Very sad news. Too young, and too much ahead of him. Thoughts especially towards his son Charlie :'(

Well, for the 3rd straight year.. I won't be able to make it to race day. I work until 3:30 and the green is at 1:45

"Juan Pablo Montoya talking about teams struggles about earlier in the year, 'we were behind Danica in points.' said a matter of factly."

Bob Pockrass via Twitter

Today's race was dominated by Jimmie... HMS is going to like the TRD engine problems I'm afraid . Jr ran nicely the entire day and brought it home 3rd . It's nice to see the most popular driver actually be competitve (for the win) for once

Watched flag to flag for the first time this year (Missed bits of the 500). Not all that bad, but the 2nd caution screwed nearly half of the field over

Jimmie is stuck up, but I don't really think it's Jimmie; I think it's Chad who's "rubbed off" onto him. Chad always is telling him what he's done and he's always seemed to think that he's better than the competition. Slowly, I think Jimmie has picked it up from him with all of the time that they spend together.

There was no doubt in my mind that the restart was jumped. Like you guys said earlier, it was Jimmie, then it was the field a whole car length behind. It would have been okay if he was the leader, but he just wasn't. It's Juan's restart to make

Look for Juan to win a race this season . I think Pocono would be a good track for him, but of course the road courses

Happy Hour practice times for tomorrow's Party in the Poconos 400
http://www.jayski.com/stats/2013/pdfs/14poc2013prac2.pdf

I approve of more and new official content. Don't care if hardly anybody uses it. I like just about anything myself . I just enjoy motorsports . Sometimes your get tired of the same things :|

SPOILERS!!! Don't read if you don't want to know yet! (not sure how many watch downloads around here still) So, Jimmie Johnson gets black flagged and JPM almost wins another oval race only to have it taken from him. Pretty interesting race in the final 100 laps

Also, TRD engines were more like TuRD engines at Dover

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Quote from Gougoodthing :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws6SBtYgBkI

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Wow, nice find and thanks for sharing

Here's the wreck that caused the second red flag of the race: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpGHcS-3ejU

Quote from S3ANPukekoh3 :

video?

There really isn't a good video of it because the cable was so thin you can hardly see it on camera. Here's what NASCAR published on YouTube about the incident straight from the FOX broadcast: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD8VozXLi60

There's probably a better video, because I saw at least one good replay during the broadcast. Sadly I can't find that one

3 fans were taken to a locl hospital and releaced

I knew FOX sucked, but I didn't realize it was this bad

Quote :

• Negotiations for a new television contract that would go into effect in 2015 are "getting down to the last bit of it.''

France said his hope is to renew with the incumbents. Fox already has renewed from 2015-2022 for a reported $300 million a year. ESPN and TNT are the other current partners. NBC also is a player for a major portion of the 36-race schedule.

"My hope is to remain where we are,'' France said. "But that's why you have negotiations and discussions. We'll have to see how that plays out.''

http://espn.go.com/racing/nasc ... -charlotte-race-las-vegas

What on Earth is wrong with Brian France? Does he even watch the coverage of the races on TV!? . Evidently not.

Quote :

There will be no new venues when the 2014 schedule is released later in the year.

Go figure

Quote from dekojester :

Pics I took at Carb Day 2013

You mean drunk day?

Anyways, 30% chance of rain starting at 1PM and lasting the rest of the day. It shouldn't be an issue. We a few hundred miles west of Indy have had that all week and we've got nothing more than a sprinkle on one of the days. Nothing all other days

It should be exciting . Green flag in just over an hours

I started work this week and I have had a lot of time to think it over. I've been thinking about taking the trip Sunday morning from 4AM to 8AM to watch the race then drive home that evening. The only thing holding me back is the fact that I don't know if I'd be able ot stay awake

Sadly, I decided not to go. 5AM to 3:30 PM shift Wed - Saturday has left me more tired than I'd like (And it's only Friday night ). I'd be able to drive, but not likely enjoy it like I want to. Next year though, I'm almost certain I'll be there to cross it off my bucket list

I'm looking up the lights series finish

Quote :

People just want to hate. I'm just lucky and NASCAR rigs the races. Whatever the fans want to believe. I'm going home with a cool trophy and a big check and we all really know what happened. So whatever.

-Jimmie Johnson (After winning the All-Star race Saturday night)

I actually think that V6 is the way to go in the lower series' . (Reads the article).

Actually, V6 would be just fine by me as long as the power was nearly the same. NASCAR needs to do what it takes to get closer to stock as far as look, feel, and size. Speed is really the only thing that needs to be different as well as saftey. I love that changes that the Gen-6 car has to get there (shorter rear deck lid, lighter weight, ect). I hope that a Gen-7 car would get even further and not reduce car counts like it has with the Gen-6 so far. When did your stock car have a V8 in it last?

Also, 44 on the Coke 600 entry list.

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Yawn. It seems like they keep taking races away from mile and a halfs and they keep giving them back to mile and a halfs (Nothing against the type, but there's too many of them as it is!)

Atlanta gave Kentucky a race. (California) gave a date to Kansas.

Iowa, Road America, Mid-Ohio, a Canadian Track, CotA, Rockingham to stay in the same general area (Yeah right), any new race track that's not a mile and a half . I'm with you PMD.

Since nobody else has posted this yet.. I'll post it here

2013 Indy 500 Starting Grid: http://espn.go.com/racing/grid ... 260106&series=indycar

Chevy dominates qualifying as we already knew

. Danica probably was the fan vote.. lol.. she was fast...

The All-Star race always used to be one of the best races of the year. It's just a short race with a lot of cautions any more.

Quote from Rappa Z :

If Montoya popped around all we would hear about is how he might secretly be planning to run the double. Just like when Stewart popped around the pits unannounced a few years ago.

One dryer spotted!

Yeah

Talladega (2.66 miles) went from hail storm to race track in 100 min (1:40) a few weeks ago. The banking there helps a little, but with the same systems Indy (2.5 miles) could be ready to go in a little under 2 hours. Like I said, the way it looks right now, it'll probably be more than 3 hours. . The rain stopped just around 10:45 EST and it is now 12:05 and it's still really wet..

Edit: I guess I'm just really disappointed that qualifying isn't able to go off as scheduled

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Also, would anybody happen to know a good stream for tonight's All Star race? I'll be away from TV's which are able to get Speed. :|

Quote from Rappa Z :

How can Indianapolis, almost without a doubt the most famous oval in the world, not have even ONE jet dryer?

I was asking myself this very same question . Then I found this article.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nascar/news?slug=ycn-11041942

So where are they!?

Yeah.. they have 8 trucks running over the track.. no jet dryers. No air titans (wouldn't expect that, but still). Like this it would take around 3 hours or more to dry the track since it has standing water in places it appears

Edit: Holy cow, those trucks are moving They are probably going around 90mph

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Qualifying for the 2013 Indy 500 begins today in about 33 min

After watching the truck series race I feel pretty bad for Bubba Wallace. He had a pretty good run going and he threw it way with only a few laps to go. You could see how bad he felt about it.

Quote from Bmxtwins :

Awful news and I don't quite understand it.

Apparently he commited suicide in a cemetary in North Carolina. Perhaps he was already ill and decided to do it himself.

No reason to speculate though really. I was young when I saw him race, but it makes me feel old seeing people like that go.

Career Statistics: http://racing-reference.info/driver/Dick_Trickle

So.. the Fan Vote for the All-Star race...

https://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=75859

Like these ovals. A lot of people think that Autocross ovals are really boring though

I really like the idea though