2014 NASCAR Thread

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I'm glad that Tony Stewart wasn't in this race so the others had a chance to win. :p
 
Looked like the pack in front got bottled up, he tried to go to the apron side to slow down and just caught Larson by the bumper.
Hitting the brakes seemed more efficient... Oh well, I'm not in the car so I don't know.
 
Great win for Smith. GWC made that finish though, would never have happened after a long green run.

Also, what the hell with the pushing on the last lap. They bumped a lot, realised they were checking up everywhere and wouldn't make it to the finish, and then resorted to pushing.

Hitting the brakes seemed more efficient... Oh well, I'm not in the car so I don't know.
Brakes would've just turned him round as he was turning onto the apron.
 
Rule Change is cheaper for everyone compared to an Aero Change

Clearly it wasn't that expensive with the spoiler change. According to Brad, a Tandem draft wouldn't have been productive anyhow as two cars wouldn't have been able to get away from the pack.
 
Clearly it wasn't that expensive with the spoiler change. According to Brad, a Tandem draft wouldn't have been productive anyhow as two cars wouldn't have been able to get away from the pack.
Before the caution and GWC the top 3 broke away slightly without a tandem. Once a good run gets going on the high side, and they can break past the top 10, the pack leader can break the lower pack up with the side draft.
 
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Bayne puts his arm around Keselowski and says, "Should have chose the top lane there, bud." Keselowski didn't seem amused.

:lol:

It almost sounds like he's in a subtle way going "you mad, bro?"

Before the caution and GWC the top 3 broke away slightly without a tandem. Once a good run gets going on the high side, and they can break past the top 10, the pack leader can break the lower pack up with the side draft.


And once again, that makes the "No push" rule unnecessary since it didn't requiring pushing to even get a run going.
 
Hitting the brakes seemed more efficient... Oh well, I'm not in the car so I don't know.

Brakes at that speed on a Super Speedway, I question your choice of user name at this point. Especially considering the brakes used aren't the nearly as big as what you are thinking like you'd see a Bristol or Martinsville. Also let's not forget that the common practice is to get out of the gas because that slows you up a ton, problem is when bottle necking happens there is nothing you can do and playing the blame game, just because you want an answer to a racing incident isn't a good idea. If anything the idea you think that should have happened is a bad one and would have probably caused an even worse wreck to happen, or further bottleneck
 
Brakes at that speed on a Super Speedway, I question your choice of user name at this point. Especially considering the brakes used aren't the nearly as big as what you are thinking like you'd see a Bristol or Martinsville. Also let's not forget that the common practice is to get out of the gas because that slows you up a ton, problem is when bottle necking happens there is nothing you can do and playing the blame game, just because you want an answer to a racing incident isn't a good idea. If anything the idea you think that should have happened is a bad one and would have probably caused an even worse wreck to happen, or further bottleneck
Fair enough, but it's just that I've seen same situations and drivers have evaded it.
Once Again, I'm not in the number 88, so I don't have any idea what went on there.
 
Fair enough, but it's just that I've seen same situations and drivers have evaded it.
Once Again, I'm not in the number 88, so I don't have any idea what went on there.

Yes some are lucky enough and others aren't, he was trying to make an effort not a deliberate attempt at spinning or a bone head move. Considering the experience Junior has here and accomplishments I'd say he probably pulled the best move he could in the given situation.
 
It was also a dumb move by Larson, but it's kind of the same situation of slowing down. Larson just cut right in front of Jr. and then slowed down a lot, and I'm pretty sure Jr. wasn't expecting that. But as @nascarfan1400 said, we weren't in the car so we have no idea what was happening.
 
Posting from my phone, sitting in my rental car in the front stretch lot.

Weather looks good.

Enjoying some people watching.:lol:
 
Warming up with some laps online on GT6 (find me if you want to race :p). Can't wait for todays 500, going to be a cracker.
 
Posting from my phone, sitting in my rental car in the front stretch lot.

Weather looks good.

Enjoying some people watching.:lol:
Enjoy yourself! :)

How many crashes? It seemed the 18yr olds kept it calmer than the big guys...
 
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