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Welcome to this week's 2012 Nascar at FR race thread!

This Week it's The Food City 500 at Bristol!


March 18, 2012



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NASCAR Broadcast Schedule


 

BROADCAST DATE TIME EVENT

SPEED

03|16|12 10:30 a.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 practice

SPEED

03|16|12 Noon Food City 500 practice

SPEED

03|16|12 2 p.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 final practice

SPEED

03|16|12 3:30 p.m. Food City 500 qualifying

SPEED

03|17|12 9:30 a.m. Food City 500 practice

SPEED

03|17|12 10:30 a.m. Ford EcoBoost 300 qualifying

SPEED

03|17|12 Noon Food City 500 final practice

ESPN

03|17|12 1 p.m. Ford EcoBoost 300

FOX

03|18|12 12:30 p.m. Food City 500



Bristol Motor Speedway
Week-end Broadcast Schedule

Bristol Motor Speedway web site

The land upon which Bristol Motor Speedway is built used to be a dairy farm.

Larry Carrier and Carl Moore traveled to Charlotte Motor Speedway in 1960 to watch a race and it was then that they decided to build a speedway in Northeast Tennessee. However, they wanted a smaller model of the Charlotte track, something with a more intimate setting and opted to erect a half-mile facility instead of mirroring the 1.5-mile track.

Work began on what was then called Bristol International Speedway in 1960 and it took approximately one year to finish. Officials scratched many ideas for the track on envelopes and brown paper bags.

The land on which BMS now sits, as well as construction of the track, cost approximately $600,000. The entire layout for BMS covered 100 acres and provided parking for more than 12,000 cars. The track itself was a perfect half-mile, measuring 60 feet wide on the straightaways, 75 feet wide in the turns and the turns were banked at 22 degrees.







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1 posted on 03/14/2012 5:40:47 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge; glock rocks; Pete-R-Bilt; NYTexan; WestCoastGal; tubebender; A Cyrenian; ...

Bristol race thread Ping!!!


2 posted on 03/14/2012 5:42:07 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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Forecast says slight chance of a thunderstorm. The race should finish up Sunday even if it gets a bit wet.


6 posted on 03/14/2012 5:54:12 PM PDT by saganite (What happens to taglines? Is there a termination date?)
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We’ve supposed to be getting a big storm here in northern Arizona this weekend too. Looks like we won’t be watching much NASCAR judging from the weather forecast for Bristol.


7 posted on 03/14/2012 5:54:28 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (“The first lesson you learn as a pollster is that people are stupid." - Dem pollster, Tom Jensen)
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10th!!!!!


10 posted on 03/14/2012 6:36:53 PM PDT by tubebender (I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.)
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Thanks for the thread & ping, NormsRevenge!

11 posted on 03/14/2012 6:38:06 PM PDT by vox_freedom (America is being tested as never before in its history. May God help us.)
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May God Bless the Food City 500!


15 posted on 03/14/2012 6:46:01 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)/?)
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Thank you for your continued work on the threads, Norm. Here are a few photos from last weeks race. View from our room at the Bellagio - Hauler parade on Thursday - Michael spoke at the hospitality breakfast and the wife and I were amazed that he was so small - 6-0 - seems bigger on TV. Mark Martin & other drivers going to drivers meeting. Mark is tiny but was most fan friendly. It was our first time on pit-road and it was a fantastic,. Two years ago at LVMS there were only a couple hundred folks in the Neon garage. This year there were several thousand.


18 posted on 03/15/2012 7:37:33 AM PDT by happydogx2 (How about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who stays up all night wonders if there really is a dog...)
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To: NormsRevenge

Whoa!

NASCAR has gone the way of the wine and cheese crowd.

The Daily Caller

Daytona International Speedway to ban smoking

This Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series Daytona 500 will mark one of the last days fans will be permitted to light up in the grandstands at the Daytona International Speedway.

Starting this summer, a smoking ban will prevent Daytona Speedway attendees from smoking in their seats. Smokers will instead have to go to designated smoking areas behind the grandstand. (RELATED: More on smoking)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/23/daytona-international-speedway-to-ban-smoking/#ixzz1pTdfUAiU


55 posted on 03/18/2012 7:04:47 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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Bristol Baby!


74 posted on 03/18/2012 10:07:04 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Yes I am Breitbart too.)
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