2013 NASCAR Thread

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It does make me laugh that we have had so many changes to the Cup car in the last 10 years BUT barely any to both Nationwide or Trucks and they still put on a better show weekly in terms of pack racing, passing and just everyone trying things.
 
Ganon83
Personally I always thought they should make the cars about 20 MPH slower, because that lowers the bar for the smaller teams like BK Racing to go out and be competitive against say Hendrick.
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Agree. Maybe there'd be less start and park drivers and much more competition going since everyone now has an almost equal chance of winning.
 
Wilbur
It does make me laugh that we have had so many changes to the Cup car in the last 10 years BUT barely any to both Nationwide or Trucks and they still put on a better show weekly in terms of pack racing, passing and just everyone trying things.
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Your right the Nationwide Michigan race this year was the best race I've ever seen.
 
Just saw the footage with Johnson getting loose and wow, that has to be the longest slide held through a corner I've ever seen.
 
Jahgee1124
I don't know, I think this has it beat

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I disagree, Jamie's starts with a tap abit well into the corner, Jimmie's started on entry from beginning to the end of the corner with cars much closer in proximity and while somehow not going up the track.
 
RACECAR
I disagree, Jamie's starts with a tap abit well into the corner, Jimmie's started on entry from beginning to the end of the corner with cars much closer in proximity and while somehow not going up the track.
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Jamie's was also at race speed, Jimmie's was only at around 100 or so. Also, I misread your post and thought you had said most impressive, not longest.
 
I think John Wes Townley's save was a pretty long one but wasn't it AJ who had one couple years ago that was all the way through a corner without hitting anything?
 
There will be no wide open coverage this year for the 400.
People who think TNT still wants NASCAR at the end of next season should take note.
 
Daytona time!​
Jamie Mac's Cessna
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Danica's GoDaddy START with .US
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James B's Florida Lottery
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Sam H's PPG/EnviroBase HP
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Keselowski/(Logano's Recycled) Schemes
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(Kurt Busch) Cole Trickle's City Chevrolet
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T-Bayne's Cargill / Winn-Dixie
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Matt K's Gamestop - PlayPadPro (Just the Hood :lol:)
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PK's BanditChippers
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KK's HendrickCars (Reverse Edition)
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Austin D's Advocare Spark
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Dinger's Phoenix Construction
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Larson's Clorox (BACK FROM THE UNDERWORLD :lol:)
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DaveTheStalker
Kasey is far too good of a driver to not have actual (consistent) sponsorship.
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It has nothing to do with talent these days. It's all about companies not wanting to throw away money like the good ole 90's where sponsors didn't care as much about how much was spent. They are looking at their return alot closer vs payout while cost of teams have gone up.

Even Mr. 5 time hasn't got just one sponsor all year long, sure Lowes = Kobalt but you get the point or Jeff has multi sponsors. The days of one sponsor for a driver usually are over as it's a huge money deal.
 
The sad thing is that the media won't care for any of those paint schemes but Danica's.
 
Judging from the pictures, the rear spoilers on the Cup cars don't look any bigger than at Talladega, so expect more of the same terrible racing we saw at the first two plate races. 👎
 
Talladega wasn't bad.

Daytona racing sucked because of the new car. Most teams were scrambling to get them built (for Daytona as well as the first few other tracks), let alone ready to race well and put on a good show.

I blame the restrictions to the cooling system which killed the 2 car tangos. Apparently 3+ lead changes a lap was "boring" compared to the high speed pace laps of pack racing.

Plus Dale Jr. griped about the 2 car hookups because he couldn't do it, so something had to change.
 
The biggest reason that Talladega was better was that the wider track allowed cars to make clean passes in open air. At the much more narrow Daytona, cars side-drafted all day, stalling out most passing attempts. There just wasn't enough room to get away horizontally and prevent side-drafting. I expect much of the same again at Daytona, unless something changes (unlikely).
 

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