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[Ross Stonefeld]

Sup Sup

 

Welcome to sunny Avondale Arizona.

 

Here's the thing folks. Phoenix is one of those US cities where the actual 'Phoenix' bit is about the size of a football field but it's a massive massive urban area with millions upon millions of people. Technically most people live in Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, etc. 

 

With Geography by an American out of the way, Buenas Dias!

 

 

Race Distance 500. Kilometers. It sounds better?
Race Sponsor The Prophet

 

 

No, no, sorry. 

 

 

THE PROFIT ON CNBC 500, PRESENTED BY SMALL BUSINESS FUELING AMERICA

 

A bizarre sponsor and a marble-mouthed naming deal, but worth it to hear the Fox crew plug another network's program.

 

Salsa Verde Verde Verde 3:15 Eastern, 9:15 Queen Elizabeth time

 

This week in Paint© 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Local News Governor Jan Brewer vetoed SB 1062 to amend an existing law to give any individual or legal entity an exemption from any state law if it substantially burdened their exercise of religion, including Arizona law requiring public accommodation.

 

Relevance? Come on down Jeff Gordon fans! Let your rainbow flag fly.

 

Phoenix International Raceway @ 50 Anecdote. Brought to you by my fuzzy memory.

 

My dad used to take me to Firebird(I aint calling it by the new sponsor name) for the NHRA races. When I was proper tiny. Where the cars are just way too loud and a top fuel or funny car makes your whole body feel sick. I basically hated racing.

 

He was given some tickets for the Indycar race, pit access and all. Did I want to go? Hell to the no. But Knight Rider would be there. Really? Take me. 

 

My memory is the noise and not being able to see over the top of the wall. I was a properly little kid. I didn't see Knight Rider, Kitt, or even Hasselhoff. 

 

But now I can 

 

http://knightrideron...r/knight_racer/

 

And if you want to watch the actual race

 

 

And the sequence that makes it the ultimate thread video. In-car commentary AND Hasselhoff back to back. I should have watched at home.

 

https://www.youtube....2AldKr4I#t=3386

 

True Story In 2013 I had a few meetings with a pretty successful sponsorship guy in the Indycar world and he asked me how I got into racing. I told him that story. He knew and had worked with Hasselhoff on launching

 

 

Question for the Thread Favorite TV cross-over episode(s)? 

 

 

SR388 bait

 

 

http://jalopnik.com/...f-me-1531016226

Edited by Ross Stonefeld, 27 February 2014 - 15:32.

[Atreiu]

Thanks.

 

I like the Skittles Car.

[Deluxx]

Wow, good thread Rossi! I'm proud of ya!

 

Queen Elizabeth time, lol.

[HaydenFan]

Thanks.

 

I like the Skittles Car.

 

On of the first cars I liked. I was a kid and the Ernie Irvine Skittles car was brightly colored. Got my attention. 

[jonpollak]

I just knew I'd be right....

That was InfoTaining beyond my wildest dweems.

 

 

Favorite TV cross-over episode(s)?

Charlie's Angels episode at Ontario Motor Speedway

 

 

RacePrediction: Rushed GWC  so as not to clash with the Oscar broadcast

Jp

[SR388]

Sup Sup

Welcome to sunny Avondale Arizona.

Here's the thing folks. Phoenix is one of those US cities where the actual 'Phoenix' bit is about the size of a football field but it's a massive massive urban area with millions upon millions of people. Technically most people live in Mesa, Scottsdale, Glendale, Peoria, etc.

With Geography by an American out of the way, Buenas Dias!



Race Distance 500. Kilometers. It sounds better?
Race Sponsor The Prophet



No, no, sorry.



THE PROFIT ON CNBC 500, PRESENTED BY SMALL BUSINESS FUELING AMERICA

A bizarre sponsor and a marble-mouthed naming deal, but worth it to hear the Fox crew plug another network's program.

Salsa Verde Verde Verde 3:15 Eastern, 9:15 Queen Elizabeth time

This week in Paint©














SR388 bait

http://www.youtube.c...d&v=dRIgmKGDqFM

http://jalopnik.com/...f-me-1531016226

Great thread! Thanks for the bait! Jeff is the man!

I love this track. Only oval with actual elevation changes. Very unique!

[Option1]

Well played, Ross. 

 

Neil

[HaydenFan]

Great thread! Thanks for the bait! Jeff is the man!

I love this track. Only oval with actual elevation changes. Very unique!

 

Well, since Nazareth was shut down. 

 

JP, you think the same people who watch NASCAR watch the Oscars? Ha! Best joke I've heard in awhile. 

[Jim Thurman]

Well, since Nazareth was shut down. 

 

 

See also North Wilkesboro.

 

That's a thing the oval hatas don't get. I've been to many, many short ovals and rarely are any two the same.  The hatas dis "They're all the same"  Yeah, different configurations, lengths of straights, degree of banking, radius of corners...yep, all the same

[Andrew Hope]

Who /gonnawatchqualithisyear/ here? It's tomorrow at 4:40pm local, which I *think* is 6:40pm EST.

[Risil]

See also North Wilkesboro.

 

That's a thing the oval hatas don't get. I've been to many, many short ovals and rarely are any two the same.  The hatas dis "They're all the same"  Yeah, different configurations, lengths of straights, degree of banking, radius of corners...yep, all the same

 

I think it's because the 1.5 mile ovals are all the same

[racinggeek]

Chuckled a couple times -- Nice thread starter, Ross. 

[Victor_RO]

Boo. Not enough unnecessary Princess mentions.   

 

[Richard T]

No figure skating this weekend, SWEET, hopefully we'll be watching the 24 play stockcar-bowling again.

[Andrew Hope]

Well, I can't think of anything funny to say, so look at this:

 

[Ross Stonefeld]

Borat Style niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

 

I've always wondered, is the wood brothers 21 like a normal chrome or a gold tinted one?

[Ross Stonefeld]

Hold on. 

 

How does qualifying work at Phoenix?

[Exb]

Hold on. 
 
How does qualifying work at Phoenix?

I may know this from my "research" for Daytona. Think its a knockout format. Is Phoenix longer than 1.25 miles? If so from what I could gather its all cars for the 1st 25mins, then the top 24 for 10mins, and then the 10 fastest for the final 5mins

(If less than 1.25 miles its all cars for 30mins and then the top 12 for 10 mins)


Edit: Of course I could have completely misunderstood the rules and made all that up.

Edited by Exb, 27 February 2014 - 23:36.

[Andrew Hope]

It's the bottom of the two options:

 

[Ross Stonefeld]

So at least 43 cars will be attempting fast laps. With some stagger since they have 30 minutes to try.

 

I bet knockout qualifying turns into a damp squib. There's no championship, financial, or race-strategy advantage to being on pole. So why risk tearing up your equipment. 

[Myrvold]

Nice to see 46 entrants, even though there are S&P's there, I like when it is some kind of competition to get in the field! Guessing Morgan Shepherd, Blake Koch, Cole Whitt and Dave Blaney to be the four fighting to avoid DNQ.

Also nice to see the amount of low-budget teams that finished high in the Daytona 500 without damage, good for the budgets I guess!

[Andrew Hope]

So at least 43 cars will be attempting fast laps. With some stagger since they have 30 minutes to try.

 

I bet knockout qualifying turns into a damp squib. There's no championship, financial, or race-strategy advantage to being on pole. So why risk tearing up your equipment. 

 

If I was a low-budget team I'd be thinking along the same lines as you, but that would also be my cue to go balls to the wall for pole at a big race once in a while if I know everyone else is just giving it 80%.

[paulb]

Well, I can't think of anything funny to say, so look at this:

 

 

That is one hell of a purty racecar. 

 

[punny tangent]Wood PSP be happier teamed with Wood?[/punny tangent]

[Jim Thurman]

I think it's because the 1.5 mile ovals are all the same

 

Well, erm, umm...yeah, there is that   Seriously, we have Bruton Smith and SMI to thank for creating the McTrack.  Atlanta used to be very interesting and even Charlotte was unique.

 

But, if folks can't tell the difference between Pocono, Fontana, Atlanta, Richmond and Martinsville, or any except the SMI clones, there's no hope for 'em

 

EDIT: Corrected. Thinking of old Atlanta.

Edited by Jim Thurman, 28 February 2014 - 04:25.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Atlanta used to be different no? I'm going off my 90s video game cred.

[SR388]

Wendell Scott decal on cars in Phoenix: Since 2010, NASCAR has designated the first race weekend in March as a time to commemorate Wendell Scott's first career start. Scott is the only African- American driver to win a Grand National (now Sprint Cup) Series event in NASCAR history. Cars in all four NASCAR series competing at Phoenix International Raceway (NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series) will sport a commemorative decal. The decals will be applied to the B or C post of each vehicle during the inspection processes throughout the entire weekend.(NASCAR)(2-27-2014)

[Deluxx]

What he did with a low budget car was amazing.

 

Forget low budget, just in general!

[PayasYouRace]

Since when does African-American mean Graham Hill lookalike?

[Ross Stonefeld]

[SR388]

What he did with a low budget car was amazing.

Forget low budget, just in general!

I read his biography, hard driving. He was a very interesting man. A lot of sadness and endurance in his life.

[Andrew Hope]

Behold, the winner's sticker!

 

[Andrew Hope]

Behold, the winner's sticker!

 

 

[Magoo]

Well, since Nazareth was shut down. 

 

JP, you think the same people who watch NASCAR watch the Oscars? Ha! Best joke I've heard in awhile. 

 

Nazareth should/could have been a primo Cup venue, but Busch and Trucks never set the world on fire there, so....? Great track, I miss it. 

[paulb]

Behold, the winner's sticker!

 

 

I think there is not enough prestige with that sticker.  I vote for going all the way:

[Magoo]

What he did with a low budget car was amazing.

 

Forget low budget, just in general!

 

Yes, never mind the budget. Just driving from track to track in the Jim Crow South was an act of great courage, 

 

I support Wendell Scott for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Some say he isn't deserving because he didn't accomplish enough in NASCAR. I say he accomplished more in NASCAR than drivers who won 50 races.

 

Once again we are confronted with the Whiteness that is NASCAR. Leonard Wood, Maurice Petty, and Anne France are considered worthy of the Hall of Fame, and I have no doubt they are. But mention the name Wendell Scott, and suddenly number of race wins becomes the sole factor in the judging. See how this stuff works? 

[SR388]

Yes, never mind the budget. Just driving from track to track in the Jim Crow South was an act of great courage, 

 

I support Wendell Scott for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Some say he isn't deserving because he didn't accomplish enough in NASCAR. I say he accomplished more in NASCAR than drivers who won 50 races.

 

Once again we are confronted with the Whiteness that is NASCAR. Leonard Wood, Maurice Petty, and Anne France are considered worthy of the Hall of Fame, and I have no doubt they are. But mention the name Wendell Scott, and suddenly number of race wins becomes the sole factor in the judging. See how this stuff works? 

 

 

Yep. What I think is a real shame for NASCAR is that it took 30 plus years for them to get another black person in the sport who was competitive. 

 

 

 

 

I like the new qually format. 

 

 

Actually no, Jeff didn't make the top 12. THIS NEW FORMAT SUCKS!!!

[nosaj100]

I think the format will be fine. I thought FS1's coverage of it was dreadful. I'm sure they'll work out the kinks but they provided hardly any information on what was going on. And one of the big reasons why group qualifying works on TV in other series is there's limited commercials. This was more like one long commercial with a prerace show thrown in and maybe 8 minutes of actual on track stuff.

[jdanton]

Atlanta used to be different no? I'm going off my 90s video game cred.

Atlanta was a straight up oval until Fall 96, IIRC (I was at the first race at the new track--G. Bodine did a lap at 196 mph) then flipped and made into a "quad-oval" 

 

Was 1.522 miles before, I think 1.54 miles now. I'd convert to metric, but I'm being all American and stuff.

[racinggeek]

Atlanta used to be different no? I'm going off my 90s video game cred.

 

The old Atlanta was 1.522 around, as jdanton said, but it also was more corners than straightaways. Drivers spent a long time in the banking for short blasts down those straights.

[racinggeek]

 

Wendell Scott decal on cars in Phoenix: Since 2010, NASCAR has designated the first race weekend in March as a time to commemorate Wendell Scott's first career start. Scott is the only African- American driver to win a Grand National (now Sprint Cup) Series event in NASCAR history. Cars in all four NASCAR series competing at Phoenix International Raceway (NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Sprint Cup Series) will sport a commemorative decal. The decals will be applied to the B or C post of each vehicle during the inspection processes throughout the entire weekend.(NASCAR)(2-27-2014)

 

 

Find it somewhat humorous in an ironic, headshaking way that this sticker is going on all the cars for a race in a state that was one of the last in the US to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday. The state voted to rescind the holiday in 1987, then took it back in '92 -- only after it lost an NFL Super Bowl in Phoenix because of it.

[jonpollak]

Well, since Nazareth was shut down. 

 

JP, you think the same people who watch NASCAR watch the Oscars? Ha! Best joke I've heard in awhile. 

 

Parried brilliantly by RT

 

No figure skating this weekend, SWEET, hopefully we'll be watching the 24 play stockcar-bowling again.

Any more questions.....?

 

Now,

So I followed @Dale Jr. and in 48hrs it's worse/better than frickin'Jenna Fryer!!!!

http://msn.foxsports...stagrams-022714

 

Make it STOP!!!

 

Jp
 

[Deluxx]

I tried to find quali online somewhere but couldn't.

 

Anyone know of a place?

[Richard T]

Parried brilliantly by RT

 

Any more questions.....?

 

Now,

So I followed @Dale Jr. and in 48hrs it's worse/better than frickin'Jenna Fryer!!!!

http://msn.foxsports...stagrams-022714

 

Make it STOP!!!

 

Jp
 

 

[Andrew Hope]

Find it somewhat humorous in an ironic, headshaking way that this sticker is going on all the cars for a race in a state that was one of the last in the US to recognize Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday. The state voted to rescind the holiday in 1987, then took it back in '92 -- only after it lost an NFL Super Bowl in Phoenix because of it.

 

I guess because we don't have enough reasons not to give a **** if some colossal force of nature pushed Arizona and California into the sea.

[Ross Stonefeld]

New Hampshire took the longest to adopt it, how come they get no grief. 

[Andrew Hope]

'Cause I got a few friends in New Hampshuh and I like cold weather. Arizona can **** right off

Edited by Andrew Hope, 01 March 2014 - 15:53.

[Jim Thurman]

New Hampshire took the longest to adopt it, how come they get no grief. 

 

Becasue it's close to the Media Center of the Universe, so it gets a pass.

 

I found great bemusement that many commentators and cartoonists that were excoriating Arizona for not recognizing MLK Day were living in Connecticut, a state that also had not adopted an MLK Day at the time.

Edited by Jim Thurman, 01 March 2014 - 17:40.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Anyone else joining me and the finest commentary crew in NASCAR for the Blue Jeans Go Green Oh My Spleen 5000?

[Andrew Hope]

Haha time for Nationwide we cupdriverwinslol now yadda yadda yadda.

 

The shortcut will cause at least one accident today. Predictions? I say Sadler cocks it up and takes out someone driving for a team running on a duck tape budget who was looking good for a top 10 finish.

Edited by Andrew Hope, 01 March 2014 - 20:37.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Avondale Jr