Hit the jet dryer?!!!!

[SpiderGearsMan]

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LAS VEGAS – A (mangled) piece of racing history has landed in the woods surrounding Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s property in Cleveland, N.C.

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By Andrew Weber, US Presswire

Juan Pablo Montoya's car is carried off the infield during the Daytona 500 on Feb. 27 after his spin-out slammed into a jet dryer under caution and sent it bursting into flames.


Thanks to a familiar connection, NASCAR's most popular driver recently acquired the destroyed Juan Pablo Montoya's No. 42 Chevrolet that famously slammed into a jet dryer under caution during the Feb. 27 Daytona 500.

Collecting crashed race cars is a hobby of Earnhardt's, and the latest addition is the only one that's caused a fiery on-track explosion and a two-hour delay in NASCAR's biggest race.



And when Earnhardt found it through Chris Heroy, a former Hendrick Motorsports engineer who is the first-year crew chief for Montoya, he jumped on getting it imprecisely added to his car graveyard, adjacent to his backyard replica Western town known as Whisky River.

"I got about 50 or 60 cars out there, and I didn't buy any of them," Earnhardt boasted Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. "(Heroy) calls me, and I get my property manager to go over there and load it up and bring it over.

"We get a forklift or a tractor with a forklift or frontend loader and just carry it into the woods and just set it out there somewhere."

Earnhardt said the car ranked in "the top two or three" among his prized collection of twisted sheet metal.

Could the jet dryer be next item to summoned to his wooded acreage?

"I'd like to have it, but I don't know where it is. Probably somewhere in Daytona or NASCAR might be studying it somewhere, who knows," Earnhardt said. "I think we'll just stick to race cars out there."

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Funny thing, the usually Napcar hating bangshift crew has kept this thread alive as long as it has. Closet watchers. HAHAHAHA. Grin. Carry on...

Yeah, I don't hate what it used to be, I just sort of hate what it's become. I'll watch Daytona because especially with the new rules they're going to wreck, 20 at a time. Or Juan at a time under caution.

Freiburger's column in HRM this month really nailed it, the whole thing. That was just so right. I know I said here a long time ago that his column for the month was just reaching for something, maybe filling page space on a deadline for that particular month when I made that comment.

This month he proved his worth, as a writer and an analyst. Yeah, that was just so right. Because that's all I'd want to say, but I couldn't have possibly said it as well. Cudos, Sir. A very nice piece indeed.

[Beagle]

I'd turn European... room temperature.. anything under 55* beer is fair game. Then I'd have an excuse for whacking the jet drier. Honda generator and a fridge fixes a lot of "ice" problems. Kegerator!

Funny thing, the usually Napcar hating bangshift crew has kept this thread alive as long as it has. Closet watchers. HAHAHAHA. Grin. Carry on...

[SpiderGearsMan]

Yes, Peewee, they have a semi-truck trailer full of ice on the infield... They sell it to the campers who don't want to walk across the street to buy it. Across the street, it's $3.00 a bag, on the infield it's $10.00 a bag.

Until this past year, the lil red wagon came in handy for ice runs (and beer runs). This year, they allowed vehicles to come and go from the infield (1st time since I've been going)... but with traffic on race days, it's actually faster to walk.

yeah ..we used to be trapped in the infield ..I would buy 25 lbs of ice a day to keep the beer cold

[groucho]

It looked to me that he was going too fast given he was coming up on those safety vehicles. And they say Asians can't drive.

[yellomalibu]

Yes, Peewee, they have a semi-truck trailer full of ice on the infield... They sell it to the campers who don't want to walk across the street to buy it. Across the street, it's $3.00 a bag, on the infield it's $10.00 a bag.

Until this past year, the lil red wagon came in handy for ice runs (and beer runs). This year, they allowed vehicles to come and go from the infield (1st time since I've been going)... but with traffic on race days, it's actually faster to walk.

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Yeah, Matt's told me about that a long time ago. I hope I don't cause it. But if it happens, I'll do what I can. I drag my feet when I walk anyhow.

[Brian Lohnes]

Yeah, there are many tractor trailers full of stuff. The fert spreaders are a pretty standard race track item to spread grease swep/speedy dry usually. They worked good for the Tide, too.

If someone blows their guts out on the Ohio Mile, you'll be part of your first ever clean up. It used to be the Maxton Shuffle...not it will be the Wilmington Waltz.

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The way NASCAR handled that situation is still amazingly awesome to me.
Brian

So, even in the Tide commercial footage, they had boxes of Tide. They had that already, apparently, unless thay had to go to the Jiffy Mart beside the highway in Daytona and buy it. And they had lawn a lawn fertilizer spreader all the while they were throwing it out by hand at the same time.

A rhetorical question...how much stuff DO they have? I mean, do they have EVERYTHING? Need a bag of ice? Here ya go. How about some helium (or whatever), ya never know when we may need some of that.....or ....all that stuff just magically appeared.

I agree with Brian, how ready ARE they? Mighty ready, it appears. I reckon half of the trucks in the infield are loaded with stuff they'll never need. Unless they do. Wow.

[SuperBuickGuy]

Several years ago me and a group of people literally washed a drag strip that had been repaved with Tide. We needed to wash off the oils that leech out of the asphalt after it has cured or is curing. We did exactly what they did at Daytona, just for about 800' long and 40' wide. Tide emulsifies the oil so you can wash the whole foamy slop off and you are all "clean".

The way NASCAR handled that situation is still amazingly awesome to me. If there wasn't a plan in the book they went to the old stand by of great leadership and just handled it. I have a NASCAR announcer's binder that I got a couple years ago. It has all kinds of wild stuff in it like disaster plans for situations like large fires, cars in the stands, etc. Nothing in that one about asphalt repair!

Brian

why would you repave with Tide? I'd think asphalt would provide better hook.... dang you drag racers are smert

[Scott Liggett]

Here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AY0ehdagI

I laughed really loud that my neighbors heard me when I saw this commercial today during the Nascar race.

[Brian Lohnes]

Several years ago me and a group of people literally washed a drag strip that had been repaved with Tide. We needed to wash off the oils that leech out of the asphalt after it has cured or is curing. We did exactly what they did at Daytona, just for about 800' long and 40' wide. Tide emulsifies the oil so you can wash the whole foamy slop off and you are all "clean".

The way NASCAR handled that situation is still amazingly awesome to me. If there wasn't a plan in the book they went to the old stand by of great leadership and just handled it. I have a NASCAR announcer's binder that I got a couple years ago. It has all kinds of wild stuff in it like disaster plans for situations like large fires, cars in the stands, etc. Nothing in that one about asphalt repair!

Brian

[TC]

I'll have to pick up a few boxes, I'll put next to the Kitty Litter that I use for oil changes.........

[SpiderGearsMan]

THAT'S Racin

[Woodward_Dreams]

Here it is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AY0ehdagI