--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCU00011 Date: 08/24/96 From: BILL LOFTIN Time: 12:45pm \/To: MAX LAKE (Read 5 times) Subj: 1980 csprrc -> DF> As to owners, probably Ganassi (in FF). -> That's one.... -> -> DF> Rahal ran FA at the Runoffs but several years earlier I think. -> I think I saw him there in '78 or so. Not listed in '80. I was there but did not save the entry list. We were a bit busy changing 7 engines that week. But I think at least one other CART owner that competed in 1980 was a guy named P.L. Newman. --- InterEcho 1.07 * Origin: World Data Network Washington, DC metro area (703) 758 1:109/236) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCU00012 Date: 08/24/96 From: EDDIE KIPLINGER Time: 01:01am \/To: BRENDA LEE (Read 5 times) Subj: Treasure Chest EK>Did you get to see Jeff setting a new track record at Indy during EK>qualifying? Way to go Jeff!!!!!!!!! BL> Gosh, to tell you the truth, I never get a chance to watch the races, BL> I do believe that they come on, on a Sunday over here, and usually I am BL> not home on the weekends, I tend to get all the things done that I BL> don't get done, during the week, and like I say I am a movie buff, so BL> if I get a chance to watch a good movie, I do that instead of watching BL> the races..... Hi BL, Thought you might be a race fan. What are some of the last movies that you've seen? I also wanted to ask you how you like the Treasure Chest BBS? I've used it a few times but as of late I've been having trouble getting on the board. Busy, busy,....... You know the sound!!!! Robert assures me that it may be a problem on my end. I guess the sysop knows best. Hve also been reading the posts between you and Gary. Makes for some interesting reading . TTYL ED ... Looks like another case of Clue Deficit Disorder. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0G4 * Origin: COLLECTOR'S CORNER 1;275/29 804-461-6264/3331 (1:275/29) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCU00013 Date: 08/24/96 From: EDDIE KIPLINGER Time: 01:01am \/To: STEPHANIE WOODRUFF (Read 5 times) Subj: R. Wallace -=> Quoting Stephanie Woodruff to Eddie Kiplinger <=- SW> I sure am. He's my uncle. We're not a real close family so I don't SW> talk to him, Mike or Kenny much, but they are my uncles. SW> I'm glad to hear she is. It doesn't seem like many people are now a SW> days. I'm sure Rusty would be happy to know she's a fan and be very SW> greatful for her support. SW> Again thank you for the information. Type at ya later! Hi Stephanie, Thought I caught that right about the relationship. My wife was pretty excited about the news. She has had the chance to meet him a couple of times and really liked him. We are glad he has been having better success this year. And of course we follow the exploits of Mike and Kenny as well!! Seems like the whole family is quite talented. Do you live in S.C. or in VA. Great chatting with you an I hope we can continue. cya ED ... "Read my lips: No! Nuke Texas!" -- George Bush, misquoted. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 --- Platinum Xpress/Win/Wildcat5! v2.0G4 * Origin: COLLECTOR'S CORNER 1;275/29 804-461-6264/3331 (1:275/29) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCU00014 Date: 08/24/96 From: RYAN LOHRENZ Time: 08:21pm \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: Go D.E Hey someone said that richard petty drove with a broken back, i was wondering, (i like petty and all, and im not doubting this a bit but) did he set a track record while driving busted up???? rEbEl 9 --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: The Gridiron BBS * (520) 806-1808 * 1:300/707 (1:300/707.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCU00015 Date: 08/25/96 From: RICK PALI Time: 01:05am \/To: MICKEY LIGHTSEY (Read 5 times) Subj: Earnhardt, what a man! -> ML>> Gee do you anything about something called "will" and the love -> ML>> of sport to him, no he's not a wussy like most and proved it, -> ML>> ran th whole race and finished 6th, shows why he is the best! ->> Mickey, what the heck are you trying to say? That has to be the ->> most terribly constructed sentence I've seen for quite a while! :-) ML> Not talking grammer here but racing! Don't forget that if you're not comprehensible, we're not talking about anything. Rick. --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Alpha1+ * Origin: Critical Mass (1:163/328) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCV00000 Date: 08/24/96 From: RONALD CONRAD Time: 07:50am \/To: ALL (Read 5 times) Subj: NASCAR attacks Clinton From The Associated Press, via the "Jackson Sun", Jackson, TN 8/23/96: NASCAR ATTACKS CLINTON Racing community criticizes plan to restrict tobacco advertising. Word of a planned crackdown on tobacco by President Clinton sparked an angry reaction Thursday throughout the fast-growing and tobacco-fueled empire of stock car racing. "It all goes back to getting the government out of our daily lives. This is still America, isn't it?", said Jim Hunter, president of Darlington Raceway in Darlington, S.C. Hunter's sentiments were echoed by others in the NASCAR Winston Cup racing community as they considered the effects of Clinton's anticipated curbs, especially a ban on cigarette advertising at sporting events. It's always going to be something, and I just think they're on the wrong path right now", said W. Clay Campbell, president and general manager of Martinsville Speedway in Martinsville, VA. Prohibiting brand-name cigarette advertising could create significant changes on the Winston Cup circuit, which has had R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. as its primary sponsor since 1971. "It could have all kind of short- and long-term problems", said H. A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president and chief executive officer of Speedway Motorsports Inc., which either owns or holds an interest in five major stock car tracks in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. Ronald......... ************************************************************* "PC-MOTORSPORTS SUPPORTS SMOKERS RIGHTS" --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.12 * Origin: Tune Your Ports To PC-MOTORSPORTS (910-595-8073) (1:3661/610.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCV00001 Date: 08/25/96 From: RICK PALI Time: 08:08pm \/To: RYAN LOHRENZ (Read 5 times) Subj: Go D.E 24 Aug 96 20:21, Ryan Lohrenz wrote to All: RL> Hey someone said that richard petty drove with a broken back, i was RL> wondering, (i like petty and all, and im not doubting this a bit but) RL> did he set a track record while driving busted up???? Man, some of you #3 fans just cannot stand to see any credit go to *anyone* else, eh? My not particularly caring for Dale has nothing to do with the driver, but more to do with his more rabid fans. I simply couldn't stand to be counted in their number. Rick. --- GoldED/W32 3.00.Alpha1+ * Origin: Critical Mass (1:163/328) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCV00002 Date: 08/25/96 From: DENNIS JENKINS Time: 10:42am \/To: RONALD CONRAD (Read 5 times) Subj: CLINTON RIDES TOBACCO RA RC> RC> RC>All of you folks out there that are considering on voteing for Clinton RC>better think twice. He is wanting to BAN TOBACCO EVERYWHERE at Sporting RC>Events and this could be a MAJOR problem for NASCAR and Winston-Cup Ser RC>Much debate on the topic has already been made with more to come. Well we'd still get to have the Busch cars for a little while longer. I haven't heard anything about banning tools so I guess they'd still get to race the trucks. The people who vote for Clinton are too busy wanting a handout to care about motorsports or anything else. Now if you'd talk about taking Oprah off or banning the Psychic Hotline you might get them stirred up a bit. Clintons coming to my town Friday to thumb his nose at Rush and start his 96' bus tour. It should be quite a show. They're trying to find a spot for 25,000 people to greet him. Cape's population is only 33,000. It should be quite a trick. Maybe Rush will come too. Dennis Jenkins --- * PW * sorry no taglines * Origin: The STL CATII BBS (314-351-7150) (314-353-9441) (1:100/757) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCV00003 Date: 08/24/96 From: MICKEY LIGHTSEY Time: 04:15pm \/To: MAX LAKE (Read 5 times) Subj: Earnhardt, what a man! -> -> ML> When Richmond was well, you couldn't beat him, he would be at the -> ML> now no doubt but that partying with all those woman got him -> AIDS, or -> ML> was it drugs? -> -> Wimmin. He was straight on the drug front. So it was a women thing, better than drugs.. --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.10 * Origin: Tarheel Connection 90,000+ Files V.34 910-643-9570 (1:3654/9.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 142 AUTO RACING Ref: DCV00004 Date: 08/24/96 From: MICKEY LIGHTSEY Time: 04:38pm \/To: BOB TANNER (Read 5 times) Subj: Earnhardt, what a man! -> Hmmm ... Let me see ... I think I have a copy of your previous it is: -> ============================================================ -> Area: AUTORACE -> -> Msg#: 1806 Date: 08-14-96 22:01 -> From: Mickey Lightsey Read: Yes Replied: Yes -> To: Bob Tanner Mark: -> Subj: Earnhardt, what a man! -> -> Bob said: -> -> As good as he obviously is, Earnhardt doesn't have a lock on -> -> performing well while hurting. -> -> Mickey replied: -> He doesn't? He sure did at Watkin's Glenn, and Wallace and Allison, -> sure they had their times while hurt, but they don't have 7 -> championships :) -> ============================================================ -> Sounds like "A lock" to me. Afraid not, he is hurt bad and so are his chances, but I said a long time ago it be him, T Labonta or Jeff Gordon. -> Well, if you wants to talk stats ... There are usually 42 cars start -> race; of that number, Chevies average taking up around 15 slots -> (approx 35%). That 35% has won eleven points races this year (52%), -> and has a good lead in the manufacturers points race. Chevie -> drivers are also holding the top three spots in the WC points -> standings with only one Ford driver (Jarrett) close to them. Really, they are about 3 whole poinbts behind in the manufactor's race, that's a good lead?? -> Yeah, it's hard to not feel Chevie's pain. I wouldn't been in pain but pissed, build a superior car only yo let NASCAR pentalize you, Ford's can build a new car but stick with the thunder chick, NASCAR approved the Lincolhn Mark VIII and it was fast but Ford say nooooo, too cheap. -> back to the templates and the engine they were using in February and -> we'll give up that 6 inches you gave us!" Chevy could have kept the Monto Carlo off the track a year to meet the "templetes" but NASCAR said ok, remember the year before a somebody won the championship in a Lumina tthat was outclassed, lets see, oh it was Earnhardt:) I agree, make them run what the public can buy and run motor wise, etc.. -> time and I believe everything they say, too. Yea, all I know is what he said, now he lies.. -> Yep. Of course we could alway talk about (a) Marlin at Bristol in 19 -> (b) Rusty at Bristol last year; (c) Shrader last week at Michigan. -> My gun's handle looks like it was attacked by termites! What about these? -> Ah yeah, Ricky Rudd. The "Ace" who comes screaming into the pits and -> out one of Bill Elliott's pit crew in the process. Real "Hero" -> material, that guy. -> successful (in spite of Billy Ingle). However, he'd probably still -> be at Hendrick if Jeffy hadn't have shown up. There's still some -> bad blood between them, from what I hear. Rudd is jealous of Grodon I'm sure, I'm hoping Rudd's streak of winning a race every year for awhile will be broke, who's got the only longer winning streak..oh Earnhardt:) -> We agree there also, in addition to our assessment of Jack Roush. Ti -> when he had Harry Hyde as chief wrench, could make a marginal car -> competi- tive. His problem was a fondness for nubile, suntanned, -> little racing groupies and high-priced working girls. He just got caught up in the limelight, Day's of Thunder was a good movie. -> NASCAR tried their damnest to pin a drug rap on Tim when he became -> ill. Hendrick took NASCAR to the wall and they dropped their case, -> even though Tim never consented to release his medical records while -> he was alive. This was one of NASCAR's sordid bits of history which -> it doesn't like to comment a great deal on. -> -> Tim ended up being a victim twice, once to the bug and once to -> NASCAR. He was ostracized from NASCAR when they falsely claimed Tim -> failed a "Whiz Quiz" prior to the '88 Busch Clash. He refused to -> turn over his med records (which would have shown he was taking AZT, -> They should name that dumb set of points "The Dave Marcis 5 Point Awa -> Mediocrity." That'd work.. -> ML> D.W needs to retire and become a announcer. -> -> He'll b e a car owner. I pick either Tony Stewart or David Green as h -> driver. Yea, he owns the team so I'm pretty sure that's what he'll be but I think he'd make a good announcer.. -> Rude, contemptuous, and quite obviously, biased. Facts are facts, in the races Chevy won, Ford had many chances to win, now In Ford's streak Chevy hasn't had a chance, a little over compensating I'd say.. I'll elect to stay with my above statements. The only thing more irritat- ing than the drivers/owners/manf. reps sniveling about how much their brand is being shafted, are their respective fans, whom complain even worse. Ford, Chevie, Pontiac ... Methinks they all doth protest excessively! Settle it on the track, not in Gary Nelson's weird concept of "total parity!" Yea, Ford should'va kept quite, got off their sorry butt and built a better car, yea, ask me and I'll tell you I think Ford s**ks.:) --- WILDMAIL!/WC v4.10 * Origin: Tarheel Connection 90,000+ Files V.34 910-643-9570 (1:3654/9.0)