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Wednesday 19th July 2006

New England 100, New Hampshire, round 11/17, 25 laps, $15,899 purse

Douglas Mann was excited about getting back into his Whelen Modified car, having won twice already within the past week, a week that was just flying past! He was now hoping he could make it three out of three, three wins in three races in three different cars in one week! And this was to be not just his last race in July, but also his only Whelen Modified race of the month.

Qualifying went fine for Douglas Mann. The car was handling well and the two laps went without incident, leading to yet another pole position. Walker, his teammate andclosest championship challenger, if he remembered correctly, qualified 2nd, whereas Beasley was 18th and Stanton would start in the penultimate position of 21st.

The race started fine, with Douglas pulling out a quarter-second lead for the first few laps. By lap 10, the lead was around 1.7 seconds, and Douglas know that if he backed off just slightly, all this would disappear, so he kept pushing on. He couldn't be nudged or hit if there was nobody around him! Douglas eventually won the race by 3.499 seconds. His teammate Alan walker had a less successful race, falling to 6th by the end of the race.Beasley gained positions throughout the race to finish 13th and Lou Stanton raced from starting in penultimate position to finishing in the antepenultimate position (20th).

Championship positions

Douglas Mann had naturally extended his championship lead. At this rate, he won't need to compete in the final round of the championship, which clashes with a Craftsman Truck qualifying session. But let not the commentator's curse fall upon this!

1st Douglas Mann - 1694 points
2nd Alan Walker - 1457 points - 237 points behind
11th Nate Beasley - 1314 points - 380 points behind
15th Lou Stanton - 1223 points - 471 points behind

Earnings

Salary $4,500
Winnings $1,907
Merchandise $199
New total $108,616
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Douglas Mann realised that he couldn't leave his first season competing in America incomplete, particularly when he was in the lead of Whelen Modified championship!

(For updates, the rest of the career is in this thread and it only runs to a few pages. In other words, I just want to get on and play on my PSP!)

So the next round was:


2nd August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, IRP, Power Stroke Diesel 200, round 15/25

Started with a quick practice session and Douglas was glad to find he had a nice, steady, easy-handling truck so was happy to go straight into qualifying. Despite his practice pace being around 19.1 and his qualy time being 19.899, pole was still his! Eubanks was 12th and Erin Crocker was 16th out of 36, so Douglas felt happy with himself.


4th August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Race, IRP, Power Stroke Diesel 200, round 15/25, 50 laps

Not much to report, partly because he was concentrating on keeping a rhythm going. But he led from pole and was the first to pit at the end of lap 25, with a lead of 1.5 seconds. As he emerged from the pits, the leader had just put Douglas a lap down. But Douglas managed to unlap himself within a lap, and everybody else mananged to pit by lap 30 or so. One car managed to hold up Douglas for a few laps, reducing his lap from over 12 seconds down to 11.4. Douglas got past by lap 33 and from then on, it was clear running to the end of the race, with a winning margin of over 12 seconds again (12.036 s). Teammate Eubanks finished a disappointing 29th while his other teammate B. Fisher finished 33rd, losing 4 places from his starting position of 29th. Erin Crocker was 30th. In championship terms, Douglas Mann was still only 43rd out of 45, having started the seaon late. 45th place had 575 points, 44th had 616 points, Douglas had 791 points and the person in 40th, Douglas's target position, had 895 points. With another 10 rounds, this should be achieveable.


Earnings

Previous total: $108,616
Salary: $6,489
Winnings: $5,000
Merchandise: $149
New total: $120,254
A rather profitable race...

The next race was going to be a charity race the following Monday, 7th August, in Whelen Modifieds, two days before Douglas's next race in those vehicles. Fortune seems to be on Douglas in this, just as it seemed to be for his sister and not him in the alternate universe's F1RWRS series...
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Monday 7th August 2006, Whelen Modified charity race, Milwaukee, 37 laps

As always seems to happen at these charity race, Douglas had to start on the outside of the last row, which led to him running 10th and last in the early stages. It took Douglas a while to find a rhythm and was several laps into the race before beginning his progress through the field. Lap 4 saw Douglas into 9th but then because of contact, he lost time but remained 9th. It was the start of lap 11 before he was able to try for 8th again, but again lost time and continued in 9th, a fair way behind again. It was so easy when he was dominating from the front in clear air... Suddenly on lap 15, he found three or four other cars going slowly so went round the outside - but clipped one and spun 180 degrees. However he quickly got going and he and the other four ran as one group down the next straight. There was slowness round the other end of the oval too, and this time, Douglas managed it into 7th, albeit with damage now, particularly to the front and right-hand side. And he was now 14 3/4 seconds off the lead, but in clear air. He caught up with the 6th place car on around lap 21, attempted a clean move on lap 24 but was quickly retaken that same lap. Douglas finally made it stick on lap 26, although he could not shake off the no. 126 car. And he was still over 13 seconds and half-a-lap from the lead. Caught the next car on lap 33, and barged past on lap 35. Still over 12 seconds from the lead with just a few laps to go.


Race Results

1. John Marley 16:11.505
2. Bill Fuller +2.300
3. JJ Damato +2.600
4. Glenn Turner +3.967
5. DOUGLAS MANN +11.980
6. Chris McKee +13.930
7. Lance Fox +14.297
8. Bo Abraham +21.217
9. Jack Andrews +21.295
10. Luke Trigger -21 laps

Now with a bit of fresh experience, Douglas was now off to the Red Ball Raceway for the next Whelen Modified event!
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dr-baker wrote: Douglas Mann... He also had an older sister, born almost exactly 2 years later, give or take a day or two. But more on her later, in 2009... (Guesses who that might be).

Quoted from the first post. Obvious now from the F1RWRS that the sister referred to is called Pippa Mann. Just had to edit the first post because Pippa is actually meant to be older by two years, not younger. Pippa's birthday is to be 11th August 1983, Douglas's birthday is 12th August 1985, making Pippa an older sister. Just to add extra info to this fictitious relationship.
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Wednesday 9th August 2006, Whelen Modifieds, Red Ball 100, race 13, 25 lap race

For what seemed like the first Whelen Modified championship round for a long time, Douglas turned up and decided to do a few paractice laps before qualifying, something he did not usually do. The car was handling fine so straight into qualifying. His qualifying was 1/4 second faster than his practice pace which gave him...pole position! Walker was in 2nd, Beasley was in 16th and Stanton was down in 18th.

The race went badly on lap 2, first being pushed wide and falling to 13th, then a touch sent several cars airbourne and Douglas fell to 19th of 22. He started overtaking, passing between two cars, only to discover another car stationery ahead of him, keeping him 19th. By now, there was one slow-circulating car and another in the pits, but Douglas started a climb through the field. Got into the top-10 on lap 15. Unfortunately, Douglas almost immediately hit another car returning to the pits, sending Douglas down to 13th. Returned to the top-ten on lap 20, then found a difficult-to-pass car while Douglas was in 9th. So an 8th-place finish wasn't a bad day's work, Douglas thought. Alan Walker finished 3rd, while Stanton and Beasley finished 17th and 18th respectively.

Earnings

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Salary     $4500
Winnings   $1017
Mechandise $199
New Total  $125,970


Maybe not as profitable as racing in the Truck series, but there is a championship to be won... Talking of which...

Championship

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1. Douglas Mann 1841 points
2. Alan Walker  1622 points -219
11. Nate Beasley 1423 points -418
16. Lou Stanton  1335 points -506

So with more than a win's worth of points advantage, the relatively poor showing today didn't affect Douglas too badly...
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Thursday 10th August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, Dodge Performance 250, Tiburon Raceway

The day after his recovery drive in the Whelen Modifieds, and two days before his birthday, it was time to qualify on the shortest track known to Douglas Mann. Shorter even than Martinsville! Where one lap takes 11 to 13 seconds. Practice showed a lap-time in these trucks of the high-12s. Always fun with 35 other trucks on track! And guess what? Douglas Mann is an expert at getting pole position.

Saturday 12th August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Race, Dodge Performance 250, Tiburon Raceway, 62 laps

Douglas Mann's 21st birthday, and he would be starting from pole position. But despite having a straight-forward truck race 8 days earlier, he wasn't expecting any favours this time. There would be particular problems with lapping, which would happen quickly when there were 36 trucks on a rather short track. As it turned out, Douglas didn't start lapping until lap 29, two laps before half-distance and his scheduled pit-stop. Tyre wear was marginal, so it had to be that lap otherwise it would have to be two pitstops. All this time, Douglas's lead remained less than 1/2 second, with the majority of the time being a lead of 1/4 to 1/3 second. As he started lapping, and with tyre wear starting to be an issue, he ran slightly wide at one end and slipped down to 4th by the time he came into the pit lane for his pit stop. And he knew that with the track being so short, he would emerge last, several laps down. He couldn't wait for the pit-stops to be over quickly! In fact, he was already in last by the time he got to his pit box. The fact that the pit lane had a speed limit and was longer than the track, being around the outside edge and the entry and exit overlapping each other did not help... He emerged two laps down. 10 laps later and everybody had emerged from their pit stops. Douglas Mann ended up in the lead with half-a-lap advantage (6.5 seconds)! Why did this never happen to him in F1RWRS? Douglas spent the rest of the race successfully lapping further people while his lead was being slowly eroded. Too slowly though for the guy in second! Douglas completed the race with a lead of 4.315 seconds. And only 8 drivers remained on the lead lap, from 36 starters.

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $5000
Merchandise $149
New total   $137,608


Not a bad birthday present, Douglas thought. And with his next race not being for over another week, there would be some party that night. Particularly when you consider that he was now only one position and 58 points off his target of top-40 in this championship. The current holder of 40th was a Zach van Dyke. Any relation to Dick van Dyke, wondered Douglas as he went off to plan his party that night. He was also left wondering, while he was absolutely plastered that night, whether Dick van Dyke might have been the inventor of the DVD...
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Monday 21st August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, Bristol, O'Reilly 200, round 17/25

Douglas Mann is hoping that this race will be the race where he breaks into the top-40 in the championship in this part-season, still only his debut season of racing in any of the NASCAR feader series! And as seemed typical so often, Douglas Mann qualified on pole with a lap time of 15.599 seconds, with a truck that was handling beautifully. Crocker and Eubanks were in 30th and 31st.

Wednesday 23rd August 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, Bristol, O'Reilly 200, round 17/25, 50 laps

The race started well, with Douglas Mann pulling into an immediate lead. The lead grew to over 2.25 seconds by the time Douglas made his pit-stop at the end of lap 25. He fell to to last of the runners - 35th. One of the trucks had been parked in the pits for some time. He emerged lapped by 7 trucks. He quickly passed one truck and three pitted soon afterwards, triggering the pit-stop window. By lap 32, Douglas was back in the lead, and putting other drivers a lap down. By the start of lap 36, his lead was 11.8 seconds. The rest of the race was uneventful, lapping only one more truck. Only the top-7 remained unlapped. The eventual winning margin was 13.452 seconds. Mann's teammate, Eubanks gained a few places from his qualifying position this time, finishing 28th while Erin Crocker fell from 30th to 34th, the antepenultimate finisher. Fisher was as consistant as Mann was, finishing in his qualifying position. Unfortunately for Fisher, his position was 33rd.

Earnings

Salary $6489
Winnings $3156
Merchandise $149 (ever the same!)
New Total $147,402

In the Craftsman Truck Championship, Douglas was still behind Zach Van Dyke, but they are now 38th and 39th! Separated by just 23 points... Douglas joined this series at round 10 and had now scored 1171 points in 8 races. There are another 8 points-scoring races left to go so Douglas is hoping that he will roughly double his points total by the end of the season. At this point of the series, that would place him around 3rd in the championship, which was clearly an unrealistic target. Top-30? Possible, with 36 drivers in each race and not all entering each round. But any further? Douglas wouldn't say...
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Monday 28th August 2006, charity event, Whelen Modifieds, Milwaukee, 37 laps

Following the last truck race last Wednesday in Bristol, Douglas was asked if he could do another charity race for no apperance fee, and being the Mann that he is, Douglas agreed, depite having no idea what charity was being aided by the event... And Douglas went into the event full of confidence, having already won one charity race in the same category at the same track just 21 days earlier!

As always happens at these charity events, Douglas started from the outside of the last row, which of course meant that Douglas completed the first lap in last place (10th). But lap 2 saw Douglas coming though the field until he took the lead on lap 6. But the erstwhile leader wouldn't give up that easily. Douglas pulled a couple of blocking moves on a straight, but the last one saw Douglas receive a tap that led to him falling back down to 6th place! He held this place until lap 13 when he managed to gain one place, and then another the following lap. But he was 3.5 seconds from the lead, having only gained 1 second since the incident that cost him the lead. Douglas regained a podium placing on lap 21, and second place two laps later on lap 23. It was lap 32 when Douglas was able to make a move for the lead, which he lost again a lap later by running wide. Douglas tried to regain the lead, but lost a bit of time on lap 35. But on the last lap of the race, halfway round the lap, Douglas managed to get alongside the leader - only to run wide yet again and thus lost his chance of winning. But it was still a competitive showing.

Final results

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1.  JJ Damoto    16:08.708
2.  Douglas Mann +0.567
3.  John Morley  +3.567
4.  Lance Fox    +4.850
5.  Chris McKee  +9.049
6.  Bill Fuller  +9.383
7.  Bo Abraham   +9.684
8.  Jack Andrews +9.885
9.  Luke Trigger +11.134
10. Glenn Turner +11.424


During the race, Douglas was informed that the man he was about to overtake on lap 23 was a J. Morley, which Douglas misinterpreted as J. Marley and immediately thought of Jacob Marley, Ebenezer Scrooge's departed business partner in Dickens's "A Christmas Carol." So he was sad to see he was quite self-misinformed.

And after the race, Douglas was informed by email that Kurt Busch wanted a Showdown in Nextel Cup cars the following Monday, 4th September. How many extra-curricular races were there going to be, Douglas wondered? But Nextel Cup experience wasn't going to go amiss. Douglas would just compete in the next Whelen Modified race at Meadow Creek first and then worry about this Showdown.
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Mr. Mann, are the rumours that say that your sister Pippa Mann wants to race in NASCAR as well true?
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Phoenix wrote:Mr. Mann, are the rumours that say that your sister Pippa Mann wants to race in NASCAR as well true?


Douglas Mann wrote:Considering our relative levels of competitiveness compared to each other in F1RWRS, I feel happy to say no. She is a lot more interested in single-seaters. That may not exclude her from coming to join me in America from Britain at some point though, as she has suggested that she may want to try IndyCars and show Danica up for what she is...
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Wednesday 30th August 2006, Whelen Modifieds, Meadow Creek, Steel Mill 100, round 15/19, 25 laps

OK, so this is a track that Douglas likes, but hasn't always had luck at when he has tried it on the team's simulator in race mode. But he wanted to preserve his hugh lead - after all, there was still a clash between the last race of the Whelen Modified season and a Craftsman Truck qualifying session. Having a greater-than-one-win lead in the Whelen Modifieds would make that situation a no-brainer. And qualifying got the day off to a good start - Douglas scored the pole! Yet again! What a surprise! But can he keep the win? After all, he had already raced at Meadow Creek earlier in the year, on 12th April. He had started from pole then too, but had ended the race 10th, his worst race of the year (if he remembered correctly).

The race went better than it did back in April, but it still wasn't a win. He made what was a normal start, or so he thought and hoped, but just a gentle bit of contact with the guy starting in second place lost Douglas time and dropped him down to 10th. The rest of the race saw Douglas trying to fight back through the field, but he could make only limited progress. The only way Douglas could find to pass was to gently nudge others in the way he had been at the start - if he could position himself correctly to begin with. So the race finished with Douglas having only made it to... 5th place! Douglas's teammate and closest championship rival, A. Walker, won, having started third ("Why can't he quit now and become a walker?" thought Douglas, trying to be funny. "After all, he has shown himself to be good and it would make life easier for me...") Lou Stanton finished 8th having started 11th and Beasley went from 15th to 11th in the race.

Earnings

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Salary      $5400
Winnings    $1239
Merchandise $199
New total   $154,240


Championship

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1.  Douglas Mann 1996
2.  Alan Walker  1812 -184
11. Nate Beasley 1553 -443
14. Lou Stanton  1477 -519


So it was a decreased championship lead, but Douglas would still be happy with this if this had been the penultimate round. So long as he could beat Walker in the next few rounds, Douglas could and would be series champion! But that is still in the future...
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Monday 4th September 2006, Showdown! against Kurt Busch, Texas Infield, 3 laps

This is now the third showdown that Douglas Mann was competing in and so far, the score was two-nil in Douglas's favour. Could he make it three-love? Let's see.

Yes. Yes he could. Despite getting caught napping at the start. Douglas managed to overtake Kurt soon after the start of lap 2, after which Kurt quickly fell off the pace and pulled into the pits at the end of that lap ("And not for the first time either in these showdowns..." said Douglas sadly in the press conference afterwards). Douglas started to think that these Showdowns were anti-climatic, but were a bit of fun.
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Thursday 14th September 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, New Hampshire, Sylvania 200

Douglas Mann's recent form suggested pole but this was not one of Douglas's favourite tracks so was not personally expecting a great result, even if he were to get pole position. Which he did not get (shock horror!). No, this time, he was to start fourth. This filled Douglas with dread, as he always started terribly when starting from the right-hand-side of the grid on an oval. Douglas never ran well on the outside, he always wanted to get to the inside of the bends for the shorter line and stuggled to cut to the inside when many other drivers were between him and it.

Saturday 16th September 2006, Craftsman Trucks, race, New Hampshire, Sylvania 200, 50 laps

Full-course yellows fell a matter of seconds into the race, while Douglas was in turn one for an incident further back in the pack. Douglas decided not to pit yet and the restart was to be in single file, to Douglas's relief. He restarted in fourth at the start of the 5th lap and finished that lap in 3rd. He was a lap leader the next lap, but fell to second next time round and 2.25 seconds down following a bit of argy-bargy. By lap 11, Douglas was in the tow of the leader, and took the lead just before the end of lap 12, having broken free of the rest of the pack. A lap later, Douglas was down in 2nd again, within a tenth. Not just within a tenth, but running alongside. This was a close battle. The positions were often swapping, sometimes with some nasty door bashing. The tyres were getting noticeably worn by lap 23, with understeer becoming apparent, but Douglas wanted to push on to half-distance before pitting. This nearly backfired, though, because a red fuel warning light came on on lap 24, and as Douglas exited the last corner at the end of lap 25, the fuel ran out! But he was able to coast into the pit lane, guarenteeing that he would not get a pit-lane speeding penalty... This was a worry, considering the first four laps of the race was under full-course yellows, but the pit strategy was forced upon him and he just had to hope and pray that he would have enough to last. He emerged unlapped and only around a second ahead of the leader, hoping to avoid any more damage at this point of the race. The others pitted from the start of lap 28. Douglas was hoping to emerge through this with a decent lead, having spent those few laps on fresh tyres, but it wasn't to work out that way, thanks to another yellow for another incident further down in the field. Douglas was to restart 6th, on the outside... Pretty much immediately, as the were crossing the line, several trucks just ahead of Douglas and to his left, took each other out, so the yellows came out again, after which Douglas was to restart 2nd, on the outside... The race restarted at the start of lap 38, and having temporarily been swamped at the start, Douglas got to the front, only to discover the leader now was the same leader he was battling with before the pit-stops and yellows! The battle was a bit acrimonious as Douglas was being deliberately driven into the side of, which dropped the pair to second and third. On lap 45, thanks to a truck about to be lapped ahead of the three rivals for the win, Douglas was able to slip from 3rd to 1st and lap the other truck all at once! But defending his lead from two rivals while he was a late starter in this series and still in a lowly championship postion gave him a difficult position to defend. He just hoped he would not run out of fuel (despite having now had 2 caution periods since refuelling). At the start of lap 50, Douglas went to block the inside line into turn one, but in so doing, ran wide and fell to fourth. He made up a place half-way round the lap, and pulled alongside the 2nd-placed runner on the exit to the final bend...

Final result? Hamilton Snr. won, Parker +0.134, D. Mann +0.235 seconds. Still, he gained one place from his qualifying position, and gained a place on the last lap. And was lap leader 16 times during the race. But Parker started 30th... And in the 50 laps, there were 20 recorded changes of the lead, of which Douglas was involve with a few. Not a bad day, thought Douglas. I have sure improved since the start of the season in running in traffic, and being driven into, no longer falling to the back of the field each time and having to make a comeback drive...

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $1551
Merchandise $149
New Total   $162,429


The championship position? Douglas couldn't believe it at first. He was now 31st! 1383 points off the lead. He now no longer knew what was a reasonable target. Top 30 was going to be easy. Top 20 was possible. Any further? Just see how it goes. But there was an added complication now. Douglas's manager had arranged a test session for the Coffee Blast Dodge the following week. For the chance to compete in the second-tier NBS series. He would go for it as there was always a signing fee to race for. But Douglas's week was suddenly looking hectic. The NBS test was at Nazareth on Tuesday 19th, he had a Whelen Modified race on Wednesday 20th at Old Spice (a road course) then qualifying for the Las Vegas truck race on Thursday 21st. Which would clash with his NBS race if he got it... But Douglas knew his priorities were, in order, the Whelen Modified overall championship then the climb through the Trucks series. The NBS would be pure practice for the following season. Or would it?
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Tuesday 19th September 2006, NBS, test day for Coffee Blasts Dodge, Nazareth, 5 laps

They reckon Douglas's first 5 laps ever in their car will be sufficient to judge whether Douglas is good enough to drive for them for the rest of the season? But there are only two months of the season left, and it may or may not be to Douglas's advantage. And Douglas has already decided that he may only compete at one or two races for them if he does get the drive, at tracks he knows and which don't clash with his other commitments.

The target time was 29.100 seconds. Douglas was not keen on these large ovals. And really, was it important to his career? His first lap? 27.83 seconds. Then 28.081. Then the next 3 were all sub-28 seconds.

So he was offered the contract for the #124 Coffee Blasts Dodge run by Stark Racing. $12,960 per race with 1% of merchandise and 10% of winnings. Douglas was going to sign it, even if only to have a bit of experience for the following season. Particularly when there was a $13,232 signing bonus available!

So with a contract in three of the four available NASCAR championships, Douglas need to prioritise which races to attempt. But he had already done so before the test so on to the next event it was!
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Wednesday 20th September 2006, Whelen Modifieds, Old Spice, Cherry Blosson 100, 16 laps

Time to expand that championship lead!

Qualifying was to be one lap, as it was a road track, not an oval. But Douglas was confident on these tracks, and this confidence resulted in... yet another pole position.

What can be said about the race? Douglas led from pole unchallenged, led every lap and won by 3.682 seconds. Yet his closest championship challenger and teammate, A. Walker, still finished second, having started 2nd. Lou Stanton qualified and finished 9th while Nate beasley lost one position during the race, from 14th to 15th. Yawn. Most people seemed to finish either where they qualified or within a place or so of it.

Earnings

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Salary     $5400
Winnings   $2385
Merchadise $198
New Total  $183,644


Championship

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1. Douglas Mann 2186
2. Alan Walker  1982 -204

And now off to Las Vegas for the Craftsman Trucks' Las Vegas 350. Or should he go to Dover for his first NBS race? And risk his top-30 place in the Craftsman Trucks? No! Vegas it was!
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Thursday 21st September 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Las Vegas, Las Vagas 350, Qualifying

This Craftsman Trucks event clashed with Douglas Mann's first NBS round at Dover, but Douglas was keen to see how far he could progress in the Trucks so Vegas it was.

So how did qualifying go? Pole position, right? Well, no. Douglas, unusually, took part in practice first, and was glad he did, for it was ill-handling. He managed to dial some of it out, but it still wasn't perfect. So when Douglas came to qualify, he ended up 6th. Which Douglas wasn't impressed with, because he would have to start from the outside with an imperfectly-handling truck. At least with the NASCAR points system, Douglas would be guarenteed to score just for starting...

Saturday 23rd September 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Las Vegas, Las Vegas 350, Race, 36 laps

The ill-handling was back for the race and Douglas had fallen to 29th by the end of lap 1. He fell to 34th by lap 3, but still managed one overtaking manoeuvre to regain 33rd at the start of lap 4. By lap 7, Douglas made it to 29th. Was the truck handling better or was Douglas getting used to it? It could also be be that it was just easier with the field spread out. But how well could he do? He remained in 29th until lap 15, 5 seconds down. But then he ran wide, bashed the wall and lost three seconds and one place. He pitted at the end of lap 18, 7.5 seconds down, still in 30th. He wasn't going to get the damage repaired, just to try to save time and progress through the field when everyone else pits. He did, however, add a bit of wedge to help. But it didn't work. The truck no longer pulled to the right, but became slow and unresponsive. So when another truck came to overtake on the inside a few laps later for 34th place, Douglas couldn't avoid the incident and got spun around, leading to a full-course yellow. This gave him the chance to come in and get repairs and to turn the wedge back again. Just so long as he could gain a few places after the restart, this pit stop would pay off. He would have been last anyway by the end... The race restarted on lap 29. And Douglas was able to keep up with the field, but unable to pass, because as soon as he got close enough, he would just get understeer. So a 35th place finish it was, because there was one non-finisher in the pitlane since the full-course yellow.

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Salary     $6489
Winnings   $516
Merchadise $149
New total  $204,074


Douglas was now 32nd, on 1404 points, 1510 points off the leader. And there are fewer races to regain that top-30 position! (6 to be precise).
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Thursday 28th September 2006, NBS, Kansas, Yellow Transportation 300, Qualifying

Douglas dived straight into qualifying for his first-ever NBS event, and he regreted not having taken part in practice first, for his car was suffering from the same ill-handling characteristic that his truck had the weekend before in Las Vegas. But it could have been worse - he qualified 19th out of 43. He just hoped he would make a better start than he did last time...

Saturday 30th September 2006, NBS, Kansas, Yellow Transportation 300, race, 50 laps

Douglas discovered he was able to make an alteration to the car set-up, so changed the wedge by his usual amount to try to counteract the ill balance, knowing it wouldn't be perfect, but more managable. Off the start, his car veered off to one side then overcorrected the other way but then controlled it without incident. He finished the first lap in 26th. By the start of lap 4, he was 43rd and last. He suspected it was going to be a long and lonely race, one in which he would end up lapped. By lap 10, Douglas was 9.11 seconds off the lead, with severe rear-end damage. This had been caused by other drivers having been unaware just how much Douglas had been struggling and rear-ending him as a result. As regards pit strategy, Douglas had only used half-a-tank of fuel by lap 20, and tyre wear only began showing itself a lap or so later, so Douglas was just going to run as long as possible before stopping, to try and hit the front in his first ever race. Was it going to work? On lap 32, Douglas was 16 seconds behind, but the field spread managed to spread back towards him, and found himself slipstreaming himself up to the giddy heights of 42nd! People started pitting on lap 34, and Douglas's fuel warning light came on on lap 36. Douglas believed he might enough to last until lap 40 but now wasn't quite so sure. He finally ran out towards the end of lap 38, while he was running in 9th. He managed to coast into the pits, only to be immediately caught speeding! Coasting hadn't slowed himself down enough! So if he were going to have to suffer a penalty, he may as well get his damage sorted too. Funnily, he gained further positions as he passed the other pit boxes, getting as high as 3rd, knowing that he would lose them all again as soon as he stopped at his pit at the far end. He emerged 42nd - one car was now permanently in the pits. And Douglas was almost, but not quite, lapped. The leader seemed to be taking it easy, letting Douglas get away a bit, as the track map showed the leader as having a comfortable lead. And on lap 42, another car emerged from the pits. Douglas was now 41st. And the leader managed to put a lap on them as they got up to speed! A lap or two later, and they were back to the pits to retire. And on lap 45, Douglas was coming up to two other cars. Atop-40 result perhaps? Douglas managed to get past these two, then another few on lap 48, and eventually finished 36th. And Douglas had a teammate just a few places ahead in 33rd, so he wasn't far off. Although the other two in the team were 7th and 12th, so maybe not great. Still, if it had been a few laps longer, Douglas felt a top-30 may have been on the cards, but it wasn't to be.

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Salary      $12,960
Winnings    $839
Merchandise $249
New Total   $218,122


Douglas was obviously last in the NBS championship. The results from this race showed him as scoring 55 points, but in the championship with 89 points, so reckons he must still have scored in the race he missed (34 points). Last here equates to 67th. 66th was Timothy Marshall, who competed in this past race in last of the runners and had 536 points. And top 60 would mean scoring more than 881 points, unrealistic at this point in the season.

Douglas at this point also had a phone call from his manager to say that he had earned enough to invest in a Whelen Modified team. But Douglas figured that would only happen if he wasn't under contract to drive in that series. (At least, the game wouldn't let him, although he was doing that very thing in F1RWRS. But having said that, he was driving for his sister's team in F1RWRS...). This was something he would look into in the off-season. But he did look at the prices of the Nextel Cup teams - $8 million to $16 million.
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OUT OF DATE LINKS AND RESULTS...

I'm running out of space in my signature for all of Douglas and Pippa's F1RWRS results, so I will post here all their results, plus Douglas's NASCAR results, and their mini-biogs here.

(Plus Wiki entries exist for Douglas Mann, Pippa Mann, Ben Fleet, West Cliff Racing, AMR, MAN, Foxdale)

Biographies

Douglas Mann's mini-biographical information

Born: London, England, to an English father and Manx mother
Birthday: 12th August 1985
Lives: Orlando, Florida, USA; Foxdale, Isle of Man; London, England
Marital status: would love to be married, but is currently single
Team boss of: Manx Anglo-Nippon Racing (MAN)
Championship Positions:
1997: F1CC - 2nd
1998: F1CC - 1st - WINNER!!!
2006: NASCAR - 1st/18th/63rd (Wheelen Modifieds/Craftsman Trucks/NBS)
2010: F1RWRS - 15th=
2011: F1RWRS - 22nd
2011: F1RLFS - 16th
2012: F1RWRS - 8th

Pippa Mann's mini-biographical information

Born: London, England, to an English father and Manx mother
Birthday: 11th August 1983
Lives: Foxdale, Isle of Man; London, England
Marital status: dating Ben Fleet
Team boss of: Anglo-Manx Racing (AMR), later Foxdale Auto Racing Team
Championship Positions
1997: F1CC - 18th
1998: F1CC - 18th
2011: F1RWRS - 10th
2011: F1RLFS - 14th
2012: F1RWRS - 1st - WINNER!!!

Ben Fleet's mini-biographical information

Born: Rochford Hospital, near Southend, Essex, UK
Birthday: 29th February 1984
Lives: Kingston, London/Surrey
Marital status: partner to Pippa Mann
Championship Positions


Douglas Mann's NASCAR Results


2006
Whelen Modifieds
Starts: 16
Wins: 8 (50%)
Top 5's: 10 (62.5%)
Top 10's: 15 (93.75%)
Earnings: $94,878
Championship position: 1st - WINNER!

Craftsmans Trucks
Starts: 16
Wins: 7 (43.75%)
Top 5's: 9 (56.25%)
Top 10's: 9 (56.25%)
Earnings: $140,430
Championship position: 18th

NBS
Starts: 7 (including some DNS's)
Wins: 2
Top 5's: 3
Top 10's: 3
Earnings: $106,112
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Monday 26th December 2011

"Who Wants To Be a Millionaire?" Sports Celebrity Special


Douglas and Pippa Mann couldn't believe their luck when they were invited onto the British Millionaire show at the end of the the second series of the F1RWRS series. It had been a difficult season, with dodgy chassis in their first season of running their own team, Anglo-Manx Racing, and then founding a second team half-way through, Manx-Anglo-Nippon Racing. And also being siblings racing for their own team in such a prestious series had propelled them into minor household names (i.e. at least people kinda had some idea who they were). This was enough to get them onto the Celebrity show, and the charity that the Mann siblings hoped to raise money for was the Joey Dunlop Foundation.

(Yes, there really is a Joey Dunlop Foundation on the Isle of Man, where the Manns are supposedly from. But this is a fictitious Charity Celebrity show so whatever winnings that they supposedly win below will not really go to the charity. But any support that could go towards them, I am sure that they would be grateful of. I have absolutely no affiliation with them whatsoever, other than I think they sound cool and doing something good.)

So with the siblings having put behind them their differences from the previous season in F1RWRS, and previous F1 Challenge Championship battles, they went straight into answering questions to raise money for their chosen charity.

(By the way, this is following the original format of Who Wants To Be a Millionaire as that is what is available as a computer game for the PSP. 15 questions, no time limits, 3 lifelines - 50:50, Phone-a-Friend, Ask the Audience. And once they had hit £1000 then £32,000 after questions 5 and 10, that would be the least they could go away with, regardless of future success or failure.)

Question 1 for £100

Which of the following means to extort money through intimidation or fear?

a. Yellowmail
b. Blackmail
c. Bluemail
d. Redmail


This answer Douglas and Pippa knew easily, quickly plumping for answer b. Which was right!

Onto...

Question 2 for £200

Who does Noel Edmonds talk to on the telephone during 'Deal or No Deal?'

a. The Banker
b. The Teacher
c. The Architect
d. The Father


Despite their protestations that "Who Want To Be a Millionaire?" was the only quiz show that the Mann family watched, Douglas and Pippa still seemed to somehow know that somehow the answer was a. Which won them the £200.

Which meant it was time for...

Question 3 for £300

Which sport is featured in the 2005 film 'Cinderella Man' starring Russell Crowe?

a. Cricket
b. Football
c. Boxing
d. Golf


Pippa claimed that Douglas ought to know the answer being a bloke "and all blokes like sports!" while Douglas retorted that "all girls fancy Russell Crowe! Well, don't they?" To which the answer was apparently, "No." As neither of them had a clue, to which not even a 50:50 lifeline would help, they decided that they would phone their manager, whose company also managed other sports stars in other fields, and thus might know if a reasonably recent film was based on a particular sport of somebody they managed. They seemed quite convinced that it was boxing so they went with it. And it was... correct, obviously. Which meant that next was...

Question 4 for £500

Which of these is a port and resort on the Kent coast?

a. Ramsgate
b. Ramsdoor
c. Ramshatch
d. Ramswindow


After a few jokes about whether the Kentish race track was called Brands Hatch or Ramshatch, they gave the answer a. After all, having to transport their cars by ferry from Dover and Ramsgate several times, they ought to have known the answer.

Get the next question right and Douglas and Pippa were guarenteed not to go home empty-handed for their charity.

Question 5 for £1000

What is the surname of Richard Madeley's wife Judy?

a. Lonegan
b. Callaghan
c. Finnegan
d. Donovan


Despite Pippa's protestations that she listened to Richard Madeley stand in for Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 rather than waste time watching trashy daytime TV, Douglas and Pippa both were able to agree that Judy's surname was Finnegan. Douglas and Pippa were relieved to hear that they were not going home penniless for the charity. They were correct! Now they could get on and collect some serious money!

Question 6 for £2000

A wah-wah pedal is primarily used to produce effects for which of the floowing instruments?

a. Drums
b. Violin
c. Electic guitar
d. Flute


Douglas knew it was either drums or guitar, having heard some of his mates in a band mentioning a wah-wah pedal before. He knew they had drums and guitars, but not violins or flutes. Pippa knew nothing on this, although she knew it wasn't a recorder, having had tho learn the recorder at school. "Yeah, great help," thought Douglas. So they went for the 50:50 lifeline, hoping it would eliminate one of those two answers. Unfortunately, it was those two answers left. Removing two random wrong answers? Douglas didn't think it was random. But Douglas wanted to raise a bit more money, as did Pippa, so they plmped for c. After pausing for a break, which seemed like an eternity to the Mann siblings, Chris Tarrent finally gave them the answer. The answer, apparently, was... the guitar. They breathed a sigh of relief. The it was onto...

Question 7 for £4000

Who stars as a hitman in the 2005 film 'The Matador'?

a. Al Pachino
b. Bruce Willis
c. Pierce Brosnan
d. Steve Martin


Pippa had a feeling it was either a. or b. but Douglas had a friend whose favorite film was the Matador, so knew that it was actually c. Pippa didn't initally seem too sure, but Douglas persuaded her to go for c. Which turned out to be right, and Pippa pulled a face at Douglas for being right. Followed by a smile in appreciation.

Question 8 for £8000

What type of creature is Belle in the 'Belle and Sebastian' novels by Cecile Aubry?

a. Cat
b. Mouse
c. Dog
d. Rabbit


Neither Douglas nor Pippa had read these books as children so they had to use their final lifeline for this (and besides, they said, after around this point, the audience normally became less reliable...). The percentages worked out as around 9% for a., 12% for b., 64% for c. and 15 % for d. So they decided to go for it as it was pretty conclusive. And they were right to do so! The money was starting to get serious now...

Question 9 for £16,000

Which of the following is the capital of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands?

a. Port Brown
b. Port Blair
c. Port Prescott
d. Port Beckett


"Why couldn't it have been the Isle of Man they were asking about?" wondered Pippa and Douglas aloud together in unison. But they realised that all four answers contained the surnames of (British) Labour Party front-benchers from the mid-2000's, and thought that only a. seemed a sensible answer. But were they sure enough? They decided that they had to try and maximise the money for their charity and that the regret of going for it and loosing was less than getting it right but not going for it. So a. they went for. But they were wrong! It was Port Blair! So £1000 it was.

They were disappointed, but glad to have raised some money for their charity and some awareness too, which was the aim in part.

And the following day, their sponsoragreed to make up the difference of the money they lost on that last question and donated a further £7,000 to the charity and promised to pay for the charity's logo to appear on both the MAN and AMR cars for the whole of the following F1RWRS season.
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Wednesday 4th October 2006, Whelen Modifieds, IRP, Cardinal 150, 37 laps

OK, so this is the antepenultimate round of the Whelen Modified series for Douglas Mann so he is on the verge of clinching this title. And he will continue to try to get his top-25/30 in the Truck series, but will not contest the NBS series despite his contract as he has little to gain from this.

But onto qualifying. With a time of 18.586 seconds, Douglas got the pole position, yet his teammate and championship rival, Alan Walker, was second.

The race was interesting at the start. Douglas made an equal start to the others around him. The first half-a-lap was crowded and Douglas managed to tip somebody into a spin (accidently, of course!) and temporarily put him into third, but was second by the end of the lap, albeit 2 to 3 seconds off the lead. Over the next 9 laps, Douglas extended his lead over the driver in third and caught the leader, from whom he took the lead mere metres/yards from the end of lap 9. Thereafter, Douglas led the whole race, but never extending his lead beyond 0.3 seconds. It was like that to the end of the race (the winning margin was 0.151 seconds...), but to third place (his teammate and rival, Alan Walker) was 1.9 seconds and to fourth was 4.1 seconds. Nate Beasley qualified and finished 8th while Lou Stanton finished 15th, one place lower than his qualifying position, just like Alan Walker...

Earnings

Salary $5400
Winnings $2400
Merchandise $199
New total $226,121

Douglas Mann was now 229 points ahead of Alan Walker in the Whelen Modifieds championship which means that so long as Douglas Mann finishes within one or two places of Walker in the penultimate race of the year, the title is his! (180 points for a win plus 10 bonus points per driver available). Beasley and Stanton are 11th and 14th respectively, 563 and 643 points off Mann's lead.
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Thursday 5th October 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Qualifying, Talladega, Talladega 250

Douglas Mann was never very confident round these large ovals, and it showed in qualifying, when he set a time of 52.155 seconds, leaving him 13th of 36. At least the truck had decent handling, but how well would he do in the race? Douglas was not expecting to do well...

Saturday 7th October 2006, Craftsman Trucks, race, Talladega, Talladega 250, 23 laps

Douglas started well, getting up to 11th, but then was not keeping up with the top-10 and got a bit sideways before the end of the first lap, and getting passed. The yellows came out, and when the race restarted on lap 5, Douglas was 16th and likely to go backwards. On the back straight, Douglas got shoved onto the infield. Unfortunately, this time, there were no yellows and Douglas fell to a dire 33rd (of 36...). Just as Douglas was about to to passed by two other trucks to fall to 35th, Douglas got too sideways as he was about to start lap 8 and this brought out the yellows again. Douglas thought he would be clever and use this opportunity to make a pitstop. Unfortunately, so did everybody else. However, at this point, Douglas got a reprieve. The game froze, and the only way round it was to exit the game and restart it.

So off Douglas went to restart the Truck race at Talladega. This time, Douglas got as high as 10th before being pushed sideways enough to bring out the yellows. And this is where Douglas was to restart at the start of lap 5. He got to 9th temporarily before falling to 11th. He got punted onto the infield on the run to the pit entry and as he rejoined the track, everyone swerved and slid, bringing out the yellows. The race restarted (again) at the start of lap 9, with nobody having pitted this time, and Douglas was 18th. Either unsurprisingly or unbelievingly, Douglas got pushed sideways again on this restart (Douglas must be doing something wrong to always be in this position, or perhaps just slow?). This time everyone pitted. As Douglas ws driving down the pit lane, some had already left their pit box and still ahead of Douglas before he got to his box at the far end of the pit lane. But no matter. Nothing he could do about it. It would nnow be a pure race to the finish and Douglas could foresee a 36th-place finish at this rate. (This time, the PSP did not freeze.) The race restarted at the start of lap 13, about half-distance, and Douglas was 21st, with all his damage repaired during the yellow-flag period. How was he not further down the field? "C'est la vie," thought Douglas. And guess what? A sideways moment involving Douglas brought out the third yellow of this restarted race and Douglas was able to restart lap 17 still in 21st. If this happens just once or twice more, Douglas was thinking, maybe he wouldn't finish last... Douglas lost some places on the restart, and was 24th when the inevitable happened. The race went green on lap 21. It happened again, so Douglas was 28th on yet another restart, this time at the start of lap 22. It happened once again on that lap, after which they didn't bother restarting the race. Douglas was eventually an amazing 31st, although why they hadn't parked him, he would never know. Maybe each incident was too innoculous to be able to pin the incidents on him? And when he looked at the official results sheet, he was amazed to see that he got credited with leading 3 laps?!?!?! Giving him a 5-point bonus in the championship.

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $549
Merchandise $149
New Total   $233,308


This race left Douglas 36th in the Craftsman Truck series, around 76 points away from a top-30 placing, which now would be a realistic aim for Douglas in this series for this championship year. After all, there were 5 rounds left in this for 2006. And the next round for the Trucks was at Martinsville, one of Dougie's favourites because he usually ran well there.
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Thursday 19th October 2006, Craftsman Truck, Qualifying, Martinsville, Kroger 200, round 21/25

I want to finish this 2006 NASCAR season with Douglas Mann as soon as possible, so Douglas will not be competing in any NBS races until the end of the season at Homestead. However, Douglas is determined to get a top-30 placing in the Truck series and win the Modifieds. To that end, Douglas managed to qualify on pole at Martinsville with a time of 18.915 seconds. "Wonder how quickly a single-seater could get round here?" was the topic of conversation in the pub that night between driver and mechanics. The results of that conversation was lost for all time in a haze of drunkenness. Thankfully, the race wasn't the following day, but the day proceeding that.

Saturday 21st October 2006, Craftsman Trucks, race, Martinsville, Kroger 200, 50 laps

Douglas had always ran well at Martinsville and that continued here. By lap 10, he had pulled out a lead of over 1.2 seconds, but by lap 19, the front tyres were already getting into a bad state with the lead down to barely a truck-length. He didn't want to risk a two-stop stragedy so knew he had to run another 5 laps with these tyres with people all over the back of him. On lap 21, Douglas was suffering from understeer and other trucks were taking the lead from him on the exit to corners before Douglas was taking it back again a few yards/metres later each time. The problem at the end of lap 21, however, was that as Douglas was blocking a manoeuvre at the entry to the final hairpin bend, he got turned round and the yellows were brought out. This was an ideal opportunity to pit, and Douglas just hoped and prayed that the tyres would last until the end of the race. Turned out that Douglas was the only one to pit at this time and the race restarted on lap 26 with Douglas in last place. Might this mean that if he needs a quick tyre pit-stop, he might have a pit-stop in hand? Douglas was hoping it wouldn't come to that... The first of the other trucks began pitting on lap 29, when Douglas was already in the top-25. But it was busy at each hairpin apex, where Douglas was making his moves, and a few trucks tried turning in on Douglas, knowing where his weakness was! But Douglas's truck wasn't too damaged - yet... Douglas was up into 2nd by lap 33, with the leader yet to pit, but Douglas was several seconds behind (5, to put it in context). Maybe he did not have enough time in hand at this point for an additional tyre pit-stop. He would just have to back off in the later stages? The leader finally came in on lap 35, giving Douglas the lead, at which point Douglas received a warning that his right-front was half-worn... But at this point, Douglas had a 1-lap advantage and running in lapped traffic. So lifting off round each hairpin was not so hard to do... The final 10 laps varied from 0.2 to 1 second off the pace and had a frightening moment on the final lap as some were unlapping themselves when two trucks turned in on him, one from the left, one from the right, but Douglas won the race, with only one other on the lead lap, 17.815 seconds behind. All but two of the rest ended up 1 lap down, one was two laps down, while the last truck had been in the pits since lap 29. Average speed was 88.11 mph.

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $2174
Merchandise $149
New total   $255,432


This race not only showed the difficulty Douglas has at Talledega in terms of talent and performance at that track compared to the short ovals like Martinsville ("Give me proper corners anytime!") but also how influential things like the timings of safety cars/full-course-yellows are. And Douglas was now 28th in the Craftsman Truck series, 53 points ahead of 30th, yet 99 points away from 25th. Possible, but unlikely. Unless the other tracks were all Martinsville. Which they weren't.
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Wednesday 25th October 2006, Whelen Modifieds, New Hampshire, New Hampshire 100, 25-lap race

This could be the race in which Douglas could win the championship. He already had a 225-point advantage, with 180 points available for a win plus a maximum 10 point bonus for laps led etc. So here's hoping!

Douglas had the advantage of scoring pole with a laptime of 26.283 seconds while his nearest championship rival, his teammate, Alan Walker, would start directly behing him in third.

The race went without much going on. In a 25-lap race, Douglas won by 2.649 seconds. In an 11 minute race! (Well, 11:02.079) Douglas was Whelen Modified champion! Just as well Douglas won this, as Alan Walker finished second. Nate Beasley finished 8th from 10th in qualy while Lou Stanton gained three place from 18th to 15th by the end of the race.

Earnings

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Salary      $5400
Winnings    $1961
Merchandise $198
New total   $262,991


There was only one Whelen Modified race of the season left, and it clashed with qualifying for the final Truck race of the year, so that was Douglas finished in Whelen Modifieds, as next season, Douglas was only going to concentrate on higher categories, where earnings would be higher. (For reference, at this stage, Douglas had a 249 point advantage so if Alan Walker were to win the final race of the year, Douglas would still have a 59 point lead!). Douglas's final point total was 2566 points.

Because he could not substitute another driver in his place for the final race, it would count as a DNS for Douglas and it would be his first non-top-10 in the series! And to this point, Douglas averaged 171 points per race. Not bad eh?

Whelen Modifieds
Starts: 15
Wins: 8
Top 5's: 10
Top 10's: 15
Earnings: $88,050
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Thursday 26th October 2006

Douglas Mann had a clash of two events on this date - either the Craftsman Truck qualifying at Atlanta for the Easy Care Vehicle Service Contracts 200 or else the NBS qualifying at Old Spice for the Dairyland 350. While Douglas thought he could probably get a better result (and earn more money) by competing at Old Spice, he wanted to retain his top-30 championship placing in the Trucks series so opted for the Trucks event. (Also, both races would also be on the same day, Saturday 28th October...). However, Douglas would still be credited with a salary for the NBS race as well as points for a last place finish...

Qualifying, Craftsman Trucks, Atlanta, Easy Care Vehicle Service Contracts 200

Unusually, Douglas's first lap was faster than his second lap, which placed him 15th on the grid. His second lap would have left him 36th and last because of running against the wall round the first curve. Douglas's hopes weren't high for this race, he just hoped he would get a top-30 result in the race...

Saturday 28th October 2006, Craftsman Trucks, race, Atlanta, Easy Care Vehicle Service Contracts 200, 32 laps

Douglas made a poor start and by half-way round the first lap, had fallen in the 20's (in terms of position) but had a briiliant second half of the lap to see him getting back up to 17th before the inevitable tap and slide and full-course yellows for four laps. The restart went better and for several laps, Douglas was able to hold onto his 17th position and sometimes jostle cleanly for 16th. Unfortunately, this jostling went a bit awry on lap 12 and ended up loosing some positions... :-( 10 places in all! It started going well for a few laps until lap 16 when he found himslf skidding sideways on the driver's door! It soon corrected but the yellows came out, and as the race was at around half-distance, Douglas thought it was about time to pit, hoping nobody else would! And guess what? Nobody ahead of him did! Drive sensibly after the restart, and he was in a prime postion to win! No worries about fuel or tyre consumption this time round! The race restarted on lap 20 of 32. Douglas actually fell a second or two off the field immediately after the restart, but he wasn't upset about this, knowing everybody else had to pit and he didn't! And the field spread was still less than 6 seconds. Everybody but one pitted at the start of either lap 23 or 24, with the final pitstop taking place at the start of lap 25. By lap 26, with everybody having emerged from the pits, Douglas was a lap ahead of everybody - but one! But they were seperated by a second or two, as Douglas was from the truck behind. :-D On lap 28 and 29, however, other trucks were determinded to unlap themselves and, considering his postion and the number of laps to go, Douglas was more than happy to see them go, even if he was still hit into a wobble at one point, yet not enough to bring out the yellows! Phew! But his lead had eroded from 28 seconds to 10 by lap 31... But everybody was now unlapped... The lead was down to 6.5 seconds by a third-round lap 32, and Douglas Mann won in the end by 4.256 seconds! A reject-worthy pace wins! From a mid-field qualifying position! With everybody but one overtaking him in last 5 or 6 laps! Thank goodness for that mid-race yellow with only him pitting! But having said that, Douglas's teammate in this category, W. Eubanks qualified 28th and finished 4th.

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $2640
Merchandise $149
New Total   $285,598


This race resulted in:

1. Douglas rising to 23rd in the Craftsman Truck series rankings, yet still around 1530 points off the series lead!

2. an invitation into a Whelen Modified charity race the following Monday; and, most excitedly,

3. a Nextel Cup test for the following Tuesday (but only to compete for 2006...).

Watch this space! If Douglas could capatalise and begin 2007 in the premier category, he need not bother ever with the NBS or a full season of Truck racing...
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Monday 30th October 2006, Whelen Modified charity event, Milwaukee, 37 laps

Douglas Mann made a bad start to this race, being "involved in an incident" on lap one, putting him last (10th). On lap 7, on the start/finish straight, he was able to make a move on the guy ahead of him, at the same time another guy was driving slowly against the pit-wall! So he was now up to 8th. Up to 6th on lap 16. Douglas got into the top-5 on lap 21, but lost time (but no positions) hitting the end of the pit wall on lap 22, falling to 7th at the end of that lap. Douglas retook 5th place on lap 31, and still 5 seconds off the lead. Douglas then finished the 37-lap race in 5th, having made no further progress.

Results of the charity race

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1. John Morley   16:11.688
2. Bill Fuller  +1.533
3. Jack Andrews +2.034 (not Julie Andrews, as I was thinking during the race...)
4. JJ Damato    +2.268
5. Douglas Mann +3.935
6. Chris McKee  +5.435
7. Glenn Turner +6.102
8. Bo Abraham   +7.602
9. Luke Trigger +14.237
10. Lance Fox   -29 laps


Not Douglas's best performance, and neither was his last race, which only circumstance allowed him to win. And tomorrow's Nextel Cup test was at Talladega. His last race there did not go well, to put it bluntly. Just see the top of this page of posts to see how that went down...

Tuesday 31st October 2006, Nextel Cup test session, Talladega

As just suggested, Douglas was not confident of how this test was going to go, but would give it his best shot. Having said that, his Whelen Modified team just gave him a pay rise up to $6300 per race, despite only having one race left on that contract, which he would have to miss, already being champion and with a clashing qualifying event. At least that was a psycological boost before his test though. The target lap-time that Douglas was needing to beat was 50.500 seconds, and had 5 laps in which to beat that time. The car? A Monte Carlo Chevrolet. It started with a lap to get up to speed before the first timed lap began.

Lap times

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1. 50.662 
2. 50.635
3. 51.292
4. 50.809
5. 50.733


Unfortunately, this meant that Douglas didn't get the contract, but as there were only three weeks of the season left, Douglas was not too distraught. He just hoped he left a positive impression for the following season.
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Wednesday 1st November 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Texas, Silverado 350, Qualifying

Douglas set a time of 29.411 seconds, leaving him 6th on the grid for this race. Could he get into the top-20 or would he fall back towards 30th again in this championship?

Thursday 2nd November 2006, NBS, Texas, O'Reilly Challenge, Qualifying

This was turning out to be a busy week. 6 events in 6 days! (once you count in the two races in the next two days too!) This time, his qualy time was 29.875 seconds, which left him 11th.

Friday 3rd November 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Texas, Silverado 350, race, 36 laps

Bad start. Got swarmed by the pack throughout the first lap and pushed onto the infield towrds the end of the first lap. The race restarted at the start of lap 6 with Douglas down in 19th. Strangely, by a lap later, Douglas had only fallen to 22nd and stayed there on the next lap! By the end of lap 16, Douglas was still in 21st. But people were starting to pit already! People never pit before half-distance in this game! Douglas normally pitted at exactly half-distance, a few laps before anybody else. Maybe this time, he would just have to go as far as possible before running out of fuel. But Douglas was not going to run the same strategy as anybody else - he had been held up in the pits by others before. On lap 18, Douglas was now 2nd, but his fuel warning light was now on. Yet his tyres were not showing wear, so it was going to be a fuel-only stop for the first time this season! Douglas completed lap 19 just in the lead, but from the start of lap 20, started to fall through the field. Later round that lap, the yellows came out... the race restarted on lap 24, with Douglas in 9th. Yellows came out again. The race restarted on lap 28 with Mr Mann in 13th... By lap 32, Douglas fell to last. Although the start of lap 31 had still seen Douglas in 26th or so... Douglas was wondering if this drop-off in performance was due to not changing tyres. After all, in the first half of the race, Douglas had fallen to 26th but then able to hold that position. But fortuitously, some people pitted at the start of the last lap, which meant that Douglas ended the race in 25th, which is where he could have finished had he changed his tyres in the pit stops! So it wasn't all bad, even if it wasn't a great race.

Earnings

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $896
Merchandise $149
New total   $293,132


Saturday 4th November 2006, NBS, Texas, O'Reilly Challenge, 50 laps

Here's hoping for a better race than in his previous NBS race and in the just completed Truck race.

Not much to note here as my PSP had to be put onto charge away from my computer while competing in this race. By the end of lap 25, Douglas was in 4th, not far off the lead. He emerged from his pitstop at this point in exactly the same position, exactly a lap down. To Douglas's surprise, nobody else pitted for another 10 laps! By lap 40, only one driver was ahead of Douglas. Douglas was now running second, 12 seconds behind this other driver. Douglas believed this driver had pitted, and was wondering how he could have got 12 seconds ahead. But he pitted at the end of lap 40, having had his 1 lap of glory in the lead, handing the lead to Douglas. The lead that Douglas had slowly whittled away, but crossed the line at the end of lap 50 with half-a-second advantage. Yet the gap to about fifth was 4 to 5 seconds, a large gap in this game.

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Salary      $12960
Winnings    $4890
Merchandise $249
New total   $311,231


This was Douglas's better race of the two he had actually started in this category. Naturally, Douglas was still 67th and last in the NBS championship, but with two races left, he was 235 points off 66th. And Douglas was still 23rd in the Craftsman Truck series, 27 points ahead of 24th and 38 points away from 22nd, again with two races left.
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Just two weekends and four races of this 2006 NASCAR season left for Douglas Mann!

Wednesday 8th November 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Phoenix, Phoenix 150, Qualifying

Douglas's first lap of two proved to be the faster of the two, at 27.050 seconds which left him 7th for the race start two days later.

Thursday 9th November 2006, NBS, Phoenix, Arizona.Travel 200, Qualifying

This time, Douglas's second lap was about 2-tenths faster than his first lap, at 27.8 seconds, which put him on pole for this Nextel Cup feeder series.

Friday 10th November 2006, Craftsman Trucks, Phoenix, Phoenix 150, race, 37 lap race

Douglas started well, moving up to third by lap 2, but it was very competitive, and Douglas started getting pushed around on lap 4, and finally spun round 180 degrees across the line at the start of lap 6, bringing out the yellows. The race restarted at the start of lap 9. Douglas's position fluctuated a few times before settling into 13th. He was going to pit at the end of lap 19, while 1.5 seconds off the lead, but by the time he realised he was passing the pit entry, it was too late despite his braking to try and make it. This braking cost him a second but no places. He gained some of that second on the following lap and pitted for fuel and tyres at the start of lap 21. He emerged lapped in the middle of a gaggle of cars. The others started to pit at the start of Douglas's 24th lap. Douglas took the lead on lap 28, with a 3.5 second lead. This lead was slowly eroded away, at a rate that Douglas was happy about, because he eventually won by 1.436 seconds at an average speed of 107.68 mph.

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $3558
Merchandise $149
New total   $321,427


That night, Douglas received an email from Jamie McMurray, challenging him to a showdown. Douglas had one every one of these unopposed so far, so would take him on at "Speedway Blvd."!

Saturday 11th November 2006, NBS, Phoenix, Arizona.Travel 200, race, 50 laps

Douglas made a good start, and was soon more than half-a-second up the road from the rest of the pack. But one driver caught back up (Tony Stewart) and took the lead off him at the start of lap 8. Douglas and Tony Stewart ran together for many laps, free from the rest of the pack, often no more than 0.19-0.25 seconds apart. Douglas pitted at the end of lap 25, having taken the lead off Tony Stewart just half-a-lap earlier (the first time Douglas had led since the start of lap 8, yet was not this time a lap-leader). Douglas emerged in the same large gap behind Tony Stewart, but now no longer in his slipstream, but neither was anybody in Douglas's slipstream - a few quiet laps for Douglas, until all the other drivers pitted. It actually ended up not that quiet as Douglas caught back up to Stewart by lap 28. Lap 32 saw Douglas trying and succeeding in unlapping himself, but Stewart wasn't having any of it and barged his way back. After this, DOuglas decided the safer option may be to just wait for the pitstops to unlap himself and to hopefully regain the lead. On lap 39, Douglas moved from 43rd to 42nd, while still closely following Tony Stewart, who was soon to lap other unpitted drivers. This wa sthe start of the pit-stop period. Suddenly, on lap 42 or 43, Tony Stewart got cut up by somebody emerging from the pits, and a collision occured, which Douglas piled into the back of. Yellows emerged until the start of lap 46, at which point Douglas was still 17th and one lap down, exactly as he was as the yellows came out. Everybody who hadn't yet pitted did so a lap later, which left the race as a four-lap showdown between M. Kenseth, Douglas Mann and D.O'Quinn Jr. Kenseth ended up winning by 0.168 seconds over Douglas Mann with O'Quinn in third, 1.4 seconds behind and Hornaday 1.8 s behind in fourth. Tony Stewart's strategy totally failed him as he crossed the line 21st, albeit still on the lead lap, as were the top-36. And despite Douglas's qualifying for this race being more than half-a-second slower yet qualifying higher, the average speed for this race was higher, being 108.72 mph. Half-as-many laps under yellow, maybe?

Earnings

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Salary      $12960
Winnings    $2988
Merchandise $249
New total   $337,624


In the Trucks championship, Douglas was now 18th, albeit now 1612 points from the lead (Douglas now had 2142 points). Douglas was still last in the NBS Championship, but now 61 points from 66th. With one race left, it was unlikely that Douglas would get to the giddying heights of 65th, with mor than 300 points sperating Douglas from this position.

Monday 13th November 2006, Showdown, v. J. McMurray, Speedway Boulevard, 3 laps

Douglas followed McMurray round for the first lap, but made a mistake at the end of the lap, accidently entering the pitlane! Thankfully, Douglas was able to take it at racing speed and ended up following Jamie around for one more lap. Taking the pit straight correctly the following time round, Douglas was able to overtake across the line and ended up winning. But not unopposed this time, unlike previous Showdowns, as Jamie McMurray finished just 0.689 seconds behind.
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It's the final weekend of the 2006 NASCAR season, and the plan always was that if Douglas had an unassailable lead in the Whelen Modifieds Championship, then he would take part in qualifying for the final round of the Craftsman Trucks, which takes place on the same day. However, the final round of the Whelens takes place at just about Douglas's strongest track, the ultra-short Tiburon Raceway and Douglas would like to maintain his 100 % top-10 record in the series (if he doesn't participate, he gets a last-place to his name as he is the registared driver for the car). And hopefully a good/lucky race at Homestead-Miami in the Trucks will compensate...???

So...

Wednesday 15th November 2006, Whelen Modifieds, Tiburon Raceway, Dodge 150, Qualy and race, 37 laps

Douglas managed a 10.919 second lap on his second lap in qualifying, putting him on pole for his final Whelen Modifieds start. There was a bit of a handling imbalance, but as the track is almost constantly a tight-ish left-turn, despite two short straights, this matters little to Douglas - it's something he can drive round.

But Douglas spoke too soon. He made a poor start and his understeer cost him, pushing him wide into other cars and further into the pack. Running in the pack on such a small, densly-packed track cost him, meaning he was continuously either running into the sides of others, or others trying to get past him and thus barging him themselves. Several times he ended up facing the wall, 90 degrees to the direction of racing and having to manoeuvre back into the race. The car was getting more and more out of shape and ended up... 2 laps down and 22nd of 22. What a bad end to his championship-winning Whelen Modified season.

Earnings

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Salary      $6300
Winnings    $528
Merchandise $198
New total   $344,650


Whelen Modifieds 2006 Final Statistics

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Starts: 16
Wins: 8 (50%)
Top 5's: 10 (62.5%)
Top 10's: 15 (93.75%)
Earnings: $94,878


Final Championship positions (for Rising Dragon drivers)

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1.  Douglas Mann 2663
2.  Alan Walker  2487 -176
10. Nate Beasley 2055 -608
13. Lou Stanton  2001 -662
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Thursday 16th November 2006, NBS, Qualifying, Homestead-Miami, Ford 300

Due to Douglas (foolishly) competing in the Whelens at Tiburon Raceway on Wednesday 15th November, Douglas didn't compete in qualifying for the Craftsman Truck race at Homestead-Miami so would start last there. However, the NBS qualifying was the following day, the Thursday, so Douglas was able to participate, as he would be able to in the races on the Friday and Saturday.

Douglas secured the pole with a 32.487 second lap, on his second of two laps. The car was tugging to the right on the straights, but the banking round the bends negated this handling somewhat. Douglas made a change to the wedge after qualifying to try and alter this. He would do the same to his truck before the race at the track on the Friday.


Friday 17th November 2006, Craftsman Trucks, race, Homestead-Miami, Ford 200, 33 laps


From the start, Douglas's Truck did not go well, but at least he was last and didn't have to worry yet about who or what was behind him. He lost a second or so on lap 1, but regained it on lap 2, and by lap 4, went from 26th to 31st, before going sideways across the line, which of course brought the yellows out. The race restarted at the start of lap 9, with the pack remaining tightly packed, as they had been all race (making it difficult for Douglas. Douglas immediately fell to last, having momentarily been pushed upto his left-side wheels only. Douglas felt his only chance might be "lucky" pitwork. The yellows came out again on lap 10, for a reason totally unrelated to Mr Mann. Douglas thought that now was his chance to take a gamble and do his pitstop now, thus not having to pit again (hopefully), and thus gain an advantage. After all, Douglas was only slower on the lap of a start or restart, thus, barring any more, Douglas would retain any gained advantage. However, everybody else had the same idea... And some drivers were already emerging from their pit boxes ahead of Douglas before Douglas arrived at his. Douglas restarted 25th on lap 14. Typically, by the end of that lap, Douglas was last. A lap or two later, Douglas got upto 31st or so, before dropping back down to 35th again. And while blocking, the yellows came out again! No prizes for guessing why the blocking didn't work! The race began again on lap 21. Douglas was able to attack for position several times, but ultimately, not getting the truck repaired during the pit stop cost Douglas, as the damage eventually forced Douglas into a DNF, with only 26 laps completed.

Earnings

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Salary      $6489
Winnings    $877
Merchadise  $149
New Total   $352,165


Craftsman Trucks 2006 final statistics

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Starts: 16
Wins: 7 (43.75%)
Top 5's: 9 (56.25%)
Top 10's: 9 (56.25%)
Earnings: $140,430


Final championship position: 18th, 2202 points, 1742 points behind
(17th - 2291 points, 19th - 2153 points)
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Saturday 18th November 2006, NBS, Homestead-Miami, Ford 300, race, 50 laps

Douglas has now reached the last race of his 2006 NASCAR season! And he gets to start this race from pole. It was a decent start, but it was hard to break free from the pack. It was not until lap 9 that Douglas had half-a-second advantage, which then expanded to 1 second by lap 15. On lap 16, Douglas ran a bit wide and brushed the outer wall, costing him quater of a second, but not the lead. It remained between 0.75 and 1.0 seconds until his pit stop on lap 25. The tyres were changed as a precaution, and fuel was added as he could only get to about lap 45 on what he had left. Douglas managed to emerge still on the lead lap, with the pit-stop taking only 15.5 seconds, rather than the game estimate of 18.1 s! Now, Douglas was hoping it would just be a case of waiting for everybody else to pit, retake the lead and win this race! Which is pretty much what happened. Everybody else pitted between laps 34 and 39. In the meantime, Douglas had been gaining by half and one second per lap, thanks to a clear track and fresher tyres. After everybody else's stops, Douglas was over 21 seconds up on the second placed runner! This was steady for a while before falling a bit, due to Douglas now running in lapped traffic himself and tyre wear. The eventual winning margin was 18.446 seconds... During the second half of the race, Douglas was able to lap a few runners, including Erin Crocker, who pulled an Eddie Irvine and unlapped herself, but Douglas soon put paid to that.

Earnings

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Salary      $12,960
Winnings    $6385
Merchandise $249
New total   $371,759


Douglas ended up 66th of 67 in the NBS championship, due to several DNS's and a small part-season.

NBS 2006 final statistics

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Starts: 7
Wins: 2
Top 5's: 3
Top 10's: 3
Earnings: $106,112
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Douglas Mann needs advice. He needs what to do in the 2007 season. How many of the championships does he compete in? Which ones take precedence? Should he go into team ownership yet? Here are the options:

Whelen Modifieds

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Rising Dragons ($6300/race,  5% of merchandise, 12% of winnings) (3 teammates)
HulaMonkeys    ($4650/race, 18% of merchandise, 21% of winnings) (3 teammates)
Orange County  ($4800/race, 21% of merchandise, 22% of winnings) (2 teammates)
Kenny Wallace  ($4950/race, 23% of merchandise, 24% of winnings) (0 teammates)



Craftsman Trucks

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Rossi         ($6489/race,  1% of merchandise, 10% of winnings) (2 teammates)
MAG           ($8800/race,  9% of merchandise, 15% of winnings) (2 teammates)
Evernham      ($9240/race, 11% of merchandise, 16% of winnings) (0 teammates)
Germain       ($9680/race, 14% of merchandise, 18% of winnings) (1 teammate)



NBS

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Papa               ($13,680/race, 1% of merchandise, 10% of winnings) (3 teammates)
Richard Childress  ($13,920/race, 1% of merchandise, 10% of winnings) (2 teammates)
Team Strickland    ($14,400/race, 1% of merchandise, 10% of winnings) (2 teammates)
HulaMonkeys        ($14,880/race, 2% of merchandise, 10% of winnings) (2 teammates)


Nextel Cup

No driving contract offers


To buy a team:

Whelen Modified teams vary in price between $186,975 and $669,025.
Craftsman Truck teams vary in price between $633,200 and $2,963,200.
NBS and Nextel Cup teams start from over $3,000,000.

You can only buy a team in a category in which you are not already competing.

What should Douglas Mann do during 2007? (Contracts can be signed later in the season if left undecided for that series.)
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At this stage, I'd forget about the Modifieds from now on, and focus on NBS. Performing well there against some of the Nextel Cup regulars would get you about as much if not more exposure than walking to the Truck title. I'd still participate in that series though, if there aren't too many clashes with NBS. Germain and HulaMonkeys seem to be your best contracts, so I'd sign with them.
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BlindCaveSalamander wrote:At this stage, I'd forget about the Modifieds from now on, and focus on NBS. Performing well there against some of the Nextel Cup regulars would get you about as much if not more exposure than walking to the Truck title. I'd still participate in that series though, if there aren't too many clashes with NBS. Germain and HulaMonkeys seem to be your best contracts, so I'd sign with them.

It's what I'm thinking. But Modifieds only clash once a year, right at the very end, and I am thinking about NBS only - fewer clashes with Trucks. I'm not going to rush into this - Pippa Mann might need a bit of a back-story career too? FFords perhaps, then return to this?
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I've (Douglas Mann) decided to concentrate on two series for the 2007 NASCAR series, but not quite the two that BlindCaveSalamander has suggested. I will indeed focus and concentrate on NBS primarily, so as to step up to the Nextel Cup by the end of the year. But I will ignore the Trucks and also try to defend the Modifieds title, as these tend to be mid-week races, while the other three are weekend series (lack of clashes and conflict of interests).

In Modifieds, I will stick with the Rising Dragon Motorsport team and the #105 Notme Mufflers car, with the same three teammates of Lou Stanton, Nate Beasley and Alan Walker. I also get a $3,488 bonus for signing up! Why stay? Familiarity, successful, why change? It works.

In NBS, I am not going for the obvious choice, however. I will sign for Team Strickland and drive the #163 Old Spice Chevy. Why? So if something goes wrong, I can accuse somebody of having an attitude problem and being a slacker! This contract comes with a $14,624 signing bonus! (EDIT: Forgot to mention my teammates would be Rickie Cooper and Morgan Irvin.)

Season to start imminantly, but will probably finish sometime over the summer (July/August)!

Oh, and the first event will be a Modified event at Richmond on 7th February, for the Bell Tower 150!
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Wednesday 7th February 2007, Whelen Modifieds, Richmond, Bell Tower 150, 37 lap race, round 1 of 16

First race of the season and Douglas had a title, and thus reputation, to defend. Last year at this race, I scored pole and a 6th-place race finish. How will I do this time?

Qualifying

My qualifying time last year was a 19.7. This year? A 19.720 followed by a 19.683. Faster both times! It's the pole!

The Race

A steady start sawthe front row stay alongside each other for more than half-a-lap, but Douglas remained calm, kept a tight, low line, avoided contact and gained the lead. This slowly extended to almost 2 seconds by lap 18, when it started eroding. But that only lasted a few laps, and was up to almost two seconds again by lap 27, when Douglas grazed the wall. The gap shrank, but still reamined above 1.25 seconds. Thereafter, it was a clean run to the line for the win! It was a 1.750 second winning margin. Douglas's teammate and closest championship challenger from 2006, Alan Walker, finished 5th from 7th on the grid, while Beasley was 10th and Stanton finished 14th, having been the second-placed driver on the grid!

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Salary      $6300
Winnings    $1575
Merchandise $447
New total   $398,793


The next event was meant to be another Modifieds race the following Wednesday (14th February) at Milwaukee, but Douglas has already been invited to a charity event on Monday 12th February at IRP. The first NBS race is 15th and 17th February (qualy then race) at Daytona. Douglas was weak in all categories at Daytona. "Never mind," he thought. "Get it over and done with. Until Talladega turns up..."
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Monday 12th February 2007, Whelen Modifieds, charity race, IRP, 15 laps, round 2/17

Despite being squeezed by another racer towards the wall at the start, Douglas quickly made his way through the field to hit the front at the start of lap 5. Over the next 9 laps or so, this gap never grew beyond 0.33 seconds, despite having fought through the field so easily. Douglas eventually won by 0.418 seconds, with the top-9 covered by 2.342 seconds. Glenn Turner, in 10th and last, was 14.415 seconds behind.
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Wednesday 14th February 2007, Whelen Modifieds, Milwaukee, Badger State 150, 37 laps, round 3/17

Qualifying

Qualifying didn't quite go as Douglas expected. His fastest time was 25.703 seconds, leaving Douglas 9th of 22.

The Race

It started badly. Douglas understeered into the car next to him, he tried lifting off, got spun round, and thus was running last by a margin. It was towards the end of lap 4 before Douglas took the penultimate position in the race. He was hoping that the field would now be a bit more spread out so he could go through the field one or two at a time. And the tactic was slowly working, getting as far as 16th by lap 15. Then he hit the end of the pit wall head-on... He continued running, but now back in last place again... But 16th place was Douglas's again by just lap 20... Douglas gained just a few positions over the next couple of laps, but suddenly, on lap 31, about 5 cars were all going slowly as a group around one end of the oval, and Douglas only just avoided piling into the back of them by diving up the inside of them and emerged 7th! Douglas Mann ended up 6th, having had one attempt at fifth a few laps from the end, but couldn't make the move stick. Nate Beasley kept up Rising Dragon's 100% record for the year by winning from 11th on the grid, while Alan Walker and Lou Stanton let the side down finishing 17th and 19th from 19th and 21st on the grid.

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Salary      $6300
Winnings    $1410
Merchandise $447
New total   $406,350


Championship positions for Rising Dragons

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1st  Douglas Mann 340 points
4th  Nate Beasley 319 points -21
10th Alan Walker  267 points -73
18th Lou Stanton  227 points -113


Lou Stanton's 18th place is actually a three-way tie with Mark Dyer and Lyle White for those who are interested...

Next race is the first NBS race of the season at Daytona. Expect a poor showing! The rest of February contains a second NBS race (in California) and the third points-scoring Modifieds race of the year (in the legendary Martinsville).
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OK, let's get this Daytona weekend over and done with. Douglas does not like this track at all.

Thursday 15th February 2007, NBS, Daytona, Hershey's Kissables 300, Qualifying, round 1/35

51.295 seconds ended up being the qualifying lap time, placing Douglas Mann 38th and towards the back. Not a good start, and Douglas never does well, starting from even-numbered spaces on ovals - give him the inside line any day! At least the car was handling well... Actually, it might have been described as a bit of an HRT effort as Douglas had not driven a lap in this car before going out in qualifying, not taking part in the practice session first, but then he never does anyway...

Saturday 17th February 2007, NBS, Daytona, Hershey's Kissables 300, race, 30 laps, round 1/35

Made a reasonable start. Got up as high as 35th at the start of the back straight, but was then 38th again by the end of the straight and 40th crossing the line to end lap 1. Dale Earnhart Jr was the next to overtake Douglas and a lap later, Douglas was last, having been pushed into a sideways-slide across the infield by the previous 43rd-placed runner. By lap 7, Douglas noticed that someone had pitted and was staying there so he was now 42nd! And he was now over 22 seconds from the lead and a long way from the penultimate runner... At the end of lap 14, when Douglas was 32 seconds behind, the yellows suddenly came out! A lap before Douglas would have pitted and gone a lap down! Pheeew! And it was due to the #29 Hershey's Kissables car rolling. Cynical that the car to roll was sponsored by the race title sponsor? Never mind. At least Douglas would get his pit stop and remain on the lead lap. And he was the only one to come in under the yellow. Would the others have to pit? Could this work to Douglas's favour, or was Douglas just too slow to capitalise fully? The race restarted on lap 18. At this point, Douglas was 40th, as a couple of others had also stopped running. The pitstops started at the start of lap 22, when Douglas already got up to 27th easily, yet was 15 seconds already behind the leader. Douglas took the lead at the start of lap 24, having already fallen to nearly 20 seconds off the lead. But would it be enough? By the time everybody was out of the pits and up to racing speed, Douglas had a 21 second advantage, with 5 or so laps to go... It would be tight!

Douglas entered the last lap with a 4.8 second lead... It was 2.86 seconds at the start of the back straight... 1.37 seconds at the end of the backstraight... And Douglas won by 0.268 seconds!!! That safety car period made all the differnce. It came out at just the right moment and returned to the pits not a moment too early for Douglas. And Douglas's teammates? Rickie Cooper also seemed to capitalise in that race, moving from 32nd to 11th, while Morgan Irvin had the opposite luck, being one of the retirements. Morgan had qualified 20th but was classified 42nd. (Race time for reference: 31:49.301)

Earnings

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Salary      $14,400
Winnings    $28,180
Merchandise $249
New total   $449,179


Gosh, that was a bit more profitable than the Modifieds. But Douglas will continue with these two series for this season, nonetheless.
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There have been ugly scenes at Daytona, being absoutely disgusted at how such a slow driver could capitalise and win the first race of the season through nothing that he did. They are demanding a rerun of the action! And guess what? They are getting their rerun!

(My PSP ran out of juice between typing that out and saving. I quickly went to put it on charge and switched back on again. It quickly switched off again as still not enough electricity in the system. When I then tried again a few moments later, it had rebooted and all that effort and luck was gone. Qualifying still happened though. Rerun soon.)
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Saturday 17th February 2007, NBS, Daytona, Hershey's Kissables 300, 30 laps, race 1/35, RERUN

Getting anywhere close to the result Douglas got in the first running of this race would be fortuitous, as reading the above race report would suggest. So, as the qualifying results still stood, Douglas would be starting 38th again. The first lap was similar, with Douglas crossing the line to complete the first lap in 39th. However, in a change to the original running, it was lap 5 before any further places were lost, and Douglas thinks that running as part of a pack, however small, helped him to keep up with the rest of the pack, or at least lose time at a slower rate. On lap 8, Douglas noticed one of his teammates moving slower than usual along the back straight, so Douglas had a brief slipstream and slingshot past to regain... 39th place! Still, better than at the equivalent point last time out. Just needed that safety car/full-course yellow to come out again at a similar point as last time... And there was a car in the pits at the end of lap 8. 38th! But quickly Douglas's teammate came back at him, as did the others running behind him. Douglas got sideways on the grass and out came the yellows! "This'll do for me," thought Douglas. "I'll risk a pit-stop now and hope the tyres will last..." Of course Douglas was the only one to pit at this point. The race restarted at the start of lap 13, so from experience, Douglas reckoned he could get away without another pit stop. But could he minimise the time loss? By the end of lap 20, Douglas was 30 seconds off the lead. And the car that had pitted for a number of laps was now circulated slowly and had already been relapped on track by Douglas. The pit stop window was the same as in the last running, but Douglas was not so confident at holding off the competitors this time, as Douglas was only passing them as they were emerging from the pits, rather than when they were stationery in their pit boxes. Where would Douglas finish? How many could Douglas hold off over the final 6 laps or so? The advantage Douglas had this time was 2.5 seconds, one-tenth that of last time. One place was lost at the start of lap 26, and lap 27 is when it all kicked off. Douglas was falling through the field, when he got a bit too overwhelmed, got sideways, and out came the yellows! And his tyres were just starting to go off slighty too... Which is how the race this time ended, with Douglas in 8th. Not the original win, maybe, but a lot better than 40th+!

Morgan Irvin finished 16th from 20th on the grid, while Rickie Cooper gained places from 32nd to 18th throughout the race. Race time: 37:01.044 (longer under yellows...)

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Salary      $14,400
Winnings    $11,553
Merchandise $249
New Total   $432,552


And this time, the result stood.
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