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Speaking of ‘Merica, this is the 2015 NASCAR Chase For The Sprint Cup, a reactionary system created in the hopes of remaining competitive with the NFL in the Fall. Nobody likes it because it’s stupid, but it’s kind of humorous they borrowed a Columbus Blue Jackets marketing slogan (from a terrible CBJ season) for this year’s edition. But, as the resident vessels of NASCAR knowledge, we’re here to inform because we’re going to watch anyway like the gluttonous sheep many of us are. And much like the NFL, this system is a playoff system which whittles down competitors, in our case from 16 to 12 to 8 and finally to a Super event at a Bowl in South Florida, but there are four teams, not two, gunning for the title! It's like the Final FourTM, only ALL FOUR TEAMS PLAY AT ONCE! WOW! Last year, it worked to perfection, with Kevin Harvick edging Ryan Newman in  GAME 7 OVERTIME to win the Sprint Cup, with Denny Hamlin not far behind. It wasn’t the clownshoes “Champ finishes 37th because of a big crash at the start” outcome we’d hoped for, but it was entertaining, if not not really being a measure of full-season success.quote:SPRINT CUP CHASE FOR THE CUP If you're new to NASCAR, this is the fourth version of the Chase, rolled out last season. That's four versions in ten years. It used to be a system which hoped to create a thrilling finish, but it only worked in 2004 and 2011. So now we HAVE to have a thrilling finish!  Here are the Nations gunning for battle: http://www.nascar.com/chase-grid.html Of the drivers who were in the Chase as of the start of the last thread, only Kasey Kahne fell out, replaced by Clint Bowyer. Storylines: -Enjoy The Ride- Jeff Gordon’s farewell tour. Made the Chase. Probably won’t get very far. Pissed away a win at Martinsville trying to cheat the timing lines. -No Smoking- Tony Stewart announced officially on 9-30-15 that he will also retire from Sprint Cup following the 2016 season. Emphasizes that he's retiring from Cup competition ONLY and will continue racing at levels which could include Xfinity, Trucks, and the Whelen Modified Series, among lots of dirt and possibly the Rolex 24. -The Spirit of the Rule- Kurt Busch, who was suspended three races, was given an exemption to allow him to make the Chase if he won and finished Top 30 in points. He did. -The Beauty of the System- Kyle Busch, who missed 11 races because ISC cheaped out on the SAFER barriers and he got hurt in a race he shouldn’t even really have been in, was given an exemption to allow him to make the Chase if he won and finished Top 30 in points. He did it easily with four wins and can reeeeeeeeeeeally make this the most bullshit playoff system in sports! -Scratch That Itch- Michael Waltrip Racing lost its sugar daddy and is closing at the end of the season. Clint Bowyer is the hot property available and the hot rumor is him going to HScott for one year before moving to the 14 car in 2017, almost certainly signaling a Farewell Tour for Tony Stewart in ’16 if it happens. HScott denies it, which typically means it’s a done deal pending announcement. -Divorcees- Sprint is leaving NASCAR after 2016. I can’t remember if this came about this year or last, but NASCAR’s still going to need a title sponsor. Somebody will pony up, but for how much? -Stars 'n Bars- NASCAR has decided to tread a very fine, thin line by starting an effort to likely eventually ban the Confederate Flag from racetracks as their response to a nationwide push for similar actions following the murders in Charleston. The first action to make this happen involved a "Trade the Stars 'n Bars for Stars 'n Stripes" campaign for the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona. They repeated the effort at Darlington; reportedly, guards didn’t know what the free US flags in them thar boxes were for. It will be very interesting to see if NASCAR doing the right thing doesn't piss off what's left of their primarily Southern fanbase into heading for the exits once and for all. -NBC- So far, their coverage has been pretty good, though Rick Allen has been getting noticeably worse as the season wears on, miscalling drivers’ cars and allegedly thinking Richmond gave out Grandfather Clocks for trophies. Whoops! Xfinity Series Take any recap of the Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity Series from any of these threads and just post it here, but cross out the name Kyle Busch for half the season. Only seven races have been won by non-Buschwackers, and one of THOSE was won by Erik Jones, who you’ll hear about later. Another was by Ryan Blaney, who earns NXS points but is not full-time because Discount Tire wants Cup guys. The others have been won by Roush Racing’s Ryan Reed and Chris Buescher, ironic seeing as Roush has been a complete non-factor in Cup this year, and Regan Smith and Chase Elliott, who have combined to make a late season JR Motorsports surge. Unlike Sprint Cup, Xfinity (and Trucks) use a full-season points system to determine the champ, as was the case before Brian France started having Good Ideas of questionable quality. Because of rampant Buschwacking, it’s entirely possible to have a series champion who didn’t win a race, though that won’t happen this year. A new feature! I track the #NXSBestInClass to show you who the top full-time Xfinity finishers are each week. Here are the ongoing results: Number of wins and actual finish in parenthesis. (Erik Jones does not count for this as he doesn’t earn points.): -Daytona- Ryan Reed (OVERALL WINNER!) -Atlanta- Ty Dillon (3rd) -LVMS- Ryan "Man Without A Series" Blaney (2nd) -Phoenix- Ty Dillon (2, 6th) -California- Brendan Gaughan (2nd) -Texas- Regan Smith (4th) -Bristol- Daniel Suarez (2nd) -Richmond- Regan Smith (2, 3rd) -Talladega- Brian Scott (2nd because God hates us all) -Iowa- Chris Buescher (OVERALL WINNER!) -Charlotte- Regan Smith (3, 5th) -Dover- Chris Buescher (2, OVERALL WINNER!) -Michigan- Chase Elliott (2nd, how'd it take him so long to show up on this list god drat) -Chicagoland- Ryan "Man Without A Series" Blaney (2, 2nd) -Daytona- Elliott Sadler (2nd) -Kentucky- Daniel Suarez (2, 4th) -NHMS- Daniel Suarez (3, 5th) -Indy- Ryan Blaney (3, 2nd) -Iowa- Ryan Blaney (4, OVERALL WINNER!) -Watkins Glen- Chris Buescher (3, 3rd) -Mid-Ohio- Regan Smith (4, OVERALL WINNER!) -Bristol- Ty Dillon (3, 2nd) -Road America- Ryan Blaney (5, 2nd) -Darlington- Daniel Suarez (4, 3rd) -Richmond- Chase Elliott (2, OVERALL WINNER!) -Chicago Again- Bubba Wallace (3rd) -Kentucky the Second- Ryan Blaney (6, OVERALL WINNER!) -Dover- Regan Smith (5, OVERALL WINNER AND HE GOT FIRED LOL gently caress THIS SERIES!) -Charlotte- Daniel Suarez (5, 4th) -Kansas- Ty Dillon (4, 4th) -Texas- Ty Dillon (5, 5th) -Phoenix- Daniel Suarez (6, 4th) -Homestead- Brian Scott (3, 4th) Points and stats: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/xfinity.../standings.html This series bad. Camping World Truck Series In Trucks, one of the biggest stories of the season has been Erik Jones, but not for his dominance, rather the races which slipped away for one reason another. These are especially notable because, with each loss, Jones slips into a bigger post-race emotional meltdown/bitchfit only fitting for an employee of Kyle Busch Motorsports. Still, the kid’s a wheelman. Matt Crafton still leads the points. Our Man Spence is Top 10. Points and stats: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/camping.../standings.html ARCA The ARCA Racing Series is a stock car series which is essentially the fourth rung on the NASCAR hierarchy. It's not a NASCAR series, but Bill France had a hand in its formation. ARCA stands for Automobile Racing Club of America and, as you might expect in club racing, there are some good drivers and some who might be best served making a career in iRacing. ARCA is also known as LOL ARCA for tremendous moments of stupidity by even its most "talented" drivers, as it's more often than not a terrific shitshow. Grant Enfinger, SRA’s teammate, leads the standings. All things ARCA: http://www.arcaracing.com/ NASCAR K&N East, West, Whelen Modifieds, Weekly Series, Whelen Euro, Canadian Tire, and NASCAR Mexico (despite sounding like sarcasm, the last three are real series), check out http://hometracks.nascar.com/. Other stuff: NASCAR.com- http://www.nascar.com Jayski- http://www.jayski.com Race Day Chats are at #nascar on Synirc: http://client00.chat.mibbit.com/#nascar@irc.synirc.net The SAS Wiki has returned! Here’s where you can find goon-written articles for educational purposes: http://sportsargumentwiki.com/index...Category:NASCAR We haven’t done one in a while, but Rolling Start is the SASCAR podcast, typically featuring myself, kidcoelacanth, Peanut President, and Cubey, but you never know who’ll show up: http://tindeck.com/users/kidcoelacanth (older) http://tindeck.com/users/pnutprez(newer) Come watch old racin’ with goons on our CyTube channel. Post in this thread if you want to watch something and others may show up: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...40&pagenumber=1 NASCAR Bingo, under new management! Next race, Talladega: http://forums.somethingawful.com/sh...hreadid=3701539 SAS Chase Pick 'Em Extravaganza Powered by Google Forms: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3741691 CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Nov 21, 2015 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNzhKTXweQ edit since NASCAR is a southern sport the music should be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu-PjGpd6EA Peanut President fucked around with this message at 19:03 on Sep 17, 2015 |
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If you aren't pulling for either Busch, and/or one of the folks without any wins at all to go the distance 
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Harveygod posted:New thread! Why did no one ever buy this
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With the closure of MWR, Aaron's will not sponsor a car in Cup in 2016.kidcoelacanth posted:Why did no one ever buy this Didn't Viking have it for a bit?
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Great OP CBJ! And yeah I think viking had it.
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I like his new one better.  Dont worry. I have a strong feeling that once this season ends, someone will have it...or some iteration of it. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:Didn't Viking have it for a bit? I did and pnut replaced it with ice tits
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Peanut President posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvNzhKTXweQ I'd never seen that MST3K clip.  Just as long as it's not that putrid Faith Hill/Carrie Underwood horseshit they play before Sunday Night Football on NBC.
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CBJSprague24 posted:I'd never seen that MST3K clip. Good episode. It was the final Comedy Central one, too.
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I'm torn between Ryan Newman getting that mulligan from last year and winning it all and Paul Menard taking that Cup home because it's loving Menard
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VikingSkull posted:I did and pnut replaced it with ice tits And you never played DOTA with me again. 
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maffew buildings posted:I'm torn between Ryan Newman getting that mulligan from last year and winning it all and Paul Menard taking that Cup home because it's loving Menard Paul Menard is definitely my comedy option
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Peanut President posted:And you never played DOTA with me again. Rally? Now I feel sad.... I'm gonna have to this weekend or something, then  I even missed the International, too.
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VikingSkull posted:I did and pnut replaced it with ice tits Ice tits was p great
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It's all moot anyway, this av blows all of my others away,.
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Drivers want more strict penalizing of restart jumps. NASCAR's response is "Eh, we don't feel like it...". http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2015/09/17/nascar-sprint-cup-restarts-driver-advantage/72363292/
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CBJSprague24 posted:Drivers want more strict penalizing of restart jumps. NASCAR's response is "Eh, we don't feel like it...". That's a real shocking stance for nascar to take.
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anotherblownsave posted:That's a real shocking stance for nascar to take. Hey they have to be able to pass somehow and cheating the restart is so much easier then fixing the cars. Also why are you trying to ruin the reason for fake cautions?
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"They need to make the box bigger, so the leader can catch me sleeping legally, not this cheater way of catching me sleeping before the box!"
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CBJSprague24 posted:For at least the second time this season, Ryan Blaney will miss a Cup race because qualifying was rained out. Three times, shockingly. Really hate it for the Woods - Blaney was 9th in practice and was fast the other two times. Awesome OP, by the way. Had the old Hank intro stuck in my head at work. 
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Jeffrey Earnhardt will run 11 races and compete for ROTY next year in the 32 in Cup with sponsorship from Can-Am, who will also sponsor the Duels starting next year. http://racing-reference.info/driver/Jeffrey_Earnhardt 66 NXS starts, average finish of 25.4. I think Danica's been topped in the "Earning Sponsorship Despite Doing Nothing of Merit" category because I can't think of anything even remotely impressive he's done in any NASCAR series. Trucks on FS2 now, postponed from last night. Decent so far. e- Mason Mingus doing his best motocross impression courtesy of the splitter. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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Uhh...Daniel Hemric just attempted vehicular homicide on his jackman.  ...I guess he had no brakes, but you're 59 loving laps down, there's no need to come down at pit road speed. e- How about John Hunter Nemechek, sponsored by matte black. That's awesome. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Sep 19, 2015 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:I can't think of anything even remotely impressive he's done in any NASCAR series. Have the last name "Earnhardt". Chaos fuel mileage finishes 
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NHMS Pitpass question: Are there pitpasses for Saturday? Is it be separate from the cup race pitpass?
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Hey, von, it looks like Derrike Cope's got some new merch out. 
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Nice to see the Xfinity series race being sponsored by a movie that literally came out half a year ago.
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Congrats on the ARCA win and the top 10 SRA.
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Chase Grid and Pick 'Em Game deadlinea are today. My game is in the OP and the NASCAR.COM link...is in the other thread god damnit. Think the group was SASCAR and PW was getin, pp14 set it up.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Chase Grid and Pick 'Em Game deadlinea are today. My game is in the OP and the NASCAR.COM link...is in the other thread god damnit. correct http://fantasygames.nascar.com/chase/#/picks
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PLAYOFFS ...not "The Chase" according to NBC, the "playoffs".
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They're been doing that for weeks. Decent racing up front :o
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What is this where three cars are able to battle for the lead in close proximity to each other? I'm unfamiliar with it, but NASCAR should try and find a way for it to happen more often.
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