[The Champ]

Originally Posted by David Holmberg

Who remembers when Kyle was on Johnny Carson with a guitar and sang a song? That was cool.

I wasn't much of a Carson guy, so I didn't catch it.

But Kyle actually is pretty a pretty decent singer. I've got a CD called "NASCAR - Runnin' Wide Open" with this song performed by Kyle:

Oh King Richard you run rummer's dream
The swiftest of outlaw that I've ever seen
Your checkered flag waving so high in the esteem
And no one can catch you at all.

So what can you say 'bout the man built for speed?
The master mechanic gave you what you need
survival on instinct and heart that don't bleed
The winning tradition of a vanishing breed

When I think about a lesser man much like myself
Alive in a vacuum alone on a shelve
To never go no place 'till all I got left
Is stareing at these lonely walls

Oh King Richard just keep up the pace
Your boot in your gas tank the smile on your face
And you'll set the standard that time can't erase
And God only knows how you feel

If there's life in the fast lane
than you wrote the book
But it don't come as easy as you make it look
'Cause a man in his sunshades can't never slow down
with out someone sneaking round stealing your crown

From a dirt track in Charlotte to the Daytona line
Your life flying by & you don't even mind
The world loves a winner & you've shown them all
How easy the King gets it done.

Oh King Richard just look out below
Some punk on your bumper your running to slow
Than one day you're older the next thing you know
Your races are already run.

Oh King Richard man they're tryin' get ya
Yeah, but they never can catch you
'Cause you know how to drive like a fiend

Oh King Richard yeah they're trying to catch ya
but they never can catch ya
'cause ya know how to drive like a fiend

Oh King Richard, Oh King Richard
I wanna live my life through your eyes
I'm going spend my life watching you drive

Oh King Richard, Oh King Richard
Oh their never gonna take you their never gonna catch you
Their never gonna

Oh King Richard, Oh King Richard
You gotta have nerve to live this way
yeah you gotta hang on everyday

Their never gonna stop you
They're never gonna top you
Oh King Richard, Oh King Richard
Burnin' it, rockin' it

Oh King Richard, Oh King Richard

Watch/Listen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bp_UcU-GY0

Richard turns 76 on Tuesday. Happy Birthday "King"!

[The Champ]

Touring Princess update...

Qualifying speed/time at Kentucky - 178.944 MPH/30.177 - good for 29th.

Dale Jr. on the pole - 183.636MPH/29.406 - new track record.

Like Kyle said - she can drive fast (a 179 MPH average is fast), but when the competition is nearly 5 MPH faster, it ain't racin'...

I fully realize that qualifying ain't racin' either. Some guys aren't always good at qualifying, but can race their way to the front.

Kevin Harvick is a good example of that. Some recent examples - at Michigan he started 21st and finished 2nd, at Charlotte he started 15th and won and at Richmond he started 17th and won.

[Jack Peters]

Normally do not say much when things come to 'opinions' and there is no such thing as a 'imho'. The letter 'h' needs to be taken out.
Now, I find it interesting that Jr. is defending her. Read this. I really don't care, one way or the other except to say I am not a DE (Sr. or Jr) fan.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports...ments/2472307/

[The Champ]

^ You have to remember that Danica drove for Jr. for three years. He hired her and collected all the sponsorship dollars from godaddy.com. Jr. is also currently doing Nationwide Insurance commercials with Danica - he has a vested interest in her ongoing viability.

"I have to disagree with Kyle," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said Friday at Kentucky Speedway. "I think she's a tough competitor. She works really hard at what she does and she has run some really good races. On every occasion, she's outrunning several guys on the circuit."

I don't argue that she "tough", but I don't think I could classify her as a "tough competitor".

As to "outrunning several guys on the circuit", that might have some basis except for the fact that the "guys" she's "outrunning" are racing part time, in marginal equipment and many of them are "start and park" cars.

She sits 27th in the points. Of the drivers that have made all 17 races, these are the only drivers that she is ahead of:

1. David Gilliland
2. David Ragan
3. David Reutimann
4. JJ Yeley
5. Travis Kvapil

There are two drivers who have only had 13 (4 fewer) races that are ahead of her in the points.

[Sirrotica]

Change the color of the car and she may be able to be a consistent 22 place car,.................

[arbys]

Originally Posted by The Champ

She sits 27th in the points. Of the drivers that have made all 17 races, these are the only drivers that she is ahead of:

1. David Gilliland
2. David Ragan
3. David Reutimann
4. JJ Yeley
5. Travis Kvapil

I would bet that most of those would 5 positions ahead of Danica in her equipment.

[David Holmberg]

Dale JR is a very humble person, its very rare that he will even say something bad about someone who just wrecked him, let alone a woman.

Did you catch DW picking the winner for Kyle Petty today on Speed? Taking Kyle's best friend, "The first lady of NASCAR, Danica"... Please Darrell, she's not going to blow you no matter how much you suck up.

Michael Waltrip lived with the Petty's when he first moved to NC to race. He and Darrell didn't talk for years until their Mother forced them to make up. Darrell and the Petty's don't like each other.

[theamcguy]

Danica Patrick is a marketing machine, she is not a race driver. When Bernie Eccelstone says she needs to be in F1 racing it is all about marketing. Kyle Bush is a race car driver, don't like him but he can wheel a car. When he gets in trouble keeps both hands on the wheel and keeps driving. Danica gets in trouble she takes both hands off the wheel and cocoons up for the coming impact. Kyle Petty is right she is a person that drives a car fast but she is not a race car driver, she is a marketing machine.

[GpFreak]

She's not many spots behind Juan "Jet Drier Killer" Montoya and he's run the same amount of races... wonder if she has a car in Dirty Mo Acres?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibNQB8C-n84

[65WJ]

Originally Posted by The Champ

Touring Princess update...

Qualifying speed/time at Kentucky - 178.944 MPH/30.177 - good for 29th.

Dale Jr. on the pole - 183.636MPH/29.406 - new track record.

Like Kyle said - she can drive fast (a 179 MPH average is fast), but when the competition is nearly 5 MPH faster, it ain't racin'...

I fully realize that qualifying ain't racin' either. Some guys aren't always good at qualifying, but can race their way to the front.

Kevin Harvick is a good example of that. Some recent examples - at Michigan he started 21st and finished 2nd, at Charlotte he started 15th and won and at Richmond he started 17th and won.

Not so much the mph as it is the time. .08 back Not so good.
Personaly I would like to know the time and not the mph.

patrick

[Sidponcho]

All I know is that we have a lot in common. My name is Dan, and hers is Danica. I think it was meant to be

[65WJ]

stands on the backstretch are empty. Maybe a hundred people scattered.
Many empty seats in the front stretch as well.
The racing may be good but no one can Identify with the cars.
No more "Win on Sunday Sell on Monday". imo


patrick

[cuz68]

She got a 13 place last night.

[1969GTO]

Originally Posted by cuz68

She got a 13 place last night.

and she won another CRASH

[cuz68]

Originally Posted by 1969GTO

and she won another CRASH

With a hit from some one els.

[Dennis H.]

Originally Posted by cuz68

With a hit from some one els.

From reading your posts, you must be obsessed with Danica. Wake up and smell the roses.

[arbys]

Substitute the name Danica for Travis Kvapel, David Gilliland or any other third tier driver and see how much coverage and apologetics there would be.

[cuz68]

Originally Posted by Dennis H.

From reading your posts, you must be obsessed with Danica. Wake up and smell the roses.

I am a kevin harvick fan. I am not obsessed with her at all, I would like her to win, Just to prove you haters wrong..

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by cuz68

She got a 13 place last night.

And finished worse than she started - as usual when she manages a decent qualifying run.

She was riding around going fast, she was not racing.

[The Champ]

Originally Posted by arbys

Substitute the name Danica for Travis Kvapel, David Gilliland or any other third tier driver and see how much coverage and apologetics there would be.

While what you are saying is true, the difference between Danica and Travis or David (and most 3rd tier drivers) is that they have won races in a NASCAR series (or other "stock" car series such as ARCA) before getting a Cup ride.