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

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Joe T said:
Anyone else go to Brands for the Euro Nascars the other weekend?
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Unfortunately not, had to run an errand of mercy (a long story involving a VW flat-four, a **** of a tuner who shall not be named and an overly trusting owner).

Seen the photos and vids though, that Superbird replica looked a bit weird to me - like a Daytona/Superbird cross breed with a hoodscoop.

Sounded good though:


What's it running, stroker Hemi?
 
I'm stoked for it. Eldora's a great track, they've got CWTS regulars with some dirt-surface ringers entered, there's apparently some guys from the regular Truck tour signing up for late model races on dirt to practice....gonna be good :)
 
Tony Stewart won't be driving at the Glen. Smoke was racing in a Sprint Car event in Iowa the other day, got into a crash and broke his right leg. He's had surgery, but needs another operation as well to get it all sorted. Max Papis is driving the #14 this weekend.

Ends his chase hopes for this season as well, he's going to be out a few weeks.
 
End of an era. Never thought I'd see the day that NAPA and Mikey Waltrip would part ways.

So, how long before the latest addition to the NASCAR rulebook gets ignored?

"NASCAR requires its competitors to race at 100 percent of their ability with the goal of achieving their best possible finishing position in an event."
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If NASCAR think that multi-car teams are going to send their drivers out with orders to only help themselves and not each other then they're puddled. Hell, I remember times under the older points system (Winston Cup era) where a team would field a start-and-park car in the final round because their championship leading driver only needed something like a 39th place finish to win the title, and that meant one car was immediately out of the equation.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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