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westracing01 · PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 4:45 am

California is Hell...

Tristar 7AT · PostPosted: Sun Mar 22, 2015 5:34 am

Speaking of things known to cause cancer...

IM Blotto · PostPosted: Tue Mar 24, 2015 9:49 pm

fond this on jayski

Irwindale Speedway likely to be demolished for outlet mall: City officials Wednesday will likely approve plans to demolish the iconic Irwindale Speedway to pave way for a 700,000-square-foot outlet mall. City Council will hold a public hearing about the project at a meeting where officials are also expected to approve a development agreement with Irwindale Outlets Partners, LLC, change the site’s zoning code to commercial and certify the final Environmental Impact Report. The Irwindale Outlet Center project, which includes design plans for an outdoor shopping center, entertainment stage, a central plaza and dining courtyard, is expected to generate thousands of jobs and bring a new heartbeat to the community. The 63-acre site, bordered by the San Gabriel Valley Freeway and Live Oak Avenue, has changed uses several times since the 1960s, when it was a quarry, mined for sand and gravel by Pacific Rock. When the mining operation ended in the mid ’70s, it was converted into a 200-foot deep landfill of mainly construction waste for nearly 20 years. It later became home to the Irwindale Speedway in 1999. When Irwindale Outlet Partners, LLC purchased the property for $22 million in September 2013, the owner extended the lease with 211 Enterprises, which operates the Irwindale Event Center, on a year-by-year basis.(Pasadena Star News)(3-24-201

Mobil1fan · PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 1:34 am

This year has been hell for short tracks, and it's not even April.

Racefan4ever · PostPosted: Wed Mar 25, 2015 10:12 pm

No one goes to races anymore.

the ost · PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 1:25 am

Does that part of the world really need another mall?

And that track was in good condition, unlike Texas World which has been run down for 20 years or more.

Gael · PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 8:28 pm

So apparently there be rumors of teams bleeding air out of the tires somehow, possibly really small holes. I think SHR/RCR are on the list of potential candidates.

Anyhoo:

ChrisTRD · PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:05 pm

Irwindale dying is just fuckin ridiculous bullshit.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Fri Mar 27, 2015 9:43 pm

ChrisTRD wrote:

Irwindale dying is just fuckin ridiculous bullshit.

this ^^^^^

And the kicker of it all, there is a major mall less than 5 miles from the track but where the track is just well, the track and gravel mines.

Underdogfan · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:36 am

Gael wrote:

So apparently there be rumors of teams bleeding air out of the tires somehow, possibly really small holes. I think SHR/RCR are on the list of potential candidates.

Anyhoo:

This is huge...an answer to the dominiation as quick as that. If true and they are pinched, hope all teams associated are given the works.

Underdogfan · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:48 am

Oh, never mind biggest penalty is 50 points, and if you got the win you're in the Chase anyways. Oh well just some stuff to stir the pot and deter from the BS caution story.

SBan83 · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:29 am

A good read I saw on the nascar.com comments section.

Quote:

Modified valve stem caps makes much more sense. Once tires are pressurized to specs for the next run, the caps are not snugged until just before the tires go over the wall. Inside the caps, a BB (lets make the concept easy to understand) would depress the valve when the cap is tightened and the nitrogen would leak out past the threads, As the pressure builds over the run, the leak would increase. Once the tires come off of the car, the caps are immediately removed anyway so that pressures can be checked, S.O.P. Perfect time for either modified caps or foreign material inside the caps to "magically disappear". Anyway, who wants holes poked in their tires so they can go run 200 m.p.h.+ Teams have had years and years of unlimited test time ('til now) to perfect the process, not to mention Sunday testing that counts.

Gael · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:04 pm

I don't think any of the cars run valve stem caps though.

Joe4345 · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:13 pm

Wasn't there speculation last year about teams using bleeder-like valve stems?

dr dog · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 3:17 pm

Ah yes the "Dillner valves"

Underdogfan · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 4:07 pm

Yikes...

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DiBenedetto, Stewart not happy with each other after practice: Matt DiBenedetto was just looking for an opening on the track during practice - that's when he aroused the wrath of #14-Tony Stewart on Friday. On the track the three-time champion flipped off the rookie and yelled at him. Off the track when the driver of the #83 BK Racing Toyota tried to explain what happened, DiBenedetto's attempt was futile. "I went up to him to apologize and explain the situation to him," DiBenedetto told Motorsport.com. "I'm not an idiot. I wouldn't just pull in front of him. I told him the 19 pulled out in front of me on the racetrack. That checked up all of my momentum and by that time - things happen so fast around here - that when I got to Turn 3, he was getting a few car lengths of me so I just pulled over to let him go. He didn't understand. I tried to tell him what happened, but he just told me I just needed to get out of the way and whatever. He really just didn't know what to say. He's just an arrogant prick," DiBenedetto said. "He has anger issues and needs to focus on driving the race car other than dedicating the whole practice session to blocking somebody when it wasn't something I did intentionally. I don't care who he is, he's barking up the wrong tree."

SBan83 · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:17 pm

Stewart needs some of this again.

Tommy Vercetti · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:04 pm

Oh you know, just Team Xtreme things like not paying their employers and withdrawing their entry because "rain".

Soul Reaver · PostPosted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 10:35 pm

Stewart is getting the speed again, at least some, and it's getting frustrated for that, he probably need to get better results like no other, that's probably why.

Andre · PostPosted: Mon Mar 30, 2015 1:39 pm

The problem with Smoke, as it always has been with drivers his caliber (I'm looking at you, Busch brothers), is between the ears.

That was pretty ballsy of DiBenedetto to say, though! :lol:

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