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*rac88* (will never jump fence):

i can pray caint i te he

Sure you can pray but do you think God really cares who wins?

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nope. just a safe race and no one gettin hurt.

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Stephen replied on 11-03-2009 3:30 PM

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Stephen :

hey ike and nascar steve, what will ya'll do or say when this closet  jr. fan breaks out all his jr. clothing this weekend?

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JR.

 

Be prepared for a verbal lashing.

kinky...., i didn't know you swung that way..... boy are we ever gonna have fun camping together!  Wink

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If anything, God is a Tony Stewart fan.

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Stephen :

-=KE5WDP=-:

Stephen :

hey ike and nascar steve, what will ya'll do or say when this closet  jr. fan breaks out all his jr. clothing this weekend?

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO JR.

 

Be prepared for a verbal lashing.

 

kinky...., i didn't know you swung that way..... boy are we ever gonna have fun camping together!  Wink

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Junior Runs Low in Texas

November 8, 2009 - Texas Motor Speedway

 

Once again Dale Earnhardt Junior found a new way to lose a race when he gambled and lost yesterday at the Dickies 500. Earnhardt hung around the top ten most of the day and then ran out of fuel with only three laps remaining. Crew chief, Lance McGrew gets an F for his first performance as full time team leader as the #88 finished in it's usual middle of the pack 25th.

Capitalizing on superior fuel mileage, Kurt Busch drove his No. 2 Dodge to victory in the Dickies 500, after disaster struck Johnson like a lightning bolt and made a race of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup after all.

Johnson suffered a Lap 3 wreck that sidelined his No. 48 Chevrolet for more than an hour as his team made extensive repairs. With a 38th-place finish, Johnson lost 111 points of his 184-point lead in the Chase to second-place Mark Martin, who finished fourth and trails Johnson by 73 points with two races left.

Busch won the race at the expense of brother Kyle Busch, who ran out of fuel three laps short of completing an unprecedented weekend sweep of races in NASCAR’s top three divisions. Busch had won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race on Friday and the NASCAR Nationwide Series event on Saturday.

After pitting on Lap 269 of 334, Kyle Busch was leading and trying to conserve fuel when he ran out on the backstretch on Lap 331. “I’m out! I’m out—coming to you!” he radioed to crew chief Dave Rogers, who had replaced Steve Addington on the pit box after last Sunday’s race at Talladega.

That handed the lead to Kurt, who had pitted on Lap 271 and had saved enough fuel to make it to the finish line.

Denny Hamlin took advantage of the pervasive gas shortage to finish second, 25.686 seconds behind Busch, the largest margin of victory in a NASCAR Sprint Cup race since the inception of electronic scoring in May 1993. Matt Kenseth ran third, followed by Martin, Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart. Those were the only six drivers to finish on the lead lap, the fewest since six cars finished on the lead lap in June 2008 at Dover.

“I knew what we had for fuel mileage — I was confident in our guys’ numbers,” Kurt Busch said in Victory Lane. “They gave me what I needed to win today. We were fast, we were playing cat-and-mouse with Kyle on restarts — you know, it’s the first true time that Kyle and I have raced each other hard for a victory like this.

“For us to come away and knock him off his sweep — he was trying to go for it — it’s bittersweet. I was rooting for him, but at the same time, this is for us.”

A recent poll by over88ted.com asked "Will Junior Switch Crew Chiefs again in the off-season??" and Jr made it official and signed interim Crew Chief McGrew through 2010 before our poll closed - he must be an Over88ted.com fan!

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Earnhardt Junior Wrecks...So Does His Crew!

November 15, 2009 - Phoenix, Az

 

This morning, long before the Checker O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway the #88 team crashed. Four crew members on the way to the race were involved in a spin-out collision in the team van. After being treated, they were deemed 'ok' and were able to work the pit for Dale Earnhardt Jr. Unfortunately the crew's spin out wasn't the only wreck for the Amp Energy Chevrolet as Junior got loose on lap 173 and caused a 10 car pile up and virtually ended the teams day.

After about 25 minutes in the garage the shaky crew managed to get Junior back on the track where he finished a paltry 35th, 56 laps behind the eventual winner, Hendrick team mate and Sprint Cup points leader Jimmie Johnson.

Junior never contended (again) and the best track position he achieved before he caused the crash was 16th. He appeared to struggle on the double file restarts on the Phoenix flat oval, checking up and over compensating on lap on-twenty causing a chain reaction involving eight cars behind him.

Tensions were high in the garage area after the race.

"Number 88 needs to get his head in the race," said a source. "We know he's frustrated by being the low rung on the Hendrick ladder but that don't mean he has to let it affect his driving. He just wants the season to end and everyone knows it."

Junior Nation left the track less then satisfied with the Earnhardt performance too.

"This is the fourth race we've driven to, this season," said Buddy Teegarden from Billings, Montana as he escorted his green and red clad family from the track. "We support Junior, but I'm starting to think maybe he doesn't have the heart to win. Hell, he don't even need to win, we just want him to be in contention once in awhile. He kind of sucks this year."

This year?

"Well, for the last few years."

Johnson was followed in the top five by Jeff Burton, Denny Hamlin, Mark Martin and Martin Truex Jr. and has a virtual death grip on his record fourth straight Sprint Cup championship.

Junior is one race away from his second winless season in the past three years and over88ted.com expects the streak to continue into 2010 and beyond. We also predict that Earnhardt's crew will make it to Miami without a wreck.... Unless they let Junior drive the van.

A recent poll by over88ted.com asked "I think Junior Nation is..." and "Fun to laugh at on race day" was the overwhelming  winner with over 67% of the vote.  Dying a slow death came in 2nd with just over 20%

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Lol.. don't let him in the van..

Go Horns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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