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  3. The Sims 3

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    look nice I think my Wii might have this sims game and I never playing this game before. I can play anykind of my favorite from. I can mix it or not but I might more like Nascar, Dukes, Transformers myself. No idea for that games going to be. :rolleyes::)

  5. Hall-bound Waltrip never silent about his talents

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    yeah true about safety on nascar's like that as barrier, head/shoulder belt, side of foam protect inside of cars, etc that lot change from past happening that why drivers feeling to be safety for future to be that will lot much better for them drivers. I wonder are you plan watching on Feb like shoot out on Feb 18 on fox but not know time exactly is and also Duel 1 and 2 on Feb 23 on Speed not know time exactly too hope after lunch time around it. Then Feb 26th will be first day of Daytona 500 2012 on Fox. Duel and shoot out like regular fun who are best win for.. only best drivers to drive that. check out list for:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/111214/2012-daytona-shootout-speedweeks/index.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budweiser_Shootout

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatorade_Duel

    Duel bit different from Shoot Out is.

    http://nascar.speedtv.com/article/cup-nascar-gatorade-duels-ready-to-roll-at-daytona/

    that way both are different between for only best drivers to get who best win that for just fun than Daytona 500 were for seriously to get win.

    that I plan watch this both for. are you going or not?

    thanks enjoy :)

  6. Hall-bound Waltrip never silent about his talents

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    yeah thanks so if you want more inform bio on Darrell's check out wiki's and Dale Sr's has lot inform check out

    Darrell Waltrip:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrell_Waltrip

    http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/page/AllWaltrip-Darrell-Waltrip-NASCAR-on-FOX

    Dale Earnhardt Sr:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Earnhardt

    http://www.daleearnhardt.net/

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Dale_Earnhardt

    Jeff Gordon:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gordon

    that way more inform about how much they race in past to now. wow for them. and yeah I miss Darrell's last race before I start watching on after 1989 was oh well.. I not sure remember myself to watching that oh well. oh boy. lucky I watch short time for Dale Sr's drive. I have some collections of him as well. :)

  9. Hall-bound Waltrip never silent about his talents

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    hi guys,

    hope not Garrett will like that about this guy check out;

    http://www.nascar.com/news/120105/dwaltrip-hof-bio/index.html

    DAYTONA 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.

    More on DW

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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.

    Third class gets it due

    Yarborough: Larger than life

    Waltrip: Something to say

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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."

    Emmy Award-winning NASCAR Media Group produced a biography series of all five 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees that are currently airing on SPEED. The series started on Dec. 9 with back-to-back shows featuring Cale Yarborough and Dale Inman, followed by the feature on Richie Evans on Dec. 16. The remaining biographies will air on SPEED this month. Darrell Waltrip at 8 p.m. ET Friday and Glen Wood at 8 p.m. ET Jan. 13.

    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.

    hope Garrett would like it.. what you think of this his story are? :confused:

    thanks enjoy :)

  10. RCR museum evokes memories for owner, fans

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    hi guys,

    not forget that any you guys been fan for Dale Earnhardt #3? I am when I first before Tony join after he die in 2001 in daytona 500 crash in last lap does you remember that? check out his owners that car as Kevin's right now:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/120106/rcr-museum-rchildress-dearnhardt/index.html

    WELCOME, N.C. -- Richard Childress isn't at a dead run when he enters the room, but he might as well be.

    He's running a little bit behind. Not much, but some. There have been issues to deal with elsewhere in this sprawling complex, and Childress has evidently had his hands full attempting to deal with them all. He quickly greets a visitor, and without much further ado, they're off for a tour of the Richard Childress Racing museum.

    The mood he seems to be in when he gets there, it's going to be a quick one.

    “

    I used to walk through here after everything had closed, with a bottle of wine, and just think.

    â€

    -- RICHARD CHILDRESS

    Yet a wonderful thing happens as they go through the first showroom, which at one time served as the team's shop. Once Childress is able to collect his thoughts a little bit, the clock is somehow turned back more than a decade. The headaches of running a monstrous multi-car operation are still there, of course, but as the team owner slowly catches his breath, his frenetic pace slows noticeably.

    It's a slow day at the museum, so no one else is around. There are no interruptions, and in no time, Childress is back in the day. RCR is still one of the sport's most prominent teams, but once upon a time, this very building housed a cast of characters so dominant it was almost as if they could win races before anybody actually showed up at the track.

    Over there, that's where Chocolate Myers tore down cars after races. This room here, this was the engine shop where Lou LaRosa and then Spenny Clendenen worked their magic. It's maybe 5,000 square feet -- Childress' current engine facility takes up two buildings in which 12 rooms this size would fit comfortably. The crew chiefs, Kirk Shelmerdine, Andy Petree and Larry McReynolds, were in this office.

    And all throughout this place, car after car is lined up, 54 in all.

    Thirty-four of them feature the No. 3. A handful were driven by Childress himself or Ricky Rudd back in the early days.

    Twenty-two of the No. 3 cars are black.

    Those were Dale's cars.

    Dale Earnhardt has been gone for more than a decade now, but his presence is still felt very deeply here. As he relaxes, it's plain to see that no one feels it more strongly than Childress. They were something far more than car owner and driver, and business associates. They were the best of friends, hunting buddies and close and trusted confidants. Both came up the hard way, and together, they achieved some of the greatest successes NASCAR has ever known.

    "I used to come here more, but I don't have the time," Childress begins, talking about the museum. Contemplating the moment, he adds, "I used to walk through here after everything had closed, with a bottle of wine, and just think."

    As he takes a glance around at all these No. 3 Chevrolets -- the one in which Earnhardt won the 1998 Daytona 500, for instance -- it's not necessary to ask this one-time journeyman independent what he thought about.

    Memories galore

    "Watch this," Childress says.

    Videos play throughout the museum, and this particular one features Earnhardt's thrilling door-to-door victory over Bobby Labonte at Atlanta on March 12, 2000. The monitor hangs just over that very car, and over in another part of the museum is the machine Kevin Harvick steered to an eerily similar win almost exactly a year later at the very same track.

    "It's scary how those two finishes were so close," Childress wonders out loud and then moves on. There are memories like that everywhere at the RCR museum, around every corner.

    Here's the car Earnhardt drove in the 2001 Budweiser Shootout, a week to the day before the nightmare of a last lap in the Daytona 500. "We finished second ... who was it that got around Dale?" Childress asks himself. "I don't remember." For the record, it was Tony Stewart.

    Right next to it is the car The Intimidator steered to his last victory at Talladega in the fall of 2000. That race has become the stuff of legend, Earnhardt starting so far back on the last restart only to come barreling through the field to win. He had pulled off many a miracle in a race car, but that swan-song Talladega romp had truly been something to behold.

    "I was never surprised by anything he did in a race car," Childress says with a smile.

    Turner Sports The infamous car designed by artist Peter Max. Earnhardt was not a fan at first glance.

    “

    That was my toughest sell. We met with him and told him what all we were going to do. I can just see him walking around that room and saying, 'I'm not doing it.'

    â€

    -- RICHARD CHILDRESS

    Some cars bring Childress to laughter. One room of the museum is dedicated to cars Earnhardt drove in special events, commemorated by one-off paint schemes and die-cast replicas to boot. Included is the most infamous of them all, a gaudily splashed conglomeration designed by artist Peter Max and used in the 2000 all-star race.

    To many, the bright and decidedly un-Intimidator-like design was dog ugly, like an acid trip gone bad. Earnhardt himself was apparently one of them.

    "That was my toughest sell," Childress admits as he points out Max's splatterings. "We met with him and told him what all we were going to do. I can just see him walking around that room and saying, 'I'm not doing it.' When he'd get like that, he'd walk around with a knife, flipping it in and out ... 'I'm not doing it.' "

    With that, Childress takes out his own knife and takes a few paces, flicking the blade open and shut to demonstrate. If Earnhardt's knife was anything like Childress' -- and surely it was -- it would have been the end of the discussion right then and there in most cases. This time, Earnhardt relented on one condition.

    "I ain't wearin' no pink uniform," he told Childress.

    Childress once had two International Race of Champions cars that Earnhardt had steered at one time or another, but only one remains in the museum.

    "Dale really wanted one of those cars, but I never would give in," Childress remembers. "He kept after me, and finally, we agreed that if he won some race -- I don't even remember which one it was -- he'd get one of the IROC cars. Sure enough, he won whatever race it was and he shows up here with his truck and a trailer.

    "I had forgotten all about it. I asked him, 'Are we working on Dale Jr.'s Busch car?' He said, 'Naw, I'm here for my IROC car.' I was like, 'Oh, s***. I remember, now.'"

    One of his favorite pieces housed here is a car that won four of the six races it entered in 1987, as well as a race at North Wilkesboro a couple of years later that was the first to be run on Goodyear radial tires. Up and down the driver's side are scuff marks aplenty, evidence of a hot and heated day at the track.

    "That's vintage Dale Earnhardt," Childress says, stating the obvious. Actually, for one of Earnhardt's cars, it's actually rather tame.

    Finally, near the end of the tour is a car used by Earnhardt in 1994, the season of his record-tying seventh championship. Again, it brings a grin to Childress' face.

    "We won the championship that day, but man, Dale was pissed," Childress says. "You could hear it in his voice on the radio. The engine wasn't good enough, and he was *****ing about it."

    Another video shows Earnhardt following the race, and yes, while he has clinched the series crown, the look in his eyes is not pleased. Childress pauses to watch the clip and then laughs again. "Look at him ... wait ... yep. He's *****ing about the engine."

    Of course, Earnhardt is not the only driver whose cars are enshrined here. The car Harvick used to sneak around Mark Martin coming off the final turn on the last lap in the 2007 Daytona 500 sits just as it was in victory, pock-marked, dirty and covered in confetti. All heck was breaking loose behind Harvick and Martin, with another RCR machine driven by Clint Bowyer crossing the finish line upside down and in flames.

    "Austin was in the pits and he was yelling, 'Pop! We won! We won!'" Childress says. "I was almost in shock. I didn't really know what was going on ... but we did. We won. It would have been Mark's first Daytona 500 win, but Kevin passed him."

    Reminders

    Here, too, are more than a few sobering reminders of those sad and haunting days in February 2001.

    A car sits on jack stands and another in primer, cars that were being prepared for Earnhardt to drive -- one the following week at Rockingham and another still in primer. Perhaps the most stunning memorial is the team's transporter that sat in the Daytona garage that day. It's open for visitors to freely wander in and around.

    "This is the actual hauler," Childress says as he takes a couple of steps up into the trailer's walkway. He proceeds to the back, and the door is locked to the lounge. "Dale and I were up here that morning," Childress concludes, and leaves it at that.

    The Richard Childress Racing Museum is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET; Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and closed on Sunday. Adult tickets are $12; senior citizens age 55 and up are $8; Students are $5; and admission for children under age 6 is free. An audio tour hosted by Myers is available for $15.

    It's a tour that's not to be missed.

    what you think of this Dale E. SR's? :confused:

    thanks enjoy :)

  11. Surnames and their meanings

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    umm you guys are interesting for last name are. my last name is Perry is:

    Perry Name MeaningWelsh: Anglicized form of Welsh ap Herry ‘son of Herry’, a variant of Harry (see Harris). pwh

    http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=perry

    interesting one:

    http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/perry

    oh well my mom's maiden last name is Obert and my dad's grandma name June Perry (Meyers) her last name original from German. oh well.. what you think this our last name are?

    thanks :)

  12. NASCAR and the Dukes unite - well sorta

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    find cool site you would love this one check out:

    http://www.scenedaily.com/

    does you guys visit this site before? where they had nascar Illustrated magazine was that I order right now..I can't find in Hyvee store but not know for Price Chopper or Hen House yet. I order Jan magazine and subscribe for 1 year that I need reread again so I think for sure since I stop in few years I keep forget to reread magazine again oh well.. I like magazine more like lot inform from nascar as sprint cup, nationwide, like that... than other magazines had. :)

  18. NASCAR news

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    yeah I read over nascar.com and I surprised that about it and I wonder when Mark Martin going to retired when he did try last time :roll: oh well So hope see happen in 2012 schedule between both them. Aric Almirola hope will good driver more better.. lot change thing going on on 2012 to be. And about Jeff Gordon's story check out:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/120104/dcaraviello-jgordon-2012-outlook-sprint-cup/index.html

    Only a few of the countless awards and mementos Jeff Gordon has accumulated over the course of his illustrious racing career make the cut to appear in the trophy case at his home. There are the four cups commemorating his NASCAR championships, his three Daytona 500 trophies, the quartet of gold bricks signifying Brickyard 400 victories. There are a pair of the gold cars given to each champion by tire manufacturer Goodyear, and a few select helmets. Everything else is over at Hendrick Motorsports, either at Gordon's office or on display in the shop.

    One thing is missing -- a sterling silver Sprint Cup, Gordon's great white whale, the single award that has somehow eluded a champion whose last title came prior to the Chase era. Gordon has won just about everything else there is to win in NASCAR, including race victories at every individual track save Homestead-Miami Speedway, and amassed enough trips to Victory Lane to place him third all-time behind only Richard Petty and David Pearson. But that fifth championship, that first Chase victory, that long-sought-after Sprint Cup, remain out there, driving him as aggressively as he drives that No. 24 car.

    Gordon and Gustafson. (Getty)

    “

    Our second year together, we're going to show how good we really are.

    ”

    -- JEFF GORDON

    2011 statistics

    First 26 Final 10

    Wins 3 0

    Top-fives 10 3

    Top-10s 14 4

    Poles 1 0

    DNFs 2 1

    Laps led 644 278

    Avg. start 13.6 16.5

    Avg. finish 11.6 16.8

    Race-by-Race Results

    As 2012 dawns, though, there might be reason to believe that Gordon may need to clear some room on his home trophy case come November. For the first time in half a decade, Gordon enters a season with seemingly all the pieces in place to make a real run at NASCAR's biggest prize, and end an 11-year drought dating back to his fourth and most recent title in 2001. His three victories in 2011 represent his most significant output since 2007, when he won six times and dominated the regular season before Jimmie Johnson muscled him out of the way with two races left in the Chase. Gordon was in the mix from beginning to end last year, often a factor even races he didn't win, and left probably another three victories on the table. Perhaps most importantly, he and Alan Gustafson have a full year together, and enter this season not getting to know one another, but knowing with it takes to win.

    "I really have such a strong belief and confidence in Alan, and the way his engineers go about processing the information. I love that," Gordon said recently. "Their confidence in me really was a boost for me, as well as those three wins. There's no doubt that the Chase was a disappointment, and we've got to take those last couple of races -- Texas and Homestead -- and build on that. Yeah, we've got work to do, but we have a great race team. There's no doubt, we can be a threat for the championship [this] year."

    He really is in something of a promising position, having finished a disappointing eighth in 2011 despite entering the Chase as the No. 3 seed. There's a reason so many teams that finish high in the standings often fall off the following year -- they get static, hesitant to change what appears to be working, while everyone else in the garage is trying new and different approaches capable of altering the face of competition when everyone arrives back in Daytona the next season. As good as the No. 24 team was for much of last year, finishing eighth does not afford a program an opportunity to sit still, and the intense Gustafson is not one to be satisfied with the status quo.

    "Our second year together," Gordon said, "we're going to show how good we really are."

    There's enough performance from last season to know that Gordon's cars can be fast and the wins can potentially come in bunches, enough bitterness to force the No. 24 team to focus on those areas -- hello, fuel mileage -- where it sometimes literally came up short in the previous year. That's not a bad place to be, a position that affords just enough confidence and demands just enough drive, where a little push here or there might be just what makes the difference between a head-shaking finish like the one Gordon endured last season, and raising that silver cup in South Florida. Think about it: if Gordon doesn't run out of fuel in races at Indianapolis and New Hampshire where he had dominant cars, if he gets the top-10 he was headed for instead of running dry at Chicagoland, if his engine doesn't blow at Kansas ... well, maybe Tony Stewart's miracle title run never happens. Little things indeed can mean a lot.

    "That's what was disappointing," Gordon said. "I know [brad] Keselowski had momentum as well, but we came into the Chase with tremendous confidence and momentum, and I really thought we were going to get it done. It's disappointing we didn't run better. We knew there were a couple of tracks -- Dover, maybe Texas -- that we were going to struggle at. But we did not expect to struggle at Chicago. And then we give away the win at New Hampshire. Blow up at Kansas. ... Things have to go right. That's what's amazing when you look at a five-time champion like Jimmie, you look at what Tony and Carl [Edwards] did in this Chase. A 4.9 average finish for 10 races? That's amazing."

    Yet that average wasn't good enough for Edwards to win the title, evidence that things can go almost completely right, and still leave a team empty-handed at the end. For Gordon, though, the what-ifs and could-have-beens from 2011 are eclipsed by what was very much a career renaissance for a 40-year-old driver who entered the season with a long losing skid, a new crew chief, a few more gray hairs and plenty of questions over whether he would ever win again. Even with the disappointing finish, this most recent campaign served as a confidence booster for a driver who is now very motivated to see what he can achieve in 2012. There is no more losing streak; that 66-race skid ended at Phoenix, the second week of last year. The feeling-out period between him and Gustafson is long over. There are no more questions over whether he can still win.

    "What we do have is, we won three races. We won more races than anybody at Hendrick. And we showed at times we can have what it takes to win this championship," Gordon said. "And I think that's what we take through this offseason and build on and try to take it to that next level."

    And at that level, though, the aspirations change. The bar has been set, and Gordon believes he and his crew chief have what it takes to push Stewart, Johnson, Edwards, and other top contenders for the championship in 2012. In and of itself, winning three times is something to celebrate in a rebound season, in a transition year, even with that frustrating fade in the standings during the Chase. Not this year. This year, the aim is higher -- a new trophy for the case back home -- and similar results will not be viewed as favorably. Just winning races, especially after a long drought, was once good enough. It isn't anymore.

    "You always say, 'Oh, I think we can do it.' But you don't really know," Gordon said. "This year ... we go into it knowing, it is within our reach. We plan on going for that championship and battling for it. And if we don't, even if we win three, four, five races, it's going to be far more disappointing than [last] year."

    what you think of this his story? Garrett, your fan are.

    thanks :)

    :)

  19. Yarborough's route to Hall had many twists, turns

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    hi guys,

    hope not you familiar this guy who appear this Dukes Of Hazzard's 2 episodes were check out his past story how he join first Nascar in 1950s to be.. check out his story:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/120104/cyarborough-hof-bio/index.html

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Larger than life.

    Those three words describe Cale Yarborough -- before the Sardis, S.C., native even became a racing legend who will be inducted along with Richie Evans, Dale Inman, Darrell Waltrip and Glen Wood on Jan. 20 as the third class of the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

    More on Cale

    Listen to a special NASCAR Beat podcast with Hall of Fame historian Buz McKim.

    Click to download podcast

    McKim on lookout for items

    Now 72, Yarborough flew an airplane without benefit of lessons, somehow forgetting that flight was easy; but landing was another story. He wrestled an alligator and survived being struck by lightning.

    At 5 feet 7 inches and 130 pounds, he was a ferocious prep fullback and linebacker at Timmonsville (S.C.) High School and likely could have been a collegiate football star. He "worked out" wrestling bales in a tobacco barn and credited that labor with making him one of the era's most fit competitors. And in his spare time, Yarborough drove a school bus.

    Oh, and Yarborough was ejected -- three times -- from his first race, the 1957 Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway -- because NASCAR officials found out he'd lied about his age on his license application. The 18-year-old, who said he was 21, qualified 44th. He'd hidden on the Ford's floorboards and took the wheel as owner Bobby Weatherly exited while inspectors were looking elsewhere.

    Yarborough actually started the race -- wearing a helmet and goggles, he got "lost" in the pre-race crush -- but received a quick black flag when it was apparent the driver of the No. 30 car was not Weatherly.

    From those beginnings, William Caleb Yarborough became the first to win three consecutive NASCAR premier series championships (1976-78) and three times finished second in the standings. During a career that began ignominiously in 1957 and concluded after the 1988 season, Yarborough won 83 races -- sixth on the all-time list.

    He won the Daytona 500 four times. Driving Chevrolets prepared and ultimately owned by NASCAR Hall of Fame member Junior Johnson, Yarborough won nine or more races in four different seasons. He also won 69 poles, fourth all time, including a record 12 at Daytona -- four in the Daytona 500.

    What had become a dynasty ended after the 1980 season -- leaving, many say, more victories and championships on the table. Yarborough, whose father was killed in a plane crash when he was 11, felt he needed to spend more time with his children and never again pursued a full-time driving schedule. Ironically, the seat in Johnson's Chevrolet went to Waltrip, who won championships in 1981, '82 and '85.

    "I gave up a lot but I gained a lot more," he wrote in his 1986 biography, Cale, a book co-written with Bill Neely. Fourteen of Yarborough's victories -- including the 1983 Daytona 500 and his fourth Southern 500 -- came in the post-Johnson years behind the wheel of cars owned by M.C. Anderson and Harry Ranier.

    Yarborough fielded his own team between 1987 and '99, employing among others Dale Jarrett, Derrike Cope and John Andretti. Andretti scored the organization's lone victory in July 1997 at Daytona.

    Growing up, Yarborough considered himself a risk-taker. If the tree limb from which he and his friends hung the tire over the swimming hole wasn't high enough, Yarborough would find a way to make it higher. He built an 80-foot platform to dive into the Lynches River -- which was only 5 feet deep.

    That went well, at least until Yarborough came up and touched a log that wasn't a log but an alligator. "There was no way I could out-swim him to the banks so I did the only thing there was to do," he wrote in Cale. "I grabbed him around the head. It rolled and rolled. First I saw the sky, and then my vision was blurred by the sandy river bottom."

    Yarborough and the gator made it to the bank where friends drove off the reptile. "Aside from swallowing about half the Lynches River and looking like I'd been in a hatchet fight, I was all right," Yarborough said. "I hoped I had given up alligator wrestling for all time."

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    His first taste of wheeled competition was the Soap Box Derby for which he and his father, who owned a general store and cotton gin, built a car. Yarborough lost his first race, which turned out to be a sobering experience that would remain with him throughout his racing career.

    "I never forgot how bad it felt to lose," he said.

    Getting his driver's license at age 14, Yarborough's first car was a Model A Ford he purchased working for 25 cents an hour in the tobacco warehouse. He and his friends would race on the long, straight rural roads around Sardis and Timmonsville. "One of the old timers in Sardis said to me, 'Every time we heard a fast car go by, we'd say there goes Cale.' "

    Yarborough bought a 1953 Ford coupe while a senior in high school, tuned it up, painted his football number (35) on the doors and with friends towed it to a local dirt track. He finished third in his first heat race, the last car running. That was all it took.

    "There was metal scraping and dust flying everywhere," he said. "Man, this sure beat anything I had ever done. I was as happy as a kid in a candy store."

    Yarborough soon was driving for others. His car lacked power and Yarborough lacked money to make it faster.

    His first NASCAR premier series victory came June 27, 1965, in a 100-mile race over a half-mile dirt track in Valdosta, Ga. Yarborough, driving a 1964 Ford, beat J.T. Putney by three laps. The field included two-time NASCAR champion Buck Baker and NASCAR Hall of Fame member Ned Jarrett, as well as Wendell Scott and Buddy Baker.

    Yarborough drove for fellow Hall of Fame inductee Glen Wood from mid-1966 through '70, winning 13 times. They won three consecutive races at Daytona International Speedway in 1967-68, including the 1968 Daytona 500.

    Yarborough admits he hated to lose. He ranks ninth all time with a 14.77 winning percentage. "When you get right down to it, there are only two parts to racing: winning and losing," he wrote in 1986. "No second, third or fourth. You win or you lose."

    Emmy Award-winning NASCAR Media Group produced a biography series of all five 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame inductees that are currently airing on SPEED. The series started on Dec. 9 with back-to-back shows featuring Cale Yarborough and Dale Inman, followed by the feature on Richie Evans on Dec. 16. The remaining biographies will air on SPEED this month. Darrell Waltrip at 8 p.m. ET Friday and Glen Wood at 8 p.m. ET Jan. 13.

    Cale Yarborough: Career highlights

    • Yarborough was the first driver to win three consecutive Cup Series championships, from 1976-78.

    • During his three-year dominance, he won 28 races -- nine in 1976, nine in '77 and 10 in '78.

    • His final championship points margin in those three years was never fewer than 195 points and was as much as 474 in 1978.

    • He was the series runner-up in 1973 and '74 and again in '80.

    • He totaled 83 victories in his 31-year career, which ranks sixth all time.

    • His 69 poles rank fourth all time.

    • He won the Daytona 500 four times (1968, '77, '83-84), a mark that ranks second only to Richard Petty's seven.

    • He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.

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    see in picture he look very old and still alive there. not die yet.. that nice to see this

    what you think of this guy was?

    thanks enjoy :)

  20. NASCAR and the Dukes unite - well sorta

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    lol, yeah I been use NASCAR Illustrated before but not have now no time to renew one because due money $$ before oh well I will might start over again this time I will order this time again. I love Nascar since 1989 to be wow.. my favorite driver Dale Earnhart Sr, Dale Earnhart Jr, Tony Stewart so well..

    HossC, nice picture to find that... lol :rofl: nice...

    I like Dukes of Hazzard too same time watching Nascar in 1989 to now.. for sure.. and thanks for that, Garrett about magazine of Tony's nice. I will get that today if they have in my local food store as Price Chopper, Hen House, Hy-Vee as well.. thanks :)

  21. 2012 Sprint Cup Series race reviews and results

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    yeah you know that Clint Bowyer change team and new number for 2012 and Kahne with new #5 team with new scheme but Tony's bit new scheme as well.. lot new things for schemes on #88, 48, etc hope see forward that season and I notice that Oct for kansas change first week to end week not know why oh well I use went on firs weekend on friday for practice watching with my dad oh boy. hope no plan on end of Oct for Kansas 2nd sprint cup chase... oh well... I hate change some date schedule. it okay. I like went on oct than june because of weather and people are. hope forward to watch Daytona 500 next month soon... can't wait... lol here link about Clint's team are:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/120104/2012-miss-expectations/index.html

    as for me I like Go Tony's Smoke!..... and #88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.....

    thanks enjoy :)

  23. The 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West schedule stretches from March to November. Getty

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    Hi Guys,

    look very interesting about one check out new one:

    http://hometracks.nascar.com/2012_KN_Pro_Series_West_Schedule_Released/official_release

    DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West schedule, a slate of 15 races featuring three inaugural events and a return to an historic track in California’s Central Valley, was announced today by NASCAR.

    The schedule stretches from March to November and includes visits to 13 venues in 10 states as the West’s oldest stock car racing circuit celebrates its 59th season.

    “The 2012 schedule for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series reflects the continued growth of the series, with the addition of some first-time events,†said George Silbermann, NASCAR vice president, regional and touring series. “This slate of races will allow the drivers and teams to showcase their talent and provide exposure for their sponsors in key major markets across the country.â€

    The schedule for NASCAR’s top developmental series features the first series visit to the state of New Mexico, with an event at Sandia Motor Speedway in Albuquerque on Saturday, Sept. 29. The series will also make its first visit to Havasu 95 Speedway in Lake Havasu City, Ariz., on Saturday, April 14.

    An inaugural race at Brainerd (Minn.) International Raceway on Saturday, May 26, will mark one of four road course events on tap for 2012. In addition to the Minnesota race, the schedule includes visits to Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah on Saturday, April 28; Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., on Saturday, June 23; and Portland (Ore.) International Raceway on Sunday, Aug. 26.

    The 2012 season will feature a return on Saturday, May 5, to Stockton (Calif.) 99 Speedway, which the series last visited in 2006.

    A key addition to the schedule is a second NASCAR K&N Pro Series East-West combination race at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. The first combination race is set for Saturday, May 19, with a return engagement on the .875-mile track east of Des Moines on Friday, Aug. 3. Both events are in conjunction with NASCAR Nationwide Series races at Iowa Speedway.

    The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West begins its 2012 campaign at Phoenix International Raceway on Saturday, March 3, and concludes the season back at the one-mile track on Saturday, Nov. 10. The Phoenix races are two of three series events in conjunction with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races.

    Other 2012 highlights include:

    • Four other popular short-track events on the 2012 schedule include The Bullring at Las Vegas Motors Speedway on Saturday, June 2; Evergreen Speedway in Monroe, Wash., on Saturday, July 14; Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colo., on Saturday, July 28; and All American Speedway in Roseville, Calif., on Saturday, Oct. 13.

    2012 SCHEDULE

    so what you think of this new race stuff? I might watching on tv if they would on speed or espn or espn2 as well.. I hope so I might see some same drivers or new drivers that we not seen before to be. cool is it huh? lot new things for 2012 nice is it? :confused:

    thanks enjoy :)

  24. NASCAR news

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    hi guys,

    good news on my comcast said about Kurt Busch's check out his story:

    http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-motorsports/20111222/Kurt-Busch-reaches-deal-for-2012-ride-car/

    Kurt Busch will drive the No. 51 Chevrolet for Phoenix Racing in 2012.

    Busch put the handshake deal together with team owner James Finch on Wednesday night.

    “I went to the shop, and on the Christmas tree was a sign that read, ‘All we want from Santa is a winning driver,' †Finch said. “We will be at the Daytona test next month and start with the Shootout.â€

    The decision comes just weeks after Busch left Penske Racing in a mutual parting. Upon his departure, Busch said he “wanted racing to be fun again.â€

    If Busch, 33, was looking to combine “fun†with racing, no owner can deliver on that promise better than Finch. Couple that with the benefit of Hendrick Motorsports cars and engines, and Busch could be the driver who puts Phoenix Racing on the map.

    The 2004 Sprint Cup champion has 24 wins, including two in each of the past three years, and has qualified for six Chase for the Sprint Cups. Busch has won a race in each of the past 10 seasons.

    Said Finch: “I told Kurt, ‘I won’t fire you, and you won’t quit. We’ll do whatever it takes — roll in the mud if we have to to win. I’ve worked construction all my life just so I could race and have a good time. I’ve worked with iron workers, I worked with construction workers, so working with a driver is not going to be a problem.

    “As I said earlier, all we want to do is winâ€.

    Finch has been active in Sprint Cup racing since 1990. Phoenix Racing has one victory and three top fives in 191 starts with multiple drivers. The lone win came in April 2009 at Talladega Superspeedway with Brad Keselowski behind the wheel. Nick Harrison will continue to serve as crew chief.

    Landon Cassill most recently piloted the No. 51 for Finch last season. Finch finished 30th in owner points.

    Busch finished 11th in the Sprint Cup standings this year. He closed on a sour note when he made an obscene hand gesture while heading to the garage because of mechanical problems. As his car was being repaired, Busch berated a television reporter, drawing a $50,000 fine.

    what you think of that huh on him.

    and other on news:

    http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-motorsports/20111221/NASCAR--Allmendinger/

    MOORESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Roger Penske has hired AJ Allmendinger to replace Kurt Busch in the No. 22 car.

    Last year, the 30-year-old Allmendinger had 10 top-10 finishes and was 15th in points driving Richard Petty's No. 43 car.

    The move, announced Wednesday, takes Penske back to his open-wheel roots.

    Allmendinger won the open-wheel Barber Dodge Pro Series title in 2002, the Toyota Atlantics championship in 2003 and was the 2004 rookie of the year in the now defunct Champ Car series. In 2005, he won five races and was third in Champ Car in points. He joined the Cup circuit in 2007.

    Busch won two races, took three poles and was one of 12 drivers to compete in the season-ending chase. Two weeks ago, after six bumpy seasons, Busch and Penske parted ways.

    and as for Clint Bowyer change team:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/111222/drodman-notebook-cbowyer-scott-miller-mutual-admiration-mwr/index.html

    Longtime Richard Childress Racing competition kingpin Scott Miller was honored when Michael Waltrip Racing's Cal Wells approached him about becoming MWR's chief competition executive. But when MWR hired former RCR driver Clint Bowyer to pilot its third full-time Sprint Cup entry in 2012, it about sent Miller over the moon.

    In the final month of the 2011 season, Miller had already firmly landed at MWR as executive vice president of competition. He then slid into the role of Martin Truex Jr.'s crew chief for the last three races and engineered two top-10 finishes.

    Miller and Bowyer during testing at Walt Disney World Speedway.

    “

    Having somebody that I trust and I know and that I've worked alongside is a big deal.

    â€

    -- CLINT BOWYER

    Miller said last week that Bowyer tried to remain with RCR, but was pleased when Bowyer made the move to MWR.

    "When MWR became an option, that was obviously very exciting to me because I enjoy working with [bowyer]," Miller said. "He's a very talented race car driver, really a good guy to be around, promotes harmony within a team because he's a fun guy. He's a pleasure to work with and it's just lucky for me that the MWR thing ended up working out for him."

    Miller said that as much as he enjoyed working with Truex and as much as he's anticipating getting to work with Mark Martin for the first time at a pre-Daytona test session on Jan. 11, he's really enthused about continuing his relationship with Bowyer.

    And Miller said he had no trouble if the public perception of Bowyer might be that he's happy-go-lucky and sometimes even on the verge of being a goofy prankster. Miller knows how competitive and how well-respected Bowyer is.

    "I know the public would think he'd be a fun guy to be around but from a racing perspective, he has that respect inside [the garage]. The public persona of the fun-loving guy might not be synonymous with the fierce competitor that he is. The fact that he's as intense as he is behind the wheel of a race car may get lost, but he's a tough guy and he's hard for those guys to deal with -- he's really good."

    Bowyer is looking forward to seeing at least one familiar face, though by all accounts his team-building first test last week at Walt Disney World Speedway went way better than expected.

    "Having somebody that I trust and I know and that I've worked alongside is a big deal," Bowyer said of Miller. "Being there and manning the ship and kind of organizing this organization into something that I was used to -- kind of having those same organization guidelines that I was used to, I think that will be a big benefactor to me going into this, knowing how [Miller's] going to structure things and already being on the same page with that."

    * Watch: Bowyer tests at Disney

    Smith testing out West

    Furniture Row Racing has proven that being based in Denver, Colo., is no detriment to succeeding in the Sprint Cup Series, and last week the team's activity proved, to some degree, why attitude and commitment count for a lot at NASCAR's premier level.

    While NASCAR's efforts to preclude the propensity of teams to tandem draft at the circuit's biggest speedways is occupying a lot of minds, the 2012 introduction of electronic fuel injection is also a concern. So last week, Furniture Row and its pilot, Regan Smith, tested Tuesday at Pikes Peak International Raceway and on Wednesday, for a day at High Plains Raceway, east of Denver.

    Ragan locks in one deal

    David Ragan's hopes for a quality Sprint Cup Series ride for 2012 have become almost a minute-to-minute chore, with A.J. Allmendinger's selection for the Penske Racing No. 22 Dodge closing one door, but seemingly opening another possibility for Ragan at Richard Petty Motorsports.

    But Ragan made one thing certain for 2012 when he successfully proposed marriage to longtime girlfriend Jacquelyn Ann Butler. Ragan, a five-year Cup Series veteran from Unadilla, Ga., and Butler, of Greenwood, S.C.; have set a 2012 wedding date of Dec. 15 at a Charlotte-area church.

    Interestingly enough both won races in 2011: Ragan won the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona and Butler won the Oct. 15 Better-Half Dash charity race in Bandolero cars at Charlotte.

    * Allmendinger to drive the No. 22, hopes to take 'next step' with Penske

    Biffle on parade with pets

    Sprint Cup veterans Greg Biffle and Ryan Newman share a common interest in the welfare of pets, for example, with their annual charity pet calendars featuring NASCAR drivers and their furry companions.

    But next month, Biffle will help Natural Balance Pet Foods make a splash in the upcoming 123rd Rose Parade on Jan. 2, when he rides on Natural Balance's 116-foot float. After extensive training, the dogs on the float will actually surf on 65-foot long waves in more than 6,600 gallons of water on a float weighing more than 100,000 pounds. A specially designed wave machine is incorporated into the design of the float and creates a wave every minute.

    "I've heard a lot about this year's float and I've seen video of the floats from the last couple of years," Biffle said. "I can't wait to see [dogs surfing]. It was definitely an honor to be asked to ride on the Natural Balance float because we share the same passion for the well-being of animals."

    *Learn more about the float

    so i will bring more update for 2012 drivers and teams update inform ok thanks and what you think of this time? :confused:

    thanks enjoy :)

  25. Beer

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    I always noticed Cooter either drank milk, coffee or what looks to be soda. He never (or rarely) had a beer.

    yeah not forget Enos drink milk and sometime Rosco drink beer or milk when he on duty... yeah I look like real beer to me but more like apple juice since how put on top with white on it make look like real beer to be. :)

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