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Mr. Tennessee

05-09-2007, 09:40 PM

So, where do I go with this? Simple, I plan to use this for some recaps of races and the seasons and use this as a holding template until I finish my Computer Programming degree to build my tracker of some sorts. Should be fun for me and hopefully a few diehard Auto Racing fans on here.

The plan is to start from the 1983 season and work my way up to the 2007 season. Maybe I'll be able to improve my writing along the way. :)

Thanks go out to the pits for making the mods, and the painters that painted the cars and to all that made the tracks that didn't come in the game. The link to find the carsets in order is here. (http://www.nr2k3tracks.com/cars.html)

I will be driving the #46 car for most of my career. Big props to all who painted a car for me, couldn't do it without yall.

I'll be running 40% of the full races and the computer strength at 96%.[Arcade Mode 1983-1984 Seasons]
I'll be running 50% of the full races and the computer strength at 92%.[Simulation Mode 1985 - 200x Seasons]

The painters websites I would like to thank for getting the cars from are:
http://www.sg3racing.com/overspray/index.htm
http://rs-web-design.com/racing.htm
http://www.masgrafx.com/masgrafxracing/index.php
http://www.nnracing.com/
http://www.simracingdesign.com/

The Cup 90 mod can be found here and the 1980s Rockingham track: http://designsbyrioux.net/

Also, big thanks to Papyrus and Sierra for all the years of racing enjoyment that was given to so many people. Shame that NR2003 was the last of it's series.

The Nascar Pick'em Create a Driver Challenge Rules (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1327819&postcount=267)

Mr. Tennessee

05-09-2007, 10:06 PM

Table of Contents

The 1985 Winston Cup Illustrated Season Preview

Written by GoBlue96

Part 1 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1527732&postcount=532)
Part 2 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1534742&postcount=541)
Part 3 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1537610&postcount=543)
Part 4 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1540009&postcount=544)
Part 5 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1541677&postcount=546)
Part 6 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1542327&postcount=547)
Part 7 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1542884&postcount=548)

The 1985 Winston Cup Schedule

Race # Date Event Name Track Pole Winner Race Winner Mr. T's Start Mr. T's Finish
0 2/10 Busch Clash (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1543016&postcount=550) Daytona Harry Gant Mr. Tennessee 13th 1st
1 2/17 Daytona 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1548695&postcount=553) Daytona Bill Elliott Bill Elliott 2nd 4th
2 2/24 Miller High Life 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1556392&postcount=562) Richmond Mr. Tennessee Geoff Bodine 1st 8th
3 3/3 Carolina 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1558626&postcount=566) Rockingham Geoff Bodine Mr. Tennessee 8th 1st
4 3/17 Coca-Cola 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1581179&postcount=593) Atlanta Harry Gant Darrell Waltrip 40th 41st
5 4/6 Valleydale 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1583681&postcount=601) Bristol Mr. Tennessee Mr. Tennessee 1st 1st
6 4/14 TranSouth 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1602925&postcount=614) Darlington Neil Bonnett Bill Elliott 42nd 36th
7 4/21 Northwestern Bank 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1609856&postcount=618) North Wilkesboro Kyle Petty Bill Elliott 31st 3rd
8 4/28 Sovran Bank 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1625076&postcount=625) Martinsville Kyle Petty Dale Earnhardt 18th 2nd
9 5/5 Winston 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1629615&postcount=629) Talladega Mr. Tennessee Mr. Tennessee 1st 1st
10 5/19 Budweiser 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1630471&postcount=637) Dover Richard Petty Darrell Waltrip 4th 8th
0a 5/25 The Winston (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1636001&postcount=643) Charlotte Neil Bonnett Neil Bonnett 16th 15th
11 5/26 Coca-Cola World 600 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1652991&postcount=651) Charlotte Lake Speed Cale Yarborough 14th 2nd
12 6/2 Budweiser 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1665378&postcount=656) Riverside Terry Labonte Bill Elliott 43rd 23rd
13 6/9 Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1667843&postcount=659) Pocono Darrell Waltrip Neil Bonnett 3rd 14th
14 6/16 Miller 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1669767&postcount=665) Michigan Mr. Tennessee Clark Dwyer 1st 14th
15 7/4 Pepsi Firecracker 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1671759&postcount=670) Daytona Neil Bonnett Mr. Tennessee 41st 1st
16 7/21 Summer 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1673110&postcount=677) Pocono Ricky Rudd Harry Gant 19th 3rd
17 7/28 Talladega 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1675599&postcount=680) Talladega Bill Elliott Cale Yarborough 28th 5th
18 8/11 Champion Spark Plug 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1681620&postcount=685) Michigan Greg Sacks Greg Sacks 2nd 9th
19 8/24 Busch 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1690735&postcount=687) Bristol Kyle Petty Darrell Waltrip 14th 27th
20 9/1 Southern 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1690791&postcount=688) Darlington Mr. Tennessee Bill Elliott 1st 30th
21 9/8 Wrangler Sanfor-Set 400 Richmond
22 9/15 Delaware 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1695413&postcount=704) Dover
23 9/22 Goody's 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1700903&postcount=710) Martinsville
24 9/29 Holly Farms 400 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1701983&postcount=714) North Wilkesboro
25 10/6 Miller High Life 500 (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1703051&postcount=719) Charlotte
26 10/20 Nationwise 500 Rockingham
27 11/3 Atlanta Journal 500 Atlanta
28 11/17 Winston Western 500 Riverside

Points Standings at intervals of 10

10 races into the season (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1630924&postcount=640)
Halfway into the season (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1671768&postcount=671)
20 races into the season (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1690794&postcount=689)
Final points standings

JeffHCross

05-09-2007, 11:21 PM

Oh, the cars of my childhood. I <3 nostalgia.

FYI: A programming degree may or may not help you with making something like Mandibal made. While I'm sure because of my degree I could pick it up (and I plan to help him this summer if I can), you may not specifically learn about web programming and languages like Ruby (which is what Mandi used).

Mr. Tennessee

05-10-2007, 09:16 AM

Past Seasons

Year Driver Owner Rookie of the Year
1959 Lee Petty Petty Enterprises Richard Petty
1960 Rex White White-Clements David Pearson
1961 Ned Jarrett B.G. Holloway Woodie Wilson
1962 Joe Weatherly Bud Moore Tom Cox
1963 Joe Weatherly Bud Moore Billy Wade
1964 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Doug Cooper
1965 Ned Jarrett Bondy Long Sam McQuagg
1966 David Pearson Cotton Owens James Hylton
1967 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Donnie Allison
1968 David Pearson Holman-Moody Pete Hamilton
1969 David Pearson Holman-Moody Dick Brooks
1970 Bobby Issac Nord Krauskopf Bill Dennis
1971 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Walter Ballard
1972 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Larry Smith
1973 Benny Parsons L. G. DeWitt Lennie Pond
1974 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Earl Ross
1975 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Bruce Hill
1976 Cale Yarborough Junior Johnson Skip Manning
1977 Cale Yarborough Junior Johnson Ricky Rudd
1978 Cale Yarborough Junior Johnson Ronnie Thomas
1979 Richard Petty Petty Enterprises Dale Earnhardt
1980 Dale Earnhardt Rod Osterlund Jody Ridley
1981 Darrell Waltrip Junior Johnson Ron Bouchard
1982 Darrell Waltrip Junior Johnson Geoffry Bodine
1983 Harry Gant Mach 1 Racing Mr. Tennessee (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1327148&postcount=257)
1984 Mr. Tennessee Sutton Racing Rusty Wallace (http://www.ncaastrategies.com/utopia/showpost.php?p=1488246&postcount=508)
1985
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010

JeffHCross

05-10-2007, 10:40 AM

That's good that you actually have some 'Net programming. We don't here, it's all C++ or Java, no Ruby, no J2EE, nothing net based. I like it, but then I don't. It was funny when I got offered a web-based programming position, I sat here like "You know I'm not qualified at all for this, right?"

Mr. Tennessee

05-13-2007, 11:08 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg

Daytona (AP) -The biggest race of the season is finally here, the Daytona 500. It is time to finally get the season underway. There were a few rookies in this year's field, and one that stood out was the driver of the #46 Zaxby's car. Qualifying with an impressive sixth he had hoped that the strong start would yield a strong finish. Too bad for him as Darrell Waltrip had other plans.

The Pole Sitter, Darrell Waltrip found out that the #11 Pepsi Challenge car was not up to stuff as he was frustrated and rammed into the #46 car coming off turn four. The BIG ONE had occured. The poor Zaxby's car was the first to test how good the car could hold up upside down as Buddy Arrington slammed into the side of Mr T.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Daytona500Crash.jpg
This is not cool at all.

Somehow the driver of the #46 car managed to make it to pit road. The Zaxby's crew patched up the car as best as they could and set him out on his way. Three laps later the flag dropped and the engine of the #46 car gave up the ghost. He wound up finishing 40th.

With the big one out of the way, the rest of the race was fairly boring. Tim Richmond dominated the race until his pit crew messed up in the closing laps. The tire changers failed to get a lugnut off and those precious second lost wound up costing him the race. Ricky Rudd and Terry Labonte wound up fighting for the win.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Daytona500Win.jpg
Ho-hum Rudd wins.

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 7 3 R Rudd 150.252 80 23 Running
2 31 44 T Labonte 0.14 80 8 Running
3 37 27 T Richmond 5.86 80 27 Running
4 5 41 R Thomas 5.95 80 3 Running
5 9 28 C Yarborough 10.97 80 1 Running
6 20 17 S Marlin 14.05 80 0 Running
7 28 0.4 R Baldwin 14.27 80 1 Running
8 35 55 B Parsons 14.28 80 3 Running
9 4 33 H Gant 22.79 80 1 Running
10 11 22 B Allison 22.85 80 0 Running
11 41 87 J Ingalls 22.94 80 0 Running
12 13 16 D Pearson 23.17 80 3 Running
13 10 43 R Petty 23.36 80 1 Running
14 1 11 D Waltrip 23.39 80 0 Running
15 2 9 B Elliott 30.31 80 1 Running
16 25 6 D Ulrich 30.4 80 2 Running
17 40 88 G Bodine 30.48 80 1 Running
18 12 90 D Brooks 30.58 80 0 Running
19 16 71 D Marcis 30.62 80 0 Running
20 24 99 P Duffie 30.71 80 0 Running
21 22 18 S Johnson 30.77 80 1 Running
22 15 77 K Regan 1L 79 1 Running
23 42 70 J McDuffie 1L 79 0 Running
24 18 15 D Earnhardt 1L 79 0 Running
25 34 84 J Ridley 1L 79 0 Running
26 17 48 T Boys 1L 79 0 Running
27 26 47 R Bouchard 1L 79 0 Running
28 38 64 T Gale 1L 79 1 Running
29 21 10 C Dwyer 1L 79 0 Running
30 30 52 J Means 1L 79 0 Running
31 39 26 R Hopkins 2L 78 0 Running
32 3 67 B Arrington 3L 77 0 Running
33 36 0.2 L Pearson 3L 77 0 Running
34 32 14 A Foyt 5L 75 0 Running
35 23 7 K Petty 7L 73 0 Running
36 8 1 L Speed 58L 22 0 Retired
37 19 21 B Baker 58L 22 1 Header
38 27 24 C Gordon 59L 21 0 Retired
39 33 66 P Parsons 59L 21 1 Retired
40 6 46 Mr Tennessee 75L 5 0 Engine
41 14 98 J Ruttman 78L 2 0 Retired
42 29 19 B Gerhart 79L 1 0 Retired

That's good that you actually have some 'Net programming. We don't here, it's all C++ or Java, no Ruby, no J2EE, nothing net based. I like it, but then I don't. It was funny when I got offered a web-based programming position, I sat here like "You know I'm not qualified at all for this, right?"
That's interesting what did they say to you after you told them that?

Oh, the cars of my childhood. I <3 nostalgia.

FYI: A programming degree may or may not help you with making something like Mandibal made. While I'm sure because of my degree I could pick it up (and I plan to help him this summer if I can), you may not specifically learn about web programming and languages like Ruby (which is what Mandi used).

It seems like it will after looking over what I have got to take to get my Degree from here. I have to have some work in internet programming stuff. Never really did realize how hard this code deal was gonna be till I started taking the classes. :o

If you wanted to start up a Auto racing tracker, I'm sure I could work with you to hammer out the ideas that would be the core of what the tracker would be all about.

Mr. Tennessee

05-13-2007, 11:40 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg

The 1983 Richmond 400

Richmond, VA- Once again another not so thrilling race in terms of leader changes. The Zaxby's car over took the Pole Sitter Ricky Rudd coming off turn two and didn't look back for 83 laps.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Richmond400Lappingtraffic.jpg
Yeah I'm leading and lapping people woohoo!

Then around lap 84 Lake Speed cut down a tire and slapped the wall. All the leaders came in and the Rookie from Miami, Florida ran into trouble on pit lane. The pit crew managed to get the lugs jammed into the right side tires. This cost so much time that Mr. T was relegated to 19th position, while Bobby Allison came out of the pits first.

Around lap 127, Ricky Rudd discovered that Geoff Bodine was an idiot and promptly spun him out. This caused Bill Elliott to take the lead and Bobby Allison was stuck in traffic. Ole Mr. T was running back in about 15th trying to work his way around lap traffic when the crash occurred. I tried to go really low and miss the wreck altogether but #77 Ken Regan discovered it would be wise to hit the side of DW and spin around thus clipping me and causing me to spin. "I had minimal damage to the car, and was a little worried when the spotter said 'you got problems with the engine' but noticed my engine was fine and it was my right side messed up a little" said Mr. T.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Richmond400Lap127Crash.jpg
!@#$%!$#%@%^@!$#!~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After pit stops were taken care of and we got racing again, it didn't take long for another caution to break out. On lap 141, trouble broke out again as Dave Marcus and Cale crashed and caused a huge pileup on the front stretch.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Richmond400Lap141Crash.jpg
YEAH I AVOIDED ONE! Go me! [cool]

Less than twenty laps to go and the lapped down cars think they are just as awesome as the leaders, this was annoying and once again a wreck broke out. Lucky for Mr. T it was on the other side of the track so he avoided it all together. On Lap 148, Dale Earnhardt's Camshaft went and it brought out another caution. At that point in the race, Mr T. had worked his way back up into the top 10. When the race went green it wasn't long before the vets tried to take advantage of a rookie. Four year driver Tim Richmond thought he could take out Mr. T in the turns on lap 155. "It was off the restart and my tires were cold as ice and Tim thought he could spin me out in I think turn four, but I recovered the car and managed to hold on to third place." said Mr. T

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Richmond400Lap155Save.jpg
Rubbin's Racin but he got the raw deal of it. [laugh]

Tim Richmond wasn't so lucky in the altercation as he hit the wall and collected a few cars. The Zaxby's car came through unscathed and managed to recover the car without touching the wall. This wreck set up for a final lap finish. Bill Elliott had led 40 laps and was determined to NOT lose the race. On the restart he bolted ahead and didn't look back as he won the race with by a comfortable 0.74 margin.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Richmond400WinnerElliott.jpg
And Bill takes it home!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 5 9 Bill Elliott 82.456 160 41 Running
2 9 46 Mr. Tennessee 0.74 160 83 Running
3 19 6 DK Ulrich 1.18 160 0 Running
4 39 14 AJ Foyt 1.58 160 0 Running
5 8 52 Jimmy Means 1.69 160 0 Running
6 5 43 Richard Petty 1.82 160 0 Running
7 1 3 Ricky Rudd 1.99 160 0 Running
8 15 22 Bobby Allison 5.47 160 37 Running
9 18 71 Dave Marcis 5.66 160 0 Running
10 4 28 Cale Yarborough 5.86 160 0 Running
11 12 44 Terry Labonte 6.25 160 0 Running
12 23 88 Geoff Bodine 6.34 160 0 Running
13 2 11 Darrell Waltrip 6.52 160 0 Running
14 3 41 Ronnie Thomas 6.57 160 0 Running
15 25 98 Joe Ruttman 7.13 160 0 Running
16 13 33 Harry Gant 7.2 160 0 Running
17 20 27 Tim Richmond 7.53 160 0 Running
18 29 24 Jim Vandlver 24.48 160 0 Running
19 27 16 David Pearson 1L 159 0 Running
20 36 17 Sterling Marlin 1L 159 0 Running
21 28 2 Mark Martin 1L 159 0 Running
22 32 64 Tommy Gale 1L 159 0 Running
23 37 19 Bobby Gerhart 1L 159 0 Running
24 33 0.4 Rick Baldwin 1L 159 0 Running
25 31 99 Phil Duffie 1L 159 0 Running
26 26 10 Clark Dwyer 1L 159 0 Running
27 38 70 JD McDuffie 1L 159 0 Running
28 34 90 Dick Brooks 1L 159 0 Running
29 16 1 Lake Speed 1L 159 0 Running
30 24 66 Phil Parsons 2L 158 0 Running
31 40 0.2 Dick May 2L 158 0 Running
32 30 87 R Becker 2L 158 0 Running
33 22 77 Ken Regan 2L 158 0 Running
34 21 84 Jody Ridley 2L 158 0 Running
35 35 21 Buddy Baker 4L 156 0 Clutch
36 11 15 Dale Earnhardt 12L 148 0 Camshaft
37 7 47 Ron Bouchard 17L 143 0 Accident
38 14 67 Buddy Arrington 49L 111 0 Accident
39 10 7 Kyle Petty 50L 110 0 Accident
40 17 18 Slick Johnson 97L 63 0 Clutch

Pretty happy with the finish. Fought back from 19th place and managed to work my way back up through the pack. Hard to do, but had a pretty awesome setup heading into the race. I'll gladly take my second place finish after that horrible flip I had in Daytona.

JeffHCross

05-14-2007, 01:52 AM

That's interesting what did they say to you after you told them that?Hahaha, I didn't actually say that to them. Though I did turn down the job and that was part of my motivation.

By the way, if you want some different paint schemes as you progress through the seasons, I'd be willing to paint something up (assuming I have time with my upcoming move).

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 01:45 PM

Hahaha, I didn't actually say that to them. Though I did turn down the job and that was part of my motivation.

By the way, if you want some different paint schemes as you progress through the seasons, I'd be willing to paint something up (assuming I have time with my upcoming move).
Will do, and check your PM box as I've got them sorted out by seasons. :D

I hope you have the Aero 88 mod.

Mudcat

05-14-2007, 05:34 PM

JeffHCross

05-14-2007, 08:40 PM

I hope you have the Aero 88 mod.That car I posted in the other thread was Aero mod :p

I'm not sure when I'll be able to do this, but I'll get to your requests whenever I can.

dawg_gone

05-14-2007, 09:19 PM

Iron Dragon

05-14-2007, 09:22 PM

Nice legacy so far. I have NR2003 as well, and I'm thinking about starting a Racing Career, myself.

ThirtyThree

05-14-2007, 09:48 PM

Looks awesome, Tenn. Like the way your putting it together!

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 09:56 PM

Bill Elliott in 83?? I thought he ran a limited schedule in 84, then unloaded in 85. What's up with that funky white paint job on the #9 Ford, anyway? [rock]

Mr T, I'll be following along on your career. Spin Tim Richmond out once for me, then when the Intimidator comes along, let's see some frammin' and jammin'. Do you have damage on, tire wear, etc.? Also, do you use a wheel and pedals?

Ah, the memories. I used to go to Bristol, turn damage off, start last, turn around, then take out the competition. It was my therapy. I had a black and red car number "0", The Wiz.

Yeah Elliot was in the 83 season he finished 3rd in the points. (Having the 40 years of stock car auto racing Vol 4 (1972-1989) comes in handy for checking.) That paint job looks about right, I didn't paint the cars as you can click on that link to check out the cars for NR 2003.

Apparently you didn't look at the Richmond Race recap as Tim tried spinning me out in his #27 Old Milwaukee Pontiac. ;)

Dale's in the #15 car the 1983 season.

I got it on simulation and damage and all that set to realistic. I don't have a wheel yet (if i got one now it prolly wouldn't be compatible with Vista) so I'm having to race via keyboard. Tire Wear is at 1x since I'm running 40% races.

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 10:05 PM

This is ultracool, Mr. T. I love the Papyrus NASCAR sims. I especially like how you've gone all the way back to '83.

I've thought about doing something like this, but I like to drive more than 40% of the laps, and with no in-race saves, it would be a bear to do. And unfortunately, NR 2003 won't recognize my wheel, so I have do fall back to NR4, which doesn't have as good a selection of cars (anymore- I had a pretty good set, including a #16 Tennessee car, that I lost with a HDD reformat).

Gotta love fanmail. :)

I was gonna go back to 1980 but on that link I posted the 1980 and 1982 carsets are not done. I think the interest in the game has somewhat cooled but it's still there. Hopefully I'll be able to go from the 1983-2007 seasons on here.

Pretty interesting concept I had, I looked on here to see if anyone had done something like this, and couldn't find anything. Evidently I'm blazing a new trail.

Yeah the no-game saves sucks, which is why I do practice and qualifying one day save and then like when the Race is on I'll run one.

Sucks about it not being able to recognize your wheel. Have you tried both inputs?

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 10:06 PM

That car I posted in the other thread was Aero mod :p

I'm not sure when I'll be able to do this, but I'll get to your requests whenever I can.
Duh, I had forgotten about that. Forgot to mention make 'em in hi-res. :D

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 10:07 PM

Nice legacy so far. I have NR2003 as well, and I'm thinking about starting a Racing Career, myself.

Cool, if you want some cars check out the links that JeffHCross and Hollywood posted in the NR 03 thread or click on that link at the top for carsets. Hopefully in time I'll be able to put together a tracker that looks like AViD for other potential racers to use. If you need any help getting it up and going lemme know.

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 10:09 PM

Looks awesome, Tenn. Like the way your putting it together! Hopefully I'll have more finishes like Richmond and few like Daytona. :) Having your car flipped at 190+ mph is not cool at all.

dawg_gone

05-14-2007, 11:32 PM

Hopefully I'll have more finishes like Richmond and few like Daytona. :) Having your car flipped at 190+ mph is not cool at all.
Yeah, but man, this is racing. No restrictor plate crap, and no pretty boy super slick aero cookie cutter machines. You got Cale Yarbrough and the Allisons. I just love the look of those old cars. :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-14-2007, 11:36 PM

Yeah, but man, this is racing. No restrictor plate crap, and no pretty boy super slick aero cookie cutter machines. You got Cale Yarbrough and the Allisons. I just love the look of those old cars. :)
I know, I do my fair share of racing like that. :)

Forgot to ask, why the hate for Tim Richmond?

dawg_gone

05-15-2007, 11:47 AM

I know, I do my fair share of racing like that. :)

Forgot to ask, why the hate for Tim Richmond?

Oh no no, no hate for Tim Richmond, I really enjoyed watching him race. I was just suggesting a tit-for-tat. He spun you out, ergo, you return the favor. That's the way he raced. BTW, that was a fine save after the tap; you could easily have spun into the wall.

Mr. Tennessee

05-15-2007, 11:55 AM

Oh no no, no hate for Tim Richmond, I really enjoyed watching him race. I was just suggesting a tit-for-tat. He spun you out, ergo, you return the favor. That's the way he raced. BTW, that was a fine save after the tap; you could easily have spun into the wall.
Ah that, I was wondering. I'll probably get him when he doesn't expect it. ;)

Man I tell you what, it was a miracle I didn't spin into the wall I did what I could and kept on going. Poor Tim, he wound up getting hit a few times in the side and cost him a top 5. [laugh]

Mudcat

05-15-2007, 07:00 PM

Sucks about it not being able to recognize your wheel. Have you tried both inputs?

Believe me, I tried everything to make NR '03 play nice with my wheel so I could use the latest version of the game, but no joy ([down]).

You dive with the keyboard??? Now those finishes really impress the living shit out of me cuz I can't do anything but wreck if I try to drive with the keyboard.

I'm skeptical about your being able to get a wheel that runs on DX10 drivers to work with NR '03, but if you can, you're going to love the difference driving with a force feedback wheel makes. Not only do you get to hug the bottom of the track, you get the "flavor"- the shimmy when you rub the wall, the staccato vibration after blowing a tire, etc.

Mr. Tennessee

05-15-2007, 11:34 PM

Believe me, I tried everything to make NR '03 play nice with my wheel so I could use the latest version of the game, but no joy ([down]).

You dive with the keyboard??? Now those finishes really impress the living shit out of me cuz I can't do anything but wreck if I try to drive with the keyboard.

I'm skeptical about your being able to get a wheel that runs on DX10 drivers to work with NR '03, but if you can, you're going to love the difference driving with a force feedback wheel makes. Not only do you get to hug the bottom of the track, you get the "flavor"- the shimmy when you rub the wall, the staccato vibration after blowing a tire, etc.

Yeah, having to drive with the keyboard. I'm using the few aides that came with the game to help with keyboard driving. I've got it where I'm racing but it's like you're using the d-pad on the controller on a console system. I've used a wheel before, if this computer came with a joystick port I could use the wheel I had to run. It's still hard as you know what to drive though. I'm confident I'd have a win at Richmond had I had a wheel.

I need a joystick end deal port to USB converter. I don't know if they make those, but I really love the wheel I bought. When i go to tracks such as Martinsville. Watkins Glen, Riverside, North Wilkes it will be an even harder challenge.

JeffHCross

05-16-2007, 12:51 AM

I need a joystick end deal port to USB converter. I don't know if they make thosehttp://www.usb-port.com/rm203.html
http://sewelldirect.com/USB-to-Gameport-Adapter-for-Joysticks-Controllers-and-Gamepads.asp
http://sewelldirect.com/search.aspx?searchTerm=Super+Joy+Box&x=0&y=0

Mr. Tennessee

05-16-2007, 01:24 AM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg
The 1983 Warner W. Hodgdon Carolina 500

Rockingham, NC -- Fans thought they saw a mini Daytona 500 on the track today. The first lap saw a huge multi-car pileup that saw three drivers say 'adios' The field didn't get spread out as on lap six this major crash started. The crash came as a result Lennie Pond cut a tire.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83HogdonRock400Lap6crash.jpg
Yeah another wreck trying to get me caught up in it.

This race was full of cautions and the fourth of 16 happened after they went racing and Mr. T managed to get the lead by staying out and getting some bonus points, while the others came in for fuel and tires. Sure enough on lap 15 on the restart another crash broke out as two drivers came off turn two and hit the infield wall pretty hard.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Rock400Lap15LeadCrash.jpg
Leading once again. :)

But The #46 Zaxby's Chevy avoided that wreck as the strategy was to hang back in the field through out the race and hope you don't get caught up in the crashes that would occur.

It settled down for a bit, and then on lap 65 another wreck happened.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Rock400Lap65Crash.jpg
Oh boy, once again I almost got caught up in it.

Couple more cautions came out as drivers would go down the front stretch and slam each other in the infield wall. Around lap 167, another major crash occurred.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Rock400Lap167Crash.jpg
Yep I avoided that one as well. [cool]

Then the race finally went green until the final few laps. Desperate racers were in the back trying to improve their position as on lap 194 the #02 car was flipped.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Rock400Lap197Crash.jpg
Yeah that really does hurt.

This left a two lap shootout when the smoke cleared. It would be the #11, #47, #46 cars battling for the win. The green flag flew and Darrell burst out in front by a couple of car lengths. Ron was trying to hold off a hard charging Mr. T but on the final lap, Mr T managed to bump Ron out of the way on the final turn but the momentum that Darrell had built up was too much and DW walked away with the win.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Rock400FinalLap.jpg
Oh so close, yet so far away.

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 1 11 Darrell Waltrip 95.805 197 50 Running
2 37 46 Mr. Tennessee 0.86 197 17 Running
3 29 47 Ron Bouchard 1.29 197 21 Running
4 11 24 Jim Vandlver 1.36 197 5 Running
5 30 66 Phil Parsons 1.41 197 9 Running
6 25 52 Jimmy Means 3.74 197 0 Running
7 12 10 Clark Dwyer 3.78 197 0 Running
8 9 1 Lake Speed 4.57 197 0 Running
9 21 17 Sterling Marlin 5.32 197 21 Running
10 24 14 A.J Foyt 1L 196 0 Running
11 43 22 Bobby Allison 1L 196 0 Running
12 41 26 R Hopkins 1L 196 0 Running
13 10 6 DK Ulrich 1L 196 0 Running
14 14 15 Dale Earnhardt 1L 196 0 Retired
15 19 16 David Pearson 3L 194 1 Running
16 3 41 R Thomas 3L 194 6 Running
17 6 27 Tim Richmond 3L 194 0 Running
18 42 02 Dick May 8L 189 0 Retired
19 40 28 Cale Yarborough 8L 189 0 Running
20 16 84 Jody Ridley 8L 189 0 Running
21 5 98 Joe Ruttman 10L 187 13 Retired
22 13 04 Rick Baldwin 35L 162 5 Retired
23 2 3 Ricky Rudd 41L 156 33 Clutch
24 18 7 Kyle Petty 52L 145 0 Accident
25 39 99 Phil Duffie 53L 144 0 Piston
26 4 44 Terry Labonte 119L 78 16 Camshaft
27 28 90 Dick Brooks 129L 68 0 Clutch
28 35 21 Buddy Baker 130L 67 0 Piston
29 27 48 Trevor Boys 131L 66 0 Accident
30 36 2 Mark Martin 134L 63 0 Accident
31 7 43 Richard Petty 138L 59 0 Retired
32 22 67 Buddy Arrington 156L 41 0 Camshaft
33 39 19 Bobby Gerhart 175L 22 0 Piston
34 15 33 Harry Gant 186L 11 0 Accident
35 17 64 Tommy Gale 186L 11 0 Accident
36 31 55 Benny Parsons 191L 6 0 Retired
37 33 88 Geoff Bodine 191L 6 0 Valve
38 26 51 Lennie Pond 191L 6 0 Accident
39 38 70 JD McDuffie 192L 5 0 Accident
40 32 75 Neil Bonnett 192L 5 0 Accident
41 23 71 Dave Marcis 196L 1 0 Retired
42 20 77 Ken Regan 196L 1 0 Accident
43 8 9 Bill Elliott 196L 1 0 Accident

16 Cautions for 64 Laps
50 Lead Changes amongst 12 drivers

I was pretty happy with the run, the setup on the car was perfect and it showed by being able to run down the field when bursts of long racing took place. Being second fastest in practice and warmup told me that. Who was the quickest? Oh a man named Darrell Waltrip.

Hollywood

05-16-2007, 02:11 AM

Mr. Tennessee

05-16-2007, 02:05 PM

I should've done a dynasty of my 1988 season I just finished up...you guys could have seen Richard Petty win his 8th Daytona 500 / win #201.

Good job so far...I have no idea how you're keeping it off the walls with the keyboard, but hats off! I haven't used the keyboard since N3, but it was pretty easy to use back then...tried it on N4 for a day, and went and bought a wheel the very next day [laugh]

You should do that when you start a new season. :)

It's easy, I've raced with a keyboard since the days of NR1, NR2, NR99, NRLegends, NR3. Fingers grow a little weary after running that long but I'm used to it. Brings me back to racing NR1 on my IBM Aptiva I had in 1994.

Hollywood

05-16-2007, 03:20 PM

I ran N2, N2 BGN, and N3 with the keyboard, and it worked well...but something about the N4/N2002/N2003 games just lend themselves so well to wheels. Much more sensitive game I think.

dawg_gone

05-16-2007, 03:40 PM

Mr. Tennessee

05-16-2007, 07:20 PM

I ran N2, N2 BGN, and N3 with the keyboard, and it worked well...but something about the N4/N2002/N2003 games just lend themselves so well to wheels. Much more sensitive game I think.

Yeah they are definitely more wheel friendly. That Rockingham race taxed my video card pretty good when the big crashes kept occurring. It was a miracle I kept the car from crashing. WHat was annoying was when they kept slowing down to 2 mph in the turns on the cautions so I'd have to serve to the left and miss them.

Mr. Tennessee

05-16-2007, 07:22 PM

Seems like you sure are mighty close to some of them accidents, Mr. T. Are you sure you have the sight out of both your eyes? Does your name rhyme with "Swervin'"? ;)

You're killing me man. I'm telling myself I have a thesis to work on. I'm telling myself I don't have time to go out and get this game and hook up my racing wheel. I'm telling myself but I don't seem to be listening. :D

heh, yeah I've been pretty close to the crashes, but I've avoided most of em minus the Daytona wreck. If there was a way to get video from the game replay I would show the replay of the wrecks so you can see exactly what caused it.

JeffHCross

05-17-2007, 01:31 PM

If there was a way to get video from the game replay I would show the replay of the wrecks so you can see exactly what caused it.Fraps? (http://www.fraps.com)

Thompson219

05-17-2007, 08:50 PM

JackRyanWMU

05-17-2007, 09:52 PM

Man alive, something else to remind me that I missed the Golden Age of NASCAR! Nice work so far, MT. :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-18-2007, 12:03 AM

Fraps? (http://www.fraps.com)

That's a cool site. Do you know how to convert an AVI file to something that will load on photobucket?

Mr. Tennessee

05-18-2007, 12:15 AM

wow, i saw the discussion of this on the game forum, but this dynasty is awesome so far and will be following it..I don't follow nascar as much as other sports and my driver knowledge does not expand past this decade so i might beable to catch up alittle bit:) ...Good luck
Thanks for the luck, you need it when you are driving against these cats. :)

Well hopefully as this thing progresses I can help educate the people with the book I have on the drivers and some offseason changes. :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-18-2007, 12:31 AM

Man alive, something else to remind me that I missed the Golden Age of NASCAR! Nice work so far, MT. :)

Well hopefully I can somehow recapture a glimpse of that Golden Age again for you. :)

JeffHCross

05-18-2007, 01:09 PM

That's a cool site. Do you know how to convert an AVI file to something that will load on photobucket?According to the PhotoBucket tutorials ...
Note: Supported video file types are 3g2, 3gp, 3gp2, 3gpp, 3p, asf, avi, divx, dv, dvx, flv, moov, mov, mp4, mpeg4, mpg4, mpe, mpeg, mpg, qt, wmv, xvid, swfIf you really do need to convert it, use http://www.media-convert.com/

Mr. Tennessee

05-19-2007, 08:07 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg

The 1983 Coca-Cola 500

Hampton, GA - The BIG ONE happened today. Dale Earnhardt took the pole in the Coca-Cola 500 and was poised to have a good run and was looking to avoid another DNF on the season. The race started out pretty bland for the most part of the race. Mr. T had known since they unloaded the car at practice that it wasn't a gonna be fast enough to keep pace with the leaders. Having known that, he immediately went to the inside and went from 33rd to 43rd on the opening lap. He had thought about just parking the car and collecting another DNF and 43 points, but realized he would have a good shot at getting some valuable seat time and bring home the car in good condition.

Mr T was already running a lap down when the biggest crash of the season occurred. On lap 33 coming off turn 4 when rookie Mike Potter in the #76 got turned around and it happened.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500Lap33CrashPart1.jpg
There goes Bill

After the #76 spun around for a bit on the turn he caused two more wrecks on the same lap.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500Lap33CrashPart2.jpg
Ow

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500Lap33CrashPart3.jpg
Poor Jimmy Means.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500Lap33CrashPart4.jpg
Glad I avoided this [cool]

The crash took out 18 drivers, and ole Mr. T managed to move up from 43rd to 25th. Smart move to stay out there and just run laps and collect points.

After the crash, it was about 40 laps until the next wreck happened. Kyle Petty just managed to tangle up tires in the fenders with Ronnie Hopkins. Kyle suffered no major damage and got going again, but Hopkins suffered major damage and had to pull it behind the wall.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500Lap77Crash.jpg
That had to suck.

From that point on, it was green flag racing from here on out. That meant everyone had to make a green flag pit stop. [wow] Luckily for the Zaxby's machine, the pit crew managed to get Mr T out there down only four laps instead of five. That really wouldn't matter as teh #46 got lapped again.

Tim Richmond was leading after the pit stops and came back off from the pits and immediately his header blew. Tough break for him, and this opened the door for DW to dominate the final 25 laps of the race and lap all but Kyle Petty to take home the win.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500FinalLapForMe.jpg
YEAH Make it home one ONE piece again![cool]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Atlanta500DWWins.jpg
Domination again by DW

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 6 11 Darell Waltrip 149.44 132 25 Running
2 5 7 Kyle Petty 2.89 132 19 Running
3 13 84 Jody Ridley 1L 131 2 Running
4 27 14 AJ Foyt 1L 131 21 Running
5 34 53 Rick McCray 1L 131 10 Running
6 21 41 Ronnie Thomas 1L 131 1 Running
7 28 90 Dick Brooks 1L 131 3 Running
8 40 51 Lennie Pond 1L 131 3 Running
9 12 98 Joe Ruttman 1L 131 0 Running
10 14 24 Jim Vandlver 1L 131 3 Running
11 29 6 Jim Sauter 1L 131 4 Running
12 15 86 Darryl Sage 1L 131 2 Running
13 39 67 Buddy Arrington 2L 130 0 Running
14 30 21 Buddy Baker 2L 130 4 Running
15 7 77 Ken Regan 2L 130 0 Running
16 10 28 Cale Yarborough 3L 129 0 Running
17 3 88 Geoff Bodine 4L 128 2 Running
18 33 46 Mr. Tennessee 5L 127 0 Running
19 4 3 Ricky Rudd 9L 123 0 Running
20 24 33 Harry Gant 9L 123 0 Running
21 35 03 Eddie Bierschwale11L 121 0 Retired
22 2 44 Terry Labonte 11L 121 11 Running
23 18 27 Tim Richmond 28L 104 16 Header
24 41 10 Clark Dwyer 38L 94 3 Valve
25 22 26 Ronnie Hopkins 58L 74 0 Retired
26 19 04 Rick Baldwin 97L 35 0 Retired
27 11 70 JD McDuffie 97L 35 0 Retired
28 16 47 Ron Bouchard 97L 35 0 Retired
29 1 15 Dale Earnhardt 97L 35 1 Retired
30 42 8 Bobby Hillin Jr 97L 35 0 Accident
31 32 19 Bobby Gerhart 98L 34 0 Retired
32 37 52 Jimmy Means 98L 34 0 Accident
33 38 02 Dick May 98L 34 0 Accident
34 9 9 Bill Elliott 98L 34 0 Retired
35 20 22 Bobby Allison 98L 34 0 Accident
36 8 71 Dave Marcis 98L 34 0 Accident
37 17 1 Lake Speed 98L 34 2 Accident
38 43 66 Phil Parsons 98L 34 0 Accident
39 5 76 Mike Potter 99L 33 0 Accident
40 31 17 Sterling Marlin 99L 33 0 Accident
41 23 43 Richard Petty 99L 33 0 Accident
42 36 74 Bobby Wawak 99L 33 0 Retired
43 26 18 Slick Johnson 99L 33 0 Accident

3 Caution Flags for 9 Laps
52 Lead Changes from 18 drivers.

Well I raced a solid race considering I had the slowest car out there that was not damaged. I had to let the other guys go by so I wouldn't cause a wreck, that hurt having to do that. :(

The next race is at a track I really do love; Darlington. :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-19-2007, 08:46 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg

Figured I would update the standings as we're 4 of 30 races in.

Position # Driver Points Behind Starts Poles Wins Top 5 Top 10 DNF
1 11 D Waltrip 615 -- 4 2 2 2 2 0
2 41 R Thomas 561 54 4 0 0 1 2 0
3 3 R Rudd 531 84 4 1 1 1 2 2
4 14 A Foyt 520 95 4 0 0 2 3 0
5 28 C Yarborough 515 100 4 0 0 1 2 0
6 46 Mr. Tennessee 507 108 4 0 0 2 2 1
7 27 T Richmond 498 117 4 0 0 1 1 1
8 44 T Labonte 497 118 4 0 0 1 1 1
9 22 B Allison 469 146 4 0 0 0 2 1
10 52 J Means 445 170 4 0 0 1 2 1
11 17 S Marlin 439 176 4 0 0 0 2 1
12 04 R Baldwin 429 186 4 0 0 0 1 2
13 84 J Ridley 422 193 4 0 0 0 0 1
14 33 H Gant 422 193 4 0 0 0 1 1
15 90 D Brooks 421 194 4 0 0 0 1 1
16 24 J Vandlver 413 202 3 0 0 1 2 0
17 88 G Bodine 413 202 4 0 0 0 0 1
18 6 D Ulrich 409 206 3 0 0 1 1 0
19 10 C Dwyer 403 206 3 0 0 0 1 1
20 98 J Ruttman 401 214 4 0 0 0 1 2
21 9 B Elliott 398 217 4 0 1 1 1 2
22 43 R Petty 389 226 4 0 0 0 1 2
23 47 R Bouchard 383 232 4 0 0 1 1 2
24 7 K Petty 370 245 4 0 0 1 1 2
25 16 D Pearson 361 254 3 0 0 0 0 0
26 15 D Earnhardt 348 267 4 1 0 0 0 3
27 71 D Marcis 339 276 4 0 0 0 1 2
28 66 P Parsons 333 282 4 0 0 1 1 2
29 1 L Speed 330 285 4 0 0 0 1 2
30 77 K Regan 321 294 4 0 0 0 0 1
31 21 B Baker 320 295 4 0 0 0 0 3
32 67 B Arrington 307 308 4 0 0 0 0 2
33 70 J McDuffie 304 311 4 0 0 0 0 2
34 26 R Hopkins 285 330 3 0 0 0 0 1
35 99 P Duffie 279 336 3 0 0 0 0 1
36 19 B Gerhart 265 350 4 0 0 0 0 3
37 02 D May 243 372 3 0 0 0 0 2
38 64 T Gale 239 376 3 0 0 0 0 1
39 55 B Parsons 202 413 2 0 0 0 1 1
40 51 L Pond 196 419 2 0 0 0 1 1
41 18 S Johnson 182 433 3 0 0 0 0 2
42 2 M Martin 173 442 2 0 0 0 0 1
43 48 T Boys 161 454 2 0 0 0 0 1
44 53 R McCray 160 455 1 0 0 1 1 0
45 6 J Sauter 135 480 1 0 0 0 0 0
46 86 D Sage 132 483 1 0 0 0 0 0
47 87 J Ingalls 130 485 1 0 0 0 0 0
48 03 E Bierschwale 100 515 1 0 0 0 0 1
49 8 B Hillin Jr 73 542 1 0 0 0 0 1
50 87 R Becker 67 548 1 0 0 0 0 0
51 02 L Pearson 64 551 1 0 0 0 0 0
52 24 C Gordon 49 566 1 0 0 0 0 1
53 76 M Potter 46 569 1 0 0 0 0 1
54 75 N Bonnett 43 572 1 0 0 0 0 1
55 74 B Wawak 37 578 1 0 0 0 0 1

Rookies are in Orange.

redandblack

05-19-2007, 08:51 PM

Nice, 6th in the point standings.

dawg_gone

05-19-2007, 11:48 PM

Smart race. Good thing it wasn't Bristol! Did you ever figure out what your setup problem was? Or is it time to fire the ol' crew chief?

Mr. Tennessee

05-20-2007, 12:00 AM

Nice, Sixth in the standings

Yeah, I'm up there right now. Hopefully I can finish in the top 10 in the standings when it is all said and done.

Smart race. Good thing it wasn't Bristol! Did you ever figure out what your setup problem was? Or is it time to fire the ol' crew chief?

Yeah, thanks I figured it was best to just keep running and hope that someone would crash or have an axle go or an engine expire and pick up points. That 18th finish might decide the difference in me finishing in the Top 10 or finishing out of it.

I think you mean Martinsville. ;) Bristol you can get out of the throttle a little bit and get back on it, at Martinsville you have to SLAM on the brakes and SLAM on the gas. Oh boy my fingers just hurt thinking that.

Yeah the problem is that I need a wheel. :) Won't be able to get one for a while as I'm paying off the new computer, so that means keyboard racing till then. :D

dawg_gone

05-20-2007, 06:16 PM

Yeah the problem is that I need a wheel. :) Won't be able to get one for a while as I'm paying off the new computer, so that means keyboard racing till then. :D

Well, you know it's sort of like Madcat football. When you're dealing with a serious handicap, makes it all the easier to root for you.

(Er, I'm referring to Madcat's sliders. Anybody working on their PhD in genetics is not on the short bus.)

JeffHCross

05-20-2007, 06:54 PM

Anybody working on their PhD in genetics is not on the short bus.Well. One could argue that choice belongs on the short bus :D :p [cool]

Mr. Tennessee

05-20-2007, 07:42 PM

Heh you guys crack me up [laugh]

Thompson219

05-20-2007, 07:56 PM

nice run...Darlington should be interesting

Mr. Tennessee

05-22-2007, 11:22 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg

The 1983 TranSouth 500

Darlington, SC - This race should of taken place in Bristol. By the time the race ended everyone could claim they had damage on the car. There was a pissed off Mr. T by the time the race ended and more pissed off racers at each other when the checkered flew.

It was a mere eight laps into the race when Lake Speed, Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Gerhart, and Ken Regan got together and crashed. This brought out the caution and surprisingly all but one driver on the lead lap went in for pits. Ole Mr. T had decided to stay out and pick up a smooth five points. The racing went green and Mr. T was out in front.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Transouth500LeadingEarlyLap23.jpg
Feels good to be out front again :)

Then around lap 31, Buddy Baker thought he was just awesome. I was running second and he got below me coming off the turn and spun me out.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Transouth500DarlingtonBuddyBakerS.jpg
#$R%$#%!!!@#$!!!#@$%#$%^#$^$!$!@ [evil]!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So ole Mr. T did his best to minimize the damage that was going to be inflicted upon my car. The #46 chevy avoided getting the front of the car into the wall and managed to have ole Dave Marcis slam into the side of the car. That could be fixed and not really hurt the performance of the car.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Transouth500DarlingtonSaveCarfrom.jpg
Saving the crucial part of the car.

After that, there were a few crashes that involved a single car being spun out, or someone blowing an engine. Around lap 64, Lennie Pond got spun around and brought out the caution. Once again all but Mr. T came in for tires and fuel, so the Zaxby's car was out in front again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Transouth500DarlingtonLeadingAfte.jpg
The lead wouldn't last for long, but oh how sweet it is. :D

It didn't take long for another caution to come out. On lap 76, a valve on JD McDuffie's car blew and brought out the caution for debris. Mr. T came in and got tires and fuel and racing resumed after the caution. On lap 110, Dick Brooks smacked the wall Darlington style and this caused Mark Martin to hit Joe Ruttman and spin out. While that was going on Mr. T was right behind the action and tried to avoid the crash but got swiped on the front side.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83DarlingtonDickBrookssmackswalland.jpg
Ugh!

The Zaxby's pit crew worked feverishly to keep Mr. T on the lead lap and got the car patched up to almost perfection. Late in the race, about lap 130, Buddy Baker was racing along fine and came off the turn and ole Lennie Pond hit him exactly the same way ole Mr. T got hit. Now all Mr. T could do was smile while driving by and seeing the idiot that spun him out earlier with a crumpled up car.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83Transouth500DarlingtonBuddyBakerg.jpg
hahahahahahahhah!!!!!

So after that, the final stretch in the race had gotten here. The only driver to escape any damage at all was the leader, Terry Labonte. On the final lap of the race, Mr. T had finally caught Darrell Waltrip as he decided it was a good time to meet the Lady in Black. DW hit the wall and spun right down in front of me and ole Mr. T tapped him and he spun out and caused a major crash.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83DarlingtonTransouth500IspinoutDWf.jpg
Nascar will probably summon the #46 car to the hauler after the race. [oops]

Terry Labonte finally got his second win in his short Nascar career.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/83DarlingtonTransouthTerrywins.jpg
Bud's on him!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 3 44 Terry Labonte 94.976 147 61 Running
2 22 46 Mr. Tennessee 1.57 147 25 Running
3 6 7 Kyle Petty 4.68 147 0 Running
4 43 6 DK Ulrich 6.64 147 0 Running
5 31 71 Dave Marcis 7.79 147 0 Running
6 11 17 Sterling Marlin 10.9 147 5 Running
7 9 11 Darrell Waltrip 1L 146 43 Accident
8 36 18 Slick Johnson 1L 146 0 Running
9 4 33 Harry Gant 1L 146 0 Accident
10 25 21 Buddy Baker 1L 146 0 Running
11 17 9 Bill Elliott 1L 146 0 Fuel Leak
12 34 2 Mark Martin 1L 146 0 Running
13 19 04 Rick Baldwin 1L 146 0 Running
14 39 02 Dick May 1L 146 0 Running
15 8 27 Tim Richmond 1L 146 2 Retired
16 40 31 Billy Harvey 2L 145 1 Accident
17 24 90 Dick Brooks 2L 145 0 Accident
18 35 82 Mark Stahl 2L 145 0 Accident
19 29 01 Butch Lindley 2L 145 0 Retired
20 14 24 Jim Vandlver 2L 145 0 Running
21 13 52 Jimmy Means 2L 145 0 Running
22 23 3 Ricky Rudd 4L 143 0 Running
23 21 67 Buddy Arrington 5L 142 0 Running
24 41 51 Lennie Pond 5L 142 0 Running
25 12 75 Neil Bonnett 36L 111 0 Clutch
26 16 88 Geoff Bodine 36L 111 0 Accident
27 37 86 Darryl Sage 37L 110 0 Accident
28 2 28 Cale Yarborough 37L 110 6 Accident
29 18 98 Joe Ruttman 37L 110 0 Header
30 7 66 Phil Parsons 47L 100 0 Tire
31 27 70 JD McDuffie 71L 76 0 Valve
32 30 74 Bobby Wawak 107L 40 0 Retired
33 28 55 Benny Parsons 115L 32 0 Clutch
34 15 41 Ronnie Thomas 115L 32 0 Accident
35 38 5 Greg Sacks 116L 31 0 Accident
36 1 22 Bobby Allison 116L 31 3 Accident
37 5 43 Richard Petty 132L 15 0 Header
38 42 0 Delma Cowart 133L 14 0 Accident
39 10 15 Dale Earnhardt 137L 10 1 Retired
40 33 64 Tommy Gale 139L 8 0 Retired
41 20 1 Lake Speed 139L 8 0 Retired
42 32 19 Bobby Gerhart 139L 8 0 Retired
43 26 77 Ken Regan 139L 8 0 Retired

Pretty elated with the run! Everyone kept crashing each other and getting damage on their car, so this really turned into a version of Bristol.

dawg_gone

05-22-2007, 11:45 PM

I love it. Fantastic keyboard run, Mr. T. [laugh] at DW.

Plottydawg

05-23-2007, 11:03 AM

You awesome bastard. Spinning out DW made my day. You just became the 1983 version of Jeff Gordon. May the curse of NASCAR darken your blood soul.

I love the captions when you get spun out, or something bad happens. Keep it going, I shall too be reading.

JackRyanWMU

05-23-2007, 07:26 PM

ThirtyThree

05-23-2007, 09:54 PM

Any update on getting a wheel or do you need a new computer before you can do that?

Mr. Tennessee

05-24-2007, 09:08 AM

Any update on getting a wheel or do you need a new computer before you can do that?

Just need to find the funds to get a new wheel, which will be oh probably at the endof the year. :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-24-2007, 09:11 AM

Looks like the Lady handed out more than her share of Darlington Stripes this time around. That had to be a rollercoaster race. You're leadin', then you're wreckin', then you're leadin', then you're wreckin'. :D

It was crazy! We'd go green for about 5 or 10 laps then bam, someone would smack the wall and bring out acaution. That got old, I wanna race not pace!

Mr. Tennessee

05-24-2007, 11:49 AM

I love it. Fantastic keyboard run, Mr. T. [laugh] at DW.

:D I'm sure ole DW didn't mind. [laugh]

Mr. Tennessee

05-24-2007, 11:54 AM

Hollywood

05-25-2007, 06:07 PM

lol, Jeff Gordon? When did he spin out people?

After he got divorced :)

Mr. Tennessee

05-26-2007, 10:46 PM

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The 1983 Northwestern Bank 400

North Wilkesboro, NC - Ah a short track race. Mr. T finally won a pole! The pole was a nice honor to get as that was the first pole in Mr. T's short career. The race turned out to be a real old fashioned race that you would find on a Saturday night.

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It feels nice to be on the pole at the start of the race. :)

It wouldn't take long as only four laps into the race, a caution occurred. The #31 was just driving along minding his own business and then he met the side of the #66 car. Kyle Petty and Ronnie Thomas were also involved in the crash.

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That sucks for the #31 team.

After that caution, we went back to racing. Tim Richmond jumped the start and 'rammed' the back-end of ole Mr. T and caused him to get loose going into turn one. This caused Tim to take the lead and Mr. T fell back to fifth. Around lap 12, Ricky Rudd tried going three wide into the turn underneath Mr. T and that was not the best idea in the world for him to do. This caused Rudd to destroy his car and the side of the #46 Zaxby's car got a 'Darlington stripe'.

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Poor Rudd, don't go three wide into a turn!

Mr. T came into pit lane and was evidently 'too fast' going into the pits and was given a black flag. So this caused Mr. T to go down two laps. Around lap 23, Nascar flew a caution for debris and this let everyone come in. Ole Mr. T didn't go in and managed to be out in front of Darrell Waltrip on the inside lane on the restart. Both drivers were a lap down, and the points leader DW should of thought better than to do this, but he decided it was a good idea to get revenge on ole Mr. T. On the restart he got underneath the side of Mr. T and turned him around and Mr. T kept on the gas so he wound up upside down for the second time this season! Alas, Darrell was sad to find out that the Zaxby's car wasn't destroyed in the incident as ole Mr. T kept on trucking and got it into pit lane. This pit stop caused Mr. T go down a total of four laps.

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YOU SON OF A #####!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[evil]!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the Zaxby's crew got the car fixed the best they could, Mr. T did what he knew he could do best; drive the wheels off the car. It would take some lucky breaks to get back on the lead lap, but with a bullring of a track it was quite feasible. :)

After going green from the DW revenge wreck, it was about 30 laps before the next caution. Mr. T had managed to get the car steady and was making laps but ole Tim Richmond got in the way and Mr. T hadn't forgotten what he had done earlier in the race and gave him a tap on the left side and it caused Tim to spin around and smack the wall. This put Mr. T down only 3 laps.

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Like I didn't mean to do that [oops]

We got going again and it didn't take long for another wreck to happen. On lap 86, Terry Labonte got in the way of the other guys and managed to SLAM the wall hard. There goes the driver that was second place in points! Terry was alright, but the car was destroyed. [down] This was good for Mr. T however, as he was now only down 2 laps and affected the whole field as people who were making pit stops now were caught because of the caution flag flying.

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Ow!

After that caution, there would be some solid green flag racing. It would be quite a while before the next one came out. On lap 127, Buddy Baker was trying to not go down a lap to the leader Geoff Bodine, and in the process hit Ken Regan and brought out the yellow. As Mr. T was going around to collect his free pass, Geoff Bodine took a hit out of him when the drivers were coming around to get lined up behind the pace car. Mr. T didn't come in to get it fixed till later on in the race, but the word is that you didn't want to be listening on his radio. :o

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It's good to be 2 seconds ahead of this [cool]

Finally got to go green for a bit and Mr. T managed to get a jump on the restart and out jump Dale Earnhardt to be on the tail end of the lead lap. It would be a good solid 20 laps until the caution would fly for the final time. On lap 145, Lake Speed wasn't paying attention to his driving and managed to tap Neil Bonnett around and brought out the caution. Ole Mr. T avoided the wreck and managed to be back on the lead lap!

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Lake Speed forgot how to hit the brake pedal!

That set up for a 15 lap showdown between Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough, Ron Bouchard, Lake Speed, and Sterling Marlin. The other five on the lead lap wouldn't have a chance to be in it as the lap traffic would get in the way. Dale led for four of the final 15 laps, but Cale managed to take the lead away from Earnhardt when he tapped Earnhardt to get him just loose enough to get around him and take the lead for good. Cale would go on to win his first race of the year!

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Cale is truly one tough customer.

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 9 28 Cale Yarborugh 69.786 160 63 Running
2 35 47 Ron Bouchard 0.7 160 0 Running
3 12 1 Lake Speed 0.72 160 0 Running
4 7 15 Dale Earnhardt 0.91 160 13 Running
5 20 17 Sterling Marlin 1.04 160 20 Running
6 32 04 Rick Baldwin 3.48 160 0 Running
7 28 71 Dave Marcis 5.27 160 0 Running
8 36 8 Bobby Hillin Jr 5.62 160 0 Running
9 34 75 Neil Bonnett 8.18 160 13 Running
10 1 46 Mr. Tennessee 9.72 160 10 Running
11 17 2 Mark Martin 1L 159 0 Running
12 21 9 Bill Elliott 1L 159 0 Running
13 31 41 Ronnie Thomas 1L 159 0 Running
14 4 22 Bobby Allison 1L 159 26 Running
15 26 19 Bobby Gerhart 1L 159 0 Running
16 8 98 Joe Ruttman 1L 159 0 Running
17 27 01 Butch Lindley 1L 159 0 Running
18 22 67 Buddy Arrington 1L 159 0 Running
19 29 52 Jimmy Means 1L 159 0 Running
20 19 86 Darryl Sage 1L 159 0 Running
21 10 88 Geoff Bodine 2L 158 10 Running
22 18 7 Kyle Petty 2L 158 0 Running
23 37 16 Morgan Shepherd 2L 158 0 Running
24 11 27 Tim Richmond 2L 158 4 Running
25 3 33 Harry Gant 3L 157 0 Running
26 14 21 Buddy Baker 3L 157 0 Running
27 6 11 Darrell Waltrip 3L 157 0 Running
28 23 43 Richard Petty 3L 157 0 Running
29 16 66 Phil Parsons 3L 157 0 Running
30 38 70 JD McDuffie 7L 153 0 Running
31 25 77 Ken Regan 8L 152 0 Running
32 15 24 Jim Vandlver 43L 117 0 Piston
33 5 44 Terry Labonte 74L 86 0 Accident
34 13 90 Dick Brooks 83L 77 1 Accident
35 30 6 DK Ulrich 120L 40 0 Accident
36 33 55 Benny Parsons 139L 21 0 Retired
37 2 3 Ricky Rudd 148L 12 0 Accident
38 24 31 Billie Harvey 156L 4 0 Retired

There were 11 caution flags for 51 laps and 35 lead changes amongst 9 drivers.

I was pretty elated to finish 10th! The pit crew did a heck of a job to get 'er patched up and get me back out there to stay competitive. I managed to get a jump on the restart and just held on when I got out in front of the leaders. Waltrip and Bodine will get a nice revenge tap from me pretty soon. :D DW really hurt his points lead with that spin on me in the first part of the race. Going in he had a 82 point lead over me and Terry but now it got shrunk to a mere 24 points! :o

redandblack

05-26-2007, 10:48 PM

Waltrip must not have forgot about last week.

dawg_gone

05-26-2007, 11:12 PM

Mr. Tennessee

05-26-2007, 11:18 PM

Nice! For the record, I hate North Wilkesboro almost as much as Martinsville. What was it Ernie Elliott once said? Put a drain plug in it and fill it with water and you'd have a good pond? [laugh] I'm a big fan of Bristol, however. And Dover. Why don't you update us with a season schedule, the winners so far, and Mr. T's finish on each one?
I knew I was forgetting something!

I on the other hand love Martinsville and Wilkes and Bristol and Nashville. :)

I'll have to edit the first post to put that up.

Mr. Tennessee

05-26-2007, 11:26 PM

Waltrip must not have forgot about last week.

He sure didn't, but he hurt his points standings big time!

Mr. Tennessee

05-27-2007, 12:22 AM

Plottydawg

05-28-2007, 05:45 PM

Oh boy I cant wait until you race Bristol.

And ol DW needs to boogity boogity lets go racing off the damn course. God there are few people I hate...the fictitious version of him in your game is one person.

Mr. Tennessee

05-30-2007, 04:35 PM

Mr. Tennessee

05-30-2007, 07:26 PM

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The 1983 Virginia National Bank 500
aka The Junkyard 500

Martinsville, Va - By the time the race was over, all the cars had damage on them. The race opened with Benny Parsons spinning out DK Ulrich. After that, the green flag flew for 15 laps.

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Getting Five Bonus Points

Around lap 17, Benny Parsons got a dose of his own medicine and managed to get spun out. The spin took him out of the race for the day. After that racing resumed until lap 45 when there was a multi-car pileup.

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This is never a good idea

At lap 77, the #01 car lost a tire and smacked the wall, on lap 80 another crash occurred that to take out #74 B Wawak on the pacing laps under caution.

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LOL at Bobby Wawak!

Then after that caution, the racing resumed and had a few cautions sprinkled in there. Finally, around lap 140 a major one occurred.

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Yeah I'm happy about this.

Cale was impatient behind the #86 car driven by D Sage, so he knocked him out of the way. This caused Mr T to get some more damage on his car to go along with the damage that was sustained thanks to Ron Bouchard hitting Mr. T's car on a cool down caution lap. Mr. T had to come in and pit and as usual got flagged for a black flag for speeding and he had to go to the end of the longest line, but this time was different. Nascar officials said that he 'passed' under yellow and gave him a real black flag. This put Mr. T down two laps.

Geoff Bodine getting spun out by Neil Bonnett on lap 160 helped Mr. T to remove one lap. After the caution flew for a few laps, racing resumed. On lap 180 as Mr. T was making up time for losing two laps, Cale got impatient once again and spun out the driver in front of him. This crash caused the whole right side of Mr. T's car to be damaged, but ol' Mr. T couldn't pit and lose a 12th place spot with so few laps left.

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Cale you need to go home!

After the caution finished, the green flag flew for the final time. Mr. T managed to finagle his way around some slower cars and managed to see the two legends battle it out for the win. Bobby Allison and Richard Petty managed to bang fenders on the final few laps but Bobby wasn't strong enough to get past Petty on the last lap and Petty managed to go on to win his 196th race!

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The King returns to his throne!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 2 43 R Petty 61.221 200 47 Running
2 17 22 B Allison 0.33 200 32 Running
3 7 98 J Ruttman 2.04 200 7 Running
4 28 1 L Speed 6.11 200 0 Running
5 9 11 D Waltrip 6.31 200 55 Running
6 18 90 D Brooks 7.85 200 0 Running
7 19 18 S Johnson 8.97 200 0 Running
8 5 19 B Gerhart 16.02 200 7 Running
9 11 46 Mr. Tennessee 1L 199 26 Running
10 10 44 T Labonte 1L 199 0 Running
11 8 21 B Baker 1L 199 0 Running
12 22 67 B Arrington 1L 199 0 Running
13 12 3 R Rudd 1L 199 0 Running
14 33 6 D Ulrich 1L 199 0 Running
15 3 88 G Bodine 1L 199 0 Running
16 4 66 P Parsons 1L 199 0 Running
17 6 2 M Martin 1L 199 0 Running
18 39 52 J Means 2L 198 0 Running
19 27 24 J Vandlver 2L 198 16 Running
20 23 71 D Marcis 2L 198 0 Running
21 16 75 N Bonnett 2L 198 0 Running
22 13 70 J McDuffie 2L 198 0 Running
23 1 28 C Yarborough 2L 198 0 Running
24 26 15 D Earnhardt 3L 197 0 Running
25 34 7 K Petty 3L 197 0 Running
26 21 77 K Regan 3L 197 0 Running
27 24 27 T Richmond 3L 197 0 Running
28 29 86 D Sage 3L 197 0 Running
29 36 51 L Pond 3L 197 0 Running
30 40 0 D Cowart 4L 196 0 Running
31 30 82 M Stahl 5L 195 0 Running
32 15 33 H Gant 5L 195 10 Running
33 42 76 M Potter 5L 195 0 Running
34 31 64 T Gale 6L 194 0 Running
35 14 74 B Wawak 14L 186 0 Retired
36 20 04 R Baldwin 120L 80 0 Accident
37 41 01 B Lindley 123L 77 0 Retired
38 37 47 R Bouchard 140L 60 0 Retired
39 32 9 B Elliott 144L 56 0 Retired
40 25 84 J Ridley 167L 33 0 Retired
41 43 17 S Marlin 174L 26 0 Retired
42 35 55 B Parsons 183L 17 0 Accident
43 38 8 B Hillin Jr 199L 1 0 Retired

10 Lead Changes amongst 8 drivers. 14 Caution flags for 72 laps.

I really do enjoy driving at this track. It's hard to drive at because you have to hit your marks going into the turn, but if you can do that you will have a good day.

Looking forward to Talladega!!!!! :)

Plottydawg

05-31-2007, 08:19 AM

dawg_gone

05-31-2007, 10:25 PM

Plotty, you come down to OKC we need to hook up at Pole Position Raceway, trade some electric gokart paint. ;)

Congrats on a fine, patient race there Mr. T. Now let's move on to the real racing.

Mr. Tennessee

05-31-2007, 10:53 PM

At least at Talladega you will get some open, real fast-racing.

And at least DW didn't win the damn race. This beat down ass-grabbing is one typical race he likes...and likes to win. Richard Petty winning---thats tolerable.

He led the most laps though. So he stretches his lead on the field a little bit more. Bobby is starting to make a rise in the ranks of the standings and make it a challenge.

I'm looking forward to Talladega, as I'll definitely get that one in this weekend.

Mr. Tennessee

05-31-2007, 10:54 PM

Plotty, you come down to OKC we need to hook up at Pole Position Raceway, trade some electric gokart paint. ;)

Congrats on a fine, patient race there Mr. T. Now let's move on to the real racing.

Ah yes, Talladega. I like it as much as I do Charlotte. Hopefully I won't get turned upside down by DW like I did at Daytona. [evil]

JackRyanWMU

05-31-2007, 11:40 PM

Doesn't surprise me that at a tough racetrack with lots of cautions, a tried and true veteran like Petty would come out on top.

Looking forward to Talladega. Keep that hammer to the floor!

Mr. Tennessee

06-02-2007, 06:03 PM

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The 1983 Winston 500

Talladega, AL - This was a good race. Talladega usually brings out the best in the drivers and the show that is put on is simply awesome. 13 drivers would swap the lead for 21 times today. Ricky Rudd managed to nab his second pole of the year. Too bad he didn't even get to lead a lap. Terry Labonte managed to nab the lead away for the first 5 laps and then ole Mr. T, who started 20th, had worked his way up to take the lead from Terry.

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Yeah man I'm enjoying this. :)

It was green flag racing until lap 50 when Benny Parsons had something go wrong with his car and Nascar brought out the caution for the debris on the track. It was a battle from the green flag to that caution, as the drivers had to make two green flag pit stops. Mr T's crew had a problem with a tire and cost him a few spots pushing him back to 26th. After the second stop, the Zaxby's crew got Mr. T out in the 15th position and when the caution flew, ole Mr. T was running 9th.

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Darn, I thought we were gonna go a whole race without a caution.

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Thank you Nascar for having the brains to call a caution for debris, it was hard to drive like this!

Pit road was busy during the caution as all 30+ drivers on the lead lap came down and got tires and gas. The Zaxby's crew had a great stop and got Mr. T out in fourth! Harry Gant was leading when the green flag flew and would be shuffled back after a few laps.

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This is fun

Richard Petty managed to take the lead from Gant and was leading on lap 62 and ole Mr. T was running right behind him. Then with five laps to go, ole Tim "I'm really not a good driver" Richmond got impatient and going into turn one got into Mr. T. This crash would decide the outcome of the race. Richard Petty leading the race was way ahead of the crash and held on to win his 197th race of his career!

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TIM

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RICHMOND

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WILL

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PAY

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FOR

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THIS

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AT

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NASHVILLE! [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil] [evil]

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Petty was glad the caution came out to give him another win!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 4 43 R Petty 158.049 76 19 Running
2 11 21 B Baker 0.64 76 0 Running
3 7 27 T Richmond 0.97 76 0 Running
4 14 67 B Arrington 1.29 76 0 Running
5 23 01 B Lindley 1.61 76 1 Running
6 24 1 L Speed 1.93 76 0 Running
7 16 9 B Elliott 2.26 76 19 Running
8 31 75 N Bonnett 2.58 76 0 Running
9 15 24 J Vandlver 2.91 76 0 Running
10 22 88 G Bodine 3.23 76 6 Running
11 8 11 D Waltrip 3.55 76 1 Running
12 34 47 R Bouchard 3.88 76 0 Running
13 2 44 T Labonte 4.53 76 4 Running
14 1 3 R Rudd 4.86 76 0 Running
15 6 28 C Yarborough 5.19 76 11 Running
16 38 5 G Sacks 5.52 76 0 Running
17 10 33 H Gant 5.85 76 2 Running
18 35 52 J Means 6.18 76 1 Running
19 5 98 J Ruttman 6.51 76 0 Running
20 39 66 P Parsons 6.84 76 0 Running
21 26 2 M Martin 7.17 76 0 Running
22 41 6 D Ulrich 7.51 76 0 Running
23 3 90 D Brooks 8.17 76 0 Running
24 13 15 D Earnhardt 8.51 76 3 Running
25 28 77 K Regan 9.52 76 0 Running
26 12 19 B Gerhart 9.86 76 0 Running
27 43 26 R Hopkins 10.2 76 0 Running
28 21 84 J Ridley 10.54 76 0 Running
29 33 86 D Sage 10.88 76 0 Running
30 42 76 M Potter 1L 75 0 Running
31 18 48 T Boys 1L 75 0 Running
32 32 51 L Pond 1L 75 0 Running
33 27 41 R Thomas 1L 75 0 Running
34 40 64 T Gale 2L 74 0 Running
35 37 74 B Wawak 2L 74 0 Running
36 20 46 Mr. Tennessee 5L 71 7 Running
37 29 17 S Marlin 5L 71 0 Accident
38 36 31 B Harvey 6L 70 1 Accident
39 9 71 D Marcis 24L 52 0 Gearbox
40 30 55 B Parsons 26L 50 0 Header
41 17 7 K Petty 30L 46 1 Ignition
42 25 8 B Hillin Jr 43L 33 0 Piston
43 19 22 B Allison 61L 15 0 Piston

There were 2 caution flags for 8 laps and 21 lead changes amongst 13 drivers.

OH man I was sooooo pissed after the race. Tim should of waited coming out of the turn to do that. I'll get him back don't worry. I took a beating in the points race. Lost quite a bit of points to DW. Finishing 36th will do that to you. [down]

redandblack

06-02-2007, 06:22 PM

Time to go virtual DW on Tim Richmond.

JeffHCross

06-02-2007, 06:28 PM

Okay, that wreck was with 5 laps to go, right?

How did you end up 5L down, but running?

EDIT: I'm definitely installing 2k3 as soon as finals end and my computer's running again.

Mr. Tennessee

06-02-2007, 06:54 PM

Okay, that wreck was with 5 laps to go, right?

How did you end up 5L down, but running?

EDIT: I'm definitely installing 2k3 as soon as finals end and my computer's running again.

Yeah, five to go and I was running second, probably could of gotten my first W of my career but oh no Tim had to be like that. [evil]

I didn't get out of my car till the race was declared over and had the tow truck tow me to pit lane.

Gwood, I think I'll go Dale Earnhardt on the guy. THis is twice this year he's gotten into me.

Lets see Rivals I have gained since the start of the season:

Darrell Waltrip
Tim Richmond

Plottydawg

06-02-2007, 08:05 PM

Time to start a rivals list....I shall title it....

NASCAR Guys That MUST Die
1. Darrell Waltrip
2. Tim Richmond

Mr. Tennessee

06-02-2007, 08:17 PM

Time to start a rivals list....I shall title it....

NASCAR Guys That MUST Die
1. Darrell Waltrip
2. Tim Richmond

LOL, how about, Drivers I need to put in the wall on a weekly basis. :D

dawg_gone

06-02-2007, 08:19 PM

You got to admit though that was some awesome photos.

And you almost saved it. It's not like TR pushed you into the wall or anything. ;)

Mr. Tennessee

06-02-2007, 08:23 PM

You got to admit though that was some awesome photos.

And you almost saved it. It's not like TR pushed you into the wall or anything. ;)

Awesome for you guys, but I didn't feel good after the wreck. I feel sore after taht tumble.

Oh I would of saved the car had the #64 car (WHO WAS A BLOODY LAP DOWN) had not been right behind us.

He spins me i go to the grass Tim's there and he bumps me back up to the wall with my side there but the #64 is there and the crash begins. Stupid lapped down people.

JackRyanWMU

06-02-2007, 08:41 PM

Tim Richmond = The Juan Pablo Montoya of his day? [oops]

Tough loss, MT.

Mr. Tennessee

06-03-2007, 07:59 PM

Tim Richmond = The Juan Pablo Montoya of his day? [oops]

Tough loss, MT.

Yeah that was a little hard to take, I was running in the top 10 almost all day and to have a chance to beat the King and get my first win and to have it turn out that way was just disheartening. [down]

Gatorguy91

06-04-2007, 02:50 PM

Tough Luck with Richmond.

Kill his pit cheif and crew.

Nice Dynasty BTW

Mr. Tennessee

06-04-2007, 05:16 PM

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The 1983 Marty Robbins 420

Nashville, TN -This was an awesome race! Ole Mr. T was sitting on the pole. The race would run green for the first 58 laps. Durning the green flag run, Dale Earnhardt had something go wrong with his engine once again and retired only 15 laps into the race. The 58th lap saw a multi-car crash when DK Ulrich got turned around and the caution caushed cars to further the damage on the drivers.

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Mr. T putting the Points Leader a lap down.

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The nasty crash.

During the Pit stops, Bobby Allison was coming out of the pit and Harry Gant was coming into his stall. This proceeded to have Allison hit the rear of Mr. T's car. Luckily for Mr. T, this was a short track and would not affect the car too much.
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You know this wouldn't be a race without Mr. T getting some damage.

We would go racing until around lap 73. On the lap, ole Mr. T got revenge on Tim Richmond. Tim was running a little slow and Mr. T spun him out. Unfortunately for Mr. T, Tim would manage to finish the race.

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Payback [oops]

After that, there was two more cautions. The #84 car and Neil Bonnett spun each other around in the turn. This let all the cars come in and get fuel and tires to go the distance. The other caution occurred with about 40 laps to go. Benny Parsons had a tire go down and brought out a caution. This would put him down 5 laps.

After that final caution it was on! Cale Yarborough, Richard Petty, Terry Labonte, Tim Richmond, Harry Gant, Bobby Allison, Geoff Bodine, Joe Ruttman, Kyle Petty, and Mr. T. This set the stage for a 40 lap showdown. It took Mr. T 30 laps to catch the leader, Cale Yarborough. Mr. T had his chances to get around Cale, and could of knocked him out, but Mr T took his time and worked Cale to give the fans a classic finish.

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The last lap!

The final lap was hotly contested. Mr. T got around Cale to take the white flag, and went a little hard into the turn. This allowed Cale to regain the lead for a second. Mr T got around him on the backstretch and took it easy coming into three and four. Off the turn came Mr. T leading Cale by a nose to WIN THE RACE!!!!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MartyRobbins420MrTWINS.jpg
OMG OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOGOGOMGMOMGOMGOMOGMOGOMGO!!!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 1 46 Mr Tennessee 75.99 168 106 Running
2 4 28 C Yarborough 0.18 168 52 Running
3 14 27 T Richmond 3.76 168 0 Running
4 2 33 H Gant 3.94 168 0 Running
5 17 88 G Bodine 4.43 168 0 Running
6 3 22 B Allison 4.49 168 0 Running
7 16 43 R Petty 4.75 168 5 Running
8 12 44 T Labonte 12.14 168 5 Running
9 6 7 K Petty 13.47 168 0 Running
10 7 98 J Ruttman 16.90 168 0 Running
11 25 90 D Brooks 1L 167 0 Running
12 21 2 M Martin 1L 167 0 Running
13 31 1 L Speed 1L 167 0 Running
14 22 17 S Marlin 1L 167 0 Running
15 19 67 B Arrington 1L 167 0 Running
16 20 11 D Waltrip 2L 166 0 Running
17 11 66 P Parsons 2L 166 0 Running
18 23 52 J Means 2L 166 0 Running
19 33 77 K Regan 2L 166 0 Running
20 34 71 D Marcis 2L 166 0 Running
21 32 8 B Hillin Jr 3L 165 0 Running
22 8 64 T Gale 3L 165 0 Running
23 27 48 T Boys 3L 165 0 Running
24 30 0 D Cowart 3L 165 0 Running
25 10 55 B Parsons 5L 163 0 Running
26 26 75 N Bonnett -46L 122 0 Accident
27 37 84 J Ridley -46L 122 0 Retired
28 15 3 R Rudd -95L 73 0 Accident
29 24 47 R Bouchard 96L 72 0 Retired
30 13 9 B Elliott 109L 59 0 Accident
31 9 41 R Thomas 109L 59 0 Retired
32 35 6 D Ulrich 110L 58 0 Retired
33 28 19 B Gerhart 110L 58 0 Accident
34 29 86 D Sage 110L 58 0 Accident
35 18 24 J Vandlver 110L 58 0 Retired
36 36 18 S Johnson 110L 58 0 Retired
37 5 15 D Earnhardt 153L 15 0 Header

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MartyRobbins420MrTcelebrates.jpg
Trying to do a burnout deal[cool]

Man that was just awesome! Nobody got to spin me out, haha.

JeffHCross

06-04-2007, 05:28 PM

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Way to go Mr. T!

Plottydawg

06-04-2007, 06:42 PM

Yaaaaa dude. Your first win and you got revenge on ol Tim Ruchmond.

Question is did you get pulled over by a "cop" ala Days of Thunder after the movie?

Thompson219

06-04-2007, 07:36 PM

yah dude awesome.just amazing. There were a couple times you had a chace and someones who i will not mention f'd it up. GREAT WIN!!

Anyways this really makes you appreciate the randomness of it all(hitting you in the pits etc). Maybe EA for once can do that. Sounds kinda like a recycled line doesn't it

ThirtyThree

06-04-2007, 07:43 PM

Tim Richmond = The Juan Pablo Montoya of his day? [oops]

Tough loss, MT.

Oh Jesus no. Richmond would have won many championships if he didn't pass away. Read up on they guy, he was sick behind the wheel. Juan's good, but isn't Tim Richmond good - yet.

Congrats on the win my man!

pavel_quad

06-04-2007, 08:49 PM

Man, count me in as a reader. I had an old version of this game back in '96? or so...This brings back a lot of memories, even though I know nothing about NASCAR outside of that game and semi-annual conversations with my father in-law...Great work!

Gatorguy91

06-04-2007, 10:24 PM

Awesome you won also 420.. heheheheheh 420.

dawg_gone

06-04-2007, 11:28 PM

That flagman's looking down at you, going WTF??

JackRyanWMU

06-05-2007, 12:08 AM

Oh Jesus no. Richmond would have won many championships if he didn't pass away. Read up on they guy, he was sick behind the wheel. Juan's good, but isn't Tim Richmond good - yet.

Congrats on the win my man!

I was actually comparing the virtual Tim Richmond's affinity for wrecking fellow competitors to the real-life Juan Pablo Montoya's similar actions. ;)

Way to go Mr T! Be sure to plant a big kiss on Miss Winston. :)

Iron Dragon

06-05-2007, 11:03 AM

Yay for winning. YOU owned Tim Richmond. And you got damaged in the pits.

Mr. Tennessee

06-05-2007, 09:05 PM

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Way to go Mr. T!

YEAH! That was about what I did after I beat Cale to win the race.

Yaaaaa dude. Your first win and you got revenge on ol Tim Ruchmond.

Question is did you get pulled over by a "cop" ala Days of Thunder after the movie?

Yeah, ole Tim was sad he didn't win. Well, on the way to Dover there was a "cop" that stopped me. [oops]

yah dude awesome.just amazing. There were a couple times you had a chace and someones who i will not mention f'd it up. GREAT WIN!!

Anyways this really makes you appreciate the randomness of it all(hitting you in the pits etc). Maybe EA for once can do that. Sounds kinda like a recycled line doesn't it

Indeed, the whole pit thing was kinda like a WTF moment, I mean that DOES happen. Drivers do have accidents on pit road, see the 1998 Daytona 500. Amazing win at that.

Oh Jesus no. Richmond would have won many championships if he didn't pass away. Read up on they guy, he was sick behind the wheel. Juan's good, but isn't Tim Richmond good - yet.

Congrats on the win my man!

Tim was a tough driver, thus to have him almost kill me at Talladega to turn around to spin him out on the way to my first win in my career was pretty sweet. Not to mention putting ole DW a lap down as well.

Man, count me in as a reader. I had an old version of this game back in '96? or so...This brings back a lot of memories, even though I know nothing about NASCAR outside of that game and semi-annual conversations with my father in-law...Great work!

Thanks, glad you are enjoying it. The NR 1 game was pretty fun, only thing was I couldn't run it on full graphics on my first computer so I had to have it scaled back some, and I had to race with a keyboard. Wish I had my stats from back then, I was pretty good on a keyboard then too.

Awesome you won also 420.. heheheheheh 420. Yep, glad you are enjoying it.

That flagman's looking down at you, going WTF??
[laugh] Yeah, I'm sure burnouts weren't the most popular thing in the world back in 83.

I was actually comparing the virtual Tim Richmond's affinity for wrecking fellow competitors to the real-life Juan Pablo Montoya's similar actions.;)

Way to go Mr T! Be sure to plant a big kiss on Miss Winston. :)

Yep, Miss WInston was indeed happy that a 20 year old was kissing her. Thanks!

Yay for winning. YOU owned Tim Richmond. And you got damaged in the pits.Yep, ole Tim got what was coming to him. This rivalry with he and DW has been on going since the start of the season.
Yeah I got damaged in the pits, I was looking in my rear view mirror and saw that happening and I was like oh no and then it was a WHAM. Damage to the back end.

For all you Nascar History Buffs, tell me who was the other driver to get his win at Nashville?

Thanks for reading guys. Dover will be run tomorrow and I qualified second!

ThirtyThree

06-06-2007, 07:37 AM

I was actually comparing the virtual Tim Richmond's affinity for wrecking fellow competitors to the real-life Juan Pablo Montoya's similar actions. ;)

Ah, I totally missed that. Then I agree 100% with ya Jack!

Mr. Tennessee

06-06-2007, 07:53 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg
The 1983 Mason-Dixon 500

Dover, DE - What a tough track Dover is! 200 laps at Dover is not an easy challenge. The Monster Mile as it is affectionally called, didn't have much in the way of crashes, but it did have a tremendous effect on the points standings with the few cautions that occurred. Bobby Allison won the pole, with Mr. T sitting on the outside pole. The green flag flew to start the race and just like that, Bobby Allison was leading by a half a second. DW got around Mr. T on the fifth lap and for the next 46 laps the running order was Bobby Allison, Darrell Waltrip, Mr T and Tim Richmond.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Lap40Green.jpg
Pretty much was like this the first fourth of the race.

Around lap 60 green flag pit stops finally occurred in Nascar. This was a shock to most fans watching on TV as usually there is a caution that comes out that prevents a green flag stop. However, the Zaxby's crew was ready to go and got Mr. T out and actually gained 5 spots from the miscue Mr T had when he got out of the groove and fell back to 18th.

Finally, on lap 89 a caution occurred. Bobby Allison was minding his own business after the pit stop and was working his way back to the lead when the #02 car hit him and caused him to SLAM the front wall and took him out of commission for the race.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Lap89Crash.jpg
There goes the 8th place racer in the points.

Racing resumed and didn't take long until another caution came out. On lap 100, Ron Bouchard got hit by rookie Sterling Marlin.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Lap100Crash.jpg
LOL! [laugh]

Finally racing resumed and during the green flag run, Mr T had to work his way up from the back in the pack. Making his way up from the 30th position and working his way up to around 15th when Cale thought it was a good idea to get around someone the old fashioned way.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500CaleGetsFrustrated.jpg
Cale you gotta stop doing that when I'm running a few spots from you!

Joe Ruttman somehow managed to save the car and keep on going without bringing out a caution. Racing was good and clean from lap 100 to lap 174. Mr. T had managed to work his way up from 30th to all the way up to 6th when there was 26 to go. The crash occurred when Cale was once again being aggressive and tried to get around the 4th place in the points driver, Terry Labonte. The crash destroyed Terry's car but nicked up Cale's car. Now it was time to pit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Lap174Crash.jpg
Yeah I'm glad I'm not him!

The drawback of pitting while up front, was that he had to come in and pit and get tires and gas. This proved costly as it took Mr. T out of the running. Mr. T's ole rival DW managed to get the pit stop behind him and proceeded to RAM the back of the car thus destroying any chance he had to finish in the top 10. The accident also messed up DW's car so bad that he would finish 3 laps down.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Lap174Pit.jpg
[glare] He must want to keep up the rivalry!

That damage just completely took Mr. T out of running for the win, but didn't take him out of the race. Mr T got to miss a great battle in the final 26 laps where Neil Bonnett, Richard Petty, Buddy Baker, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, and Geoff Bodine battled it out. When the dust settled, Richard Petty was once again a victor. This was his 198th career victory!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983MasonDixon500Pettywins.jpg
What a battle this was for the win!

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 5 43 R Petty 124.846 200 10 Running
2 17 21 B Baker 0.12 200 12 Running
3 12 9 B Elliott 0.21 200 15 Running
4 38 88 G Bodine 0.30 200 6 Running
5 14 7 K Petty 0.99 200 2 Running
6 34 6 D Ulrich 1.08 200 2 Running
7 25 67 B Arrington 1.16 200 4 Running
8 9 15 D Earnhardt 1.25 200 3 Running
9 11 90 D Brooks 1.43 200 2 Running
10 40 19 B Gerhart 1.66 200 5 Running
11 35 75 N Bonnett 1.71 200 7 Running
12 13 2 M Martin 1.76 200 0 Running
13 21 3 R Rudd 1.79 200 8 Running
14 18 17 S Marlin 1.86 200 6 Running
15 36 76 M Potter 2.0 200 16 Running
16 6 27 T Richmond 2.09 200 4 Running
17 27 52 J Means 2.19 200 6 Running
18 28 84 J Ridley 2.20 200 0 Running
19 39 28 C Yarborough 2.28 200 15 Running
20 23 01 B Lindley 2.32 200 1 Running
21 10 77 K Regan 2.55 200 10 Running
22 4 33 H Gant 2.76 200 7 Running
23 32 48 T Boys 2.85 200 0 Running
24 26 55 B Parsons 2.94 200 0 Running
25 30 18 S Johnson 3.03 200 2 Running
26 19 51 L Pond 3.03 200 0 Running
27 24 1 L Speed 3.17 200 1 Running
28 8 47 R Bouchard 3.51 200 2 Running
29 7 98 J Ruttman 3.77 200 1 Running
30 2 46 Mr. Tennessee 6.77 200 1 Running
31 37 0 D Cowart 1L 199 0 Running
32 15 74 B Wawak 1L 199 0 Running
33 16 41 R Thomas 1L 199 0 Running
34 29 64 T Gale 1L 199 0 Running
35 3 11 D Waltrip 2L 198 4 Running
36 33 02 D May 3L 197 0 Running
37 22 44 T Labonte 26L 174 2 Retired
38 31 71 D Marcis 111L 89 0 Susp
39 1 22 B Allison 111L 89 46 Retired
40 20 86 D Sage 130L 70 0 Header

There were 87 lead changes amongst 28 drivers. Only 4 caution flags waved for a total of 16 laps.

Woo boy this race really tested my resolve, patience, and focus. It was side by side racing from the middle of the pack on back, which I was in for most of the day. I was working my way up to the front slowly to hope to get a top 10 and gain some more points. But oh well, this race really did jumble up the points standings quite a bit, DW's lead shrunk from 54 points to 39. His distance to the 5th place was 134 and now it's 110. He had a 261 point lead on 10th place and now it's 226. The race is tightening with 20 races to go! :)

Plottydawg

06-07-2007, 07:33 AM

dawg_gone

06-07-2007, 03:09 PM

Nice race writeup Mr T. Good to see ABE finish in the money. I think Dover and Bristol are my favorite 2 tracks for watching a race, but they must be bears to drive.

Mr. Tennessee

06-08-2007, 11:49 PM

Oh yes seeing DW take on a turd of a finish is music to my ears. And Tim Richmond needs to fuck the hell off. Now.

Tough luck for ya in the pits, but thats how it goes in NASCAR sometimes. Hooray beer!

hahaha.

Man I tell you, I seem to have drawn some of the best in the business as my rival.

Had this been a short track, I don't think the damage in the pits would of screwed up anything, ala Nashville. But we'll get 'em at Bristol.

Mr. Tennessee

06-08-2007, 11:59 PM

Nice race writeup Mr T. Good to see ABE finish in the money. I think Dover and Bristol are my favorite 2 tracks for watching a race, but they must be bears to drive.
Bristol should be fun, I'll be running that one tomorrow as I am starting 17th. 200 laps and I expect half of them to be caution laps. [laugh]

husker_blitz

06-09-2007, 01:09 AM

I don't frequent this thread all that often but I must say it is cool to see all the old cars and drivers. My dad really liked Cale Yarborough and some of the old drivers back in the day. Brings back some good memories. :)

Mr. Tennessee

06-10-2007, 02:59 PM

jmaddy

06-10-2007, 10:35 PM

I don't know how I missed this for as long as I did... BUT I am having a great time getting caught up. Give 'em hell, ten-a-key!

Mr. Tennessee

06-11-2007, 12:52 PM

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/nascariithrow.jpg
The 1983 Valleydale 500

Bristol, TN - The top 5 in points heading into this race was like this;

1. Darrell Waltrip 1326 Points
2. Mr. Tennessee 1287 Points
3. Cale Yarborough 1287 Points
4. Tim Richmond 1249 Points
5. Richard Petty 1216 Points

With this being a race at Bristol, one would just know that the points standings would change drastically again. This was an annoying race from the outset. It didn't take two laps before a crash occurred.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap1Crash.jpg
Dadgum there goes The Silver Fox. :(

This was the first of only two major crashes in the race. The rest of the cautions came from accidents in the pits and scraping of walls coming off the turns. Mr. T had managed to work his way up from 17th to 1st in 15 laps.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500MrTLeading.jpg
Yeah out front and getting 5 bonus points! [cool]

While leading it was around lap 60 when the last of the big wrecks occurred, and ole Mr T was involved in it. Coming to the caution flag people were trying to get their laps back and Mr. T had slowed down to take the caution and Allison and others hit Mr. T and he went sliding and spinning around. This took Mr. T out of the race and they took 7 laps down and out of the race.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap60Crash.jpg
Yay I got wrecked and caused most of it. [down]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap60Continued.jpg
!%!#$%@!!!#$@!%@#!#!@! [evil]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap60Part3.jpg
And the #03 Car slams me in the left side and there goes my day. :(

The Zaxby's crew managed to fix what they could on the car, but the engine was mostly damaged and took Mr. T out of being competitive so all Mr. T could do was run laps and not get a dreaded DNF, but Mr. T did get some much wanted revenge on a driver by the name of Buddy Baker who spun him out at Darlington.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap120Caution.jpg
Yeah I know he just looooooves me. :)

After the lap 120 crash we finally went racing with minimal cautions. It was a battle in the final 20 laps and only four drivers were on the lead lap to battle for the win; Tim Richmond, Bobby Allison, Bill Elliott, and Lake Speed. It was a back and forth battle with Tim and Bobby through the final laps and on lap 198 Tim made the pass to secure his first victory of the year.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap198Passforwin.jpg
Gets underneath Bobby going into turn 1 and leads to his win.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v495/MrTennessee/1983Valleydale500Lap200.jpg
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Finish Start Driver # Driver Interval Laps Led Status
1 1 27 T Richmond 69.255 200 51 Running
2 9 22 B Allison 0.22 200 34 Running
3 5 9 B Elliott 2.07 200 28 Running
4 32 1 L Speed 8.03 200 16 Running
5 25 52 J Means 1L 199 0 Running
6 10 3 R Rudd 2L 198 0 Running
7 6 44 T Labonte 3L 197 1 Running
8 23 2 M Martin 3L 197 0 Running
9 34 41 R Thomas 3L 197 0 Running
10 26 03 E Bierschwale 4L 196 0 Running
11 22 33 H Gant 4L 196 0 Running
12 42 10 C Dwyer 4L 196 0 Tire
13 19 53 R McCray 5L 195 0 Running
14 28 49 J Hylton 6L 194 0 Running
15 39 67 B Arrington 7L 193 0 Retired
16 8 21 B Baker 7L 193 0 Running
17 33 76 M Potter 8L 192 0 Running
18 17 46 Mr. Tennessee 8L 192 32 Running
19 40 5 G Sacks 8L 192 0 Running
20 31 17 S Marlin 11L 189 0 Running
21 35 71 D Marcis 12L 188 0 Running
22 4 88 G Bodine 17L 183 4 Accident
23 29 86 D Sage 21L 173 0 Running
24 20 77 K Regan 40L 160 0 Accident
25 11 01 B Lindley 45L 155 0 Accident
26 7 75 N Bonnett 79L 121 27 Retired
27 37 74 B Wawak 83L 117 0 Accident
28 14 24 J Vandlver 102L 98 2 Ignition
29 3 55 B Parsons 117L 83 0 Retired
30 21 7 K Petty 118L 82 0 Accident
31 13 90 D Brooks 129L 71 0 Retired
32 12 15 D Earnhardt 147L 53 0 Retired
33 41 28 C Yarborough 147L 53 2 Retired
34 36 84 J Ridley 149L 51 0 Retired
35 16 04 R Baldwin 164L 36 3 Gearbox
36 2 11 D Waltrip 167L 33 0 Gearbox
37 27 66 P Parsons 169L 31 0 Retired
38 15 64 T Gale 170L 30 0 Accident
39 18 98 J Ruttman 171L 29 0 Accident
40 24 16 D Pearson 197L 3 0 Retired
41 30 47 R Bouchard 198L 2 0 Retired
42 38 43 R Petty 199L 1 0 Retired

That race changed up the standings a little bit with the standings looking like this now.

1. Tim Richmond 1434 Points
2. Mr Tennessee 1401 Points
3. Darrell Waltrip 1381 Points
4. Terry Labonte 1364 Points
5. Cale Yarborough 1356 Points

There were 34 Lead changes amongst 11 drivers. There were also 16 caution flags for 81 laps.

I didn't have the car to win, but I figured if I could get out of here with a top 10 it would be a good showing for the team. On to the World 600! [cool]