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Kyle is gonna win a million in a row at Phoenix at this rate.
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Mar 1, 2014 23:41
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For any that didn't hear they said when/if racing resumes it will be on ESPN News. Which is perfect since I don't get that channel, but I suppose it doesn't really matter. I'm surprised they didn't just call it right away with only 32 to go.
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Mar 2, 2014 00:19
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Isn't it only teatime or second breakfast or something in whatever strange and unholy timezone Arizona lives in?
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Mar 2, 2014 00:23
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Its onceses right now.
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Mar 2, 2014 00:27
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The Nationwide Series couldn't even get through the 2nd weekend with a full field of cars. The end is nigh if things don't change.
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Mar 2, 2014 02:13
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L_Harrison posted:The Nationwide Series couldn't even get through the 2nd weekend with a full field of cars. Formula NASCAR.
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Mar 2, 2014 02:18
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L_Harrison posted:The Nationwide Series couldn't even get through the 2nd weekend with a full field of cars. Multiclass Stock Car racing  EDIT: Would also solve the whole "Cup drivers in Nationwide" problem.
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Mar 2, 2014 02:37
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Wow, I didn't even realize they only started 39 cars. With all of those Cup guys. That's hilarious, truly we should ban Cup guys to make the series even less interesting for the casual fan. Also, reminder that today was Kyle Busch win #129.
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Mar 2, 2014 02:55
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VikingSkull posted:Wow, I didn't even realize they only started 39 cars. With all of those Cup guys. That's hilarious, truly we should ban Cup guys to make the series even less interesting for the casual fan. I know who has the money and who doesn't, but if I can count your career number of starts/top 10s between my fingers, toes and dick, then maybe you shouldn't be there yet. E: Win #129, with 21% of that coming in Cup. Boomer The Cannon fucked around with this message at 04:24 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 03:42
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Now I kinda wanna see Trucks and Nationwide running at the same time.
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Mar 2, 2014 03:54
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Dijkstra posted:In case anyone hasn't seen this yet At first, I didn't pay any attention to this because I thought it was another staged ad. Then I actually read it and that's pretty good.
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Mar 2, 2014 04:36
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CBJSprague24 posted:At first, I didn't pay any attention to this because I thought it was another staged ad. It makes sense to do at least. Some redeeming, and recurring, marketing for Pepsi, and it's not like Gordon can't whip around a closed course and scare the hell out of some poor mortal if you give him the chance 
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Mar 2, 2014 04:52
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Or get to work developing the TBD Series from 2015 on as a semi-professional series in its own right, with a minimal amount of companion events. 21% of 129 is still more Cup wins than most people will ever get. He's just short of a 10% win average in his starts, and just under half of all his starts are top 10's. It's a goddamn impressive career. It's 23rd all time, and when you look at the list of people he has more wins than, it'll blow your mind. He's already had a better career than say, Ricky Rudd, Neil Bonnet, Harry Gant or Ernie Irvan, for example. Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 05:00
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That part I can be interested in, the fact that everyone wants to suck him off for 79% of his wins coming from lesser competition gets to me.
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Mar 2, 2014 05:19
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So I don't give a poo poo when the nationwide races are because kyle will probably poo poo up the race. And only 39 cars are showing up now, even with cup drivers. And kyle fans are still fine with it. Why am I not surprised.
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Mar 2, 2014 05:39
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Boomer The Cannon posted:That part I can be interested in, the fact that everyone wants to suck him off for 79% of his wins coming from lesser competition gets to me. It's not just that- it's that the Nationwide fields are loving awful these days. I mean, christ, gently caress Mark Martin, but the late 90s Busch Series actually had some quality Busch-only teams and drivers in it.
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Mar 2, 2014 05:40
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When I started watching this race earlier, the channel I was watching it on started the race late, and was showing it delayed, about 30 laps or so behind. I didn't even notice that, during an ad break, they skipped forward these 30 laps to join the live stream. That's how terrible I felt the race was. I didn't even notice they skipped over 30 laps.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:01
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Fag Boy Jim posted:It's not just that- it's that the Nationwide fields are loving awful these days. I mean, christ, gently caress Mark Martin, but the late 90s Busch Series actually had some quality Busch-only teams and drivers in it. Wonder if opening up the trucks really ended up diluting everything too much. I do like the trucks though, but there seems no reason why the Busch series still runs these days. Its essentially a sideshow to generate talking points for the cup race. ('Wow Kyle Busch won the race on Saturday can he sweep the weekend? (no))
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Mar 2, 2014 06:06
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Uncle Jam posted:Wonder if opening up the trucks really ended up diluting everything too much.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:25
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Economy and the Cup drivers/teams taking all the sponsorship/resources from Busch/Truck only teams with NASCAR looking the other way. I don't think they are straight up taking them away. I recall hearing that the sponsors weren't going to materialize at all unless a cup driver was in the car. The economy part is right though. However, how much can they cut more costs out of the nationwide cars to get more low level teams in without just turning into arca and killing that series.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:41
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Hint: taking all the Cup drivers out of Nationwide and Trucks is not going to 'save' Nationwide or Trucks.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:42
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If you've won more then 50 Nationwide series races and your first name is Kyle you're only aloud to Race Sprint Cup races. Boom.
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Mar 2, 2014 06:44
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Occupy Nationwide, the 1% is sucking it dry!
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Mar 2, 2014 07:15
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Cygni posted:Hint: taking all the Cup drivers out of Nationwide and Trucks is not going to 'save' Nationwide or Trucks. Nobody thinks it will, but it should probably be done anyway.
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Mar 2, 2014 08:06
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I can't wait until Kyle gets in the HoF someday and NASCAR highlights all his Nationwide and Truck wins as triumphs when only a handful came as a regular. I'll give him credit for those and his Cup wins, but the rest of it is a farce. He even got so annoyed that he wasn't winning that his "KBM" 54 magically turned into a JGR car last season. The part that pisses me off the most is that NASCAR is just NOW realizing "Ok, this might be a bit of a problem. Maybe we should stop drinking our own Kool-aid and admit this is stupid." when it's been this way for almost a decade.
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Mar 2, 2014 16:14
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CBJSprague24 posted:I can't wait until Kyle gets in the HoF someday and NASCAR highlights all his Nationwide and Truck wins as triumphs when only a handful came as a regular. I'll give him credit for those and his Cup wins, but the rest of it is a farce. He even got so annoyed that he wasn't winning that his "KBM" 54 magically turned into a JGR car last season. He won't be in the HOF for a long time because he is running down the exact same path as Mark Martin. At least Mark got his anger chilled out a lot earlier than Kyle, who will do so by who knows when.
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Mar 2, 2014 16:37
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Not sure if anyone reads or watches Al Jazeera America, but they had this really interesting piece on head restraints in lower racing series, including the very sad story of a driver that died from a broken neck sustained in a crash, while his HANS device collected dust in his truck. I had no idea HANS devices were that expensive. I doubt that's the only barrier to their use, but for a lot of racers on their local ovals, $600 is a pretty hefty price tag.
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Mar 2, 2014 16:45
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Elitist Bitch posted:Not sure if anyone reads or watches Al Jazeera America, but they had this really interesting piece on head restraints in lower racing series, including the very sad story of a driver that died from a broken neck sustained in a crash, while his HANS device collected dust in his truck. I had no idea HANS devices were that expensive. I doubt that's the only barrier to their use, but for a lot of racers on their local ovals, $600 is a pretty hefty price tag. I think the price tag is probably what keeps most tracks and series from mandating the HANS device. You got a lot of guys out there that a crash or part failure costing $600 could keep them from being able to show up the next week and if that big hunk of their racing budget is already spent before the season starts one crash could ruin their season. I know dropping $600 is better than dying but that isn't how any racer thinks. I know a lot of drivers at the local level around me wear the Hutchens device which apparently didn't live up to its safety claims and why it was disallowed as an alternative to the HANS in higher levels of competition, per the Hutchens Wiki page. But a few of the guys I know wear that over the HANS because of comfort. Like the article mentioned I think a lot of guys who aren't mandated to use it find it really bulky and confining when they first start using it. I remember back on the Roush Gong Show the first laps that our old pal Danny O'Quinn Jr. ran he was almost taken off the show because he couldn't drive with the HANS on and was basically told get used to it or get out because its mandated in the levels of racing you're trying to run. bigbillystyle fucked around with this message at 18:33 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 18:31
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bigbillystyle posted:You got a lot of guys out there that a crash or part failure costing $600 could keep them from being able to show up the next week and if that big hunk of their racing budget is already spent before the season starts one crash could ruin their season. I know dropping $600 is better than dying but that isn't how any racer thinks. I know a lot of tracks, at least in my experience, mandate HANS usage by division rather than overall for the facility. Most latemodel/srpint guys will have HANS or something in place, but most 4-banger/thundercar guys won't, even though thundercars for the most part are loving fast nowadays as well. E: At the same time, if you're a racer and you can't afford the HANS device, too loving bad. If you're a track promoter using car count to justify not mandating it, you're a sack of poo poo. Boomer The Cannon fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 18:59
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I'm surprised it's that cheap to be honest, remotely decent helmets are that price already. I don't own one, but they wouldn't work in a kart anyway.
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Mar 2, 2014 19:24
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From the semi-WTF department, Camping World has renewed sponsorship of the truck series for 8 more seasons.
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Mar 2, 2014 19:31
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Boomer The Cannon posted:From the semi-WTF department, Camping World has renewed sponsorship of the truck series for 8 more seasons. I can only assume they are driving RV's to Mexico and coming back a few kilos heavier.
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Mar 2, 2014 20:30
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Is there a stream? I'm stuck riding shotgun in a car for another hour or so 
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Mar 2, 2014 20:42
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Boomer The Cannon posted:From the semi-WTF department, Camping World has renewed sponsorship of the truck series for 8 more seasons. Doesn't surprise a ton. CW's sponsorship of trucks has been a major success for them, and a longer term deal ensures a lower year-over-year price for the title sponsorship and immediately helps secure the futures of the Truck series which NASCAR will like, probably driving the price down further. Win-win for the best series going 
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Mar 2, 2014 20:52
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Boomer The Cannon posted:I think it's a combination of that mentality alongside the idea of 'My class is too slow for something like that to happen to me," which is pretty stupid. E: We're racing little Pro 4 Modifieds now but they get going pretty fast and we even race at Thompson Speedway a couple times and that is a half mile track so they are cooking around that thing. Our driver doesn't wear any device aside from one of those like neck donut things and he kind of has the same attitude of, eh our car isn't that fast plus that kind of money is a couple tires so...no. bigbillystyle fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Mar 2, 2014 |
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Mar 2, 2014 20:57
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Can we end sequestration yet, I miss military flyovers so much. 
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Mar 2, 2014 21:09
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Some Random rear end in a top hat posted:Doesn't surprise a ton. CW's sponsorship of trucks has been a major success for them, and a longer term deal ensures a lower year-over-year price for the title sponsorship and immediately helps secure the futures of the Truck series which NASCAR will like, probably driving the price down further. Win-win for the best series going Cygni posted:Can we end sequestration yet, I miss military flyovers so much. 
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Mar 2, 2014 21:13
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No matter how early he parks, Morgan Shepherd driving at age 72 is pretty loving awesome.
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Mar 2, 2014 21:17
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Another boring single file race that will be won by Harvick or Logano... time to watch something else.
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Mar 2, 2014 21:46
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I'd say that 4 car is.... freaky fast 
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