Dave Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 1 minute ago, Biggie Smails said: Motors from Roush/Yates. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/02/24/stewart-haas-racing-leaving-chevrolet-for-ford-in-2017/ Musta missed that... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 24, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, DAVE said: Musta missed that... I would have guessed Penske too but a quick search gave me that info. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 24, 2016 Author Share Posted May 24, 2016 Jr is running a patriotic car in the Coke 600 this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Biggest weekend in racing coming up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 24, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 24, 2016 31 minutes ago, DAVE said: Biggest weekend in racing coming up... Indy 500 is my favorite even though it has lost some luster over the years IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 24, 2016 Author Share Posted May 24, 2016 7 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: Indy 500 is my favorite even though it has lost some luster over the years IMO. That's one of a very few Indy Car races I watch. I watched a little bit of Qualifying last weekend. Those cars are on the throttle all the way around the track. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 24, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 24, 2016 2 minutes ago, ckf said: That's one of a very few Indy Car races I watch. I watched a little bit of Qualifying last weekend. Those cars are on the throttle all the way around the track. Yeah it's all car set up at Indy so they can go flat to the floor all the way around which is very cool. I just the days when there would be 40 cars trying to make the field and bump day meant something. You also had drivers that might only get one ride for the season and it was at Indy not to mention Jim Nabors singing Back Home Again In Indiana. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ckf Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Class of 2017 Inductees in to the Nascar Hall of Fame Richard Childress Long before he became one of the preeminent car owners in NASCAR history, Richard Childress was a race car driver with limited means. Childress, the consummate self-made racer, was respectable behind the wheel. Between 1969-81 he had six top-five finishes and 76 top 10s in 285 starts, finishing fifth in the NASCAR premier series standings in 1975. Having formed Richard Childress Racing in 1972, Childress retired from driving in 1981. He owned the cars that NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt drove to six championships and 67 wins between 1984-2000. In addition to Earnhardt's championships, Childress drivers have given him five others. Childress was the first NASCAR owner to win owner championships in all three of NASCAR's national series, and his 11 owner titles are second all time. Childress also owned the vehicles driven by NASCAR XFINITY Series driver champions Clint Bowyer (2008) and Austin Dillon (2013), as the 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver champion Austin Dillon.Rick Hendrick The founder and owner of Hendrick Motorsports, Rick Hendrick's organization is recognized as one of NASCAR's most successful. Hendrick Motorsports owns an all-time record 11 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series car owner championship titles - six with Jimmie Johnson, four with Jeff Gordon and one with NASCAR Hall of Famer Terry Labonte. Hendrick also has 14 total NASCAR national series owner championships, most in NASCAR history. Gordon and Labonte combined to win four consecutive titles from 1995-98. In 2010, Johnson won a record-extending fifth consecutive championship. Hendrick also owned the car driven by 2003 NASCAR XFINITY Series driver champion Brian Vickers. Hendrick's 242 owner wins in the premier series rank second all-time.Mark Martin He is often described as the "greatest driver to never to win a championship," but Mark Martin's legendary career is so much more than that. He came incredibly close to that elusive title many times - finishing second in the championship standings five times. Over the course of his 31-year premier series career, Martin compiled 40 wins (17th all time) and 56 poles (seventh all time). Martin saw success at every level of NASCAR. He won 49 times in the NASCAR XFINITY Series, holding the series wins record for 14 years. He retired with 96 wins across NASCAR's three national series, seventh on the all-time list. In 1998, Martin was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.Raymond Parks Raymond Parks is one of stock-car racing's earliest - and most successful - team owners. Funded by successful business and real estate ventures in Atlanta, Parks began his career as a stock-car owner in 1938 with drivers Lloyd Seay and Roy Hall. His pairing with another Atlantan, mechanic Red Vogt, produced equipment good enough to dominate the sport in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Red Byron won the first NASCAR title (modified, 1948) and first premier series title (1949) in a Parks-owned car. Parks' team produced two premier series wins, two poles, 11 top fives and 12 top 10s in 18 events.Benny Parsons Benny Parsons won the 1973 NASCAR premier series championship and could be called an everyman champion: winning enough to be called one of the sport's stars but nearly always finishing well when he wasn't able to reach Victory Lane. He won 21 times in 526 career starts but finished among the top 10 283 times - a 54 percent ratio. One of Parsons' biggest victories came in the 1975 Daytona 500. He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998. Parsons also was known as a voice of the sport making a seamless transition to television following his NASCAR career. He was a commentator for NBC and TNT until his passing in 2007, at the age of 65.Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR:H. Clay Earles One of the original pioneers of stock car auto racing, H. Clay Earles played an integral role in the early years of NASCAR's development. Earles built and opened Martinsville Speedway in 1947, and the short track remains the only facility to host NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races every year since the series' inception in 1949. The speedway held its first race on Sept. 7, 1947 - three months before the creation of NASCAR. That initial race drew more than 6,000 fans to the track, which had just 750 seats ready. In 1964, Earles decided it was time for a "different" type of trophy for his race winners. He gave winners grandfather clocks, a tradition that continues today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Obviously too bad benny didnt get in sooner...or was there even a hall when he passed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEdge Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 2 minutes ago, DAVE said: Obviously too bad benny didnt get in sooner...or was there even a hall when he passed? Yes he's been on the ballot since its inception. Good driver and TV analyst Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 I forgot that Formula 1 was in Monaco this weekend, too. Definitely one of the best weekends of motorsports of the year 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 26, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 26, 2016 34 minutes ago, ckf said: I forgot that Formula 1 was in Monaco this weekend, too. Definitely one of the best weekends of motorsports of the year Yessir.....Monaco is just such a historic and cool race and The Indy 500 needs no explanation. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 6 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: Yessir.....Monaco is just such a historic and cool race and The Indy 500 needs no explanation. Love the tunnel 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 Truex on the pole for the 600. Martin Truex Jr. wins Charlotte pole: #78-Martin Truex Jr. won the Coors Light pole for the Coca-Cola 600 Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway with speed of 192.328mph for his 2nd pole of 2016, 1st at Charlotte and 9th of his career. Truex Jr. has never won a race from the pole. #22-Logano will start 2nd, followed by #17-Stenhouse Jr., #11-Hamlin, #2-Keselowski, #16-Biffle, #48-Johnson, #4-Harvick, #19-Edwards, #6-Bayne, #27-Menard and #24-Elliott. #22-Logano was fastest in the first and second rounds and will start 2nd. Since the maximum of 40 cars entered the race, everyone made the race. See round-by-round qualifying results on the Charlotte qualifying results page (pdf) and the complete starting lineup on the Charlotte Starting Lineup page (pdf).(5-26-2016) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 35 minutes ago, ckf said: Truex on the pole for the 600. Truex is due bigtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 Just now, DAVE said: Truex is due bigtime. Sure is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 27, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 27, 2016 38 minutes ago, DAVE said: Truex is due bigtime. Really want to see him win.....I like that cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: Really want to see him win.....I like that cat. Yup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 31 minutes ago, Biggie Smails said: Really want to see him win.....I like that cat. Agreed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 NASCAR is going after Hispanics and millennials We’re smack dab in the middle of NASCAR season, and the third-generation, family-owned stock car racing company is breaking records both on and off the track. The company has an $8.2 billion distribution deal with NBC and FOX and brought in a record 12.4 million viewers for its 2015 Sprint Cup Finale—that’s second only to the NFL in terms of television viewers and fans in the U.S. NASCAR also plays a mean ad game. Nearly 1 out of 2 Fortune 100 companies currently advertise with NASCAR, and 70% of NASCAR fans support brands that are sponsors, the company says. But NASCAR has a demographics problem. According to Nielsen data from 2015, 42% of NASCAR’s fan base is located in the South. Three out of five fans are over 44 years old and 77% are Caucasian. Appealing to such a limited group is bad business and Chairman and CEO Brian France wants to broaden the sport's appeal to a wider fan base. France tells Yahoo Finance that NASCAR is targeting two key demos: Hispanics and millennials. The company is increasing its focus on digital and social media (NASCAR recieved a record 4.1 billion social media impressions during its 2015 season). They’ve also partnered with Mexican movie star Eugenio Derbez to develop a NASCAR-centric comedy film. NASCAR now supplies Wi-Fi at events so that fans can post on Instagram and Twitter even in remote locations. They trained key racers on how to interact with fans on social media and build their personal brands. In order to attract more millennials to events, NASCAR has started to provide DJs, foam parties, go-karts and hangout areas that are open until 3 a.m. They’ve also publically asked fans to stop displaying the Confederate flag and have denounced anti-gay “religious freedom” laws. “The majority of revenue today is created by your television broadcast, but everybody is trying to sort out digital and social media,” France says. “We’re working on monetizing it but also figuring out how we’re going to communicate our message week-in and week-out.” As for the future, “If it’s commercial and it makes sense we’ll be doing it—whatever it is,” says France. That includes the possibility of racing driverless cars and including a fourth car manufacturer in NASCAR events (cars are currently made by Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota). What would Ricky Bobby think? Correction: In an earlier version of this story it was stated that NASCAR had a television deal with NBC, they also have a television deal with FOX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 7 minutes ago, ckf said: Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted May 28, 2016 Author Share Posted May 28, 2016 The xfinity race is on FS1 right now for anyone that may be interested. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted May 28, 2016 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted May 28, 2016 47 minutes ago, ckf said: The xfinity race is on FS1 right now for anyone that may be interested. Started watching it but went outside to fiddle fuck around with some patio stone, sand and a flat wheelbarrow tire.....again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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