[WVGrandma4Kasey]

Hi Everyone
If you have the time and get the speed channel, The Truck race is at 2:00pm eastern time. Check out our NASCAR girl. There is a link on the Kasey thread with her Bio.

[3829]

i dont get the speed channel so u will hav to tell me what happens

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

Sorry guys I gave you the wrong thread. http://www.evernhammotorsports.com/m...agename=ec_bio So I'll post it here. Erin is really awesome.


My heads on backward today if you hit the link be for I edited AGAIN

[lilsexy08]

I saw Erin Crocker race this year in ARCA as well, she's runs with the best of them! She's cool!

[TN_Gal]

Am I mistaken?? I seem to see her spin out alot....
She still drives drives good...but I wouldn't say she is great...

[Smoke842]

Originally Posted by TN_Gal

Am I mistaken?? I seem to see her spin out alot....
She still drives drives good...but I wouldn't say she is great...

I'm sorry Gma and sexy, I would have to agree with TN Gal. She ran a few Busch races and didn't do so well so they kicked her back to the Truck series. I hope she does better, but I like the men. That's why I watch.

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

Erin finished 29th. Qualifying was raided out. She Started 25th, worked her way up to 4th when the 15 who was 2 laps down spun her out. She went from 1 lap down back to 23th , problems again. If anyone else watched they know she has no reason to hang her head. She drove well and I've never seen her as aggressive. And she wasn't the only good driver back there.

[lilsexy08]

I saw her race this last weekend and she did ok and then she wrecked maybe twice if I remember right. I will agree on that one!

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

There's room for women drivers in this kingdom

By Erin Crocker, Special to NASCAR.COM
May 31, 2006
09:56 AM EDT (13:56 GMT)
To be honest, I wasn't all that surprised last week when Richard Petty said women didn't belong in NASCAR.
Petty has the right to say whatever he wants. He's been extremely successful in this sport with seven championships. If that's what he thinks, that's what he thinks. It really doesn't bother me. A lot of people have that old-school mentality.
Maybe he is right in that it's not a sport for every woman. You have to live your life in a man's world. You're around guys in a garage every day. It's just a different lifestyle. I don't think it is for every woman.
But it's wrong for him to say it's not for any woman. Hopefully, Danica Patrick and I will prove that.
I used to take more offense to comments like that. You sort of get used to it. Not that there's that many people with those ideas.
In the Nextel Cup garage and Busch garage and the race world in general, there is more positive, mutual respect than there are people against me. And people that are important to me, like Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Kasey Kahne, people that I look up to as drivers, they're totally behind me.
The comments from Richard Petty ... they're just from a different time. Society was a lot different 30 or 40 years ago when he was in his prime.
It's kind of funny. We both work with General Mills as a sponsor and people have commented about how Richard has been very supportive of me.
Last year, when we threw ourselves into the Busch Series Richard said something to the people at General Mills like, "That girl has talent. Don't push her too fast. She'll get it.''
He was right. I was pushed too fast. But he did say I had talent and I would get there.
The fact that he said what he did last week makes me wonder a little bit why he made the comments. Maybe he meant women in general don't belong in racing, which as I said I kind of agree with. Racing isn't for every woman.
If that's what he's saying, I understand it.
But what he said certainly has gotten a lot of attention. I did an interview the day after the comments came out and said, "Hey, if that's what Richard believes, then tell him to dig his helmet off the shelf and dust it off and we'll go for a match race.''
Just don't ask me to race go-karts against my PR person, Toni McCray. We were at an appearance for General Mills at Victory Lane Karting in Charlotte last week. Toni worked at that track for a year and a half, and she took advantage of that.
She took me out pretty good for the win. We were coming toward the finish line and she just sort of pushed me over toward the fence. The fence wasn't exactly straight. It had this little part that stuck out.
Of course, my left front stuck right into that part of the fence and stopped my car.
That was humbling, being beaten by her. I was, "Great. Now the people from General Mills will think they've got the wrong driver.''
The Truck race last week at Mansfield [Ohio] was a typical short track race. We ran fairly well there in practice. Then qualifying got rained out, so we had to go back to owner points and I had to start 25th.
It's a hard track to pass on. It's a one-groove track and we had a really hard tire. Track position was really important.
We got up to third at one point and then got taken out. I can't say I was innocent. I moved a few people myself during the race. It was just one of those short track racing deals and we finished 28th.
It wasn't as hot as it was at the Cup race at Lowe's Motor Speedway on Sunday, but it was humid. For some reason, the trucks seem hotter than the cars.
When I stopped the truck after the race I couldn't touch anything in there without burning my hand. There is too much heat getting in there. We've got to work on that.
We're going to have a lot of hot races this summer. I work out a lot to get ready for them.
It was good to get away from all that on Monday for Memorial Day. I just hung around the pool and chilled out, did a little canoeing on the lake.
There's not too many days you get to do that. This is our busiest time of the year for me. Last week started 10 straight weeks of racing, with some of those doubles in ARCA and Truck or Busch and Truck or whatever the combination is.
Erin Crocker is stepping up a program that she hopes will land her in a fulltime Nextel Cup ride by driving in the Busch, Truck and ARCA Series for Evernham Motorsports. The youngest of five children, Crocker has been sharing weekly with NASCAR.com readers the ups and downs of her life on and off the track through staff writer David Newton.


Find this article at:
http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/head...ver/index.html

[Smoke842]

Time will tell, Gma. I just don't have a lot of confidence in the female drivers. Even if they qualify well, they seem to fade in the race, not the pit crew's fault, they just don't seem to get up there. I remember the 1st interview I ever saw with Shawna Robinson when she got the 49 ride. She said "I deserve this. I worked hard." I deserve this? Did you by any chance see that, interview Gma? Anyone else remember that?

[WVGrandma4Kasey]

Originally Posted by Smoke842

Time will tell, Gma. I just don't have a lot of confidence in the female drivers. Even if they qualify well, they seem to fade in the race, not the pit crew's fault, they just don't seem to get up there. I remember the 1st interview I ever saw with Shawna Robinson when she got the 49 ride. She said "I deserve this. I worked hard." I deserve this? Did you by any chance see that, interview Gma? Anyone else remember that?

Yes I was really hoping she would be a exception. Still have her web site in my favorites. I don't think she had the backgrown Erin has or the backing. Have to see what happen's when or if Evernham puts her in a Busch car next year. When I was in my 20's women ran power-puff. My ex never got my jeep done. I always wanted to participate in the 4 wheel challenge. So I know women can be fearless. I did a little off-road bike. Did a little hurty, hurty too. (no smilie for ouch)

[Smoke842]

Originally Posted by WVGrandma4Kasey

Yes I was really hoping she would be a exception. Still have her web site in my favorites. I don't think she had the backgrown Erin has or the backing. Have to see what happen's when or if Evernham puts her in a Busch car next year. When I was in my 20's women ran power-puff. My ex never got my jeep done. I always wanted to participate in the 4 wheel challenge. So I know women can be fearless. I did a little off-road bike. Did a little hurty, hurty too. (no smilie for ouch)

Hi Gma, maybe Erin can get some experience and kick some butt! I would be pleasantly surprised.

[TN_Gal]

Hey.. Ms Crocker driving in the Busch race tonite....lets see hoe she does....maybe we can have another upset????

PS.. I am NOT fixing spelling mistakes tonite

[TN_Gal]

oh no..Kluever (one of my Roucsh boys) just clipped Crocker up the arse.....she is done....

[lilsexy08]

Sorry everyone! I watched about the first 5 minutes of the Bush race, but I had such a terrible hangover from Friday night I went to bed around 900p and kept drifting off before that-what happened with Erin did she finish! You would be proud of me Grandma! True redneck bar! LOL!