Forum Activity for @tim-leeming

Rockingham "Race Train" - Washington, DC to the Track

Current NASCAR

Incredible!!!! I loved every word of this post and I lived every word (except the train ride) with you. Thank you for this contribution to the site.

Tim

Sad Results

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Robbie, if my portion is going to you and taking care of the Vets, I have absolutely NO problem with that. I see my portion going to vacations by Michelle and the kids and the private Jet Pelosie used to get back and forth across the country before she got dumped from the head post. It's like The City of Columbia. They put a vote on the ballot to increase sales tax by a penny to fund the bus service and the voters flatly reject it. So, what do the crooks do next? Add $1.50 per month franchise fee to the electric bill of every city customer to fund the buses. I'm not a politically correct guy, as you know, and I am sick of the government taking everything I make to give to those who won't work for a damn thing.

Tim

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This news greatly disappoints me and I know it devastates Jimmy. There has to be something we can do but I'm tapped out at this point and we don't even know yet how much we're going to have to contribute to the IRS to keep all these b.s. government programs running. Ideas? Anyone?

Old Rockingham Speedway

Stock Car Racing History

Dennis!!!!! Thanks, man, for posting the story and the pictures. Awesome, awesome, and exemplifies what this site is about. Hope you have plenty more to come. I really enjoyed this post,

Tim

Writer Fired For Showing Emotion

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And, Wally, I am one of your fans and deeply respect you. This is one point on which we do not agree. There is not right or wrong here, within this forum, because it is merely you and I expressing different opinions. When I write, I write with emotion. Yep, gets me in trouble. I've been told I get too personal on the radio shows, too personal handlling press conferences and probably too personal in most of what I do. But that is ME. Always has been, always wil be. But have no fear, Jeff is really good at reeling me in or "muting my mic".

Writer Fired For Showing Emotion

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This I know: Of all sports fans, it seems to me that race fans are, by far, the most passionate. In spite of all my efforts to be more fair and balanced (and I don't work for FOX news) I am still passionate, far too much so, with things I perceive as adverse to my sport. Thus, my strong disgust for the Waltrip crowd. I can't help it. That's how I am. Like me or not, that's who I am and you don't get it sugar coated. I was in the bookstores yesterday looking for Robert Edelstein's new book about the Legends and couldn't find it but did come across Mikey's "In the Blink of an Eye"., At $25.95, there was no chance of me buying it anyway but I did just flip through it. This is crude to say, but it is how I perceived what I saw: The book was very conveniently released near the Tenth Anniversary of the Death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr. It doesn't take a genius, obviously, to figure out to what the title refers. I my opinion, just another Waltrip effort to capitalize on the fact that he was driving for DEI when he won the Daytona 500.

Got comments? Unload them. Believe me, I have learned over the past two years to take the good and the bad. I would rather be popular than hated, but I would rather set forth what I believe than sit back and let it go. So, the idiot at SI that fired the writer needs a good whipping. But, as I've already said SI is the replacement for the Sears Catalogue at the little wooden houses up in the mountains of West Virginia.

Tim

Writer Fired For Showing Emotion

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My personal opinion of SI has always been very low. I may have bought a total of four of those magazines over all these years but after that episode they need not worry about me buying another. Trevor Bayne winning that race deserved cheering from every corner of the speedway. All those liberal blankety blanks can go to ................

Due to my wife's health we have moved into my Daughter's house.

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Hi Jim,

First up, I'm sorry to hear about the decline of your wife's health. You and she will certainly be in the prayers of Ann and I. Of all those pins I received, I have ONE left which is not nearly as nice as the one you have.

Please stay in touch and let's try to get together for lunch again when your schedule will permit. You are indeed a very awesome individual.

Tim

Time to move on

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Keep us posted Ronda. You are the first lady of vintage racing, no doubt. Why in the world you would ever hang around that Williamson guy is beyond comprehension!!!!!!

Neil Bonnett

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Yes, Neil was really one awesome guy and a really good driver too. It is a shame that his death at Daytona can't be recognized and remembered with dignity. I usually hate it when I hear someone say of a driver killed in a race that "he was doing what he loved" but in Neil's case, that was the absolute truth. He loved it, lived it, breathed it, and died for it. He is truly a hero of the sport.

God bless Neil Bonnett and all who loved him.

Tim