The Official Brown Cafe Racing Thread

[MonavieLeaker]

This is the official thread to talk about racing in general (Nascar,NHRA,IRL,F1,Local Dirt Tracks)

[Cementups]

So we can't talk about racing anywhere else? ***?!?!?

[toonertoo]

I dont like the new Nascar. I liked the way it used to be. So many rules, all the same, it gets to the point of going back to dirt track for pure excitement.
JMHO

[dilligaf]

Originally Posted by Cementups

So we can't talk about racing anywhere else? ***?!?!?

I sure hope not. LOL

[MonavieLeaker]

Originally Posted by toonertoo

I dont like the new Nascar. I liked the way it used to be. So many rules, all the same, it gets to the point of going back to dirt track for pure excitement.
JMHO

I agree 100%......I'll be in Gainesville sunday for the NHRA GatorNationals....Will post pics late sunday evening

[MonavieLeaker]

Heres some pics from the NHRA GatorNationals

[SoyFish]

I like the pics. LOVE NASCAR, but there is something about drag racing that doesn't excite me, but when I see Tractor Pulling on TV that is actually interesting.

[mattwtrs]

The UPS #6 will start 26th today at Martinsville if it doesn't get rained out. Will David Ragan finish in the top 10???

[drewed]

I dont know why we're so crumby this year, David Ruitemman is having a descent year

[mattwtrs]

Could it be the Big Brown jinx?

[moreluck]

UPS Reveals New NASCAR Ad Campaign

David Ragan to Compete in “Maximum Driver” Challenges

• Thursday April 2, 2009, 10:00 am EDT

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NASCAR rising star David Ragan won’t be racing the “big brown truck” this year, but he will be learning what it takes to be a UPS driver in a humorous new television advertising campaign UPS launches this weekend as part of its revamped racing program.
The four-spot series, which was produced by The Martin Agency, will feature Ragan competing with UPS drivers in various extreme physical challenges to determine who will earn the title of “Maximum Driver.” The first spot will be broadcast on FOX on Sunday, April 5, during the Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway, but a special preview will be available on Friday afternoon, April 3, at www.racing.ups.com.
Ragan made his UPS Racing debut at the Daytona 500 in February, at which time a new television ad introducing him to the UPS team began running that featured Ragan driving his Number 6 Ford Fusion through the UPS corporate headquarters. The “Maximum Driver” series will go beyond the introduction, with Ragan facing several unique and potentially harrowing challenges as he goes toe-to-toe with some of UPS’s elite delivery professionals.
The “Maximum Driver” campaign follows UPS’s immensely popular “Race the Truck” commercials featuring NASCAR legend Dale Jarrett, who represented UPS Racing for nearly eight years.
“That campaign became a favorite of NASCAR fans everywhere and it did a great deal to help us establish a strong presence in the sport,” said Ron Rogowski, UPS director of sponsorships. “This campaign is a fresh approach to promoting our NASCAR involvement and it has some creative marketing muscle behind it.”
After the Samsung 500, the three remaining spots will be revealed sequentially throughout the 2009 racing season.
“I’m really excited about the new commercials and I think NASCAR fans are going to love them, too,” said Ragan. “The ads are extremely funny, but they still manage to convey UPS’s core strengths of service, dedication and reliability.”
Headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., UPS (NYSE: UPS - News) is the world’s largest package delivery company and a global leader in supply chain services. Each day, the UPS pit crew of more than 425,000 dedicated employees delivers to more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. In 2009, UPS begins its 10th year as the Official Express Delivery Company of NASCAR and its ninth consecutive year of primary sponsorship in the league’s top-ranked Sprint Cup Series. For more information, log onto racing.ups.com. To get UPS news direct, visit pressroom.ups.com/RSS.

[MonavieLeaker]

Ragan finished 37th.......Ryan Briscoe won the IndyCar race.....and my boy Tony Schumacher won the NHRA race

[bad company]

Ragan's engine overheated due to debris being stuck on the grille. He was in the top 5 for pretty much the whole race and led for a lap (bonus points). Roush Fenway has been dissapointing this year. I think merging their engine program with Yates was a bad idea.

[MonavieLeaker]

David Ragan starts 14th tonight in Phoenix

[mattwtrs]

It looks like he'll be lucky to finish in the top 20. He's down a lap in 23rd with 44 to go.

[MonavieLeaker]

22nd now

[MonavieLeaker]

Mark Martin wins.....Ragan comes in 22nd

[navigator]

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[navigator]

Sorry good pictures in Pit area, but I do not know how to get pictures to open

[MonavieLeaker]

NASCAR announced that it has placed Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Casey Mears on probation for the next six races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as a result of their on-track incident last Saturday at the conclusion of the race at Phoenix International Raceway. Earnhardt, driver of the #88 team and Mears, driver of the #07 team, both violated Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing; hitting another competitor’s car after the race had concluded) of the 2009 NASCAR rule book. The probation takes effect beginning with this weekend’s event at Talladega Superspeedway.(NASCAR PR)(4-21-2009) Comment here

[MonavieLeaker]

Ragan wins the Busch race today at Talladega....Hope he can win tommorrow or get a decent finish

[mattwtrs]

Anyone going to Richmond this weekend? Can you believe that the first quarter of the season is history!

[MonavieLeaker]

NASCAR has suspended Sprint Cup driver Jeremy Mayfield under terms of its substance abuse policy - immediately and indefinitely - in advance of Saturday night’s race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.

Mayfield was found to have violated Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) and 7-5 (violation of the NASCAR substance abuse policy) of the 2009 NASCAR rule book. The determination was based on findings at last weekend’s race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway.

NASCAR on Saturday announced the action in a news conference at the South Carolina track.

The suspension is the first under NASCAR’s drug policies for a driver at the top level, the Sprint Cup Series.

Mayfield, from Owensboro, Ky., owns the team that fields the No. 41 Toyotas in the Cup series under the Mayfield Motorsports banner.

He debuted in1994 in NASCAR’s elite series, then called the Winston Cup Series, but was released the following season. He competed with a number of teams, including those of Cale Yarborough, Michael Kranefuss and Roger Penske and won his first career race, the Pocono 500, in the mid-1990s.

In 2002, Mayfield signed with Evernham Motorsports and won two years later and qualified for the inaugural Chase, in which he finished 10th. After another win in 2005, but otherwise lackluster results, he was released in August 2006. Mayfield signed with Bill Davis Racing for 2007 and, after failing to post a top-20 finish, was released. In 2008, he joined Haas CNC Racing and recorded a best of 16th before he was again let go. And, later in 2008, he subbed for the injured Dario Franchitti in a Chip Ganassi Dodge, starting 10th at Dover International Speedway and finishing 28th.

Mayfield's story was a fan favorite during this season’s Speedweeks at Daytona International Speedway, where he raced his way into the Daytona 500.

In September, NASCAR announced that it would adapt a random drug-testing policy for its drivers, over-the-wall pit crew members and NASCAR officials beginning with the 2009 season.

NASCAR's previous policy permitted testing when officials had a "reasonable suspicion."

The new policy mandated that all drivers in NASCAR's three national series - Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Truck - would be tested early in the seaosn at Daytona International Speedway by personnel with the AEGIS Sciences Corp., a sports and forensic certified testing laboratory.

All team owners were required to verify that all licensed crew members had been tested by a certified lab before the season.
http://www.thatsracin.com/140/story/8783.html

[UpstateNYUPSer]

Tonight's race will start on Speed and then switch to Fox as soon as Tampa finishes beating up my Red Sox.

[MonavieLeaker]

Ragan has spun about 4 times now.....Wheres the warning letter for an avoidable accident