Dave Blaney, John Andretti, Joe Nemechek, David Reuitman, Michael Waltrip, Jacuqes Villeneuve (i'm surprised at this because Villeneuve clocked a 42nd fastest at practice) all at the front wtf.....
I know Boris is not happy but oh well
IMO NASCAR should make the provisionals that the top 15 points in owners instead of top 35. This way it'll be more fair.
Man I was hoping Blaney would find his way around Johnson and Gordon. I really wanted Toyota to have a win oh well.
It was the most exciting race I've seen this entire season. 17 cars out. I found it hilarious how steward made three bad moves in a row that constantly got him shuffled to the back
Well considering that Truex blew an engine and Menard's car would have blown if not for the crash, I dont think this was anything special. I mean like 10 cars blew up today including some of the chasers.
MAN John Andretti CAN NOT CATCH A BREAK (Makes me wonder if the Andretti Curse is active outside of Indy ). This is his best chance to get a good finish and maybe a win but NOOOO a blown tire -_-
Good job to Michael Waltrip, being a major factor throughout the race. It's kinda good to see him up front again
Good job to Villeneuve keeping his nose clean today. Although I was kinda disappointed because I never saw him up front. I wanted him to battle it out with the leaders . Well, this shows that he has a lot to learn about draft racing. BTW, why did he retire with like 3 laps to go?
I was happy to see him drop back to the rear of the field before the start. It would've been real ugly if he would've held his qualify position. Smacking the wall as hard as he did would probably explain why he finished the race on the apron.
I guess we enjoy diffrent types of racing, but I found that the most boring Talladega race I have ever seen. I have been going to both races there for about 10 years now.... this was, by far, the most boring race I have ever seen live. I think they made a big mistake when the re-surfaced the track, it looks better, but no-where near as fun to watch.
I have to agree with th84, the race was boring. Maybe because a lot of the boredom had to do with engines blowing and the one pile up. But I mainly think it was just the people werent doing anything besides staying in a line for 50 laps, and the chasers didn't do much during the race at all until the last few laps.
I was paying attention to the usual backmarkers of NASCAR, which includes Michael Waltrip, David Reutiman, John Andretti, and Dave Blaney, Ken Schrader
I really didn't care too much about the chasers, which is probably why I found it more exciting than others
They decide at like 10 (or so?!) races left, that the top 10 (or whatever) in points should be reset to 0 pts, and all the other wankers get their existing points standings as final (I think), and they duel out the last 10 (or so?!) races amongst the chase drivers.
America really likes the "playoff" style of sports and NASCAR responded to that.
As for people complaining, I really dont know anyone who whole heartedly complained about it.
As for the drivers outside of the 12, it kinda have the opposite effect.
Instead of playing safe and trying to win the championship, they are taking insane amount of chances trying to win races within the last 10 races. So instead of drivers feeling down and giving up, they are actually doing just the opposite. Now they dont have points to worry about and they are all trying to win as much races as they can.
On a side note: I really think NASCAR should change the provisional rules. The "go or go home" cars work so hard day and night to make the races and most if not all of them out do some of the regulars in qualifying. I hate to see people like Boris Said, Kevin LePage, Ward Burton and Jeremy Mayfield miss race after race after race when they clock in times that are better than half the field.
I complained and stepped away from NASCAR in road circuit racing. So I know it pissed at least ONE person off. It doesn't matter how well the points leader did the first 2/3 of the season, as long as your in the top 12 and finish well in the last 1/3 of the season you win a championship. Nevermind that someone else had dominated the first 2/3 of the season. It does make it more entertaining but it's getting too far away from what I feel real racing is.
Just to explain how into NASCAR I was before they did this. I had $25,000 set aside to run at the local track Kenseth started to kick his career off. My neighbor was running superlates with Kenseth and I was going to get help from him. My Dad also used to race. It was all set and I was getting geared up to race, until they put the 'chase' in. Instead I bought a car to drive daily and play on the computer, which I am grateful for now, it costs too much to race real cars. Even my SRT-4 costs too much and I have only been on Silverstone for a few laps, and thats not even a real racecar, almost though =) To put my car on the track for a track-day would cost me nearly £1,000 for a full day!
But thats OT. I no longer will watch NASCAR and only check the standings once every few months to see where Kenseth is at and thats only because I saw him race when I was a kid while he made his was into NASCAR.
). This is his best chance to get a good finish and maybe a win but NOOOO a blown tire -_-