Woohoo a 2001 red Lightning is the Pace Car at the Watkins Glen Nascar race thats on now.
Vin

 

Hello Vin,

You just beat me to the post

...Dwight...

 

Yup!

 

Beat me too

 

Hey CAKA,
Your boy should of been drivin the big Brown Truck today, then he could of got out of that gravel.
noelvm

OHHH NOOOO, Hes in it again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I saw it during the last caution. I thought I would see if anybody posted about it during a commercial break. Back to the race!

 

Here's a pic of the L at the Glen.

 

Gordon was probably thinking "nice truck! Gotta get me one of those."

 

Yep it's a Lightning. I,m starting to get sick of seeing Jeff Gordon in victory lane every week!

 

 

They had one last week too at Indy!!! At least they have found a pace car (truck) that can almost keep up with the cars on the track

BTW when it comes to the fastest color --- it appears that NASCAR is using it!!

Now what is the color of Jason Brown's L??

http://www.dragtruk.com/ENTRIES/14et.html

The Defense rests your honor

 

Didn't they use an L as a pace car/truck in 1999 at the Glen, also? Or was I just imagining it?

 

This was the 1st year in the last 10 that I have missed going to the race at the Glen. the Lightning was the pace truck for both the 99 and 00 races at watkins glen. it was a red 99 lightning for the last 2 years. later 95rcobra.

 

Here's my earlier post on why they used a red L...

They have a red Lightning pacing the race today. They also had a quote from Mike Helton (Pres. of NASCAR) about it... It went: "We had to use a red Lightning today, because if we would have used a black one, the Winston Cup cars wouldn't be able to keep up with it." Nothing that we didn't already know though...

Later, Roger

 

Here is a good shot of it.