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Lancecrossfire

Monday, March 17, 2003 - 08:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh, and congrats to LC for having the second best score! Wink, you didn't do too shabby either:)

Grooch

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 Total Pts
1 LanceCrossfire 240 275 284 283 242 196 1520
2 Zoom 286 266 176 233 262 286 1509
3 Marys Mighty Motors 202 295 252 315 244 176 1484
4 nightcrawler 212 236 151 317 160 242 1318
5 Sams Team 256 184 268 226 130 234 1298
6 The Clubhouse Gang 212 138 217 240 325 162 1294
7 Yooper Racing 132 276 188 245 272 178 1291
8 littlecrawler 166 164 144 245 266 236 1221

Nightcrawler

Tuesday, March 25, 2003 - 09:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well I did ok i came up 2 spots:)

thanks again Grooch for posting the totals

Lance,
if keep going like this (going up 2 spots) I'll be in first in 2-3 more weeks

but i think your safe for some time.

Grooch

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 02:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Stewart's car failed inspection
Associated Press


FORT WORTH, Texas -- The car of Winston Cup champion Tony Stewart was impounded Friday because it didn't meet specifications, a punishment never before handed out by NASCAR.

Stewart, known as the bad boy of the sport, was forced to use his backup car at the opening practice for Sunday's Samsung/Radio Shack 500 at Texas Motor Speedway.

The Joe Gibbs Racing entry failed inspection because it didn't meet the exact specifications for "the area around the back of the car, back window to back deck," NASCAR president Mike Helton said.

"We decided to impound the car instead of letting them cut it up and try to fix it, if they wanted to," Helton said.

NASCAR had never impounded the entire car of a Winston Cup driver. Stewart's team could face other penalties or fines, but losing the primary car was damaging enough.

It was unclear when or if Stewart would get the car back. The team did not immediately comment.

Six races into the 2003 season, Stewart is off to his best start ever, ranking third in points.

The Winston Cup inspection process has been more stringent this season with the adoption of a set of templates intended to fit all four makes of cars competing in NASCAR's top series.

All the cars must exactly fit 18 of 32 steel templates used during technical inspections. Until this season, there was a completely different set of templates for each make.

Stewart has been in trouble with NASCAR for on- and off-track problems. He finished the last two seasons on probation, last year becoming the first NASCAR driver to win a title while on probation.

He was fined $60,000 and had to undergo anger management counseling after he punched a photographer at the Brickyard 400 in August. He also was accused of shoving a worker and pushing a fan.

NASCAR put Stewart's impounded car on display outside its hauler in the garage area because it wanted other teams to see the problem inspectors found.

Helton said the impounded Monte Carlo will be taken to NASCAR's new research and development facility in Concord, N.C., for further study.

Nightcrawler

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 07:54 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think thay are just picking on TonyLOL

because he is doing good this year and so far has not got in trouble

I allso hope he wins the race this weekend that will show those mean nascar people.(and it has nothing to do with him being on my yahoo team)

I bet Jeff (#24) snuck in the night befor and messed the car up LOL

Marysafan

Friday, March 28, 2003 - 08:29 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
WOW! Looks like Zoom had a great week! Congrats Zoom...for "zooming" all the way back up toward the top!

I sure would like to be a fly on the wall at Joe Gibb's racing shop on Monday....I bet there will be some real butt chewing. Tony is known to do VERY well when he is ticked off...so I wouldn't be suprised to see him go out and win this thing out of spite.

I had Kurt Busch on my Yahoo team and was in the process of breaking my arm patting myself on the back when I discovered just how poorly the rest of my team performed. Good thing I had Kurt....or I would be *free falling* ( a little Tom Petty there).

Well, Good luck this week everybody!

Serate

Sunday, March 30, 2003 - 01:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't think they are picking on Tony. There's an article on nascar.com that both Zippy and Tony say that the infraction was valid. That type should have been caught BEFORE they left the shop, but Tony said that ALL their cars are good, primary or not, so he's not too worried about it. He's 13th with 85 laps to go.

Grooch

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 08:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total Pts
1 LanceCrossfire 240 275 284 283 242 196 185 1705
2 Zoom 286 266 176 233 262 286 176 1685
3 Marys Mighty Motors 202 295 252 315 244 176 141 1625
4 The Clubhouse Gang 212 138 217 240 325 162 216 1510
5 nightcrawler 212 236 151 317 160 242 184 1502
6 Yooper Racing 132 276 188 245 272 178 210 1501
7 Sams Team 256 184 268 226 130 234 176 1474
8 littlecrawler 166 164 144 245 266 236 240 1461

Lancecrossfire

Monday, March 31, 2003 - 07:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
So good scores this week! I see my lead slipping away too! LOL I'm surprised I've lasted this long--I still say it's luck. And with having to switch drivers because of playing linits, I'm going to have to get VERY lucky!! LOL

Grooch

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 08:42 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Total Pts
1 Zoom 286 266 176 233 262 286 176 313 1998
2 Marys Mighty Motors 202 295 252 315 244 176 141 337 1962
3 LanceCrossfire 240 275 284 283 242 196 185 200 1905
4 Yooper Racing 132 276 188 245 272 178 210 268 1769
5 The Clubhouse Gang 212 138 217 240 325 162 216 253 1763
6 littlecrawler 166 164 144 245 266 236 240 265 1726
7 Sams Team 256 184 268 226 130 234 176 244 1718
8 nightcrawler 212 236 151 317 160 242 184 176 1678

Wink

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 10:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Wow what a race. Lots of controversy about Junior over on the chat board at Yahoo. That 27 car wreck just proves that every week is a crap shoot. Congrats on your great score Mary and nice comeback for both of us after last week's scores.

Marysafan

Monday, April 07, 2003 - 10:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Well...what a race...but I knew it was gonna be a doozy when ....just as the green flag was about to fly....we lost the tv transmission in Omaha and the surrounding areas! As we scrambled to find radio coverage...I called my best friend in New Jersey to tell him that if the "big one" should happen...he had to call us and fill us in....well LO and behold....unbeknownst to me...as I was dialing the number...the "big one" was going down!!!!

We didn't get the tv coverage back until 42 laps to go...just in time to conflict with the final Red wing hockey game. (Yes...there was much controversy at our house too! lol).

Now as to my remarkable comeback...well, I missed the deadline to change drivers (AGAIN) so what I did was make all my reserve drivers active! It appears that my problem for the last two weeks has been ...that I had the best team sitting on the bench!

And a "good going" to little crawler...who continues to impress! High fives!

I am glad Lancecrosfire is finally getting some competition! We didn't want to make this too easy for him! lol!

I sure don't know what to make of the yellow line deal...sometimes when it comes to NASCAR's subjective enforcement of the rules...you just gotta shake your head and admire their hutzpa!

I saw the funniest thing on NASCAR Victory Lane on Speed channel last night. (We had to tune in to see the highlights of what we missed). After the race, Tony Stewart and Kurt busch were walkin side by side with their respective crew members. Although we can't hear them, Tony is obviously giving Kurt a piece of his mind regarding the "incident". As they walk along...Tony continues to yammer away, but Kurt isn't saying a word. Tony continues to talk. Finally Kurt takes his water bottle and squirts Tony in the legs...then walks away into his his hauler.

Then Tony turns around and says something to Jimmy Fenning...I sure would have liked to have heard what he said!

Stayed tuned for Martinsville!

Nightcrawler

Wednesday, April 09, 2003 - 09:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well out of my 4 starters 3 were in the BIG ONE:(

by the looks of my team I need to turn my car around i seem to be going the wrong way?

or just let L.C. pick my team?

he was in last place in are nascar game a run here at home (like he was in this one) all 3 of L.C.'s driver made it throu the BIG ONE.
( i did not do so well)

anyway he scoored 400! points from his drivers(9,32,97,) he came up 4 places this week. he just changed driver in the last 2 weeks getting the 32,97, in a trade it seem to be working for him.he is now 9th out of 13. (i droped to 6th)

Grooch

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 04:53 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Whoo Hoo! I think I made 321 points today. Can't wait to see the new graph of our team. :)

Grooch

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 06:05 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total Pts
1 Zoom 286 266 176 233 262 286 176 313 248 2246
2 Marys Mighty Motors 202 295 252 315 244 176 141 337 206 2168
3 LanceCrossfire 240 275 284 283 242 196 185 200 2362141
4 The Clubhouse Gang 212 138 217 240 325 162 216 253 321 2084
5 Sams Team 256 184 268 226 130 234 176 244 309 2027
6 Yooper Racing 132 276 188 245 272 178 210 268 182 1951
7 littlecrawler 166 164 144 245 266 236 240 265 220 1946
8 nightcrawler 212 236 151 317 160 242 184 176 150 1828

Grooch

Sunday, April 13, 2003 - 06:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Congrats to all!

And this should really start get interesting now that some of us are getting close to using some racers 9 times. :)

Nightcrawler

Monday, April 14, 2003 - 08:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
boy i'm not doing to well the last few weeks:(

Wink

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No race this week. All the good old boys get to spend Easter and Passover with their families.

Grooch

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 07:40 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks, Wink! :)

Grooch

Wednesday, April 16, 2003 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
NASCAR Fan Faces Prison Time for E-mails


By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - A NASCAR (news - web sites) fan faces up to a year in prison for flooding Fox Entertainment with more than a half-million e-mails because he was angry the network aired a Boston Red Sox (news) game instead of an auto race.

Michael Melo of Billerica has agreed to plead guilty to a federal misdemeanor charge of damage to a protected computer system, his attorney said Wednesday.


The action forced the network to shut down part of its Web site.


Melo designed a program that repeatedly sent the same six e-mails to Fox Entertainment Group Inc. in Los Angeles over a few days in late April and early May 2001. The messages were sent through the company's Boston-area affiliate, according to the federal complaint.


"He was just very upset that the Red Sox would pre-empt NASCAR, so he decided to send these messages to express his views," said Melo's lawyer, Andrew Good.


Fox received more than 530,000 e-mails from Melo. Fearing a hacker was attacking its computer system, the company shut down a portion of its Web site, costing Fox $36,000, according to federal prosecutors.


Also, by taking a portion of its Web site down, Fox Entertainment was unable to communicate via computer with WFXT-TV 25 in suburban Boston for several hours, and left the local affiliate unable to receive viewer e-mail, prosecutors said.


The federal complaint did not specify the exact content of the e-mails.


Fox Entertainment spokesman Scott Grogin declined comment.


The charge carries a maximum of one year in prison. Melo, who works in the computer industry and has no prior criminal record, will ask for probation, Good said.


"There was no intention to cause any of this damage and the government isn't claiming he did," Good said. "It happened, but it was produced by machines running wild. He's sorry it happened, obviously."


A message left on an answering machine for a Michael Melo in Billerica was not immediately returned on Wednesday evening.


No date has been set for his plea hearing and sentencing.


Link

Nightcrawler

Thursday, April 24, 2003 - 08:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
well i would be pissed too if are fox channal put baceball on insted of Nascar.

i guess i think it's kinda funny.:)

Grooch

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 06:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Dang! I forgot. Do I still have time to change my picks?

Nightcrawler

Friday, April 25, 2003 - 09:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
no sorry Grooch
thursday is the cut off

I did mine last week. I for got there was no race last week
I never do things on time
for once I was erly with something (he!! most be getting colder):)

Grooch

Monday, April 28, 2003 - 09:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Rank Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Total Pts
1 Zoom 286 266 176 233 262 286 176 313 248 244 2490
2 Marys Mighty Motors 202 295 252 315 244 176 141 337 206 248 2416
3 Sams Team 256 184 268 226 130 234 176 244 309 312 2339
4 The Clubhouse Gang 212 138 217 240 325 162 216 253 321 248 2332
5 LanceCrossfire 240 275 284 283 242 196 185 200 236 102 2243
6 Yooper Racing 132 276 188 245 272 178 210 268 182 238 2189
7 littlecrawler 166 164 144 245 266 236 240 265 220 179 2125
8 nightcrawler 212 236 151 317 160 242 184 176 150 232 2060

Wink

Monday, April 28, 2003 - 09:31 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Congrats to Sams Team on the big jump you took this week. I was away for the weekend and missed the race but it sounds like it was a doozie.