Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 8, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 8, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 90% chance of rain the entire day tomorrow. Looking doubtful for any racing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 8, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 15 minutes ago, Blackstar said: 90% chance of rain the entire day tomorrow. Looking doubtful for any racing. Doubleheader Monday perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 8, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 Eesshhh.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted September 8, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 Yes that would be a nautical phrase. The phrase they are looking for is " kiss your ass goodbye" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sael Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 DALE EARNHARDT JR. ESTIMATES SUFFERING 25 CONCUSSIONS DURING NASCAR CAREER He revealed a fear of dying and compromise during a syndicated TV interview SEPTEMBER 7, 2018 In the years leading up to his retirement, and certainly in the months afterward, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has become something of an advocate for better understanding concussions for athletes. The 43-year-old has already pledged to donate his brain to science after his death and has been very candid about his experiences dealing with head trauma throughout his career. So it comes to no surprise that NASCAR’s most popular modern driver would address the topic in his upcoming biography and the media blitz that accompanied it. In a series of YouTube interviews with sports reporter Graham Bensinger, Earnhardt speculated that he kept at least 20 concussions from NASCAR over his 20-year career and simply drove through them. Earnhardt was first sidelined due to concussions in 2012, following a 25-car crash at Talladega Superspeedway. He missed the second half of the 2016 season with another bout. But this was far from the first two times that Earnhardt believes he likely should have been sat down and prevented from turning laps on the track. "Your brain is your computer, and people don’t have the faith in it healing like a broken bone," Earnhardt said in the interview conducted at his North Carolina home. "This is in the past where guys have had head injuries, and visually, you can see that it’s affected them permanently. So if you go to somebody and go, 'Man, you know I rung my bell, and I’m real messed up, and I’m gonna take a break and I’m gonna come back 100 percent,' you know that person's always gonna have that in the back of their mind. "And when you don’t run a good race, are they gonna go, 'Hmm, I wonder if he’s just not the same anymore'? You know? I’ve heard that talk about other drivers. Even guys that don’t have any history of concussions, I’ve heard people say, 'You know he did have a lot of hard wrecks.'" NASCAR Dale Earnhardt Jr. is happier in NASCAR retirement but still misses his old job Dale Earnhardt Jr. suddenly misses being an active NASCAR driver, but he’s also happier now than at any point in his life.This is a dichotomy that many recently retired drivers experience upon ... WATCH THE FULL EARNHARDT INTERVIEW HERE And through it all, Earnhardt had a fear of dying, secretly recording his symptoms on his phone -- wanting a public record to be available just in case something happened to him. "I felt compromised in my head," he said. "I felt delicate. And if I was to have another random, rare, high-impact crash that could injure me severely -- so severely that I wouldn’t be able to communicate properly … I wanted there to be some sort of documentation of what had been happening to me and what I’d been going through." Even though Earnhardt believes he suffered over 20 concussions during his career, he pinpoints just one that he fully suspects ended his career. He suffered through a testing crash at Kansas Speedway in 2012. He believes the impact from hitting the wall made him more susceptible to further damage after that incident. "I remember thinking as I was heading toward that fence, 'This is going to be an insane, insane impact,'" Earnhardt recalled. "And I hit the wall at 190 miles an hour and my head is right against that headrest and it’s as stiff as a roll bar, and so my head didn’t go anywhere and everything inside of it went into high-speed movement, and my brain just compacts against the inside of my skull at an incredible force … "There’s not any situation that I can think of that would result in a harder impact in racing. And if it doesn’t happen to me, I probably don’t cut my career short. I’m probably still driving race cars today. But that wreck made it easier, I think, for me to get concussions beyond that instance." Earnhardt will return to NASCAR in an Xfinity Series one-off later this month at Richmond Raceway in Virginia, his only planned stock car race since his retirement. He hasn’t decided if he will make additional appearances next season. He is a full-time color analyst with NBC Sports, taking up the majority of his professional time. He and wife, Amy, welcomed their first child, daughter Isla Rose Earnhardt back in May. "Every time I look at Isla, I want to cry," he said days after her birth. "Every time I look at Amy and her together -- when Amy’s holding her or feeding her -- I just can’t believe this is in my life." The book was co-written by Ryan McGee and titled “Racing to The Finish: My Story,” and will be released on Oct. 6. The full interview with Bensinger will air this weekend in syndication. Read more: https://autoweek.com/article/nascar/dale-earnhardt-jr-estimates-suffering-25-concussions-during-nascar-career#ixzz5QYEdUGj9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 8, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 8, 2018 Wow...very candid and heartfelt and good on him for getting out of the car and starting a family. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 8, 2018 Share Posted September 8, 2018 i read that story a day or two ago and meant to post it here. thanks for posting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 Good story from Kyle Petty if you open the NBC link and watch the video. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 Don't pick Suarez tomorrow. He is already starting out at -10 points. Quote Martin Truex Jr. (starting third) and Daniel Suarez (20th) will have to drop to the rear for the start of the Brickyard 400 and each had his car chief ejected for failing prerace tech three times. Suarez's car failed four times, which will be a 10-point penalty. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 Harvick Kurt Busch Bad Brad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 40 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Harvick Kurt Busch Bad Brad Harvick, Kurt and Truex. I'm swinging for the fences even though I know I'm going to strike out 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 1 hour ago, ckf said: Harvick, Kurt and Truex. I'm swinging for the fences even though I know I'm going to strike out Everytime I swing for the fence I foul one off right into my twig and berries. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 9, 2018 Share Posted September 9, 2018 5 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Everytime I swing for the fence I foul one off right into my twig and berries. I ended up replacing Truex with Lagano. I have a feeling the Fords are going to be fast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 No race today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 9, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 (edited) 27 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: No race today. Just got in. I was listening on Sirius. They were all "We're gonna get the race in" and I'm like "Shut up you fakes. Its pouring rain." The officials said they wouldn't start the race unless they seen a window to get at least 2 stages in and that wasn't gonna happen today. A Dillon, Bowman, Johnson cause I got fuck all left to pick from....lol Just noticed I made the top 5 biggest gainers last week. Pretty easy to do when everyone else back where I sit have given up. 52 points and I catch Snacks. Edited September 9, 2018 by Blackstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 9, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 9, 2018 2 hours ago, Blackstar said: Just got in. I was listening on Sirius. They were all "We're gonna get the race in" and I'm like "Shut up you fakes. Its pouring rain." The officials said they wouldn't start the race unless they seen a window to get at least 2 stages in and that wasn't gonna happen today. A Dillon, Bowman, Johnson cause I got fuck all left to pick from....lol Just noticed I made the top 5 biggest gainers last week. Pretty easy to do when everyone else back where I sit have given up. 52 points and I catch Snacks. Haha...don't worry...you'll catch and pass me no problem! 😝 Love Kenny Wallace. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 The Xfinity race is on NBCSN right now if anyone is interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, ckf said: The Xfinity race is on NBCSN right now if anyone is interested. Crashfest so far....they need to get rid of the grass strip on the turns. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 23 minutes ago, DAVE said: Crashfest so far....they need to get rid of the grass strip on the turns. All I caught was the ending of stage 1. It looked like the aero package was creating good racing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 6 minutes ago, ckf said: All I caught was the ending of stage 1. It looked like the aero package was creating good racing You didnt see Ty take out 5 or 6 avoiding him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 10, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 10, 2018 7 minutes ago, ckf said: All I caught was the ending of stage 1. It looked like the aero package was creating good racing Not watching but I’ll believe you over Captain Negative........ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 10, 2018 Share Posted September 10, 2018 1 minute ago, DAVE said: You didnt see Ty take out 5 or 6 avoiding him? nope. i just turned it back on. who do you have for the cup race? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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