CARUFEL BEGINS LAP DOWN.Byline: TIM TIM Timothy TIM Technical Interchange Meeting TIM Transient Intermodulation Distortion TIM Time Is Money TIM The Invisible Man (movie) TIM Telecom Italia Mobile (Italian cellular provider) HADDOCK Auto Racing Roger Carufel Jr. is starting the NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Grand American For sports car racing association formed in 1999, see . Grand American was a NASCAR sanctioned series of pony car stock cars. The series ran from 1968 until 1971. The series was sometimes called the Baby Grand series. Modified season at Irwindale Speedway Irwindale Speedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for USAC sprint car and regional NASCAR races. tonight a little behind schedule. The Saugus driver, who was the 2001 runner-up in the Grand Am championship, will be turning laps in his car for the first time since he crashed at Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. at the end of last season. Repairs have gone slowly for Carufel, but that hasn't hurt his enthusiasm to start the season. ``We're going to go out Saturday, practice and see what happens,'' said Carufel, who finished 14 points behind class champion Dean Kuhn of Oceanside. Finding sponsors for his Grand Am entry has been Carufel's biggest hurdle in the offseason. He said he has enough money to run only the first race of the season. After that, his season is up in the air unless he can find another sponsor. ``Money is the key issue,'' said Carufel, driver of the No. 25 Chevy. ``We have enough money for the first race. After that, we are going to race for as long as we can race. But I'm not worried. My plan is to go out there and win.'' While Carufel and his team members have been busy rebuilding the car, they also have had to make some other adjustments to their entry. Irwindale Speedway has made some rule changes in the Grand Am cars. One of them is a change in shocks for the Grand Am entries. Another is increased weight on the cars and new weight distributions. The new shock package eliminates the use of non-nitrogen shocks. Carufel said his team is switching to a type of liquid-oil shock. In addition, 100 pounds are being added to the Grand Am cars, from 2,600 pounds to 2,700. Plus increased weight is being added to the left sides of the cars. Carufel has yet to test his car with the modifications implemented by Irwindale Speedway. He will have to test, make changes and race all on the same day, which could put him at a disadvantage for the season opener. ``We gotta learn quick in practice,'' Carufel said. Other Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, drivers expected to race in the Grand Am season opener are Travis Thirkettle of Newhall, Rod Johnson For the former soccer player, see Rod Johnson (footballer) Rod Johnson is an American public address announcer for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association. of Canyon Country, Mike Knapp Mike Knapp, better known as Snap or Snapper, is a musician from Hamilton, New Zealand. Snap started playing guitar, drums, and singing at an early age, around 1970, with his family in a group called 'The Doves' featuring multiple harmony vocals. of Valencia, Dennis Eckert of Canyon Country, Wally Pettengill Jr. of Acton and John Watkinson John Taylor Watkinson (25 January 1941 – 21 September 2004) was a British Labour Party politician, barrister and teacher. Watkinson was elected Member of Parliament for Gloucestershire West in the October 1974 general election, but lost the seat in 1979 to the of Canyon Country. --American Race Trucks: The American Race Trucks Series will be joining Irwindale Speedway's opening night even though the stock truck season started last week in Las Vegas. Valencia's Aaron Staudinger started the ARTS season off right by winning the season opener in Vegas. New sponsors and new equipment have Staudinger's Vision Motorsports team thinking championship. Staudinger and his No. 72 Pick-Your-Part Chevy Silverado crew have invested in new motors, new bodies and a new chassis. ``I think we're better prepared than we've ever been before,'' said Staudinger, who was second in points in the ARTS Southwest division last year. ``We have an incredible jump right now, and we have a great chance of taking the championship home.'' Irwindale Speedway has become one of Staudinger's favorite tracks to race, but it is also one of the more challenging. For one, the half-mile oval is one of the biggest tracks on which the American Race Trucks compete. Secondly, Irwindale is a three-groove track in which passing is common and more often than not, frequent. ``Vegas, Cajon, the Orange Show are all one-groove tracks,'' Staudinger said. ``If you get stuck up on the outside, you're done. Momentum at (Irwindale) is everything.'' In addition to the Grand Ams and American Race Trucks, the NASCAR Super Late Models and Super Stocks will be racing tonight at Irwindale Speedway. Gates open at 4 p.m. Racing starts at 7. --Hornaday back in Busch Series: Former Saugus Speedway champ Ron Hornaday Jr. will be driving the No. 5 GMAC GMAC General Motors Acceptance Corporation GMAC Graduate Management Admission Council GMAC Give Me A Call GMAC Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee GMAC Genetic Modification Advisory Committee (Singapore) GMAC Give Me A Chance Financial Services Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Busch Grand National race today at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Hornaday will be subbing in for injured driver Ricky Hendrick. Hendrick will be out about a month recovering from a shoulder injury he suffered at the March 2 event at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada, just outside Las Vegas, is a 1,200 acre (4.9 km²) complex of four different tracks for automobile racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. . Hornaday, who finished 12th in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season opener at Daytona for Hendrick Motorsports, will be teamed with Jack Sprague, driver of the No. 24 NetZero Chevrolet. Sprague and Hornaday, both former Truck Series champs, were rivals on the Truck Series a few years ago. |
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