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[Dilla]

No Nationwide; just Trucks (it's final show before another month long hiatus) and Sprint Cup at Kansas.

Trucks schedule:
Thursday, April 18TH
12:00 PM NCWTS HAULERS ENTER
12:30 PM NCWTS REGISTRATION OPENS
1:00 PM NCWTS GARAGE OPENS
5:30 PM NCWTS GARAGE & REGISTRATION CLOSES

Friday, April 19TH
7:00 AM NCWTS GARAGE & REGISTRATION OPENS
8:00 AM NCWTS ROOKIE & SPOTTER MEETINGS & RANDOM DRAWING
9:00 AM 11:50 AM NCWTS PRACTICE
2:00 PM 3:20 PM NCWTS FINAL PRACTICE
5:00 PM NCWTS &NSCS REGISTRATION CLOSES
6:00 PM NCWTS & NSCS GARAGE CLOSES

Saturday, April 20TH
7:00 AM NCWTS GARAGE & REGISTRATION OPENS
10:05 AM (11:05 AM) NCWTS QUALIFYING ( TWO LAPS, ALL POSITIONS)
11:15 AM . NCWTS DRIVER / CREW CHIEF MEETING (MEDIA CENTER)
12:30 PM NCWTS DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS-SECURITY CLEAR PIT ROAD
1:00 PM (2:00 PM) NCWTS RACE (167 LAPS, 250.5 MILES)
1:30 PM NCWTS REGISTRATION CLOSES

The Trucks have already had two practices with Buescher being fastest in both, followed by Jeb Burton.

Trucks 1st practice.
Trucks 2nd practice

Sprint Cup schedule:
Friday, April 19
9:00 - 11:50 am NCWTS practice
12:00 - 1:30 pm NSCS practice
2:00 - 3:20 pm NCWTS practice
3:40 pm NSCS qualifying

Saturday, April 20
9:00 - 9:55 am NSCS practice
10:05 am NCWTS qualifying
11:30 am - 12:20 pm NSCS final practice
12:30 pm NCWTS driver introductions
1:00 pm NCWTS race

Sunday, April 21
11:30 am NSCS driver introductions
12:00 pm STP 400 NSCS race

The Cup guys have already had one practice with Fords in the forefront, only to spoiled in qualifying by Matt Kenseth

Sprint Cup 1st practice.
Starting Line-up

Edited by Dilla, 20 April 2013 - 05:59.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Thanks for starting the thread. I miss Piquet in trucks.

Edit: correct link for trucks 1st practice: http://www.jayski.co...as2013prac1.pdf

Edited by OfficeLinebacker, 20 April 2013 - 09:51.

[V3TT3L]

I don't get it.

Possibly the best car of the series and last race winner is parked this weekend: TSM #30

[Ross Stonefeld]

Woah, Hornish P4. Danica breaks the Keselowski Line with a 25th starting spot.

[gm914]

Me too OLB

I don't get it.
Possibly the best car of the series and last race winner is parked this weekend: TSM #30

Piquet is in Brazil doing some X-Games business. No idea where Larson is.
Come on Turner, find someone else to crew chief that K&N East outfit of yours and put CALE GALE in the #30 truck.

FFS, he only bloody won the last race he took part in (smeared KyBu against the wall like a peanut butter M&M, too)

[Red17]

[Ross Stonefeld]

Weirdly that makes me think Gulf not STP

[gm914]

Kissin' cousins

[Ross Stonefeld]

btw I saw a Ford Fusion the other day in a parking lot. Dark silver, just saw the grille and thought "Is that some kind of Aston...err no that's that Ford"

[Red17]

btw I saw a Ford Fusion the other day in a parking lot. Dark silver, just saw the grille and thought "Is that some kind of Aston...err no that's that Ford"

Don't worry Ross, im sure all bits and pieces of the AMRone have been destroyed by now. It should be resting alongisde Hoffa and the Indy Flyers.

[Victor_RO]

Don't worry Ross, im sure all bits and pieces of the AMRone have been destroyed by now. It should be resting alongisde Hoffa and the Indy Flyers.

Uh... the engine must have been destroyed and incinerated and buried somewhere far out of sight, but a couple of chassis still remain and might be still running. Reincarnated into other stuff obviously.

[Red17]

Uh... the engine must have been destroyed and incinerated and buried somewhere far out of sight, but a couple of chassis still remain and might be still running. Reincarnated into other stuff obviously.

They must be real cheap now, the last sight I had of them was in the Deltawing and on a limping Pescarollo. Not really doing well in my opinion.

But back on topic, for those who missed it, this is what happened in in the last race with incredible ramifications into Formula 1 and Mercedes.

[SR388]

C'mon Bubba Wallace.

Boo Hornaday!

Edited by SR388, 20 April 2013 - 15:54.

[gm914]

Oh man.
The cop that was killed at the MIT standoff was the brother of Hendricks mechanic Andrew Collier. .

Thoughts are with their family.

[Red17]

As a sidenote, there are even less Speed logos than I remember last week.

[Dilla]

Buescher on pole, Paludo 2nd, Burton 3rd.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Me too OLB (smeared KyBu against the wall like a peanut butter M&M, too)

..like strawberries and cream?

(if you get that reference, we need to talk)

[artista]

They must be real cheap now, the last sight I had of them was in the Deltawing and on a limping Pescarollo. Not really doing well in my opinion.

But back on topic, for those who missed it, this is what happened in in the last race with incredible ramifications into Formula 1 and Mercedes.

Oh! L’Apprenti sorcier! one of my favourite pieces by far, but not that version. I have one by an Slovakian orchestra that is really lovely.
But back to what really matters. What did happen? Did somebody try to do something too difficult for him and got out of his control until the "master" came and solved it all? I didn't watch it.

[Red17]

For the record, either they redid the paint after this photo was taken or it didnt come out well. They just showed Almirola and both blue and red look much darker and less gulfy.

[SR388]

I hate how there is a month gap till the next truck race.

What do the truck drivers do in the off time?

[Juablo]

Hmmm, 42 looks quick this weekend. Cautiously optimistic for tomorrow...

[SR388]

Coulter is really outperforming his teammate Wallace Jr.

[X61]

Hmmm, 42 looks quick this weekend. Cautiously optimistic for tomorrow...

He's been quite quick several weekends. Unfortunately he still has all of Sunday to get involved in a crash, have a mechanical failure, have miserable pit stops, and fall victim to pitting right before a caution is thrown .

[SR388]

Crashes!!

[SR388]

How did Buscher save that?

[SR388]

Team owners love it when you crash into your teammate!

[SR388]

Wallace Jr. moving up nicely.

[SR388]

Wallace Jr. is one of the fastest trucks on the track!!!

Go GO GO!!!

Catching up to his teammate!

Edited by SR388, 20 April 2013 - 19:07.

[X61]

Somebody better beat Kyle Busch. I don't even care who at this point.

[Red17]

But back to what really matters. What did happen? Did somebody try to do something too difficult for him and got out of his control until the "master" came and solved it all? I didn't watch it.

(Go see both threads (yes, a thread was made just for the trucks) and you will see what happened)
But to cut it short, all hexing on Busch failed and in the process of trying to jinx Logano (who almost won) someone typed AMG and I ended up doing a reverse jinx which carried on to the 17 truck.

Edited by Red17, 20 April 2013 - 19:19.

[SR388]

Ha penalty for Hornaday!

[Red17]

Stupid question. It seems Nascar found out that roof cameras give an aero advantage and took them away.
Are the cameras really that expensive that Nascar cant afford to mount in all cars? Not even dummy cameras?

Edited by Red17, 20 April 2013 - 19:27.

[artista]

(Go see both threads (yes, a thread was made just for the trucks) and you will see what happened)
But to cut it short, all hexing on Busch failed and in the process of trying to jinx Logano (who almost won) someone typed AMG and I ended up doing a reverse jinx which carried on to the 17 truck.

thanks! I had read the Sprint Cup thread but not the trucks one and I thought you were talking about a race incident. But, actually, the whole jinxing story makes much more sense when talking about "sorcerers"

[SR388]

Busch in the wall!

[X61]

Somebody better beat Kyle Busch. I don't even care who at this point.

Thanks Mr. Quiroga .

[Red17]

Busch in the wall!

Edited by Red17, 20 April 2013 - 19:35.

[Red17]

Quick poll time!

Will Cobb get a top 15 finish?

[SR388]

Quick poll time!

Will Cobb get a top 15 finish?

With these crashes, yes.

[artista]

This crash was nasty

[gm914]

D'oh! Fell asleep. Todd really shouldn't really driving anything with a number 13 on it.

Good race so far?

[Red17]

Good race so far?

Half of the field is out, including Busch and Logano

Edited by Red17, 20 April 2013 - 20:23.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Stupid question. It seems Nascar found out that roof cameras give an aero advantage and took them away.
Are the cameras really that expensive that Nascar cant afford to mount in all cars? Not even dummy cameras?

They actually DO mount dummy cameras in every car. Even the inside-the-cockpit ones. But I think the issue was that some teams were somehow able to take better advantage than others of that downforce from the disc shaped pod on the roof.

They definitely put dummy pods/mounting points with the exact same shape and weight on all cars, and have been doing so for years.

[X61]

D'oh! Fell asleep. Todd really shouldn't really driving anything with a number 13 on it.

Good race so far?

Todd Bodine really shouldn't drive anything more powerful than a lawnmower.

The race has been a wreckfest, but the green flag periods have had some good battles, especially by 1.5 miler standards.

[Watkins74]

It would be nice to see some green flag laps.

Is Waltrip ever not excited to be somewhere.

[Red17]

Well, that's confusing, because Speed made it sound like there was no dummy cams.

[gm914]

Is Waltrip ever not excited to be somewhere.

[Prost1997T]

There goes Jeb Burton.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Well, that's confusing, because Speed made it sound like there was no dummy cams.

Yeah but as I said, some teams get more of an advantage from the pod on the roof, so they took them all away. But just the roof cams. There are still bumper cams and every car/truck has a little pod with weight in it, equivalent to the camera weight and shape.

[OfficeLinebacker]

Decent race at the end there.

[Red17]

Good finish, seems like eceryone decided to race at the end and let the caution record for later. Cobb get's a lucky check for staying out of trouble.