Racin'
& Internet Stuff:
03/08/2012
Special notice:
The original
date for this column is shown, below, some six weeks ago. Along with the
heading, I thought I’d keep the “First” item in, just for the heck of it. A major malfunction with my computer occurred
– problems with the hard drive, mother board and processor. Hey, all that stuff is “Greek” to this old
fart. A nephew, Bobby, was kind enough
to make me a new computer and to transfer a majority of what I had in the old
one into this new one. As I said, a
“majority” of the info I had. Some, of
which I’m still hoping to get, which is not in the new
one, and some of that is rather critical to me working on these columns. So, for a while, there might be some small
changes.
So, here is what I had, back for January 26th:
Racin'
& Internet Stuff:
01/26/2012
First:
I’m not sure how this weeks column is going to
turn out. ‘Puter
problems up the “ying-yang”, if ya
know what I mean. I try to do something
and it like goes to “restart”, and shuts down then starts up. I have my “Documents” and some have been
moved to certain places so I can get to them fairly quickly. Well, on Saturday afternoon, when on one of
the times my monitor went completely black, when I went back to my documents,
they were all re-arranged, alphabetically.
I guess I spend a good deal of time re-arranging them again, only to
have the same exact thing happen – again!
So, I’m leaving them as they are.
Yup! After
that, no more ‘puter! Well, except for the wife’s lap top, which to
me, although I could get on the Internet, (and of course I could not think of
many of the websites I frequented) it was, a pain in the azz,
with the smaller keyboard.
And now for this latest column – another try at # 91 – and yes, it’s
great to be back.
First:
Those of you that are on my e-mail list, are
quite aware that over the past few months someone hacked into my e-mail and
sent out bogus messages saying I was stranded in London and needed cash to get
back home. On the first occurrence, the
idiot wiped out everything I had in my mail – e-mails, address book, sent
folder and trash. You don’t want to know
what I had, e-mail wise, as far as info and photos went.
Then last week, the idiot struck again – and
again wiped out my address book, sent folder and trash. He did, however, leave the current e-mails
intact, which was great, since I had some messages from some who’s e-mail
addresses I could not import (from Facebook). However, he had it set up that I could not
receive any e-mails, they being forwarded to a different address. Also, when I sent a message, it was not
picked up in my “sent” folder. That was
on one message that I tried to send.
However, when I sent that message, I also included myself in a “Bcc” to
another e-mail address that I have. It
did go through. Keep in mind, I did change my password between hacks!
Second:
Thanks to the following people - John DaDalt, Jerry Santibanes, Gordon White, Stephen Bubb, Jim Chini, Tom Motter, Ed Hitze, Keith Herbst and about 20 other historians, I’ve been fortunate to get some midget racing results for quite a few tracks here in the northeast, and also some win records of various drivers, with the possibility of getting even more of both. A good portion of the names above were mentioned to me by Jerry Santibanes.
For the drivers, I now have lists of wins for:
Charlie Miller,
Ed “Dutch” Schaefer, George Rice, Johnny Ritter, George Fonder, Bill Holmes,
Wes Saegesser, Ronney
Householder, Len Duncan, Ted Tappett, Johnny Coy,
Bill Schindler, Duane Carter, Henry Banks, Mel Kenyon, Sleepy Tripp and Nick Fornoro. Also, George Rice “Big car” results for 1934 & 35.
I have race
results (mostly top three in some cases) from the following tracks:
Yellow Jacket
(1935-1942),
Yellow Jacket
(Post War – 1945 - 1950),
Some PA and NJ
tracks (1946-1949)
Hinchliffe Stadium (1939)
Hinchliffe Stadium (Post War 1945 - 1950),
Menands (1947 – 1949)
Kingsbridge
Armory (1946 – 1949)
ARDC (Southern –
VA & Md 1946 – 1950)
Castle Hill (1938
– 1941)
Cedarhurst (1938
– 1941)
Rhinebeck (1947 –
1951)
NASCAR Midget
winners (1953 – 1968)
Polo Grounds
(1948 – wood track)
Third:
I checked out OCFS’s
website prior to listing some up-coming dates and there have been some changes
made to their schedule. As you probably
know, the WoO Sprint Cars are making a return and
they will be at OCFS on Saturday, May 19th. The Sportsman class will also see action that
night.
On July 20, 21 & 22, Moto & Monster
Truck Madness is scheduled. OK, here’s a
complaint from me – this is during the fair when there is no parking. Will parking for this show be allowed in the
Drive-in? If so, would there be
transportation to and from the Drive-in to the stands? Hey, YOU can inquire with OCFS – in a way,
I’ve given up asking them questions. One
thing I’d love to see, and would jump at the change to make mention of it, is
to have some hand rails put in on the half covered grandstands. They don’t have to go completely from top to bottom,
just put a few on each stairway, with some spaces between them – ya know, for safety?
Over on the Syracuse Forum, there was a discussion going on, and a
member of the OC staff came to inform us “Morons” of a few things. I offered to call this individual or even
e-mail him, about a safety concern I had (those hand rails) but he never
responded to me, as to when would be a good time, and yes, I believe I’m
included as far as being a “
Fourth:
I’m pretty sure I made mention of my having
some surgery that had to be done on the aneurysm that’s on my aorta. Well, it was done back on February 9th. What should have been an overnight stay ended
up being for five days. Seems the dye
they had to use to make sure the stent was put in the correct place, kinda did a job on my kidneys. Oh, and that stent – when completely
inserted, it looked like an upside down “Y”.
It took two incisions, one on the lower right of my abdomen and one on
the lower left.
One thing about being in a hospital – you are
kind of a prisoner. Another thing, I am
rather concerned about the health care in this country – down the road. Spend some time in a hospital and maybe
you’ll see why. Not saying where my
surgery was done, but the surgeon did confide in me, when I had a post-op
appointment to see him, that’s there’s a certain hospital in our area that he
will never do surgery again. ‘Nuff said on this subject!
Fifth:
With the announcement that Roger Penske will
be leaving Dodge and going with Ford in NASCAR, next year, I checked out the
entry lists for this weeks Cup and Nationwide races at
In Cup there’s Brad Keselowski,
A.J. Allmendinger and Robby Gordon. In the Nationwide event,
Sam Hornish, Jr, Keselowski and Jennifer Jo Cobb.
With the Truck Series not racing this coming
weekend, I checked out the finishers for the Truck race at Daytona. In Dodge
trucks were: Clay Greenfield, Parker Kligerman and Keselowski.
Sixth:
Accord will have a 4 Cylinder class that will
alternate with the Lightning Sprints, on Friday nights. I went to the Accord Speedway website and
found the following, as far as rules for them:
The 4 cylinder division is open to any steel bodied
North American manufactured passenger car built from 1978 through 2002 which
was originally available with a front wheel drive, four cylinder gasoline
engine. Excluded are trucks, convertibles, four wheel drives, rear wheel
drives, midengine, aluminum bodied, fiberglass or
composite bodied, and special production sports cars. No American cars with
foreign motors allowed.
BODIES
All bodies must be steel and remain completely stock as manufactured. Body style must match chassis and
engine being used.
Another class, for the Mid-week shows is a “Body Snatcher” class, which, from what I can surmise, are
either Sportsman or Modified chassis, less all the exterior sheet metal. Unfortunately, my new computer is not set up
to be able to see the rules for this new class.
If I’m not mistaken this was tried a couple of years ago, and I don’t
think it drew enough entrants to be feasible.
Maybe now?
Time will tell.
Seventh:
When one has some health issues, and the only
“Insurance” they might have is Medicare, less prescription coverage, it kinda hurts when a doctor prescribes some kind of a “Kit”
to fight a bacterial infection that’s been detected in ones stomach. In our case, the price of the “Kit” at our
local Walmart pharmacy, was
$486.00. One of the druggists went to
work to see what he could do, price wise.
He managed to get it down to close to $300.00. In the end, the final cost was $249.89. Now, I’m wondering – if one was on Welfare,
would Welfare pick up the tab – at our expense, really?
Eighth:
While talking about health issues, when I came home
from the surgery to put that stent in, I was placed on “Home Care”. That is covered by Medicare.
Well, as I said, I came home on Monday, and that
following weekend, my daughter, Judy, offered to take me food shopping. I was told what I would have to do, per my
normal doctor (I did have oxygen delivered to the house and was using it at
night, while sleeping), and I also called up “Home Care” on Saturday (shopping
on Sunday) to make sure it was ok with them.
Their only question was: “Is
Medicare paying”? My answer was that it
was.
Come Monday, I get a call from Home Care, and the
woman was making mention of the phone call I had made on Saturday. When I told her I only called to see if it
would be ok for me to go shopping, she asked if I did. I replied, “I sure did”. IMMEDIATELY I was off of Home Care. Seems like Medicare will not
pay if one is not HOME-BOUND.
Like – they want to keep you down!
Uh huh – Medicare pays – you know where I’m heading on that, right? My personal doctor is not for that Home Care,
especially when one had the same “issues” as I had. Of course, if needed I
could go out of the house to visit my doctors office – where there could be
untold thousands of germs floating around. Gotta love it, folks!
Ninth:
I received the following e-mail, from my friend “Benzee”, around 10:00 PM on Wednesday, just after I had
closed out this column:
Hello all ,
We will be returning to
We have secured the hospitality Tent at the track through the NLEOMF
Includes
R/T Deluxe Motorcoach
4 am depart Middletown Wal Mart
430 Monroe Wal Mart
One motorcoach only hosted by Benzee
Reserved Premium Race Ticket Turn #1 or #2 ( $84 section )
Hospitality Tent at Hospitality Village at track
All you can eat cont breakfast
All you can eat full lunch
All you can drink refreshments and adult beverages as well
Nascar Driver Meet Q and A ( Driver TBA )
NOTE : 2010 race we seen Greg Biffle
Pre Race Trackside Tour
Entertainment , Raffles and Door Prizes
Cost is $180 per person
Money order , check , cash or pay pal
Contact Erwin " Benzee" Benz
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C- 845 234 5323
Coming up:
OCFS:
March
24th: “Work day”
March
30, 31 & April 1: Motorsports Car
Show in the arena.
April
7: Practice (Free admission in stands)
April
8: Rain date for the 7th
April
14: Opening night!
July
13 to July 31:
Accord:
April
6: Practice (Free admission for the
stands)
April
7: Rain date for the 6th
April
13: Practice (Free admission for the
stands)
April
14: Rain date for the 13th
April
20: Opening night!
Found
on Jayski’s website:
Stewart would like
to run Indy Grand Am race:
Sprint Cup champion #14-Tony Stewart might
try to add another racing series to his already full calendar this summer.
Stewart, who was at Texas Motor Speedway Tuesday as part of the track's media
days, said he didn't think he would run in the Nationwide Series at
Robby Gordon hoping
for more Dodge support:
#7-Robby Gordon obviously could use more
sponsorship in any form, so if the Penske Racing move from Dodge to Ford in
2013 helps him, he's all for the additional support. As a driver and team
owner, Gordon has run Dodges the last four years in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series.
He gets his motors from Joey Arrington's Race Engines Plus. Gordon believes he
has an advantage over other teams possibly looking for Dodge support because
his team builds all his own cars. He doesn't have an alliance where he gets
cars and engines from another organization. Gordon, who has successfully
qualified for the first two races of the season after finishing outside the top
35 in 2011, plans to field a car in every race this year, but whether he will
be the driver and how much of each race is run, due to finances, is still to be
determined. His only funding comes from some Menard's sponsorship, from Dodge
and whatever profits he can bring from his Speed Energy drink. "If I had a
[full] factory program in place, I'd show up and drive all the races,"
Gordon said. "Right now, I'm trying to figure out how to fund this thing.
With Speed Energy, that's been about the only way I can build a business that
actually can turn some profit [for sponsorship].(Scene
Daily)(3-7-2012)
Note:
It’s gonna be interesting to see what happens
with Dodge & NASCAR in 2013. Rumors
are floating around that there might be another manufacturer thinking of
getting into NASCAR – maybe Honda?
NASCAR to use extra
pace car behind jet dryers:
NASCAR officials announced a change to have
an extra pace car with flashing lights behind the last jet-dryer truck on the
track in all races in all three series -- Sprint Cup, Nationwide and the
Camping World Trucks Series. The change, which was explained to the Sprint Cup
teams during the drivers' meeting Sunday morning at Phoenix International
Raceway, comes after Juan Pablo Montoya's car spun into a jet-dryer truck
during a caution period in the Daytona 500 Monday night. The drivers of the
jet-dryer trucks also will wear helmets and fire suits during each race, but
that is a change agreed upon by officials at race tracks that play host to
NASCAR events, not a rule instituted by NASCAR.(ESPN)(3-5-2012)
Note:
The Montoya/Jet Dryer accident was maybe a one in a million
happening. Methinks having an additional
pace car is meaningless – UNLESS there is a speed limit for the whole track
that would include cars trying to catch up to the field. And then – why? Huh?
Smith, Menard
escape injuries in
NASCAR drivers #78-Regan Smith and #27-Paul
Menard, along with Smith's wife Megan and a friend of the Smiths, escaped
injuries in a Colorado road accident today (Wednesday, approximately 8:45 a.m.
MT). The foursome was on the way to a nearby ski slope. Smith lost control of
his Silverado truck after hitting a patch of ice near his mountain home in
Evergreen, outside of
DuPont celebrates
20 years of sponsorship with Gordon:
It may have been risky to take a chance on a
21-year-old-kid in 1992, but the gamble was worth it. This year marks the 20th
season Jeff Gordon, Hendrick Motorsports and DuPont
have partnered on the now iconic #24 Chevy, and this Sunday's Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway will be the
debut of the DuPont "20 Years" paint scheme designed by Sam Bass. The
success of the partnership has been visible on the track. Gordon will attempt
to drive the #24 car into Victory Lane for the 86th time on Sunday, and crew
chief Alan Gustafson will be an integral part of that if it occurs.(Performance
PR Plus), see an image of the car on the #24 team paint schemes page.(3-7-2012)
Stewart's team
working to determine EFI issue:
Crew chief Steve Addington
said it was incumbent on his team to find the cause of Sunday's fuel-injection
malfunction that fouled #14-Tony Stewart's bid for a top-10 finish at Phoenix
International Raceway. And with NASCAR teams getting accustomed to an
electronic fuel-injection system after 63 years of using carburetors, the
problems aren't likely to be exclusive to the three-time Sprint Cup champion.
Stewart, regarded as a master of fuel conservation, was attempting to save gas
Sunday when a caution came out on lap 247 of 312. Running 13th and hoping to
make it to the finish without another pit stop, Stewart went to one of his old
gas-saving tricks - shutting off his engine. The problem: It wouldn't come back
on. "Turned it back on, and it never re-fired," Stewart said. "I
honestly don't know why. It's not really my department." By the time Addington's crew diagnosed the problem (a tripped breaker
switch), Stewart returned to the track two laps down,
on his way to a 22nd-place finish. Immediately after the race, Addington huddled with engine specialists at Hendrick Motorsports, which provides engines for
Stewart-Haas Racing. "We'll keep working with them to try to figure out
what happened," Addington said. "We've got
to dig into it and find out what happened, when it happened and what caused
it."(USA
Today)(3-6-2012)
Going back, in time – in
racing history:
Note# 1: Most of the following information was found
here:
http://www.wheelsofspeed.com/history.html
Note: 2: Yes, most of this info is mostly from Open
Wheel racing from “Back in the day”.
Originally, in column # 91,
I was going to cover the days from January 27th to February 2nd. For this week, I’m covering from January 27th
up to February 8th.
JANUARY
27
1934
George
Follmer... Born ... One of the most successful road
racers of the 1970's also raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the
1967-1971 and 1974 seasons.
1966
Craig
Dollansky... Born ... World of
Outlaws Sprint Car driver.
JANUARY
28
1926
Gene
Hartley... Born ... He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series. He
ran at Indy but without much success in 10 races entered. His best finish was
10th in 1957. Hartley was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of
Fame in 1985.
Jimmy
Bryan... Born ... He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing
in the 1952-1960 seasons with 72 starts, including each year's
2009
Sabino "Sab" Venezia...
Died ... He was a URC Sprint Car owner champion in 1963 and 1969. Sab and his brother Ralph owned Sprint Cars with 27 as
their signature number. In 1963, Jim Maguire drove the Venezia
Brothers Special to the URC championship and in 1969 Earl Halaquist
won the URC championship in the Venezia car.
JANUARY
29
1915
Johnny
McDowell ... Born ... AAA driver from the mid 1930's to 1952. He drove Midgets
and Indy Cars. McDowell competed in the 1949 to 1952
1929
Jerry
Hoyt... Born ... AAA driver
1950
Jody
Schecter... Born ... F1 driver
JANUARY
30
1927
Tommy
Copp... Born ... USAC driver from the 1960's
1929
Al
Smith... Born ... USAC driver from the 1960's
1979
Jason
Meyers... Born ... World of Outlaws Sprint Car driver
2011
Tommy
McAndrew... Died ... Eastern racer who drove Sprint
Cars, Stock Cars, Midgets and 3/4 Midgets during the 60's and 70's.
JANUARY
31
1908
Bill
Cantrell... Born ... Midget, sprint and Indy car driver from the late 1930's to
mid 50's and later he became the West Coast supervisor for USAC.
1966
Robbie
Groff... Born ... Driver in the Indy Racing League and CART Championship Car
series and is brother of Mike Groff. He raced in the 1994 CART season and
1997-1998 IRL seasons with 9 combined starts. His best career finish was in his
first race, a ninth place at the 1997
1976
Buddy
Rice... Born ... Driver best known for winning the 2004
FEBRUARY
1
1965
Mike
Dillon... Born ... NASCAR driver, retired in 2001
1996
Ray
Crawford... Died ... AAA & USAC driver from the 1950's & 60's
2000
Dick
Rathmann ... Died ... AAA & USAC driver from the
1940's, 50's & 60's
2009
Jim
McWithey ... Died ... He was a lifetime member of
United States Auto Club and Indianapolis 100 Mile An
Hour Club. He competed in the USAC Sprint and Midget Car Series and raced in
the
FEBRUARY
2
1920
George
Tichenor... Born ... AAA driver that raced in the
1950's
1966
Billy
Boat... Born ... USAC midget, sprint and IRL Indy car driver.
Seven Indy 500 starts with a best finish of 3rd in 1999.
1985
Bob
Glidden is the first NHRA Pro Stock driver to run the 1/4-mile in under 7.6
seconds (7.557), at
FEBRUARY 3
1922
Johnny
Moorehouse... Born ... USAC driver from the 1950's
1929
Major
H.O.D. Seagrave set a new land speed record of 231.4
mph at
1944
Lennie Waldo... Born ... Sprint car driver
1950
Rocky
Moran... Born ... USAC/CART driver 1980's & 90's
FEBRUARY
4
1927
Dale
Van Johnson... Born ... USAC driver
Malcolm
Campbell sets a Land Speed Record of 174.833 mph in his Bluebird at Penpine.
1931
Bay
Darnell... Born ... USAC and NASCAR driver from the 1950's and 60's
1955
Tim
Brewer... Born ... NASCAR crew chief
1973
Carl
Williams... Died ... USAC driver from the 1960's & 70's.He ran the Indy 500
6 times with a best finish of 9th in 1970. He was killed in a motorcycle
accident in
1987
Bruce
Jacobi... Died ... USAC driver from the 1960's and 70's.
After coming out of retirement to drive, he came to the 1983 Daytona Speedweeks without a ride but picked one up with a smaller
independent team by the time of the Twin 125 Qualifiers. During the first Twin
125 qualifying race , he lost control of his car at the exit of Turn 2 and
flipped upon entering the grass infield, eventually coming to a stop near the
inside dirt bank. The car flipped end over end and it is speculated that his
roll cage failed during the crash. Jacobi suffered extensive head injuries from
the crash and was in a coma for almost four years before passing away at
1989
Connie
Kalitta becomes the first man in NHRA history to
record a speed greater than 290 mph in the quarter mile when he runs 291.54 mph
at
2001
Ernie
McCoy... Died ... Eastern midget, sprint and Indy car driver.
FEBRUARY
5
1931
Malcolm
Campbell sets a Land Speed Record of 256.09 MPH in his Bluebird on the beach at
1934
Ted
Johnson ... Born ... He briefly drove a midget in his early years before
settling into a career as a china salesman, never could shake the racing bug
and in 1978 he unveiled the World of Outlaws, a collection of the biggest names
in sprint car racing that traveled around the country trying to swipe purses
from local competitors. The series drew huge crowds, attracted national
television audiences and major sponsorship all while competing nearly 100 times
a year with Johnson calling the shots every step of the way.
1947
Darrell
Waltrip... Born ... A three-time
former NASCAR Winston Cup champion, the 1989 Daytona 500 winner, current
television race commentator.
1953
Dorsey
Schroeder... Born ... Trans-Am and sportscar driver.
1981
Justin
Labonte... Born ... NASCAR driver.
He is the son of legendary NASCAR driver Terry Labonte
and nephew of driver Bobby Labonte.
1986
Reed
Sorenson... Born ... NASCAR driver.
FEBRUARY
6
1916
Cliff
Griffith... Born ... AAA and USAC driver from the 1950's
& 60's. He drove in four Indy races, '51, '52, '56 and '61 with his
best result, a 9th place finish in 1952.
1986
Willard
"Bill" Cantrell... Died ... Nicknamed the "Silver Fox"
because of his gray hair and the sly tricks he used to win races, Cantrell came
to Southern California from
1987
Ira
Hall... Died ... AAA driver that raced in the 1920's ,
30's and 40's.
1999
Mike
Dunn sets an NHRA Top Fuel 1/4 mile ET record of 4.503 seconds at
FEBRUARY
7
1959
Daytona
International Speedway formally opened. 13 cars were on hand for the first
qualifying round, but 6 failed tech inspection. "Fireball" Roberts
turned in a speed of 140.581 mph in a
1999
Joe
Cooksey, ARCA stockcar driver, wrecked himself and the pace car during the Firstplus Finacial 200 at Daytona
International
FEBRUARY
8
1920
Mike
Magill... Born ... Three time United Racing Club champion 1950, 1951 and 1953.
Ran AAA and USAC from 1955 to 1961
News
from the AARN:
For
a while I won’t have anything in this section, and am thinking of dropping it,
entirely. A lot depends on time needed
and what might be on the horizon. Hope ya don’t mind!
Former
In
the indoor racing held down in
Down
in
Racing and
television:
CLICK HERE FOR U.S. LISTINGS
WITHOUT THE SPEED CHANNEL (PDF FORMAT)
http://www.racefantv.com/xUSTV-NS.pdf
And this: CLICK HERE FOR
U.S. LISTINGS WITHOUT NASCAR (PDF FORMAT)
http://www.racefantv.com/xUSTV-NN.pdf
Also this one: CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE PDF VERSION
http://www.racefantv.com/xUSTV.pdf
Note: I’ve really been out of the
“loop”, so to say, so as of now, I’m not sure just when they’ll have the taped
delayed broadcast. Sorry!
http://www.trackforum.com/forums/showthread.php?159410-The-
ALL-Danica-Patrick-NASCAR-Sprint-Cup-and-Nationwide-thread-2012
Note: For some odd reason, you’ll
have to copy and paste the link above.
I
get e-mails:
Not only do I get them, I also send some out. And, unfortunately, some “hacker” has also sent out some e-mails from my e-mail – twice – and even with my changing my password and not even having a computer except for the wife’s lap top he hit me a second time! As he did the first time, he wiped out my address book, sent folder and trash. Then he set it up that any e-mails I was sent went to ymail.com. One thing he left, this second time was the e-mails that I had received. No idea why, but I was able to pick up quite a few addresses, luckily!
I
get e-mails and is this true? # 1:
Please tell your EVERYONE, including your children
about this.
Subject: danger
Important Warning – Home made bottle bombs – aka
“Works Bombs”
Kids are putting Drano, tin
foil, and a little water in plastic drink bottles and capping it up - leaving
it on lawns, in mail boxes, in gardens, on driveways
etc. just waiting for you to pick it up intending to put it in the rubbish, but
you'll never make it!!!
If the bottle is picked up, and the bottle is shaken even just a little - in
about 30 seconds or less it builds up enough gas which then explodes with
enough force to remove some of your extremities. The liquid that comes out is
boiling hot as well.
Don't pick up any plastic bottles that may be lying in your yards or in the
gutter, etc.
Pay attention to this. A plastic bottle with a cap. A little Drano. A little water.
A small piece of foil. Disturb it by moving it; and
BOOM!!
No fingers left and other serious effects to your face, eyes, etc.
Please ensure that everyone that may not have email access are
also informed of this.
For verification and more information, click on: http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/bottlebomb.asp
A video called - Bottle bomb detonated
- can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU3CXyCabHg&feature=player_embedded#!
Some non-racing stuff:
....AP
Exclusive:
In
part:
“VIENNA (AP) —
Satellite images of an Iranian military facility appear to show trucks and
earth-moving vehicles at the site, indicating an attempted cleanup of
radioactive traces possibly left by tests of a nuclear-weapon trigger,
diplomats told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
The assertions from
the diplomats, all nuclear experts accredited to the International Atomic Energy Agency, could add
to the growing international pressure on
While the
Two of the diplomats
said the crews at the Parchin military site may be
trying to erase evidence of tests of a small experimental neutron device used
to set off a nuclear explosion. A third diplomat could not confirm that but
said any attempt to trigger a so-called neutron initiator could only be in the
context of trying to develop nuclear arms.
The diplomats said
they suspect attempts at sanitization because some of the vehicles at the scene
appeared to be haulage trucks and other equipment suited to carting off
potentially contaminated soil from the site.
The images, provided
by member countries to the IAEA, the U.N's nuclear
watchdog, are recent and constantly updated, one of the diplomats said. The
diplomats all requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss
the information on the record.”
More on this can be
seen, here:
http://news.yahoo.com/ap-exclusive-iran-may-cleaning-nuke-202531198.html
Note: I’ve said it before and am saying it again – watch and see – we will be at war with
Video time:
As
big a fan of racing that I am, I’ve never been to
However,
“Back in the day”, as we old folks like to say, the Indy 500 was the largest
spectator drawing event in the world.
And right behind it was the opening day of qualifying for the 500. Those days are no more. Something that I was fortunate to be able to
do, again, “Back in the day”, was to see Indy drivers in midgets and sprint
cars. Sadly, today’s races fans don’t
get to see that.
Anyway,
here’s a video of Al Unser qualifying for the 1989Indianapolis 500. Check out the crowd,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpAJwHgpdNY
Photos:
Note: The photos are not available on Dirt Track
Digest, only on New England Tractor - http://newenglandtractor.com/racereport/
How about an electric
powered full sized midget? Somewhere
there was an article about this car taking some laps down at Bubba’s
A quick search dug up the photos,
below, and a little about the car. How
race fans would take to a SILENT and NO FUMES midget – I have no idea. As it said somewhere, they might be good for
indoor racing.
http://www.indianaopenwheel.com/showthread.php?t=55465
This was a Ford Focus style
all-electric Midget from Columbus Electric Motorsports. It was a Ford Focus
style all-electric Midget from Columbus Electric Motorsports. It was developed for display for USAC. You should be able
to see it running as a demo in
Looking at it from the
right front:
Closing with these:
Idle Thoughts Of A Retiree's Wandering
Mind:
I had amnesia once---or twice
Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic.
What is a "free" gift? Aren't all gifts free?
They told me I was gullible and I believed them.
Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows
up, he'll never be able to merge his car onto the freeway.
One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
How can there be self-help "groups"?
If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?
Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I'll show you a
man who can't get his pants off.
Is it me --or do buffalo wings taste like
chicken?
TODAY IS THE OLDEST
YOU'VE EVER BEEN,
YET THE YOUNGEST YOU'LL
EVER BE,
SO ENJOY THIS DAY WHILE IT LASTS.
May “Guardian Angels” sit on the shoulders of all of our race drivers and race fans, and guide them safely around the tracks!
Drive safe!
As usual, you can reach me
at: ygordad@yahoo.com