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2010 NASCAR Calender in Printable PDF

We’re making our original 2010 NASCAR calenderin printable PDF format available for the first time ever. These printable calenders featuring original photos of NASCAR drivers, taken by our fabulous photog BethAnne, have been around for three years now.

The calenders are a labor of love created by BethAnne and given only to members of the On Pit Row pitcrew. That is until now.

Check out the thumbnails below for each month. Race dates for the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, Nationwide Series, Camping World Truck Series and ARCA schedules along with most of the Sprint Cup driver’s birthdays are included.

Click on the individual thumbs to view a larger image. There is a link at the bottom of this page to the printable PDF of the whole calender. Thanks BethAnne!

Click the link for the download, but be patient. It’s a big file.

2010 On Pit Row NASCAR Calender Printable PDF

Instructions for printing: Print calendar fit to page, double-sided, head to toe on 8.5×11 or 11×17 paper. Fold in half and staple in the middle. The finished size will be 8×5.5 or 8.5×11 respectively. Enjoy!

Get Inside My Head: A Scary Look at a Fantasy Racing Draft

NASCAR fantasy racing isn’t as big as fantasy football or fantasy baseball, but it’s growing. There are more fantasy racing games being offered than ever. Some NASCAR fantasy games are free, like the One and Done NASCAR game here at OnPitRow.com. Other games charge to play and offer opportunities for money prizes.

RTSports.com offer a menu of pay to play games and RTS is hosting a NASCAR experts game for the fantasy sports site KFFL.com.

Cory Bonini of KFFL invited me to join five other guys from around the NASCAR fantasy world to participate in a NASCAR fantasy draft and play out the season in the game. Cory wrote a post recapping the draft that you can read here. Below are the participants in that draft and the draft order.

• Adam Ansell, RotoExperts.com
• Charlie Turner, OnPitRow.com
• Chris Thompson, RTSports.com
• Cory J. Bonini, KFFL.com
• Darren Fauth, OneBadWheel.com
• Alan Boodman, RacingReference.info

This was the first NASCAR fantasy draft for me and I thought some of you might be interested in what went into my choices. So here goes, along with some of Cory’s comments concerning my picks. The draft was five rounds, serpentine format (draft order reverses each round)

Round 1, my pick no. 2 - I knew for a couple days that I would have the 2nd overall pick. I was pretty sure that Adam would take Jimmie Johnson with the first pick. I am still sold on the quality of the Hendrick Motorsports teams. So one thing that went into my overall thinking about the draft was that I wanted at least one - but preferably two - of Hendrick cars on my team. Jeff Gordon, in my opinion, is just a tick behind Johnson at the top. I liked Carl Edwards too. But since this was a serpentine draft, and I wouldn’t pick again until pick no. 11, I wanted Gordon. Plenty of experts are picking Denny Hamlin to win it all. I think the knee takes enough of an edge off during a 36-plus race season to knock him out. Cory took Kyle Busch over Hamlin and I think he got the best Toyota. And yes, I would have taken Johnson if Adam hadn’t.

Round 2, my pick - no.11 -  Off the board, Johnson, J. Gordon, Tony Stewart, Kyle Busch, Hamlin,  Mark Martin in round 1 and Ryan Newman, Edwards, Greg Biffle and Kurt Busch were the first four in the second round. I would be picking again at pick no. 14. I rated the four best drivers left at this point to be Matt Kenseth (best remaining Ford), Juan Pablo Montoya (I think best Earnhardt-Ganasi Chevy), Clint Bowyer (again, I think the best of the RCR teams) and Earnhardt. I rated Kenseth and Bowyer above the others. I made my choice based on Chevy over Ford. I am not yet sold on the Ford’s ability to beat the Chevy’s consistently.

Adam followed up taking Kenseth. Cory commented that “Bowyer and Kenseth may prove to be reaches.”

Round 3, my pick no.14 -  Adam started off the round taking Montoya, and Cory liked that pick. Now I’m up and my board has Dale Earnhardt Jr as the man. I took him. Here are the three reasons why. 1. Last of the Hendrick Motorsport drivers available. As I said, they are the best. 2. Chevy team - already explained. 3. I had spoken with Boris Said On Pit Row the previous Tuesday. Boris is convinced that Junior is primed for a very good season. Said sold me on Earnhardt’s talent and the team’s ability to win races.

Not everyone agrees. Cory said Junior was “the biggest reach of this round” and “in my opinion, he’s the most overrated driver in all of the NASCAR”. Given the choice though, I’m going with Boris opinion.

The rest of the round went Kasey Kahne, Brian Vickers, Jeff Burton and Joey Logano.

Round 4, my pick no. 22 - The next off the board were Marcos Ambrose, David Reautiman, Kevin Harvick and Elliott Sadler. I selected David Ragan. My first non-Chevy and I had him rated higher than all of the above except for Harvick. I considered Martin Truex Jr here. I chose the stability of Ragan’s Roush-Fenway team. Plus I did want a Roush car (best Ford team). Truex Jr was taken next by Adam.

Round 5, my pick no.24 - Adam’s final pick was Brad Keselowski - a choice I like. I grabbed Jamie McMurray, who Cory called “a solid but unspectacular racer” which I agree with. Jamies’s Chevy power trumped a possible A J Allmendinger or Sam Hornish Jr pick for me. The draft finished up with Hornish, Allmendiger, Paul Menard and Bobby Labonte.

Here are the teams as drafted:

Adam Ansell

• Jimmie Johnson
• Matt Kenseth
• Brad Keselowski
• Juan Pablo Montoya
• Martin Truex Jr.

Alan Boodman

• Marcos Ambrose
• Bobby Labonte
• Joey Logano
• Mark Martin
• Ryan Newman

Chris Thompson

• Kurt Busch
• Sam Hornish Jr.
• Kasey Kahne
• Elliott Sadler
• Tony Stewart

Cory J. Bonini

• A.J. Allmendinger
• Greg Biffle
• Kyle Busch
• Kevin Harvick
• Brian Vickers

Darren Fauth

• Jeff Burton
• Carl Edwards
• Denny Hamlin
• Paul Menard
• David Reutimann

Charlie Turner

• Clint Bowyer
• Dale Earnhardt Jr.
• Jeff Gordon
• Jamie McMurray
• David Ragan

The way the league is played, each player starts four of his five drivers and starters need to be selected before qualifying.

The Daytona 500 worked out well for me. I started all of my Chevy drivers, sitting Ragan in the lone Ford. The decision for me was between Ragan and McMurray for starter number four. Jamie’s past win at Daytona saved me from embarrassment. My top three finishers finished 1st, 2nd and 4th. Jeff Gordon, my top pick, finished outside the top 20.

That decision on starters will be tough all year. For California, the NASCAR statistics told me to sit Junior.

Damn this is hard.

Happy Fantasy Auto Racing New Year!

The return of One & Done is right around the corner but we’ve got this challenge ready for you right now! This season we also invite you to On Pit Row’s Yahoo! Fantasy group for a prize pack that includes:

•    5 DVD set - Dale Earnhardt - 10 Greatest Wins
•    The Blount Report: NASCAR’s Most Overrated and Underrated Drivers, Cars, Teams, and Tracks by ESPN’s Terry Blount
•    No Fear Racing (Boris Said) T-Shirt
•    Kevin Harvick Bobblehead
•    Armor All Complete Car Care Kit (Armor All brand Protectant, Glass Wipes, Wash & Wax, Tire Foam)

Go here to sign up. There’s only 50 spots available so hurry!
•    ID# 2262
•    password “fantasy”

Fantasy content for the 2010 season will be brewing On Pit Row all week long!

Monday (1/18) is the start of my five-part Fantasy NASCAR Primer Series and I’ll be on the air Tuesday (1/19) to discuss that and more!

2009 OPer Awards: Worst NASCAR Crew Chief

Let me lodge my official protest of the name for this OPeR. I want it on record that I lobbied for “Most Disappointing Performance by a NASCAR Crew Chief”.

Worst NASCAR crew chief doesn’t fit the purpose here.

That said, my pick of Steve Addington edged Steve’s choice of Tony Eury Jr, for whatever this award. Award?

I’m not sure who to blame. But in football, it’s usually the quarterback. And in racing, the crew chief.

Kyle Busch dominated the NASCAR statistics everywhere in NASCAR except in Cup. Kyle got a pass and Addington got the boot.

2009 OPer Awards: Best Post Race Celebration

Carl Edwards pulled an upset of sorts by winning the OPeR for best post-race celebration, even though he the NASCAR stats show that he failed to win a Sprint Cup race in 2009.

Steve convinced me that Carl’s Talladega post-crash dash across the finish line on foot - ala Ricky Bobby - was the best of the year.

My first choice was Kurt Busch’s backwards victory laps. I know they’re a bit hokey, but Kurt stuck with them and at least he got to do a couple by winning some races.

2009 OPer Awards: Worst NASCAR Team

I’m sorry Junior Nation. Your boy’s team sucked in 2009.

The Hendrick Motorsports team was the exception that made the rest of that organization’s dominance of Sprint Cup 2009 season seem sort of mortal.

But the combination that was the no. 88 Amp Energy-National Guard team was like the old “Gang that couldn’t shoot straight”.

Who knows where the blame should go. Dale Earnhardt Jr gets way more than his share. But it didn’t cost him his job. Tony Eury Jr got a bunch of the flack too. And a pink slip.

2009 OPer Awards: Best NASCAR Crew Chief

OK NASCAR fans - go ahead and argue against this one.

I think the consistency of the NASCAR racing statistics are so overwhelmingly in favor of the Lowes 48 team, that choosing anyone but Chad Knaus is…is…just wrong.

I suppose the argument could be made that this is the 2009 OPeR award for best crew chief - not the award for best 5 or six year run. But I think Knaus has been the best this year anyway.

Steve said during the On Pit Row OPeR Awards Show, that watching the 48 team at Texas, while under extreme duress, clinched it for him. I didn’t need that, but it didn’t hurt.

2009 OPer Awards: Worst Start and Parker

The Yin and Yang of the 2009 OPer Awards forced us to name a worst counterpart to TRG Motorsports.

Phil Parson’s Prism Motorsports used the NASCAR rules to be a Sprint Cup team.

Bareley.

The NASCAR race statistics would probably show TRG’s entrees with the lowest number of completed laps per start than any other team.

But they got paid.

2009 OPer Awards: Best Media Personality

This was a split decision. Old school vs new.

I wanted the old school dude. That, is a bit of an upset, as Steve is usually the traditional one.

But I voted for old Boogity Boogity hisownself, Darrell Waltrip. I just thin DW is kind of the signature personality of NASCAR on TV. I don’t necessarily care for his act. But I think more people connect to NASCAR through Jaws than anyone else.

Steve went with Dillner. I didn’t feel like arguing about it.

2009 OPer Awards: Worst NASCAR Driver

Let me state first, that I don’t like the title “Worst” when it refers to individuals. “Most disappointing” or “Biggest under-achiever” would be a better description than “Worst”.

But, that said, Red Bull Racing’s Scott Speed had the worst year of any of the full-timers in Sprint Cup 2009.

Big things were either expected or hoped for Speed. But the ultimate in poor showings was the road course race at Sonoma, where Scott failed to qualify his red Bull Toyota and had to buy a ride to get in. The NASCAR race statistics show that wasn’t the only time that happened.

But for an ex-Formula 1 pilot, it was mui disappointing.

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