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| Date: 2006-08-06 10:23:10 I think they were selling whoppers out this car to fund the team. | | Date: 2006-08-06 10:24:10 Bob and Tom broadcasting from the track. Judging from the hats I'd say Jamie McMurray had been there. | | Date: 2006-08-06 10:26:42 Ken Schrader's ride gets checked out by NASCAR officials. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 10:36:02 Richard Petty chilling with his homies. | | Date: 2006-08-06 10:40:04 Team haulers | | Date: 2006-08-06 10:40:24 The back of Dale Jarrett's hauler. Nothing special, just the closest to the fence. Nice YRY floor mat, though. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 10:43:59
| | Date: 2006-08-06 10:45:35 Craig enjoys the F1 course. This is the inside of turn #8 | | Date: 2006-08-06 10:50:01 Turn #10 of the road course. Still with the groove showing from the 2006 USGP. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 10:55:13 NEXTEL cutaway car outside the nextel tent | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:01:45 Apparently it was a Robert Yates Racing car in a previous life | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:06:08 Mark Martin's IROC car outside the Crown Royal tent in the infield | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 11:06:55 Jamie McMurray's Crown Royal show car | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:08:38 Chevy show cars. From right to left, Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Dale Earnhart Jr, Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart. | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:10:01 Yay Tony! | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 11:11:39 Brian Vicker's show car | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:29:00 People gathered around watching them roll cars down the pits and then back up the track to the starting grid | | Date: 2006-08-06 11:29:17 Martin Truex Jr's car getting rolled out for the start. in the upper left are cars already in the starting grid on the front stretch | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 12:16:23 Matt cover's all the Indianapolis Motor Speedway bases: 500 tee shirt, 400 ticket lanyard, and a USGP Foster's | | Date: 2006-08-06 12:46:34 Cars on the starting grid (very far away from where we were sitting) | | Date: 2006-08-06 12:46:54 Nice shot of the pagoda and pilon. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 12:47:12 yup, that's what day it was, alright. | | Date: 2006-08-06 13:18:51 More cars getting rolled back to the starting grid. | | Date: 2006-08-06 13:22:59 Yay Tony! | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 13:23:15 Yay Tony! | | Date: 2006-08-06 13:23:40 Motor cycle team performing | | Date: 2006-08-06 13:25:10 Yay Tony! | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 13:37:41 Scott Riggs car gets pushed back. One of the best alternate liveries in the race, in my opinion. | | Date: 2006-08-06 13:58:10 This is actually a picture of the #33 Tony Stewart shirt. The hairy back is just a bonus. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:03:56 Boris Said during driver introductions. Couldn't not show a picture of the best 'fro in racing. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:06:53 Yay Tony! | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:08:43 Actually a fairly sexy pace car compared to some of the previous ones. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:09:48 Joe Nemecheck and Mini-joe | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:12:33 NASCAR covers all of its diversity EOE requirements in a single hire | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:30:27 Cutest... Cart... Evar... | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:31:02 Invocation. Apparently I'm that jerk who takes photos... | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:31:15 Apparently I'm not the only one taking pictures. Jeff Gordon's crew with a camera in their face. That's a big boy in the middle there! | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:31:19 Scott Riggs' crew. I think the guy in the middle spotted me... | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:32:17 The national anthem... I don't remember who this is anymore... | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:32:37 Wide shot of the national anthem and teams lined up. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:33:19 Jeff Gordon's team praying... Didn't help much. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:40:22
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:40:40 "I saw a million balloons leaving town..." | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:45:51 Taking off for pace laps, Jeff Burton on pole. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:46:06 Mark Martin on the pace lap. Note all the other people in the shot taking photos. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 14:46:20 Yay Tony! | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:49:15 Cars on pace laps off turn 1 into the south short chute. | | Date: 2006-08-06 14:54:21 Green Flag! | |
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| Jeff Gordon comes in for a pit stop early after breaking a front something or other... This is a long pit stop on the clock because he was broken, but still interesting to see the activity | |  | |  | |
| | Date: 2006-08-06 15:06:30 He's actually sliding to a stop here, the guys are still up on the wall. | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:06:32
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:06:40
| | Date: 2006-08-06 15:06:42 They're actually under the left front trying to diagnose the cara here | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:06:50 OK, stop's taking a wee bit longer than they'd like (this is under green) | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:07:02 And he's away. Note the guys from the 26 an 16 pits in the background with their head down trying to see if thet can tell what's wrong with the car... They aren't doing it to be helpful, they're on different teams. | | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:15:00 First caution, the field comes down pit lane | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:15:11 Close up of Clint Bowyer's stop | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:15:14 Nice action shot, note the left rear tire bouncing free | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:15:29 Cars done with their stop jockeying for position leaving the pits | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:17:03 Spending a little more time under Jeff's car since their under caution | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:26:05 Ah, the cause of the caution, Boris Said gets towed back to the garages. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:26:06 Boris's car has no rear end and is on a tow truck, but he's still only in 42nd place. I assume Gordon's in 43 at this point with his early green flag pits | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:30:05 Quick scoring update... | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:43:49 Jimmie Johnson in for service. This is actually a different caution. Check out the front tire carrier and the rear tire changer in great action shots. | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:44:24 Oops, Jimmie's pits catch on fire... seriously, his car's in there somewhere | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:44:37 Burton pulls through Johnson's just-extinguished pit to his own box | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:44:47 Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, and Greg Biffle all pit while Johnson's smoke continues to hang over the pits | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 15:44:53 Another shot of the gorgeous Stanley livery on Scott Riggs' car | | Date: 2006-08-06 15:56:10
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| Date: 2006-08-06 16:35:39 Yay Tony! | | Date: 2006-08-06 16:41:19 So at this point I got bored and started playing with the zoom on my camera. Clint Boyer's lady friend. | | Date: 2006-08-06 16:41:46 Delana Harvick. I used to think driver's wives were all eye candy, but Delana Harvick changed that opinion (that's not a joke). | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 16:44:16 Jeff Gordon's honey | | Date: 2006-08-06 17:05:35 These poor kids. Kenseth took the lead and they were on the top of the world. Two laps later he got passed and it looked like their dogs died. Highyl amusing. | | Date: 2006-08-06 17:11:51 Yay Tony! | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 17:12:27
| | Date: 2006-08-06 17:12:37 Another good pit action shot. | | Date: 2006-08-06 17:12:44
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| Date: 2006-08-06 17:17:51
| | Date: 2006-08-06 17:42:47 I think I just took this one because Tony was finally in front of Carl Edwards. Suck it, Bob! | | Date: 2006-08-06 17:49:19 Checkers and yellow. Boo Kasey Kahne! | |
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| Date: 2006-08-06 17:50:08 Amusingly, this isn't the correct finishing order. This is the order they crossed the finish line, but since the caution came out on the backstretch the field was frozen at the previous scoring loop. Tony actually finished 8th, Carl Edwards 9th. Suck it, Trebek. | | Date: 2006-08-06 17:55:09 Matt beats the Indiana allergies. | | Date: 2006-08-06 18:00:57 The walk back to the car, Georgetown and 16th. Oh, and Craig's Scott Speed hat. | |
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