First of all I would like to apologize for posting a little late this week. It has been a wild party here at headquarters since williamwilman’s victory in the Texas Trifecta. I was successful (a.k.a #### lucky) in picking the winners of the IRL and Sprint cup race to win the weekend going away. To top off my weekend I was also correct in picking the Kansas Jayhawks to win the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Unfortunately this was one of the few bright spots in my bracket. Things are calming down now in time for an early card of races in Phoenix and something a little different in this week’s Trifecta.

The first race this week is the Nationwide event set to start at 9:30pm ET Friday night. For this race we will be playing “Jack Ingram Cup” rules, meaning only drivers who have never won a Cup level points paying event are eligible to be selected. Check out our sponsor JayJayDean’s preview of the race.

The Final race of the weekend will be the Sprint Cup event. All drivers are okay to pick for this one and it goes off at 8:00 pm Saturday.

The meat of the sandwich that these races create is going to be The Little 500. For those who don’t know (that was me a couple of weeks ago) this is an intramural bicycle relay race that is held at Indiana University every spring. It has been going annually since 1951 and was featured in a film called “Break Away” in 1979. For those not familiar with the race, or the teams participating, check out the link and click on "teams" at the top of the page.

It goes at 2:00 PM (Indiana time(I’m unsure if they are eastern or central time). Special thanks go to another of our sponsors, Dave_in_Indy, for the suggestion this week.

Same rules apply for double picks this week, and are due before the start of the Nationwide race. If you have any suggestions for something you’d like to see in the Tri, just let me know and I will try to incorporate it. Good luck to everyone.