Paperclip Early Race Picks

Just ordered my tickets for Sundays STP 500, looks like a great forecast for the race, sunny & 72 the high!  Race should be exciting with a lot of fender bending. Looking forward to meeting up with Stats for some good food & ice cold Miller Lites

AWESOME, as I told Stats the same!

    Old mother nature just dumped about 3inches of snow here at Martinsville!!

good get it all out of there by tomorrow so they can practice and somebody can rough up joey!!!       u going to the race lugs?

I`m on the fence. Right now I`m thinking of catching cup practice and Harvick in the trucks.

Side notes;

Jimmy Johnson is bringing chassis 749. This is the same chassis he ran here in the fall. set on the pole, led 193 of 500 laps and won the race. Was never out of the top 6 during the race.

I see most (70%) teams elect to bring a new chassis here, even Bowyer. That chassis Bowyer has for backup is the one he ran here in the fall it led for 154 laps and finished 5th.

Stenhouse is making his first ever start in any division at Martinsville.

forcast 30% chance of rain and high of 65 

That`s today forecast .

Sat and Sun looks great Sunny with  highs near 70

Hope they pack the stands. This county could really use the money.
The unemployment rate here is lowest in the state.

Thanks for info lugs, crews are up & at it this morning gearing up for 1st practice. Lets see who can nail the setup off the truck on this tricky flat Paperclip!

  shittt come join us and have a cold beer or two      i played harvick and sauter to win the truck race...

If 1st practice is any indication, Hendrick cars are gonna be stout

Hendrick cars always dominate at Ville

MLB Hendrick camp is always tough @ the Paperclip. But I remember back in my younger days in the late 80s my all time favorite driver Rusty Wallace was $$$ @ martinsville Those were the good ole days, sat on row 1 of those concrete seats on the backstrecth where they have those signs now cause we were broke as hell! Would leave the race covered in tire rubber & possibly need stitches when a big piece would hit you in the forehead. Been thru about 10 different miller lite can designs since then

This different tire that they have to deal with has got crews scratching there heads. From what I`ve seen is after 10 laps they dealing with a totally different animal.

The trucks are running the same tire and we should pay close attention to how they correspond .

This tire came from a test back in Aug. with drivers , 99, 29,48,an 56.
Yes the 48 was here for the test...

You don't have to look at you stopwatch to see the times fall off just look at the rubber left laid on the track. Its the most I`ve ever seen.

I think tomorrows practice will separate the guy that could be winding the clock or the guy that just eating a hotdog.

I was right here with ya kouz!!

Lugs also had some damn good times camping above the railroad tracks, you gonna be @ the race Sunday?

Bad as I hate it, I`ve got to punch in for a few hours Sunday and there`s no around it.

If your looking for a good place to eat I recommend a mexican restaurant called Los Nortenos it`s right next to Dutch Inn. The fajitas are awesome!

Got ya Kouz.  Rusty was a short track ace but DW, Schrader, Gordon, JJ been awesome there.  Chase Elliott next in line for elite status for HMS

Had a great time @ the Paperclip todayStats thanks for stopping by & having a cold beer with us Thinking about heading up to rockingham for the truck race next weekend. Congrats to all Johnson backers!