2013 NASCAR Thread

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Maybe the rock knocked the driving ability section of her brain into gear...... Either that or she'll crash really hard on Sunday.
 
opelgt1969
This is an email I sent to NASCAR.com yesterday:

Why has NASCAR taken down their comment section? Is it because they can’t edit all the bad comments about how bad NASCAR are doing things? You can’t run a website, will not let drivers tell the truth, Can’t reply to question sent directly to your website, let Brian France continue to screw up everything he touches. The man should be fired. Also why isn’t Robin Pemberton fined for talking bad about the drivers and lying about how great the cars are doing?
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Mike Helton today announced that NASCAR would be fining God $25,000 for raining at Las Vegas, causing qualifying to be rained out. When reached for comment Helton stated: "In today's NASCAR we just cannot abide our Lord and savior causing rain outs on race weekends, we have to draw this line in the sand"
 
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Nice to see Danica is now pre-crashed, now it won't nearly as much.
 
RVDNuT374
To make matters worse, the guy who controls the appeals is a personal friend of Mr. Cheater Rick Hendrick, so Hamlin has zero chance of getting his appeal overturned.
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Tinfoils hats can come off now, please.
 
The question I see is, are they going to check her out since she is saying it feels as though she is concussed?
 
Doth1s
The question I see is, are they going to check her out since she is saying it feels as though she is concussed?
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They should. Not because she shouldn't be racing, but if she's feeling that way, it's safer for her to not be on the track.
 
iRevelationz
I'm puzzled at why so many people are hammering Goodyear for bringing a hard tire last week. They didn't really have any other choice.

If you're going to blame someone, blame the idiots that thought it'd be a good idea to repave and reconfigure Phoenix. I'd like to hear their comments on what the hell they were thinking. I've said it numerous times. I CAN'T STAND it when a track is resurfaced. It completely kills the track and it's character. Surface becomes ultra-smooth, the racing groove drastically narrows, and a super hard tire compound is required. Phoenix had aged into a nice racetrack, and now it's dead.

As fresh as Phoenix's surface is, if Goodyear brought a soft tire to the track last week, it'd be Indianapolis 2008 all over again. Guys wouldn't be able to go 25 laps without tires exploding like a bomb and blowing the fenders off the cars. You don't want that, do you?

Vegas is starting to get some decent age on it's surface. If Goodyear brings a hard tire this week, then I'll be the first in line to voice my displeasure. No excuse if it happens.
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Resurfacing some tracks is needed but the amount we have had lately is too much, Charlotte got ruined for me as isn't as slick, Daytona has no bumps now which caused issues for drivers. Phoenix now has a way to cause less racing and more dive bombs in the corner just to name a few places I dislike.

You can test all day long on tires but honestly races always are different as I feel most push harder or take chances which show the issues. There is very little fall off on tires on most tracks and why you can gamble with them places which isn't what we are used too. I don't wanted another Indy issue but I think something can be done across the board.
 
Wilbur
Resurfacing some tracks is needed but the amount we have had lately is too much, Charlotte got ruined for me as isn't as slick, Daytona has no bumps now which caused issues for drivers. Phoenix now has a way to cause less racing and more dive bombs in the corner just to name a few places I dislike.

You can test all day long on tires but honestly races always are different as I feel most push harder or take chances which show the issues. There is very little fall off on tires on most tracks and why you can gamble with them places which isn't what we are used too. I don't wanted another Indy issue but I think something can be done across the board.
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Resurfacing tracks is indeed necessary sometimes. I understand Daytona's case. It was coming apart and something HAD to be done. But what was wrong with Phoenix, Kansas, Michigan, and Pocono? When we get to the later three, expect Goodyear to bring a hard tire again, because they simply have no other option.

Plus, these repaves are getting "better". When a track is resurfaced these days, it takes longer for it to wear than it did, say, 10 years ago. Look at Charlotte. Repaved in late 2005/early 2006 and it still isn't anywhere to close to what it needs to be. Tracks that have been resurfaced in the last couple years will take even longer than that.

Point is, until a racetrack's surface is coming apart like Daytona's was, leave it the hell alone. Too many tracks have been ruined in recent years because of this unnecessary nonsense.
 
I agree, look at Rockingham for example. It's bumpy, worn out and slick but drivers love it!

You know what boggles my mind is NASCAR's qualifying deals. Points should be the last resort, and let me explain like tomorrows race and Sunday.

Tomorrow the NW race starts at roughly 1:30, so 1 pm things need to be heading to pre-race. Well you can do a few things, since NW and Cup need to practice, let's start nationwide at say 9 am (garage opens at 7 anyway usually), practice will run til 11 am. You can either use the average lap time over 10 laps to set the field so folks don't have to stress over worrying as much but work on race setup which allows everyone a chance or stop practice at 10:30 and let 36+ make a qualifying lap but they can only start 36+ or miss the race.

Now you have Cup with two options, one is hold qualifying for next 2 hours til roughly 1 or so or so, or run a practice for that time. If you run a practice, qualifying after the race from say 5-7 and garage is open til 9 to allow teams to get race setup back in.

Granted you could even use average 10 laps like nationwide too If time is an issue. It still usually will prove who will be fastest, allow them time to work on setup and not kick out some who probably should be in the show without a chance. It gives everyone a fairly fair attempt, if you want to go hot rod 10 laps, then do it but even the S&P can do a 10 laps or so.
 
I swear if NASCAR fined them... Complete Bull. They are the only announcers I like.. And if they quit... Damn NASCAR 👎
 
Are you kidding me, now NASCAR has even sunk so low as to fine the Fox announcers for saying the same unbias, unharmful thing?

This is gone way too damn far now 👎

Edit: Nevermind, spoke too soon.
 
Many sports are very sensitive to their image or criticism of how they do business. Its not just NASCAR

Here are some fines handed out to Marc Cuban from the NBA

$100,000 - For criticizing on his blog how the league selects playoff refs.

$100,000 - For comments criticizing the rules limiting the training camp practices to just one scrimmage per day, maximum of 3 hours per day, and 2-a-days to just 5 days.

The NBA, NASCAR, these are private, exclusive clubs. They make their own rules, fair or not. If you want to get rich like Denny Hamlin has by means of their club, then you play by their rules. It takes alot to embarrass these people.

Just sayin its not only the France family that pulls stunts like this. Look how Roger Goodell of the NFL smeared the names of all those Saints players.

Not agreeing with any of it, just saying it happens everywhere.
 
RACECAR
Are you kidding me, now NASCAR has even sunk so low as to fine the Fox announcers for saying the same unbias, unharmful thing?

This is gone way too damn far now 👎

Edit: Nevermind, spoke too soon.
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:banghead: Last time I ever attempt humor online.
 
^Not gonna lie, it seemed plausible enough that I actually checked nascar.com, just in case. :lol:
 
BKGlover
Congrats to Hornish, maybe he can get some real recognition.

Glad Larson is OK, but why does he draw so much ire?
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I think it's the Joey logano thought of him. People don't like how highly touted people are talking about him like they did with logano and we all saw how that has turned out. he'll just need to prove himself and they'll start to like hhimmaybe
 
Earth
Many sports are very sensitive to their image or criticism of how they do business. Its not just NASCAR

Here are some fines handed out to Marc Cuban from the NBA

$100,000 - For criticizing on his blog how the league selects playoff refs.

$100,000 - For comments criticizing the rules limiting the training camp practices to just one scrimmage per day, maximum of 3 hours per day, and 2-a-days to just 5 days.

The NBA, NASCAR, these are private, exclusive clubs. They make their own rules, fair or not. If you want to get rich like Denny Hamlin has by means of their club, then you play by their rules. It takes alot to embarrass these people.

Just sayin its not only the France family that pulls stunts like this. Look how Roger Goodell of the NFL smeared the names of all those Saints players.

Not agreeing with any of it, just saying it happens everywhere.
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There is a difference between bitching about how refs are picked compared to saying we still need to work on these cars like we did the COT cars. He didn't bash them, just stated they needed work.
 

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