Who's calling in sick tomorrow?

Kind of hoping it pushes off into a night race, so I don't have to pi$$ the boss off too bad....
 
I get no sick leave. No work, no pay. However, I work out of my house so just maybe I can sneak a few looks at the race, if its run.
 
Smoke14 said:
They wont get the race in tomorrow either.
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Yep. Around a 70-80% chance tomorrow and tapers off to a 30% chance tomorrow night. The rumor on Twitter is the race may be run the Saturday before Easter if tomorrow is a no-go.
 
MRM said:
Yep. Around a 70-80% chance tomorrow and tapers off to a 30% chance tomorrow night. The rumor on Twitter is the race may be run the Saturday before Easter if tomorrow is a no-go.
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I don't know, I see them running the race on Wednesday before that happens if they have to. I just can't imagine the daytona 500 not being the first race of the year.
 
StewartHaas-Gibbs Racing said:
I don't know, I see them running the race on Wednesday before that happens if they have to. I just can't imagine the daytona 500 not being the first race of the year.
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Aw come on. It'd be just like old times, kicking off the season out west. :D

Once upon a time I may have considered calling in, but not anymore. If it happens to start on time, then I'd be home in time for the end, which is about the only thing to see any way (maybe).
 
Jameswnh said:
Aw come on. It'd be just like old times, kicking off the season out west. :D

Once upon a time I may have considered calling in, but not anymore. If it happens to start on time, then I'd be home in time for the end, which is about the only thing to see any way (maybe).
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I still can't imagine it! :confused:
 
MRM said:
Yep. Around a 70-80% chance tomorrow and tapers off to a 30% chance tomorrow night. The rumor on Twitter is the race may be run the Saturday before Easter if tomorrow is a no-go.
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What are the sources of these Twitter rumors? None of the people actually associated with NASCAR have said anything like that.
 
Matthew2470 said:
What are the sources of these Twitter rumors? None of the people actually associated with NASCAR have said anything like that.
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Like always, it will be run the next available day. The Easter thing is BS. Way to many people have invested time any money into this for that to happen IMO.
 
If you have Tony on your twitter, you'll have noticed someone having lots of fun. Early on, Tony twitted that they are racing in California and NASCAR missed it when they changed the first race from Riverside in 81. Later he twitted about someone in Martinsville was hit by a flying hotdog. :headbang:
 
I can't for a second believe that Nascar will push the biggest race of the year back like that. It will likely be ran Tuesday.
 
I wasplannin to leave work early tomorrow...but if it is raining I will stay there and save for Tuesday
 
Couldn't be a worse week. Every other Monday, there's a Planning Commission meeting and those things have the potential to run for six hours and have before. Tuesday, this week, is a day and a half... actually, more like a two-for-one special. Plus I have to have all the stuff from six different meetings in by Wednesday morning.

I'll be missing the Daytona 500. Since I got pulled from Southern National in favor of SoBo, I won't be seeing a race until March 10th. :mad:
 
Florida is a funny place .We are vacationing an hour away in Orlando and missed the rain altogether. That said the forcast for Monday is worst than Sunday .I may go over to Daytona and give Danica Fan a hand keeping Danica warm and dry.
 
I am not going to call in sick, but I'm not leaving this hotel until this race is either ran or postponed for another day. When I seen that it was going to be delayed this morning I decided to leave Houston and head on over to Louisiana. I can't pit at the race track in Gainesville Fl until Tues March 6th anyway, so I can stay in a hotel in Louisiana just as easy as I can stay in a hotel in Florida.
 
How far back in the week can they put this race before they gotta move it. They all gotta be out in Phoenix by friday right?
 
Nitro Dude said:
I am not going to call in sick, but I'm not leaving this hotel until this race is either ran or postponed for another day. When I seen that it was going to be delayed this morning I decided to leave Houston and head on over to Louisiana. I can't pit at the race track in Gainesville Fl until Tues March 6th anyway, so I can stay in a hotel in Louisiana just as easy as I can stay in a hotel in Florida.
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Coulda just flown home and left the hauler in houston! Or, you know, come visit DFW or something. :p Oh wait, you have to take the shortest route to save fuel....
 
The wife just came in and told me that her boss told he she couldn't get time off tomorrow and so that pretty much puts calling in sick a dumb idea. I told her though that the chances of rain tomorrow is pretty big. She is sad.
 
Magnethead said:
Coulda just flown home and left the hauler in houston! Or, you know, come visit DFW or something. :p Oh wait, you have to take the shortest route to save fuel....
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I could have drove back to California and hung out for a week also, but I have been home all winter and I am ready to stay out for a while. Actually the fuel bill is probably the cheapest part of racing. Now my food bill is another story.ha ha.:)
 
basscatcher89 said:
How far back in the week can they put this race before they gotta move it. They all gotta be out in Phoenix by friday right?
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They move the haulers in on Thursday, normally. But the bigger teams have a secondary hauler to take the PHX cars out. For the smaller teams, it sucks. But I gues that NC is kinda-sorta on the way to PHX, right? :rolleyes:

My impression is that if they can't get the race in by Tuesday that they will schedule it for the first available weekend, which is Easter Weekend.
 
Some of the teams are expressing concern that if tomorrow is a long day/night or is rained out about time to getting to Charlotte and then to Phoenix. If they decide to run Tuesday, it will be interesting to see how they handle things at Phoenix.
 
MRM said:
Some of the teams are expressing concern that if tomorrow is a long day/night or is rained out about time to getting to Charlotte and then to Phoenix. If they decide to run Tuesday, it will be interesting to see how they handle things at Phoenix.
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There's a lot of 11th hour talk going on about that right now. If they don't get it in tomorrow night, it could be interesting and they might end up going to Easter.
 
The haulers could probably leave from Daytona as late as Tues night if they had another hauler meet them some where in Florida to reload. But they would have to haul azz to be in Phoenix sometime Thurs night. I would just about bet that if they don't get this race in on Mon then it will have to be rescheduled. I have already seen a few of the Nationwide haulers going through Louisiana today.
 
If they run the race on tues. it won't be worth watching.Everybody will just be in a hurry to get out of there.
 
Nitro Dude said:
The haulers could probably leave from Daytona as late as Tues night if they had another hauler meet them some where in Florida to reload. But they would have to haul azz to be in Phoenix sometime Thurs night. I would just about bet that if they don't get this race in on Mon then it will have to be rescheduled. I have already seen a few of the Nationwide haulers going through Louisiana today.
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You know best since you do this every weekend..I know for the fall race at TMS (previous week martinsille/next week pheonix), the teams use 2 haulers for all 3 weekends. The 18 wheeler goes from martinsville to texas to pheonix, but a 5th wheeler picks up the martinsville cars and drops off the texas cars up in M'ville, the 5th wheeler goes back to NC while the 18 wheeler heads to texas, 5th wheeler gets the pheonix cars, drives out to texas, then they do another car swap overnight/monday morning. 5th wheeler brings texas cars back to NC while 18 wheeler goes to pheonix.

It was cool watching 30 teams do this at once on the TMS front stretch and pit road. Hendrick and Rousch actually use a second 18 wheeler to haul 2 teams' worth of cars, smaller teams use 5th wheelers.
 
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Magnethead said:
You know best since you do this every weekend..I know for the fall race at TMS (previous week martinsille/next week pheonix), the teams use 2 haulers for all 3 weekends. The 18 wheeler goes from martinsville to texas to pheonix, but a 5th wheeler picks up the martinsville cars and drops off the texas cars up in M'ville, the 5th wheeler goes back to NC while the 18 wheeler heads to texas, 5th wheeler gets the pheonix cars, drives out to texas, then they do another car swap overnight/monday morning. 5th wheeler brings texas cars back to NC while 18 wheeler goes to pheonix.

It was cool watching 30 teams do this at once on the TMS front stretch and pit road. Hendrick and Rousch actually use a second 18 wheeler to haul 2 teams' worth of cars, smaller teams use 5th wheelers.
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I have always had a lot of respect for how many races and the miles the Nascar guys travel in such a short amont of time between races. Plus each team seems to use a minimal amount of haulers. Heck, DSR has 17 haulers on the road with Nhra, but that is for 7 teams and 3 of them are hospitality rigs. I get wore out just managing 1 hauler.
 
Nitro Dude said:
I have always had a lot of respect for how many races and the miles the Nascar guys travel in such a short amont of time between races. Plus each team seems to use a minimal amount of haulers. Heck, DSR has 17 haulers on the road with Nhra, but that is for 7 teams and 3 of them are hospitality rigs. I get wore out just managing 1 hauler.
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I get wore out just managing one car..LOL

NASCAR guys definitely have their thing down. of course they have 3 hauler drivers on 8 hour rotation I'd imagine....

It wouldn't surprise me if they get around the logbook rule by having drivers switch haulers and driving 12 hours a day. "Yes officer, I've only driven 6 hours today. [But I drove 6 hours in another truck too!]"
 
I've suddenly developed a bad case of the flu, probably sick til at least sometime Tuesday night. :p
 
Boy, I wish I could call off today but I had the NASCAR flu last Thursday afternoon. I am banking on them not getting this thing in until this evening or not until tomorrow when I am working from home. Preferably this evening.
 
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