NASCAR running thread

[Sam Mills 51]

Re: 2011 NASCAR running thread

Anyone else having transmission problems? The picture is breaking up constantly on both FOX stations I get (Green Bay and elsewhere). Is it a simple matter of line-of-sight issues related to the storm that's moving in south of me?

No trouble here. Then again, there's not a cloud in the sky. 8)

 

[UPChip]

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That's not going to be an issue anymore, I fear.

 

[Layman]

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Well...THAT's certainly going to shorten the field a bit...

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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God damn .

 

[YGBFKM]

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I guess rednecks can't watch TV and type at the same time.











Just kidding. Some of the coolest people I know are NASCAR fans. And quite smart.

 

[Layman]

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Hurrah for Trevor Bayne....but the frickin' Wood Brothers won the Daytona 500. Just awesome!!

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

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Hurrah for Trevor Bayne....but the frickin' Wood Brothers won the Daytona 500. Just awesome!!

This x 5!

Love me some Trevor Bayne!

 

[UPChip]

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Now I kind of wish I hadn't turned it off. Still breaking up, though.

 

[wicked]

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Eh, the racing really didn't do anything for me. You're playing roulette and if you're lucky, you hook up with the right person.

That's my uneducated view on it. Glad to see the Woods return to victory lane, though.

 

[imjustagirl]

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Good for a Nationwide full-timer to win the Daytona 500.

(credit: Autostock)

Also, three NASCAR races, three in which the winner accumulated no points. Kudos on a simplified points system!

 

[Layman]

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Eh, the racing really didn't do anything for me. You're playing roulette and if you're lucky, you hook up with the right person.

That's my uneducated view on it. Glad to see the Woods return to victory lane, though.

Wasn't a work of art, but that's the current state of restrictor plate racing. It was different, interesting,sort of fun (IMO). Just cool to see the 21 in Victory Lane. Good, old, racin' folk (the Woods, that is).

 

[Sam Mills 51]

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Great stuff for the Wood Brothers. Outstanding.

And the first time I had ever heard of Trevor Bayne was a certain board poster's son, who had briefly mentioned him once when I was staying with the poster and his family. Heady stuff ... and I wonder if they remember?

 

[Shoeless Joe]

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Congratulations Trevor Bayne.

I was standing in the middle of the living room cheering and driving as hard as he was.

 

[TigerVols]

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Congratulations Trevor Bayne.

I was standing in the middle of the living room cheering and driving as hard as he was.

As was this fellow Tennessean. Happiest I've been to see a winner since Sterlin' !

 

[Shoeless Joe]

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(break out a chorus of Rocky Top)

 

[D-3 Fan]

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I'm pulling for the Wood Brothers car. Nearly as big a win within NASCAR as Junior's would be, just wouldn't resonate outwardly.

Did you know people would be writing crap 10 years later about your "legacy" being improved safety? Did you realize that could have been your legacy BEFORE your death? The way some make it sound, you are some kind of safety martyr. But you weren't. When it came to safety, you were a damn fool.

Oh, and this.

As a Tennessean, Pearson fan of old and Ford man to the marrow, I'd like nothing better than to see Trevor Bayne to win in the 21.

You called it, Joe.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

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Admittedly, I'm not a NASCAR fan. Always been more of an open-wheel fan (although, auto racing is low on the list of sports).

But, that really wasn't racing. You got teammates pushing each other, instead of trying to pass each other? Is that just what racing has become now? Are all NASCAR races like that now?

AJ Foyt, Richard Petty would be turning over in their graves (if they were dead).

 

[D-3 Fan]

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I listened to the final laps on radio on the way to a short meeting. Folks may say that Junior must have bad luck after getting his tires switched out and then got caught up in another wreck today near the end.

Is it me or do I think that it's time that the excuses (wicked stepmom, incompetent crew chief, bad car, etc) are no longer the reasons why he can't win, beyond the bad luck?

I bring it up because Quad City Times writer Nate Bloomquist just inserted a thorn in the side of Junior fans with this column: http://qctimes.com/sports/columnists/article_efcf6d10-3c7c-11e0-9ab8-001cc4c03286.html

 

[playthrough]

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Eh, the racing really didn't do anything for me. You're playing roulette and if you're lucky, you hook up with the right person.

That's my uneducated view on it. Glad to see the Woods return to victory lane, though.

Wasn't a work of art, but that's the current state of restrictor plate racing. It was different, interesting,sort of fun (IMO). Just cool to see the 21 in Victory Lane. Good, old, racin' folk (the Woods, that is).

I just couldn't get hooked on the two-man dance today. I always liked the guilty pleasure of plate racing and the 30-car pack of nail-biting. The commentators tried so hard to sell the "two-man drafting is harder", all the dealmaking, etc., etc., but i wasn't buying.

Great winner in Bayne though. If Junior couldn't win, a young'un was the next best script for NASCAR.

 

[Sxysprtswrtr]

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Eh, the racing really didn't do anything for me. You're playing roulette and if you're lucky, you hook up with the right person.

That's my uneducated view on it. Glad to see the Woods return to victory lane, though.

Wasn't a work of art, but that's the current state of restrictor plate racing. It was different, interesting,sort of fun (IMO). Just cool to see the 21 in Victory Lane. Good, old, racin' folk (the Woods, that is).

That was my feeling ... different, interesting, sort of fun.
Happy to see a young kid win such a big race.