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You Never Know the Background of Your Competitor

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As my Vulcan friend, Mr. Spock would say, "fascinating". Thanks for sharing that one Dave.

Pinging Cody Dinsmore

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Chase, I sent Cody a text this morning asking him to check the site. Hope you two connect.

IM GOING TO START THIS OFF EARLY BECAUSE JIM EARNED IT

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A wish for a very Happy Birthday for a very special man! Enjoy it Jim, you've earned the best.

Danica was NOT driving the plane

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Billy, it is odd that you should mention this. When I was writing the original post I did so partly as a news report and partly to poke fun at one of my favorite targets. But here's the thing. When the race was over yesterday, I flipped over to the weather channel for a second to see if Columbia had, in fact, reached 100 degrees with the predicted heat index of 114. What was immediately apparent was the entire area between Indianapolis and Charlotte was marked as "Severe weather". I turned off the tv thinking about all those teams flying back through that. When we lost Alan Kulwicki it was like I could not believe it. It took a couple days to sink in. When the Hendrick team had that disaster at Martinsville, it was as though I had lost members of my immediate family.

Last night, I had nightmares about one of the teams losing a plane in that bad weather. Woke up in a cold sweat from that. I guess all the aircraft tragedies recently only fed my overactive imagination. Then I turn on the computer this morning to one of the sites I go for racing news and the headline was "Two NASCAR Team Planes Collide on Runway". It took like maybe five seconds to get to the part that there were no injuries and no serious damage to the planes. A very, very long five seconds.

I dread the though of another air tragedy taking any of our race teams folks. You are so right, Billy, about all the testing, flying, and everything else that goes on with the teams. NASCAR is not likely to wake up but with your experience in the field, it looks like they would at least consider your opinion as very valuable. I know I do.

Danica was NOT driving the plane

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Two aircraft collided on the runway in Concord last night returning from Indy. The Stewart-Hass plane and the Joe Gibbs plane bumped on the runway, causing minor damage to both planes but no one was injured, thankfully.

First "official press release" from Stewart-Hass was that "Danica was NOT driving the plane".

updated by @tim-leeming: 08/08/18 04:33:04AM

"Thumbs up" to NASCAR from The Legend

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No, Jeff, it works in the thumbs down position as well. May have to use that position again when I get out of my good mood.

"Thumbs up" to NASCAR from The Legend

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Now, Laverne, I have never seen that soap. Maybe would like to try it. Do you happen to know if Brian was involved in making it? If so, I assume it is "lye" soap!

"Thumbs up" to NASCAR from The Legend

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Dave, thank you! Yes, that is the Jerry to whom I refer. One really super nice guy! Didn't realize he was a member here. We need to get him to the Hall of Fame visit on the 16th. Sure hoping you're going to make it Dave.

"Thumbs up" to NASCAR from The Legend

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Thanks, Johnny, for the feel good wishes. Not much better and it's been like two weeks. My entire left hand is hurting now so it was really rough typing the Legendtorial this week. But it went "to bed" as they say in the press, (lol, like I would know) yesterday about 6:30 p.m. Always have Goodys around here. In fact, when I was hanging out with the Goody's Dash teams, Jerry (I forget his last name) gave me a case of the stuff. May still have some packs around here somewhere as I don't often get in pain enough to use it.

"Thumbs up" to NASCAR from The Legend

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No, Dave, I had no need for that section at this time. I have no doubt, after the thumb brace issue, that there are "officially licensed" NASCAR enema's as well. I am thinking perhaps some in the Daytona offices may be in need of such relief.