For once Brian asks do you want a drink, Juan says no I'm good

Usually Juan asks for a drink, and complains cos sometimes they forget to hand him one!

But then again it's cooler today, it's fall now.

two tires should be good now .. its too early and track position is very important at this early stage..

*insert barrage of expletives about Jr's crew*

He was just doing some impromptu body work. He thought the car was too wide on the right side.

Trackbar adjustment

Spotter: "turns 3 and 4, you said you were loose, you caught the cars in front real quick" LOL ...Yeah I know but on the next lap I was too far out had to ease the throttle...

I guess everyone who was racing at the front took 4.. ???
Truex and Kurt gain a bunch of poistions by taking two..
what has happened to Kyle lately.

After pit stop Brian reveals Right rear on the 42 had a slow leak and was going down.

RR had a pressure of 52.2 lbs

They just went down a certain percentage overall on all four tyres I think, plus the track bar adjustment. Hopefully it's not too much an overreaction to the low tyre.

They should be OK. No worse than the last run anyway.

#42 restarts in 12th after three cars took two tyres so he lost one position on pit road compared to the others who took four (Jeff Gordon passed him essentially)

Have to say, impressed with Brad K so far. Thought he might drop back a bit, but he's up there in the top 5.

JPM dusted Gordon and kahne on the restart.

I can't wait until Hamlin gets near him.

Hear Monty's tyre leaking? That was cool TV right there.

Yeah. That was freaky.

Brad giving smoke a run for his money.. Come on Juan join the party..

Two tyres looking like a really good strategy right now...Kurt has a vibration so he's not a good gauge, but Truex hanging tough and of course Biffle still leading...

Smoke got past Truex but now Truex is showing that n00b Keselowski what's up. Hopefully this allows JPM to close up and blow by them both!

Papis just gave JJ the lead..

Well they are very good friends. JJ and his wife visited with Max' family near Lake Como during an off week.

"it could turn a little better and we still need a little more forward bite"

Monty's comments. He isn't complaining as much as he usually does, I guess the car is pretty neutral.

Seems to make up spots on every stint, up to 5th and this is on some adjustments made on the basis of having a tyre going down that they didn't know about.

According to announcers NASCAR officials visited Keselowski´s pit stall to remind he should not race the Chase contenders too hard. What the hell...are we in NASCAR or WWE?

Brian: I'm thinking about just doing tyre pressures percentage wise. You OK with that?
JP: Yes, sir.

By the way if you find your attention wandering, the link "BALLS" in my sig is the finish of last year's Kansas race. Worth a look.

Here in the UK Sky just switched back from a rather good back channel to the main channel
The picture is horrible

Oh well..so much for satellite bit rate
Jp
Bloody Craashlowski

I can't believe it. Brad Keselowski with yet another IDIOT move.

JPM: Move.. get out the way .. get out the way.. move..

He turned into Monty, didn't he?

He sure did. What's his deal?

I mean, the kid is a part-time rookie. Not even full time. And Juan is not only a full time car, he's running THIRD in the points, well in the chase, contending for a championship.

Who in the fVck does this snot-nosed punk think he is?

goes in 3rd.. and comes out.. ?????????????

Yeah buddy! JPM's guys get him out in second place, behind JJ.

Should be an epic battle to lead a lap on the restart.

2nd.

Yay. The battle is on.

Yeah. Sounds idiotic. Maybe he should have listened to the NASCAR officials. No longer impressed Mr K.

Hope Monty has a word after the race. Think only a word will do.

I don't know how Biffle retained the lead, Monty was reduced to defending third from Jeff Gordon on that restart.

Safely into third now, should be able to stalk Biffle in second once the tyres come in.

from NASCAR.com live leaderboard..

LEAD CHANGE: Greg Biffle leads as he pitted and stayed on the lead lap when the caution came out.

Gordon hounding Montoya now.. but both are faster than Biffle.

freaking JJ is too fast again today..

2nd!

Juan--Pretty tight. Pretty, pretty, pretty, really, really tight.

LOL

Nice fight for 2nd though!

Caution. Sadler losing it.

Actually saving it, hey that wall comes in handy!

Richard Petty used to run the really high line like that back in the day....so when he would crash he didn't have as far to go!

oh oh.. everyone at the front took 2 tires except JJ and Juan.

Oh sweet! JPM led that lap because the leader's pit stall is before the S/F line and JPM's is toward the end of pit road.

5 bonus points.

2nd of the 4 tyre stoppers, i think. Nice job pit crew again.

and Jr. never recovered. - that team SUCKS!!!!

nice pass on the 47 and the 18!

"you're the first one on 4 tires, baby...all good"

Whats that "wave around" rule ?

Jumped JJ at the restart.

you gotta love JPM on those restarts..

Glad I found this thread- great help to those of us poor sods with no TV (hate living in Germany sometiems......)

Dear Siberian:
Doesn't SKY Germany have this?
Jp

how about getting one.. ?
http://astore.amazon.de/ttalk-21/detail/B0019R3OO2

kidding..

Nope- Sky dumped us last year- no broadband either- sucks big time!

well, no DTM here in the US, no FIA GT, WTCC...no value in road races here...we have freakin stupid all wing cars in oval dirt tracks though.