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

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It's a new car. Going to take a while before they get it all figured out. And we need to see how it works at somewhere other than a plate track before condemning it.

I'm quite glad that the NASCAR.com comments sections are down right now, because I suspect they'd be lit up with all manner of abuse. JJ, beating Junior to the win at Daytona? That'd bring down all kinds of hell in previous years :D

Aaaaaaaaanyway, congrats to Danica on another entry in the history books. And a top ten finish as well, not a bad result at all. And a special word if I may for Carl "Braindead Moron™" Edwards, who finished Speedweeks in the manner that he ran most of it by crashing. Get wrecked once, it's bad luck. Twice, it's really bad luck. But just how many times did he wreck a car over the course of the Daytona meeting? Four, five? At some point, you have to wonder if it's bad luck or....maybe not bad driving per se, but putting your car in harm's way and then being surprised at the outcome is not a way to build a championship challenge. And in a Roush car, you should be challenging for the championship. I'm trying to work out if he's actually set a record for the number of cars torn to bits in Speedweeks. If he hasn't, he's got to be close.
 
Michael McDowell's team has withdrawn their entry (they simply don't have enough Gen-6 cars built and ready to race), so the Cup race will see 43 cars trying to qualify for 43 starting spots. Hey ho. AJ Allmendinger is in the #51 Phoenix Racing car, making his return to Sprint Cup following suspension for a positive drug test while racing for Penske last year.

In Nationwide news, Jeremy Clements has been a naughty boy. And we're up to 41 cars in the entry list now! Still a lot of sponsors to be announced, but things are getting better. Slowly.

Side note - how much does the new NASCAR.com site suck? Slow to load, massively over-complicated, harder to navigate and find what you want....maybe it'd be easier to work with if I had a faster internet connection, but on a 2Mb line it just doesn't work.
 
Skeeter said:
I will give an internet cookie to anyone who can tell me what was the UK's second purpose built race track (as a clue, it is relevant to this thread).
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So, no airfields turned into racetracks, or street tracks, no parks so that's Crystal Palace out, no test tracks that got re-purposed....

Rockingham?
 
Skeeter said:
Also noticed that the Bristol round slots nicely into my epic Sebring/Formula 1 motorsports weekend :D. Have they made changes to the banking since the dull as dishwater race at the start of last year?
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Yeah, they took two degrees out of the upper part of the progressive banking. Combined with the track rubbering in, that made for a better spectacle. Still needs more work, and Bruton Smith is still weighing up exactly what to do.
 
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Didn't see it yet as I've only just got in. Seen the result though. Deeply unhappy.

If it really was as dull as ditch-water I won't bother grabbing it from RFM - no need to put myself through the trauma of watching the Braindead Moron™ winning a race if I don't have to....
 
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Mr. Five-time still has the points lead though. :p The response from the Nascar fanbase when Danica had the tyre blowout was utterly predictable (I guess they forgot the same thing happened to her teammate Ryan Newman).
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Figures. Looking at the video replays on NASCAR.com, I'd love to know what the armchair experts would have had Newman and Patrick do differently to save those cars. In Danica's case, it was almost literally just a second between the tyre popping and the car contacting the outside wall. Unlucky for David Ragan.

Guess the Stewart-Haas team needs to look at the baseline setup of their cars. Newman had lost another right-front tyre before losing the one that sent him into the fence for good. You don't melt the beads off three right-front tyres in a single afternoon without there being some kind of miscalculation - maybe the tyre blowers weren't mounted right, or there was too much camber, but something was off.

Toyota Racing Development is doing some serious homework to get to the bottom of the engine issues we've seen. Hope they take their time :D
 
Entry list for Vegas. Michael McDowell's back after having last week off because the team didn't have a car ready for him.

In Nationwide, Richard Petty Motorsports has got Reed Sorenson sitting in for Michael Annett while he heals up from the crash at Daytona (fractured and dislocated sternum....ouchies). Normal recovery time from the surgery that he's had to plate and pin his chest back into shape is two months, but everyone's optimistic that he'll be back in the car sooner than that.

Not like the good ol' days, huh? ;)
 
Missed the Nationwide race, but it sounds like it was a good 'un. Congrats to Kyle and Kyle for providing the fans with some entertainment!

About five hours to go until the Cup race, and it's still looking a bit wet in Bristol, TN according to the weather reports I've seen. Hope it dries up and they can get going with no/minimal delays.
 
So, Kyle Busch completes the sweep of the weekend. Not a surprise. The manner of his win wasn't a surprise either - the Logano\Hamlin crash was pretty much always going to happen if they were close on-track, especially racing for the win. There isn't one ounce of respect between those two right now - not a great way to go racing. For all of Hamlin's dismissive comments about Logano, he's behind him in the overall standings now.

Tony Stewart got into it with Logano post-race as well, he felt that Joey had blocked him too hard on a restart. And this illustrates the difference between Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin nicely. Hamlin will have a snide word about things for the cameras, a bit of bitching, and might retaliate on-track down the line. Tony Stewart will....well, he'll do this. Gotta love Smoke :D

Dale Earnhardt Jr. has the points lead now. That final 10 laps he made up 17 places, running the old-school high line. Hope he gets back to Victory Lane soon.
 
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