 1-42, Friday, March 19 at 3:40pm/et, TV-SPEED, no re-air scheduled;
  AND live via radio at PRN Radio only on NASCAR.com.

Info courtesy Jayski.com

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The Bristol Baby Doppler.

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The Other Races this Weekend:

Nationwide Series:

Scotts Turf Builder 300
Saturday 3/20 at Bristol Motor Speedway - 2:00 p.m. ET on ABC

Campingworld Truck Series:

No truck race this weekend.

Weekend TV race coverage and calendar for all series, all events

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Track Specs:
0.533-mile concrete oval
500 laps, 266.5 miles
Degree of banking in corners: 30 degrees
Degree of banking in straights: 16 degrees
Straightaways are 650 feet long.
Concrete racing surface is 40 feet wide.
Seating capacity: ~158,000
Bristol has two pits roads: 21 pit stalls on the front stretch and 21 on the back stretch (1 shared)
Pit Stall Size: 25.5 feet long, 15.5 feet wide
Pit Road Speed: 30 mph
Pace Car Track Speed: 35mph
Track Opened: 1960
First Cup race: 1961

[afnamvet]

See ya on Sunday. Bristol is THE Race for me.

[umgud]

I’m in.

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It's Bristol, Baby!



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BMS wins $397,000 tax case: A Nashville judge has ruled that Bristol Motor Speedway does not have to pay a $397,000 tax assessment from the state of Tennessee. Chancellor Ellen Hobbs Lyle, in an order unsealed Friday, ruled in a dispute over money the racetrack brings in from the broadcast of NASCAR races. The speedway last year challenged the assessment, claiming the state Department of Revenue was illegally taxing the track. Speedway officials argued that television rights are intangible and that any money derived from the sale of them is not subject to Tennessee sales or business taxes. The suit also claimed the state wrongfully taxed the speedway for money it makes from mailing fees on tickets and from leasing space to vendors. Lyle wrote that the assessments "do not fall into the category of tangible personal property." The judge also ruled that "the relationship ... from the NASCAR agreement is more in the nature of a joint venture than contract of service by the (track) to NASCAR."(Kingsport Times News)(10-19-2009)

Offhand, I'd attest that Nascar broadcast coverage is, um, intangible - glock

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Fighter jets in a gymnasium time!

[umgud]

Glad to see anybody beat the taxman.

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Moments to savor. I don’t think it’ll get any better...

[afnamvet]

No kiddin’. I heard Carl Edwards weaponized his ride in the previous race ( I was blowin’ up some black powder). I wish I recorded it.

[NYTexan]

I’m in

Hope they have plenty of duct tape ready this week...

[SouthTexas]

Looking good!

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That be 100 mph racin tape! There’s gotta be a Costco in Don-o’s neck of the woods.

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LOL. Yah, he got a tad explosive.

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Hey there ST. We had six inches of snow Saturday, and it was 60 today. Gotta love spring. Can’t tell whether to get out the snowblower or mower. Until I decide, I think I’ll stay here in the den and watch a movie with my kid.

... or get out the tiller.

[taillightchaser]

NASCAR needs more high banked short tracks and less 1 1/2 milers. Bristol is RACIN’

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10-roger on that.

[tubebender]

First!!!

[SgtBob]

Ain’t that racin’ tape called “Bear Bond”...or in Rahmbo deadfish lingo, “bare bond”, or bonding....

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Well, welcome back Mr. Okra.

Your side dish awaits.

[AGreatPer]

I “deem” that my FR racing team will do well this week.

[tubebender]

It was Cauliflower, sweet tators and chicken wings shipped in from Buffalo by the evening stage...

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Oh my. LOL!

Exploiting your redeeming qualities, are you?

[SouthTexas]

We had rain all day and now it’s cold again. At least that slows the grass down some.

Sure got spoiled last year never having to mow.

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We had a really wet spring last year. I’m thinking I’d only have to till once...

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Speaking of fighter jets... snapped these two streakin over the ranch late this last fall.

[al baby]

I don’t send money to the inland revenue service i live on the coast

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Aw, they won’t tax ya. They’ll just throw ya in jail if ya fish.

[afnamvet]

My eyes are not so good but they look like JSF F35s.

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The vertical stabilizers aren't as wide at the bottom on the 35.

F-35

F-22

I think they're 22's.

[afnamvet]

Does Luke AFB have a F22 squadron?

[Vigilantcitizen]

Awesome. Nuttin like the sound of freedom.

[Vigilantcitizen]

I’d bet they’re F-22’s.

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Dunno about Luke. These were in a group which at least at the time, flew out of Hill AFB. They had a small flock of Hill’s (likely 388th) Falcons in trail. I think it was a flyby for a football game or something... don’t know if they have any 22’s on station at Hill.

[afnamvet]

Tyndall AFB FL Elmendorf AFB AK Langley AFB and Holloman AFB NM Have F22 squadrons. Hickam AFB HI is due to go operational if they aren't already.

TDY birds could be anywhere.

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Cool. Langley was the only one I knew about. Sure would be nice to kick the socialists to the curb and build a herd more Raptors.

[afnamvet]

F22 shows it's stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnU1xyBCte0

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Wild. After watching Dogfights on History channel, those capabilities would absolutely kick butt on anything anyone else has built.

[SouthTexas]

think our rain started about October and hasn’t really stopped. This is good since we went a year and a half without any. Sure there are some that want more but personally, I’ve had enough.

[happydogx2]

Look’n good, glad to be aboard.

It was a long week off -

[tubebender]

Looks like there might be a Spoiler entering the race at Martinsville...

[tubebender]

Fighter jets in a gymnasium time!

Or seven motorcycles in a Cage

[SouthTexas]

The wing we put on there was just a glorified spoiler. It sat down on the deck lid and wasn't very appealing, and we weren't really using it efficiently.

Sort of like the spoilers they put on front wheel drive production cars?

[LasVegasMac]

Thanks for the pinger, GR - one of my favorite races!

[NormsRevenge]

Keselowski “Won’t Back Down” at Bristol
http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news;_ylt=AtVudj1jdh1rZBP.keW.jR_ov7YF?slug=ap-nascar-bristolintroductions

BRISTOL, Tenn. (AP)—Brad Keselowski chose “Won’t Back Down” by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers as his song selection for driver introductions Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway.

The song choice is a clear message from Keselowski, who has vowed not to change the aggressive driving style that has gotten him to NASCAR’s top level but also angered several veterans.

[NormsRevenge]

Nice shots of the birds!