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Irvan & Nadeau back on the track at MIS:

Irvan & Nadeau back on the track at MIS: Ernie Irvan, Jerry Nadeau and Rusty Wallace are no longer NASCAR drivers, but they still took a lap around Michigan International Speedway on Thursday. Irvan and Nadeau, who both retired from racing after suffering traumatic...
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Indy Qualifying Notes:

• Jeff Burton won the NEXTEL Cup Series Bud Pole for the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, lapping Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 49.240 seconds at 182.778 mph. Casey Mears holds the trackqualifying record of 48.311 seconds, 186.293 mph - set Aug. 7, 2004. • This is Burton...
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LAPS Walk at Pocono raises over $30,000:

On July 21st, 2006, Ernie Irvan and the Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania (BIAPA) earned another victory in the fight to prevent Traumatic Brain Injury at the Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, PA. In a place known for speed and excitement, this victory lap was at...
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Drivers list for Irvan’s L.A.P.S Walk at Pocono:

Ernie Irvan has set the initial field of participating drivers for the first of his track walk events this summer to raise awareness for traumatic brain injury - the Leadership and Awareness to Promote Safety (LAPS) Walk, set to take place on Friday, July 21 after ...
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Ernie Irvan’s second annual L.A.P.S. Walk event date changed at MIS:

The date for Ernie Irvan's second annual L.A.P.S. Walk event at the Michigan International Speedway (MIS) has been changed from Wednesday, August 16th to Thursday, August 17, 2006. Irvan and the Brain Injury Association of America have chosen to change the date of ...
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Sad News – Susan Kathleen Irvan Lewis:

Mrs. Lewis, 51, of Cornelius, NC died Sunday, July 2, 2006 at her residence. She was born on August 25, 1954 to Vic Irvan and Jo Ann Graves Irvan in Carmel, CA. She loved designing and painting her own works of art. Her pleasures in life were boating on the lake, traveling...
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Ernie Irvan Announces LAPS Walk 2006 Schedule:

On the heels of last August's successful inaugural walkathon event at Michigan International Speedway (MIS), NASCAR racing legend Ernie Irvan and the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA) have today announced the 2006 dates for Irvan's LAPS Walk, and have added...
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Bristol Race Notes:

• Kurt Busch won the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway, scoring his 15th career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup victory in his 189th career start. • Busch’s last victory came at Richmond, 13 races earlier. • It was his fifth Bristol victory in 11 races on the Tennessee short...
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Rumblings – Bristol:

One good gauge as to how entertaining a race has been is by how many upset drivers we have at the end of the event. Today, we had 42 ticked off and one happy.....by all accounts, that makes this the best race of the year. Kurt Busch put the "bump and run" on former...
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Irvan, Nadeau and LaJoie take on the virtual world:

A squadron of NASCAR drivers will take on the virtual racing world in the first-ever Race2Safety Showdown on January 24 at Quaker Steak & Lube, just up the road from Lowe's Motor Speedway in Concord, NC. The entire 40-car field was filled in less than 48 hours ...
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Conely and #79 shot give it another shot, this time with Reffner:

The #79 SBC/Tubby's Submarines Chevy he's taking to Brooklyn, MI [MIS] was built by John Conely, owner of Conely Motor Sports Inc., and 15 others on about 1% of a typical team's $15 million-$20 million budget in the same Genoa Township garage from which he sells, rents...
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Ernie Irvan MIS Walk to feature Celebrities TODAY:

NASCAR legend Ernie Irvan is only days away from the most important victory lap of his life - the inaugural Leadership and Awareness to Promote Safety (LAPS) Walk, set to take place next Wednesday, August 17 from 10:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. at Michigan International Speedway...
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Irvan’s Mission Gains Momentum:

One prominent NASCAR team's drivers will be doing more than running laps around the New Hampshire International Speedway in Loudon July 17 as part of the New England 300; they'll be helping to promote the August 17 LAPS Walk, an inaugural event at Michigan International...
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MIS Medical Teams Ready for races:

For two weekends each summer, the third-largest city in the state of Michigan sits amongst rolling pastures and tracts of hardwoods in the Irish Hills. Michigan International Speedway is the downtown area of that vast, temporary metropolis of parking lots, campgrounds...
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NASCAR Busch Series News and Notes: Lowe’s Motor Speedway

Its back to work for the competitors in the NASCAR Busch Series following the second off-week of the season. The site of Saturday nights race Lowes Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. is NASCARs proverbial backyard, housing a majority of the sports team shops and driver...
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Irvan to be inducted in West Coast HOF:

The inductees for the 4th Annual West Coast Stock Car Hall Of Fame induction ceremony July 22, 2005 have been announced by Tim Meyer director of the West Coast Stock Car Hall Of Fame. Fifteen names make up the West Coast Stock Car Hall Of Fame 2005 induction class. ...
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Nadeau not coming back as a driver?

From a Winston Salem Journal story with quotes by former Cup driver Ernie Irvan, who survived two bad wrecks with head injuries: "Jerry [Nadeau] is going to be a part of my foundation [Race2safety -race2safety.com], because he's a head-injury survivor too. Jerry was...
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Gateway News and Notes:

No racetrack on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule is simple. Gateway International Raceway, an egg-shaped, 1.25-mile layout hosting Saturdays Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Ram Tough 200, is more difficult than most. Considerably more difficult. Since joining...
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Irvan at the Track:

during the rain delay at Martinsville Speedway qualifying, Speed Channel amd MRN Radio interviewed for Nextel Cup driver, Ernie Irvan, who is at the track promoting Race 2 Safety, which deals with trying to decrease the number of head injuries. For more info, check...
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NASCAR NEXTEL CUP – Qualifying Notes – Bristol:

* Elliott Sadler won the NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series Bud Pole for the Food City 500, lapping Bristol Motor Speedway in 15.022 seconds at 127.733 mph. Ryan Newman holds the track-qualifying record of 14.908 seconds, 128.709 mph, set March 21, 2003. * This is the 42nd Bud...