2015 NASCAR Thread - And then there was 1

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I haven't been this amped for a finish in years! Granted, my driver's leading, but this is great racing!
 
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I'll be happy if they use this package for the rest of the season.
 
Way to go Kyle, You can't say he didn't work for that win. If anything, I figured he was one of the drivers this new package here was going to benefit (that others being Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin).


Edit: "Riding on that chocolate edge" it would figure I would choose today to watch that and then hear it referenced by the winner who was in that video :lol:
 
That was a fun race to watch in the stands. Good, close racing this year made for a very fun time. Plus a free towel is cool too.
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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.
Of course I know that, but lets not let a witty retort undermine the danger of the cheese grater they call a catch fence. I imagine the parts of the car that got shredded to pieces are the same or similar material that forms the protective cage around the drivers area. Someone puts a stock car windshield first into one of those bars at 180mph and you have a convertible real fast.

More importantly though, the fence design needs to do a better job of keeping debris out of the stands and spectator area, something it will always fail to do as long as its shredding cars to pieces.

Luckily theres a better way on the way.
 
Of course I know that, but lets not let a witty retort undermine the danger of the cheese grater they call a catch fence. I imagine the parts of the car that got shredded to pieces are the same or similar material that forms the protective cage around the drivers area. Someone puts a stock car windshield first into one of those bars at 180mph and you have a convertible real fast.

More importantly though, the fence design needs to do a better job of keeping debris out of the stands and spectator area, something it will always fail to do as long as its shredding cars to pieces.

Luckily theres a better way on the way.
The sheetmetal is not the same as the rolled steel tubing of the rollcage.
 
Kevin Harvick is the first driver to be locked into the Chase for this year.

Kyle Busch (200pts) is currently 35th in points and only needs to gain 88 points as of now to get to 30th. Shouldn't be too difficult as the drivers between him and that spot are (in 34 to 30 order) Annett (208pts), Bowman (242pts), Moffitt (245pts), Gilliland (282points), and Whitt (287pts). Barring any issues, he'll gain one spot after the next race, 2 the week after that, and then the last two spots a month from now, leaving him 3 weeks to spare before the chase starts to gain his eligibility to it.
 
So he had to get at least a win and finish in the top 30. Now that he has had a Top 20 finish and 2 wins, I imagine that's made things somewhat easier.

And taking your math into consideration, would that mean that he would just need to finish ahead of them as opposed to average say, a top 15 or 20 finish?
 
With 8 races left to the chase, Kyle needs to finish 17th or better to make it to 30th in points without any setbacks in races and with those ahead of him maintaining their average finishes, which Cole Whitt, being 30th in points, has an average finish this year of 28.7 (-11.7 on the 17th or better Kyle needs).
 
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