rec.autos.simulators

> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:42:18 -0700, "John Pancoast"

> >> Yep, same thing was said about N4.  You've never run the Alcatraz
circuit?
> >>Pit road is a real pain<G>

> >>-John

> > Hehe, ok, which track is called the Rock?

> > Andre

> North Carolina.  It's located in Rockingham.

> --

> Fester

> >  League race tonight at the Rock, N2002.   My favorite track since N1.

> There's a racing track at Alcatraz?

> > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:42:18 -0700, "John Pancoast"

> > >> Yep, same thing was said about N4.  You've never run the Alcatraz
> circuit?
> > >>Pit road is a real pain<G>

> > >>-John

> > > Hehe, ok, which track is called the Rock?

> > > Andre

> > North Carolina.  It's located in Rockingham.

> > --

> > Fester

> Close enough. It is called Rockingham, it's mailing address is Sophia and
it
> is located near Hamlet (hence the back stretch 'Hamlet Tower'
grandstands).
> Lovingly called 'The Rock', North Carolina Speedway (an ISC track) is
really
> old, has an abrasive surface and is actually pretty fun to run. The track,
> though cited as being in Rockingham, is nearly halfway between Southern
> Pines and Rockingham NC off US HWY 1, both very small towns. Located
across
> the street (literally) is a nice drag strip, also referred to as 'The
Rock'
> by straight-liner fans. Home of the Winston Invitational until Bruton
Smith
> bought Bristol and moved (wooed) the event there and it is now a regular
> event instead of the All Star race it was started as...The Rockingham
> Dragway is now host to 2 IHRA national events per year.

> NC is bad for calling tracks by wrong monikors, the Lowe's Motor Speedway
> used to be called the C***te Motor Speedway and is located near
downtown
> Concord (about 20 minutes North of C***te off Hwy 85). I guess Concord
> Speedway was already taken by the small track the DEJ used to run
modifieds
> at and Humpy/Bruton couldn't wrangle the naming rights away from the tiny
> track.

> About the only one they named properly was North Wilksboro. It is right
> outside of the town off Hwy 421 and sits eeriely quiet nowadays though I
> hear TRAC has it on their possible venue list. Had NW stayed 'in
business',
> my guess is Lowe's would have bought the naming rights to that track as
the
> Lowe's stores chain was founded in North Wilksboro, which is also home to
> Junior Jonhson's sausage company and was his home base during his years in
> the racing game. Makes since since it is in the foothills of the mountains
> here in NC and Junior was indeed a moon shiner before getting into NASCAR.
> NW is a sorely missed short track on the circuit today, I guess they favor
> the cooky cutter 1.5 mile tracks now...I still have it in NASCAR Legends
> though, hehe. Trivia tidbit: Who won the last  NASCAR Winston Cup race at
> North Wilksboro? Was it A) Darryl Waltrip B) Dale Earnhardt (Sr) C) Terry
> Labonte or D) Jeff Gordon? Keep in mind the track closed in the early
> 90's...

> I am pretty sure the answer is D) Jeff Gordon. Was there last fall and the
> walls in the local Applebees are a shrine to the track and the people
> involved with it. I think JG was the winner in the last event there before
> NASCAR took it off the schedule.

> >   NW's a great track; what stock car racing is, or at least, was all
about
> > until Nascar became cool.

> >   Re the trivia, 1996 was it's last year on the WC circuit........think
it
> > was Jeffy?  I tend to block his victories out, on purpose :)

> > -John

> '96 huh? I was thinking more like '94 but couldn't remember and spewed all
> that useless trivia out from memory waiting on a business call this
> morning....I do think Jeffy was the last winner, though I am no huge fan
of
> his either...1996, Sounds ok to me, and that does play into about when
> NASCAR started to become 'cool', good way of putting that.

> I saw N.W. again when Darryl W and Junior J were getting ready to take his
> old Monte Carlo to the Goodwood Speed thing over in England this past
year,
> they shook it down at the track (and was covered by Totally NASCAR). The
> track looked very neglected indeed, I think they had to pull some weeds
out
> of the asphalt before he could run...what a shame. The Mrs and I have a
> cabin in (somewhat) nearby Boone, NC and used to go to the races there
until
> 1994. We then started hopping over to (somewhat) nearby Bristol and going
to
> the August night race there. It would be nice to go to N.W. again, maybe
> TRAC will run there if they ever actually become a racing body instead of
a
> PR body. I hear us North Carolinians are going to share a team with the
> South Carolinians thy way we share the NFL Carolina Panthers. Hopefully
the
> TRAC 'team' will fare better.

> *(somewhat): relative term in rural NC, means more than ? hour and less
than
> 2 hours away.

>   Re the trivia, 1996 was it's last year on the WC circuit........think it
> was Jeffy?  I tend to block his victories out, on purpose :)

> -John

> > > > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 07:42:18 -0700, "John Pancoast"

> > > >> Yep, same thing was said about N4.  You've never run the Alcatraz
>  circuit?
> > > >>Pit road is a real pain<G>

> > > >>-John

> > > > Hehe, ok, which track is called the Rock?

> > > > Andre

> > > North Carolina.  It's located in Rockingham.

> > > --

> > > Fester

> > Close enough. It is called Rockingham, it's mailing address is Sophia and
>  it
> > is located near Hamlet (hence the back stretch 'Hamlet Tower'
>  grandstands).
> > Lovingly called 'The Rock', North Carolina Speedway (an ISC track) is
>  really
> > old, has an abrasive surface and is actually pretty fun to run. The track,
> > though cited as being in Rockingham, is nearly halfway between Southern
> > Pines and Rockingham NC off US HWY 1, both very small towns. Located
>  across
> > the street (literally) is a nice drag strip, also referred to as 'The
>  Rock'
> > by straight-liner fans. Home of the Winston Invitational until Bruton
>  Smith
> > bought Bristol and moved (wooed) the event there and it is now a regular
> > event instead of the All Star race it was started as...The Rockingham
> > Dragway is now host to 2 IHRA national events per year.

> > NC is bad for calling tracks by wrong monikors, the Lowe's Motor Speedway
> > used to be called the C***te Motor Speedway and is located near
>  downtown
> > Concord (about 20 minutes North of C***te off Hwy 85). I guess Concord
> > Speedway was already taken by the small track the DEJ used to run
>  modifieds
> > at and Humpy/Bruton couldn't wrangle the naming rights away from the tiny
> > track.

> > About the only one they named properly was North Wilksboro. It is right
> > outside of the town off Hwy 421 and sits eeriely quiet nowadays though I
> > hear TRAC has it on their possible venue list. Had NW stayed 'in
>  business',
> > my guess is Lowe's would have bought the naming rights to that track as
>  the
> > Lowe's stores chain was founded in North Wilksboro, which is also home to
> > Junior Jonhson's sausage company and was his home base during his years in
> > the racing game. Makes since since it is in the foothills of the mountains
> > here in NC and Junior was indeed a moon shiner before getting into NASCAR.
> > NW is a sorely missed short track on the circuit today, I guess they favor
> > the cooky cutter 1.5 mile tracks now...I still have it in NASCAR Legends
> > though, hehe. Trivia tidbit: Who won the last  NASCAR Winston Cup race at
> > North Wilksboro? Was it A) Darryl Waltrip B) Dale Earnhardt (Sr) C) Terry
> > Labonte or D) Jeff Gordon? Keep in mind the track closed in the early
> > 90's...

> > I am pretty sure the answer is D) Jeff Gordon. Was there last fall and the
> > walls in the local Applebees are a shrine to the track and the people
> > involved with it. I think JG was the winner in the last event there before
> > NASCAR took it off the schedule.