|
| Site Partners: | SpotterGuides | Veloce Books |
| Related Sites: | Your Link Here |
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
8 Oct 2004, 07:26 (Ref:1118761)
|
#1 | |
|
Rookie
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 87
 |
Banquet 400
The Nextel Cup caravan goes to Kansas Speedway for the Banquet 400. Jeff Gordon and Ryan Newman have been dominant racers on this track. The race has been run on the 1.5-mile oval only three times and Gordon won the first two before finishing fifth last year. As a rookie, Newman finished second to Gordon in 2001. The following year he finished second again. Last year, Newman led the final 28 laps en route to a 0.863-second victory.
|
|
|
|
|
9 Oct 2004, 12:45 (Ref:1119685)
|
#2 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
|||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
9 Oct 2004, 23:28 (Ref:1120001)
|
#3 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 512
|
Congrats to "front row" Joe Nemecheck on getting His 2nd consecutive Cup pole.
|
||
|
|
__________________
#24,1995,1997,1998,2001 Champion,1991 Busch ROTY,1993 Nextel Cup ROTY,3 Daytona 500 victories,5 Southern 500 victories,4 time Brickyard 400 winner,3 Coca-Cola 600 wins,8 road course(record)victories!
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 11:13 (Ref:1120216)
|
#4 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
And winning the Busch race.
Although I was disapointed when he spun Stewart round and out. |
||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 20:28 (Ref:1120558)
|
#5 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 662
|
I feel bad for Nemechek, I think he felt pretty bad about bumping Stewart. I think he probally would have rather raced him and won than wrecked him and won. I wonder what the deal was with Mike Bliss and Stewart. They got into a fight after the race too. Is Bliss mad that he lost his ride at Joe Gibbs Racing so he's taking it out on another JGR driver?
J.D. |
||
|
|
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 20:39 (Ref:1120565)
|
#6 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
Well him and Tony were racing hard and he just moved across when Joe had a bit of the inside.
I wanted Tony to win but at least Joe apoligised unlike Robby. |
||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 20:44 (Ref:1120571)
|
#7 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
Well after 217 laps Jamie McMurray is still the leader.
|
||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 21:18 (Ref:1120594)
|
#8 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 662
|
Congrats to "Front Row" Joe on sweeping the weekend. It's good to see the Army team in victory lane finally.
J.D. |
||
|
|
|
|
10 Oct 2004, 23:23 (Ref:1120616)
|
#9 | ||
|
Racer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 322
|
Congrats Joe on a heck of a weekend. Couldn't ask for much better. Also glad Elliot Sadler had a good race after his filp at Dega.
|
||
|
|
__________________
It's a great great day for a motorcar race. J Stewart
|
|
11 Oct 2004, 12:11 (Ref:1121029)
|
#10 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
Well done to Nemechek on the double this weekend.
1 -- Kurt Busch 5685 Leader 30 0 3 7 16 2 -- Dale Earnhardt Jr. 5656 -29 30 0 5 14 19 3 -- Jeff Gordon 5606 -79 30 6 5 12 20 4 +4 Elliott Sadler 5542 -143 30 0 2 8 13 5 -1 Mark Martin 5535 -150 30 0 1 8 13 6 -- Tony Stewart 5512 -173 30 0 2 9 15 7 -2 Matt Kenseth 5505 -180 30 0 2 8 16 8 -1 Ryan Newman 5453 -232 30 5 2 9 12 9 -- Jimmie Johnson 5438 -247 30 1 4 15 17 10 -- Jeremy Mayfield 5428 -257 30 2 1 5 12 |
||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
11 Oct 2004, 12:13 (Ref:1121031)
|
#11 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 7,263
|
Well done Elliott Sadler on moving up 4 places in the chase.
|
||
|
|
__________________
The thrill from west hill
|
|
11 Oct 2004, 15:54 (Ref:1121162)
|
#12 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 1999
Posts: 1,370
|
I attended these races and they were both good ones. Nemechek got some boos in the pre-race driver introductions for his incident with Stewart in the Busch race. I, along with most of the crowd, was pulling for Ricky Rudd in the closing laps. I couldn't believe he closed up the gap that quickly. It didn't look like anybody was going to be able to touch Joe on the last restart.
|
||
|
|
|
|
11 Oct 2004, 15:56 (Ref:1121165)
|
#13 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: May 1999
Posts: 1,370
|
One other thing, I got to talk to legendary NASCAR driver, David Pearson, at an autograph session on Friday. I asked him if he got the road-racers respect for his 1974 IROC performance (he finished 4th out of 12 drivers in Porsche Carreras and all four races were road course races). He said that he liked road racing. He also said he always seemed to get a bad car in IROC.
Last edited by Joe Fan; 11 Oct 2004 at 17:07. |
||
|
|
|
|
11 Oct 2004, 16:52 (Ref:1121227)
|
#14 | ||
|
Veteran
Join Date: Nov 2003
Posts: 662
|
Jayski had this article from the Kansas City Star about Jerry Nadeau and his reaction to Nemechek winning. Nadeau drove the car up until he suffered severe injuries practicing at Richmond last year.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...9887619.htm?1c J.D. |
||
|
|
|
 |
|
|
Similar Threads
|
||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
| Banquet 400 | fullSPEED | NASCAR & Stock Car Racing | 3 | 10 Oct 2005 13:13 |
| Banquet pics | Dov | ChampCar World Series | 5 | 9 Nov 2004 13:22 |
| Awards Banquet | TedN | ChampCar World Series | 5 | 28 Oct 2004 20:40 |
| The banquet | Roselady3 | NASCAR & Stock Car Racing | 15 | 4 Dec 2001 19:10 |
Linear Mode
