Potentially good news: Georgia Racing

[GPK]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

NASCAR

As sad as it is, Martinsville may have even more going for it than Alberta, and they have an OTB there too.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by GPK

As sad as it is, Martinsville may have even more going for it than Alberta, and they have an OTB there too.

Now that sounds like a nice weekend trip...Nascar race with a OTB nearby.
I'm sure The Bid would be up for the trip..he loves Nascar.

[The Bid]

Its not even a sport. Im up for the OTB and I do have one of those Cherios nascar coats my grandma got me when I was 17

[GPK]

You guys underestimate the wonderful experience of going to a Nascar race.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by GPK

You guys underestimate the wonderful experience of going to a Nascar race.

My father would get free tickets to the Pepsi 400 every summer.

I would watch the start of the race - and maybe the first four or five laps - and at that point I'd leave for the hospitality tents and spend the rest of the race pigging out on free food and drinks and studying Daytona Kennell Club dog racing programs.

It was back in the day when dogs such as Lady Quick, I Get Around, Jay's Rule, Napolean Cavan, Paxton, and Pixie's Candy ruled Daytona.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

My father would get free tickets to the Pepsi 400 every summer.

I would watch the start of the race - and maybe the first four or five laps - and at that point I'd leave for the hospitality tents and spend the rest of the race pigging out on free food and drinks and studying Daytona Kennell Club dog racing programs.

It was back in the day when dogs such as Lady Quick, I Get Around, Jay's Rule, Napolean Cavan, Paxton, and Pixie's Candy ruled Daytona.

that is sad.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

that is sad.

Can you hit a twin-tri or tri-super on a Nascar race?

Those dogs were awesome for a 3rd grader to follow - they ran twice a week with almost no exception.

Good memories. I'll never forget the time Napolean Cavan missed the break in the featured Grade TA hotbox race .. I think he broke from trap 6. He rushed up into the turn, got shuffled back to next to last again. Made a huge backstretch move into contention, but was still in traffic. He swung out in the stretch and looked like he'd do no better than 3rd with just a few jumps to go - but a final surge got him up by a nose in an impossible to call photo over a field that consisted of about 6 last out Grade A winners and the dog who was 2nd to him in a TA just a few days earlier.

Lady Quick was the best one I ever saw down there. She never missed a break - had dominant early speed - and almost never was caught late unless a quality finisher benifited on the 1st turn and ran it's A-race. You could almost count on her winning the two TA races a week at mutuals of like $2.40 and $2.60

[GPK]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

My father would get free tickets to the Pepsi 400 every summer.

I would watch the start of the race - and maybe the first four or five laps - and at that point I'd leave for the hospitality tents and spend the rest of the race pigging out on free food and drinks and studying Daytona Kennell Club dog racing programs.

It was back in the day when dogs such as Lady Quick, I Get Around, Jay's Rule, Napolean Cavan, Paxton, and Pixie's Candy ruled Daytona.

If you are anything like me, you always felt just a touch better about yourself after leaving a Nascar race. Kind of the same way I always felt after watching an old episode of The Jerry Springer show, only I couldn't quite hear as well afterwards.

[Echo Farm]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

My father would get free tickets to the Pepsi 400 every summer.

I would watch the start of the race - and maybe the first four or five laps - and at that point I'd leave for the hospitality tents and spend the rest of the race pigging out on free food and drinks and studying Daytona Kennell Club dog racing programs.
It was back in the day when dogs such as Lady Quick, I Get Around, Jay's Rule, Napolean Cavan, Paxton, and Pixie's Candy ruled Daytona.

I guess you know they moved it.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

I heard.

I've been there once in maybe the last 15 years.

What a fun place that area was for a degenerate 3rd grader. They had a Hooters right across the street. You could catch the matinee card - drag your gramps to Hooters for a meal before the evening card - and head back to the puppies for the conclusion to the double header.

I think I went one summer where I missed maybe two or three cards the entire summer.

There's a little more to those races handicapping wise than a lot of people think.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by GPK

You guys underestimate the wonderful experience of going to a Nascar race.

We visited a track, and this tells you how little I'm into NASCAR that I think it was Martinsville but I can't remember, and it wasn't that long ago. It was for my brother's birthday. You could get in a van and they'd take you a couple laps around the track so you could see just how steep it was. Kinda neat actually. We didn't pay extra for a trip around at racecar speed, but you can. They said something about how folks take RVs to the parking area and some never leave to go into the stadium. They just want the experience so they follow the drivers from track to track and watch on tv.

Originally Posted by freddymo

More tracks are a great idea..Will the Breeder Cup be there in 2013?

Maybe they'll give it back to back BCs before it even opens. Perhaps they should just go ahead and make it the permanent site, and mandate a "plastic" surface.

[slotdirt]

A NASCAR tailgate trumps pretty much any other tailgate experience out there. That I promise.

[freddymo]

Originally Posted by slotdirt

A NASCAR tailgate trumps pretty much any other tailgate experience out there. That I promise.

You will never see a dentist that is for sure

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by Merlinsky

We visited a track, and this tells you how little I'm into NASCAR that I think it was Martinsville but I can't remember, and it wasn't that long ago. It was for my brother's birthday. You could get in a van and they'd take you a couple laps around the track so you could see just how steep it was. Kinda neat actually. We didn't pay extra for a trip around at racecar speed, but you can. They said something about how folks take RVs to the parking area and some never leave to go into the stadium. They just want the experience so they follow the drivers from track to track and watch on tv.



Maybe they'll give it back to back BCs before it even opens. Perhaps they should just go ahead and make it the permanent site, and mandate a "plastic" surface.

It was not Martinsville you were at..Martinsville has almost no banking...very flat.

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by VOL JACK

It was not Martinsville you were at..Martinsville has almost no banking...very flat.

I swear Alzheimer's hasn't set in yet, I just am drawing a complete blank. The other tracks I can name right now I know aren't it. Blast.

[VOL JACK]

Originally Posted by The Bid

Its not even a sport. Im up for the OTB and I do have one of those Cherios nascar coats my grandma got me when I was 17

The Johnny Benson coat..wow.
You know that those type of jackets are really popular with the blacks.
They usually wear the ones with the candy or beer sponsers.

[The Bid]

Is that who that is Johnny Benson. My grandma didn't know. SHe saw a bunch of kids with those on and thought I would want one. Its never been worn. Sits in my closet.

[VOL JACK]

It should be the Jonny Benson..#26 Ford for roush racing.
I am the drugS of nascar trivia.

[The Bid]

You know you are from Tennessee when you can call that out.

I should put it on Ebay.