lololol race control had to throw the debris caution before Truex lapped half the field in the first green flag run

5/7/2016 8:02:03 PM

i hate it when little douche wins but kansas was good for a down force race. also, burn outs are cool and all but when they destroy the rear of the car it makes me think they are hiding something back there

all star race rules will bring some drama for a change:

Segment 1 (50 laps): Field set determined by qualifying, mandatory green-flag pit stop for a minimum of two tires;
· Break 1 (3-5 minutes): Mandatory pit stop with a minimum two-tire change before Segment 2;
· Segment 2 (50 laps): Field set determined by pit-road exit, one mandatory green-flag pit stop for a minimum of two tires before lap 85;
· Break 2 (3-5 minutes): Random draw to decide whether the top nine, 10 or 11 cars must enter pit road for a mandatory four-tire pit stop, pit road closed for all other cars, pit-road exit determines Segment 3 starting order, cars leaving pit road line up behind cars that did not pit;
· Segment 3 (13 laps): Only green-flag laps count (NASCAR Overtime procedures apply).

[Edited on May 8, 2016 at 9:43 AM. Reason : s]

5/8/2016 9:41:48 AM

part 1 of 3 CMT docudrama was aite, found out you can watch their shows online if you know someones cable password

5/10/2016 10:49:46 AM

prob best dover finish since 2008 yesterday. was pulling for larSON

5/16/2016 6:12:51 AM

https://youtu.be/syqOicRm4JE

they need to do this win to advance every week

[Edited on May 21, 2016 at 1:04 PM. Reason : f]

5/21/2016 1:00:06 PM

i'd love to see heat races, b-mains, last chance qualifiers, etc.

oh, yeah, i can. on dirt.

5/21/2016 5:51:24 PM

Whoa, has DW quit doing the Boogitys?

^^ Great end to the Open.

[Edited on May 21, 2016 at 10:12 PM. Reason : /]

5/21/2016 10:12:06 PM

Goofy rules about how many tires you have to change under green before lap 47 of a 50 lap segment while you Pat your head and rub your tummy on the third Saturday of every other month but only during leap years. Good lord let's just race. I wanna go fast.

5/21/2016 10:40:08 PM

^ They get way too cute with the rules for this thing and the Busch Clash/Bud Shootout/Sprint Showdown/whatever the hell it's called now.

5/21/2016 10:42:47 PM

big crash from a Formula 3 race in Austria today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYyvYNvdq0

the guy had broken bones in his heel and some vertabrae, but none that required surgery

5/21/2016 10:47:39 PM

What a clusterfuck

5/21/2016 11:01:49 PM

perhaps NASCAR gave Kenseth a one lap penalty because they were pissed off with him sticking half the field a lap down

5/21/2016 11:02:11 PM

These 9 drivers will be going for the pole tomorrow for the Indy 500. 4pm on ABC.

James Hinchcliffe, Canada, Schmidt Peterson Honda
Ryan Hunter-Reay, USA, Andretti Honda
Will Power, Australia, Penske Chevy
Helio Castroneves, Brazil, Penske Chevy
Townsend Bell, USA, Andretti Honda
Josef Newgarden, USA, Ed Carpenter Chevy
Mikhail Aleshin, Russia, Schmidt Peterson Honda
Carlos Munoz, Colombia, Andretti Honda
Simon Pagenaud, France, Penske Chevy

Two incidents on the day. F1 veteran/Indycar rookie Max Chilton and the only female that'll be in the race Pippa Mann.

5/22/2016 12:03:18 AM

pretty safe to say we wont see 2016 all star rules again. what a cluster. feel bad for larSON, wish he could have held off squinty douchy eyes

5/22/2016 12:13:18 AM

From another message board:

Quote :

"IMHO, the shrewdest move of the race came from Kyle Busch & crew. Remember the pit lane speeding penalty he got near the end of segment 2? They planned that! I always listen to Kyle on the scanner and was confused by this exchange over the radio just before that stop: Kyle - How does McDonald's sound about now? Crew - A take-out order sounds real good about now. After the stop: Crew - Race control says you were speeding in section 1 and have to serve a drive through. Kyle - Imagine that! "McDonald's" was a code for taking a drive through penalty! They got fuel, tires and managed to stay on the lead lap after serving the penalty (13th place). With that 11 place inversion cluster, they started the last segment near the front. A brilliant piece of strategy that almost worked! "

5/22/2016 8:41:28 AM

I think the guys in the booth even mentioned that maybe the penalty was planned. Then they kinda laughed it off as a joke.

5/22/2016 8:59:23 AM

Brad keselowski came up with these rules with nascar. It seems like they had one 2 hour meeting and was like, "ok, that'll work, see ya Saturday night." Complete cluster. The cars are so much racier now that the crazy stupid changes aren't necessary.

5/22/2016 10:27:47 AM

crazy how dumb nascar was not to have a plan for the kenseth not pitting under green scenario. all they had to do is allow those cars trapped a lap down to wave around before the segment pit stops

the solution for all star race is so simple. keep 50-50-13 but make pitting OPTIONAL through out whole event. that way some there will be old tires at front of last segment. make crew chiefs earn it.

5/22/2016 11:36:19 AM

100th Indianapolis 500 Starting Lineup:

(W-former winner, R-Indy 500 rookie)

Row 1

1. James Hinchcliffe, Canada, Schmidt Peterson Honda
2. Josef Newgarden, USA, Ed Carpenter Chevy
3. Ryan Hunter-Reay (W), USA, Andretti Honda

Row 2

4. Townsend Bell, USA, Andretti Honda
5. Carlos Munoz, Colombia, Andretti Honda
6. Will Power, Australia, Penske Chevy

Row 3

7. Mikhail Aleshin, Russia, Schmidt Peterson Honda
8. Simon Pagenaud, France, Penske Chevy
9. Helio Castroneves (W), Brazil, Penske Chevy

Row 4

10. Oriol Servia, Spain, Schmidt Peterson Honda
11. Alexander Rossi (R), USA, Herta/Andretti Honda
12. Takuma Sato, Japan, A.J. Foyt Honda

Row 5

13. Scott Dixon (W), New Zealand, Ganassi Chevy
14. Marco Andretti, USA, Andretti Honda
15. J.R. Hildebrand, USA, Ed Carpenter Chevy

Row 6

16. Charlie Kimball, USA, Ganassi Chevy
17. Juan Montoya (W), Colombia, Penske Chevy
18. Tony Kanaan (W), Brazil, Ganassi Chevy

Row 7

19. Sebastien Bourdais, France, KVSH Chevy
20. Ed Carpenter, USA, Ed Carpenter Chevy
21. Gabby Chaves, Colombia, Dale Coyne Honda

Row 8

22. Max Chilton (R), England, Ganassi Chevy
23. Sage Karam, USA, Dreyer & Reinbold Chevy
24. Conor Daly, USA, Dale Coyne Honda

Row 9

25. Pippa Mann, England, Dale Coyne Honda
26. Graham Rahal, USA, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
27. Matthew Brabham (R), USA, Murray Chevy

Row 10

28. Bryan Clauson, USA, Jonathan Byrd's Honda
29. Spencer Pigot (R), USA, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Honda
30. Stefan Wilson (R), England, KVSH Chevy

Row 11

31. Jack Hawksworth, England, A.J. Foyt Honda
32. Buddy Lazier (W), USA, Lazier/Burns Chevy
33. Alex Tagliani, Canada, A.J. Foyt Honda

Notes:

-no Penskes or Ganassis on the front row, with the best Ganassi car being Dixon in 13th
-Honda I think snookered Chevy and Indycar here, they've been down on speed/horsepower for the past year and change but it looks they've caught up
-Pagenaud has dominated the season thus far, with 2 runners-up finishes and 3 wins, Chevys have all the wins in the 5 races
-Matt Brabham is Sir Jack Brabham's grandson and Geoff's son, that makes the Brabhams the third 3rd-generation Indy drivers after the Andrettis (1969 winner Mario, Michael, Marco) and the Vukoviches (1953 and 1954 winner Billy, Billy Jr., Billy III)
-Stefan Wilson is the younger brother of Justin Wilson, F1 and Indycar veteran who died this past year.
-Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee is sponsoring Conor Daly's car with a new foundation he setup in less than a week. https://www.facebook.com/colts/videos/10154721964730110/
-drivers with incidents this past week were Pigot, Chilton, Mann, and Tagliani
-the race is legit sold out for all its seating at around 250,000 people, this will be the 11th 500 I'll attend with the first in 2001 and it's never sold out in that time (you can still get a general admission ticket and party and get drunk in the infield)

5/23/2016 6:09:43 AM

^cool i will be watching. recent indycar races have been good there unlike nascar races that kinda suck at that track

5/23/2016 8:05:20 AM

Quote :

"Brad keselowski came up with these rules with nascar."

I don't get why a driver is creating rules for events? I thought it was funny how he defended it and thought it was great. Nothing wrong with driver input for sure, but common. What happened wasn't that crazy either, someone should have thought about that as a possibility.

At this point Nascar seems like a crappy video game that was released too early and they just keep trying to patch and update it but can't get it right. To many rule changes, tweaking the system too often, trying too hard to artificially make races exciting, should be a simple sport, drive in a circle more than the other guy.

5/23/2016 9:58:31 AM

The NFL constantly changes rules too.

The rules for the all-star race were ridiculous, but they always screw with the format for that race.

5/23/2016 12:34:45 PM

Quote :

" I don't get why a driver is creating rules for events?"

ever since the owners formed a union we are seeing a kinder gentler nascar. plus, they had to do something. the old format sucked and now that it bombed all the fans can blame BK and not them.

5/23/2016 1:19:53 PM

^^ It is one thing to tweak and adjust. Nascar has made drastic changes to the sport almost consistently the pass 10 years or so. The chase has changed almost every year since it started in some significant way.

5/23/2016 1:24:32 PM

they've gotten the cars back to raceability. Thats all that really needs tweaking. They need to leave well the fuck alone with everything else

5/23/2016 6:13:06 PM

Even I will admit that, with the exception of plate tracks, the racing action has gotten better.

5/23/2016 6:16:02 PM

Quote :

" They need to leave well the fuck alone with everything else"

not going to happen anytime soon but more short tracks and road courses would be nice

5/23/2016 6:34:04 PM

Need to put their asses on dirt and find out who the real wheelmen are.

5/23/2016 7:36:13 PM

today starting at 5:30! Go Kart race streamed live over the interwebs. Blaney won last year

http://speed51.com/little600live/

logano gopro 1st person from 2014: https://youtu.be/zPDiBQEH_Z8

2016 ENEOS Little 600 Driver Entry List

Kyle Larson
Joey Logano
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Michael McDowell
Justin Allgaier
Ryan Blaney
Darrell Wallace Jr.
Trevor Bayne
Chase Elliott
Brian Scott
Brennan Poole
And more!

Join the 600 Festival Association for the 3rd annual ENEOS Little 600 race at the GoPro Motorplex in Mooresville, N.C. May 24. The race will utilize the complex’s fleet of rental karts and features a full field of NASCAR drivers in the 15-lap main event as well as the second annual ENEOS Little 600 NASCAR Spotters race.

Spotters' Race Entry List

TJ Majors, spotter for Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Brett Griffin, spotter for Clint Bowyer
Eddie D'Hondt, spotter for Chase Elliott
Kevin Hamlin, spotter for Kasey Kahne
Time Fedewa, spotter for Kevin Harvick
Roman Pemberton, spotter for Trevor Bayne
Freddie Kraft, spotter for Greg Biffle
Mike Herman Jr., spotter for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Rocky Ryan, spotter for Michael Annett
Doug Campbell, spotter for Regan Smith
Billy O'Dea, spotter for Paul Menard
Tyler Green, spotter for Jamie McMurray
Stevie Reeves, spotter for Aric Almirola
Ford Martin, spotter for Ben Rhodes
Josh Williams, spotter for Ryan Blaney



[Edited on May 24, 2016 at 12:49 PM. Reason : d]

5/24/2016 12:45:57 PM

Elliott, Blaney and Bubba are at the gopro motorplex quite often. Fun event

5/24/2016 6:25:55 PM

they never showed a replay but when i saw it live it looked like larSON had race won but on last turn slid it sideways on purpose and lost crap load of spots. the reason he would do that is cause he had outlaw kart qualifying races to get to in salisbury last night and didnt want to stick around for podium photos

5/25/2016 8:01:52 AM

hope the 78 can hold onto this one

5/29/2016 9:10:06 PM

damn, truex took em behind the woodshed. good for him.

5/30/2016 10:42:21 AM

Watched it this morning. Super dominant win for Truex, led 392 out of 400 laps. Best race ever in the history of Furniture Row Racing.

Attended Indy yesterday. It was super packed. Most fans that have attended I've seen easily and this was my 11th race.

-Hunter-Reay had to be furious last night from his pit lane incident taking him out. He had the best car yesterday in my opinion.
-Turned to the person next to me with 5-6 to go and said "I have no idea who's going to win." I was thinking it was too long for anyone to attempt to make it on fuel mileage.
-I was at the entrance to turn 3 and Rossi on lap 199 backed way off the throttle right there. I thought for sure he'd ran out of fuel but he was able to do the last lap and a half. Very surprising winner. Rossi is driving in Indycar this year because he got passed over by Manor and Haas for F1 drives. It was pretty much a last minute deal with Bryan Herta and Michael Andretti putting him in the car. I suspect he'll be in a Haas F1 car in 2017 now. If he's not, Haas' "American Formula One team" marketing is all bullcrap.
-I was hoping for Newgarden to win. From Tennessee, would've been a great winner. Thought he had it.
-Penske and Ganassi had really bad days yesterday.

5/30/2016 11:03:56 AM

nothing lamer than a fuel mileage race

[Edited on May 30, 2016 at 1:15 PM. Reason : except maybe a rain out where the winner only wins because he didn't pit]

5/30/2016 1:14:16 PM

^dunno have seen some good ones. This year's Busch race at Cali when little douche was blocking Dillon with a flat tire is one

5/30/2016 3:15:31 PM

Gonna have to disagree. It's a lame way for a race to be decided.

5/30/2016 3:19:28 PM

It's cool if everyone is facing the fuel mileage. It's lame if a car that hasn't even cracked the top 10 all day wins the race by cutting his car off for the last half lap basically

5/30/2016 3:21:39 PM

No, still lame. "Ooo, let's see who's better at pussyfooting through the last 50 laps!"

5/30/2016 3:58:31 PM

That's such a dumbass point of view.

Goal is to make it to the finish line first. If you don't think fuel mileage should play a role, why do you watch any race longer than a hundred miles?

5/30/2016 7:33:32 PM

I didn't say it shouldn't play a role. I'm just saying I think it's lame, especially when it happens way more than it used to because they put tiny fuel tanks in the cars. I like to see drivers push the limit. Y'all like to see them drive like hypermilers. That's cool. To each his own.

5/30/2016 9:30:09 PM

https://youtu.be/0j6tJ6VG9AM?t=3m35s

fuel mileage creates some great fan reactions...

[Edited on May 31, 2016 at 8:01 AM. Reason : f]

5/31/2016 7:52:35 AM

annual pokey hoes sucks post

5/31/2016 11:32:10 PM

monday race!

hope jr dont hit the grass on first lap like last time in 2014

[Edited on June 5, 2016 at 11:36 PM. Reason : s]

6/5/2016 11:35:26 PM

Michigan: lower down force is here to stay. Cars ars unstable as hell and you know how fans like wrecks. I still would like to see more passes for lead tho

6/15/2016 9:29:55 AM

lol at toyota for bringing a 23hr 54min car to a 24 hr race.

http://espn.go.com/racing/story/_/id/16336216/porsche-wins-24-hours-le-mans-dramatic-fashion-toyota-falters-final-minutes

[Edited on June 19, 2016 at 12:40 PM. Reason : l]

6/19/2016 12:39:33 PM

Mike Wallace and his daughter Lindsey were beaten by three men in the parking lot of PNC music pavilion in Charlotte after a concert this weekend. Pretty awful story. I actually grew up and graduated with Lindsey. These guys actually fled in their company truck afterwards and it's been reported they've been involved in two other beatings like this already this summer.

6/20/2016 9:22:48 AM

^

6/20/2016 10:06:18 AM

#JWT

https://youtu.be/ctF1xgSVIXQ

ready for some right turns today!

6/26/2016 7:26:39 AM

Indycar are also racing at Road America today, best natural road course in the country.

6/26/2016 10:42:37 AM