HAVE YOU DRIVEN A DODGE LATELY?? BRAD DID

In case no one watched the first race of the chase JimmIE did not win it,in fact he couldnt even keep up with that Beer powered Dodge. After that last pit stop Brad came out of the pits on a mission,and that was to not only win but do it in grand style. Tony mustered up into the top 10 and Jr came from last place to the top 10 also.

after todays race Brad is on top with Tony in third place only 8 points out--so this is shaping up to be another shootout for sure... Or not?????

That 5-time fellow wants Brad to go back to driver education class. Says he needs to learn how to merge!

directions are wrote on both ends of Brads car ------- D O D G E ------it

Come on Jimmie! Had to check up???? Really??? Give me a break Dude. You had the whole track to miss that Dodge. As for Chad jumping down to talk to NASCAR about Brad "blending" too soon, that is one of the most ludicrous confrontations in the history of NASCAR. Not meaning to respond negative to Chad's actions, but how in the world can a crew chief who has bent more rules than Danica Patrick has bent sheet metal worry about where Brad blended. That Dodge simply outran the Chevy and Brad simply outdrove Jimmie. Whether or not Brad can win the Cup remains to be seen, but I picked him before the Daytona 500 to do it.

Tim

Yep, that boy *spit* shoulda stayed up thar on his box. I a'told mah drivers and mechanics "don't whine, just win".

i miss junior johnson - wouldnt it be great to have him back racing in his prime .

Tim, Chad was just mad that he and Jimmie didn't think of taking advantage of the vague merge rules first.

I would love to see Junior running around a car on a pit stop just once more slinging the jack from one hand to the other.... another move outlawed by NASCAR, of course.

Another move that was frowned on by Nascar was sliding the jack across the hood of the car, didnt last long but sure did speed up the process. you remember who did that maneuver ??

Johnny... ya got me on that one... don't remember it.

I will wait for a few more to answer before I reveal him

it was done on the yellow ford jr built for fred lorenzon in 66 i think .the car was a one race wonder along with the jack being thrown across the hood to another crew man . you got to be a man to play jacks with jr. Both car and jack usage were banned by nascar. you know what was so special about the ford???

i think the roof was chopped - windshield laid back - the front end had a downward slope - was this car called the yellow banana - by the way somebody i cant remember who tried sliding the jack across the hood in the nineties - i cant remember the team .

Story of the Yellow Banana as related by author, Tom Higgins:

At the request of John Holman of the famous Holman-Moody operation, Junior fielded a Ford for driver Fred Lorenzen in the Dixie 400. Junior had an informal working agreement with Holman, a close friend.

Junior and his crew arrived at the track with a car that immediately ignited a barrage of fireworks and howls of protest from rivals. The car was supposed to be a Ford, but its profile looked like nothing that had come out of Detroit.

The front sloped downward, the roof was cut very low and the rear end was raised. Because the car carried sponsor Holly Farms yellow paint scheme, it was likened to a banana.

Smokey Yunick, another imaginative car builder, had brought an equally strange-looking Chevelle to Atlanta for driver Curtis Turner.

A ruckus raged over both cars, but they were cleared to race by NASCAR, which rejected three other machines, including those of Ned Jarrett, Bernard Alvarez and Cotton Owens, fielding a Dodge for David Pearson. Owens car was rigged with a device to lower the vehicle from the cockpit after the race started.

Turning away Jarrett, Alvarez and Owens while clearing the cars of Junior and Smokey further fueled an already incendiary situation.

I realize that Lorenzen and Turner are valuable drawing cards, said an irate Owens. But that doesnt make whats happening right.

The discord doubled, both among fans and competitors, when Turner won the pole at 148.331 mph. Lorenzen qualified third fastest.

Both of the immensely popular drivers were to lead at the 1.5-mile track in their "modifieds."

But just past the halfway mark of the 267-lap race, a distributor failure sidelined Turner and a blown tire led to a crash that forced Lorenzen to park. Richard Petty triumphed in a Plymouth, taking the checkered flag two seconds ahead of runner-up Buddy Baker in a Ray Fox-fielded Dodge.

I built the car because John Holman was a friend and he asked me to help him out, a smiling Junior Johnson said years later. He said, 'Build me something that will run, and I did.

We had a heck of a time getting through inspection. We took that car to body shops all around Atlanta, making changes before we got it close enough for NASCAR to approve.

It was the first and only time the car with a body so radically curved like a banana or a boomerang was allowed to race. NASCAR, sensitive to a barrage of criticism, quietly told Junior not to bring it back.

He was assessed no penalty.

Jimmie Johnson, Rick Hendrick and Chad Knaus should be so lucky.

you got to be a man to catch a jack slid across the hood by anybody--didnt know some one else tried it .. didnt work then either huh