Resurrection of Nashville Superspeedway?
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I was just reading this on the AP wire and wondering if you and Russ Thompson are involved?
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Kurt Busch's 1100-Mile Day from the Indy Viewpoint
Stock Car Racing History
Wonder if Kurt was using the same vocabulary with his Indy engineers when he got loose that we've heard on his in-car NASCAR radio?
May 31, 2:34 PM EDT
Say what?! Munoz had language barriers with Busch
DETROIT (AP) -- Carlos Munoz enjoyed having Kurt Busch as a temporary Andretti Autosport teammate.
The cool Colombian, though, could not comprehend everything that came out of the emotional American's mouth while they prepared to race at the Indianapolis 500.
"He has some weird vocabulary," said Munoz with a smile at a Detroit Grand Prix news conference, where the room filled with laughter. "I still don't understand what he said to the engineers when the car was loose, but he's a great guy. He had some really clever comments about the car."
Busch became the fourth driver to race in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day, and the first to attempt a double in a decade. He had a strong showing in his first career IndyCar race, finishing sixth, two spots behind Munoz. Busch had an engine failure at Charlotte Motor Speedway, preventing him from finishing NASCAR's race and completing 1,100 miles of competition.
"It was great to have him aboard," said Munoz, an IndyCar series rookie.
Need a Driving Pseudonym?
General
Need to keep your spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, mom, dad, children or significant other from knowing you are driving race cars?
Need to keep NASCAR from knowing you are also driving at outlaw tracks.
Just as drivers have done for decades, you need a fictitious name or "pseudonym" for those times when you don't want folks to know your real name.
Toward that end and with Dover NASCAR races on tap this weekend, the Wilmington, Delaware newspaper has created a tool to automatically generate your fake racing name.
Click on the link below and add your first initial and date in the month that you were born and voila, you have a racing name:
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/sports/motor/nascar/2014/05/27/nascar-name/9624627/
I'm curious to see if you get a really good one. Mine - Dale Tirewear - wasn't anywhere near as good as Perk Brown .
updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
And the 2014 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year Is...???
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updated by @dave-fulton: 12/05/16 04:02:07PM
BATON ROUGE 200 1969
Stock Car Racing History
After reading the newspaper article at the link below -
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19670807&id=9dcvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=p1oDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7243,4220720
I am wondering if RR member, Dargan Watts, whose voice was the last ever heard over the P.A. at Baton Rouge International Speedway, might know the location of that elusive body belonging to one-time Teamsters boss, Jimmy Hoffa?! Concrete overshoes seem to go hand-in-hand with the history of this track.
IF YOU WATCHED INDY OPENING TODAY YOU SAW IT FOR THE LAST TIME
Current NASCAR
Indy 500 was a good race, Johnny. I watched it from start-finish, as well as Monaco F-! this morning. Kurt gave a terrific accounting for himself at Indy. One can only wonder how things might have gone if he's been in the primary car. I particularly enjoyed Allen Bestwick handling the ABC head announcer chores for Indy. That is NASCAR's loss, as he is light years ahead of anyone currently in any NASCAR broadcast booths. I was also glad to see the red thrown rather than run all of the final laps under yellow.
I did chuckle during the F-1 race when David Hobbs got so excited about one car being closer that 2 seconds to another.
Betty Carlin
Stock Car Racing History
Billy Biscoe had also blogged about Betty earlier this morning:
http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/profiles/blogs/a-true-historian-needs-more-prayer-s
Jimmy, I appreciate you introducing me to Betty at Occoneechee several years ago and pray that she and her family will be comforted.