Sitting on a plastic seat, surrounded by noisy over energetic people whilst feeling slightly hungover from the night before sounds like a nightmare for most people, but when Japfest comes around the Mondello grandstand is the only place I want to be!
The sideways life just not in your budget? WRONG! Just downside the car's size and up the fun level. I took a trip to Drift Raceway and spent the night chilling with the RD Drift team guys.
Rc Drift cars are cool full stop, but after seeing the drift display at JCC I had to get more info. I'd sent them a quick message on coming down to hang out, grab some video and check out the cars.
I had an awesome night. Couldn't believe that there had been a full indoor rc track just miles from my house for over a year and I'd never known. All the guys down there were super friendly and I even got a go trying to slide the drift bus!
If you interested in building a car or getting involved pop down to DR and just chat to the guys. They have huge amounts of knowledge and advice for anyone looking to build their first car, and can even help with advice on where to buy certain parts.
Its cheaper than owning your own drift missile, but it's still fairly expensive to get involved. £200 would get you started, but you have the opportunity to really pick your own car and make you car unique.
I start most monday mornings like every other normal person, watching my own tears drip into a crap cup of instant coffee whilst wishing the weekend had gone a little bit slower. Not this week! I'd been blessed with a day off and in a ferris buler fashion wanted to make the most of it.
As someone who loves all things Japanese when it comes to cars its safe to say the North of Ireland's been fairly scarce on head turning show cars….or so i thought until garages and locked sheds opened across the country and some of the coolest Japanese car builds surfaced for the best Jap show in the North!
The Japanese scene hit a slight dry spell for a few years with many preferring to hit the stance aspect of car culture for a while, but its making a huge comeback and this show helped to showcase that.
Rallycross is on its way back and as popularity in the sport grows so does the support for the Ni Rallycross Revival Series.
When it comes to fun for your cash, the new revival series has to be top of the list right now. Buy a car, cage it, throw a seat and a harness in, boom your racing! I've been attempting to get a car entered for what feels like an eternity, so took a trip down to round 4 to grab some pics and get motivated to finish the build.
For the first time in about 100 years it was both warm and sunny at Bishopscourt and was set to be a great days racing. For a racing league thats only been going for around a year it has generated some great support and the amount of entries was pretty high!
There isn't many up sides to living in Lurgan, but the park rally is definitely one of them! Lurgan Park rally has always been one of my favourite events, but would this year see Gary Jennings take his 4th win or would Kenny McKinstry add to his long list of wins!
Lurgan park rally will always be a popular event due to its great spectator spots, but increasing safety measures have taken the shine off the event over the last few years. Never the less plenty turned out throughout the day.


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Devoted attitude key to job success in B.C.
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"If your job is to sweep the floor, you should sweep that floor better than anybody else has swept that floor."
Same goes for ditch digging or arranging material, says Allan Pusey, a Nelson-based employment specialist with the Skilled Trades Employment Program, an organization that matches employers in trades with job seekers.
"Those tasks are an opportunity to ultimately prove yourself and prove your value so that you look like you take pride in your work, you contribute to the betterment of the team and understand that all of the tasks that need to be completed in a job are important."
Pusey says that he's got a full slate of employers reaching out to him for appropriate candidates for certified and uncertified trades positions – jobs that, in the Kootenays, are growing in number.
According to WorkBC, approximately 1,200 jobs have been created in the Kootenays over the past year and projections forecast another 2,700 more to be added by 2023. Among the top-growing job markets in the Kootenay region, which WorkBC designates as the area from Rock Creek to the Alberta border in the east and north to Radium, are health care and social assistance, manufacturing, retail and construction.
For trades workers, Pusey says, it's the attitude that makes a candidate stand out.
"Any brand new person on a job site who gets handed a broom or a shovel or some undesirable task needs to understand that the person who runs the company has probably done those jobs already as well and has worked their way up from that point."
Beyond trades jobs, the Kootenay region of B.C. has also experienced the highest growth rate for small business start-ups in the province. From 2014 to 2017, the region welcomed approximately 2,600 new businesses, achieving a growth rate of nearly 20 per cent. By comparison, B.C. saw a growth rate of just 7.7 per cent for that same time period.
With job hunts, new businesses and construction careers though, one piece of Pusey's advice rings true.
"I think if you have the belief in yourself that you can do whatever it is that you're setting out to do and trust that your persistence will pay off, then that's, that's valuable," he says.
"Those are skills that an employer can't teach you. Those are things that people need to work on of their own."
Pusey and representatives from major employers in the region such as Save on Foods, Community Living British Columbia and Correctional Service Canada will be looking for prospective job applicants at this year's Kootenay edition of the Black Press Extreme Education and Career Fair, taking place at the Days Inn & Conference Centre in Cranbrook on Aug. 22, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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Don't undermine academic freedom in Tertiary Institutions
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Mr Augustine Saakuur Karbo
The Teachers and Educational Workers Union (TEWU) has appealed to the government and its agencies to strictly adhere to internal mechanisms in resolving conflicts and other differences at the work place.
It said it was important to build institutional capacities to handle internal issues other than the government always wanting to exert its influence in resolving those matters.
"Recent happenings in some educational institutions in the country demand that Ghanaians stand up and say no to politicians' invasion in academic institutions, which is a threat to academic freedom.
Unilateral
"The recent crises at KNUST would not have seen the various worker unions kicking against government's unilateral decisions aimed at resolving the issues if it had allowed the internal mechanism of the university to be activated at the initial stages to deal with students' disturbances," a statement signed by the General Secretary of TEWU, Mr Augustine Saakuur Karbo, said.
It said TEWU was glad that the government in the long run made a U-Turn to allow the internal grievance resolution mechanism to be used to address the KNUST crisis, and that that obviously paved the way for lectures and other academic activities to resume at KNUST.
It is in this regard that the national leadership of TEWU highly commends the hardworking staff of KNUST, especially the Local TEWU and by extension all TEWU members in all tertiary institutions and other agencies such as the GES, Museums , Library and WAEC, as well as, the other unions such as the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG),the Ghana Association of University Administrators (GAUA), the Federation of University Senior Staff Association of Ghana (FUSSAG), for the solidarity displayed during those trying moments when government's actions were stampeding the KNUST governance structure".
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Ron Paul's Iowa maneuvers place GOP in awkward position
By Seema Mehta
DES MOINES — Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses in January, with Mitt Romney a close second, but neither was the true winner this weekend when the delegates who actually will vote at the Republican National Convention were selected. That would be Ron Paul.
The congressman from Texas finished a distant third in the Iowa caucuses more than six months ago, but of the 28 delegates selected Friday and Saturday to head to the national convention, 23 are Paul supporters – and they are not bound to support the victor of the state's first-in-the-nation voting contest.
It's part of a quiet strategy by Paul and his backers to amass an army of supporters at the GOP gathering in August in Tampa, Fla., to push Paul's views on liberty, states' rights, the monetary system and foreign policy. By working arcane electoral rules and getting supporters into positions of power in local, county and state party operations, the strategy is paying dividends across the nation.
INTERACTIVE MAP: Iowa GOP caucuses
Paul has stopped actively campaigning and has conceded that Romney will be the GOP nominee. It's unclear whether Paul's name will be submitted for nomination; mathematically, he does not have the numbers to derail Romney. But his supporters can have an effect on the party in other ways.
"We want to have a real big voice on the platform; we want to influence the direction of the party more than anything else," said Joel Kurtinitis, a Paul supporter who was pleased after the Saturday vote.
He was Paul's state director in Iowa until Paul suspended his presidential bid in May, and he said that although he would love to see Paul awarded a prime speaking spot at the convention, his followers' efforts are about more than one man.
"We're going to hold up our values and we're going to bring conservatism back to the mainline of the Republican Party. That's where my hopes are at and that's my hope for this convention more than seeing Ron Paul do X, Y and Z," Kurtinitis said.
Romney and his campaign have treated Paul and his followers deferentially, perhaps mindful of not alienating his incredibly loyal supporters. At the Iowa GOP convention, a Romney staffer who flew in from Boston watched the proceedings but did not get involved. At the Romney table, workers distributed three fliers to conventioneers – a general brochure about his candidacy, an invitation to a rally in Davenport on Monday and a news release that touted Romney's endorsement by Paul's son, Rand Paul, and effusively lavished praise on the Kentucky senator who many believe is the heir apparent for Paul's movement.
But others say the move by the Iowa GOP is a black eye for the state's caucuses and for the presumptive GOP nominee.
"Embarrassment is the word that comes to my mind," said Jamie Johnson, who served as Santorum's state coalitions director in Iowa. The former senator from Pennsylvania, who narrowly won the caucuses but has endorsed Romney since ending his presidential bid in April, appears to have one solitary Iowa delegate who supported him heading to the convention.
"I believe that it seriously puts the Iowa caucuses' first-in-the-nation status in jeopardy," Johnson said. "It will be a major embarrassment to Gov. Romney if there is a strong Ron Paul vote from the floor on the night in which the votes are counted."
Paul is counting on having 200 delegates on the floor who can vote for him, and a few hundred more who are bound to vote for Romney but are his supporters.
"While this total is not enough to win the nomination, it puts us in a tremendous position to grow our movement and shape the future of the GOP!" Paul wrote in an email to supporters last week. "I hope every one of you continues the fight we have advanced so well this year. I hope you will finish your local and state conventions, and, if you were selected as a national delegate, that you will head to Tampa in August to force the Republican Party to listen to the voice of liberty.
"We have never had this kind of opportunity. There will be hundreds of your fellow supporters in Tampa who will be ready and willing to push the Republican Party back to its limited government, liberty roots."
seema.mehta@latimes.com
Seema Mehta
Seema Mehta is a reporter covering the 2020 presidential campaign. She started at the Los Angeles Times in 1998 and recently completed a Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan.


Florent Deslandes joined Elvinger Hoss Prussen in 2014 and became a member of the Luxembourg Bar in 2016.
Florent holds a Master's degree in law from the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium) and an LLM in European competition and IP law from the Université de Liège (Belgium). He also holds an LLM in European banking and financial law from the University of Luxembourg.


Yep, Mean Girls is coming to Broadway this Spring...and it's a musical!
1. Tina Fey wrote the book herself (the "book" of a musical is everything that isn't the music and lyrics). When Kween Tina is at the helm, you know it's gonna be good.
2. Casey Nicholaw is directing. Known for bright and fun musicals like Aladdin and The Book of Mormon (no big deal), Casey's shows include rousing musical number after rousing musical number that have the entire audience doubled over in laughter.
3. Barrett Wilbert Weed (real name!) is in it. This future megastar SLAYED in Off-Broadway's Found in 2014 and also has a huge fan base from the cult Heathers: The Musical.
4. Nell Benjamin wrote the lyrics. Nell co-wrote 2007's Legally Blonde: The Musical, which was a total A+...and totally robbed of a Best Musical Tony Award® nomination.
5. It's Mean Girls. The Musical. 'Nuff said.
Starts March 12 on Broadway.


On our family holiday this year, the children came face to face with amusement arcades. Never having seen anything like it before, they were enamoured and very enthusiastic to spend our money in order to win more back. Needless to say we did not allow them. Until, that is, the last day. It was pouring with rain and we thought we might be able to teach them a lesson by allowing them the experience. We gave them each a pound, changed it into 2 penny pieces and let them at it. At the end of approximately half an hour, whilst some money had been won along the way, all three older children ended up with not a penny to their name. They did, however, end up with a lot of tat in terms of cheap plastic rings – they thought it was great and not wanting to ruin their fun of the moment I left them to enjoy it.
I was always going to return to the subject, which today I did. We had made it clear that this was not the best way to spend their money. Now I was asking them why. They were genuinely surprised. They felt they had got a bargain. Six rings for three pounds. I then started probing them about the rings. Were they of good quality and therefore would they last? How much did they think they would pay for them in a shop and what type of shop and/or aisle did they think they would find rings like that?
It was, as always, fascinating to see them think through what I was asking. They had seen similar rings, sold in a pack of 20, in a discount store down the party favour aisle, selling for £1. Light bulbs began glowing! They could buy 20 for £1 or lose three pounds and gain 6 rings. This was a good starting point for a statistics lesson.
I asked them to think about who ran the arcades and why. T10 immediately answered to make money. All the children suddenly started looking at the whole experience from a different perspective. I asked whether they thought the owners of the arcade knew they would make money or was it just luck. Nudging them in the right direction I asked what the costs would be of running a place – they came up with rental of the premises, electricity, staff. I added rental of the machines. T10 realised that in order to run it as a business they needed to turn a profit. They were horrified when I told them that the machines were fixed so that, although there would be some winners, there were more losers – that the probability of winning was smaller than the probability of losing.
Together we looked into what the actual word probability meant. C10 thought it might mean that something was probable, T10 went one further asking if the probability of something was a measurement of how probable it was. Bingo, we had our starting point!
Separating them into marked and unmarked. It is not obvious here, but there were far fewer unmarked stones than marked.
I asked if a stone would be more likely to be marked or unmarked. They answered correctly marked because there were more marked than unmarked. I reiterated what they had just said inserting the word 'probable' in the place of 'likely'. L10 jumped up and said it was probability! Eureka! We played around asking each other whether it was more probable that so and so letter was chosen until I was sure each understood that the higher the number present, the higher the probability of it being chosen. This ended our first lesson.
I did a total of three lessons on probability, because the girls had never encountered it before. I'll do the second post tomorrow on the remaining two lessons.


As the industry has undergone an evolution, a lot of our day-to-day work has also changed. The good news is that the skill sets we've adopted can make us really effective marketers outside of search. This session will tactically describe different scenarios on how your skill sets can be applied to other areas of marketing.


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These are some examples to try out.

Note: this requires SKIFF_CONFIG=apps/docker at minimum.

With Skiff Core - SKIFF_CONFIG=skiff/core - you can simply run "su - core" to
switch into the containerized environment (with the default configs).

## System Tools with Alpine

Note: with Skiff Core - `SKIFF_CONFIG=skiff/core` - you can run "su - core" to
switch into the containerized environment (with the default configs).

Alpine provides a lightweight environment with a package manager (apk) to
install developer tools on-demand. This command will execute a persistent
container named "work" which you can execute a shell inside to interact with.
This workflow is similar to how Skiff Core drops SSH sessions into Docker
containers as an optional feature.

```bash
docker run \
	--name=work -d \
    --pid=host --uts=host --net=host \
    --privileged \
    -v /:/root-fs -v /dev:/dev \
    --privileged \
    alpine:edge \
    bin/sleep 99999

# Execute a shell in the container.
docker exec -it work sh

# Update the packages.
apk upgrade --update

# Add a package.
apk add vim
apk add alpine-sdk # adds compilers
```

Some useful tools to try:

 - htop: interactive process manager similar to top
 - atop: shows CPU statistics and process information as well as summaries of
   network interface load.
 - bwm-ng: simple lightweight UI to show rx/tx and total bandwidth of all interfaces.
 - bmon: detailed UI, shows all details of any network errors experienced and
   current bandwidth on all interfaces.
 - nload: shows incoming and outgoing network load.
 - nethogs: shows what processes are using network traffic.

## System Performance Monitoring with Glances

System performance monitoring and benchmarking is easy with the glances tool.

The below command can be executed after sshing to the "root" user to start the
performance monitoring UI on port 61208 on the device (for the ARM
architecture):

```bash
docker run \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro \
  --pid=host --net=host \
  --restart=always \
  --name=glances \
  --detach=true \
  --privileged \
  paralin/glances-arm:latest glances -w
```

## Container Performance Monitoring with Cadvisor

System and container performance monitoring and benchmarking is easy with the cadvisor tool.

The below command can be executed after sshing to the "root" user to start the performance monitoring UI on port 8080 on the device:

```bash
docker run \
 --volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
 --volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
 --volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:ro \
 --publish=8080:8080 \
 --detach=true \
 --name=cadvisor \
 braingamer/cadvisor-arm:latest
```

## Install Docker inside Core

You can install Docker inside the core environment, and systemd is running, so
you can enable it to correctly auto-start when you first connect.

```bash
ssh core@my-skiff-host
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
sudo systemctl enable --now docker
sudo docker ps
```

This is "docker inside docker!"

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While organ music has become part of the rich fabric of masonic meetings around the country, Naunton Liles wonders whether lodges should seek to preserve these historic but expensive instruments
Look at any masonic music books in use today and you'll find that the music you sing in your lodge would be familiar to your grandfather and those before him. Many lodges have a reluctant organist who has been persuaded to play a little and is unlikely to introduce fresh ideas while the senior grandees keep reminding everyone 'that's not how we used to do it'. So we sing music that is well known and well proven – we all enjoy singing familiar tunes.
Outside Freemasonry, the organ has been constrained in its development by cost. No church council or town hall likes spending money on organs when other priorities seem more worthy. It is the same within Freemasonry. If a masonic hall committee has to choose between a stairlift and a new organ, mandatory legislation and similar pressures push the organ aside.
So why do we continue to have music in masonic ceremonies? Most people agree music enhances the occasion and a private lodge meeting without music can be a bit dull. Our annual assemblies of Grand Lodge and of Provincial Grand Lodge and in all masonic orders need to be occasions of great dignity and splendour, and to give pleasure to those present.
Usually a venue is chosen with an organ suitable for playing processional music, fanfares for the high spots and background music to maintain a suitable atmosphere. For our big showcase events in London, the Grand Temples at Freemasons' Hall and Mark Masons Hall are best. The history and costs of the instruments found in these buildings demonstrate two very different approaches to organ music.
In 1933, organ builder Henry Willis & Sons was commissioned to construct an instrument fitting for the new art deco building in Covent Garden. It was agreed the instrument would be heard but not seen, so it was placed behind grills. This concentrates the sound at one end and when accompanying 1,500 people, it can be a bit deafening for those occupying the tiered seats in the east of the temple. Another feature was to conceal the console so the organist was not higher than the Grand Master. There is many a non-conformist chapel where the organ occupies a prominent place and a flamboyant organist can outshine the preacher. Not so in Freemasonry.
The downside at the Grand Temple in Freemasons' Hall is that the organist has no line of sight. Forty years later, CCTV was installed, with one camera and one screen. The organists could then see the assembled brethren, but not much of the west door where processions enter, so you will always see a second organist alongside advising the player what is going on. The 1970s equipment has been replaced by a flatscreen colour monitor, but still there is only one camera. By contrast, cathedrals have a split-screen system whereby the organist can see four views as the ceremony unfolds – but this costs money.
In 1933, organ builders were much exercised by the demands of the cinema, theatre and town hall clients. The thinking of the time was that you could produce a huge sound with fewer pipes by doubling up their use in an ingenious manner. The proposal for Freemasons' Hall included this kind of scheme and the organ has a lot of sound in a compact space.
digital alternative
We live in a time when many people think any object worthy of its period – Willis's design is an excellent example of mid-1930s workmanship – should not be altered or improved. Indeed, grant funds usually insist this is so. But few would disagree that a change that enabled the pipework to speak out more clearly, and enabled some additional resources, would be sensible if we are to serve the next generations well.
The Grand Temple is quite different at Mark Masons Hall. A long auditorium that seats four hundred, it has a relatively low ceiling, lots of carpet and a propensity to attract men in heavy suits. The acoustic is dead by comparison with any church. As a Grade II-listed building of great beauty, we are not permitted to alter the appearance by installing a pipe organ. An electronic organ was in use for around twenty-five years and in February this year it was replaced by the very latest digital organ.
Good digital technology has now been with us for a decade or more and a market has emerged far removed from the disco and home organ. It is said you can blindfold the experts in the back of a church, play them a pipe organ and a new digital organ, and they'd be hard-pressed to pick the imposter.
The process of acquiring a new organ for Mark Masons Hall was lengthy. Many orders, Provinces, lodges and individual brethren gave generously to raise the necessary funds. Three leading makers then submitted proposals for a digital organ and the contract was awarded to Wyvern, which builds its organs in the UK using mainly British components.
Digital organs now use a sampling technique. For this they record each individual note from the pipework of an organ of merit. During installation and commissioning much time was spent at night, when the surroundings were quiet, to voice each stop. It is this that makes the organ so much better than a standard one. Care was also taken to position the speakers to best effect.
Not every masonic temple can afford a custom-built organ and the story so far has described those used for important Grand Lodge ceremonies. Back at home, you may find a more modest instrument, but even these can be entirely suitable for our purposes. So, should we preserve and repair the old pipe organ or buy an electronic one? My guess is there are but a dozen pipe organs in masonic premises that are worth the cost of rebuilding, especially now that such good results can be achieved with digital equipment.
Within Freemasonry there is a shortage of funds, so it is prudent to go for the best sound per pound, and there is a compelling argument in favour of digital instruments for masonic purposes.
Independent advice is available at no cost from Naunton Liles at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
blow by blow: HISTORY OF THE PIPES
The origins of the organ can be traced back to the third century BC, when an octave of pipes was first strung together and attached to some fireside bellows. However, it took until the twelfth century AD to refine the organ into something workable that would become the 'must-have' accessory for every monastery. By the seventeenth century complex instruments were in use that would be broadly familiar to us today. Towards the end of the nineteenth century, a religious revival and increased wealth led to the building of new churches. At the same time, Freemasonry expanded rapidly and organs were installed in every temple that was built.
By the end of the century there were many lodges and plenty of organists. Many people had a piano at home and a generation of Freemasons was born who were not bashful about singing. Small pipe organs appeared everywhere and survived because of their relative simplicity, and several masonic temples continue to use them a hundred years later.
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I was interested to read Naunton Liles' article on the Grand Temple organ and the new one in Mark Masons' Hall. I am an organist based in the London area and play at both these venues and others. Most of the readers of Freemasonry Today will not know the history of the Grand Temple organ, but Henry Willis was probably the builder of the organ equivalent of a Rolls-Royce. It is of historical significance, as the author says, but would be extremely expensive to restore.
To the great majority of brethren, the difference in the tone of a pipe organ and the modern digital ones would certainly be unnoticeable, and for myself I look forward to being able to use the new one at Mark Masons' Hall.
Anthony Perch
Fortitude Lodge No. 6503
Kenton, Middlesex
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Was born in 1839. His first racing yacht was the 48-ton cutter Sphinx, which he bought in 1867. She was a very successful racing boat, and on June 1, 1868, won the first prize in the first race organized by the New Thames Yacht Club. She won first prizes on three consecutive racing days—viz., May 21, 22, and 24, 1869, the total value of these prizes being £300. In the New Thames Match on June 1, 1868, she was run into by Vindex whilst turning to windward on the starboard tack, and although much damaged won the first prize, as well as the first prize of the Royal London Yacht Club, which was resailed simultaneously. The value of these two prizes was £178 15s.
Leah, Ketch, 98 tons. Mr. J. S. Earle.
In 1876 Mr. Earle bought the yawl Leah, 104 tons, built by Wanhill of Poole, and used her for cruising purposes. Her rig was altered in 1903 to a ketch, and she is still in commission as a cruiser. He also owned the cutter-yacht lanthe, 13 tons. This, boat, which had a draught of 6 feet, he used in the various rivers of Essex and Suffolk, and with the Rev. Edmund Farrer visited the numerous churches for archaeological and heraldic researches.
In 1878 he was elected Commodore of the Royal London Yacht Club. From 1867 to 1901 James Chaplin of Brightlingsea acted as his skipper. In 1902, owing to ill-health, he was compelled to give up sailing, and his son James Henry Chaplin took his place.
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Jim Pedley | Managing Editor, RacinToday.com Friday, July 15 2016
Jeff Gordon could be headed back to the cockpit. (RacinToday/HHP file photo by Gregg Ellman)
By Jim Pedley | Managing Editor
Should Dale Earnhardt Jr. not be able to drive in the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway next week because of "concussion-like symptoms", Jeff Gordon will come out of retirement and take the wheel of the No. 88 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.
"If Dale is not able to go to Indianapolis, we will put Jeff Gordon in the car," said Hendrick Motorsports General Manager Doug Duchardt.
Gordon, the four-time Cup champion who retired after the 2015 season, is available for driving duties as his stint as a television analysis ended when Fox Sports' portion of the schedule ended. NBC Sports Network broadcasts the second half of the season.
He has won the Brickyard five times.
Duchardt said the decision on who will drive the 88 in Indianapolis will be made by next Wednesday.
Earnhardt won't compete in this weekend's Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (1:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN). His status for future races this season has yet to be determined.
Alex Bowman, who drives for Earnhardt's JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series, is driving the No. 88 Chevrolet this weekend.
Douchardt met with reporters on Friday and did some explaining.
"Alex came in Tuesday night to get fitted for the car," Duchardt said. "And at that time, it was in the contingency that he would have to backfill for Dale after Dale started the race.
"Dale then went and saw a team of neurologists and in the past two days has been going through some tests. (Thursday) around noon is when I found out that Dale could not be in the car for this weekend, based on their suggestion."
Bowman also talked to the media Friday in New Hampshire, saying, "Yeah, it's been a crazy 12 hours, for sure. I think the first time (crew chief) Greg (Ives) called me, I was at work, so I didn't even answer. But it's definitely not the circumstances that I want to get an opportunity like this. Obviously I'm hoping Dale feels better, but at the same time, it's the best opportunity I've ever had in my life.
"I'm ready to just plug into their program and do my job. I'll give them the best feedback I can and go from there. I'm really confident in the whole team. Obviously, they bring great race cars to the track every weekend, so if I just do my job, I feel like we would be good to plug into it."
As to be expected, the health of NASCAR's most popular driver dominated the garage talk on Friday in Loudon.
Kyle Busch missed the first couple months of the 2015 season with broken bones in his legs. Different deal from Earnhardt is going through, Busch said.
"It is certainly not a good thing that Dale is not able to race and certainly I've sent my regards, but it's a tough subject," Busch, who came back to win the Cup championship last year, said. "It's about how you're feeling and you're the only one that knows how you're feeling. You can't show these types of injuries as well as you can a broken bone or something to that respect. It's all about Dale and I commend him for taking action and feeling what he was feeling and being able to go to the doctors and explaining that and for them to say he needed to sit out a week or two or however many it may be what's best for him.
"And, obviously that is what's best for him is his health. It's a tough situation to be in as a race car driver. I've never been in that situation where I have felt something within my head. I've got a lot of screws loose, but none that were that bad that I felt like I needed to go get looked at. And, so, thankfully I haven't had that and hopefully I don't have to deal with that."