***NASCAR Tropicana 400 at Chicagoland on NBC, July 13th at 1130 PT / 230 ET***

NASCAR.com ^ | 7/11/03

[Kakaze]

hEY " Y'ALL "

I know most of you are not CART fans but Paul Tracy just won the Toronto race. And, as irony would have it he drives for players racing ( a tabacco company) Looks like the champion of the series might have to drive with blank side walls, since tobacco sponsorship is illegal in canada as of oct. 1 . Thank god gov't is looking after us........wait can i say gov't and god in the same sentence?

[NormsRevenge]

Have you been to the FReepathon threads? Please donate to FR and keep the grass-roots burning.. Thanks

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks for the CART update and congrats to Paul! He's getting to be an "old-timer" and is long overdue.. where did the years go, anyway? :-\

[steveegg]

Start your engines.

Haven't been there as often as I want to, but I got my boost in.

[steveegg]

Ugh. If the gubmint really wanted to kill tobacco, just kill it.

[AGreatPer]

Diamond Reo did one of the best Star Spangled banner singings I have ever heard.

[NormsRevenge]

We got some real pretty pictures up on those threads.. The digital camera,, Don;t leave home without it ;-)

[Kakaze]

LOL I realised I was becoming an old timer too ......it's been 10 years since he last won that race, doesn't seem that long ago ( I was 27) and another good young man Greg Moore was just comming on the scene.

Here's to old age and memories of great young drivers now gone on to a better place.

[glock rocks]

[steveegg]

We got some real pretty pictures up on those threads.. The digital camera,, Don;t leave home without it ;-)

Cable modem; don't FReep without it.

[NormsRevenge]

I can finally get a cable modem from ComCast, but I'm holding off .. They want too darn much a month, tho, imo.. I may have to look at DSL.. I would really like to go wireless. But..

[steveegg]

Flash complains about dust in turn 2. Now why doesn't that surprise me?

[AGreatPer]

Time to say who I have at the local watering hole this week. It automatically jinxes them and they don't do well. Ask Norm, he can verify.

This week I have: Jeff Gordon.

[NormsRevenge]

Here We Go!!!

[steveegg]

Green flag (can't say Boogity, Boogity, Boogity - or can I?)

[NormsRevenge]

He's sure sucking tail wind after that start. ;-)

[NormsRevenge]

I know, it just ain't the same without DW

[steveegg]

Speaking of sucking tail wind, Mark Martin's blocking all sorts of traffic.

[NormsRevenge]

Stay OUTs'Da Marbles!!!

Mark Martin got dirty tires for a bit

[steveegg]

And Larry Mac telling us to pull those seatbelts tight one more time. You got 400 miles. We're gonna race.