2012 NASCAR thread

These adverts are unbelievable! Cutting ot adverts 6 laps before half way, return 2 laps from half way. America is ridiculous, i LOATHE adverts.
 
OMG Race was under yellow as the track was getting damp and they had jet Dryers on track when Montoya crashed into one of the jet Dryers and fuel from the turbine dryer leaked all over the track and melted the tarmac!
 
You couldn't make it up! Montoya has now crashed into every nascar vehicle there is :p I do hope this race finishes properly though although the rain could be on its way :(
 
I'd just like to lodge a protest that the re-scheduled race caused my DVR to record it, instead of the originally programmed new episode of House :p
 
I had to stop watching at 4 am due to being a girl so i'm still waiting to see the the last 40 laps, if they happened? Would be grateful if someone knows whether they got the restart. I don't want to google it because i know for a fact i'll end up with the winner and that will ruin it!
 
I am amazed Montoya wasn't badly hurt.

What about the poor guy driving the dryer? Montoya was wearing every safety device known to man in a car built to give the driver a chance in a 200mph accident while the guy driving the jet dryer was wearing civvies in a vehicle not built to take any impact. Montoya also has previous for wrecking vehicles under yellow. He should never have been driving that fast near safety vehicles.
 
Well he is allowed to go faster than 55mph on caution to catch up to the pack. Something on his car failed. Would have crashed even at a slower speed.
 
Well he is allowed to go faster than 55mph on caution to catch up to the pack. Something on his car failed. Would have crashed even at a slower speed.

He had already told his pit crew that something had broken on the back of his car so anyone with an ounce of common sense would have driven slower when there were marshalls on the track.
 
Did something fail, or did he just drop a wheel onto the (wet) yellow line?
He had a monstrous vibration in all 4 gears apparently, so it seems likely that something in the rear broke.
If you watch the video in HD (if you can find it, now that there's millions of crappy quality versions which were recorded using a potato) you can see the back of the car drop and sparks fly out just before JPM veers towards the drier.
 
Yeah, just seen the sparks.

Not really his fault then. Freak accident. Still scary as hell though. They need to beef up the protection of the fuel tanks for the drying trucks.
 
He had already told his pit crew that something had broken on the back of his car so anyone with an ounce of common sense would have driven slower when there were marshalls on the track.

No, he said he had vibrations. Vibrations don't mean you slow down they mean you tell your pit crew and they try and work out what it is while you drive and cope with it. If these drivers slowed down every time something might happen racing wouldn't exist.
 
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