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yeah look good display looking on and my grandpa who love train lot he had big display in his basement in delavan wisconsin but he die as well. he love train a lot that his hobby.. oh well.. nice job,
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I been add new one like that. I will make more like characters from this show. I will make Rosco's then daisy, enos, jesse, boss hogg, bo, luke, like that.. hope you would like it. I find some good pictures for that.
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hope unlike my old one had exactly is. but it new one for now. I try to match background for orange for dukes of hazzard for color. cool is it huh?
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hi guys,
I have still my own make wallpapers of hazzard's cast on and general lee and police car and others check out:
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yeah and thanks, yeah true about gordon's feeling for that for Daytona and his hendrick's is thing. hope see happening on daytona 500 sooner.
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hope more news for Gordon for you, Garrett:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120121/jgordon-nascar-beware-technological-forces/index.html
and strange about wild west things in Dodge City:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120122/dearnhardtjr-western-town/index.html
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hi guys,
hope not you would love this Darrell Waltrip and Cale Yarborough on hall of fame 2012 check out story:
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- For Darrell Waltrip and Cale Yarborough, it was well worth the wait.After anticipating their turns to get into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, sometimes with more than a touch of impatience, the legendary drivers headed up the third class of five during an elaborate induction ceremony on Friday night in the Crown Ballroom at the Charlotte Convention Center. Also inducted were eight-time championship crew chief Dale Inman, nine-time championship modified driver Richie Evans and legendary car owner and driver Glen Wood.
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Watch as the newest Hall class and those who know them best comment after the induction ceremony.
Richie Evans: Proud widow
Dale Inman: Petty rivalry
Darrell Waltrip: The pinnacle
Glen Wood: Brotherly love
Cale Yarborough: Top rung
Induction Wrap: Third class
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All were deserving, but Waltrip and Yarborough were the stars of the show -- much as they were at the height of their prowess as two of the greatest drivers NASCAR has ever known.
"People always said, 'Oh, you're going to get in sooner or later.' Well, I would rather it have been sooner than later, because you just never know," Waltrip said. "This is a big relief. But if you compare statistics, I think I'm right about where I should be."
Waltrip won three championships in NASCAR's top series while capturing 84 race victories, which ties him with Bobby Allison for fourth all time. All three of Waltrip's titles came while he drove for car owner and inaugural Hall of Fame inductee Junior Johnson.
Waltrip often feuded with Allison and Yarborough and others during his mercurial and sometimes controversial driving career. Yarborough once nicknamed him "Jaws" because he thought Waltrip talked too much -- and Waltrip fittingly has gone on to carve out a second career in racing as a popular television analyst in the sport.
"This is a red-letter night, you have to admit," Waltrip said shortly after being called to center stage. "Bobby Allison said I deserved to be in the Hall of Fame. Does anyone know how big that was? And he swears they didn't put a gun to his head to make him say it."
Waltrip, however, has made a habit of turning on-track enemies into lifetime friends through the years. Ironically, it was Yarborough who suggested to Johnson that Waltrip replace him as that team's driver in 1981, after Yarborough decided to cut back on his own schedule.
"When Cale said he was going to cut back on his schedule in 1980, he came to me before anyone else," Waltrip said. "Cale has been one of my best friends through the years. He gave me that great tip to go run for Junior -- and how many guys can say they have a friend who gave them such a great nickname?"
Yarborough amassed 83 race victories in 562 career starts in NASCAR's top series. Four of them came in the Daytona 500 -- a mark that ranks second only to Richard Petty's seven in the sport's biggest race. Twenty-eight of those wins came during a remarkable stretch when Yarborough won three consecutive championships beginning in 1976. No driver was able to match that until Jimmie Johnson did so during his recent run of five consecutive titles.
Yarborough recalled getting his start in racing by sweeping floors at the Holman Moody race shop for 25 cents an hour, and how there was a time when he and his family ate black-eyed peas for "breakfast, lunch and dinner" because they were on sale for 10 cents a can and it was all they could afford.
"This is a thank-you night for me. All I can do is thank the people who made it possible for me to climb that long, tough ladder," said Yarborough, who, like Waltrip, then spent much of his time behind the microphone thanking family and friends for lifetimes of support. And like Waltrip, he also thanked God.
Both drivers also were quick to heap thanks on Junior Johnson. Like Waltrip, Yarborough won all three of his titles with Johnson as his car owner. Now they're all in the Hall of Fame together.
Yarborough recalled first hooking up with Johnson.
"Junior was looking for a driver and I was looking for a ride. We hooked up and what a good ride it was," Yarborough said. "Had I stayed with Junior, who knows how many championships we could have won?"
Of course, Yarborough and Waltrip weren't the only ones inducted into the Hall Friday night.
Inman, who won eight championships in NASCAR's top series, became the first crew chief to be enshrined. Inman registered seven of his championships and the vast majority of his 200-plus race wins on top the pit box for his second cousin, Richard Petty. He also was crew chief for Terry Labonte when Labonte won the 1984 title.
"Way back when, there wasn't no such thing as a crew chief. ... Dale was basically the first one. He's the one who basically started the crew chief operation," Petty said.
Inman was nearly overwhelmed with joy and joked that now he has a Hall ring to rival the one Petty earned as a member of the inaugural inductee class three years ago.
"I just want to thank everybody. It's been such a big night, really a thrill for me," Inman said.
* Caraviello: Inman blazes trail for crew chiefs to Hall of Fame
Also inducted were Glen Wood of Wood Brothers Racing and Evans, the "King of the Modifieds."
Wood, a driver as well as legendary car owner and sometime mechanic, was honored by his younger brother Leonard Wood, who said that above all else, "Glen was always fair, honest, gave good advice. You needed no more than a handshake with him."
Yarborough heaped praised on Glen Wood during his own acceptance speech, adding: "I am so honored and so pleased to be inducted in the same class with Glen Wood. It's so great that it turned out this way."
Evans, who passed away in a 1985 accident during a modified practice for a feature race at Martinsville Speedway, was honored posthumously. His widow, Lynn Evans, accepted the honor on her late husband's behalf.
"I know you're here in spirit," she said of him.
Waltrip took a moment during his acceptance speech to acknowledge Evans' greatness.
"I want to congratulate Richie Evans' family. ... Richie Evans was the best wheelman I ever saw," Waltrip said.
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Darrell Watrip more:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120105/dwaltrip-hof-bio/index.html
AYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- You always knew Darrell Waltrip was there from his racing beginnings at the Nashville Fairgrounds through three championships, 84 victories and a broadcasting career with FOX Sports and SPEED.He was never silent about his talents and had the ability to back them up with results.
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Fellow NASCAR Hall of Fame inductee Cale Yarborough famously called Waltrip "Jaws" as the pair jockeyed for NASCAR's top rung.
"We knocked each other out of a lot of races," Owensboro, Ky., native Waltrip remembers of the competition with his rival who, ironically, recommended Junior Johnson hire Waltrip. "So for all the bad things [i've said] about Cale, I forgive him."
Waltrip, along with Yarborough, Richie Evans, Dale Inman and Glen Wood, will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame on Jan. 20. They comprise the third class to gain membership into the Hall.
Waltrip, 64, made his NASCAR premier series debut in 1972 at Talladega, driving the updated Ford that had carried Mario Andretti to victory in the 1967 Daytona 500. He finished 38th after the car's engine failed.
Waltrip drove a self-owned Chevrolet to his first victory in 1975 in Nashville. He won 28 times between 1975 and '80 -- on short tracks, road courses and speedways -- at the wheel of a DiGard Racing-prepared car.
Driving for NASCAR Hall of Fame member Johnson -- succeeding rival Yarborough, who stepped away to compete on a part-time basis -- Waltrip's first series title came in 1981. He finished with 12 wins and 21 top-fives in 31 races. He won the title by 53 points over NASCAR Hall of Fame member Bobby Allison.
In his second championship season, 1982, he finished with 12 wins and 20 top-10s in 30 races, sweeping both races at four tracks (Nashville, Bristol, Talladega and North Wilkesboro).
In his third championship season, 1985, Waltrip finished with three wins and 21 top-10s in 28 races.
Between 1977 and '87, Waltrip never finished worse than fifth in the championship standings.
"This sport would be nowhere near where it is today without people like him," Waltrip said of Johnson in his autobiography, DW. A Lifetime Going Around in Circles, co-authored by Jade Gurss. "Junior taught me how to win more than just races. He taught me how to win championships."
He finally won the Daytona 500 in 1989 driving for Rick Hendrick and later scored five victories with his own team, which he operated from 1991-98. Waltrip retired following the 2000 season.
Waltrip grew up in Owensboro, Ky., where his father, Leroy, was a truck driver. As a youngster, Waltrip would help his father on a Dr. Pepper route loading and unloading soft drink cases. His grandmother, Oda Palestein, took him to races at several area dirt tracks.
At age 12, Waltrip and his father bought a go-kart which they raced for several years. The elder Waltrip bought his son his first race car -- a 1936 Chevrolet -- when Darrell was 16. He towed the car to a track called Ellis Speedway in Newman, Kan., but spun out on his first lap of practice and hit the wall, knocking out the radiator and tearing up the car's right-front suspension.
"I never made even one lap," Waltrip said. "I was crushed."
Fortunately, one of Owensboro's dirt tracks switched to asphalt and Waltrip quickly became a winner, talking his way into driving faster cars for others. "If I won the feature at Whiteville, my share of the winnings would be $150 and two cases of beer," he said. "In Owensboro, 150 bucks and two cases of beer were big time."
He and wife, Stevie, moved to Nashville where Waltrip won the 1970 Fairgrounds Speedway championship. With sponsorship from the company for which his father-in-law was employed, Waltrip started his first Cup Series race in 1972.
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Waltrip: Something to say
Inman: Crew chief inventor
Wood: Still writing history
Evans: An orange chariot
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Waltrip felt, from the beginning, the racing's stars were aligned in his favor. There were few new faces in NASCAR and he was 10 to 15 years younger than the established stars Yarborough, Richard Petty and David Pearson.
"You know, time was on my side," he said. "I guarantee I can wear 'em out."
He came close to winning his first championship in 1979, entering the season finale at the old Ontario Motor Speedway near the present Auto Club Speedway in Southern California, leading Petty by two points. He spun early in the race, lost a lap -- and the championship.
"There's no question in my mind: Petty didn't win it -- I lost the championship," Waltrip said. "It was a lesson that was seared in my brain: Never beat yourself."
Yarborough suggested Johnson hire Waltrip, who bought his way out what had been a tempestuous relationship with Bill Gardner, one of the three DiGard principles. It paved the way for Waltrip's road to the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Since retirement, Waltrip has been FOX Sports' lead motorsports analyst. Those who listened to Waltrip's many interviews during the 1970s and '80s -- the "Jaws" era -- wouldn't have been surprised. Early in his career, Waltrip forged a friendship with Nashville radio personality Ralph Emery and frequently subbed for Emery on his The Nashville Network interview show.
"Show me the mic; I was ready to talk," Waltrip would say.
"When I look back at my life on and off the track, the same thought keeps coming back to me -- timing. It defined what I did as a race car driver but I've also been blessed with great timing all my life," he said in the forward to his autobiography. "So many things outside of my control fell into place at just the right moment. Some say it was luck but I've always been told luck is when your hard work and effort successfully collide. So in the end, you make your own luck."
Darrell Waltrip: Career highlights
• Waltrip was three-time Cup Series champion (1981-82, '85); he won all three with legendary driver/owner Junior Johnson.
• Waltrip ranks in the top five in wins with 84.
• His 59 poles rank fifth all time in Cup Series history.
• He competed from 1972-2000, which included a 1989 Daytona 500 victory in a Rick Hendrick-owned Chevrolet.
• He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
• He currently is a commentator on FOX's NASCAR broadcasts.
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hi guys,
hope not you would love this both them.. check out this stories from past:
that 1977 after 1 year I born in 76 as well..
Darrell Waltrip wants to set the record straight: he did not wreck Cale Yarborough while racing for the lead in the 1977 Southern 500."I actually wrecked D.K. Ulrich, who in turn wrecked Cale," Waltrip said.
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Cale just threw that out there. And I don't think he or I really thought about it sticking, you know?
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-- DARRELL WALTRIP
"It's not really important, because in the end, Cale got wrecked. But I was watching it the other day, and now that I've looked at it and thought about it, I didn't wreck Cale. I wrecked D.K. Ulrich."
It was an incident that not only took both Waltrip and Yarborough out of contention for the win, but ignited one of NASCAR's greatest rivalries -- and provided one of the sport's most memorable nicknames.
And on Friday night in Charlotte, Waltrip, Yarborough and Glen Wood -- who owned the car David Pearson eventually drove to a second consecutive Southern 500 victory -- will all be inducted into NASCAR's Hall of Fame as members of the Class of 2012.
After that race, Yarborough was mad enough to spit nails -- and when asked about the incident, uttered what longtime Charlotte Observer writer Tom Higgins listed as one of his favorite NASCAR quotes: "Jaws! Jaws! That talky Jaws! That's what happened."
It's a moniker that has stuck with the talkative Waltrip ever since.
"Where the Jaws thing came from, was that was about when the movie came out," Waltrip said. "Cale just threw that out there. And I don't think he or I really thought about it sticking, you know?
"But I have to say [former Charlotte Motor Speedway president] Humpy Wheeler probably promoted more for the legend of Jaws than Cale did. Because if you recall, we went to Charlotte and Humpy puts that chicken down the mouth of the shark and drives around the race track on the parade lap with a chicken hanging out of the shark's mouth."
It wasn't as if the Waltrip-Yarborough rivalry needed additional promotion. Waltrip said the animosity even trickled down to the crew chiefs on the two opposing Chevrolet teams: Herb Nab, who wrenched Yarborough's No. 11, and "Suitcase" Jake Elder, who worked on Waltrip's No. 88.
"They were big, big rivals," Waltrip said. "They were buddies. They played cards together and hung around together a lot. But, man, it was always about who had the best car and who had the best setup. On Sunday, all of that went out the window and it was all about who could beat who. It wasn't so much about just me and Cale. It was Herb and Jake as well. It ran all the way through their team and all the way through ours.
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"Cale was a little aggressive and he'd beat around on our car. We didn't have a lot of money and we didn't have a lot of extra cars. So it would really tick Jake off that Cale would get up there and start beating around on the car and bend the fender or knock the bumper off of it or something. He and Herb were always arguing about that, so it spilled over to Cale and I."
And that all came to a head during the Labor Day weekend at Darlington in 1977. Waltrip and Yarborough had swapped the lead several times during the afternoon -- and with 150 miles to go, it appeared the race was coming down to a two-car duel.
The way Waltrip remembers it, he and Yarborough came off Turn 2 at Darlington nearly side-by-side after Yarborough had passed him for the lead on Lap 227. But they were about to encounter lapped traffic in the form of Ulrich.
"We were having a heck of a race," Waltrip said. "[Cale] loves winning the Southern 500, and at that time, I hadn't won it yet although I had come close. And really, I was ticked off because when we come up on D.K., I was mad because D.K. wouldn't get out of the way.
"He moved down in front of me and blocked me. And I was just about ready to pass Cale. So I hit him on purpose, but I never thought about wrecking him. I was just trying to nerf him and let him know he was in the way. I got into him just a little bit, and I'll be darned if it didn't get him loose and knocked him into Cale. And then we both wrecked."
Yarborough eventually wound up fifth, five laps behind. Waltrip finished sixth after losing seven laps in the pits. Yarborough went on to capture the season championship, but it seemed from that point, the rivalry between the two only intensified.
"At the time, Cale had the best car and I was trying to make it with what I had," Waltrip said. "With Cale, it never got ugly. Because he was such a hard driver and so tenacious, you just knew he was the benchmark. If you were going to win a race, you usually had to beat Cale to do it. And that was part of the whole deal."
Given the benefit of 35 years of retrospection, Waltrip realizes now that the rivalries he had -- and the emotions created from moments like the 1977 Southern 500 -- are what helped grow the sport to another level. And it's part of the reason why Waltrip and Yarborough are preparing to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
"It's funny when you look back on things like that -- whether it's me and Bobby Allison, me and Cale, me and Dale [Earnhardt], me and Richard [Petty] -- at the time, it was like the worst thing that ever happened and you were real angry about it, and you wanted to get in a fight and knock the guy's block off," Waltrip said.
"But as time goes by, you look back on it and say, 'That was some good racing right there, boys, I tell you that.' In the end, when it's all done, you give each other credit for being pretty good at what you were doing."
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hi guys,
I almost dream about that last night and why Hoggs hate Dukes, Sheriff chase dukes all time that order from boss or what reason for? how hazzard county getting grow up from old classic to new like change vehicles or buidlings? Why we need senior citizen house and sports field for kids do we need it? why not we can see dukes and others that how grow up become be before high school look like we did bit little in film and little episode on field. I wish see more things that we yet seen in episodes and films? ilke that. Why not seniors need retirement like Ms Tisdale, Jesse like that I not seen anyone would have does you? that why how many mysteries in Hazzard County. I like know is Boss Hogg start his own county before his dad or what? unlike you see in past dukes's and hoggs's story in wild west seem bit true or what before become Hazzard County.. so I hate to tell more mysteries stuff going on on Hazzard County's were.
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wow nice looking vehicle are. nice job.
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nice, hello welcome to forum and enjoy stay here hazzardnet as well.
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so as you talk about Ragan's team story check out:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120116/dragan-signs-front-row-no-34-2012/index.html
David Ragan, who has five years experience in the Sprint Cup Series, will drive Front Row Motorsports' No. 34 Ford for the 2012 season.Ragan, 26, will race the car number used all of last season by California veteran David Gilliland, who'll be his 2012 teammate in the No. 38 Ford fielded by Front Row owner Bob Jenkins.
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If I can go there and help improve their program 10, 15 spots and maybe try to get them their first win as a team that would be huge.
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-- DAVID RAGAN
"We've had meetings with potential sponsors that will be onboard throughout the year, a sponsor that's been in the series some," Ragan said. "It's a good program for me. This offseason, going in I knew that there was going to be some change and I've gotten an education on how the process really works a little better.
"I've been fortunate the last five years -- really my whole career -- that I've had sponsors locked-in the next season, in September-October-November so I've never had to go through this process. So I've really learned a lot more about the sport than just sitting behind the wheel and driving."
For Daytona Speedweeks both Front Row cars are locked-into the Daytona 500 starting field by finishing 2011 in the top 35 in the owners' points. Former Truck Series champion Travis Kvapil raced the No. 38 back into the top 35 near the end of last season.
"The Front Row program has been a team that's gotten better the last three or four years, obviously," said Ragan, who owns a Ford dealership in South Georgia. "They've got some Ford support that means a lot to me and I think there's a lot of positive things that can come of it. If we can improve their position a little bit we can be a good, solid team on the Sprint Cup circuit, week in and week out.
"If I can go there and help improve their program 10, 15 spots and maybe try to get them their first win as a team that would be huge."
Ragan's car will be tended by crew chief Jay Guy, who last year primarily worked on the No. 38 Ford with Kvapil or part-time Front Row driver J.J. Yeley. Gilliland's crew chief will be engineer Derrick Finley, who last year led Front Row's third car when it was entered.
Front Row general manager Jerry Freeze said that car, which used No. 55 last season, would have to be renumbered since the No. 55 has been assigned to Michael Waltrip Racing. FRM's No. 55 made 18 attempts in 2011 and qualified for 15 races, nine by Yeley.
"If we can fill some sponsorship on the two primary cars I don't see that third car running a lot," Ragan said. "Obviously [in 2011] that helped generate some revenue and it put another car on the track for an R&D car that was helping the other two efforts.
"We're a two-car team and that's what we want to take our pride in and try to get that two-car team to the top-20, top-25 in points and if the third car can help us some, that's when they're going to use it."
Ragan won in both Cup and Nationwide for Roush Fenway Racing in his seven seasons with the organization, where he made 293 starts across the Truck (19), Nationwide (92) and Cup series (182).
In 2009 he had two victories and 15 top-10 finishes in 19 Nationwide starts working primarily with 2011 Nationwide champion crew chief Mike Kelley. Ragan also won the July Cup race at Daytona in 2011 after being in position to win the season-opening Daytona 500 before making an illegal lane change on a restart that resulted in a penalty.
But it seemed the son of Georgia car dealer and part-time Cup Series racer Ken Ragan never quite achieved the potential that owner Jack Roush held for him. When RFR hit a sponsor shortfall after the 2011 season, there was no longer room for Ragan. Ragan weighed opportunities across all three NASCAR national series before making the decision to go with Front Row.
"I'm happy [because] I really wanted to stay in the Cup Series," Ragan said. "I didn't want to put myself in the position where I had to run a limited schedule or a start-and-park car. That's when I looked at some Nationwide opportunities and I even looked at some Truck opportunities.
"But when I talked to Jerry and I met Bob Jenkins, I saw the dedication that those guys had. I think their relationship with Ford and having two cars locked-in and going to their shop and seeing their employees and seeing that those guys are for real, I feel like it's a good opportunity for me to help their program stay in the Cup Series."
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yeah and I had new inform from Tony's team:
Tony and Danica:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120117/gzipadelli-dual-roles-at-daytona/index.html
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Greg Zipadelli's driven away from a lot of Cup Series tests at Daytona International Speedway, but until last weekend he'd never been in a position of simultaneously balancing two critical roles.After monitoring five of six practice sessions at Preseason Thunder preparing for Speedweeks 2012, seeing how well the three Stewart-Haas Racing teams for which he's competition director had performed -- and specifically how well rookie Cup Series driver Danica Patrick's test had gone under interim crew chief Zipadelli's direction -- it was easy to see why Zipadelli looked so relaxed.
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Daytona's test is a little bit slower but we didn't make mistakes, we made good changes, we made progress and the car got faster as the days went on and that's what you're looking for.
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-- GREG ZIPADELLI
"What's good for me is I've had the 10 car [Patrick's] to kind of help me make that transition into the year and into the new job," Zipadelli said of the switch from crew chief to manager. "I still enjoy the crew chief part of it. I'm having fun here and I've got a good group of guys from the shop that all pitched in to help out and they've done a really nice job.
"Daytona's test is a little bit slower but we didn't make mistakes, we made good changes, we made progress and the car got faster as the days went on and that's what you're looking for."
Owner/driver Tony Stewart on Friday had joked about Zipadelli being no different than the tough but effective taskmaster Stewart remembered from the 10 years they'd worked together at Joe Gibbs Racing from 1999-2008. Stewart had wanted to leave Florida that night to travel to Tulsa, Okla., where earlier in the week Stewart had qualified for Saturday night's A Main race of the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.
Zipadelli didn't allow it, though he released Ryan Newman's No. 39 Chevrolet team after two days of testing because Newman "was sick, had a fever and he was in there getting IVs and fluids," Zipadelli said. "I told him to go home before everybody else got sick, but more important he needed to be home with his family."
For his own team's part Zipadelli said he'd also seen enough by Saturday noon.
"I was very happy with our car's speed and that was my primary [Daytona 500 car]," Zipadelli said. "We're coming down here [for Speedweeks] and we're not sure of our point situation and everything yet and I just need to have a fast race car. I don't need to take a chance of tearing it up."
Zipadelli said trying to make single-car qualifying runs while the majority of teams were drafting wasn't productive and "our guys have worked seven days a week for a while now and they're working late every night so this is my way of saying 'thank you, let's load up, go home and watch football [saturday] afternoon and be with our family.'"
He said he was particularly pleased with how well Patrick, who plans to make her Sprint Cup debut in the Daytona 500 after two partial seasons and 25 career Nationwide Series starts, had performed. The 500 is the first of 10 Sprint Cup starts Patrick plans this season and Zipadelli will probably be her crew chief for all of them.
"It was a lot easier and she did a lot better job than I thought and it wasn't that I was [doubting her]," Zipadelli said. "But I just didn't know, so I didn't want to put any expectations on her coming down here. So I was very relaxed and just kind of stepped back with a game plan and we worked through our things.
"She responded very well, very good feedback [and] did a really good job in the draft, which was great."
Zipadelli's been working at SHR for about a month and he said that's given him plenty of insight into what he has to look forward to, working with a guy who at times could have been tagged as both his partner and an adversary.
"So far it's fun and everything's gone good," Zipadelli said. "They're coming off a good season and like I said, we've all done a good job preparing for the [Daytona] 500 and right now it's all fun.
"The thing about Tony, like I've said our relationship over the years past, we can go up and down and it'll all be good. It's just a matter of keeping the confidence in him for the next few years while he's driving and making sure he has what he needs to go out and perform."
In addition to having Zipadelli in charge of his three teams for the first time, Stewart is also adjusting to having a new crew chief for the second time in SHR's four-year existence. But that man, Zipadelli and Stewart's former Gibbs Racing teammate Steve Addington, has fit in better than well, Zipadelli said.
"It's been fun because I'm working with Steve Addington, who's one of my closest personal friends and to be able to come back and have a working relationship where we understand each other and trust each other -- that part of it is really good," Zipadelli said. "[Tony] Gibson, he's just like Steve -- just a good, solid guy. He's here to help us and he's a team guy and from that aspect it's been really nice.
"For me and all our guys that are new and have been moved around it's been fun and it's been easy. You couldn't ask for a better group of guys to come in and help each other, from what I've seen right here."
I happy about this Chief Zipadelli join with him again. hope will help lot better for this year than last year with old chief had since he leave at time on end of 2011.
what you think of Tony's teammate new Danica's is? cant wait see how she doing well since she doing in Nationwide series are in Dale E. Jr's team owner.
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I found this picture of car what you like see his I found in Facebook I use his:
that not find in nascar.com had but Facebook Jeff Gordon:
http://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-gordon/no-more-jg/10150482763858443
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I cant add more than pictures limit oh well here for Tony Stewart:
Tony Stewart looking like right now with new bit scheme paint:
what you think better 2011 or 2012 is?
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yeah I have picture of his car with Kahne's new uniform same as Dale E. Jr, Carl Edwards and Clint Bowyer's had new sponsors looking forward this season. here for you this pictures of Gordon looking now:
that he going to use for Daytona 500 this car with bit new scheme paint.
few new cars I forward see that Carl's, Dale's, Kahne's, Clint's, as well.. hope look good at. Lowes might will wear blue for Daytona 500 I guess so because #48 had two different scheme paint as blue or black as well. hard to tell for on Daytona racing. wait see on Feb.
yeah lol, for number countdown to be.
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yeah true about that draft are and I like old style too when I watching since 1989 on Daytona and Talledega but what about small track like bristol or martinville or richmond are? which you like best one? I like bristol track more wreck or spin out into cautions more than big tracks is. Talledega really more wreck than Daytona was.. because bit different size of track is. so on daytona test cars look like what they doing before first day racing:
first time danica patrick driving new #10 behind stewart's owner car:
so what you think this cars look like before use real car for first day of Daytona 500 are. nice looking is it huh?
I cant wait watching in few weeks left to go for Feb...
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yeah funny when I notice that too not know why..oh well you guys what think about Draft's come up on daytona's way? check out story:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120112/jlogano-tandem-draft/index.html
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Joey Logano knows he'd rather tandem draft every time he's out on Daytona International Speedway during the upcoming Speedweeks 2012.But he swears just as strongly that Sprint Cup drivers won't be able to, thanks to new technical regulations that NASCAR's put in place for Preseason Thunder which runs Thursday through Saturday and is the final on-track preparation for Speedweeks.
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"Either way's fine for me, but I personally like the two-car draft a lot, I have fun with it [because] it's kind of cool to communicate with someone and have fun with it," Logano said Wednesday at a special event at the track to introduce the Toyota Camry that will pace the 54th annual Daytona 500. "But a lot of people don't like it. So we'll go back to the other way, or whatever."
NASCAR has mandated a much smaller radiator and, as part of that system, a smaller capacity overflow tank in conjunction with a relocated radiator vent opening higher in the front-center of the car. Along with that, teams have a larger restrictor plate than a year ago with a smaller spoiler and softer rear springs.
Logano says that combination will mean less ability to tandem draft -- radically less. Some time Thursday afternoon he hopes to find out.
"Oh yeah, it's gonna change [the ability to tandem draft]," Logano said. "We've got a smaller spoiler so that's gonna make it a little harder to get together. Less rear spring will also take the spoiler out of the air so now you've got less of a hole in the air so it's a little bit harder to get to each other.
"That's not gonna keep us from doing it -- we'll still do it there. But that's gonna make the cars handle worse, because your blade's
not up [in the air]."
Logano said the cooling restrictions are the bigger detriments.
"The [vent] opening and the smaller radiator are going to be the big deal [because] you're not going to be able to [tandem draft] long enough," Logano said of the puzzle that will begin to be solved Thursday afternoon, when teams can draft. "[Thursday] we'll know how long we can do it [but] I don't see us doing it much more than three-quarters of a lap.
"Think about where [the vent opening's] at. It's up high so now you're not getting no air. Before it was down low and you could sneak out and we had the fins that would suck air in from the side and OK, we could do this all day. But now we've got nothing. Zero air -- zero -- and [the vent] is more in the center and it's smaller. And you can't squeak out enough to get any air so you're kind of SOL in being able to get any air on the thing."
Logano did say at the end of races things might change, because tandem drafting is eight to 10 mph faster than any other configuration. But even that's not definite because of the basic dynamics of tandem drafting.
"At the end of the race will it come down to a push-fest?" Logano said. "It might. But the thing we've all got to realize, or practice or realize when the moment comes, is it takes some time to hook up.
"The front guy has got to slow down eight, nine miles an hour to hook up. By the time you get back up to speed, it's gonna take about a straightaway to do that, then another half a straightaway to get up 10 miles an hour.
"Now, are you too hot, and now you're done? Were you better off just drafting? You did all that work, did you gain anything? I don't really know yet, and when I figure it all out, I'll let you know."
Logano said the basic physics of a smaller radiator and a smaller vent would lead cars to run hotter. He said he could already run "240 [degrees of water temperature] all day, but you can't run 260 all day, or 250. Some guys can but our cars can't.
"If the blow-off valve allows it to blow off [water] at 245 that's not gonna be pretty. Because once you lose water, you're screwed. With all that stuff, [drafting] will be interesting. I'm kinda excited about it. I don't know if we'll start in a two-car draft or a big pack."
what you think of draft is? cool or not? that our first time since 2010 to be.. huh? that strange seen so far. that new one.
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good news they had update for daytona's check out:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120111/preseason-thunder-advance/index.html
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Earnhardt Ganassi Racing suffered through a subpar 2011 Sprint Cup season as a group and after some major changes to EGR's structure, no one's readier for the 2012 season to begin than Jamie McMurray and his teammate, Juan Montoya.McMurray, who won the 2010 Daytona 500 and two other plum victories later that season, struggled to finish 27th in points last season.
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So with virtually a full field of Cup teams expected to test Thursday through Saturday during Preseason Thunder at Daytona International Speedway, McMurray's anxious to gauge the impact of EGR's new team manager, Max Jones, and his own team's new car chief, Randy Cox, from the former Red Bull Racing, and a new engineer, Dave Winston, who came from Penske Racing.
Montoya, who also won a race in 2010 after qualifying for the 2009 Chase, but struggled to 21st in the points last season, is working with a new crew chief, former Hendrick Motorsports engineer Chris Heroy.
But this test is going to be everyone's first chance to work with a complete new rules package that's a result of information gathered during recent tests at Talladega this past October and at Daytona in November.
"While we have had other tests with these setups, this is the first opportunity for the entire field to test together and get more comfortable with this package as it relates to their cars," NASCAR vice president for competition Robin Pemberton said. "This three-day test will allow the engine tuners for these teams to be able to work with their engine packages and see how they relate and react to the new cooling regulations."
While some of the elements were tested, others are new and being seen on-track by the teams for the first time, including smaller radiators with a two-gallon capacity; a smaller cooling system overflow tank with a capacity of a half-gallon; and the radiator inlet being moved up, closer into the front-center bumper area.
Along with electronic fuel injection, which underwent multiple tests in 2011 preparing for its full implementation in ' 12, teams last year also tested a rate reduction for rear springs, making them softer to get the rear spoiler out of the air; a smaller rear spoiler; and a baseline restrictor plate of 29/32nds of an inch (1/64th-inch larger than the plate size for the 2011 Daytona 500).
NASCAR's made it no secret that their changes are designed to break up the two-car drafting formations that teams have gradually discovered is the quickest way around the biggest speedways. The teams' necessary goal is to continue that style of racing.
"You're going to work on trying to stay locked together and making that [tandem drafting] still work," McMurray said. "I personally hope that no one can do it, and that it doesn't work but I don't know that. They've changed the rules a lot so it will be really interesting to see, when we get down [to Daytona] to see if you're able to stay locked together.
"Because if you are, and those other guys can't -- it's 10 miles per hour difference in speed if you can stay locked together or not -- so yeah, I'm anxious to get down [to Daytona] and see what the cars are going to be like."
Montoya's pretty much on the same page as his teammate.
"Our goal is to figure out what we need to do to make our Target Chevrolet better before we come back down to Daytona [for Speedweeks]," Montoya said. "We've completely redone our cars so it'll be interesting to see what we have when we unload on Thursday. We want to gain as much knowledge as possible. I guess we'll have to see if the changes NASCAR made were enough to break up the tandem drafting or not."
A section of the Oldfield Grandstand is open with free admission each day of the test, with access through the Daytona ticket office.
New Smyrna before Daytona for Martin
Clint Bowyer tested with his new Michael Waltrip Racing team and crew chief Brian Pattie last month strictly for the purpose of building relationships. His new teammate, Mark Martin, is testing with new crew chief Rodney Childers on Wednesday at New Smyrna Speedway, about a half-hour south of Daytona, and said both sessions were much more important on a personnel level than a mechanical one.
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"These tests aren't incredibly important from the car hardware side, it's more important for us as a new group working together to work through the areas like communication, flow, learning everyone's names, routines and things like that," Martin said. "That's really the critical part of the test. From the hardware side, we do have a number of things we want to run through at these tests, but all teams are doing those kinds of things.
"These tests are valuable because we want everything to be working like a smooth-oiled machine by the time we get to the Daytona 500. Then, by the time we get to Phoenix, we want to be acting like we've been racing together for years."
"New Smyrna will be fun because it's a handling track," Childers said of the half-mile, high-banked oval. "With Mark's short-track experience, I'm looking forward to his feedback and him pointing us in the right direction."
Martin did say the new regulations have done more than pique his curiosity. Last season, he almost uniquely worked with Hendrick Motorsports teammate Jeff Gordon in the tandem draft but this year he's going to pay a little more attention.
"The one other thing that I am going to focus on this time at Daytona, more than I did a year ago, is working on tandem drafting," said Martin, who finished 10th and 33rd at Daytona last season. "We didn't do that last year and it's going to be even more of a challenge this year. Rodney and I want to look toward being ahead of the curve on the two-car tandem or explore areas that will give us an advantage."
"The Daytona test will be about us working on our qualifying setup for the first day and a half and drafting the rest of the time," Childers said. "The most important thing is the draft, making sure our cars can do what they need to do. We'll probably work on some cooling to see if our cars can push longer than some of the others."
http://www.nascar.com/news/120111/dcaraviello-silly-season-offseason-moves/index.html
as well.. seem lot change stuff for 2012 ready to be. oh well..
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yeah I know you feel that about it and I plan watching on Feb 18 on sat night at 8pm ET on Fox for Shootout and on Feb 23 on thurs at 2pm ET and 4pm ET on Speed before Daytona 500 on Feb 26th on sunday on Fox at 1pm ET as well so any you guys going watching before first day of Daytona 500 racing? I plan watching all of daytona on feb. I cant wait to excited to see this racing on feb since so long since nov like break time for them drivers on holiday and weather time. I hope Feb and March will okay for nice weather no rain please....
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wow look awesome lot general lees and finally had see daisy's old roadrunner car look good on. nice pictures. lucky you. I wish see that to be. nice.
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good news about new vehicle for 2013 check out:
http://www.nascar.com/news/120124/ford-fusion-2013-cup-series/index.html
what you think will be cool new than old one? will get better or what? I hope so. I wonder for Chevy need change from Impala to??? like that. I wish they need it to be.
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