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[Deluxx]

JP made me do it.

*ahem* Anyways;
The Nationwide race is Saturday. at 4:30pm~, and Sprint Cup Sunday ~2:30pm eastern.

Quali for Cup starts in a few minutes...

[gm914]

Bingo balls. Hell, why not?

[Deluxx]

I don't even.

It's gonna be chilly there! Should push the speed up quite a bit. Anyone know the current track record?


edit: Kyle Busch, 11/9/2012, 138.766mph

Edited by Deluxx, 01 March 2013 - 23:16.

[whitewaterMkII]

and boom, the other Busch bangs the wall...

[Deluxx]

Ouch...

[gm914]

Cup drivers running double-duty this weekend:

Almirola
Harvick
Kenseth
Keselowski
Kyle Busch
and Jimmie Johnson running his first NNS oval since 2008.

Morgan Shepherd has opted not to run this weekend. Are we ever going to see the Challenger race again?

[Deluxx]

JPM T_T

[Deluxx]

15 car needs some 5 hour energy :/

[gm914]

Mark Martin takes the Pole:

#55-Mark Martin won the pole for the Subway Fresh Fit 500(k) Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix International Raceway with speed of 138.074mph for his 1st pole of 2013 and 56th of his career. Martin breaks his own record for being the oldest pole sitter at Phoenix (54 years, 1 month, 23 days), Martin won the pole last March at PIR.

The rest of the top 10 were:

#5-Kahne
#48-Johnson
#18-Busch
#24-Gordon
#14-Stewart
#29-Harvick
#11-Hamlin
#20-Kenseth and
#39-Newman
Courtesy Jayski.

Other notables:
Keselowski was the fastest Ford in 11th
Ambrose in 22nd
A.J. Allmendinger 23rd in his first start of 2013
Kurt in 25th
JPM in 29th
PSP in 40th.

[nosaj100]

Second week in a row the Nationwide series doesn't have a full field, right? I believe they had 40 last week and I heard them say today they had 40 entries. I wonder if the Chevy body change priced out a few of those smaller teams.

[Dilla]

40 is a full field for Nationwide, NASCAR shrank the field size for NW and Trucks, remember?

[Dilla]

Wow, Fox Sports Carolinas is airing currently airing the NASCAR Mexico Toyota Series race at Phoenix.

These guys are pretty racey.

Edited by Dilla, 02 March 2013 - 02:36.

[gm914]

Is that what's going on?
I saw a tweet by Steve O'Donnell talking about a guy named Vampiro Ruiz.

Awesome name.

[OfficeLinebacker]

40 is a full field for Nationwide, NASCAR shrank the field size for NW and Trucks, remember?

Hasn't trucks been 36 for several years now?

Good job on starting the thread. Assume I'm going to be AWOL this season.

[Watkins74]

#42 in 29th. Yikes.

[gm914]

Found a Fox Deportes stream of the NMTS race, although its not the best quality.

Dumb question: Is it just the stream or are the cars pretty narrow?

Edited by gm914, 02 March 2013 - 03:21.

[gm914]

#42 in 29th. Yikes.

He had to get out of it I think. Car was pretty squirrely.
His practice pace this afternoon was pretty good though. Ended p7 after being p3 for a long time.

[Dilla]

Found a Fox Deportes stream of the NMTS race, although its not the best quality.

Dumb question: Is it just the stream or are the cars pretty narrow?

There are basically the same parameters as the K&N cars.

[gm914]

There are basically the same parameters as the K&N cars.

Ok. You're right, these guys ARE racey. Also loving the Spanish commentary I understand not a word of.

[Dilla]

Calderon used KyBu's victory celebration.

[Watkins74]

He had to get out of it I think. Car was pretty squirrely.
His practice pace this afternoon was pretty good though. Ended p7 after being p3 for a long time.

OK..maybe there is some hope then. I can't take another year of the JPM running in 30th place.

OLB - I know your pretty upset at the Nascar.com site but I think I speak for everyone in saying we would miss your company this year. If your pissed don't give NASCAR anymore of your cash but still hang out with your buddies. For the love of God don't leave us alone with "jp". Also I hope you have fully recovered from your bike accident.

[whitewaterMkII]

He had to get out of it I think. Car was pretty squirrely.

He had an exceptionally tight car, most of the first guys out did, I think went out just a couple cars after Kurt B clouted the wall w/ a tight car.
No doubt the Hendricks motors have a bit more beans than their Childress' did.
As always though, the big problem w/ DEI/Ganassi crowd will be chasing the track.
Gonna be a lot of changes going on during this race, these cars will be nowhere near the same setups at the end than they will start with.

[OfficeLinebacker]

PSP in 40th.

[nosaj100]

40 is a full field for Nationwide, NASCAR shrank the field size for NW and Trucks, remember?

Totally forgot about that. Is the Truck series still 36 though?

[OfficeLinebacker]

OK..maybe there is some hope then. I can't take another year of the JPM running in 30th place.

OLB - I know your pretty upset at the Nascar.com site but I think I speak for everyone in saying we would miss your company this year. If your pissed don't give NASCAR anymore of your cash but still hang out with your buddies. For the love of God don't leave us alone with "jp". Also I hope you have fully recovered from your bike accident.

Sure, I'll still stop by the threads but I'm super busy with work this year, I didn't even think about NASCAR this week until about 7 pm today or so.

Also, isn't a certain Landon Cassill in the Cup Race Sunday?

[Deluxx]

Did you get a refund at least? Or a free tote bag

[Crafty]

OLB - I know your pretty upset at the Nascar.com site but I think I speak for everyone in saying we would miss your company this year. If your pissed don't give NASCAR anymore of your cash but still hang out with your buddies. For the love of God don't leave us alone with "jp". Also I hope you have fully recovered from your bike accident.

+1 on that. Plus we need to keep an eye on you in case one of Maryland's finest decide to knock you off your bike again!

[Bloggsworth]

I give up with the NASCAR site. Why have a site covered in access to videos and photographs but no means of viewing the results of practice?

[gm914]

I give up with the NASCAR site. Why have a site covered in access to videos and photographs but no means of viewing the results of practice?

Two minutes after the finish of the Daytona 500 and they'd already switched to the Phoenix page, making it impossible to view the end results.
Had to wait an hour for Jayski to update. Pure stupidity.

Anyhow. Biggest question of the weekend:
What are the odds on Cuz Carl seeing a checkered flag for the first time this year? They're already calling him 5-Time.

[Prost1997T]

JPM (29th) and PSP (40th) had evil-looking cars in qualifying, and Kurt Busch (25th) hit the wall on his second lap with a tyre issue. Aside from AJA (I notice the Fox team mentioned his Indycar test and implied he might race both series), all of the ex open-wheelers were near the back of the field.

[gm914]

'cept for Smoke

[Bloggsworth]

Two minutes after the finish of the Daytona 500 and they'd already switched to the Phoenix page, making it impossible to view the end results.
Had to wait an hour for Jayski to update. Pure stupidity.

Anyhow. Biggest question of the weekend:
What are the odds on Cuz Carl seeing a checkered flag for the first time this year? They're already calling him 5-Time.

I want to see the Phoenix practice times, they don't have them.

[Ross Stonefeld]

http://www.jayski.co...hx2013prac1.pdf

[gm914]

I want to see the Phoenix practice times, they don't have them.

Cup practice:
http://www.jayski.co...hx2013prac1.pdf

Nationwide practice 1 & 2:
http://www.jayski.co...ix2013prac1.pdf
http://www.jayski.co...ix2013prac2.pdf

[red stick]

I give up with the NASCAR site. Why have a site covered in access to videos and photographs but no means of viewing the results of practice?

+100

[Myrvold]

Morgan Shepherd has opted not to run this weekend. Are we ever going to see the Challenger race again?

MIke Harmon? Or have he swtiched to Chevy for good. At least he ran the Dodge at Daytona.

[gm914]

MIke Harmon? Or have he swtiched to Chevy for good. At least he ran the Dodge at Daytona.

He is listed on the Jayski Entry List under #74 Chevy.

[Prost1997T]

'cept for Smoke

Fair point, but he was brought up on dirt ovals wasn't he? His IRL time wasn't exclusive either, he ran Busch series events at the same time.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Well then Kahne, Newman, and Gordon are 'open wheelers'. While Stewart did the original all oval IRL, when we talk about open wheelers we mean mixed folk like Montoya/Allmendinger/Danica. Road racers with oval experience.

[gm914]

We have to add Marcos Ambrose to the list too. He won the 1999 British Formula Ford championship.

It counts.

[OfficeLinebacker]

JPM (29th) and PSP (40th) had evil-looking cars in qualifying, and Kurt Busch (25th) hit the wall on his second lap with a tyre issue. Aside from AJA (I notice the Fox team mentioned his Indycar test and implied he might race both series), all of the ex open-wheelers were near the back of the field.

Apparently, there was a coolant leak in the #78 car that dropped water on the track and under one of the tyres.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Kurt Busch, overheated, etc.

[gm914]

He is listed on the Jayski Entry List under #74 Chevy.

An Impala no less. A sick sounding one.

Edited by gm914, 02 March 2013 - 18:15.

[GustavoB]

I'm fu... stupid or the NNS Qualifying Live Leaderboard isn't working.
Every time I click on it my browser goes to http://www.nascar.co...tice-recap.html
Just now I received a twitter that 10 from 40 racers already qualified...

[gm914]

Yeh it sucks.

Cup practice 2 results:
http://www.jayski.co...hx2013prac2.pdf

[OfficeLinebacker]

I'm fu... stupid or the NNS Qualifying Live Leaderboard isn't working.
Every time I click on it my browser goes to http://www.nascar.co...tice-recap.html
Just now I received a twitter that 10 from 40 racers already qualified...

welcome to the new NASCAR.com

[artista]

I'm fu... stupid or the NNS Qualifying Live Leaderboard isn't working.
Every time I click on it my browser goes to http://www.nascar.co...tice-recap.html
Just now I received a twitter that 10 from 40 racers already qualified...

For me it works. It has taken it about 3 minutes to load, but it's working.

[GustavoB]

For me it works. It has taken it about 3 minutes to load, but it's working.

s.....
twitter is saving me but a crap lap for Nelson already p7 with lots of cars to qualify....



looking for the race!

[SR388]

Jeff gonna run real fast!!

[GustavoB]

chrome goes to the wrong page
safari and firefox both fail miserably

Thanks NASCAR!!!

Now that qualifying is over it's working!!!

Edited by GustavoB, 02 March 2013 - 18:57.