2013 NASCAR Thread

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Brakes overheat, it's really easy to punt people going into 1 & 3.

Without Vickers running next week, I think we can reduce the number of expected cautions by about four.
 
RVDNuT374
But "Crashica" Patrick's in the field, which should make things interesting. :sly:

To her credit, her best non-restrictor plate finish was the spring race at Martinsville. I think she finished around 12th, which was a huge surprise.
 
Jamie Mac, yes, got lucky, but you cant hate him. You, you just cant. :lol:

And I refer to her as Dani-crash Patrick lol
 
Everyone should just face the fact that most drivers are out there to collect a paycheck. I think one of the few ways that drivers will go for the win more often would be for NASCAR to reduce the cash winnings from 2nd place to 43rd place by a large amount and give the money that was taken away from those positions to the winner.
 
Problem is, I don't know that the prize money(Daytona aside) is truly a big factor. If I remember right, a lot of the driver's money (middling and up) get more from endorsements and sponsors than the race winnings.
 
Just caught the end of the replay of the race on ESPN2.

I'm not even surprised Stenhouse clobbered another car on the final lap.
 
Just caught the end of the replay of the race on ESPN2.

I'm not even surprised Stenhouse clobbered another car on the final lap.

He actually didnt touch Dllon until he spun, he got Dillon aero loose when Dillon was going high and low trying to hook up with Dale Jr.
 
Anyone know where Matt and Jimmie ended up after all the "unofficial" results?

@ICEYOU true, but in that sense it wouldve ended under green.

Anyone notice that now they are actually showing debris now when NASCAR throws the yellow? :lol:
 
Without Vickers running next week, I think we can reduce the number of expected cautions by about four.

So true, unless we have what we did at Bristol...which was plenty his fault, but I think we can squeeze out some wrecks. Martinsville and Dega are always considered the two wild cards of the chase so not sure why this is new to ICEYOU, I feel like he picked up an encyclopedia of Nascar prior to this season and learned everything he knows and then tries to spout it off in a asinine manner.

Anyways maybe Junior will win this weeks race!
 
Does anybody else have this feeling these next 4 races, Daytona, and the 2014 All-Star race are finally going to be the last hurrah for Mark Martin?
 
Everyone should just face the fact that most drivers are out there to collect a paycheck. I think one of the few ways that drivers will go for the win more often would be for NASCAR to reduce the cash winnings from 2nd place to 43rd place by a large amount and give the money that was taken away from those positions to the winner.

If you took too much money away from the bottom of the field, about 5-8 teams would probably stop being able to show up each week. That would not be good for the long-term future of the sport. Most of the lowest-tier teams are just barely scraping by now as it is. Some of the start-and-park teams have become more competitive teams over time, once they saved enough money to finance their team (FRM stands out). They also usually give an up-and-coming driver their first chance to start a Sprint Cup race (Keselowski, Dillon, Larsen, etc).

Besides, the top-tier drivers make so much money in base salary, that even a drastic change to the weekly purse distribution wouldn't really affect them. The drivers don't actually win $300,000 for winning a race. The car owner does. How much the driver actually gets out of that prize money is dependent on his contract. I doubt any driver's pay scale is public knowledge, but I can't imagine that even the best drivers get much more than 40-50% of the prize payout, even when they win the race.

Making the Chase is worth a lot of bonus money to the team and driver, so the drivers won't risk missing out on a $5-10M bonus for making the Chase, just to win an extra $50,000 at Richmond. This is why the MWR team was doing everything they could to get Truex in the Chase at Richmond, and no other team tries in every way possible to steal a race win. The real money is in the Chase, not in a single race win (outside of the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400).

If the drivers didn't earn such high base salaries (or huge bonuses for making the Chase), maybe a higher race win payout would encourage them to try a little harder to win the race. Under the current system, there just isn't much motivation to risk wrecking your car for that next spot up, because consistent points racing pays too well.
 
This car will be run this weekend in place of the 43, in honor of Maurice Petty:
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I'm trying to recall when the last time this has happened. 1993 NAPA 500 was the last time the #43 did not even attempt to qualify for a race.

The last time the #3 or the #43 both did not qualify for a race? Eons ago.
 
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And yet in February, it'll be the first time the 3 and the 43 were on the track at the same time.
 
Since 2001.

Yeah. I imagine the reaction to seeing that number return to the last race it was seen will be very emotional (for good or bad, depending on what side of that debate you are on).

Edit: Wait a minute, that car is in restrictor plate trim. Shouldn't it be in Short track trim for the next race?
 
Im hoping NASCAR will give the cars a bigger spoiler for the next plate race after all the reports of loose cars from Talladega
 
I've said it once, and I'll say it again- these Gen-6 cars look beautiful. The machine I like most from Post #10437 is the #41 Ford Fusion A. Almirola will drive. The Exide Silverado somewhat reminds me of the old Exide Ford Taurus that Jeff Burton(?) used to drive back in the late 1990s and early 2000s... only that it didn't have the blue mixed in with the pink. The #3 Yuengling Camaro looks great.
 
The Exide Silverado somewhat reminds me of the old Exide Ford Taurus that Jeff Burton(?) used to drive back in the late 1990s and early 2000s... only that it didn't have the blue mixed in with the pink.

Jeff Burton drove an Exide #99 Ford for Jack Roush. But before that, Geoff Bodine drove the Exide #7, for Geoff Bodine Racing. Geoff Bodine Racing was just a renamed version of Alan Kulwicki Racing, which Geoff purchased after Kulwicki's untimely death.

Geoff's car did have the blue to pink fade coloring from front to back, as seen below.

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Exide moved over to Burton, and stuck with him a lot longer. He had a lot of different Exide paint schemes, which started out fading from pink to blue (going in reverse of Geoff's scheme), and evolved over time.

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