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It's interesting how a late caution almost always seems to mean certain doom for the leaders. Crafton had no chance on his old tires. And there was no way Briscoe was going to make it back to the lead unless there was at least one more caution before the end. Not sure how Bell felt about Bricoe's bonzai move on the last lap...for 2nd :lol:
 
Blitz24
Israeli NASCAR Euro driver Alon Day will be making his Monster Cup debut at Sonoma next week.
http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2017/story/_/id/19652737/alon-day-make-cup-debut-sonoma-bk-racing
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I'm excited for him! Hope he brings the car home with a good finish.

On the other hand, I thought Gray was supposed to run 33 races this year. Something must be going down at BK if a guy like Gaulding is getting pushed out each week, even though he brings money to the team. Not that I'm complaining or anything...just making an observance.
 
Every single time somebody else has an incident it's Danica who ends up with hard hit in the inside wall, one of the most unlucky drivers in the world.
 
outlaw4rc
I'm grabbing my Larson flowchart just in case.
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I was just about to make that my avatar because I figured he was going to lose in flowchart fashion. :lol:

Glad I don't need to though. He did it!
 
Sonoma Qualifying has been interesting. Keselowski, Logano, Bowyer, Hamlin all out of round 1. Elliott, Truex, Buescher, Blaney, Suarez, and Danica 🤬 Patrick are going for the pole.


Edit: Larson and McMurray lock up the front row for Ganassi.
 
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The cup regulars are too good at the road courses now, I remember not too long back some of them were running around like headless chickens all race, I think the days of wildcard winners are over.
 
GOTMAXPOWER
The cup regulars are too good at the road courses now, I remember not too long back some of them were running around like headless chickens all race, I think the days of wildcard winners are over.
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I know AJ and Ambrose and JPM were considered ringers, but when was the last time a part-time ringer won a cup race?
 
BKGlover
I know AJ and Ambrose and JPM were considered ringers, but when was the last time a part-time ringer won a cup race?
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You're right, I've had a Google and it's always been full-season drivers winning them. I think the last true wildcard to fight with a chance of a win was Mattias Ekstrom at Sonoma.
 
CHRIST! Is Kasey still in one piece?


INFO EDIT:
  • This is Harvick's first win in a Ford
  • This is Harvick's first win at Sonoma
  • This is the end of FOX's Cup Series coverage for 2017, NBC takes over next week in Daytona
  • Stewart-Haas bookended the FOX coverage, winning the Daytona 500 (Kurt) and Sonoma today (Kevin).
 
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BKGlover
I know AJ and Ambrose and JPM were considered ringers, but when was the last time a part-time ringer won a cup race?
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Mark Donohue. 1973 at Riverside. Only he, Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt off the top of my head won road course races. Foyt won at Riverside in 1970. Gurney won 5 events.
 
GOTMAXPOWER
The cup regulars are too good at the road courses now, I remember not too long back some of them were running around like headless chickens all race, I think the days of wildcard winners are over.
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It might also have to do with them simplifying the course at Sonoma. They used to run the full-course (including turns 5 & 6) up through 1997.

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Blitz24
Mark Donohue. 1973 at Riverside. Only he, Dan Gurney and AJ Foyt off the top of my head won road course races. Foyt won at Riverside in 1970. Gurney won 5 events.
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Not sure if I would call Foyt a road course ringer, he had 7 wins in Nascar, 6 on ovals(3 at Daytona, 2 at Ontario, 1 at Atlanta). He was just never a full time Nascar driver.
 
Jr. took 6th and had one of his best finishes this year at a road course off all places.
 
RazorSharkz
Not sure if I would call Foyt a road course ringer, he had 7 wins in Nascar, 6 on ovals(3 at Daytona, 2 at Ontario, 1 at Atlanta). He was just never a full time Nascar driver.
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No. He wouldn't classify as one. Gurney and Donohue would though.
 

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