Since I can’t seem to ever get anything written now, I am going to take the site down for a while I think.

I will probably bring it back at some point; but I need to take some time to do some thinking about it.

Thanks for everyone reading it before.
See you soon! =]

I’ll start off by saying: I hope everyone looked at my testing pictures, that wanted to, and enjoyed them.

All-Star week is here! Actually it’s almost over, since it’s almost Thursday here; but I hope everyone is looking forward to the All-Star Race. I know I’m super excited, because I’ll be going, and we have pit passes finally for a race. One thing I didn’t know was that they let drivers in if they win in the 1st half of 2008.

It’s also the anniversary of my 1st live race!! We went last year, and had a blast, but I didn’t know hardly any drivers or anything about racing. I remember we both were like: ‘Carl Edwards, huh?!’ Although, at the time, he wasn’t such a big deal, because he hadn’t won in about 2 years.

I’m also hoping to go to the Pit Crew Challenge tomorrow night. I will definitely be taking my new camera along for that as well! I think there’s about 20 crews participating, as I was told.

Good Luck to all the drivers in the All-Star Race, and to those trying to ‘win-in’ through the Sprint Showdown.
Addition: Watch out for Kyle hitting Kurt! =]

Here are my pictures on flickr of the Charlotte test Monday May 5th.
Some are good, some are bad, but they’re all there.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/15553407@N08/

It’s time again to vote drivers into the All-Star Race!
So let’s all go to nascar.com & vote Elliott Sadler in about 9000 times each! =]

Note: You have to be logged in to vote.

Kyle Busch is officially hotter than fire now. 
He won today’s Nationwide Series race, and he’s still the points leader in the Truck Series, 2nd in the Sprint Cup Series, and currently still 3rd in the Nationwide Series.

Soon I will be adding one of those word puzzles that everyone will have to solve in order to be able to post a comment. I’m getting a lot of random comments that make no sense, and I think they’re coming from robots; so I want to try to fix that.

There is a testing session at Lowe’s Motor Speedway May 5th & 6th that I’m planning on going to. I’ll only be able to get there for the night session, because I won’t be able to leave to go there until 5:30. This is the first time the COT will be on the Charlotte track, so I definitely want to be there for that. I am also going to take pictures of the test, of course, and I’m taking my scanner also.

I’m still trying to get a good setup to host all my race pictures, so when I get that finished; they will be available for viewing.

No word yet, that I’ve heard, on how the Whisky River grand opening went.

“Kyle drives like a girl,” Truex said. “I mean,  come on. We’re out here racing for fun. We had a hell of a battle. I had a lot of fun racing today with him, and then I had a huge run and he just blocked me. I pretty much knew he was going to do it. I had such a run and had to go.“I know he is trying to protect his teammate to win, but I felt that we had the car to win. I felt we had the best car all day.”

Well, first of all, I never saw this quote back from the Nationwide Series race at Daytona.
Second, I’ve analyzed this quote and now I’m going to give my opinion; because I think it’s a good one. I just randomly came across it, and I guess I want to rant for a minute about it. =]

Martin says Kyle drives like a girl, but then he gives an example that has nothing to do with that statement.  The racing ‘for fun’ thing makes absolutely no sense, because it’s a points race. These drivers can say it’s all just ‘fun’, but I’m not going to believe that junk; they want points and they want wins. Then the part where he says he had fun racing Kyle… well then why did you bring up Kyle’s driving style anyway? (I think that’s quite humorous.)
Of course he’s going to block you… it’s Kyle Busch!

And actually I like Kyle’s reply here:

Grow up, bud.  What do you want me to do, pull over?

That sounds like exactly something I would say. ‘Get over it’ basically.

addition: Tony Stewart finished 1st; Kyle Busch finished 2nd. Martin Truex was out of the Top 10.
Again, why did Martin complain about Kyle blocking him? Because he wanted a win and points, but didn’t get it.

Since I just drove by ‘The Rock’ twice this weekend, I thought I’d mention that the Inagural Carolina 500 at Rockingham is May 4th, 2008.

www.rockinghamracewaypark.com

Chrissy Wallace, 19, may make NASCAR debut at Martinsville

JENNA FRYER
The Associated Press
Saturday, Mar. 15, 2008

If Germain Racing can pull it off, 19-year-old Chrissy Wallace will make her NASCAR debut later this month at Martinsville Speedway – the same place her father made his 1990 debut.

Mike Wallace plans to spot for Chrissy should she be entered in the March 29 Truck Series race. Germain Racing doesn’t have the deal completed and still needs a motor for her truck.

But Chrissy Wallace tested at Martinsville earlier this week and was 11th on the speed charts following Wednesday afternoon’s session.

“For Chrissy to have this opportunity while my career is still going strong, this means I may have the opportunity to race against her in NASCAR’s top series and it is really a neat thought,” Wallace said. “Somewhere along the line, I’d like to race against her in the trucks or in our series, and it would probably be the first time in history that a father races against his daughter in a major NASCAR touring series.”

Wallace was scheduled to make the 300th start of his Nationwide Series career Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway. He made his debut at Martinsville in that series, finishing sixth.

FIRST: Whoever is leaving me the stupid, pointless, spam comments needs to stop. It’s not like I can’t see the IP address & the post that was commented. It was happening before; then it stopped, now it’s started again. Not sure why; there’s really no reason for it on this site.

Second: All weekend I wasn’t online because I went to Greensboro to see Bon Jovi for the 6th time. Awesome show; you all must go if you’ve never been. They’re so good live, and Daughtry was the opening band; and they were really good live as well. Chris sounds just like his records when they play live. No pictures, because I didn’t take my camera this time.

Third: At the beginning of my vacation week I’m going to the Martinsville race. I learned tonight that Martinsville is the oldest NASCAR track. I never thought Martinsville would be a place I would go, probably because it’s so small and in such a small town. From how they were talking on TWIN (this week in nascar) tonight I am really excited to go there and see this race. Martinsville is a track that I haven’t paid much attention to in the past, so that just adds to the anticipation now.

BiG NEWS: Jamie McMurray is out of the Top 35 in driver points.
I would guess this is big news; he’s never been in that situation before I don’t think. No one has really said much about him being out of the Top 35, however. There was a poll on Answer This… about who would lose their ride, Jamie or Casey Mears; Jamie was winning with about 75-80%. I wonder about that though. Jack Roush doesn’t seem like he would just kick a driver off his team, although Roush does have 5 teams, and they’re not supposed to. My guess is it’s just Jamie, because the other 4 drivers are doing fine. I like Jamie a lot actually, but he just can’t seem to get it together right now.

I just saw a list of all the cars that crashed in practice this afternoon;  every one of them was a Dodge! Weird…

- Juan Montoya
- Reed Sorenson
- Bobby Labonte
- Kasey Kahne
- Sam Hornish Jr
- Patrick Carpentier

I’m very surprised Larry Mac didn’t point that out.
SUPER ironic that the race is the UAW-Dodge 400 also.