Lou is always finding ways to make this league better. Lately, he has been adding bonuses for great accomplishments that each driver is able to attain. In that sense, I am now offering up another chance for everyone in the Cup League to earn a nice reward.
This will be called the LUCKY SHOT 5. The Lucky Shot 5 will be inspired by Winston's old Incentive program for winning the Crown Jewels of Nascar. It was known as the Winston Million or later on as the Winston No Bull 5. In that program, drivers received cash prizes for winning select races in the same season. You can read all about it here at this address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_No_Bull_5
The Lucky Shot 5 will have five races included in the program. Those races will be: Daytona 500 ---------------- Daytona Beach Dodge Avenger 500 --------- Darlington USG Sheetrock 400 --------- Chicago Centurion Boats at the Glen - Watkins Glen Chevy Rock-n-Roll 400 ------ Richmond
Any driver in the Cup League who manages to pull off a victory in all five races in one season will receive from the Vice President a $50.00 gift certificate from Nascar.com. This has never happened in LuckyDog as of yet but this will give us all something to shoot for. There will also be lesser consolation prizes as well for getting close to this very hard goal.
Win all five of the Lucky Shot 5's races in one season........$50.00 gift cert.
Win four of the Lucky Shot 5's races in one season...........$30.00 gift cert.
Win three of the Lucky Shot 5's races in one season.........$20.00 gift cert.
Win a Career Lucky Shot 5 (win all five races over the course of your career).....$40.00 gift cert. (currently, the most victories anyone has of these races is 2 for their career)
Top 5 Consolation: Score a Top Five in all five Lucky Shot 5 races during one season and receive a T-shirt with your Race Team Logo on it.
1 - Ed Blackman, SoCal Sprint Car Assoc. 2 - Stephen Dicaprio, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Randy Cook, Randy Cook Racing 4 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 5 - Joe Hicks, TCB Racing
you never know......look at me.....I am generally at the bottom of the standings and yet I have the most victories....it all depends on how you tackle the race with your picks.
1 - Ed Blackman, SoCal Sprint Car Assoc. 2 - Stephen Dicaprio, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Randy Cook, Randy Cook Racing 4 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 5 - Joe Hicks, TCB Racing
Darlington Results:
1 - Bob Baldridge Jr., 2FAST4U 2 - Frank Page, Daniel Jack's Racing Team 3 - Kevin Sullivan, North Coast Racing, Inc. 4 - Nathan Helton, Racing Traditions Inc. 5 - Marty Fliessner, Mafia Motorsports
Ok, second race in and we know no one will be winning all of the races this year, but Bob and Ed each have a chance at winning four out of the five still. While the rest of us can only hope to win three now. It also doesn't look like anyone will be getting a Top Five in all five races since no one repeated at Darlington from Daytona. Career Top Fives are still very much in the works and still possible for everyone in the league! Only one driver, Shawnda Moore, has won at two of the races so far in her career, but 11 others have one win already tucked away in their trophy case:
Shawnda Moore - 2 - Chicago '06, Darlington '07 Charquilla Addison - 1 - Chicago '04 Bob Baldridge Jr. - 1 - Darlington '08 Ed Blackman - 1 - Daytona '08 Robert Butterfield - 1 - Daytona '07 Steven Cotter - 1 - Chicago '05 Gwen Demian - 1 - Richmond '04 Jordan Hunt - 1 - Chicago '07 Frank Page - 1 - Watkins Glen '07 Larry Scroggins - 1 - Daytona '06 Matt Sealey - 1 - Richmond '05,'06 BJ Spears - 1 - Richmond '07
1 - Ed Blackman, SoCal Sprint Car Assoc. 2 - Stephen Dicaprio, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Randy Cook, Randy Cook Racing 4 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 5 - Joe Hicks, TCB Racing
Darlington Results:
1 - Bob Baldridge Jr., 2FAST4U 2 - Frank Page, Daniel Jack's Racing Team 3 - Kevin Sullivan, North Coast Racing, Inc. 4 - Nathan Helton, Racing Traditions Inc. 5 - Marty Fliessner, Mafia Motorsports
Chicago Results:
1 - Louie Gallardo, Gallardo Racing Inc. 2 - Nathan Helton, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 4 - Mark Mason, North Coast Racing 5 - Ryan Smith, Top Dawgs
Watkins Glen Results:
1 - BJ Spears, Texas Motorsports 2 - Matt Sealey, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Kendall Moore, Texas Motorsports 4 - Ray Perotta, Randy Cook Racing 5 - Mark Mason, North Coast Racing
Career Lucky Shot 5 Victories:
Shawnda Moore - 2 - Chicago '06, Darlington '07 BJ Spears - 2 - Richmond '07, Watkins Glen '08 Charquilla Addison - 1 - Chicago '04 Bob Baldridge Jr. - 1 - Darlington '08 Ed Blackman - 1 - Daytona '08 Robert Butterfield - 1 - Daytona '07 Steven Cotter - 1 - Chicago '05 Gwen Demian - 1 - Richmond '04 Louie Gallardo - 1 - Chicago '08 Jordan Hunt - 1 - Chicago '07 Frank Page - 1 - Watkins Glen '07 Larry Scroggins - 1 - Daytona '06 Matt Sealey - 1 - Richmond '05,'06
Interesting Facts:
Both Ladies in the lead for Career Lucky Shots are from Texas Motorsports. Only 3 Members have scored in the Top 5 twice this year: Nathan Helton, Mark Mason, and Brian Travis. Racing Traditions Inc. have placed a driver in all four races thus far, the only team to do that.
So, no prizes will be given out this year for this program, but as long as I am a member of this league, this program will continue, so we can all strive for the Career Lucky Shot as well as start all over next year for the big prize. Race Hard Race Fans!
1 - Ed Blackman, SoCal Sprint Car Assoc. 2 - Stephen Dicaprio, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Randy Cook, Randy Cook Racing 4 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 5 - Joe Hicks, TCB Racing
Darlington Results:
1 - Bob Baldridge Jr., 2FAST4U 2 - Frank Page, Daniel Jack's Racing Team 3 - Kevin Sullivan, North Coast Racing, Inc. 4 - Nathan Helton, Racing Traditions Inc. 5 - Marty Fleissner, Mafia Motorsports
Chicago Results:
1 - Louie Gallardo, Gallardo Racing Inc. 2 - Nathan Helton, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Brain Travis, CrazyAboutRusty2 4 - Mark Mason, North Coast Racing 5 - Ryan Smith, Top Dawgs
Watkins Glen Results:
1 - BJ Spears, Texas Motorsports 2 - Matt Sealey, Racing Traditions Inc. 3 - Kendall Moore, Texas Motorsports 4 - Ray Perotta, Randy Cook Racing 5 - Mark Mason, North Coast Racing
Richmond Results:
1 - Gwen Demian, Intimidator Racing Inc. 2 - Marty Fleissner, Mafia Motorsports 3 - Jordan Hunt, North Coast Racing 4 - Bob Douce, North Coast Racing 5 - Terry Howell, AmpRacing88
Career Lucky Shot 5 Victories:
Shawnda Moore - 2 - Chicago '06, Darlington '07 BJ Spears - 2 - Richmond '07, Watkins Glen '08 Charquilla Addison - 1 - Chicago '04 Bob Baldridge Jr. - 1 - Darlington '08 Ed Blackman - 1 - Daytona '08 Robert Butterfield - 1 - Daytona '07 Steven Cotter - 1 - Chicago '05 Gwen Demian - 1 - Richmond '04, '08 Louie Gallardo - 1 - Chicago '08 Jordan Hunt - 1 - Chicago '07 Frank Page - 1 - Watkins Glen '07 Larry Scroggins - 1 - Daytona '06 Matt Sealey - 1 - Richmond '05,'06
Interesting Facts:
***Both Ladies in the lead for Career Lucky Shots are from Texas Motorsports. ***Only 4 Members have scored in the Top 5 twice this year: Nathan Helton, Mark Mason, Brian Travis, and Marty Fleissner. ***Team Top 5s: North Coast Racing -------- 5 Racing Traditions Inc. ------ 4 Texas Motorsports --------- 2 CrazyAboutRusty2 --------- 2 Mafia Motorsports ---------- 2 Randy Cook Racing --------- 2 Gallardo Racing Inc. -------- 1 2Fast4U -------------------- 1 SoCal Sprint Car Assoc. ----- 1 Intimidator Racing Inc. ------ 1 AmpRacing88 -------------- 1 Daniel Jack's Racing Team - 1 TCB Racing ---------------- 1 Top Dawgs ---------------- 1 ***Gwen Demian and Matt Sealey have both won twice at the same track so it only counts as one for the Career Lucky Shot.....(coincidentally, all four wins were at Richmond!)
So, no prizes will be given out this year for this program, but as long as I am a member of this league, this program will continue, so we can all strive for the Career Lucky Shot as well as start all over next year for the big prize. Race Hard Race Fans!