NASCAR and Stockcar Racing

1a – Jimmie Johnson keeps the points lead.

2 – Biffle wins.  He runs this track pretty good, and he’s hot this
year.

3 – Sadler top 5.  He also runs this track good – besides the win
last year, he’s had a couple of strong runs end with accidents.

4 – Mayfield top 5.  The car’s looked strong at times, they need
to get a whole race together tho.

5 – Earnhardt overtakes Harvick in the points.

1b – 1a is an obvious gimme, I just put it there to see if anyone
would point that out without reading down to here.  So the actual
prediction is Johnson finishes outside the T10.

Bonus – Kahne gets his first win with Mayfield in 2nd.

John

      1: Jimmie Johnson (48) – AF: 4.00
      2: Elliott Sadler (38) – AF: 11.50
      3: Greg Biffle (16) – AF: 12.17
      4: Rusty Wallace (2) – AF: 12.83
      5: Tony Stewart (20) – AF: 13.33
      6: Mark Martin (6) – AF: 13.50
      7: Ryan Newman (12) – AF: 14.33
      8: Dale Jarrett (88) – AF: 14.33
      9: Jeff Gordon (24) – AF: 15.00
      10: Sterling Marlin (40) – AF: 15.17
      11: Kevin Harvick (29) – AF: 15.5
      12: Kurt Busch (97) – AF: 15.67
      13: Carl Edwards (99) – AF: 16.00
      14: Scott Riggs (10) – AF: 18.00
      15: Jamie McMurray (42) – AF: 18.50
      16: Jeremy Mayfield (19) – AF: 19.33
      17: Dale Earnhardt, Jr. (8) – AF: 19.67
      18: Kasey Kahne (9) – AF: 20.17
      19: Kyle Petty (45) – AF: 20.33
      20: Dave Blaney (07) – AF: 20.50
      21: Jeff Burton (31) – AF: 22.00
      22: Matt Kenseth (17) – AF: 22.33
      23: Casey Mears (41) – AF: 22.33
      24: Mike Bliss (0) – AF: 22.83
      25: Brian Vickers (25) – AF: 23.00
      26: Kyle Busch (5) – AF: 23.67
      27: Jeff Green (43) – AF: 24.17
      28: Travis Kvapil (77) – AF: 24.17
      29: Joe Nemechek (01) – AF: 24.83
      30: Michael Waltrip (15) – AF: 25.33
      31: Scott Wimmer (22) – AF: 25.67
      32: Ken Schrader (49) – AF: 26.67
      33: Ricky Rudd (21) – AF: 27.83
      34: Jason Leffler (11) – AF: 28.33
      35: Bobby Hamilton, Jr. (32) – AF: 30.50
      36: Kevin Lepage (37) – AF: 31.00
      37: Mike Wallace (4) – AF: 31.17
      38: Bobby Labonte (18) – AF: 31.50
      39: Robby Gordon (7) – AF: 36.00
      40: John Andretti (14) – AF: 36.67
      41: Jimmy Spencer (50) – AF: 37.67
      42: Terry Labonte (44) – AF: 38.33
      43: Hermie Sadler (66) – AF: 39.00
      44: Bill Elliott (91) – AF: 40.17
      45: Boris Said (136) – AF: 41.17
      46: Mike Skinner (23) – AF: 41.67
      47: Randy LaJoie (34) – AF: 42.00
      48: Eric McClure (173) – AF: 42.00
      49: Martin Truex, Jr. (1) – AF: 42.33
      50: Shane Hmiel (108) – AF: 43.17
      51: Morgan Shepherd (89) – AF: 43.33
      52: Kenny Wallace (100) – AF: 43.33
      53: Mike Garvey (175) – AF: 43.33
      54: Stanton Barrett (192) – AF: 43.50
      55: Johnny Sauter (09) – AF: 43.50
      56: Carl Long (200) – AF: 43.67

Michael

1: A Roush Racer wins

(Have you ever noticed I pick a lot of Roush stuff?)

2: Only one of the Dales will finish in the top 10

3: One of the Kenny’s will make the top 20

4: Mikey finishes better than Jr.

5: Mark Martin is fewer points out of first place than when he started the
race.

Bonus: The Roush cars take the top 5 positions

Michael

I’m making a quick trip to S.C. to see Mom and Dad
this weekend, so I have to let Mr. Random pick from
the standings rather than from the lineup.

(Dad is doing better, by the way: he is recovering
from the hip surgery, the broken leg, and the stroke,
and the staph infection is gone.)

So, Mr. Random says we should look at these numbers:

20
7
1
17
11

20
1
30
8
8

20      Dave Blaney #07
7       Rusty Wallace #2
1       Jimmie Johnson #48
17      Jeremy Mayfield #19
11      Carl Edwards #99

1. DB #07 will finish 20th or higher.

2. RW #2 will WIN THE RACE!

3. JJ #48 will finish 30th or below!

4. JM #19 will finish in the
top eight.

5. CE #99 will beat Jr. in the #8.

My heart just throbs with self-righteousness
as I make these predictions.  Look out all
you guys at the bottom of the RPG standings.
Here I come!   (

                                Marty

1. Elliott Sadler top 5

2. Dale Jr. top 8

3. Carl Edwards top 8

4. Kasey Kahne top 5

5. Jeff Gordon finishes behind Robbie Gordon

Bonus: Elliott Sadler holds off a charge by Kasey Kahne to win by less than
a car length.

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As i speculated before the ’05 season began, there will be a record
number of different pole-sitters in ’05 because of the new Cup
Impound Procedure. So far there have been 5 diff pole-sitters in
6 races. The record is 18 diff in ’01 & ’97. Congrats to Scott Riggs.

There is no evidence yet as to who will be in The Chase, but i will
let y’all know who at least 9 of 10 will be after 7.Texas.

My best speculation right now is:
JJ, Bif, TS, ESad, Ku, RN, JG, DEJ, & McM.
There MAY be 12 drivers in The ’05 Chase & 3 of these 6 could be in:
DJ, RW, MM, KH, Carl & Riggs.
Out of The ’05 Chase will be: Kenseth, BLabonte, Mayfield, JBurton, KK.

CRU-whose opinion may vary from yore’s.

I swear i have never heard this expression before even tho i am the
same age as Mike Joy. MJ comes up with more old-timey expressions
than Doc G, maybe even more than DW!

Anyway, it was a fitting description of reparations of body damage.
It may also fit Speed / Fox’s Qualifying shows.
I just don’t understand why they won’t post speeds to 3 digits
past the decimal, like the official posted speeds.
I also wonder why their graphics go off the bottom of a 46 inch TV.

While i’m at it–Why can’t they show during Cup races, the interval
drivers are behind the race leader, at least every other crawler?

One more–Will someone ‘splain to MJ that AOL is not the way to
communicate with a Usenet group like RASNMod? I miss his contributions.
—
Crusader

I used to listen to the AM radio broadcast when I went to the races to keep
up with the action on the track.  Dawgoneit, now they’ve done gone and put a
delay in the broadcast.  It sures screws up my race routine because now the
broadcast is out of sync with the real race.  Dawgoneit, why couldn’t she
have just left her clothes on?!?

After three unsuccessful posting attempts of this message, I’ll just
delete the body of the message and post the subject