2015 NASCAR Thread - And then there was 1

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Took them long enough to do a Kyle Busch Days of Thunder parody. He's only been using the "Rowdy" nickname for nearly a decade.
 
I didn't see it because I wasn't watching the race. Only image of the wreck I saw was Kennedy hitting nose first into an unprotected wall.

Edit: Found a video already (courtesy of motorsport.com twitter feed)

 
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It looks like the safer barrier may have propelled him into the fence. I have always wondered why they don't have slanted covers on them to try and get airborne cars away from the fence.
 
Yeah, without the beginning of the SAFER barrier, the truck might not have gotten airborne.

It's going to spark discussion because that's two races in a row now that the fence has been hit, even though it's done it's job every time.
 
Something a bit lighthearted here. With the Kentucky racing being rained out, NBCSN shown the K&N Filters race in Columbus, OH. Rico Abreu won the NAPA 150 from there. I was curious as to how tall this dude is. Rico won the Chili Bowl Nationals earlier this year, so he can win some big races... races bigger than his 4'4" frame. Just goes to show you- it's all about the amount of fight in the dog and not about the size. Man. And I thought Danica Patrick at 5'2" in full-bodied stock car was short. It almost seems like this Rico Abreu guy should stick to quarter midget cars or any of those scale cars (like Legends cars) or something!


Besides all of this, good luck to all drivers and teams this weekend at Kentucky and across all other levels of NASCAR.
 
-21 car goes home after being ten MPH faster in practice than cars in the race for the second straight week.
WTG NASCAR.
 
Have I mentioned before that having rules on cars making races based on points is completely stupid and counter-intuitive to racing...?

Also, NASCAR should have held their summer races in California, because A) they would have had no weather delays, or B) it would have ended the drought in that state.
 
NASCAR logic says that a BK racing car that will probably bring out 2 or 3 cautions (since each car usually does that anyway) in a race will be a better field filler than a car that could potentially be reasonably competitive. I guess I can count on a few extra commercials in the race now.
 
Good luck to all drivers and teams tonight at Kentucky. Race hard, be safe, have fun, and put on a good show.
 
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It's going to spark discussion because that's two races in a row now that the fence has been hit, even though it's done it's job every time.
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The catch fence was "doing it's job" when it kept Dan Wheldon's car on track a few years ago, too.

I imagine that if Austin Dillon went cockpit-first at Daytona like Wheldon did at Las Vegas, we might be asking some questions.

Luckily NASCAR knows the fences need to be re-thought and are already working with a group on a solution and were doing so well-before Dillon went into the fence. It was Kyle Larson's 2013 wreck that greased the wheels, and a meeting at the most recent PRI show that got them turning.

IndyCar has been behind the project since Wheldon's wreck, but they don't have enough clout with the oval tracks to get something like this moving. NASCAR had a stance that it's cars didn't go into the fences and thus there was nothing to worry about, and then Larson's wreck happened and they changed their tune.

O’Donnell added that NASCAR is working with the tracks and perhaps “a third party” on ways to keep debris from showering the race fans.
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http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/for-nascar-the-safety-challenge-continues

I don't want to hear anything about the source, since that's the only website that's mentioned it and I can personally vouch that it's true.
 
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The catch fence was "doing it's job" when it kept Dan Wheldon's car on track a few years ago, too.

I imagine that if Austin Dillon went cockpit-first at Daytona like Wheldon did at Las Vegas, we might be asking some questions.

Luckily NASCAR knows the fences need to be re-thought and are already working with a group on a solution and were doing so well-before Dillon went into the fence. It was Kyle Larson's 2013 wreck that greased the wheels, and a meeting at the most recent PRI show that got them turning.

IndyCar has been behind the project since Wheldon's wreck, but they don't have enough clout with the oval tracks to get something like this moving. NASCAR had a stance that it's cars didn't go into the fences and thus there was nothing to worry about, and then Larson's wreck happened and they changed their tune.



http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-cup/news/for-nascar-the-safety-challenge-continues

I don't want to hear anything about the source, since that's the only website that's mentioned it and I can personally vouch that it's true.
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There's a massive difference between the roof of a closed-top roll caged race car striking the fence and the helmet of a driver in an open-wheel race car.
 
Kenseth looked on the edge for a few laps, Biffle was running middle and it snapped quite violently.
 
All this talk about car setup and everything has me thinking on how I'd take on Kentucky. For almost any circuit racing car, if I had to choose between loose and tight, give me a loose race car any day of the week. Just make sure the car isn't too loose to where it seems more like a drift car rather than a car I want to try to accurately keep on the track. I certainly don't want a slide-happy car on a speedy oval. This is one of few times I discuss something technical in racing.

One little extra note... can you believe tonight's race is Danica Patrick's 100th NASCAR Cup start? Welcome her to the club of triple-digit NASCAR Cup starts!
 

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