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Wow it's NASCAR again! Still not dead, despite all efforts. Vital information for new NASCAR fans: http://www.clickhole.com/article/11-simple-rhymes-help-you-remember-how-dale-earnha-5632 Discord server for all SAS racing threads: https://discord.gg/kg3d2Uu  Martin Truex Jr won the championship last year with in a dominant performance. It was pretty cool. Stages were less horribly implemented than some might expect and helped make the best driver all year champion. A lot of driver changes this year, with retirements and rookies aplenty. A quick overview: Dale Earnhardt Jr has retired and will be working for NBC Sports (not just racing!). Alex Bowman will be the new driver of the #88 for Hendrick Motorsports. The Hendrick reshuffling continues with Kasey Kahne ousted to be replaced by rookie William Byron, who will be running the #24 as Chase Elliot shifts to the #9. Kahne will be replacing Michael McDowell in the Leavine Family Racing #95. McDowell moves to the Front Row Motorsports #34, replacing Landon Cassill, who is tragically still without a ride. Ryan Blaney moves to a new Penske Racing entry in the #12, leaving the Wood Brothers #21 entry open for Paul Menard, who moves over from the Childress #27, which has been shuttered. However, Richard Petty Motorsports has entered an alliance with Richard Childress Racing, with the #43 now acting as a quasi-teammate to RCR as they move to Chevy. Bubba Wallace is the new driver of the #43, as Aric Almirola takes his Smithfield sponsorship to Stewart-Haas Racing, replacing the retiring Danica Patrick in the #10. Patrick will be running the #7 car for Premium Motorsports in the Daytona 500, in addition to attempting one final Indianapolis 500. Erik Jones is replacing Matt Kenseth in the Joe Gibbs #20, and a rideless Kenseth has more or less retired.The Furniture Row #77 that Jones is leaving has shuttered. Schedule:  I'll put some links to other stuff here when people who are less lazy than I collect them.
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I wonder if anyone else is going to figure out "set the car up for 1.5 mile tracks, the rest can be bonus points" thing that Furniture Row did last year.
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exploded mummy posted:SRA retired from selling merch RIP the hats.
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Title is directly from Kyle's dumb thing, btwquote:"All you're doing is advertising all these younger guys for fans to figure out and pick up on and choose as their favorite driver," Busch said during the NASCAR preseason media days at the Charlotte Convention Center. "I think it's stupid. I don't know, I'm not the marketing genius that's behind this deal.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:15
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Kyle is basically Jeff Jarrett from late stage WCW so this all checks out.
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Jan 24, 2018 16:18
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Wait. Wait. Charlotte road course... Is at night?  
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Jan 24, 2018 16:18
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I'd like to think his pettiness stems in part from the fact that promoting younger drivers somehow hinders his ability to run the lower series. I still think this is the best way to describe the points system: 
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Jan 24, 2018 16:19
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Charlotte Roval's new layout looking good.
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kidcoelacanth posted:Stages were less horribly implemented than some might expect and helped make the best driver all year champion. Stages, and the playoffs, were also what allowed the likes of Chase Elliot to come maybe-too-close to seriously competing for the championship. Just because everything worked out in the end still doesn't mean the current format isn't without its major pitfalls. That being said, I did watch a lot more NASCAR last year than I did in the years previous. We'll see how things go in 2018.
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WindyMan posted:Stages, and the playoffs, were also what allowed the likes of Chase Elliot to come maybe-too-close to seriously competing for the championship. I think it really helped that it was a fresh face leading the pack this year instead of JimmieBot.
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WindyMan posted:Stages, and the playoffs, were also what allowed the likes of Chase Elliot to come maybe-too-close to seriously competing for the championship. If anything I think stages helped neutralize the bullshit of the playoff format, which still sucks and I hate it, but at least the drivers who've actually been doing the best all season have an advantage built in.
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iospace posted:I think it really helped that it was a fresh face leading the pack this year instead of JimmieBot. Absolutely. Truex and Furniture Row was a fantastic story all year. Thank goodness they won it all in the end. kidcoelacanth posted:If anything I think stages helped neutralize the bullshit of the playoff format, which still sucks and I hate it, but at least the drivers who've actually been doing the best all season have an advantage built in. True, but that advantage only carries you so far and only accounts for things up to a certain point. I despite the format of the final race, which is inconsistent with the goals of the regular season and rest of the playoffs: Winning the race is everything, consistency is everything else. The advantages that Truex built up during the year were all taken away from him in Miami. If he caught a bad break in any other point of the season, those advantages would help him get over that bad break. There is no such safety net (constructed of his own hard work) available in the finale. The field racing conservatively in the last race to avoid screwing with the Champ 4 drivers is dumb as hell, too. When someone else going for a win says "you can't race your hardest" then there's something wrong. Here's the fix: Make the last race a literal winner-take all. If one of the Champ 4 wins the race, they win the championship. If none of them win it, the points leader is the champion. (This would make the stage points in the last race actually matter.) Same amount of drama, but with enough fairness in there to avoid a bullshit ending if something happens during hard racin' to take out a championship contender.
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WindyMan posted:Absolutely. Truex and Furniture Row was a fantastic story all year. Thank goodness they won it all in the end. Agreed on all counts. WindyMan posted:Here's the fix: Make the last race a literal winner-take all. If one of the Champ 4 wins the race, they win the championship. If none of them win it, the points leader is the champion. (This would make the stage points in the last race actually matter.) Same amount of drama, but with enough fairness in there to avoid a bullshit ending if something happens during hard racin' to take out a championship contender. This isn't a bad solution at all. The frustrating thing about any good solution is that it comes at the cost of yet another change, which has already worn extremely thin as they keep tweaking things.
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WindyMan posted:If one of the Champ 4 wins the race, they win the championship. If none of them win it, the points leader is the champion. Does this mean it is currently possible for a Champ 4 to win the last race and NOT be the points leader?  I think that's stupid. I don't know.
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runoverbobby posted:Does this mean it is currently possible for a Champ 4 to win the last race and NOT be the points leader? That's been the format ever since the Chase was originally implemented.
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https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/956242932805357568
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He will be! In the booth. At some races?
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I believe that's called actions detrimental to stock car racing right there
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WindyMan posted:That's been the format ever since the Chase was originally implemented. I know it was possible under the old Chase because it was essentially a points reset with 10 races to go. I’m confused because I thought the latest format resets the points for the top four cars before the final race. You can win and end up with fewer points?
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runoverbobby posted:I know it was possible under the old Chase because it was essentially a points reset with 10 races to go. I’m confused because I thought the latest format resets the points for the top four cars before the final race. You can win and end up with fewer points? No, because the points are reset after every round. The top 4 all have the same amount of points going into Homestead so the top finisher will have the most points. The actual number of points is manipulated to serve the results. 
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WindyMan posted:He will be! In the booth. At some races?
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A certain 1990 Daytona 500 winner has a charter now! http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2018/story/_/id/22202209/starcom-racing-acquires-charter-full-cup-season
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Kyle Busch is still sad he wasn't one of the Gillette Young Guns.
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WindyMan posted:He will be! In the booth. At some races? There was such a weird aura at the track when BZF showed up randomly at Richmond last April. The telephone game circled fast all over the track in anticipation of his comments. Some thought we were going to get bad title sponsor news. Some thought he was going to step down or make some new appointment in the inner circle. I was with Gluck and Pockrass when word came down he was going to do a presser and Jeff just goes "uh oh, that's unexpected." When BZF took the stage he rambled on about driver attitude and and making them more appealing, and reiterated the sport is healthy everything is good in the face of departing sponsors and dwindling viewership. He had zero prepared statement. He literally sat down to the media pool and was like "What up dudes. Say hi to my six year old."  TL:DR France is a weird loving dude.
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Good insight both here from Jeff Gluck about Kyle Busch's comments and how the now-"veteran" drivers are less apt to hustle like the younger drivers do because they were brought in when NASCAR was thriving (as well as NASCAR's marketing strategy overall): http://jeffgluck.com/media-tour-day-3-to-promote-or-not-to-promote/DEMAG posted:There was such a weird aura at the track when BZF showed up randomly at Richmond last April. The telephone game circled fast all over the track in anticipation of his comments. Some thought we were going to get bad title sponsor news. Some thought he was going to step down or make some new appointment in the inner circle. I was with Gluck and Pockrass when word came down he was going to do a presser and Jeff just goes "uh oh, that's unexpected." When BZF took the stage he rambled on about driver attitude and and making them more appealing, and reiterated the sport is healthy everything is good in the face of departing sponsors and dwindling viewership. He had zero prepared statement. He literally sat down to the media pool and was like "What up dudes. Say hi to my six year old." ...and in this post.
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People say the season is too long but I like that it seems like it just ended and the shootout, or whatever they call it this year, is only 3 weeks away.
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Watching a couple old races from the Charlotte Roval in 15 minutes in honor of the reconfiguration. Let's all watch and laugh...or shudder...: https://cytu.be/r/SASCARWinterHeat
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CBJSprague24 posted:Watching a couple old races from the Charlotte Roval in 15 minutes in honor of the reconfiguration. Let's all watch and laugh...or shudder...: 10 minutes in and 3 cars are wrecked
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https://twitter.com/AwesomeWrecks/status/957062248802926593 e- https://twitter.com/MattWeaverAW/status/957055703159537664 CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Jan 27, 2018 |
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The Trucks should really be racing at the tracks ARCA is racing at like Elko, Salem, DuQuoin, etc.
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/AwesomeWrecks/status/957062248802926593 why would you want to avoid Vince Russo https://i.imgur.com/X3jtsCV.mp4
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exploded mummy posted:why would you want to avoid Vince Russo next thing you know there'll be a Brian France on a Pole race happening sometime in June.
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Ben Kennedy has been named competition director for CWTS. One step closer to: harperdc posted:next thing you know there'll be a Brian France on a Pole race happening sometime in June. ? e- Jeffrey Earnhardt gets a ride for some reason: https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2018/01/30/jeffrey-earnhardt-starcom-racing-ink-deal-2018-season/ CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jan 30, 2018 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:e- Jeffrey Earnhardt gets a ride for some reason: https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2018/01/30/jeffrey-earnhardt-starcom-racing-ink-deal-2018-season/
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CBJSprague24 posted:https://twitter.com/AwesomeWrecks/status/957062248802926593 but the new blood were the bad guys
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CBJSprague24 posted:Ben Kennedy has been named competition director for CWTS. Because muh legacy? I mean it's StarCom racing (Sounds like a backwoods cable company). Doubt they will be making waves this season. Even with the esteemed leadership of past 500 Champion Derrike Cope. Kennedy will be interesting. He's young enough to completely gently caress everything up because of 'immaturity'. But at the same time, young enough to really shake things up and buck the status quo of the old guard. It will be interesting watch what happens over the next couple of seasons.
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