2014 NASCAR Thread

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OK. I predicted yesterday when I watched the NNS race at Las Vegas that Brad Keselowski would sweep the weekend by winning the Cup race. Well, he just did.

Now I'm just wondering--albeit embarrassed--HOW in the world did I manage to be right in the end?! This has NEVER happened to me before when making predictions on NASCAR races.
 
Even with that finish, staying at home was the right call.

LVMS, I actually enjoyed the first few races after the reconfiguration but now you're just another dull 1.5 mile speedway where the bulk of passes will be on pit road.
 
Jahgee1124
Since I said I was going to, here's the points standings with the system I came up with
  • Points per race - 43-1 (No points for a race you finish less than 50% of)
  • Bonus Points - +5 for the pole, +3 for leading the most laps, +7 for leading more than 50% of the laps in a race
  • Chase Picks - All who win a race plus those in the top 10 in points that don't have a win
  • Chase Seeding - +1 point for every place over 10th in the points you were pre-reset, -1 for every place behind 10th you were pre-reset, +1 point for every win
  • Eliminations - If you fall more than a race and a half behind the leader (So 65 points), you are eliminated from the Chase and your points are reset to pre-Chase totals plus what you have earned in the Chase

Bold - Race Win
Italic - Finished >50% so no points were awarded.
Blank - DNQ/DNE
Green - Has won and is locked into Chase
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Race 3 Points
 
Pecking order at the moment appears to be

  1. Penske
  2. Hendrick
  3. Joe Gibbs
  4. Childress
Rookies qualified well, but the highest finish for them was 16th by Dillon
 
http://www.jayski.com/stats/2014/pdfs/03lvms2014owners.pdf
Owners points following Vegas. Now that Vegas is over this will determine the starting order of all cars who finish lower than 36th in qualifying (Outside of the last position, which is reserved for a single Past Champion if needed, and if not is included for owners points). If more than 43 cars enter for a race than the owners points basically determines who makes the race and who doesn't.
 
Earth
Pecking order at the moment appears to be

  1. Penske
  2. Hendrick
  3. Joe Gibbs
  4. Childress
Rookies qualified well, but the highest finish for them was 16th by Dillon
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What are you going off of, qualifying or race results because if its the latter, I think its abit off.
 
Thats the way they seem to have qualified and race so far. Penske has been dominant. Logano could have easily won if he didnt get caught up in traffic. Penske ran extremely well at Phoenix too

It looks like Penske is now Ford's favored team, not Roush anymore. Boy have the Roush Fords been terrible for a few years now.
 
Earth
It looks like Penske is now Ford's favored team, not Roush anymore. Boy have the Roush Fords been terrible for a few years now.
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I think Ford just about had it after a few years ago when Roush was running EcoBoost cars like 2/3rds of the time.
Brad is featured in Ford's latest advertisement, when was the last time anybody from Roush was in an advertisement (Including Ford's supposed "golden boy", Carl Edwards)?
 
Ganon83
I think Ford just about had it after a few years ago when Roush was running EcoBoost cars like 2/3rds of the time.
Brad is featured in Ford's latest advertisement, when was the last time anybody from Roush was in an advertisement (Including Ford's supposed "golden boy", Carl Edwards)?
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The only ad Edwards is in that is new is the official NASCAR one with two Hendrick drivers
 
Earth
Thats the way they seem to have qualified and race so far. Penske has been dominant. Logano could have easily won if he didnt get caught up in traffic. Penske ran extremely well at Phoenix too

It looks like Penske is now Ford's favored team, not Roush anymore. Boy have the Roush Fords been terrible for a few years now.
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So qualifying is what you're going off of even though it has already been explained (to you I think actually) why that isn't something to base off of. Junior has been fast, so has Johnson and Gordon. One of those guys has a win just like 1 win for Penske, one of those guys also has a better average finish than Penske and he happens to be leading the points.

Then you don't even list SHR which is strange considering they're the only other team with a driver win, and should be placed above Gibbs and RCR.

I'd say more realistically that it is still HMS at the top with Penske at a close second or almost even, then SHR with Gibbs close to them, and as I predicted at the end of last season a still average to good showing by the old hats RCR and RFR

Ganon83
I meant a Ford advertisement, not an advertisement in general.
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I know what you meant I was only certifying that you have a point, because all Edwards can get is that one...
 
Ganon83
I think Ford just about had it after a few years ago when Roush was running EcoBoost cars like 2/3rds of the time.
Brad is featured in Ford's latest advertisement, when was the last time anybody from Roush was in an advertisement (Including Ford's supposed "golden boy", Carl Edwards)?
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Hopefully Penske expands to 3 cars. Just one more competitive ride for someone

@LMSCorvetteGT2 I can overlook Danica but Stewart has to pick it up before I can rate Haas high at all. Gibbs is just a hair off right now but its early. Sometimes its good not to peak too early as you can get complacent while the other teams work to catch up and eventually pass you.
 
Earth
Hopefully Penske expands to 3 cars. Just one more competitive ride for someone

@LMSCorvetteGT2 I can overlook Danica but Stewart has to pick it up before I can rate Haas high at all. Gibbs is just a hair off right now but its early. Sometimes its good not to peak too early as you can get complacent while the other teams work to catch up and eventually pass you.
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Considering Stewart has always been a summer driver and he is still recovering...I'd say it speaks more of how poor of a driver Danica is. Harvick won thus SHR has a win while RCR and JGR do not, Busch has been running better than those guys and had technical problems. The team isn't just Stewart...

Also it still stands that HMS seems stronger, if you want to give out what ifs, Brad would have lost if Junior had a half lap to a lap more of fuel.
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
I know what you meant I was only certifying that you have a point, because all Edwards can get is that one...
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And the subway commercials if those even count.

Funny enough on the opposite end of the Spectrum, Matt Kenseth never was in a commercial for Ford the entire time he drove for Roush (that I know of anyway) but in his 2nd year driving for JGR, he's already in a Toyota Commercial.
 
RACECAR
And the subway commercials if those even count.

Funny enough on the opposite end of the Spectrum, Matt Kenseth never was in a commercial for Ford the entire time he drove for Roush (that I know of anyway) but in his 2nd year driving for JGR, he's already in a Toyota Commercial.
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To be fair, I remember Kenseth once said he hated being in the spotlight, that all he wanted to do was drive the car and then go straight home. That's probably why Ford marketed heavily on Edwards back in the day. Today, Brad's the most current Ford champion although Carl already gets enough exposure with his Subway commercials anyways.
 
GTPorsche
So.. Danica has just as many points as Trevor Bayne.

Trevor Bayne didn't race at Phoenix...
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Trevor doesn't get points, though, since he's running for the Nationwide Championship.

However, look at the list of drivers Danica is ahead of with the same number of starts!

Michael Annett
Alex Bowman
Parker Klingerman

The most frightening trio since the 2008 MWR roster of Waltrip-Reutimann-McDowell!
 
RACECAR
And the subway commercials if those even count.

Funny enough on the opposite end of the Spectrum, Matt Kenseth never was in a commercial for Ford the entire time he drove for Roush (that I know of anyway) but in his 2nd year driving for JGR, he's already in a Toyota Commercial.
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7 wins in one season will do that
 
Bristol entry list is out. 46 cars this week, the 21 and the 87 are not attempting while Joe is in the 66 and David Reuitimann is in the 35.
Front Row has become the only 3-car team in NASCAR history to have all three drivers share the same first name in a race.
 
Yo dawg, I heard you like David, so I put a David in your David, so you can David while you David. Had to do it.
 
While they're at it, someone should get David Starr.
 

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