Champion Named in the 2003 RacinHistory.com Championship Pool

(Sherwood, Arkansas, USA) A new website on the World Wide Web that offers the statistical history of the NASCAR Winston Cup series, RacinHistory.com (http://www.racinhistory.com) today announces that Jay Bentley" is the 2003 RacinHistory.com Championship Pool champion.

PRWEB) November 20 2003--In an amazing show of determination, Jay Bentley overcame an 88 point deficit going into the final race of the NASCAR season at Homestead-Miami Speedway and defeated the pool leader of over seven weeks, a player called kcir00", by a point margin of only 30 points. Jay Bentley chose Jimmie Johnson, who finished third in the Ford 400, while kcir00 chose Ryan Newman. Ryan finished 37th due to an early wreck involving Kurt Busch and Kevin Harvick. At one point, late in the pool season, Jay Bentley was over 300 points behind kcir00, but with the skill of choosing the best driver at the right race, Jay Bentley became our first champion with 5237 points.

The RacinHistory.com Championship Pool is the brainchild of RacinHistory.coms webmaster Derrek Fisher and was written for the Internet in ASP language by Frank Henkel of Netertainment.net (http://www.netertainment.net). The concept of the free online game is that players login weekly and pick a NASCAR Winston Cup driver that they feel will finish well in the upcoming race on the NASCAR Winston Cup schedule. Players may pick and make changes up until the green flag drops. After the race, our players earn the points, including bonus points for leading a lap and leading the most laps, as the driver that they picked. Its like riding along with your favorite driver on the track. Players revel in their drivers victories but also suffer in their defeats. The RacinHistory.com Championship Pool follows the point structure and the 36-race schedule of the NASCAR Winston Cup series precisely. Had there been a points tie, the first tiebreaker would have been the number of wins" earned by our player, just as in the NASCAR Winston Cup series. kcir00 picked 9 wins while Jay Bentley had only 4. The RacinHistory.com Championship Pool attracted 37 players, with more than 50% competing during the entire NASCAR Winston Cup season. To view the inner workings of the pool, media members may logon as Media" and use the password Media".

As the NASCAR Winston Cup seasons ends, so to does the RacinHistory.com Championship Pool season. Our champion earned a 2002 1:24 scale model of Dale Earnhardt Jr.s #8 Budweiser Chevrolet by Action Collectibles, valued at over $50 and offered by the webmaster. A secondary point race in the Championship Pool was offered to players that started the season late. The player with the highest average point score with a minimum of four picks earned a 1:64 scale model of Dale Earnhardt Sr. #3 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet by Action Collectibles, valued at over $9 and again offered by the webmaster. This prize went to a player with the moniker of travis34nascar."

RacinHistory.com is a fan site of the NASCAR Winston Cup series and is in no way affiliated with the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) (http://www.nascar.com). RacinHistory.com offers statistical history on the series drivers, owners, and tracks, as well as a forum to discuss the history of NASCAR. The site has a racin gallery" of classic NASCAR photographs donated by racing historian Greg Fielden. Its a website where fans of Americas fastest growing sport can gather and learn more about NASCAR, and the Championship Pool is a great attraction to the site.

The 2004 RacinHistory.com Championship Pool will begin registering new players in January and will launch during the 2004 Daytona 500 in February.
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