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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.

NASCAR Wives and Girlfriends Photos

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2008 OPeR Award: Best NASCAR Network Coverage

The Fox Sports crew, featuring Darrell Waltrip, Larry MacReynolds, Jeff Hammond, et al, do a terrific job of bringing NASCAR to the people. Whether you are a casual, couch-racer or long-time, moonshine lovin’ circle tracker, Larry Mac, DW and Hollywood can get the story-lines and tech stuff across better than just about anybody.

But for a NASCAR addicted, no-life-of-any-kind fanatic (like a NASCAR blogger, for instance) there is nothing like the in-car-with-Junior hissownself-experience of a Sunday at Martinsville with Direct TV’s Hot Pass. Too bad it appears to have come to an end.

The Chase Returns Home to Lowe’s Motor Speedway

Lowe’s Motor Speedway was the first of NASCAR’s venues to sell naming rights and change its name from Charlotte Motor Speedway.

The one and half mile long quad-oval track seats 167,000 people, with room for 50,000 more race fans in the infield.  Completed in 1959, it was the first speedway to host nighttime superspeedway racing beginning in 1992, and to offer year-round residences with 52 condominiums available over turn one.  Owned by Speedway Motorsports; which has its corporate headquarters on the same property, the speedway is considered to be the home track for the far majority of NASCAR teams who are based within fifty  miles.

Along with the main oval, the speedway also has a 2.25 mile road course in the infield, a 0 .6 mile kart track in the infield, a quarter-mile oval using part of the front stretch and pit road, and an 0.2 mile oval outside turn three. Also, across the street from the speedway, is a 0.4 mile dirt track that opened in May 2000.

Amazingly most of the records held at Lowe’s are held by many of the past heros of the sport.  Bobby Allison and Darrell Waltrip shore the lead with six wins each.  Allison also shares the most top fives with Richard Petty; while The King also has the most top tens, with thirty-one and most starts with sixty-four.  Allison has led the most laps, while David Pearson holds the record for most poles with fourteen.

In 2005, the surface of the circuit had started to wear from its last paving in mid-1994, resulting in the track’s treatment in a diamond-grinding process to smooth out bumps. This process of levigation, caused major tire problems during both Sprint Cup Series events with a record 22 cautions at the Coca-Cola 600. It was the first Sprint Cup Series race to go more than five hours in 25 years. Speed increases, as a result of the levigation caused the tire problems that resulted in the speedway being repaved in 2006.

In the past seventeen races dating back through 2000, Jimmy Johnson is the biggest winner among Chase drivers with five.  The only other multiple winner over that time period is non-chaser, Kasey Kahne.  The remaining wins have been spread among nine different drivers including Chase participants Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth,  Jeff Burton and Tony Stewart.

This could be the race where non-chase drivers have the best chance at a win.  Kasey Kahne especially has proven he can win on the prototype for the cookie cutter tracks.  Kahne proved his mettle as recently as the All-Star event this year.  Once again though Jimmy Johnson would be the best bet of the Chase contenders to bring home a win.

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