CONGRATULATIONS JUNIOR

i think he was mad that he got 3rd
but he said his car tightend up.
 
Magnethead said:
wonder where harvick went..
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I don't know where he went, but I know where he can go. :p :D

Good to see Jr in winners circle again.
 
i was pullin for harvick but i am also really glad that Jr. got D.E.I. their first win of the year
 
yea so the first freakin race i miss all year and Jr wins it!!!

wahoo!
 
He's Back!
It's damn good to see them Budweiser Boys back on the attack!
I may be here at work for another 12 hours today..........and yes I do have a hang-over too!
But it's all good.................LOL!
 
Magnethead said:
wonder where harvick went..
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Burton calm, Harvick hot after circumstances weaken strong runs
By David Newton, NASCAR.COM
May 7, 2006
01:38 AM EDT (05:38 GMT)


RICHMOND, Va. -- Kevin Harvick signed a three-year extension with Richard Childress Racing on Friday afternoon, won the Busch Series race on Friday night and finished third in the Nextel Cup race on Saturday night to move to fifth in the points standings.

RCR teammate Jeff Burton finished second in the Busch Series race and 15th in the Cup race to move within six points of the top 10 in points, the closest he's been to the top 10 after 10 races since the 2000 season when he was fourth.

Neither was happy.

Harvick was so upset with third after leading a race-high 272 laps that he spent more time in the media center bathroom following the race than he did on the media center podium answering questions.

Burton was equally upset, reminding he had a chance to win until a penalty for pitting on Lap 347 of the 400-lap race when pit road was closed under caution and a chance for a top-10 until a spinout with eight laps remaining.

The difference?

Burton stood behind his hauler for almost five minutes and calmly answered questions in great detail, not letting his emotions affect the way he performed.

Perhaps that's what Harvick meant earlier in the week when he said Burton had been a great stabilizing factor for RCR, which has three teams in the top 15 -- rookie Clint Bowyer is 15th after a finishing 10th -- and appears primed to rejoin the elite organizations in NASCAR's premier series.

"He brings a very correct manner of how you're supposed to handle things and a very professional manner of how you're supposed to handle things with a sponsor and how you're supposed to handle things in the shop,'' Harvick said after announcing his extension on Friday.

"I still can't do that 100 percent.''

Harvick showed that after the race. Asked why he didn't pit when everybody else did with about 112 laps remaining, he said, "We were short on fuel and hoping for another caution.''

Asked if his car went away late, he said, "Just got tight.''

Then he left.

Meanwhile, Burton was looking for the positives in what was a very productive weekend for himself and RCR.

"We did a nice job with the car and we did a terrible job with everything else,'' he said. "We pitted when pits weren't open. We had bad pit stops. Everything that we did short of getting the car to run good was wrong.

"Our pit crew has been awesome. I'm not down on them. Because [Harvick] had trouble, we were going to be in position to win the race. The good thing is we ran well. A bad night could have been way worse. I'm disappointed, but optimistic all at the same time.''

That's the kind of demeanor owner Richard Childress hoped Burton would bring to the team when he signed him from Roush Racing in August of 2004.

Burton has steadied a team that was somewhat in disarray with the conflict between Harvick and former RCR teammate Robby Gordon.

"I try to play my part to do what we can do to make the company better,'' Burton said. "But I'm not above anybody and I'm playing my part.

"Certainly, my experience can help us and I do seem to have a pretty good ability to talk to people about things that are controversial without having a controversial conversation.''

Both drivers' personalities came out during crucial times on Saturday night. When Harvick realized he was the only driver to stay out on lap 288 his immediate response to crew chief Todd Berrier was, "So we're [expletive].''

Burton's response after crew chief Scott Miller mistakenly told him to pit, resulting in Burton being sent to the end of the longest line of cars on the lead lap, was: "It's OK. We'll make it work.''

That was the professionalism Harvick talked about on Friday.

"Jeff brings a lot to the table when it comes to being a professional and he can flat out drive a race car, too,'' he said. "So all three teams help each other. Everybody gets along and that's hard to find when you have three teams.

"We've had it the opposite way in the past.''

Burton hopes things will continue that way and that RCR will have more weekends like this one, even though everybody wasn't happy in the end.

"We don't have it all together,'' he said. "We've made a big gain. But having it all together is when you lead every lap and win races every weekend, and you're never going to be there.

"We're off just a touch. But we're close. We've run well all year. We've just got to go to work and get a little better, but I'm optimistic.''
 
its nice to see Junior in the winner circle again. I was trying to figure who the blonde and brunette were near him.
 
Jr is the man :beerbang: ,i laughed my ass off when Jr passed big ears Kyle Busch late in the race.Did i mention i was a Jr fan?lol.
 
Well of course Lil'E won. Didn't you hear the announcers say that about a third of the fans left Talledega early when his engine let go. Nascar is not stupid. They know that to sell tickets and get butts in the seats that they will have to throw a crumb to the 8 Army every now and then. And, what better place than Richmond. It would not raise any eyebrows if he won there, again. Some have to win and some have to lose to keep the $$$ flowing in. I thought most everyone understood that... :nyanya:
 
And, here I thought it was more the call they made to Harvick not to win and that was why he got so angry. And, the call to Hamlin not to knock the crap out of Lil'E so he could go for the win. Telling him that if he was a good little soldier his time would come. etc. etc. etc.

Wait a minute...I have to go...the little green men are here in their black helicopters with their anal probes...
 
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