Somebody Wake Me When The Race Starts!!!!

[JUNIORFAN88]

This is getting RIDDICULIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!:-x:-x:-x:-x

[upsjed]

another reason to dump cali. races

[bigolepig]

This is getting RIDDICULIOS!!!!!!!!!!!!:-x:-x:-x:-x


Oh ya think...I already gave up. My fantasy team is hosed...can you imagine sitting there waiting ALLLLLLL day. Don't get me wrong I am dedicated, but I have sat in the rain before and it gets old fast. Can't imagine it being cold and rainy...

Actually one of the best moments was the first race I ever attended was at Texas in 2002. The year it rained. Me and my best friend (her first time also) were sitting on the backstretch grandstands, with a beer open. I look at her and say "this is not how I imagined it was going to be..." We sat there and then the big down pour started...we just sat there and laughed...then we realized we were the ONLY idiots on the ENTIRE backstretch still sitting in the grandstands...anyway...random memory....

[BamaChief]

IMO the race should have never been started. They almost got some drivers hurt out there with the track weeping like that. When our small local track had a weeping issue they didnt hesitate to call the race for safety. It shows how NASCAR is worried about the all mighty dollar!!! :evil:

[JUNIORFAN88]

another reason to dump cali. races

Yeah but its only 9pm there they probally say the same thing about east coast races except it always early there.

[JUNIORFAN88]

Well 1pm Monday for the Nationwide race might have to call out sick if there gonna race all day towmorrow!!! wooooo hooooo Sick Day:-D:-D

[Ckerr]

So now they're saying 1:30 am ET? Anyone know if they're still on Fox? I keep checking MRN broadcast, but would like to set the DVR in the likely event I fall asleep! Heck, I even went to the gym at 10:30 in hopes of staying awake...

Those poor folks in the stands... Anyone else at Texas the year of the tornados? Now that was a good time :twisted:

[charlesh58]

So now they're saying 1:30 am ET? Anyone know if they're still on Fox? I keep checking MRN broadcast, but would like to set the DVR in the likely event I fall asleep! Heck, I even went to the gym at 10:30 in hopes of staying awake...

Those poor folks in the stands... Anyone else at Texas the year of the tornados? Now that was a good time :twisted:

1:00 PM EST Monday, I feel for the people that waited 6 hrs in the stands.

[JimmieJohnson]

Race Coverage of the Auto Club 500 at the Auto Club Speedway is re-scheduled for Monday, February 25, 2008.
TV: Fox in Hi-Def at 1:00pm/et
Radio: MRN Radio (http://www.mrnradio.com/) and Sirius Satellite NASCAR Radio (http://www.sirius.com/)
ESPN.com: on the ESPN.com NASCAR page - Racecast and Chat (http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/seriesIndex?seriesId=2).
Scheduled Race Re-Airs:
SPEED, Thursday, February 28 at 12:00pm/et and;
HDNET (http://www.hd.net/sports.html), Thursday, February 28 at 11:30pm/et

[Atl_tim]

On the Sirius morning show today they played a short, taped q&a with Robin Pemberton (NASCAR official) that happened when they finally decided to call the race last night (this morning). I thought one of the most interesting question asked (and didn't really get an answer) was "Who were you trying to serve by keeping everyone waiting so late last night? " The fans at the track had been there since at least 1 pacific (scheduled start) so it was a 10+ hour wait for them. Just as long a day, if not longer for crew members, track workers, sponsors, etc. TV people couldn't have ben happy. Not to mention us back in the east waiting until 2am.

[Shirley]

On the Sirius morning show today they played a short, taped q&a with Robin Pemberton (NASCAR official) that happened when they finally decided to call the race last night (this morning). I thought one of the most interesting question asked (and didn't really get an answer) was "Who were you trying to serve by keeping everyone waiting so late last night? " The fans at the track had been there since at least 1 pacific (scheduled start) so it was a 10+ hour wait for them. Just as long a day, if not longer for crew members, track workers, sponsors, etc. TV people couldn't have ben happy. Not to mention us back in the east waiting until 2am.

Very Good Question!!

[AtlantaBubba]

What tim eis it supposed to start? Glad to offer play by play for anyone that needs it!

[JimmieJohnson]

This race has me burning up my tivo thats for sure. I taped fox all night and now have it taping fox all afternoon. I had to get up this morning and fast forward through all the updates last night to find out if it ran last night so I would know what channel to record today :-x

[Dupont24fan]

Same here.

When is the Bush Race?

[AtlantaBubba]

FONTANA, Calif. -- A water crisis in California usually means there's too little of it. On Sunday at Auto Club Speedway, the opposite was true.

Just about everything liquid-related that could go wrong, did in the Auto Club 500, but it wasn't from lack of trying. The race started three hours late because of heavy overnight and morning showers, and even then was delayed when Michael Waltrip's car began spewing oil during the parade lap.

Then water -- standing and falling -- played a key role in a pair of red flags before the race reached the 100-lap mark.


AutostockOfficials cut grooves in the racing surface so water could seep during a red flag.After two accidents in the first 21 laps, both appearing to be the results of water seeping up through cracks in the track surface, NASCAR officials stopped the race and spent 67 minutes working to resolve the issue.

First, Denny Hamlin skittered up the track in Turn 3 and belted the outside wall on Lap 15, heavily damaging the right side of his No. 11 Toyota. Hamlin was adamant that wet spots on the track were the culprit (watch video).

"I think we can get back out there, but I think there are 42 other drivers that would agree that we should not be racing on that racetrack right now," Hamlin said. "I hit a slick spot and my car took off. You can see it on television -- right at the seams, it's seeping a lot of water. I hit a wet spot and I'm not going to be the last one."

Hamlin proved to be a prophet when six laps later, Casey Mears lost control coming out of Turn 2, spun back in front of traffic, was clipped by Dale Earnhardt Jr. and then lifted and turned upside down by Sam Hornish Jr.'s car. Reed Sorenson also suffered damage in the incident (watch video).

Again, it appeared that crossing from one groove to another over the seams in the track was not a good idea.

"We got a little bit loose getting down into [Turn] 1," Mears said. "A couple of times, I hit the water there that's at the seam there seeping through. I hit it quite a bit down in 3 and 4, it's a little bit worse down there.

"And there's a little bit down in 1 and 2 -- and right as I got to the bottom, I got loose. And I don't know if it was right about the time I crossed that seam. I don't know if that was the reason or not but I hadn't been real loose, and that time I was. We about had it saved. It just kind of brushed the wall and unfortunately, it had to come back across the track and all the cars were coming by."

Hornish didn't blame NASCAR for the situation, which had been a problem ever since Friday's day-long deluge that wiped out Sprint Cup qualifying.

"There's a lot of weepers in between the first and second groove," he said. "We could, in a lot of ways, have the jet dryers run until [Monday] and still maybe not even get it [dry] and that's if it doesn't rain anymore.

"I think that NASCAR made the decision that they thought was the best. You had to pick your line going into the corner. You couldn't cross that center section, so maybe not the best conditions for racing, but as the cars ran it was definitely going to get better and better."

Junior was not pleased with the condition of the track from the start, as several cars -- including Matt Kenseth and Kevin Harvick -- were forced to make unscheduled stops to clear debris from their grilles.

"We were just sitting there trying to chill," Earnhardt said. "The track's real dirty and everybody's sliding around. The track ain't ready today. The track's dirty, and this was a bad move."

Harvick seconded that opinion.

"The racetrack wasn't really ready to start with," he said. "There was water running down the track in 3 and 4, and I think a lot of [drivers] were telling [NASCAR officials] that. Now it's worse. It's just really wet."

At that point, NASCAR officials halted the event and sent track crews to cut vertical stripes in the offending areas, hoping to create channels for the water to dissipate.

"We saw some weepers developing, so we asked the track to come out and cut some straight lines in those areas in order to relieve the water that had begun to seep up there," NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said.

With that issue apparently settled for the time being, light precipitation brought out under caution at Lap 41.

But it was another stray shower that pelted the track after 87 laps, forcing the cars back onto pit road, where they were covered. While crews huddled under cover, shivering in the cool, damp, decidedly un-California-like weather, the jet dryers once again went to work.

However, the dewpoint and humidity worked against efforts to make the track suitable to continue the race -- and in the end, or 2 a.m. ET, officials were forced to concede, at least for now. So the Auto Club 500 will resume Monday at 1 p.m. ET, with the Nationwide Series Stater Bros. 300 -- postponed from Saturday night -- to follow.

Jimmie Johnson is leading, followed by Travis Kvapil, Kyle Busch, Greg Biffle and Kasey Kahne. Jeff Gordon, currently sixth, dominated much of the early going, leading five times for 57 laps. Forty-one of the 43 starters were still running, including Sorenson, Earnhardt and Hamlin, all down several laps to the leaders.

Taken from Nascar.com

[JimmieJohnson]

Same here.

When is the Bush Race?

Should be an hour after the cup race on ESPN2

[BamaChief]

Well it came and went...I got up...BUT FOR WORK!!! Had to listen on the radio.

[JUNIORFAN88]

Well it came and went...I got up...BUT FOR WORK!!! Had to listen on the radio.

HUH!!! What I missed it !!!!!! Nobody woke me up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE #$%
:razz::razz:
JUST KIDDING Watched it at work