[align=center]Mother's Day is SunDay May 11, 08[/align][align=center]Rac'in is Saturday May 10th[/align][align=center]Don't 4-get your Mommy : )[/align][align=center]Post your Top 3 Driver's for Darlington[/align][align=center]for Saturday night Racing under the lights[/align][align=center]Win/Place/Show[/align][align=center]
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Track Stats

DARLINGTON
Distance: 1.366 Mile Oval
Banking/Turns 1-2:25º
Banking/Turns 3-4:23º
Banking/Straights: 2º
Length/Frontstretch:1,229 ft.
Length/Backstretch:1,229 ft.
Miles/Laps: 501.3 mi. = 367 laps
Miles/Laps: 400.2 mi. = 293 laps


On TV
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Darlington Shows Off $10m Facelift
Big $'s 4 -Sure

Darlington Shows Off $10m Facelift
[/align][align=center]Darlington Raceway, a.k.a. the track “Too Tough to Tame,” has undergone a $10 million facelift, the largest one-time investment in the storied 50-year history of the 1.366-mile raceway. Among the enhancements include: a new racing surface; addition of SAFER barrier walls to the interior frontstretch and backstretch concrete walls and extending the length of each pit box by one foot. The addition of a new infield access tunnel in Turn 3 also provided emergency and safety vehicles easy access in and out of the infield area of the race track.
Darlington is the second-oldest track on the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule (behind only Martinsville Speedway); the track’s first race was in 1950, the second year of NASCAR’s premier series, then called Grand National.

Three veteran NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers — Jeff Gordon, Greg Biffle (No. 16 3M Ford) and Ryan Newman (No. 12 Alltel Dodge) — participated in a pair of Goodyear tire tests in March at Darlington. Gordon is a seven-time winner at Darlington and Biffle has won twice there. All three drivers came away impressed with the new racing surface.

“The basic transitions, the banking and walls haven’t changed,” said Gordon. “The bumps are gone, the grip level is high and it’s awesome; they did a great job.”

Biffle, who won back to back races at Darlington from 2005-06, says “I’m happy with the new surface; there aren’t any bumps or dips that we noticed; I was pretty impressed with how smooth it was.”

Newman, this year’s Daytona 500 winner, says Darlington “is the most challenging track that we have and that’s why I enjoy it the most. You always are having to adjust there.”[/align][align=center]



RCR All Running Top 5

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RCR Heads Into Darlington With All Three Drivers In The Top Five

[/align][align=center][b]Richard Childress Racing’s trio of drivers dominate this week’s top five in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series point standings. And, with RCR claiming eight wins at Darlington Raceway over the years, the outlook for that organization is looking up as the series travels to the track deemed “Too Tough to Tame” for the Dodge 500 this Saturday night (FOX, 7 p.m. ET).

Clint Bowyer’s (No. 07 Jack Daniels Chevrolet) win at Richmond International Raceway last week moved him up from seventh to fourth in the standings. Jeff Burton (No. 31 AT&T Mobility Chevrolet), the points leader for the previous four weeks, moved down a spot to second, while Kevin Harvick (No. 29 Shell/Pennzoil Che

 

wiz's pics for Darlington

1. Jeff Gordon
2. Kyle Busch
3. Jimmy Johnson


hopefully gordon does good here, he's done good here for the last 4 or 5 years and has 7 wins

 

[align=center]Space Picks[/align][align=center]1. Dale Jr [8D][/align][align=center]2.Kevin Harvick[/align][align=center]3. Carl Edwards [/align][align=center][:-][/align][align=center]3 1/4, Jeff Gordon [X(]lol[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]Mod `Wiz, I think his wife & new baby[/align][align=center]has slowed `Jeff down, ot they are wear'in him `out : ) lol[/align]

 

Saturday is pole day @ Indy, i'll pick team target/gannassi to take it.


48 wins " the lady in black'

 

Biffile
Jr.
Edwards

 

sitting here watching the Nationwide race.... very boring, just a game of follow the leader.

did anyone notice the Challenger pace car? Kinda plain.... the front bumper... needs more trim or more curve on the rear.

 

 

[align=center]Congrat's to Moderator Wiz Kidd for[/align][align=center]making the best picks : )[/align][align=center]U win free posting to the MCF : )[/align][align=center][/align][align=center]1. Kyle Busch [:@][/align][align=center]2. Jeff Gordon [/align][align=center]3. Carl Edwards [/align][align=center]4. Dale Jr [8D][/align][align=center]

[/align][align=center][align=center]Kyle Busch Dominates Darlington [/align]
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Written by Kerry Murphey

CUP SERIES - DARLINGTON TOP 10
[/align][align=center]10 Jeff Burton
9 Dave Blaney great run for him
8 Travis Kvapil another top 10 this year
7 Denny Hamlin
6 Matt Kenseth
5 David Ragan keeps running strong
4 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 4th top 5 this season
3 Jeff Gordon 5th straight top 5 at this track
2 Carl Edwards started 36th
VICTORY LANE
1 Kyle Busch lead the most laps (169) and battled back from a pit road penalty (loose lugs), severe brake problems and multiple Darlington stripes on the side of his 18 machine to win. It's Kyle's 3rd of 2008 in the Cup Series, and his 7th career.
OTHER STORIES ON THE DAY
-On lap two Elliott Sadler and Tony Stewart got together, Stewart rallied back to finish 21st
[/align][align=center]-Pole Sitter Greg Biffle ran up front early, but finished dead last after the 16 had mechanical failure
-7 backup cars started this race
-FOX TV counted at least 40 "Darlington Stripes"
-Kevin Harvick destroyed his #29 car with a hard hit in the wall, Kevin finished 39th
-Ryan Newman and Brian Vickers got tangled up with each other entering pit road[/align][/align]

 

yah, i really like kyle busch, its good to see him start doing good now, good to see Gordon up in the top 3 too up in the top 10 in points now, so hopefully he picks it up now

good race too, man was busch ever fast