NASCAR 2013 Sprint Cup season (other series discussion welcome!)

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Darrell Wallace Jr took his first Truck series win at Martinsville, moving him up to 8th in the points standings. Matt Crafton maintains a 51 point lead over James Buescher.

In the Sprint Cup race, Jeff Gordon took a surprise win, moving him to 3rd with 3 races remaining in the championship. Matt Kenseth (7 wins) and Jimmie Johnson (5 wins) are tied on 2294 points, 27 ahead of Gordon.
 
Indy500 said:
Darrell Wallace Jr took his first Truck series win at Martinsville
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A pretty convincing win as well. I think he led nearly half the race all told.

Not a bad day for the NASCAR D4D initiative either. Any win that has commentards and trolls spitting tacks over a black guy winning in a (traditionally) white man's sport is a good 'un! The sport itself has moved on from Wendell Scott only being declared a winner long after the event, one day the final remaining moronic (and unfortunately very vocal) element of the fanbase will wake up and grow one or two more braincells.

Indy500 said:
In the Sprint Cup race, Jeff Gordon took a surprise win, moving him to 3rd with 3 races remaining in the championship. Matt Kenseth (7 wins) and Jimmie Johnson (5 wins) are tied on 2294 points, 27 ahead of Gordon.
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I'm honestly not sure which way this is going to go. I *think* Jimmie will take the title. But I'm really not sure.
 
Phoenix is almost always a weird one at the second visit. And to be honest Homestead doesn't always play nice. Which leaves Texas. Jimmie won that event last year, but in 8 TMS November races no-one has won two on the bounce.

Naw. I'm making no predictions, apart from one - I predict that whatever happens, people will still bitch, moan and act retarded about it. But especially if Jimmie wins.





OH WELL.
 
Jimmie Johnson did indeed win the Cup race at Texas (leading 255 of 334 laps), opening up a 7 point lead over Matt Kenseth going into Phoenix.

The Nationwide series title race closed up, with Sam Hornish Jr only 5 points behind Austin Dillon.

Over in the Trucks, Matt Crafton holds a sizable 47 point advantage ahead of last year's champion James Buescher.
 
Didn't mind a Toyota winning the Truck race for once - Erik Jones becomes the youngest winner in the history of the series at 17 years old (born 30th May '86). Matt Crafton finished in 5th, his lead in the title race is such that I believe he only needs to start the final race at Homestead to win the championship.
 
Phoenix is all done, so just the final round at Homestead to go. And 'five-time' has one hand on his sixth title. Matt Kenseth had a struggle, and lost a lot of ground to Jimmie Johnson in the title race. JJ leads Kenseth by 28 points going into the last round - finish 23rd or better, and he's the champion. He can also secure it with a finish of 24th and a lap led, or 25th and the most laps led. Harvick is 34 points behind, he's the only other driver in contention for the title but he'd need a miracle from there. If JJ takes it, prepare your souls for the incredible amount of wailing and crying about how the #48 team are cheats :rolleyes:

Over in Nationwide, Austin Dillon will take the title with 3rd or better, 4th with a lap led, 5th with the most laps led. And in the Trucks, as I noted earlier all Matt Crafton has to do is start the race to become champion.
 
Its a shame about Trevor Bayne, but good to hear that he's going to continue racing..

Congrats last night to Austin Dillon for his winning the nationwide series (without winning a single race)..
 
Ceryndrion said:
Congrats last night to Austin Dillon for his winning the nationwide series (without winning a single race)..
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Consistency got him the title. He's not had many outstanding races this season, but by the same token he hasn't had many utterly dire ones.

Congrats to Matt Crafton as well, for winning the Truck series merely by turning up at the last race of the season :D I kid, but literally that is all that he had to do to secure the crown. And he's only won once all year.
 
Tell you what though, this would be a joke if it was actually funny rather than merely sad. Look at the tables for this season in Nationwide. Count the wins for people actually going for the Nationwide championship, then count how many races Kyle Busch won.

Nationwide championship-eligible drivers won four races. Kyle won twelve. Cup regulars won 29 races all told. 29, out of 33. And it's been like this for years - in 2011 non-championship cars took 28 wins, in 2012 they took 20. The whole point of nominating which series you were competing for the title in was to stop this, and get teams to sign drivers on who were graduating from ARCA or other late model series.

Also makes you wonder why Kyle doesn't give up on winning a Cup title, and drop back to spend his weekends annihilating everyone in the Nationwide series full-time. Maybe the money for failing in Cup is just too good.
 
It's the one thing that I find annoying about the nationwide series, they badly need to get rid of the cup regulars, as it ruins the racing. I don't want to see the cup drivers destroying the competition in what they see as a glorified test session.
 
JRS said:
The whole point of nominating which series you were competing for the title in was to stop this, and get teams to sign drivers on who were graduating from ARCA or other late model series.
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Nobody really seems willing to sponsor those drivers. Monster Energy wants Kyle Busch in the car, Discount Tire insist on Keselowski, etc. It's cheaper to sponsor a Cup driver in Nationwide, I guess that's the appeal? The closure of KBM for next year takes away another seat from a promising young driver.

Nascar don't see Trucks\NNS as development series, they aren't concerned about Buschwhacking\claim-jumping. As long as they get the TV money and sell tickets to Junior fans, it seems...

JRS said:
Also makes you wonder why Kyle doesn't give up on winning a Cup title, and drop back to spend his weekends annihilating everyone in the Nationwide series full-time. Maybe the money for failing in Cup is just too good.
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Perhaps he needs to be fired by Gibbs :p...worked for brother Kurt anyway, look at what happened with the Furniture Row team this year - substantially better results than 2012 with Regan Smith.
 
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Had a post there, unfortunately Stretton internet took care of that! Suffice to say, Johnson won so I'm happy. I suspect the massed forces of internet fandumb are not. OH WELL....

Congrats to Jimmie Johnson, the #40 team and Hendrick Motorsports for winning the title and winning it well. To have a lowest finish of 13th for the Chase and finish in the top 10 otherwise is a bloody good run by anyone's standards. Richard Petty reckons that JJ isn't done winning titles yet - I'm not going to bet against him eclipsing Petty and Earnhardt on 7. I don't think he'll ever get close to The King's 200 wins in top-flight NASCAR competition, but then.....well, I guess anything is possible.

I'll do a full round-up of my thoughts on the season this week. And then I shall get the hell out of dodge and not go anywhere near any NASCAR fandumb sites for a while. Life is far too short to spend any of it in the company of myopic motorsport 'fans' who are so thick that they can barely remember to breathe in and out once in a while.
 
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