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  3. NASCAR news

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    bad news about that best drivers check out:

    http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-motorsports/20111101/Rick.Hendrick-Plane.Crash/

    KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) — A small jet carrying the owner of NASCAR's top team and his wife has crash landed in Key West.

    Officials say the Gulfstream 150 aircraft carrying Rick and Linda Hendrick ran off the runway Monday at 7:45 p.m. The Hendricks, a pilot and co-pilot were taken to Lower Keys Medical Center. Two have minor injuries, though it was not clear who.

    The other two were taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons.

    Authorities say the plane is registered to Jimmie Johnson Racing II Incorporated in Charlotte, N.C. Johnson is the five-time defending NASCAR champion, and drives for Hendrick Motorsports.

    Rick Hendrick is the owner of the race team.

    http://www.nascar.com/news/111101/rhendrick-plane-crash-key-west/index.html

    nascar.com:

    Championship NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and his wife are recovering at home in Charlotte after each suffered minor injuries Monday night when the small jet carrying them to Key West, Fla., lost its brakes and crash landed at the island's airport.

    “

    It really shakes you down to the core. I'm just so thankful that Rick and Linda and the pilots are home in Charlotte ... But it certainly gets your attention.

    â€

    -- JIMMIE JOHNSON

    Officials on the scene told the Associated Press that the Gulfstream 150 ran off the runway at Key West International Airport Monday at 7:45 p.m., and that Rick and Linda Hendrick, as well as a pilot and co-pilot, were taken to Lower Keys Medical Center. Hendrick suffered a broken rib and clavicle, and Linda was treated for minor cuts and bruises, according to Hendrick Motorsports. The pilots were evaluated and released without injury, and all four have returned to North Carolina.

    The plane was registered to five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, one of four Hendrick Motorsports drivers. Johnson said Tuesday that the aircraft operates out of Hendrick as part of a joint operating agreement. The plane, which remains in Key West, is capable of seating up to eight or nine people.

    "It really shakes you down to the core," Johnson said. "I'm just so thankful that Rick and Linda and the pilots are home in Charlotte, and not badly injured, and everybody's going to be OK. But it certainly gets your attention."

    The crash comes seven years and two weeks after a Hendrick plane carrying 10 people veered off course in foggy conditions and crashed en route to a race in Martinsville, Va. Hendrick's son Ricky, his brother and team president John, two of Hendrick's nieces and chief engine builder Randy Dorton were among those lost in the 2004 accident.

    Monday, the Gulfstream's pilot and co-pilot radioed that the aircraft had no brakes upon landing in Key West, the Monroe County Sheriff's Department told the AP. The plane ran off the runway, and then 100 feet beyond into a 600-foot safety area that was completed in May, county airport director Peter Horton told the AP.

    "If we hadn't done that, it likely would have been a different story," Horton said.

    Johnson was relieved. "I'm so thankful it turned out the way it did," he said. "It certainly was a scary event, I can only imagine. But everything did its job, and as time goes on we'll learn a lot more about the details and what happened down there."

    Johnson said he spoke briefly with Hendrick on Tuesday morning.

    A plane carrying Rick Hendrick and his wife Linda crashed Monday.

    "It's been a long night for him. He's trying to get some rest," Johnson said. "We just touched base, and I know he's OK. It's just nice to hear his voice and to hear him say he's fine and OK, and Linda is as well along with the pilots. That's really just the short, brief thing along those lines, and that was it."

    The National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the accident. Tuesday, Johnson was still unsure of many details.

    "There are a lot of really good, smart people working on getting answers to these questions so we can all understand what exactly took place," he said. "As we all understand, there was a brake issue with the plane landing, all four on board are OK and home back in Charlotte. I'm thankful everything turned out well with the crash, and there weren't any major injuries down there. Certainly a crazy evening for everybody involved, and I'm just thankful everybody is OK."

    seem they okay right now. hope come back on racing this sunday. :)

  7. 2011 Sprint Cup race reviews and results

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    it pretty good race and glad to see Clint Bowyer win this time so close to Jeff Burton's to victory..So here points follow up now here is:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/111023/cbowyer-wins-talladega/index.html

    1 . -- Carl Edwards 2237 Leader

    2 . +1 Matt Kenseth 2223 -14

    3 . +3 Brad Keselowski 2219 -18

    4 . +1 Tony Stewart 2218 -19

    5 . -3 Kevin Harvick 2211 -26

    6 . -2 Kyle Busch 2197 -40

    7 . +1 Jimmie Johnson 2187 -50

    8 . -1 Kurt Busch 2185 -52

    9 . -- Dale Earnhardt Jr 2163 -74

    10 . +1 Jeff Gordon 2155 -82

    11 . +1 Denny Hamlin 2153 -84

    12 . -2 Ryan Newman 2149 -88

    as for now.. what you think of draft 2 cars same as did last time in spring race? :confused: what you think.. not bad for me to see it first time for this year unlike last year had. wow nice to see how they doing pretty well.. few wreck not bad unlike last time in spring had.

    thanks enjoy :)

  10. NASCAR Hall of Fame for 2011 and 2012

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    Thanks for posting this TRPColtrane.

    I see the ceremony will be in January.

    Cale has his own thread here and his induction was announced there on June 15. That was Waylon's birthday and Luke's birthday....Luke my grandson, not Luke Duke.

    So, I had three things to celebrate in one day!

    Congratulations Cale Yarborough...and others.

    wow unlike my sister in law's birthday near June 14 and also my brother's wife anniversary wedding near father's day as well.. seem lot birthday on summer to be. :-o

    thanks :)

  11. How long you been watching and fan?

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    hi guys,

    I think about this thread here what how long you watching since and fan since.. and also what your favorite driver to? ::rolleyes:

    my fan and long time watching since 1989 or 1990 where start Dale Earnhardt Sr before 2001 to Dale Earnhart Jr and Tony Stewart for me until now I like Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards now. I almost fan for more than 20 years by now. wow.. :-o long time for me..

    what about you guys had? :confused:

    thanks enjoy :)

  12. 2011 Sprint Cup race reviews and results

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    yeah I am going to watching this race this sunday and hope good racing to be.. :roll: and also I hope for Carl's still leader of point chase what I vote for. they need win better as Matt, Kevin, others for this sunday. Nice see Mark's first pole win at time. Mark's might change # and team next year or retired not sure about that yet for 2012 for Mark. I hope who will win tomorrow afternoon. :)

  14. NASCAR Hall of Fame for 2011 and 2012

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    hi guys,

    what you think of Nascar Hall of Fame is cool or what? check out this story:

    http://www.nascar.com/news/111018/six-pack-of-pop-gwood/index.html

    Glen Wood, who soon will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame, answers this week's six questions.

    Class of 2012

    Cale Yarborough, Darrell Waltrip, Dale Inman, Richie Evans and Glen Wood honored with enshrinement.

    Cale Yarborough

    Darrell Waltrip

    Dale Inman

    Richie Evans

    Glen Wood

    1. What was it like to see the retro paint scheme of a Wood Brothers Racing car from 1963 driven by Trevor Bayne in last Saturday night's Bank of America 500 at Charlotte Motor Speedway?

    Wood: Something like this rarely happens and I think [sons] Len and Eddie [Wood] and all the guys at the shop came up with a good idea to do this. The color scheme on this car was the same one Tiny Lund won the 500 at Daytona with -- and a little bit later in that season I won the last race I ran in that same car, so it's a good time for it to happen with the Hall of Fame and everything that goes with it. Seeing my name on the top of the door and my picture on the hood is heartwarming to me.

    2. What's it like to see your picture on the hood of your car?

    Wood: It's kind of unbelievable, but knowing my kids I wasn't surprised.

    3. Why over the door of the car was your first name spelled with two 'N's' at the end, when it routinely has been spelled with only one?

    Wood: Somewhere along the line it possibly happened from

    signing autographs. I somehow might not have spelled it all because it was shorter and easier to do, so that is possibly the reason why it is that way. But my birth certificate is two 'n's'."

    4. What about when you write a check?

    Wood: It's still just one. I guess over time I forgot how to do the two n's.

    5. What's the feeling like as the Hall of Fame induction inches closer?

    Wood: It's just amazing to me the people who congratulate me on that and a lot of times it's people that I don't even know. Somehow they know me and it's just very gratifying to have been chosen this early in the balloting.

    I guess I just didn't expect it so soon, but like Willie Nelson said, 'If you think I'm gonna stand up here and take this over all those other deserving people out there, you're darn right I am.' I thought that was pretty neat.

    6. How did the iconic No. 21 come about to be on the Wood Brothers racing car?

    Wood: We've had different numbers. We started out with the number 50 and we had a little accident with that and it caught fire and burned up. We decided to change the number after we fixed it back up and we put a No. 16 on it. But along the way somewhere we just put a No. 21 on it and a little later we put a No. 22 on it.

    We ran a No. 22 for a long time and then during the time they ran convertibles and Grand Nationals together, Fireball Roberts had a No. 22. That was his Cup number and mine was a No. 22 in the convertible. Sometimes he would run a convertible race and guess who had to change his number? It wasn't him [laughing]. So we kept doing that a time or two and we decided we would just leave a No. 21 on it. It's been a good number ever since. Other than one year with [sponsor] 7-Eleven -- you can understand they wanted a seven -- but after that Citgo came along [as a sponsor] and we went back to the No. 21 and it's been there ever since. I hope it stays.

    so what you think of this? do you remember Cale did in dukes of hazzard show twice times in.

    thanks enjoy :)

  15. What was the episode?

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    yeah what I seen so far on CMT when I every time check on my favorite show when they on it sometime not. oh well.. if you can't watching then you can buy all seasons dvds sets from store like walmart, borders, amazon to be easier to watching it. good thing I have dvds myself.. yeah I hate Coy and Vance myself too.. they bit boring but I like Bo and Luke better. :)

  17. NASCAR news

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    yeah I have other news here from my comcast news check out:

    http://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/sports-motorsports/20111017/IndyCar-Wheldon-Jimmie.Johnson/

    ONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Five-time defending NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson called on IndyCar to stop racing on ovals in the wake of Indianapolis 500 winner Dan Wheldon's death.

    Wheldon was killed in a 15-car accident in Sunday's season finale IndyCar race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, a high banked, 1.5-mile oval.

    ``I wouldn't run them on ovals. There's just no need to,'' Johnson said Monday during a test session at Charlotte Motor Speedway. ``Those cars are fantastic for street circuits, for road courses. I hate, hate, hate that this tragedy took place. But hopefully they can learn from it and make those cars safer on ovals somehow.

    ``I don't know how they can really do it. Myself, I have a lot of friends that race in that series, and I'd just rather see them on street circuits and road courses. No more ovals.''

    Johnson was in his own frightening accident Saturday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, where his car hit headfirst into the wall. The back wheels briefly lifted off the track, but Johnson walked away and suffered only next-day soreness.

    He's always wanted to race in the Indianapolis 500, but when his daughter was born last year, Johnson said he promised his wife he would not drive an IndyCar. The combination of the speeds and the car design - an IndyCar has an open cockpit and open wheels that can't withstand the bumping that occurs on ovals - has made him gun shy about racing cars that don't have a roof.

    ``Their average was 225? I've never been 225 mph in my life - and that's their average around an oval. They are brave men and women that drive those things,'' Johnson said. ``There's very little crumple zone around the driver, it's an open cockpit and then you add open wheels - it's just creating situations to get the car off the ground at a high rate of speed. And you can't control the car when it's off the ground.''

    Johnson watched Sunday's race at home and said he was glued to his television, mouth wide open as he watched the replays of Wheldon's accident.

    ``Knowing Dan and his wife and two kids, and then I'm sitting there with my daughter running around in the backyard, I was torn up yesterday,'' Johnson said. ``I mean, I know Dan, or knew Dan. We just stared at the TV for a long time yesterday with long faces. Just really sad.''

    wow that sad news... :mad::)

  18. NASCAR news

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    yeah I read that on my comcast.net news and I think Indy Car more dangerous than Stock Car had.. to be because not have cover on top. They need more safety issue on indy cars when they did on stock car in nascar.. so well sad for him to. oh well. :)

  20. 2011 Sprint Cup race reviews and results

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    yeah bad for Jeff Gordon and Jimmie but okay for Tony's sat night so here list standing point now:

    1 Carl Edwards 2203

    2 -- Kevin Harvick 2198

    3 +2 Matt Kenseth 2196

    4 +4 Kyle Busch 2185

    5 +2 Tony Stewart 2179

    6 -2 Brad Keselowski 2178

    7 -1 Kurt Busch 2176

    8 -5 Jimmie Johnson 2168

    9 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr.2143

    10 +1 Ryan Newman 2142

    11 -1 Jeff Gordon 2137

    12 -- Denny Hamlin 2117

    as for current points standing as well.. hope not bad for next sunday to be.. oh boy. I like Matt, Carl and Dale Jr and Tony my list.. I hope for Carl keep next week leader.. for me. I know Matt from Wisconsin but my uncle and aunt and cousin from Wisc too.. but this town he from that my dad not know know where and never there before because they live more north than my family is south on near Delavan and East Troy and Lake Geneva... as well..

    good race night as well.. :)

  25. 2011 Sprint Cup race reviews and results

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    yeah I am going to watching night race tomorrow night and hope would who win to be.. So I been vote for kevin then Carl and last for Tony because I not sure if they will get lot points after end most laps they had and see happen after that. Yeah for Talledega's big problem for wreck overtime when near end of laps as well.. worst than Daytona or others... like that because sometime we call big one if not wreck it as last time we saw it before.. hope not so bad for next week.. to be... oh boy I hate... :p I hope for Tony need other win or not.. :)

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