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There hasn't been a good rap song released in over a year. All the modern music I add to my MP3 player is rock. Fortanently, DC101 plays mostly 90s (and early decade, this decade) rock music.
California To Become A Restrictor Plate Race
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Listen to Electronica..the best.
Give a listen to Imogen Heap..good stuff there.
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IMO, I don't believe there has ever been a good rap song. It should be classified as non-music.
You're right Rap sucks.
From NASCAR.com...
Smith proposes date swap between California, Atlanta
SMI chairman seeking to move Labor Day event to AMS
By Joe Menzer, NASCAR.COM
February 29, 2008
09:00 PM EST
LAS VEGAS -- Bruton Smith, the billionaire chairman of Speedway Motorsports Inc., hopes to be hosting a Labor Day weekend race at Atlanta Motor Speedway as early as next season.
Smith was speaking Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, one of seven tracks owned by SMI along with Atlanta, Lowe's Motor Speedway, Texas Motor Speedway, Bristol Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.
He said that he has proposed to NASCAR officials the swapping of Atlanta's fall race, scheduled for Oct. 26 this year, for the Labor Day race that has been held at the newly named Auto Club Speedway, formerly California Speedway, with limited success since 2004.
"I thought it was a great idea, and so did the people I talked with who are with NASCAR," Smith said. "We're interested in helping California, and the proposal has been made that we give California the October date in Atlanta -- and then the Labor Day event out there comes to Atlanta. And everybody will love it. The sport will love it. You will love it. I will.
"It's the thing to do. The people I've talked with within the sport, within NASCAR, they all agree that's the thing to do."
Of course it's never quite that simple in NASCAR, and spokesman Ramsey Poston said that Smith's comments were news to him.
"I haven't even had a chance to check it out yet," Poston said Friday. "Several years ago, we announced a realignment plan. Our schedule is pretty full right now, but if tracks have thoughts about moving dates, obviously it's something we'll always look at."
Auto Club Speedway has been hosting two races per season since '04, when an event was taken from Rockingham Speedway in North Carolina, and the Labor Day date, which traditionally had belonged Darlington Raceway in South Carolina, was moved.
Last year temperatures at the Califronia track soared above 100 degrees in the days leading up to and during the Labor Day event, at least contributing to thousands of empty seats. Switching the event to late October would likely mean cooler weather and also would give Auto Club Speedway a date in the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.
Atlanta has had its own attendance and weather problems in its fall race, and likely could expect at least better weather on or around Labor Day.
Auto Club Speedway also hosts a second race, in recent years traditionally Race 2 of the season immediately following the season-opening Daytona 500. It was postponed last Sunday after only 87 of 250 laps had been completed because of rain and problems with water seeping from between grooves in the track. The remainder of the race, won by Carl Edwards, was run on Monday -- in front of tens of thousands of empty seats.
Smith said his swap proposal was made during informal conversations with NASCAR officials, whom he declined to identify.
"They thought it was a great idea. You're asking me to name names. No, I don't want to do that. They may report to you later -- but we've had conversations now two or three times, and I liked the reception that it got because they know that it would help California tremendously," Smith said. "I think if we can help, then maybe we'll be successful with the Labor Day weekend in Atlanta -- and I can assure you we would work very hard to do that.
"We've had conversations, but no petition per se, like in writing or something. We've just been talking, and we've done that a couple of times already."
Pressed on when he expects to receive a formal answer to his rather informal proposal, Smith added: "I hope that we'll have an answer in the very near future -- and that if it happens, it will be for next year, yes."
Poston said that if Smith is serious about the swap, as he appears to be, Smith probably should be having conversations with officials from International Speedway Corp., which owns Auto Club Speedway. Although ISC is a public company, members of the France family are involved in both the running of NASCAR and ISC.
"I have no idea if he's had conversations with ISC on that. ... It seems to me that ISC is probably the first stop," Poston said. "But if there were a plan or a proposal, obviously we would listen. We always try to work with track officials and track owners on ideas. But it's a pretty new idea."
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Add my name to the list of people who think there are already 4 too many plate "races" already.