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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:24 PM
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I agree guys, so little passing.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:25 PM
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and rent a scanner nattey wrote:
Take ear plugs!
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48wolfpacker wrote:
Bryanth1a wrote: First time ever watching a NASCAR race. I was very entertained!!! You just watched a race on the most boring track in NASCAR, so if you were entertained by that, you need to keep watching. I love NASCAR. LOL, I have nothing to gauge it by. What's a good race or track to watch? I have a friend who has told me it's much better to watch in person. My goal for the summer is to go watch one live. Maybe in Richmond or in Delaware.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:30 PM
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And channel your inner red neck. It's a fun. Much better than watching on tv
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:37 PM
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Yeah, if you have a big problem with rednecks, a Nascar race might not be the best place to go. I've never had any problems. You might be a redneck, if you....................................... Personally, I have met some great people at the tracks, Rockingham, Charlotte, Darlington, and Daytona.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:38 PM
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copper2945 wrote:
SteveWilliams wrote: That race was gawd awful.
Been watching since around 91. That was the worst 500 I have ever seen. I would agree and I don't think there's another that was even close to this debacle. BTW, it's not like NASCAR can't put on a good show. The truck series has become very entertaining. If you want to see guys that go out and fight for the front on every lap, that's the best gig going to me. Nationwide is much better than Sprint Cup as well IMO.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:46 PM
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SteveWilliams wrote:
copper2945 wrote:
SteveWilliams wrote: That race was gawd awful.
Been watching since around 91. That was the worst 500 I have ever seen. I would agree and I don't think there's another that was even close to this debacle. BTW, it's not like NASCAR can't put on a good show. The truck series has become very entertaining. If you want to see guys that go out and fight for the front on every lap, that's the best gig going to me. Nationwide is much better than Sprint Cup as well IMO. The trucks are awesome. They just need to take the Nationwide car and put a bigger engine in the car. If this is your Super Bowl, Nascar, then the lights went out for good on your sport. Too many Urkels on your team, that's why your wins low |
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:53 PM
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Races are too long.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:56 PM
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The truck races are very good.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 5:57 PM
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YouPeople wrote: Races are too long. I was at my neighbor's house watching the last 50 laps. We said, "if they are just going to ride around for the last 50 laps at about every race, then let's have 3 50-lap shootouts at each track". Figure the points out, weight segments. . whatever. Nascar is dead, it just doesn't know it yet. Too many Urkels on your team, that's why your wins low |
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:01 PM
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Bane wrote:
goturbackpack66 wrote: Bryanth, Bristol!! But it's a very difficult ticket. Short track, very high banking, which creates better speed, and a lot of scraping and banging. You ought to go, believe you would really love it. Meet people from everywhere. Easy ticket nowadays. Yep. Was going to post this. Bristol was the best back in the day. I had season tickets. Finally gave them up after some snooze fests and then selling them for a couple of years. Since I gave them up, they are constantly emailing me with all kinds of "deals" to get tickets again. |
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:08 PM
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And I will add that I originally got my Bristol season tix by winning a lottery drawing when they added the Kulwicki Terrace seats. Me and my cousin called all morning to try and get tix the day they went on sale, but never got through. I had also gone by the track weeks earlier to fill out a form that would go in a bucket and be drawn from on the day of the "lottery". They would take calls and have a few agents drawing from the bucket until they were all sold. They sold them all before lunch that day. I called a few days later to see if my name got drawn out of the bucket. They told me no, but when my visa statement came a few weeks later there was a big ol' charge to Bristol Motor Speedway for four tickets. I called again, and they told me then that yes I did indeed have season tix. SWEET!!
My...how times have changed with Bristol and nascar.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:14 PM
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Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:18 PM
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I think they need to change the point system to where you get 1 point for every lap led and maybe 100 pts to win a race. There needs to be more incentive to lead laps.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 6:25 PM
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flair1 wrote: I think they need to change the point system to where you get 1 point for every lap led and maybe 100 pts to win a race. There needs to be more incentive to lead laps. That might work. I still think the best idea I ever heard was to do away with all the championship monetary awards at the end of the year. Take all that money and divide it amongst the races for the winner of each race. Let the end of season points champion simply have a trophy and no money. They can then take the trophy and go market it for more money. The Super Bowl does not pay huge $ to the winners. I don't think nascar should either. |
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Posted: 2/24/2013 7:17 PM
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I used to have permanent seats at Bristol too but gave them up because the track was so hard to get to and the traffic + parking was horrendous. This was in the Bristol heyday. Now that they changed the track (twice), the racing there is not near as good and plenty of seats are available. I bet the traffic and parking is better now since it is no longer a sellout. I still have permanent seats at Charlotte (25+ years) but I don't go to these races much either because Charlotte has become one of the worse races to see. Really boring now.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 7:27 PM
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I havent been to many races from the stands since I grew up in the sport, but it really is worth the price of admission to go buy the worst looking Earnhardt shirt and hat, buy a cooler of beer, tailgate and people watch in the seats. It really is fun. Rednecks are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 7:56 PM
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hunwolf wrote: The truck races are very good. They are running a truck race on dirt at Eldora this year. That will be hot.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 8:12 PM
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Race was terrible. I preferred the tandem racing.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 8:19 PM
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wolfer79 wrote: and rent a scanner
nattey wrote:
Take ear plugs!
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--- Bryanth1a wrote:
48wolfpacker wrote:
Bryanth1a wrote: First time ever watching a NASCAR race. I was very entertained!!! You just watched a race on the most boring track in NASCAR, so if you were entertained by that, you need to keep watching. I love NASCAR. LOL, I have nothing to gauge it by. What's a good race or track to watch? I have a friend who has told me it's much better to watch in person. My goal for the summer is to go watch one live. Maybe in Richmond or in Delaware.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 8:21 PM
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Hell yeah it will be. ARCA does it, now the trucks. I hope all the series gets on dirt once a year. --------------------------------------------- --- pskunk119 wrote: hunwolf wrote: The truck races are very good. They are running a truck race on dirt at Eldora this year. That will be hot. --------------------------------------------- 41-10.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 8:28 PM
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The fake caution within the last ten laps is necessary I guess to keep people watching, but then what is the incentive to watch the first 190?
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Posted: 2/24/2013 9:06 PM
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FeloniousQ wrote: The fake caution within the last ten laps is necessary I guess to keep people watching, but then what is the incentive to watch the first 190? There was a piece of metal on the track both Jimmie and Brad hit. It was not fake.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 9:13 PM
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If nothing else, I wish Smoke would have stayed in it until the end for the simple reason that he is the only one (it seems) with any bawls to jump out of the Daytona Conga Line.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 10:00 PM
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Bryanth1a wrote:
hunwolf wrote:
Bryanth1a wrote:
48wolfpacker wrote:
Bryanth1a wrote: First time ever watching a NASCAR race. I was very entertained!!! You just watched a race on the most boring track in NASCAR, so if you were entertained by that, you need to keep watching. I love NASCAR. LOL, I have nothing to gauge it by. What's a good race or track to watch? I have a friend who has told me it's much better to watch in person. My goal for the summer is to go watch one live. Maybe in Richmond or in Delaware.
Richmond, Bristol, or Martinsville are good races to go too.
Dover wouldn't be bad either.
Darlington as well. Great, Dover is about 2 hours away. Remember he's talking about Dover, Delaware and not the Dover in Craven County, NC.
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Posted: 2/24/2013 10:10 PM
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The PackPride car (39) finished 5th. Great job, ME01 Took a Nascar Nap & woke up with 33 laps to go. Perfect. I wonder if Chad Knaus told the 48 to rip the splitter after the checker flag to destroy the evidence  Wouldn't be the first time. |
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Posted: 2/24/2013 11:19 PM
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The finish was pretty good. Still haven't gotten over watching that wreck yesterday. Reading an article there was a link to the worst racing disaster. 24 hr Le Mans in 1955. 85 spectators killed and one driver. Many decapitated. The car was made of a magnesium alloy (frame I guess). If you remember chemistry magnesium does not like water.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:05 AM
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EastChapelHill04Class wrote: Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr. You do know that it takes a hillbilly mentality to make blanket statements like this?
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:08 AM
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PackBacker77 wrote: You should have been watching 20 years ago when it was real racing. Well, at least NASCAR "technology" is still pretty much the same. |
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:31 AM
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NeverQuitPacker wrote: Which will happen first - An NFL football player dies on the field, or a fan dies in the Nascar fan stands. Either will significantly change that industry / sport. For the NFL, it happened in 1970: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hughes |
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:45 AM
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Yamahog wrote:
NeverQuitPacker wrote: Which will happen first - An NFL football player dies on the field, or a fan dies in the Nascar fan stands. Either will significantly change that industry / sport. For the NFL, it happened in 1970:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Hughes Fans have been killed by tires in CART (3 @ Michigan 1998), IndyCar (3 @ Charlotte 1999), and NHRA (1 @ Phoenix, 2010) in recent years.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 12:55 AM
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Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote: Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr. You do know that it takes a hillbilly mentality to make blanket statements like this?
You must not live near these "Juuunnnneee-yerrrr" fans in the Concord/Kannapolis area. And yes his father, the REAL Dale Earnhardt, the NASCAR Hall of Famer, 7-Time Cup Champion and winner of 76 Cup races, did say this and it is as true today as it was then.
"I wear NC State gear because I'm going to NC State, you wear UNC gear because you went to Wal-Mart."
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Posted: 2/25/2013 1:32 AM
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EastChapelHill04Class wrote:
Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote: Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr. You do know that it takes a hillbilly mentality to make blanket statements like this?
You must not live near these "Juuunnnneee-yerrrr" fans in the Concord/Kannapolis area.
And yes his father, the REAL Dale Earnhardt, the NASCAR Hall of Famer, 7-Time Cup Champion and winner of 76 Cup races, did say this and it is as true today as it was then. If you are going to quote a source ,please provide the link. And you can make that statement about any fan base in NASCAR, basically. You may also want just say that the NASCAR demographics include just about every socio-economic strata, across all fan bases.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 1:37 AM
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Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote:
Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote: Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr. You do know that it takes a hillbilly mentality to make blanket statements like this?
You must not live near these "Juuunnnneee-yerrrr" fans in the Concord/Kannapolis area.
And yes his father, the REAL Dale Earnhardt, the NASCAR Hall of Famer, 7-Time Cup Champion and winner of 76 Cup races, did say this and it is as true today as it was then. If you are going to quote a source ,please provide the link.
And you can make that statement about any fan base in NASCAR, basically. You may also want just say that the NASCAR demographics include just about every socio-economic strata, across all fan bases. http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Second_place _is_just_the_first_place_loser./51484/ Jr fans are typically the most "Larry the Cable Guy"-like fans of all NASCAR drivers...
"I wear NC State gear because I'm going to NC State, you wear UNC gear because you went to Wal-Mart."
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Posted: 2/25/2013 6:38 AM
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Mike Golic is an idiot & needs to not even try to talk about NASCAR. He said his first thought after seeing the wreck was who would have to go to a back up car on Sunday. He didn't think about the fans. And that's NOT what makes him an idiot. He doesn't understand that the two series are different, uses two different cars, with totally different drivers. That's why I don't talk about hockey. I'll sound like an idiot.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 7:07 AM
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EastChapelHill04Class wrote:
Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote:
Denverpacker wrote:
EastChapelHill04Class wrote: Hate the 48 won, but thank the good Lord Dale Jr didn't win! His hillbilly fan base would have burned down every Wal-Mart in Charlotte if he won today...whew!!!
"Second place is just the first loser." -Dale Earnhardt, Sr. You do know that it takes a hillbilly mentality to make blanket statements like this?
You must not live near these "Juuunnnneee-yerrrr" fans in the Concord/Kannapolis area.
And yes his father, the REAL Dale Earnhardt, the NASCAR Hall of Famer, 7-Time Cup Champion and winner of 76 Cup races, did say this and it is as true today as it was then. If you are going to quote a source ,please provide the link.
And you can make that statement about any fan base in NASCAR, basically. You may also want just say that the NASCAR demographics include just about every socio-economic strata, across all fan bases. http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Second_place _is_just_the_first_place_loser./51484/
Jr fans are typically the most "Larry the Cable Guy"-like fans of all NASCAR drivers... And so if nascar fans are like their drivers, as you suggest here, that must make you, a Kyle Busch fan, one misreable lout to be around. And what, about 30th loser? Oh, I know, but he's maturing. As for the race, really boring. Seemed almost impossible to pass. What made Daytona great for fans (if not drivers) were the continual lead changes. Yesterday, everyone was either content, or only capable of, following the leader.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 7:33 AM
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What if you had to announce that for three and one-half hours? The crash on Saturday put the brakes on the race on Sunday.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:03 AM
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Yamahog wrote:
PackBacker77 wrote: You should have been watching 20 years ago when it was real racing. Well, at least NASCAR "technology" is still pretty much the same. You should do a little research before posting! There has been quite a bit of inovation and saftey features from NASCAR and the manufacturing sponsor over the last 20 years. This year the hoods and deck lids are carbon fiber with a Kevlar coating. |
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:31 AM
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www.awfulannouncing.com/2013/f...ls-50-cent.htmlFox's Daytona 500 prerace show featured Erin Andrews in her "Fox signed me to this huge contract and I need to randomly show up at our biggest sporting events" role by... randomly walking down pit road with absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Andrews wandered down pit road strangely in awe of the entire scene, awkwardly bumping into Kevin Harvick, and then... hey look, it's 50 Cent! And in the strangest/most uncomfortable sidline reporting moment since Joe Namath wanted to kiss Suzy Kolber, 50 Cent went in for the liplock and Erin Andrews blocked his advance like Dikembe Mutombo.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:35 AM
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--------------------------------------------- --- WUF84 wrote: Yamahog wrote:
PackBacker77 wrote: You should have been watching 20 years ago when it was real racing. Well, at least NASCAR "technology" is still pretty much the same. You should do a little research before posting! There has been quite a bit of inovation and saftey features from NASCAR and the manufacturing sponsor over the last 20 years. This year the hoods and deck lids are carbon fiber with a Kevlar coating. --------------------------------------------- Oh come on. This is bout as pioneering as the drop snout car. 41-10.
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Posted: 2/25/2013 10:36 AM
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Yep, though I didn't see pre-race yesterday, in general, the mass marketing and cross-promotion of NASCAR has worn thin.
And the announcing crew has become such a pom-pom waving crowd, there is no substance.
I don't care much for Johnny Miller on golf, but he brings a view that is of value and calls a spade a spade. Would like to see NASCAR with more of that approach. Everything can't be "awesome". |
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