sobo last night was pretty damn cool.

http://www.racing-reference.info/race/2014-09/X

4/25/2014 11:19:04 AM

BK's schedule....

4/25/2014 1:26:05 PM

^BK's schedule would be ok if you only watch on TV, but i dont think they would sell many tickets to a wednesday night race

4/25/2014 5:41:44 PM

Yea there's no way I'd go to a Wednesday night race. Also not all the tracks have lights. His schedule makes sense for the competitors, but for fans and tv that's trash.

Green Flag at 10:27 whooo boogity boogity boogity lets go night racing boys

4/25/2014 10:29:22 PM

Harvick was dominant. Chase Elliott continues to amaze and increases his points lead to 19 over regan smith and 23 over elliott Sadler. He has as many top 5s as the other two combined. Talladega should be interesting as it is mostly luck

4/26/2014 11:21:19 AM

Goodyear needs to fix this shit

4/26/2014 9:37:17 PM

Never seen a car literally tear the tire off of the wheel after burnouts. There was nothing left. Ridiculous.

Ambrose apparently landed a right hook on means in the garage!

4/26/2014 10:42:44 PM

Wtf is BK's problem? Kenseth didn't do anything BK wouldn't have done. Everybody blocks with only few laps to go for the lead. I'm sure there will be a big ass long blog post trying to justify that crap this week

4/26/2014 11:44:06 PM

http://youtu.be/4NfDC5bYSy4

Mears had it comin. You can't shove a dude in the back and not expect to get clocked

[Edited on April 27, 2014 at 6:15 AM. Reason : link]

4/27/2014 6:04:24 AM

Mears wanted nothing to do with him after that punch. Just walk behind the crew yapping When Jr plummeted on that last restart, I swear I felt the air get sucked out of the track . All those broken hearts.

4/27/2014 10:14:44 AM

Richmond removed the entire top of the back stretch, and the entrance to 3. Still did not get close to a sellout.

4/27/2014 2:56:06 PM

Danica beat Dale Jr

LOL

5/4/2014 4:40:39 PM

what a shameful "strategy", announcers slobbed his knob for predicting cautions, but he didn't do shit with such advanced knowledge

5/4/2014 4:44:00 PM

I do not like green eggs and Hamlin. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

5/4/2014 6:40:36 PM

Yawn, Talladega yawn. Wake me next week when theres a real race.

5/4/2014 10:54:55 PM

So Penske lost two cars this weekend and their two cars lost other teams about 40 cars in the NSCS (Keselowski) and the NNS (Blaney) races combined. Buncha cocksuckers

5/5/2014 12:10:17 AM

so fast. much rub. very racing. wow.

5/5/2014 12:21:13 AM

i think the words next to the dog's face is "muchdraft" hahahaha. Fantastic stuff

5/5/2014 12:52:15 AM

Watching Brad get mad because Danica was leading was priceless. He promptly dumped himself across her bumper.

5/5/2014 9:27:43 AM

^if you watch the replay enough times you will swear it was 98% danica's fault

http://youtu.be/vdyUU_IZmYQ?t=38s



[Edited on May 5, 2014 at 10:05 AM. Reason : a]

5/5/2014 10:02:46 AM

it was Danica.

5/5/2014 8:40:05 PM

someone posted this on facebook. brought back memories.

Scott Riggs and Milton Cooke fighting on the front stretch during a red flag in a late model stock race.

5/7/2014 11:19:53 PM

^hahaha at the purple and black car coming back and trying to tear Riggs' car to hell while everyone is fighting. He coulda killed someone.

5/8/2014 8:13:21 AM

which is why he was arrested. shit like that happened fairly regularly out there.

5/8/2014 8:17:20 AM

Quote :

"The National Guard spent $26.5 million to sponsor NASCAR racing in 2012 to bolster its marketing and recruitment but failed to sign up a single new soldier to its ranks, according to data provided to USA Today. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who will hold a hearing on the recruitment program Thursday, assailed the Guard for "wasting a bunch of money on a very expensive sports sponsorship.""

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/05/07/national-guard-recruiting-scandal/8813891/

Jr fans should be concerned? I think he still has races unsold for 2014.

The economy sucks nowadays so you would think the military would not even need to spend money on advertising. As long as they are though, Nascar is the BEST place to do it!

[Edited on May 8, 2014 at 10:27 AM. Reason : link]

5/8/2014 10:26:42 AM

I always find it funny when a member of congress speaks about wasted money.

5/8/2014 2:18:04 PM

DANICA!!!!!!

5/10/2014 10:23:30 PM

ouch

5/10/2014 10:45:58 PM

Gordon! 89th win

5/11/2014 12:01:42 AM

was there any excitement worth going back and watching? i fell asleep like usual.

5/11/2014 8:06:09 AM

^ yes, when BIG DADDY took the checkers!

props to danica, nice top 10

5/11/2014 9:34:32 AM

^^pretty vicious wreck with about 60 to go iirc

5/11/2014 3:49:09 PM

Cole Trickle hit Rowdy at the start finish



I almost pulled the trigger on some all star race tickets. Row 20, front stretch, $25 a piece on stub hub yesterday morning.

5/14/2014 4:40:42 PM

Genius to move the shootout up a night. Looks like a solid truck race crowd.

5/16/2014 7:23:02 PM

Can anyone else get this on TWC?

It says Fox Sports 1 is 400, but when I turn it there, all I see is a black screen.

5/16/2014 7:25:24 PM

hahaha austin dillon should've been a lock for the fan vote, but the dogecoin wackos won

5/16/2014 8:06:52 PM

big props to the shibes on reddit to getting the Dogecar into the All Star Race over Danica "How do I raced car?" Patrick

5/16/2014 8:07:33 PM

yeah forgot about danica

5/16/2014 8:08:09 PM

I'm sure Kurt Busch likes it, but why did they move it up a night?

speaking of which, here's the Indy 500 entry, will be sitting there in turn 3:

Quote :

"2 / 2T Juan Pablo Montoya (W) (Verizon Wireless) Team Penske Racing Chevrolet 3 / 3T Helio Castroneves (W) (Shell/Pennzoil) Team Penske Racing Chevrolet 7 / 7T Mikhail Aleshin (R) (SMP Bank) Schmidt-Peterson Motorsport Honda 8 / 8T Ryan Briscoe (NTT Data) Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 9 / 9T Scott Dixon (W) (Target) Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 10 / 10T Tony Kanaan (W) (Target) Target Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 11 / 11T Sebastian Bourdais (Hydroxycut) KVSH Racing Chevrolet 12 / 12T Will Power (Verizon Wireless) Team Penske Racing Chevrolet 14 / 14T Takuma Sato (ABC Supply Co.) AJ Foyt Racing Honda 15 / 15T Graham Rahal (National Guard) RLL Racing Honda 16 / 16T Oriol Servia (TBA) RLL Racing Honda 17 / 17T Sebastien Saavedra (AFS Fire Protection) KV-AFS Racing Chevrolet 18 / 18T Carlos Huertas (R) (Sonny's BBQ) Dale Coyne Racing Honda 19 / 19T Justin Wilson (Boy Scouts of America) Dale Coyne Racing Honda 20 / 20T Ed Carpenter (Fuzzy's Premium Vodka) Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 25 / 25T Marco Andretti (Snapple) Andretti Autosport Honda 27 / 27T James Hinchcliffe (United Fiber & Data) Andretti Autosport Honda 28 / 28T Ryan Hunter-Reay (DHL) Andretti Autosport Honda 34 / 34T Carlos Munoz (Andretti.tv) Andretti Autosport Honda 67 / 67T Josef Newgarden (TBA) Sarah Fisher / Hartman Racing Honda 77 / 77T Simon Pagenaud (TBA) Schmidt-Peterson-Hamilton Racing Honda 83 / 83T Charlie Kimball (Novo Nordisk) Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet 98 / 98T Jack Hawksworth (R) (TBA) Bryan Herta Autosport Honda 5 / 5T Jacques Villeneuve (W) (Dollar General) Schmidt-Peterson Racing Honda 6 / 6T Townsend Bell (Robert Graham) KV Racing Chevrolet 21 / 21T JR Hildebrand (Preferred Freezer Services) Ed Carpenter Racing Chevrolet 22 / 22T Sage Karam (R) (Comfort Revolution / Brantley Gilbert) Dreyer & Reinbold/Kingdom Racing Chevrolet 26 / 26T Kurt Busch (R) (SureTone) Andretti Autosport Honda 33 James Davison (R) (TBA) KV Racing Technologies Chevrolet 41 / 41T Martin Plowmann (R) (ABC Supply Co.) AJ Foyt Racing Honda 63 Pippa Mann (Susan G Komen Foundation) Dale Coyne Racing Honda 68 Alex Tagliani (TBA) Sarah Fisher / Hartman Racing Honda 91 Buddy Lazier (W) (Wynn Institute for Vision Research) Lazier Racing Partners Chevrolet"

5/16/2014 8:15:59 PM

kurt douche at indy:

best oval car driver there? perhaps. not sure how much it matters with the number of lead changes they have with current package though.

how awesome would it be if a rain delay causes him to miss the start of the 600 which makes him to fall out of the top 30 and he misses the chase.

5/17/2014 11:21:23 AM

I love Days of Thunder...but there were a few things that amazed me in that clip:

1. The large brush fire that had apparently started in Turn 3 causing the smoke he had to drive through...which leads me to
2. Drive through the wreck? Theres a caution...slow your ass down and make sure you get through it. You're already in last...you're not gonna lose any positions.

Anyways...back to NASCAR. Looking forward to the ASR tonight and the Nationwide race at Iowa tomorrow. Chase Elliott looks REALLY fast in all of the practices. He also has a ton of wheel time at Iowa in different cars. I expect him to be really good tomorrow.

5/17/2014 3:40:10 PM

Congrats, kmrodden!

5/17/2014 11:39:46 PM

^

great job keith

5/18/2014 6:25:27 AM

The all star race should have a mandatory green white checkered.

5/18/2014 11:07:28 AM

10 laps was the worst possible choice. Just long enough for them to get strung out...just short enough for nobody to be able to put a run together to catch the leader. Either make it a 3 lap shootout or a 30 lap run.

I'll give it to McMurray though. His crew did a whale of a job and then he drove the hell out of that thing. He deserved it, no doubt.

[Edited on May 18, 2014 at 11:33 AM. Reason : sdf]

5/18/2014 11:32:34 AM

why does NASCAR feel the need to invent a new gimmick every year for the Shootout and All-Star Race?

Indy 500 Starting Lineup:

Quote :

"ROW 1 1. #20-Ed Carpenter/USA, 231.067 2. #27-James Hinchcliffe/CAN, 230.839 3. #12-Will Power/AUS, 230.697 ROW 2 4. #3-Helio Castroneves (W)/BRA, 230.649 5. #77-Simon Pagenaud/FRA, 230.614 6. #25-Marco Andretti/USA, 230.544 ROW 3 7. #34-Carlos Munoz/COL, 230.146 8. #67-Josef Newgarden/USA, 229.893 9. #21-J.R. Hildebrand/USA, 228.726 ROW 4 10. #2-Juan Pablo Montoya (W)/COL, 231.007 11. #9-Scott Dixon (W)/NZL, 230.928 12. #26-Kurt Busch (R)/USA, 230.782 ROW 5 13. #98-Jack Hawksworth (R)/ENG, 230.506 14. #19-Justin Wilson/ENG, 230.256 15. #7-Mikhail Aleshin (R)/RUS, 230.049 ROW 6 16. #10-Tony Kanaan (W)/BRA, 229.922 17. #11-Sebastien Bourdais/FRA, 229.847 18. #16-Oriol Servia/ESP, 229.752 ROW 7 19. #28-Ryan Hunter-Reay/USA, 229.719 20. #15-Graham Rahal/USA, 229.628 21. #18-Carlos Huertas (R)/COL, 229.251 ROW 8 22. #63-Pippa Mann/ENG, 229.223 23. #14-Takuma Sato/JPN, 229.201 24. #68-Alex Tagliani/CAN, 229.148 ROW 9 25. #6-Townsend Bell/USA, 229.009 26. #83-Charlie Kimball/USA, 228.953 27. #5-Jacques Villeneuve (W)/CAN, 228.949 ROW 10 28. #33-James Davison (R)/AUS, 228.865 29. #41-Martin Plowman (R)/ENG, 228.814 30. #8-Ryan Briscoe/AUS, 228.713 ROW 11 31. #22-Sage Karam (R)/USA, 228.436 32. #17-Sebastian Saavedra/COL, 228.088 33. #91-Buddy Lazier (W)/USA, 227.920"

notes:

-Carpenter's 2nd pole in a row at Indy, has the place figured out for 4 laps, even his one-off teammate J.R. Hildebrand did well getting 9th
-row 4 is pretty star-studded with Montoya, Dixon, and Busch
-Ganassi SUCKED on Saturday, Kanaan and Dixon held up their honor on Sunday in their portion of qualifying that set positions 10 thru 33, but still, Ryan Briscoe has no reason to be back in 30th
-starting 31st on the grid is Sage Karam, he's a couple weeks away from graduating from high school from the Andrettis' home town of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, not related to them though; won the Indy Lights title last year and is running sportscars full-time on a development deal for Ganassi, hope for big things from this kid, he's not from money either
-an oddity of this year, you have 3 drivers going for consecutive Indy 500 wins: Kanaan who won last year, Juan Montoya who is running the Indy 500 for the first time since his win in 2000, and Jacques Villeneuve who is running the Indy 500 for the first time since his win in 1995 (the last pre-Split 500)

My handicapping if you do as I do and have 11 people each draw 3 drivers out of a hat where the winner gets all the money:

Quote :

"The Favorites to Win: Carpenter, Hinchcliffe, Castroneves, Dixon, Kanaan Not Longshots, but Not Favorites Either: Power, Pagenaud, Andretti, Montoya, Hunter-Reay If All the Cards Fall Right, They're Arie Luyendyk in 1990: Munoz, Newgarden, Hildebrand, Busch, Bourdais, Kimball, Briscoe Good Drivers in Not Good Enough Cars: Wilson, Servia, Rahal, Sato, Tagliani, Bell, Villeneuve They're Starting: Hawksworth, Aleshin, Huertas, Mann, Davison, Plowman, Karam, Saavedra, Lazier"

[Edited on May 18, 2014 at 8:58 PM. Reason : .]

5/18/2014 8:51:27 PM

Watching indy qualifying I learned irl wives > nascar wives.

5/18/2014 9:01:26 PM

Quote :

"why does NASCAR feel the need to invent a new gimmick every year for the Shootout and All-Star Race?"

Like the fast 9 stuff and now allowing unlimited attempts to get a time in? Not having to withdraw your previous time when you do make a new attempt? Saturday's times being erased and having to do it all again on Sunday? Major points being awarded, almost equalling a regular race result?

5/19/2014 8:07:18 AM

At least NASCAR does not waste a month at one track.

Run two races at one track in a month, etc. The All-Star race is a gimmick, so whats wrong with changing it every year? It's not like the winner gets anything other than money. I wish they would move it to a short track, and add eliminations.

5/19/2014 8:23:03 AM

^ Daytona. (preseason practice, Shootout, qualifying, the Twins/Duels, ARCA race, Nationwide race, Truck race, 500)

^^ ABC wanted the polesitter to be determined Sunday afternoon and the lack of entries compared to recent times has reduced the drama of Bump Day to nada, thus why Pole Day is now Sunday as ABC wanted the crowning bit of qualifying to be at the end instead of the start.

In NASCAR's case they took something from the past that would work perfectly fine for the format of the All-Star Race now and change it for no reason. Why are there 4 20-lap segments? What's wrong with segment 1, invert x many, segment 2, pit if you want, then 10-lap trophy dash?

[Edited on May 19, 2014 at 8:59 AM. Reason : /]

5/19/2014 8:56:19 AM