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‘VOLCANO’FOR MORE, SEE NASCAR INSIDER PAGE 8AM

any a race fan, upon stepping

into the giant stadium-like seat-

ing area at Bristol Motor

Speedway for the first time, has marveled

at seeing a NASCAR race track in the

space typically occupied by a grassed foot-

ball gridiron. On the other hand, drivers

entering from the lower side of the grand-

stands see the place from a totally differ-

ent perspective.

“The first time you go there and you’re

in the infield and you see how steep the

banking is and how high the grandstands

are up above you, you just feel like you’re

in the middle of a volcano,” 2001 Sharpie

500 winner Tony Stewart told reporters

during a recent appearance at Bristol,

which hosts this weekend’s Food City 500.

“It’s pretty intimidating.”

in the track watching the action or over

at the campgrounds, everybody just has

so much fun.”

But for the drivers, it’s also a serious

racing place, as 2008 Food City 500 win-

ner Jeff Burton pointed out.

“Bristol, in my eyes, is one of the three

or four race tracks on the circuit where

you don’t have a fluke winner,” he said.

“Guys who don’t run well anywhere else

can win at Daytona, [but] an average race

car driver just doesn’t win at Bristol.

“Everybody has to be on it at Bristol,

and the winners there are typically hard

an win there, you feel

NOTEBOOK

Earnhardt takes blame for loss

NASCAR’s “Junior Nation” had plenty to

cheer about in the opening laps of the Kobalt

Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Dale

Earnhardt Jr. blasted into the lead on the start

and led all but three of the first 73 laps. His 70

laps led in that race were 18 more than the 52

he led all of last year.

But Earnhardt was unable to keep his car at

the front of the pack as track conditions

changed, and he wound up 10th at the finish

and shouldering much of the blame for falling

out of contention.

He said he just didn’t do a good job of com-

municating the information on his car’s chang-

ing handling characteristics to crew chief Steve

Letarte.“Our car was tight at the start of the race,” he

said. “We were fast, and I knew before the end

of the race we were going to have to free my car

up, and I never let Steve [Letarte] do it.

“I just never told him enough and never gave

him enough freedom today that he felt like he

needed to free the car up. When we got in traf-

fic, the car was just really tight, and it’s a lesson

that you learn a long, long time ago ...

“It was more my fault than anything, really. I

didn’t give him enough information.”

Still, Earnhardt heads to one of his better

tracks, Bristol Motor Speedway, fourth in the

Cup standings, 18 points behind leader Greg

Biffle.

‘Double dippers’winning less

After several years in which double-dipping

Sprint Cup drivers won about all the

Nationwide Series races, the trend seems to be

reversing. Last year, five races were won by

drivers who were essentially Nationwide only,

and a sixth was won by Trevor Bayne, who runs

a limited Cup schedule.

This year, the first three Nationwide races

have been won by Nationwide regulars, with

James Buescher winning at Daytona, Elliott

Sadler at Phoenix and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. at

Las Vegas.For Stenhouse, the defending series champi-

on, the Las Vegas victory was his first-ever on

an intermediate track.

“To win on a mile-and-a-half is big for me,”

said the driver of the No. 6 Ford. “I feel like our

cars are better than I am at some mile-and-a-

halves, and I feel like I drive really hard at the

short tracks. I think we’ve got a really good

package going right now and to get that win on

a mile-and-a-half feels good.”

Veteran Mark Martin, who finished second,

was among those impressed with Stenhouse’s

performance. “That was one serious beat down

Ricky Stenhouse just put on me there at the

end,” he said.

Earnhardt adds to ‘boneyard’

It seems the old saying “one man’s trash is

another man’s treasure” is true, at least for

Dale Earnhardt Jr., who is now the proud

owner of the No. 42 Chevrolet that Juan Pablo

Montoya drove into the back of a jet dryer dur-

ing the Daytona 500.

Earnhardt recently added what’s left of

Montoya’s car to his personal race car boneyard

on part of his North Carolina property.

t about 50 or 60 cars out there, and I

ld reporters at Las

By RICK MINTER / Universal Uclick

By RICK MINTER / Universal Uclick

For fans, drivers, Bristol offers

one-of-a-kind race experience

Racing action at Bristol Motor Speedway in 2010 (above) and 2009 (below).

(Photos courtesy Bristol Motor Speedway)

‘Volcano’‘Volcano’

NEXTUP...

Race: Ford EcoBoost 300

Where: Bristol Motor Speedway

When: Saturday, 1:00 p.m. (ET)

TV: ESPN

2011 Winner: Kyle BuschSPRINT CUP

CAMPING WORLD TRUCKS

NATIONWIDE SERIES Race: Kroger 250

Where: Martinsville Speedway

When: March 31, 1:00 p.m. (ET)

TV: SPEED

2011 Winner: Johnny Sauter

Race: Food City 500

Where: Bristol Motor Speedway

When: Sunday, 12:30 p.m. (ET)

TV: FOX2011 Winner: Kyle Busch (right)

Stewart hits jackpot in Vegas race

Tony Stewart motored away from the pack

through one late-race restart after another in the

Kobalt Tools 400 to score his 45th Sprint Cup victo-

ry, his sixth in the last 13 Cup races dating back to

last year, and his first win at Las Vegas Motor

Speedway.Perhaps more important for the big picture, it

was his first win with crew chief Steve Addington,

who was put in the difficult position of taking over

for a crew chief, Darian Grubb, who had led Stewart

to five Chase victories and the Cup championship

last year after

being told he

would be fired at

season’s end.

“It’s a big relief,

to know you’re the

[only] difference in

the race team

right now,”

Addington said.

“Nobody put the

pressure on me

except myself. I

really didn’t realize how much I’d put on myself

going to work for the championship team the very

next year.“It’s been a lot of pressure. I think that even when

Tony feels good about the car, I’m still questioning.

He’s just like, ‘Relax, dude, it’s going to be all right.’”

Stewart said that he’s done all he can to keep

tting heat on Addington.that we had an awe-

“Watching a race at Bristol

is like putting 43 cars in

” T ny Stewart

Tony Stewart on pit road at Las Vegas

Motor Speedway. (NASCAR photo)

FOR FANS, DRIVERS, BRISTOL OFFERS ONE-OF-A-KIND RACE EXPERIENCE

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STAFF REPORT

The East Bernstadt School and Harley-

Davidson are raising money for those who lost their

homes.East Bernstadt School’s

Student Technology Leadership Program will have a raffle for a custom built computer.

The school’s program teamed up with The Computer Place and Office Depot.

The proceeds will go to as many families as possible to ease the financial burden.

The drawing will be held on March 27.

The winner will be contact-ed that day to make arrange-ments for claiming the prize.

For more information, con-

tact Michael Owens at 606-682-6218.

Tickets are available at the school’s front office, The

Fundraisers set for tornado victimsEast Bernstadt School to hold raffle; Harley-Davidson to host benefit concert

PHOTO BY CARL KEITH GREENE

Two-year-old Peyton Engle goes after some early spring sun Thursday afternoon on the basketball court on the corner of Railroad and Hatfield streets. She was with her brother D.J., who was toss-ing the basketball. She’s the daughter of Vanessa and Jerry Engle who live nearby on Ruggles Street in Corbin.

TIMES-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

The Knox County Sheriff ’s office on Monday made an arrest at

Bailey Switch Pawn Shop, on U.S. 25E north of Barbourville.

A search warrant was issued in ref-erence to two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance, 2,914 counts of illegal check cashing for a deferred payment, illegal tax preparation, three counts of extortion and five counts of forgery.

During the execution of the war-rant, deputies learned there were six counts of illegal possession of another person’s E.B.T. card.

Also the sheriff ’s office found the illegal sale of alcohol, possession of a legend drug, three counts of first-degree possession of a controlled sub-stance, two counts of third-degree pos-session of a controlled substance and a prescription of a controlled substance not in the original container.

Arrested were Bill Fred Hamilton, 69, Billy Hamilton, 38, and Diane Hill, 29, all of Barbourville, and Patsy Carnes Brown, 61, of Flat Lick.

Danny Hill was also arrested on related charges on warrants from Whitley and Knox counties.

The sheriff ’s office is working with agents of the Internal Revenue Service and the Kentucky Department of Financial Institution.

The sheriff seeks people who may have written a deferred check for cash at the Bailey Switch Pawn Shop or had their taxes filed there.

Regarding that, contact Deputies Brian Hensley or Claude Hudson in reference to being a victim of crime at the pawn shop.

Screaming woman arrestedWednesday, the Laurel County

Sheriff ’s office made the arrest of a woman in the roadway of Kentucky Hollow Road who was found “yelling

POLICEREPORTBailey Switch Pawn Shop busted by Knox Sheriff’s team

SEE POLICE, PAGE 3A

BY CARL KEITH GREENE

STAFF WRITER

Controlled burns will be placed in the

Daniel Boone National Forest over the next six weeks.

In Laurel County, an area near Cold Hill west of KY 192 will be burned on “four small research units,” said Public Affairs Specialist

Kimberly Morgan.“Depending on the

weather, we hope to burn those areas sometime this month,” Morgan said.

Forest officials plan to use fire to meet land man-agement goals and objec-tives.

Controlled burns restore forest health, improve wild-life habitat and reduce

woodland ground fuels, said Morgan.

“We really never know for sure if we can burn until we check the day’s weather and do a test burn on the ground,” she said.

That makes it difficult to notify people in the area in advance.

A news release on con-trolled burning is to let folks

know that they may see some smoke over the next several weeks, she added.

Once the forest service workers know the weather conditions are right and the proposed burn is set to go, they notify local authorities such as dispatch systems, law enforcement, fire

TIMES-TRIBUNE STAFF REPORT

Laurel Countians who have lostwork or whose businesses

were damaged because of the torna-do nearly two weeks ago may be eli-gible for disaster employment assis-tance.

The deadline to apply is April 16.In this situation, farmers and

self-employed people may also qual-ify for unemployment insurance benefits. Normally they are ineligi-ble.

The applications may be filed at the local Kentucky Career Center offices.

The office in London is at the Somerset Community College’s Health and Science building. The college is on KY 192 between KY 229 and KY 80, next to the Laurel County Library.

The telephone number is 330-2115.

In Corbin, the office is on Roy Kidd Avenue.

The telephone number is 528-3460.

Only self-employed people when filing a claim should bring a copy of their 2011 income tax return.

All applicants also need a photo-identification card and their Social Security number.

All regular unemployment insur-ance benefits must be exhausted before receiving any disaster unem-ployment benefits.

For more information go to http://oet.ky.gov/.

Disaster employmentassistance available

Controlled burns in Daniel Boone Forest set for next six weeks

SEE BURNS, PAGE 3A

Tike on a trike

ON PAGE 2A 50 WORKERS INSIDE WHEN TRUSEAL ROOF COLLAPSES

SEE TORNADO, PAGE 3A