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Please rise and remove your hats for the opening invocation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhKELP-7UD8 Please remain standing for our anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVlcADaT94o Ladies and Gentlemen, start your shitposters! New Cars? Cup Lots of car changes this year for cup. The baseline car for this year is 670 horsepower, but has only a 4 inch spoiler!!! The cars sound real good again, and the loss of downforce means mechanical grip and actual talent is now required to maintain control of the car. Expect this to create a lot more spins than usual while drivers adjust/learn how to actually drive. You can also expect a lot more bumping and banging as the cup series has finally adopted composite bodies like Xfinity has had for a couple years. This will allow cars to rub against each other more without cutting tires down at the most gentle of touches. Also 5 lug tire changes are out in favor of a single center lug  Xfinity No car changes, but they made the logo purple instead of red for shits and giggles  Trucks Mostly aesthetic changes, rather than a common nose and tail for every make, the manufacturers can make the front and rear look more like the production models. They look real good  Schedule Changes? Cup Series IN: World Wide Technology Raceway – The 1.25-mile oval near St. Louis, once on the brink of extinction a decade ago, completes its comeback with its first Cup race on June 5, 2022. IN: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum – The historic stadium will host the exhibition Clash on Feb. 6, 2022, two weeks before the season officially begins Feb. 20 at the Daytona 500. (This was good, go watch it!) OUT: Daytona International Speedway road course – The 3.61-mile circuit has hosted NASCAR tripleheader weekends (Cup, Xfinity, Truck) for the past two seasons, but was “tabled” for 2022 according to Kennedy on Wednesday. He noted that future NASCAR national series races on the circuit was “something that we’ll definitely take a look at.” (Bring it back you cowards! Just maybe not for Trucks) OUT: Pocono Raceway’s doubleheader – The Tricky Triangle hosted Cup doubleheaders in June the past two seasons but will be down to a lone Cup race next season (July 24). Xfinity Series IN: Portland International Raceway – The 1.964-mile road course will host its first Xfinity race on June 4, 2022. Kennedy said about Portland’s addition: “We’ve seen a lot of growth from a fan perspective in the Pacific Northwest. It’s important for us to get back there and do it in a meaningful way with Green Savoree (Racing Promotions) and the rest of the teams out there.” OUT: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course – Portland replaces Mid-Ohio, which has held Xfinity Series races since 2013. But the undulating road course won’t be without NASCAR next season. (PUT IT BACK!) Camping World Truck Series IN: Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis – The .686-mile bullring is returning to a NASCAR national series schedule for the first time since 2011. IN: Sonoma Raceway – When the Truck Series last raced here in 1998, it was still largely based around short tracks and Sonoma Raceway was still Sears Point. Times have changed. IN: Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course – With Mid-Ohio heading for the Truck schedule, you can bet ThorSport Racing, based an hour and a half north in Sandusky, Ohio, has circled this race in red. OUT: Watkins Glen International – The Glen hosted this year’s Truck regular season finale, but with falling off the Truck schedule entirely, Pocono will take over that role in 2022. OUT: Canadian Tire Motorsport Park – COVID-related logistics issues led to the cancellation of this race in 2020 and 2021. It’s those same issues Kennedy cited as a reason for CTMP not being on the 2022 schedule, while adding that NASCAR has kept in touch with the track’s management. Team Changes Cup -Harrison Burton moves up and takes the 21 Wood Bros car -Kurt Busch joins Bubba over at 23XI in the 45 car -Ty Dillon to the 42 on a Petty team that has been mostly bought by GMS for their cup debut -Justin Haley running full time in the 31 -Brad K partly bought Roush-Fenway and is in the 6 car over there -Ryan Newman will tell you he denies that he has no ride this year -Chip Ganassi sold his NASCAR team to Trackhouse Racing and is leaving NASCAR world -RICK.WARE.RACING! Xfinity -Tony Pasta fucks off out of Cup down to Xfinity -Josh Berry full time in the 8 JRM this year -Sheldon Creed moves up from Trucks into the RCR 2 -Austin Hill up from trucks into the RCR 21 -Jesse Iwuji is full time Xfinity this year in his new team partnered with Emmitt Smith 34 Trucks -LAWLESS ALAN full time truck ride in the #45 -Matty D made himself so toxic to take on he's gone all the way down to Trucks into the 25 -Timmy Hill has a full time truck ride in the #56 If you like reading, there's an absolutely complete list here Playoffs  (Image courtesy: PnutPrez, taken without asking because suck it) NASCAR has playoffs! Why? Because of a bad idea of taking on the NFL and now they're too invested in it to drop it. How do they work? No one really knows, we just watch the graphics and the only thing that makes sense is "if you win you advance" and "if you beat the others in the last race, you win everything". Yes it's a bad system, yes it can and has been broken and won by someone who was mediocre all year long. Just think of NASCAR like wrestling with less choreography where it's about entertainment over talent. Or you can try and parse this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6A3wQfVm9I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZrPc7dTM68 Other Links: Discord: https://discord.com/invite/FTT89hW (NASCAR channel is #unending-hell or the first Green Square channel under the racing section, if you're new, it probably won't take many races to understand why) Schedule: https://www.nascar.com/nascar-cup-series/2022/schedule/ 2021 Thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3958773 NASCAR Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuN9hYw2RpoAW8rZ3VK3isA They've been uploading full races shortly after broadcast, so you can always catch up if you miss a race pretty easily nowadays Post better thread titles or crap I missed Slickdrac fucked around with this message at 20:49 on Jul 18, 2022 |
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 me realizing another year of nascar is on its way
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Feb 14, 2022 17:51
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One lug to rule them all.
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Feb 14, 2022 18:25
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real glad my second-favorite sunday afternoon background noise is back
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Feb 14, 2022 18:38
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Slickdrac posted:I'm an idiot that doesn't know what year it is Best season ever! Again!!
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congrats to Matty D on being such a dumb rear end in a top hat that he was too much of a dumb rear end in a top hat for almost every NASCAR team
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How much is a FloRacing subscription? They won't tell me unless I sign up for an account e: nm I just put in a fake email. $150 a year! Not sure I would get that much value out of it camoseven fucked around with this message at 01:45 on Feb 15, 2022 |
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Feb 15, 2022 01:42
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gently caress yeah let's do this poo poo.
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You have to love it when they focus on the singer for the anthem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J9ffRgADRU and also the full Clash at the Coliseum appears to be up on YouTube if you want to see brand new cars go (temporary) short track racin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfOmatsGZ9s
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driving too slow is bad for my health
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Villeneuve is in the 500. +150000 odds. LOL
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Id put a buck on for sure.
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Beef. It's What's For Dinner. 300. Hit 'em with that razzle dazzle guys, way to go.
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It's no Buschy mc Busch Race 250
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I might be wrong but I feel strongly that the names of races shouldn't require punctuation in the middle, sponsorship requirements be damned.
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Feb 17, 2022 11:19
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The best for me will always be Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 200
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My Bariatric Solutions 300.
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It took me longer than necessary to find qualifying on TV last night cause I was looking for "Daytona 500 Qualifying" but it was listed as "Bluegreen Vacations Qualifying at Daytona" or some poo poo like that
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camoseven posted:It took me longer than necessary to find qualifying on TV last night cause I was looking for "Daytona 500 Qualifying" but it was listed as "Bluegreen Vacations Qualifying at Daytona" or some poo poo like that DirecTV had it listed as something like "Daytona 500 Qualifying Duel 1 at Daytona 500" or something so terrible it was probably outsourced and never went through proofreading.
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can't wait for the upcoming Big Machine Vodka 400 At The Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line
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shame on an IGA posted:can't wait for the upcoming Big Machine Vodka 400 At The Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line I'm going to this unless an extremely deadly COVID variant pops up between now and then
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harperdc posted:I might be wrong but I feel strongly that the names of races shouldn't require punctuation in the middle, sponsorship requirements be damned. Way to erase the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen
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What's really important right now is muh'fuckin' ARCATONA this weekend. 
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The Fords seem to race well. It looked drat difficult to hold onto the draft at the back of each line. I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see the familiar "debris" cautions of old once they get into the pit window of each stage to keep things bunched up as much as possible. Good for The Biff and Grala but honestly I wouldn't mind if they expanded the field and let Hill and Yeley in too just to give their sponsors the Daytona 500 bump.
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All Logano to do was drive toward the finish line and he could have held on! And even if he lost fair and square that's better than wrecking a car that ran like a dream in a ten point race and going to the back lol
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If you get like a car length and a half back it seems like there is no coming back to a 4 car pack. Stenhouse making it across and Harvick dropping off was really interesting stuff and bodes well for Sunday.
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Grambling sponsoring Biffle is definitely not a thing I'd expect
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mischief posted:What's really important right now is muh'fuckin' ARCATONA this weekend. And trucks Trucks TRUCKS tonight! Did they get rid of the limited GWC for trucks, or we gonna keep going until over half the field is gone as is tradition?
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1930 green flag, I believe. My dumb rear end made dinner reservations with my wife without thinking and will miss it.
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https://twitter.com/JennaFryer/status/1494770710136471556?s=20&t=uZhdI6tN_r-I47sd63PaHQ We’re back baby!
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The new car loses the draft QUICK. Based on iRacing races if you drop .4-.6 seconds back you are in trouble. But, that’s going to be cool seeming bunches of packs of cars on different strategies Sunday. Until the final restart with 25 to go and we get the big one that destroys 27 cars.
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harperdc posted:I might be wrong but I feel strongly that the names of races shouldn't require punctuation in the middle, sponsorship requirements be damned. not fan of the Go Bowling!.com 300 At The Glen?
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Peanut President posted:not fan of the Go Bowling!.com 300 At The Glen? I guess I should re-phrase it as “race names shouldn’t have multiple sentences”
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Slickdrac posted:(NASCAR channel is #unending-hell, if you're new, it probably won't take many races to understand why) One race, it took one race
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Ungratek posted:https://twitter.com/JennaFryer/status/1494770710136471556?s=20&t=uZhdI6tN_r-I47sd63PaHQ I've been searching around as to why they got confiscated and haven't been able to really find anything. I saw an interview with Brad K and he said it wasn't performance related changes but they made some safety related changes to the wheels. If you were really concerned about safety wouldn't you bring it to NASCAR to have it approved and then have it be broadcast to all teams so that everybody is safer? So smells like bullshit to me but of course it was a performance related change. Not sure what they could do, maybe make them lighter somehow and frame it in a way that it is somehow safer in the process?
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bigbillystyle posted:I've been searching around as to why they got confiscated and haven't been able to really find anything. I saw an interview with Brad K and he said it wasn't performance related changes but they made some safety related changes to the wheels. If you were really concerned about safety wouldn't you bring it to NASCAR to have it approved and then have it be broadcast to all teams so that everybody is safer? So smells like bullshit to me but of course it was a performance related change. Not sure what they could do, maybe make them lighter somehow and frame it in a way that it is somehow safer in the process? it got posted in the discord, something with the way the lug attaches to the wheel had been milled out. The question nascar has is a) is this intentional or is it wear b) is this safe or not and c) is this legal and if so how much can you do https://twitter.com/bobpockrass/status/1494795981317193736 edit: and this is a tweet thread about how the new wheels work https://twitter.com/BoziTatarevic/status/1494776166305210376
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Peanut President posted:it got posted in the discord, something with the way the lug attaches to the wheel had been milled out. The question nascar has is a) is this intentional or is it wear b) is this safe or not and c) is this legal and if so how much can you do just like my stock car.
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LOL ARCA is currently live on FS1. We have an 80 year old, a pizza delivery guy, and two people who have names shared with dead celebrities/athletes in the field, and just had a restart waved off because they were lined up three wide. e- Also, Toni Breidinger was just yelled at by her crew chief for lifting in the corners at Daytona. 
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Peanut President posted:it got posted in the discord, something with the way the lug attaches to the wheel had been milled out. The question nascar has is a) is this intentional or is it wear b) is this safe or not and c) is this legal and if so how much can you do Ah thank you. So I guess semi-safety if the wheels are getting hung up and feel like they are on and engaged when they are not and semi-performance from a pit-stop consideration, if they are easier to put on they are probably faster to go on.
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