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If there's five studs on a wheel, five lugs go on.

I'd rather see something as safe as it can possibly be for everyone involved than take a small risk over 1/10th of a second on pit road. If they want to be faster in the pits, then swap to a GT-style single lug.

Sure, the odds of a wheel coming off with four lugs is very unlikely, but whos to say the team is sure they got all four tight? You saw what happened to Edwards at Texas. They only got three tight if I remember correctly.

If there's one thing sanctioning bodies need to learn, it's that they need to become proactive, no more of this reactive bull 🤬.
 
Jahgee
For the sake of simplification, we'll say that each car completed an average of 10000 miles last season. Is 430,000 miles not enough of a sample size to determine something to be true? How about the ~100,000 miles completed this year without an incident? Combined with last year, that's over 500,000 miles, I'm fine with a sample size that large and no incidents.
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I don't care how big of a sample size you have, you are putting peoples safety, and lives, in jeopardy here. Like I said before, there are 5 studs on each wheel for a reason. Just because something bad hasn't become of it yet, doesn't mean it won't. The closer you stand to the edge of that cliff, the more of a chance you risk falling.

"That's the risk you take by not putting all 5 lug nuts on, it's self policing in that regards which is better than artificially policing the team by forcing them to come back down pit road as the rule used to be." I would much rather have the latter and keep drivers, crews, and fans as safe as possible. At any rate, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree as we could go on about this forever.
 
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Mikey's car for Dega
 
Remember those Spongebob schemes last year? Well.... now its TMNT




And the race is named the "TMNT 400"
 
tedstryker653 from the NBCSN article comments
Brian France should impose a $35k per day fine on himself, for being the most detrimental person to NASCAR in history.

This guy is a complete joke. He is the worst public speaker, in the history of public speaking. I’m shocked his mouth isn’t shaped like his foot by now. He seems to love sticking his foot in there.

Bottom line is, he has no idea what he’s doing. He makes one bad decision after the next, and has rendered the sport of NASCAR unwatchable. The sooner they boot this dummy out, the quicker they can repair the damage of his tenure.
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That was the most sensible thing said on the article page, anything Brian France said was diarrhea. What an utter fool that man is.
 
GTFan24
Remember those Spongebob schemes last year? Well.... now its TMNT




And the race is named the "TMNT 400"
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🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 NASCAR. Anyway, call me when its the "Powerpuff Girls 400" (what, I grew up on that show and guys like it too) or the "Dragonball Z 400". No one gives a rolling turd about whatever modern Nickelodeon has to offer other than their 80s and 90s IP. /jaded classic animation-now anime fan
 
Jahgee
We already know what a Yu-Gi-Oh! 400 would look like
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So sign me up :lol:
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Y'know if this were 2003, I could actually see them doing a Yu-Gi-Oh 400. Quadruple bonus points if Kyle Busch (or Furniture Row) circa 2016 ran this scheme :lol:
 
Go on Jayski and read that press release about the TMNT announcement. They make it sound like the car's artist is a modern day Da Vinci
 
This just seems counter-intuitive to me.

http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cu...lladega-ty-dillon-win-count-chase-eligibility

Tony Stewart doesn't plan on finishing the race Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, but NASCAR rules could make him a big winner.

Stewart, who missed the first eight races with a broken back and returned to racing last weekend at Richmond, plans to get out of his car at the first caution Sunday because of the increased potential to be involved in a crash in this race.Ty Dillon will be his relief driver and, with the unpredictable nature of restrictor-plate racing, a win isn't out of the question.

NASCAR rules have always credited the initial driver with the result of the relief driver. Most notably in recent years, Aric Almirola was credited with the victory in the Xfinity Series when he started the race but handed off to a late-arriving Denny Hamlin in 2007 at Milwaukee.

A NASCAR spokesman confirmed Tuesday that according to the interpretation of its Chase for the Sprint Cup eligibility rules, if a relief driver is first to cross the finish line, the initial driver can use that win to make the Chase.

Stewart must win a race and be in the top 30 in points after the season's 26th race to make the Chase. As the current points stand, Stewart would need a victory and approximately a finish of 21st in the 16 other races to make the Chase.

NASCAR does have a rule that wins must be unencumbered by rules violations or actions detrimental to the sport in order to count toward the Chase, with the decision at NASCAR's discretion of whether that win will count.

But it has no written rule on relief drivers and the Chase, with the exception that driver changes are not permitted by the four championship-eligible drivers in the season finale.
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That would probably be what would need to happen to get rid of the chase (Or at least it's current format)
 

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