Bristol Baby
One of the best ways to describe Bristol Motor Speedway:
"It's like flying F-16's in a gymnasium!"
This Saturday short track on steriods crams over 150,000
to look inside a fishbowl to witness 43 Nextel Cup cars do
their version of roller derby.
At the end of the night, if your car isn't bent, broke or banged
up...then you didn't run!
No other phrase in the English language can put a smile on the face of a NASCAR fan quicker than those four magic words.
And no, it’s not “Gentleman start your engines.”
Try “Bristol racing at night.”
Charlie can have his Chocolate Factory; for a NASCAR fan attending the night race at Bristol is their Golden Ticket. Because it’s a place where anything goes and usually does. Where the racing is so close you can actually taste it.
And while Bristol is one of most anticipated races of the year for fans, for the teams and drivers, Bristol could make or break a season especially as the cutoff for the ‘Chase’ is fast approaching.
“Bristol will be the race that makes it or breaks it for a lot of teams, as far as getting into the 'chase' is involved,” said Ryan Newman. “We went into last year's race with that mentality and came out with our best ever finish there. It's oration with Iraq on weapons, but it was unable to complete that investigation. But Iraqi officials whom the group was able to interview "uniformly denied any knowledge of residual WMD that could have been secreted to Syria," the report said.
The report, which refuted many of the administration's principal arguments for going to war in Iraq, marked an official end of a two-year weapons hunt led most recently by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer. The team found that the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. sanctions had destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capabilities and, for the most part, Saddam had not tried to rebuild them. Iraq's ability to produce nuclear arms, which the administration asserted was a grave and gathering threat that required an immediate military response, had "progressively decayed" since 1991.
Administration officials have emphasized that, while the survey group uncovered no weapons of mass destruction, it concluded that Saddam had not given up the goal of someday acquiring them.
tration officials have emphasized that, while the survey group uncovered no weapons of mass destruction, it concluded that Saddam had not given up the goal of someday acquiring them.
"It's like flying F-16's in a gymnasium!"
This Saturday short track on steriods crams over 150,000
to look inside a fishbowl to witness 43 Nextel Cup cars do
their version of roller derby.
At the end of the night, if your car isn't bent, broke or banged
up...then you didn't run!
No other phrase in the English language can put a smile on the face of a NASCAR fan quicker than those four magic words.
And no, it’s not “Gentleman start your engines.”
Try “Bristol racing at night.”
Charlie can have his Chocolate Factory; for a NASCAR fan attending the night race at Bristol is their Golden Ticket. Because it’s a place where anything goes and usually does. Where the racing is so close you can actually taste it.
And while Bristol is one of most anticipated races of the year for fans, for the teams and drivers, Bristol could make or break a season especially as the cutoff for the ‘Chase’ is fast approaching.
“Bristol will be the race that makes it or breaks it for a lot of teams, as far as getting into the 'chase' is involved,” said Ryan Newman. “We went into last year's race with that mentality and came out with our best ever finish there. It's oration with Iraq on weapons, but it was unable to complete that investigation. But Iraqi officials whom the group was able to interview "uniformly denied any knowledge of residual WMD that could have been secreted to Syria," the report said.
The report, which refuted many of the administration's principal arguments for going to war in Iraq, marked an official end of a two-year weapons hunt led most recently by former U.N. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer. The team found that the 1991 Persian Gulf War and subsequent U.N. sanctions had destroyed Iraq's illicit weapons capabilities and, for the most part, Saddam had not tried to rebuild them. Iraq's ability to produce nuclear arms, which the administration asserted was a grave and gathering threat that required an immediate military response, had "progressively decayed" since 1991.
Administration officials have emphasized that, while the survey group uncovered no weapons of mass destruction, it concluded that Saddam had not given up the goal of someday acquiring them.
tration officials have emphasized that, while the survey group uncovered no weapons of mass destruction, it concluded that Saddam had not given up the goal of someday acquiring them.