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[OfficeLinebacker]

What's up, boys? I'm up early today and bored.

Yep, it's a night race (actually starts in daytime) the same day as SPA and the Baltimore Grand Prix. Good luck convincing your Significant Other that it's absolutely vital to watch all three. Got any tips? My main one is that it's a three day weekend here in the States and we can do whatever she wants on Monday.

On to the details!

Tune in sched: http://www.nascar.com/races/tune_in/
Jayski: http://www.jayski.co...ASCAR-Race-Info

Edited by OfficeLinebacker, 30 August 2012 - 16:29.

[goldenboy]

watch spa, then nascar, get a few hours sleep and catch a plane to milan for monza


yeeeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

[Prost1997T]

Indycar at Baltimore (why do people still call it IRL? Are they still upset about the split?)

[pingu666]

same thing different name, no big deal imo

alms on saturday then?

[pingu666]

http://siriusxmsport...om/robby-gordon

robby on the helmet throwing

[gm914]

C'mon man, it's SPA!!

Only if you were comparing a Darlington or Watkins with a Bahrain or a Valencia, the NASCAR race would get my vote.

Trucks:
Paulie Harraka has been given the boot. Aric Almirola will take the #5 this weekend. Wauters Motorsport decided not to run at MIS and Bristol, and looks like they've decided internally it wasn't working out with Paulie at the helm.

Should be a fun truck race. Kurt's running a Phoenix Racing truck (where'd they get that from?) with brother Kyle (whos pulling triple-duty this weekend) in the KBM #18. BradK puts Ryan Blaney in his #29.
Apart from that, all your favorites are there, including JWT, whose trucks sponsor listing is still under TBA.
I mean come on, you and I both know it's Zaxbys. Are they too embarrassed to publish their name you think?

Edited by gm914, 30 August 2012 - 15:20.

[OfficeLinebacker]

C'mon man, it's SPA!!

Only if you were comparing a Darlington or Watkins with a Bahrain or a Valencia, the NASCAR race would get my vote.

Hey I was the first person voting in this poll.

I'd have picked Baltimore because I was invited to go watch from a suite in a building outside of T1 but they flaked on me.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Baltimore, because you know it has the best chance for a breakout of crazy.

Though a Sunday Night NASCAR is good too, there's nothing else to do.

[OfficeLinebacker]

http://siriusxmsport...om/robby-gordon

robby on the helmet throwing

I can smell the sour grapes through my monitor. Sheesh.

[gm914]

Hard to believe, but Kurt and Kyle have never run in the same Truck race together.

Pastrana makes his final scheduled NNS start of the season too.

[Ross Stonefeld]

We should have a betting pool on how many spins he has in the race, lap of the first spin, and lap-gap between subsequent spins.

[jonpollak]

Loving wife and I will be in Ostuni therefore.. "I MISS ALL THE RACING"
Unless I manage to somehow find a nice little cafe with RAI 1 at around 1:50pm on Sunday...

Jp

[Ross Stonefeld]

Back in the day IRL was on Italian TV live, and one of the basic ones everyone seemed to have. I could always watch F1, MotoGP, and Indycar without any problem.

[tweiss]

Wake up Sunday...have coffee and enjoy SPA ... best race of the year!
Watch (and nap) INDY in afternoon ... I live in Baltimore... not a chance i am going downtown to get killed for that...

Watch NASCAR till I fall asleep... fire up DVR Monday to see who won!

What an outstanding day of racing nirvana!!!

[X61]

Paulie Harraka has been given the boot.

It's about damn time. I guess the Drive For Diversity checks stopped coming in.

[pingu666]

might miss the truck race, have to be up early the next day

[gm914]

might miss the truck race, have to be up early the next day

It'll be a fast race, and you'll feel terrible having missed all the action.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Watch (and nap) INDY in afternoon ... I live in Baltimore... not a chance i am going downtown to get killed for that...

LOL! I am probably watching from my living room, too. (Rockville MD here)

[OfficeLinebacker]

It'll be a fast race, and you'll feel terrible having missed all the action.

I'm finding myself more and more interested in the Trucks and N'wide because I know for sure I'm catching some rising stars (namely the Dillons and Piquet) and the races are shorter and more interesting.

Main attraction of Cup now is the access to telemetry and radio transmissions.

[artista]

dammit! I don't have the smallest chance to watch the Cup race, it starts almost at 2 a.m. and next day is the first working day

[Watkins74]

dammit! I don't have the smallest chance to watch the Cup race, it starts almost at 2 a.m. and next day is the first working day

Don't show to work on time...if you do they will expect it every day.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Don't show to work on time...if you do they will expect it every day.

Seriously. Probably 90% of success is what we experienced guys call "Managing Expectations."

Just kidding. I'm not experienced, but a couple more decades of successful management of expectations and I may get there.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Alright, I'm psyched for tonight. I'll be all raced out by Sunday evening so I have a feeling tonight's race will be my favorite NASCAR race of the weekend.

[artista]

@Watkins and OLB:

Thank you for the 'advice'

[gm914]

Piquet fastest in final practice Really like the look of the DrinkB paint-scheme.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Piquet fastest in final practice

I just came here to post this.

[f1seb]

I can smell the sour grapes through my monitor. Sheesh.

Robby is insane.

[gm914]

Dillon The Younger wins Atlanta pole:
Ty Dillon, driving the #3-Bass Pro Shops / NRA Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing, was the fastest qualifer with a top speed of 177.357 mph to win the Keystone Light Pole for the Jeff Foxworthy's Grit Chips 200 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. This is his second pole in 2012.

Rounding out the Top 10 were:
#2-Tim George Jr
#31-James Buescher
#18-Kyle Busch
#30-Nelson Piquet Jr.
#13-Johnny Sauter
#32-Miguel Paludo
#17-Timothy Peters
#7-Parker Kligerman
and #88-Matt Crafton.

[pingu666]

robby has a point, he got fined for throwing a helmet, someone got fined for throwing a helmet at him, tony didnt get fined

[gm914]

Was Todd Bodine fined for the helmet throwing at Piquet a couple weeks back? I don't remember reading about it..

[gm914]

Reporting in. Who's got their grit chips ready?

[OfficeLinebacker]

Reporting in. Who's got their grit chips ready?

me

[Myrvold]

Reporting in, maybe. Maybe try a NASCAR-comeback after Montreal now. Though, just writing NASCAR and Montreal in the same sentence, still raises my heartbeat and makes me pissed.

[OfficeLinebacker]

any good jwt tweets?

[gm914]

any good jwt tweets?

[gm914]

Man, over half way? Ok now paying attention.

[Dilla]

Kyle Larson is impressive.

[gm914]

Kyle Larson is impressive.

Did extremely well in his second start. Dude was sideways!! Every lap!

Nice one DTY.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Jesus Hillbilly Christ.

The 33 is sponsored by that Super PAC of supposed spec ops people who are pissy with the President. I know NASCAR leans conservative but come on guys, let's keep it out.

[gm914]

Agreed.

Slow day here. Is everyone thinking can we just get on with the chase?

Anyway, Nationwide starting line-up:
#54-Kyle Busch won the Coors Light Pole for the NRA American Warrior 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with a speed of 176.280 mph. Rounding out the Top 10 were:
#6-Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
#33-Kevin Harvick
#38-Kasey Kahne
#18-Denny Hamlin
#12-Sam Hornish, Jr.
#2-Elliott Sadler
#22-Brad Keselowski
#3-Austin Dillon,
and #44-Mike Blilss.

Pastrami 16th and Patrick 17th

Edited by gm914, 01 September 2012 - 20:57.

[gm914]

Will be pulling for Hornish, Whitt, PSP and Buescher.
Pastrana spins twice. +/-?

[Andrew Hope]

Gonna try and watch the race tonight, who else we got? Starts in a little over an hour I think.

[gm914]

1h 45m from now.

[Andrew Hope]

Anyone got a stream? I can't find anything on the usual sites..

[gm914]

Hunting around too mate.
PMed you Hope.

Edited by gm914, 01 September 2012 - 23:10.

[grackle]

Feeds would have been delayed by a Football game. ESPN in the states and TSN2 in Canada.

[Watkins74]

Let's go Kyle. Win this thing.

[gm914]

If Sadler DNFs I won't be too upset.

[Andrew Hope]

Thanks for the PM, trying to figure out which link works.

[gm914]

Thanks for the PM, trying to figure out which link works.

Bottom of 2 or maybe try 4.