NASCAR - Round 5 - Martinsville

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Martinsville Speedway, VA

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Track Details


Completed : 1947
Distance : .526 miles
Shape : Oval
Banking : 12° turns, 0° straights
Frontstretch : 800 feet
Backstretch : 800 feet
Seating : 65,000

Ah, Martinsville. Possibly my favourite of the short tracks. Basically a couple of 800ft drag strips with a handbrake turn at either end. Tough on brakes, tough on bodywork.

Hendrick cars look good around here. Both Gordon and Johnson have plenty of good results at this place. Kyle Busch always seems to go well here too. Like last time out, not sure I care who wins as long as it isn't the Braindead Moron.

Hopefully this doesn't get buried by the Aussie GP this weekend....
 
Truck race is good fun so far, if y'all can find a stream. Caution just got flagged again. Jason White got screwed thanks to some impatience in front of him. Damned shame.

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#3 caused it. Just one more Braindead Moron™ out there.
 
How the hell did I miss this?

Narain Karthikeyan, former Jordan F1 driver along with A1GP experience, made his first NCTS start today. He's just been involved in the latest caution, but he was doing okay for his first NASCAR event.

This is the first season in a while that I've not been up on the wheel with the Truck series. Maybe I should reconsider that, because this is pretty good.

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Epic work by Harvick and Nornaday there. Oh, and Tim Peters is my new favourite driver in the Truck series for that bit of work on the outside there. Racing on a knife-edge!


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And Jenny Jo Cobb. Great work by her there to get off the groove and keep the green flag flying. These guys could teach the Cup field a thing or two.

Narain Karthikeyan getting back up the order as well, in his first ever NASCAR race. Seriously good.
 
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That was a truly fantastic truck race, and if you weren't watching it then you're all finks.

Oh, and Sauter would like to punch Hornaday's lights out by the look of things. Tee hee :)
 
That was good, found the commentators quite amusing at points as well, eg when they 'made the call' that Sauter should pit to get his splitter fixed :p

Harvick looked to win all race long, and I liked the outside restart he did to ensure that he got 1st/2nd with his trucks.

Roll on tomorrow night for more short track madness :D
 
Peg said:
The weather does not look very good.
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No, it really doesn't!

SKILL said:
NASCAR really do need to get some wet tyres sorted out :p
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On a short track like this - yes, they might be able to use a wet tyre. Emphasis on 'might'. But these cars are trickier than they look - Detroit locker diff's, 3400lbs in weight, not a great deal of downforce.

Noon ET tomorrow looks like we'll go racing, weather permitting. Damned shame they couldn't get going today, but it really isn't an option until Goodyear sort some rubber out for short tracks and road courses. Speedways and superspeedways are never going to see wet running because the speeds and the banking just won't support it.

Oh, and before anyone starts bitching about that point - US GP 2005. That's how wrong the tyre guys can get it, and those are the consequences.
 
I may not have been completely serious there ¬_¬ :p

Ovals aren't really suitable for wet running, although they don't run road courses either but it seems a bit pointless to develop tyres/wipers etc just for 2? tracks a year...

Unfortunately I'm flying out to Switzerland tomorrow afternoon/evening so I'm gonna miss it, might have to acquire it elsewhere I guess :)
 
SKILL said:
although they don't run road courses either but it seems a bit pointless to develop tyres/wipers etc just for 2? tracks a year...
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Yeah, 2. Watkins Glen, where they've run since '86, is a great track that should probably be first choice if they fancy taking the Grand Prix circus back to the States. It's like Silverstone used to be, but with elevation changes and better facilities. And Sears Point is the other one - it's actually called Infineon, in the same way that the Loews Hairpin at Monaco is actually called something else these days....


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Mind, even Loews is a re-naming of what it was called waaaaaay back. The Station Hairpin. Still, damned near everyone I know calls it 'Loews'. And damned near everyone I know calls Infineon 'Sears Point Raceway' as well!
 
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Yeah, Watkins Glen is good, would it meet the 'standards' for F1 though? Not that there's many other options...

I don't call it Sears point, I either call it Infineon or "that hateful place that should be nuked from orbit" :p

I did/do call Lowes Motor Speedway Charlotte though (although I believe that may be back to being Charlotte properly now?)
 
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