2015 NASCAR Thread - And then there was 1

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Well, there's NASCAR practicly handing a second championship to Harvick.

We all know he's going to win a Phoenix, so unlesz he has a horrible run at Homestead...

I was always under the impression that the person that cahsed the wreck, loses their spot, thus having to start at the end of the line. (I'm not certian if this is true, though.) I'm sure with the amount of cars that did wreck in that incident would have been the amount of points Harvick had to lose to fall out of the Chase.

IMO he shouldn't have been in after Chicagoland, but hey, if NASCAR wants to fix their Championship, there nothing better than WWE.
 
Blood Eagle
Joey didn't intentionally spin Kenseth either. They were just going for the same piece of real estete.....
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Exactly why I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be. These drivers aren't perfect, they never will be, and in the off chance they ever become perfect it will make the racing very boring.
 
Leadfoot530
Well, there's NASCAR practicly handing a second championship to Harvick.

We all know he's going to win a Phoenix,
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Anything can happen. Johnson was supposedly going to dominate Dover in round 1.

Jahgee1124
Unpopular Opinion time, I don't really think Harvick did anything besides try and go into the top lane behind Bayne and misjudge it.
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The more replays I see of it, the more I can see it as unintentional.
 
It's done and dusted now. Whatever it is, onto this weekend. We still have some races to do.
 
Nico_Ble99
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Jahgee1124
More intentional than this?
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Maybe not more, but just as blatant. We didn't always have all these camera angles and radio transmissions. You can clearly see him watching for the car to get on by before turning into him and right after his crew chief said on the radio that their only hope was for an early caution just after the start. As my daughter used to say when she was about 5 years old: "What a kawinkidink" :D
 
Jahgee1124
Exactly why I don't think it's as big a deal as everyone's making it out to be. These drivers aren't perfect, they never will be, and in the off chance they ever become perfect it will make the racing very boring.
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My post was sarcastic. Joey is a liar and so is Harvick. I'd respect them more if they manned up but both don't have the integrity to do that. Call it what it is.
 
I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready to see some cars intentionally wrecked with no repercussions at Jeff Gordon Raceway, even though I don't see Harvick's as intentional, someone's going to 2002 Daytona 500 Sterling Marlin it
 
It's pretty bad that the crash was hard enough to break his HANS device. It's even worse that he hit the steering wheel because of it.

The worst part of the crash itself is that the transmission assembly was able to enter the cockpit and hit him in the arm. Himself, and NASCAR, are very lucky that all it did was cut his elbow open. If it somehow managed to get knocked around more inside the cockpit, it's almost a guarantee that he wouldn't have been able to do that interview with Jeff Gluck.

But the worst of the entire situation is that NASCAR probably won't do anything to prevent this from happening again.
 
GTPorsche
It's going to take someone getting seriously injured, or worse, for NASCAR to come to their senses.
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It took Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Tony Roper, and finally Dale Earnhardt dying in a 9 month span for them to enact safety regulations that should've been in place long beforehand, so farces like the finish at Talladega will more than likely continue. 👎 As for the Austin Theriault story, :nervous::scared: is all I can say.
 
RVDNuT374
It took Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin, Tony Roper, and finally Dale Earnhardt dying in a 9 month span for them to enact safety regulations that should've been in place long beforehand, so farces like the finish at Talladega will more than likely continue. 👎 As for the Austin Theriault story, :nervous::scared: is all I can say.
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NASCAR should require before the 2016 season starts that all tracks must have SAFER barriers installed on all of the walls. I don't give a damn about the price, it needs to happen.

And the HANS device needs to be reinforced so that a failure never happens again.
 
ukfan758
NASCAR should require before the 2016 season starts that all tracks must have SAFER barriers installed on all of the walls. I don't give a damn about the price, it needs to happen.

And the HANS device needs to be reinforced so that a failure never happens again.
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I agree to the extent of the walls...

however, there is only so much that can be done to the HANS device to protect incidents involving walls not containing safer barriers or Armco barriers. Look at what happened in 2013's 24 Hours of Le Mans. Yes, he hit a tree behind the barrier which caused the fatal incident, but there's only so much that you can do to hold the internal structure of the body together from the outside.

It's probably better that it broke, otherwise we probably wouldn't be talking about him being alive today. The forces that caused it to break had to dissipate somehow and if it wasn't the carbon fiber it was going to be bone..
 
You say you don't care about the price, but enforcing the tracks to be surrounded in SAFER could be the decision that moves Sprint Cup from 36 races to 24 or less. It's still important to be business smart while gradually building everyone up to that standard. Expecting it all by 2016 would be a massive mistake. Getting it all done by 2018 or 2019 would be tons more achievable.
 

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