Quote from Gougoodthing :

I'm guessing it was just an exhibition race, though?

Yes, I beleive that they have also ran exhibition races in Australia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ykQxIHhhnA

They also went to Twin Ring Motegi, which was a better race, but they used the oval (1998 & exhibition as well)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxAfyj8cgpM

I'm a little excited to be able to bring this news to you guys. I really like this change

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... se-qualifying-format.html

Group qualifying to come to the Sprint Cup Series at the road courses

Same as in the lower series'. No more one lap crap

Quote from DieKolkrabe :

Jeff crashed in qualy.

Well...44th on the grid apparently.

Has he actually ever DNQ'd for a race?

No, he has not in the Sprint Cup, but oddly enough he DNQ'ed for the 1991 Daytona Nationwide race . That's his only NASCAR DNQ : http://racing-reference.info/driver/Jeff_Gordon

Qualifying Results: http://racing-reference.info/getqualify/2013-08/W

Joe Nemechek qualified 37th and will not start the race due to the rulebook. The top 36 positions are set on qualifying time, and the last 7 are set by owners points. Joe had less owners points than everybody else outside of 36th.

Not sure where I should post this, but I think this will be a good place for it . NASCAR Winston (now Sprint) Cup at Suzuka in 1996 . Pretty good race (though a little messy at times as expected with NASCAR pre-00's)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKbvfnp5yU0

Last edited by Cornys, Sun 21 Apr 2013, 03:59.

IndyCar probably doesn't have any say in it. NBC usually carries golf (PGA) on Sundays. (Never mind, CBS carries golf usually, not NBC, so I'm confused.)

ABC doesn't want to broadcast all the races obviously for some reason. Even though their coverage isn't the greatest.

Looking at TV guide NBC has local programming on Sunday through 2:30 in competition with the Sprint Cup race, and then at 3 or so NHL (hockey) comes on. This is usual for them. They have F1 as well and it's trapped on NBC sports network..

Last edited by Cornys, Thu 18 Apr 2013, 12:47.

FO8 wouldn't handle F24 unfourtunately. That is correct. Great for XRT or something just a little slower than GT.

You guys could make an oval around the pit road wall at Fern Bay green if you wanted something different

I'd comment that I'd take away the KY3 layout in favor of another Aston event, but I'm sure that you have your reasons

Penske is also appealing.. they just might win that one

None of the others are.

http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20130417e

45 on the Kansas Cup series entry list

Same tires for this year's cup race as last year's fall race which was a crash fest and contained more cautions than any other on the schedule.

It's a sad occurance. Thoughts are with those involved.

That being said, there's not much else to read into it in my opinion. Only thing that I've learned that I didn't already know is that our media is completely retarded.

Look at the false reports that we've been hearing. They havn't even made an arrest and all of a sudden they have. Sigh.. wait until you know FOR CERTAIN before you report something!

The suicide at the NRA 500 is even further complicated because of the fact that guns were not permitted on the infield. Which the NRA would not be in favor of

Expect qualifying times this week to top 200 MPH possibly at Kansas. Also, notice that there were a couple of suspension problems in the first truly stressful 500 mile race of the year on parts (the Daytona 500 isn't)

Hopefully this will not be an issue moving forward with the added downforce. Darlington is rumored to be super fast this year too, so the Southern 500 in a few weeks will be our first real indication as to how much of an issue this really will be. This is just a growing pain for the Gen-6 car and should take care of its self in time.

I don't mind speeds over 200 at Kansas in qualifying. In the race though, I would find an issue with it. That almost certainly won't happen, but the forecast shows little chance of rain on Sunday with cloudy skies and a high in the 60's. These are good conditions for speed.

Last edited by Cornys, Wed 17 Apr 2013, 12:47.

This race had 4 "fake" cautions! Las Vegas had 2, Daytona had 3, and California had 3.

Phoenix (8 real cautions) and Martinsville (12 real cautions) didn't have any though.

Please tell me that I'm not the only person getting tired of it..

First night races of the year are tonight (Nationwide) and tomorrow (Cup)

Trucks at Rockingham on Sunday

Speeds in yesterday's testing were greater than last years pole speed of 190 average and they were around 192 for the top times

I was thinking that this would be a great race if it wasn't messy. I know now that it won't be clean nor will it be a great race even if it is :|

Take them to a track that has a pitlane or make the track add one.. For future reference if you want to make me happy (like that matters though to NASCAR)

Bring the Mansfield truck race back

Last edited by Cornys, Thu 11 Apr 2013, 22:54.

The Format for the Eldora truck race has been announced: http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... ude-qualifying-races.html

2 lap standard qualifying, 5 heat races, 1 LCQ, and a 150 lap feature split into 3 segments of 60, 50, 40. Not really sure why the race required segments .

Since there's not a pit lane they will have "non-competitive pit-stops" between each segment.

Quote from chanoman315 :

On which channel of directv is nascar? I couldnt find where to watch it.

When we had DirecTV Speed Channel was on channel 607 (Fox Sports 1 it will become this summer) and FOX was 28, but you're likely looking for your local FOX affiliate, so I couldn't tell you that for certain

Hope this helps

Quote from JackDaMaster :

wtf happened to mark martin in qualifying??

I beleive he said they got behind by teaching him how to drive Martinsville on Friday, but by Saturday they both got a handle on it, and even after some issues today he and the #11 ended up 10th .

Danica finished 12th, but her car was good enough to win.. if somebody else was driving it

It's Jeffery

Well, at Phoenix and Bristol right front tire problems have been prevalent with the Gen-6 car thanks to brake heat. Martinsville definitely has what it takes to be worse than both of these combined. Goodyear has brought a new tire compound developed last August for this car unlike Bristol's tire which was from last year. Will it be an issue this weekend?

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... atch-at-martinsville.html

Pretty nice video. Entertained me

Quote from dekojester :

First Kyoto 250 to experience a Red Flag.

I had a feeling that would happen when you made the comment that you did during the Kyoto 400

Quote from Eclipsed :

Got a very unlucky start,caution came out few laps before being lapped,thought it was a good break for me. Nope - then started the crashmas NDR easter edition - I have no idea how many crashes I had to avoid,few of them couldn't,so I was a often guest in pitlane to fix damage... After server went offline and restart,I just couldn't get back in rhythm. 22nd again,meh...

I felt the exact same way

At least I wasn't alone

Felt like everybody was wrecking right in front of me . 1 or 2 of the crashes in which I was involved were my fault. 1 was a lag bump (my only attempt at bump drafting) and the rest I was just right behind an incident. I was waiting for a long green flag run in which I wasn't crashed right at the restart.

Anyways, see you guys next year

Master Server is down . Every single caution but 2 has happened right in front of me If we get back to racing I'll go for it . Been surviving to this point . Enjoy the stream

Quote from Gougoodthing :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gA-1YXw78I

:bananadea

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec ... -biggest-attack-ever.html

Heck yeah I don't know how well he'll do, but we'll see Me's my favorite, and I don't make it a secret very often