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UPDATE 3: Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin was evaluated today by Dr. Jerry Petty of Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates after suffering an L1 Compression Fracture during an accident on the final lap of Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. Dr. Petty determined that Hamlin will not require surgery, but will need time to properly heal, which is estimated around six weeks time. Dr. Petty will make the determination when Hamlin will be able to return to racing this season. No decision has been made on a replacement driver for Hamlin during his absence from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.(Joe Gibbs Racing)(3-26-2013)

This from Jayski.com

Sadler would be nice to see in the #11.. question from me is can Denny still make the chase?

Here's the full interview (audio only): http://msn.foxsports.com/video ... lines&ocid=ansfoxrel1

Last edited by Cornys, Wed 27 Mar 2013, 02:29.

Expand the field to 31?

If no positions open up, good luck everybody

I have nothing wrong with blocking in a stock car until it causes a wreck. Yes, it's aggrivating, but that's a part of stock car racing.

Tony at Talledega was a bad block. Joey at Fontana was a good block. I guess Tony has a right to be mad, but the way I see it he really has no room to talk on the issue when his block last year caused almost the entire field to crash..

Darn you Phil.. you not racing caused me to miss the race.. you took my provisional spot...

Oh well

Quote from PMD9409 :

I'm guessing Logano isn't looking for respect from anyone anytime soon.

He might as well not show up for Martinsville in 2 weeks

Kyle Busch had the race won even before Logono and Hamlin wrecked, but what an exciting race . Hope that Hamlin will be okay. Obviously, he hurt his back, but hopefully it is not any worse than discomfort . I was pulling for him in the final laps

Logono has been adjusted to finishing 3rd due to the timing of the caution. A fair decision even though I don't like it. Reminds me of the 2011 Indy 500 in a way.

Last edited by Cornys, Mon 25 Mar 2013, 02:02.

Quote from Eclipsed :

My crappy connection and inability to bumpdraft really screws up any chances for good positions. Went good at start - stuck behind leaders,just sitting behind them,but wrong choice of line made me lose contact. Still was 4s in front of followers and 6th,but Eikelkamp lost contact to group,waited for me hoping for help (dude,you should not brake though!!!),first bump and my car is sideways off in greens... After that gained still stable qualifying position,but last caution really gave some stress,since I'm so lousy at restarts - but went well,ready for my 3rd K250,hoping to improve 27th and 22nd from previous years.

If I would have made the race I would have tried to draft with you.. Try the sling-shot draft... but I'm pretty sure i missed the race

Good luck today everybody I'll hope to qualify, but I'm not sure what I'll be able to do speedwise.

I've always wished that somebody would try to get rid of the pre-turn 3 pit entry and just have a single cone just off of turn 3 for entry at all times. I myself have been in the position to do so in my leagues though and I decided not to just for safety purposes. I do think that it's possible though.

NDR does have a lot of commitment locations on the pit entry though both for caution and green flag stops.

The NASCAR style pit signs just aren't going to happen in LFS... Sorry. Would be cool though.. but it would also be cool if we had 32 pit stalls rather than 16 . NDR uses a custom layout for their events; they don't use the standard one

http://www.intellicast.com/Loc ... st.aspx?location=USCA0384

Looks as though the weather will be nice and Sunny this weekend in Fontana

I might be able to make it to this one.

(I finally got a consistent and fast set-up after some practice last night )

Quote from Flame CZE :

Make sure the URL is http://newdimensionracing.com/testbin/kyoto250/serverinfo and not http://newdimensionracing.com/kyoto250/serverinfo.

When I go to the correct site it shows me logged in, but where the password should be it prompts me to log in rather than giving it to me. When I log in it sends me to the 2012 page and that password.

Edit: Fixed! The computer had me remembered from last year. I had to log out and then back in (same information)

Quote from CodeLyoko1 :

that means you typed the wrong password

Copy and pasted it

Edit: It keeps sending me to the 2012 page

Last edited by Cornys, Wed 20 Mar 2013, 21:59.

Using the password on the sign-up site I'm receiving a "wrong password" message :|

I have a job interview ending just a little bit before this time, so if I'm a little late don't wait on me

http://nascar.speedtv.com/arti ... cup-series-cars-too-fast/

NASCAR's looked into reducing the power on the Sprint Cup cars actually. I'm opposed, but that doesn't matter.

In other news, ratings were up from last year in Bristol (8%). This means that 3/4 of the points races so far have marked gains. This as contracts are about to expire on TV deals. I don't really care other than I hope NBC gets the 2 packages left on the table if FOX doesn't.

With that said, I have been really disappointed with FOX's coverage this year. Commercials at ALL of the wrong times.

Quote from PMD9409 :

Was more along the lines of brake heat, not heat of the tire through the corner.

WTF was I thinking . Yeah, more downforce actually is needed in that case to reduce the use of brakes.. Despite the fact that they have more now than before..

Maybe they need softer tires to take the corners faster . I'm a little baffled.

Cameron Corns's #5 Realistic NASCAR XRT

Quote from Gougoodthing :

Melting the bead.

As anticipated. They need to take away downforce like they planed to in the first place if so..

Well, Bristol is back I'd say

Pretty good race yesterday really . Far too many tire problems though. Are they melting the bead or are they just wearing out?

AJ comes home 13th in the 51, but Kurt comes home in 4th in the 78. Kyle had a strong run as well . Danica finishes 5 laps down without a single problem in this race . Martinsville will be BAD for her.

Terry finished in front of her

Oh, and the Twitter fight between Hamlin and Logano returned after the race

Last edited by Cornys, Mon 18 Mar 2013, 12:27.

I don't know. At Dover's June race last year it wasn't all white people at the track. Not to say it wasn't the clear majority, but still.

NASCAR's been doing a good job of becoming accessible to all ages and races recently. Now if they could ever be consistant with their calls and quit trying to make the races exciting rather than letting be as they will...

I had to share this

http://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/ ... rd/13110565?ocid=ansfox11

Quote from JackDaMaster :

wrong

Wow, they did that for the Fall race in 2011 I thought that it was just last year

I stand corrected

So, this means that the lead change totals are down no matter how you look at it . Looking forward to Bristol and California however, I think it's safe to say that the lead change totals will be up. Last year's Spring race at Bristol featured only 13 lead changes and the California race was rain shortened and caution free (until the rain at lap 125, and the race end at lap 129). That race only had 9 lead changes.

Last edited by Cornys, Wed 13 Mar 2013, 14:52.

44 on the entry list for Bristol

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/ne ... ristol-food-city-500.html

4 lead changes less so far this year than at the same time last year. However, Phoenix's repaved track doesn't seem to favor lead changes as much, so I'd say that it's a little bit ahead of last year because the Spring race last year was on the old configuration.

Last edited by Cornys, Tue 12 Mar 2013, 01:56.

Pretty good race at the end despite the two stupid yellows early

Quote from JackDaMaster :

Best. Caution. Ever.

This

2 real cautions now after the first 2 were pretty stupid

It's been shaping up to be a pretty good race so far though . Everybody's complaining about being loose. 43 laps to go. JGR (18, 20) vs. HMS (5, 48). JGR seems better on the short runs, HMS on the longer runs.

Every time that something interesting happens (lead change usually) it's during a commercial

Kenseth and BK take 0 tires and now they are 1, 2 infront of JJ and Kahane. Restart to come with just under 40 to go.

Last edited by Cornys, Sun 10 Mar 2013, 21:36.