Showing posts with label nascar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nascar. Show all posts
Sunday, September 26, 2010
from left to right: J.R. Fitzpatrick, D.J. Kennington, Ron Beauchamp Jr., Scott Steckly and Mark Dilley
Here are some pictures of D.J. during a 2008 race in Cayuga when his sweet Castrol ride was a little green.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
The Nascar Canadian Tire Series race - the Wild Wings 300, was held at Barrie Speedway and it was a good day for racing. The main event was a night race and the brakes of the stock cars became so hot as they entered the corners that they glowed a deep red (Scott Steckly leads JR Fitzpatrick above).
The racetrack is up Highway 400 and onto Highway 11 just north of Barrie. Turning off 11 I thought that this race was going to be huge. Parking lots full of cars, traffic guys directing traffic, there were a lot of people in this area. It turns out that a large hunk of the crowd were there for the 40th annual fall auto flea market, but a lot did stay for the race which had a large turnout. Here I am on the track following the driver autograph session.
Barrie Speedway is a small oval race track with not a lot of straight runs available. You hit the corners and when you come out of the corner you have to get setup for the next one. It is tight and with a large field of high speed vehicles you are just waiting for trouble. So there were a number of contacts and turn arounds (there were eight cautions in the race, JR Fitzpatrick takes a little detour, below, while Jeff Lapcevich goes by and Kerry Micks of the 02 car seems to be missing a few parts) during the race and it is always funny to see mangled race cars stripped of broken parts and exposed engines running the race.
The race day starts early in the afternoon with a one hour practice (Jason White of the 21 car, below, is sponsored by A&W and the team always gives out free A&W Root Beers) and later a two lap qualifying run which determines a car's start position. A short time later the cars are lined up on the track and the fans are allowed onto the track to get autographed photos from the Nascar drivers.
See more coverage of the race after the jump.
Here are the race winners as they cross the finish line side by side. Car 17 squeaks into the lead and takes the checkered flag for the winner's victory lap.
The top three get their trophies, from left to right - Pete Shepherd III (3rd), DJ Kennington (1st) and Don Thomson Jr (2nd). After this photo they sprayed each other with the traditional champagne showers.
Saturday, July 17, 2010
The track is narrow and the concrete barriers keep the drivers guessing on how close they can get to the edges of the track. Add in the slick racing conditions and drivers inexperienced in the Toronto street course and the collisions add up.
Fans of NASCAR line up in the Thunder Alley autograph tent on Saturday. The drivers sat on two sides of the tent and signed pictures, hats and shirts as the crowds passed along a path.
At the end of the line was Jason Hathaway of the #3 Vortex Dodge Avenger. Jason is co sponsored by two primary companies - Rockstar Energy Drink and Snap-On. Team manager Jamie Hakonson of Fast Eddie Racewear sponsors both Jason and Alex Tagliani of the IndyCar Racing League. Jamie is in the pits during the Canadian Tire Jumpstart race (left, picture at bottom).
She plans to keep her nose clean in the first few laps then will open up the throttle during the rest of the race. Her hope was not to be as she ended up finishing the race in the pits, above. Here is when she had just spun around in turn one, did a quick U-turn and stomped on the gas.
Friday, July 16, 2010
See more pictures of Saturday's practice and qualifying events after the jump.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Not many people in the world, let alone women, who could be a spokesperson for the ad, models and drivers as well!
Sports: NASCAR Racing
Born: March 25, 1982 in Beloit, Wisconsin
Age: 27
Nationality: U.S.
Team: Andretti Green Racing
First in the Indy500 Racetrack, Danica is the first woman to lead the race in 2005, proving to the world that can match perempian beautiful man in the world of car racing.
This black haired girl is a media favorite, often appearing in talk shows and magazine covers. We heard him maintain his body weight by doing yoga session in the sauna room temperature to 100 degrees. Very hot.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Canadian Tire announced that their 2010 racing program includes:
- Title sponsor of the NASCAR Canadian Tires Series and Official Automotive Retailer of NASCAR in Canada. NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race as a companion to the Nationwide race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
- Sponsor of race car driver, Ron Fellows, in the NASCAR Nationwide race in Montreal.
- Sponsor of race car drivers Scott Steckly in the Canadian Tire car #22 and Mark Dilley in the PartSource car #9.
- Official sponsor of both the Honda Indy Toronto and Honda Indy Edmonton. In preparation for the Honda Indy Toronto the fencing and barriers are being installed along the length of the race course. Here is turn one as it heads towards the Princes' Gate.
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