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<h2><span style="background-color: #ff9900;">[previously 2013-02]</span></h2>
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<li><strong>] <a href="articles?id=306" target="_blank">week ended 2013-02-10</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] our daily entries for this week &nbsp;- the top articles, video's and quotes from the nascar world</li>
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<h2><span style="background-color: #ff9900;">[today 2013-02-12]</span><span style="font-size: 10px;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></h2>
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<h3>1122, 2013-02-12-ARTICLE-jeff-gluck-picks-for-2013</h3>
<p>] this USA Today NASCAR reporter, predicts his top 12 for <a style="line-height: normal;" href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2013/02/12/nascar-2013-predictions-chase/1912291/" target="_blank">2013-chase-predictions</a>&nbsp;and all of the USA today NASCAR writers collectively, make their choices and average out the results</p>
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<li><a href="person?id=144#content" target="_blank">Denny Hamlin</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=145#content" target="_blank">Matt Kenseth</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li><a href="person?id=115#content" target="_blank">Jimmie Johnson</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=152#content" target="_blank">Kasey Kahne</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=100#content" target="_blank">Brad Keselowski</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=143#content" target="_blank">Kyle Busch</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=114#content" target="_blank">Jeff Gordon</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=122#content" target="_blank">Carl Edwards</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=121#content" target="_blank">Greg Biffle</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=116#content" target="_blank">Dale Earnhardt Jr.</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=149#content" target="_blank">Kevin Harvick</a></li>
<li><a href="person?id=109#content" target="_blank">Joey Logano</a></li>
</ol><span style="line-height: normal;">] PICKS by all @ usatoday.com writers -</span><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</span><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>2013-chase-predictions</strong></span><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: normal;">- all 6 of the nascar writers on staff made their chase predictions, points were assigned, drivers were ranked and this is what they came up with collectively</span><br /><ol style="line-height: normal;">
<li>Jimmy Johnson</li>
<li>Denny Hamlin</li>
<li>Kasey Kahne</li>
<li>Matt Kenseth</li>
<li>Brad Keselowski</li>
<li>Kyle Busch</li>
<li>Dale Earnhardt Jr</li>
<li>Carl Edwards</li>
<li><a href="person?id=118#content" target="_blank">Clint Bowyer</a></li>
<li>Greg Biffle</li>
<li><a href="person?id=108#content" target="_blank">Tony Stewart</a></li>
<li>Jeff Gordon</li>
</ol><span style="line-height: normal;">NOTE the absence of Bowyer, Truex Jr and Tony Stewart from Glucks list, all drivers who made the chase in 2012.</span>
<h3>1125, 2013-02-12-ARTICLE-Preview-Richard-Childress-Racing</h3>
<p>] ARTICLE by Pete Pistone @ MRN - previews the RCR team for the upcoming 2013 season, we summarize,</p>
<p>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motorracingnetwork.com/Race-Series/NASCAR-Sprint-Cup/News/Articles/2013/02/Team-Preview-Richard-Childress-Racing.aspx" target="_blank">RCR Team Preview 2013</a></p>
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<li><strong>] Richard Childress(owner)</strong></li>
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<li>] "We know we've got to do our work here," team owner Childress said. "We've got to get our cars better, we've got to get our handling better, got to get to running bette<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;">r.</span>"&nbsp;We&rsquo;ve got a good lineup,&rdquo; &ldquo;The tests we&rsquo;ve had, I&rsquo;m really pleased with what we&rsquo;ve seen. Hopefully, when we put it all together, it will be what we expect for this year.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;<a href="person?id=149#content" target="_blank">Kevin Harvick</a>,</strong>&nbsp;<strong>8th last year,</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>possibly a lame duck season for driver Harvick who is set to depart RCR at year end for Stewart-Haas racing. Remains paired with crew cheif gil martin and hopes to build upon successful finish to last season(phoenix victory).&nbsp;</li>
<li>HARVICK "Regardless of what happens on the business side of things, Richard Childress and myself will always be friends," said Harvick. "We may agree to disagree, but we still have a lot of racing left to do, and we owe it to our sponsors and our company to go out and race hard."&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] dr eric warren</strong>&nbsp;brought in as NEW<em>&nbsp;competition director,</em>&nbsp;replacing Scott Miller (now at MWR) who departed at the beginning of 2013</li>
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<li>] WARREN Now it's all about putting a system into place that everybody buys into to lead everybody on a day-to-day basis and hopefully make things better."&nbsp;</li>
<li>] seeing improvements alread - &nbsp;built a method of preparing and trying to look at the teams separately to kind of develop ideas and bring them all together when it counts, when the season starts,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve had two successful tests . . . We&rsquo;ve got high expectations and I look forward to bringing that to reality.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
<li><strong>UPDATED 2013-02-14</strong>&nbsp;<span style="line-height: normal;">] ARTICLE - BY David Smith @motorsportsAnalytics - provides&nbsp;</span><a style="line-height: normal;" href="http://sulia.com/davidsmith/f/dd09d1cf-95cd-4776-9108-a0f8efcd77da/" target="_blank">a little more insight into the behind the scenes activity</a><span style="line-height: normal;">&nbsp;at RCR. Sayin that basically RCR is 3 seperate teams under 1 roof with 3 seperate sets of "notes". Previously (2011) their competition director (Scott Miller, now @ MWR) tried to get the teams all working together and after his departure <em>it appears</em> as if they went back to their old ways(hence the 2012 results). New director is trying to get them back on track.</span></li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="person?id=150#content" target="_blank">Jeff Burton</a>, 19th last year,</strong>&nbsp;</li>
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<li>] rumours about his retirement, DENIED, his 20th season, needs to improve&nbsp;</li>
<li>] BURTON&nbsp;"When you're in your 20th year and people are talking about you being replaced, it is not the position you want to be in,&rdquo;&nbsp;"When you've put in as much as I've put into it and it means as much as it means to me, you want everybody saying, 'That's a driving son of a [gun].' "&nbsp;We&rsquo;re as prepared as we can be,&rdquo; &ldquo;Obviously, everybody is behind. There is a lot of energy around here; there&rsquo;s an enthusiasm &ndash; you can feel it.&rdquo;&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="person?id=151#content" target="_blank">Paul Menard</a>, 17th last year,&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] also struggled last year, back with crew chief sluggerLabbe</li>
<li>] MENARD&nbsp;&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t accomplish what we were after last season that&rsquo;s for sure,&rdquo; &ldquo;It will be nice to set the restart button and we&rsquo;re confident things will change for the better this year.&rdquo;</li>
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<h3>1121, 2013-02-12-ARTICLE-questions-NOT-asked</h3>
<p>] the questions that are NOT going to get asked at the upcoming NASCAR media day @Daytona</p>
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<li>] ARTICLE by Richard Allen @racingwithrich.com -&nbsp;<a href="http://racingwithrich.com/?p=2049" target="_blank">questions that wont be asked at media day</a></li>
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<h3>1124, 2013-02-12-PHOTO-first-look-new-track-dryer</h3>
<p>AirTitan the new track drying setup (@Daytona only for now), expectation is to dry the Daytona track completely in :40 minutes</p>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://motorsports-soapbox.blogspot.ca/2013/02/first-look-nascars-new-titan-track.html" target="_blank">PHOTO</a>&nbsp;by ? @godfather Dave Moody&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;Steve O'Donnell&nbsp;&rlm;<s>@</s>odsteve&nbsp;<s>@</s>nateryan&nbsp;<s>@</s>Air&nbsp;Titan-100 gallons of diesel lasts 9-10 hours vs 100 gallons of jet fuel in an hour-Big opportunity to reduce moving forward</li>
<li>]&nbsp;Marty Smith&nbsp;&rlm;<s>@</s>MartySmithESPN&nbsp;.&nbsp;<s>@</s>odsteve&nbsp;on new track dryer: "The Air Titan's ultimate goal is to reduce drying time, which you've heard from our chairman, by 80 percent"</li>
<li>]&nbsp;David Caraviello&nbsp;&rlm;<s>@</s>dcaraviello&nbsp;O'Donnell adds there will be two sets of equipment on opposite sides of the track which will move in same direction. Sprays pressurized air</li>
<li>] Steve O'Donnell: "Won't be cars on track during drying process, so we can avoid what happened in past"</li>
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<h3>1126, 2013-02-12-QUOTES-jack-roush-sprint-unlimited-is-going-to-be-a-crash-fest</h3>
<p>] @dustin Long quotes Jack Roush as saying this in a recently, &amp; jack explains why ...</p>
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<li>] ARTICLE by Dustin Long @ &nbsp;-&nbsp;</li>
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<li><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; font: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;" href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23NASCAR">#NASCAR</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">&nbsp;... Car owner Jack Roush predicts chaos at Daytona. You agree? Here's what Jack recently said about what to expect in Daytona:</span><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"I think there's going to be more wrecks than normal. The thing that has happened is that NASCAR has taken off 450 pounds or so of downforce from the car totally, and they've shifted the aero balance from the back toward the front by 13 percent. The cars are going to be extraordinarily loose, you saw Biffle nearly spin out and you saw Marcos Ambrose get loose with Dale Jr pushing on him (during last month's Daytona test), so I think there's going to be more wrecks. It will be a surprise if there's more than a third of the cars that finish the (Daytona) 500 and I think the (Sprint Unlimited) is going to be a crash-fest.''</span></li>
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<h3>1123, 2013-02-12-VIDEO-kenseth-and-the-coach</h3>
<p>[03:00] Check out this new PROMO VIDEO for new sponsor GameStop Racing with matt kenseth and the coach joe gibbs, football, video games,</p>
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<li>] ARTICLE Kenseth JGR announced sponsorship from gaming company GameStop Racing</li>
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<p><iframe src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IS32IbsXbsE?rel=0" frameborder="0" width="560" height="315"></iframe></p>
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<h2><span style="background-color: #ff9900;">[next 2013-02-13 &gt;]</span></h2>
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<li><strong>] 2013-02-14 09:00&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] &nbsp;Media Day - <a href="http://www.nascar.com/mediaday.html" target="_blank">Live Streaming from Nascar&nbsp;</a></strong></li>
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<li><strong>] 2013-02-16 09:00&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] &nbsp;Ponce Inlet -&nbsp;<a href="http://t.co/aGAG4nAu" target="_blank">vintage NASCAR parade</a>&nbsp;on the beach&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] 2013-02-16 - TV&nbsp;SCHEDULE for speedweeks on SPEED and FOX, ready to PRINT, courtesy of Eric Arneson @speedPR1</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitlonger.com/show/kt7d9d%20" target="_blank">http://www.twitlonger.com/show/kt7d9d&nbsp;</a>&nbsp;<strong><br /></strong></li>
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