NASCAR Freak

Well, what I am going to do is not post recaps on the blog since I am having a hard time keeping up here and getting burned out. So, for now I will post some news items and a short response to it.

Now, heres a story that might look familiar:
Shane Hmiel Suspened (Again)
Can you guess the reason for it? :)

Now this is stupid. This is the 2nd time in as many years that he has been suspended indefinately violating NASCAR's Substance Abuse Policy. If I was the one deciding the punishment for Hmiel, I would ban him from racing in NASCAR's top three series for 10 years and must undergo drug testing every 2 weeks or random drug testing at NASCAR's disgression. And Hmiel will not be allowed to race for the first 3 years after your punishment is handed out.

Well, what are your opinions on this and your ideas for punishment?

Well, I had a busy weekend. Friday I forgot about the Busch race, Saturday I was watching a charity hockey game in Dearborn and missed the Nextel Cup race, then I was at a birthday party with my mother and missed the CTS event. So look at the links to see the results.

Sorry about not posting about the Dega race, I was under the weather and generally just tired. So here is the results for the
Dodge Charger 500,(Darlington) as well as the Busch series Diamond Hill Plywood 200 at Darlington, the CTS Dodge Ram Tough 500 at Gateway.

And also the Aaron's 499 (NNC) and the Aaron's 312 (BGN).

And here are some penalties from the Aaron's 499: Caught!

And there are also CTS penalties: More Caught!

And Kevin Lepage is put on probation as well as other penalties.

Well, I have been toying with this idea, and came to the conclusion: Let's give it a go. NOTE: nascar.com has a free race-day use of their Raceday Scanner, so give it a try. Newest entries will be on top in bold. The race is on FOX. This race is 188 laps long.

The next race will be at Darlington for BGN, NNC. The next Live Blogging race is tentively schedual for July 2nd, the Pepsi 400.

Congradulations to Jeff Gordon on his victory.

Checkered Flag: Jeff Gordon takes the win in the Aaron's 499, Tony Stewart takes 2nd, Michael Waltrip finishes 3rd

GWC White Flag: Stewart takes 2nd

GWC 2 to got: Restart, J. Gordon leads the 42 and the 38

2 to go: Caution, #s 29, 8, 48, 16, 77, 1, 17, all involved in crash; WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A GREEN WHITE CHECKERED FOLKS!!!

3 to go: J. Gordon takes the lead from M. Waltrip

5 to go: M. Waltrip leads, K. Harvick 2ns, Martin Truex Jr 3rd

8 to go: J. Gordon still leading, J. McMurray 2nd, Michael Waltrip 3rd

15 to go: Restart, J. Gordon continues to lead, Jr. 2nd, J. McMurray 3rd

17 to go: Caution, Hermie Sadler didn't make it to the garage area beyond pit road

18 to go: Restart, J. Gordon leads, J. Johnson 2nd, J. McMurray 3rd

23 to go: Caution, debris; pitstops comming

33 to go: J. Gordon still leads, J. Johnson 2nd, E. Sadler 3rd

44 to go: J. Gordon leads, 19 cars on the lead lap

51 to go: Restart, Jimmie Johnson leads

4:30PM Red Flag lifted, yellow out, cars return to work (43 min Red Flag)

25 cars involved in the Big One

54 to go (3:49PM EST): Red Flag (obvious)

56 to got: the Big One happened, looks like only 11 cars made it

62 to go: J. Gordon passes for the lead with the help of Jamie McMurray

64 to go: E. Sadler leads, pushed by J. Gordon by K. Busch

68 to got: Restart, M. Martin leads, now J. Gordon leads

Lap 115: Caution, Kyle Petty stalled, everyone pits; Mark Martin leads

Lap 110: Elliott Sadler and Kurt Busch dead heat for the lead, E. Sadler officially lead

Lap 109: J. Gordon leads

Lap 108: K. Harvick leads

Lap 107: Restart, S. Riggs leads

Lap 104: Pitstops, Scott Riggs leads

Lap 102: Caution out, Bobby Hamilton Jr. blew a tire, pitstops comming

Lap 95: Halfway, J. Gordon leads

Lap 93: J. Gordon pushes by Jr. to lead

Lap 90: Dale Earnhardt Jr leads

Lap 85: K. Harvick leads

Lap 84: J. Gordon lead that lap, but was shuffled back

Lap 82: Ryan Newman leads the field

Laps 73-76: Everyone else pits, J. Gordon blows a RF tire entering the pits, locked them up

Lap 72: K. Harvick leads about a dozen cars onto pit road

Lap 71: 10 cars enter pit road, led by Mike Skinner

Lap 70: Kevin Harvick leads the race

Lap 63: J. Gordon still leads, all but 4 laps

Lap 52: No change up front, J. Gordon leads

Lap 42: Restart, J. Gordon the leader

Lap 38: Pit stops, J. Gordon leads them off

Lap 37: Jeff Green spins midfield, NOBODY hits him, Tony Stewart leads

Lap 32: No change for the lead

Lap 23: Restart, Jeff Gordon leads

Lap 20: Pitstops, Jeff Gordon leads after the stops, Dale Jarrett changes helmets due to comm. problems

Lap 18: Caution, Kyle Petty blew an tire

Lap 11: No change in the top 10, no cautions

Lap 1: Jeff Gordon leads

1:30PM Race Start

1:18PM They have their engines going, waiting for them to being their pace laps.

April 29, 1951:
The late Dale Earnhardt Sr. was born in NC. His father, Ralph Earnhardt, was a short track racer and a factory worker. He followed his father's footsteps in dirt racing, and rose to NASCAR's most presigeous series: The NASCAR Winston Cup (now known as Nextel Cup). In 1979, Earnhardt received Rookie of the Year honors, and followed that up with a NASCAR WC championship, the first driver to do so. Earnhardt went on to win 74 races, 7 championships, and a Daytona 500 win in 1998.

Sadly, Dale Earnhardt died on the same race track that he won on 3 years before, killed in a crash on the last lap on the last turn on the race track. He was 49 years old. May his soul rest in peace.

James Finch's Appeal Denied, Fine Raised to $25,000.

On April 25, 2005, the National Stock Car Racing Commission heard and considered
the Appeal of James Finch, Johnny Sauter and Joel Shear concerning three
penalties assessed by NASCAR relative to the No. 1 car following the NASCAR
Busch Series event at Texas Motor Speedway on April 16, 2005.

I am just curious, what is your opinion of the Board raising the fine?

Congradulations to Kurt Busch on his first win of the season. That win moved him up the points standings from 4th to 2nd. Now, onto the recap:

NNC: As noted in the beginning, Kurt Busch won the Subway Fresh 500, the first in the season. He started in 2nd place, so only an improvement of 1 spot from where he started, but then, you can't get higher than first, can you? :P The pole sitter, Jeff Gordon, finished 12th. The points leader, Jimmie Johnson, started 12th, and finished 15th, ending his string of tho 10 finished at 13. DEI finished 2nd and 4th with Michael Waltrip and Dale Earnhardt Jr, respectively. A surpise finish for Brian Vickers, who started 5th and finished there. Well done. Bobby Labonte finally finished a race, 6th place. His first finish since California, the 2nd race of the season. Tony Stewart, who suffered a 1st degree burn on his right elbow and a 2nd degree burn on his right thigh in Texas after his engine crashed and burned, started 6th but was involved in a pit row incident with Greg Biffle and eventually crashed out, finished 33rd.
Finishing Order Subway Fresh 500
Now, I'm just curious: why is it that they go 500 kilometers at Phoenix, by use miles at everywhere else?

I am going to lay off the BGN recaps for a while, probably return to it after Talladega. So, here are the results of the Bashas' Supermarkets 200.

There were no penalites steming from this race, yet.

The next race will be at Talladega (NNC & BGN) and Gateway (CTS).

Well, I am tired and such, so y'all agre going to have to read the results Here (NNC) and Here (BGN). Sorry for that.

Penalties
Format: Crew Chief, Driver, Penalty, Reason.

BGN:

1. Joe Shear Jr, Johnny Sauter, 4 race suspension, unapproved carburetor;
2. Kevin Manion, Martin Truex Jr, $1,000 fine, crew member entered car servicing area without a helmet;
3. Gregg Mixon, Mark Green, $1,000 fine, unapproved final gear ratio;
4. Dan Glaus, A.J. Fike, $500 fine, unapproved jackbolt

Johnny Sauter was disqualified for the unapproved carburetor.

Next race: Phoenix (my home town, sorta).

Also, because they will be at my home state, I was thinking about doing a live blogging of the NNC race there. Just curious. What do you all think?