Random NASCAR Stuff to talk about.....

OK, here's a contender - and it's legit.

Last name: Wunderlich
First name: Richard

Richard Cheese always makes me smile!
(and yes, I meant that as a joke so don't start with me, FB! lol But I do like his music...)
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robbybee said:
OK, here's a contender - and it's legit.

Last name: Wunderlich
First name: Richard

Richard Cheese always makes me smile!
(and yes, I meant that as a joke so don't start with me, FB! lol But I do like his music...)
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Why not check out The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra !
 
I think my neighbors hate that there is a vehicle (mine) in the neighborhood with a NASCAR related sticker on the back window. People here don't think that it's possible for a NASCAR fan to have a decent job and a degree. I feel I'd fit in better in North Carolina or someplace that is more tolerant to my NASCAR based lifestyle.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Bet Kyle loved that.
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Kyle doesn't seem to take jokes too well. He used to respond to some of my tweets, until after this tweet of mine last year when he had finished 2nd to Brad at Pocono, and 3rd to him at Watkins Glen. If you remember, Brad had that bad ankle and Kyle seemed to have both wins in hand.

"It must suck getting beat by a gimp 2 weeks in a row, but you handled it well. Cheers!"

He immedietly blocked me. lol. Kyle Petty got a good laugh over the whole thing, and even PM'ed me about it.
 
Matthew2470 said:
I think my neighbors hate that there is a vehicle (mine) in the neighborhood with a NASCAR related sticker on the back window. People here don't think that it's possible for a NASCAR fan to have a decent job and a degree. I feel I'd fit in better in North Carolina or someplace that is more tolerant to my NASCAR based lifestyle.
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Dude, I live in Leelanau County Michigan. Even the nascar fans here don't have a sticker on their truck. And we are talking working men who hunt deer and go fishing. I had mine so long I had to get a new one. Black and White 48. Sweet decal it is.

I need a new flag though. My last one is a little tattered. All the rich people that live on the bluff and have the million dollar view of Pyramid Point can see what I have that they don't every time they go and come home.

It is a sweet view though.
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FenderBumper said:
Wow, that's the view from your house? Nice indeed.
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Not from my house. From my neighbors house. My house is 1000 sqft with a full basement. Not finished. I have two gabels. 300 yards away, are houses with 7 to 10 gabels and they cost 500,000 to 1,000,000 compared to my 130,000 piece of heaven.

that's nothing though. In Glen Arbor there's so many rich people from Bloomfield Hills locals can't afford housing in small towns on the water any more. Leland MI is the same way. It's a ghost town in the winter.

A short story I love about excess:

A family of rich people wanted to build a very tall house in Glen Arbor. But no insurance company would insure the house because the local fire department didn't have a fire truck with a ladder. So they wrote a check for $300,000 to buy one. Just like that.

I have done jobs for the guy who owns check and go, and the head of AT@T.

My county is a lot like a third world country lately.

One lady from out of town, walked into a gas station in LELAND and told the secretary that if it wasn't for her coming up north, she wouldn't have a job. And then there are really nice people.


blah blah blah, I got the day off.
 
FREE admission to Kansas on Friday of race weekend. In lieu of tickets, they ask you make on-site donation to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
FREE admission to Kansas on Friday of race weekend. In lieu of tickets, they ask you make on-site donation to Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
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AWESOME. That's the best idea ever. Or it's bait for the casino to make money. CLOAK engaged.
 
MOEJOE said:
Not from my house. From my neighbors house. My house is 1000 sqft with a full basement. Not finished. I have two gabels. 300 yards away, are houses with 7 to 10 gabels and they cost 500,000 to 1,000,000 compared to my 130,000 piece of heaven.

that's nothing though. In Glen Arbor there's so many rich people from Bloomfield Hills locals can't afford housing in small towns on the water any more. Leland MI is the same way. It's a ghost town in the winter.

A short story I love about excess:

A family of rich people wanted to build a very tall house in Glen Arbor. But no insurance company would insure the house because the local fire department didn't have a fire truck with a ladder. So they wrote a check for $300,000 to buy one. Just like that.

I have done jobs for the guy who owns check and go, and the head of AT@T.

My county is a lot like a third world country lately.

One lady from out of town, walked into a gas station in LELAND and told the secretary that if it wasn't for her coming up north, she wouldn't have a job. And then there are really nice people.


blah blah blah, I got the day off.
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When I was in High School I used to stay at a cottage on Lake Leelanau near Leland. There was money up there then so I can only imagine how it's changed since the 80's.

And money=power. Bottom line.
 
Tribune and DirecTV have a deal so those markets with Tribune-owned Fox affiliates will get Fox's Texas coverage next week.
 
Crew chief swap at JR Motorsports. Bruce Cook replaces Tony Eury Sr. as Cole Whitt crew chief; Eury Sr. crew chiefs part-time third team.


Tony Eury Sr. remains competition director & will crew chief part-time JRM 5 car (Dale Jr.).

Jeff Gluck
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Crew chief swap at JR Motorsports. Bruce Cook replaces Tony Eury Sr. as Cole Whitt crew chief; Eury Sr. crew chiefs part-time third team.


Tony Eury Sr. remains competition director & will crew chief part-time JRM 5 car (Dale Jr.).

Jeff Gluck
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It's about time they got Sr off the box. Now Whitt will have a fighting chance.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Crew chief swap at JR Motorsports. Bruce Cook replaces Tony Eury Sr. as Cole Whitt crew chief; Eury Sr. crew chiefs part-time third team.


Tony Eury Sr. remains competition director & will crew chief part-time JRM 5 car (Dale Jr.).

Jeff Gluck
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cool,always liked SR. with JR..
 
OK, be honest..... If I would have asked you to pick the owner that would have had three of his cars in the top 10 in owners points after the first six races of the season..... And your options were Gibbs, Hendrick, Roush, & Waltrip..... How many of you would have picked Waltrip?
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
OK, be honest..... If I would have asked you to pick the owner that would have had three of his cars in the top 10 in owners points after the first six races of the season..... And your options were Gibbs, Hendrick, Roush, & Waltrip..... How many of you would have picked Waltrip?
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Joe and I were just talking about this. Perhaps they benefited greatly from the demise of Redbull and having some good talent to pick through.

Michael is one hell of a businessman. While teams like RCR, RPM, Roush and Ganassi are having trouble being competitive OR shrinking, he's growing and running up front.
 
Thegroundpounder99 said:
Why does it look like the "strip" is still there? I agree it doesn't look like that good of a paving job by those pics.
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It looks a little like progressive banking. Did Pocono say anything about going that route? In that second pic, it looks like a 2 lane apron, then banking where MM is running.
 
Matthew2470 said:
I think my neighbors hate that there is a vehicle (mine) in the neighborhood with a NASCAR related sticker on the back window. People here don't think that it's possible for a NASCAR fan to have a decent job and a degree. I feel I'd fit in better in North Carolina or someplace that is more tolerant to my NASCAR based lifestyle.
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You want strange looks, try having NASCAR stickers on the back window of a Lincoln Town Car. Most of the teachers I worked with for 30yrs had no clue what racing was --- but I educated them, and indoctrinated the students. I always had more fathers come to my room on "Meet the Teacher" night --- mom would talk to me, dad would read the walls. LOL
 
TexasRaceLady said:
You want strange looks, try having NASCAR stickers on the back window of a Lincoln Town Car. Most of the teachers I worked with for 30yrs had no clue what racing was --- but I educated them, and indoctrinated the students. I always had more fathers come to my room on "Meet the Teacher" night --- mom would talk to me, dad would read the walls. LOL
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That's awesome. I love seeing upscale vehicles with NASCAR stuff on it.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
You want strange looks, try having NASCAR stickers on the back window of a Lincoln Town Car. Most of the teachers I worked with for 30yrs had no clue what racing was --- but I educated them, and indoctrinated the students. I always had more fathers come to my room on "Meet the Teacher" night --- mom would talk to me, dad would read the walls. LOL
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I wish I had teachers that talked about NASCAR.
 
Did you know that Trues Jr. set three world records sanctioned by the International Model Power Boat Association? Cool hobby turned into the pursuit of record runs.

Even though he won't be behind the wheel of his No. 56 NAPA Auto Parts Toyota this weekend, Martin Truex Jr. will still seek out his need for speed, this time with a remote control boat.

The Michael Waltrip Racing driver has always been interested in remote control cars and trucks, but ever since he bought a house on a lake he took his RC interests out on the water.

"When I moved to the lake, I decided I needed to get a boat," Truex Jr. said. "So, I bought one and I wasn't happy with it so I did some looking around on the internet and found some stuff. Then I started building my own."

The new hobby led Truex to tuning his boats for speed, and he eventually set three world records sanctioned by the International Model Power Boat Association.

"They are all three oval records, which is a timed oval," Truex said. "Two of them are on a one-third-mile course and one is a quarter-mile course."

This weekend, Truex will head to Huntsville, Alabama to go after new records.

"I'm going for three new oval records," Truex said. "One that I already have and want to lower it because I know I can. I'm going to try to go for a straight line record, which is straightaway speed. The record I'm going for in that is with a little 3.5 cc engine and it's 103 miles per hour. I'm trying to go at least 105."

In his seventh full-time season in Sprint Cup, Truex is off to his best start. He is only 12 points out of the lead with six races complete.

"It's been a good start to the season for us,” Truex said. “The whole NAPA team has done a good job -- everybody at MWR has done a nice job.

"It seems the past 10 or so races we've been consistently fast -- not the fastest car, but we've been in the top five or top 10. That's what we need to keep doing. We need to keep staying there and keep constantly working on it. If you keep running in the top-five, top 10 then sooner or later you're going to put yourself in position to win. That's what we're trying to do."
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From here.
 
We think that we 'know' these guys , and we do compared to a lot of the public ,but every one of them is a competitor in other fields . It is always interesting to get insight .I remember , years ago , hearing Kenny Schrader talking about Kyle Petty's antique/rare book collection . I heard Buddy Baker on the radio today talking about Greg Biffle's car collection. Someone last week talking about something Junior had in his collection. Love to hear that stuff.
 
ted@economy said:
We think that we 'know' these guys , and we do compared to a lot of the public ,but every one of them is a competitor in other fields . It is always interesting to get insight .I remember , years ago , hearing Kenny Schrader talking about Kyle Petty's antique/rare book collection . I heard Buddy Baker on the radio today talking about Greg Biffle's car collection. Someone last week talking about something Junior had in his collection. Love to hear that stuff.
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What makes it cool is that they have the means to go all in. JPM flies model planes that are probably very nice.

Then there are drivers like Jeff Gordon that choose go put their time and money into charitable causes which is very cool as well.
 
Matthew2470 said:
What makes it cool is that they have the means to go all in. JPM flies model planes that are probably very nice.

Then there are drivers like Jeff Gordon that choose go put their time and money into charitable causes which is very cool as well.
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Maybe it's not what you meant to say but that almost reads as though Juan decides to play with his toys rather than charities and that isn't quite the case. Both he and his wife, Connie, founded the Formula Smiles Foundation in 2003. That continues today. Not sure about Truex Jr but I'd imagine that he also does charity work.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Maybe it's not what you meant to say but that almost reads as though Juan decides to play with his toys rather than charities and that isn't quite the case. Both he and his wife, Connie, founded the Formula Smiles Foundation in 2003. That continues today. Not sure about Truex Jr but I'd imagine that he also does charity work.
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You read way too much into my post. I was simply saying that these guys have varied interests. No one's interest is any better than the other. As a whole NASCAR drivers are incredibly generous with their time and money. Jeff Gordon used to be into Scuba. Now he's into hanging with his family and bring part of global health initiatives.
 
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