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This one should be really fun. Many questions face the "sport" and should make the season very interesting. My personal fave, Bill Elliott is running a reduced schedule as moves towards retirement. His schedule right now includes only three races. The first of which will be @ Las Vegas.
Speed Weeks @ Daytona have begun so spring and the smell of burnin' rubber isn't that far away. There are seveal major issues that NASCAR has facing them this season. First, there is a new points system that places an increased emphasis on the final ten races which just so happen to coincide with the NFL regular season. If anyone thinks this was done for any reason other than money is fooling themselves. NBC has paid big bucks to broadcast the second half of the NASCAR season to combat their lack of the NFL. NBC is hoping the new points system will create more heat and of course a bigger ratings number against the mighty NFL. Good luck, NASCAR. |
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NASCAR kicked off it's season last night on TNT with the Shootout. Dale Jarrett got a free push to the front thanks to another Dale, Earnhardt, Jr. Exciting race and definitly got the blood pumping for more side-by-side action at close to 200 mph.
Big changes aren't exclusive to the Nextel Cup Series this season. The Sears Craftsman Truck Series has a new manufacturer this season and it's none other than the #2 automaker in the world, Toyota. Team Toyota has assembled quite a group of drivers to run the Toyota Tundras and should be very competitive right out of the box. With Toyota making their truck series debut speculation is that Toyota will be Nextel Cup racing by 2007. Toyota claims that they are only focusing on the truck series right now. Don't be suprised if you see a Toyota mixing it up in the Nextel Cup in the next few years. |
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Dale Earnhardt, JR did in his fifth attempt what took his father twenty years in winning the Daytona 500. JR went on to make more history on monday winning the rain-delayed Busch Series race. Only three times has a driver won both the Daytona 500 and Busch Series race in the same year, Jr joins Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip in accomplishing such a feat.
The season begins in earnest this weekend at the Rock. The Rock is short for Rockingham or as by it's proper name North Carolina Motor Speedway. Being able to take care of your stuff is at a premium at the Rock, look for a good race with several lead changes and different racing grooves. |
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| The last "Winston Cup" champion won by one-thousandth of a second over rookie Kasey Kahne. It was the Champ's first win in almost a full year. Rockingham consistently provides some of the most exciting racing that is seen all season long yet because of a variety of circumstances they can never sell out a race there. The end result of these circumstances may cause NASCAR to totally abandon the Rock in the not-to-distant future. The word in the garage area was that this could have very well been the last trip to the Rock for the Nextel Cup Series. That would truly be a travesty and would make Mully very sad.:crying: |
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