[Phils20]

I just found this link on Jayski.com. I just thought we could all get a laugh out of it!

Kyle Busch and Steve Wallace Disqualified at Snowball Derby: Steven Wallace and Kyle Busch's cars were both disqualified in post-qualifier tech after initially making it into the field. Kyle Busch wasn't too happy. He was tossed from the event due to a height infraction. Both Busch and Steven Wallace were very irate in the pit area and told Speed51.com that they are displeased with Ricky Brooks (head tech inspector) and his philosophies. Steven Wallace was found to be light when crossing the scales after tech. They let the team roll off the scales and roll back on. During that time he was caught trying to put sockets in his pockets.(Speed51.com)(12-2-2007)

[LSC9901]

I've heard the term pocket rocket as in motorcycle, but pocket sockets is a new one. He should have drank some water too. That would have added a couple more ounces.

[Phils20]

I just rolled when I read that!!!!

[LSC9901]

Originally Posted by Phils20

I just rolled when I read that!!!!

Maybe if Wallace ever makes it to the cup series he'll be a little more creative with his attempts at cheating !!!

[Phils20]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

Maybe if Wallace ever makes it to the cup series he'll be a little more creative with his attempts at cheating !!!

Only is he joins HMS!! (ducking for cover)

[Bob Tanner]

I had to miss it this year (I'm freezing in Dover, DE)> <grumble>.

I see my home boy, Cale Gale got the pole. Does anyone know if he's driving a Harvick car or one from Jim Finch's stable or one his dad built?

I'll still go with either Bobby Gill, Scott Carlson or Pensacola's answer to Rick Hendrick (except I kinda like Eddie), Eddie Mercer.

[Phils20]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

I had to miss it this year (I'm freezing in Dover, DE)> <grumble>.

I see my home boy, Cale Gale got the pole. Does anyone know if he's driving a Harvick car or one from Jim Finch's stable or one his dad built?

I'll still go with either Bobby Gill, Scott Carlson or Pensacola's answer to Rick Hendrick (except I kinda like Eddie), Eddie Mercer.

Your in Dover, huh? Sucks to be here this week!! I'm typing this about 9 miles north of the track! Welcome to the First State!

[Racer Duck]

Originally Posted by Bob Tanner

I had to miss it this year (I'm freezing in Dover, DE)> <grumble>.

I see my home boy, Cale Gale got the pole. Does anyone know if he's driving a Harvick car or one from Jim Finch's stable or one his dad built?

I'll still go with either Bobby Gill, Scott Carlson or Pensacola's answer to Rick Hendrick (except I kinda like Eddie), Eddie Mercer.

Sorry Bob, Augie Grill took home the bacon, so to speak. Full results in the Motorsports Forum and go to Speed51.com for the blow by blow...

[Racer Duck]

I ran across this posting on the local Texas Racing forum. The poster is a friend of mine who was at the event. He claims he didn't witness everything in the post, but it's an accumulation of things he heard, read and saw. As he says, "I just put it all together." (he granted me permission to repost it at GoTeamsGo.)

To add about Wallace,

The port-a-let deal happened after the Wednesday night Green Flag party. He crashed through the cans while leaving in his rental car. Thankfully, there were no one in them at the time.

The Sheriff's office was called, and a warrant was being started for Wallace. The Wauter's/Wallace camp went to Boyett, I think Thursday, and he gave them a $7500 bill for the damages. When They tried to give him a check, he tore it up, stated it would be cash, and the price just went to $10,000. Lil Wallace was seen leaving to go to the bank with David Stremme.

Then on Thursday, he wrecked his rental car, which got him a handful of citaitions. (Of course, according to him, it was the other guy's fault.)

After the last chance race Saturday, he was 3 pounds light. He said to needed to go pee, but went and met a crewman instead. When he got back, he had gained 5 pounds. They then found the sockets.

The thing about this was, they were letting a few pounds go, and they would have probably let Wallace go. But when he tried to pull the socket deal, that broke any dealings.

As for Hogan, who was in Busch's car, he won that race, and while he was on the cool down lap, the guy sitting next to me was listening to Wauter's frequency. Wauters was instructing a crew man to take a jack over to tech, and raise the nose of the car. The tech crew saw him coming and stopped him.

This car was high on the rear spoiler, and low on the roof. But their set-up uses a ton of rebound in the front shocks, and they were holding the nose down enough to put the spoiler above limits. They do not allow a "pull-up" like they do other places.

I didn't see a lot of reaction from Wallace after he was dismissed from Tech, but Busch was very animated.

Later heard he was saying they were too strict. He should have been given a break, he was Busch, and so on. Sure doing a good job of helping his image. They had a Kyle Busch booth set up under the stands that I never saw get much attention, and was empty Saturday night and Sunday.

Someone paid a big bill for this weekend to end up going home early. Between their private practice and the Derby week, they used over 150 SETS of tires, changed one engine at the track, and then you have the entries, hotels, food, fuel for two haulers and cars, and Lil Wallace's displays of maturity.

Another DQ of note was the #87 of John Webb, who is from Oklahoma and used to run ROMCO. He is the 2004, 2005, and 2007 USLMA Champion. He was caught soaking tires, and escorted off the property. If you are caught soaking, you have two choices there; Leave yourself, or leave in the back of the Sheriff's car. I did notice in some of the feature line-ups an official checking tire hardness with a durometer in one hand and a sniffer in the other.

In the PLM cars, They got everyone's favorite racer, Jack Smith, for weight. He raced the ASA events at SAS as a reddish #28 car. He turned Lloyd Alexander in the qualifier, then started another wreck that took a couple more cars out, including Alexander, who really had no where to go. Then in tech, his crew was stuffing radios in the left side door bars to try to make weight. Got thrown out, pitched a Busch Style fit, and then on Sunday, made a point of having his crew show up late to get the hauler out of the pit area. I thought that would have been a great opportunity to call a wrecker and haul the whole rig out of there, then let Smith pay for the tow.

Smith is the one that was thrown out of ASA in 2006, reinstated in 2007, and thrown out again for basically being a jerk. He has had problems in every series he has ever raced, starting with tech, and then the fellow racers.

I watched some tech, and they were being very strict about some stuff, and working with racers on other things. They really are very fair. The guys who got DQ'd got it because their cars were not right.

[Quality88]

That is pretty interesting RD, very interesting.