NASCAR 2017 OFFSEASON: When is it murder?

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LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Love how NASCAR slipped in that 40th place earns the same number of points as anyone else in the Bottom Five. It takes a special kind of skill to mess up last place.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 02:05

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 13:37

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

kidcoelacanth posted:

That's actually a very good thing

But but but every position matters(TM)

# ¿ Feb 3, 2017 04:38

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

von Manstein posted:

More bad news....

A certain 1990 Daytona 500 winner isn't gonna be in the Xfinity series this year...

"What an amazing three years.

Fielding a full time Xfinity car for the past three seasons was certainly a time we will never forget!

We are blessed to have garnered great relationships, had many new opportunities, and of course had a few great runs!

But, our time in the Xfinity Series has come to a close, along with our recent partnership with JP Motorsports.

We look forward to 2017 with renewed vigor, and will keep you all in the loop as to what our plans will be!"

drat that sucks. :smith:

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 03:25

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Peanut President posted:

Too bad this car probably won't make the race because it sure is rad.

Good news - they're leasing the #83 charter, so it's running all year.
http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20170203c

# ¿ Feb 4, 2017 11:40

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

kidcoelacanth posted:

How is "get excited for the biggest race of the year, here are some cool race cars. maybe have some friends over too" out of touch? Like what the gently caress is the alternative?

We see that, but I don't think anyone else does. Casuals would see it as "look, here's some people celebrating and people you don't know, starring James Van Der Beek." They probably thought it was a movie trailer or a Smithfield commercial.

Confusing people isn't a great way to generate buzz.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 02:04

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

kidcoelacanth posted:

There were loving race cars everywhere in what reality is that confusing

The reality where they made a Smithfield commercial with a "Daytona Day: The Movie" sketch.

Don't get so upset about our criticisms when NASCAR's the one going out of their way to do just about everything wrong.

# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 02:33

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

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# ¿ Feb 7, 2017 02:57

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

financially racist posted:

new nascar rule: whoever wins has to drive the last-place finishers car the next race and vice-versa

Love it!

# ¿ Feb 14, 2017 05:57

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

exploded mummy posted:

earnhardt earnhardt burning bright
oh my god he's turning right

I can't think of a better one than this.

# ¿ Feb 21, 2017 05:49

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Fifty Shades of Gallagher

# ¿ Feb 22, 2017 20:11

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Ol Cactus Dick posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu6fGhLwmzE

You're the best, Spachler Galopner. :allears:

# ¿ Feb 23, 2017 00:57

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Dale Jr. followed me on Twitter today. Dude continues to be cool.

# ¿ Feb 24, 2017 02:48

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Slickdrac posted:

Why not just remove the 5 minute clock, give them the duration of the yellow flag, and if they can't meet min speed when green is back out, THEN they are DQ'd. It would accomplish the same.

That's a little more reasonable. Then you'd get more time if the wreck's huge and involves more cars.

I'm also sensing that NASCAR is having a hard time determining when exactly the five minutes starts. Surprised they needed FS1 to tell them the 30 truck had crossed the limit.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2017 18:01

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

FuriousxGeorge posted:

Attending my first race ever today. Very excited regardless of whatever crazy rules they want to throw out there.

Picked a good one to start with. Buy yourself the loudest t-shirt and have a great time!

# ¿ Feb 26, 2017 17:16

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

dentist toy box posted:

Lmao Atlanta has 38 cars entered.

The shortest Cup field at Atlanta since November 1976.

# ¿ Feb 27, 2017 22:30

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

dentist toy box posted:

Derrike Cope is entered for atlanta and theres only 39 cars entered so he's gonna race!

Yay!

Cope's first Cup start since the fall Martinsville race in 2009. The three-time LASTCAR champion and former record holder returns!

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 02:54

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Just in case von hasn't seen this yet.
https://youtu.be/UXLLSEdAM8g

# ¿ Mar 2, 2017 17:46

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Lilly Diabetes has just become the official diabetes health partner of the loving Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.

Not making it up.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2017 20:53

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Having two dates at any track is dumb and giving another to a cookie cutter is doubling down.

# ¿ Mar 5, 2017 03:22

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

There's too many races at Charlotte already, so whatevs.

# ¿ Mar 6, 2017 03:03

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Went by Morgan Shepherd's site and found this:

# ¿ Mar 12, 2017 18:57

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

wicka posted:

God, he's the best.

I'll have to admit, he is.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 18:52

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Boomer The Cannon posted:

Maybe they'll come up with a zero tolerance policy for the Cup guys in the lower divisions - gently caress up once, and you're done in that division for the year.

Works for me. It'll never happen, though.

# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 04:18

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

For those of you having Rick Allen withdrawal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk08R_qQwIA

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 20:44

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

L_Harrison posted:

Bobby Labonte choked almost as hard as the Falcons in this year's Super Bowl.

Nah, he was just too nice to stuff Jimmie in the wall as he tried to get by.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 08:56

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Oh man I didn't even notice until now the "18" out of the word "IS." Nice touch.

# ¿ Mar 22, 2017 19:50

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

I've signed with Waldorf Publishing to print my J.D. McDuffie book, now set for July 15, 2018 release! :siren:

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 21:16

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

shame on an IGA posted:

I am excited for you and this and will be lined up for a copy on release day and you should really go check out the KDP thread in creative convention for cover advice because that searing neon yellow is painful to look at and your name is completely invisible the way it matches the car

Will do. The cover design will definitely change; Waldorf has a cover artist who will help me.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 21:42

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

VikingSkull posted:

If I buy one and send it to you, will you autograph it for me?

Absolutely!

EDIT: And that goes for anyone else here, too.

LASTCAR fucked around with this message at 23:43 on Mar 27, 2017

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 22:25

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Junior just broke the news that Atlanta won't repave for another year, and now all the reporters are trying not to sound threatened by a driver doing their job. Pure comedy.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 17:29

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

https://twitter.com/Noble_Jim/status/847881697211363328

Hooters with their worst April Fools prank since 1993.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 20:10

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

NASCAR's YouTube channel has uploaded the 1991 and 1992 spring Bristol races.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnH4ByFlSiA

Hell. Yes.

# ¿ Apr 18, 2017 01:47

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Very happy to see Junior retire on his own terms. I've always preferred Dale Jr. the fanatical racing historian and television personality to Dale Jr. the driver. Ever since 2001, I've always had the impression that most fans view NASCAR as "Junior And Friends," and couldn't care less about the other 42 39 37 drivers.

My hope is that Junior, once out of the car, will parlay his Jimmy Means fandom into introducing us to other drivers in the field. Maybe help bridge that gap for fans who think the sky is falling over this. Bring back "Back In The Day," or start your own series like Neil Bonnett did with "Winners." I'd be plenty psyched for that.

EDIT: more stuff

LASTCAR fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Apr 25, 2017

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 22:08

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

kidcoelacanth posted:

nascar is very quickly coming to a crossroads where if they don't look inwards and make wholesale changes to how they run their poo poo, this sport is completely hosed. it's an increasingly grim conversation. more than ever i'm worried that they've buried their heads in their own bullshit too far to pull back out at this point. as someone who's pretty much dedicated my life to this godforsaken traveling circus, both in my own time and in my career, it's utterly maddening that no one who has the power to fix things seems to give a poo poo.

even making all the right moves and putting together a perfect gameplan for saving nascar would be a hail mary at this point because they've bled their audience away to such an incredible degree.

i am sad about cars

I'm with kidc. To me, NASCAR's devolution is like someone took a crap in the middle of a room, but the homeowner won't clean it up. They seem to notice the smell, but the response is always "Let's move the furniture" or "Let's repaint the walls" or "Let's knock down this wall and put in a dance floor." Now it's not just a matter of fixing the original problem, there's a whole lot of other stuff that needs to be un-done. And some of those things are irretrievably broken.

A tortured metaphor to be sure, but come on, only NASCAR could look at the response to Eldora and say "A second race in Las Vegas? Sure!"

Edit: holy crap two pages of posts

LASTCAR fucked around with this message at 22:10 on May 2, 2017

# ¿ May 2, 2017 22:06

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

von Manstein posted:

It's almost Talladega Time!

Time to dust this off again
https://youtu.be/EKe6TUY9jrQ

# ¿ May 4, 2017 01:47

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

It's been 15 years and 82 last-place finishes since Jeff Green led this many laps in an XFINITY Series race.

And FOX couldn't care less.

# ¿ May 6, 2017 20:25

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Carl Long's penalty looks that much more absurd when you look at his whole weekend back in May 2009.

He blew his first engine on a mock qualifying run. Rain washed out qualifying, and when the field was set by qualifying draw, Long drew outside-pole (next to Kirk Shelmerdine!). Only then did the "illegal" motor go in, a motor prepared by Evernham's Dodge team. The engine change sent Long to the rear, where he caved in the nose after 4 laps and blew this second engine in a plume of smoke.

So, to review, Long was penalized for an engine he didn't build which was the second one he blew in two days, leaving him last in a qualifier for a non-points race.

EDIT: And that's not even touching the fact he was an owner-driver running a paint scheme paying homage to one of his first cars. Running that scheme again this Saturday is a :master:

LASTCAR fucked around with this message at 21:03 on May 11, 2017

# ¿ May 11, 2017 21:01

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

CBJSprague24 posted:

Was Boudreaux's Butt Paste Carl Long as well or Derrike Cope? (Lookin' at you here, LASTCAR.)

Kevin Ray at Dover in 2004, the last attempt for Donlavey Racing in Cup.

# ¿ May 13, 2017 04:22

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

Rabbit hole just got deeper

https://twitter.com/harrisonwide/status/863252543870312448

# ¿ May 13, 2017 06:13

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# ¿ Apr 26, 2024 13:37

LASTCAR: Mar 25, 2010; I like the drivers
you never hear about
in the cars
you never see
who finish in the position
you never want

SPiTZ posted:

I remember the 1/24 diecasts like this being literally the entire stock at Walmart in the 90's because none of them sold. I seem to recall even in the last decade one with "Brad" instead of "Lite" that was super cheesy.

This blog has an interesting analysis of historical alcohol/tobacco censorship in cards/diecasts, I found it interesting. https://thedriversuitblog.com/2013/09/07/nascar-sponsorship-and-children-sailing-the-censorship/

Call me crazy, but I kind of liked the censored diecasts. I liked the logo for Larry Hedrick's team on Craven's car, how the L and H were threaded together to form a 41. Maybe it's why I'm more partial to teams than drivers.

# ¿ May 13, 2017 19:49

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