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[Dilla]

*Wakes up after that snoozer at Kentucky* Oh hey, wildcard race #3 is here! The best and likely final shot for your Ricky Stenhouses, your Aric Almirolas, your Marcos Ambroses (actually, Marcos still has the Glen), your Casey Mears, and yes, your Danica Patricks and those other driver outside the top 20 to get in the Chase with a win.

 

 

NW Schedule:

 

Wednesday, July 2nd
10:00 AM NNS HAULERS ENTER
11:30 AM NNS REGISTRATION OPENS
12:00 PM NNS GARAGE OPENS & INSPECTION BEGINS
6:00 PM NNS REGISTRATION CLOSES
7:00 PM NNS GARAGE CLOSES

Thursday, July 3rd
9:00 AM NNS GARAGE & REGISTRATION OPENS
11:00 AM NNS ROOKIE & SPOTTER MEETINGS & RANDOM DRAWING
12:00 PM-2:00 PM NNS FINAL PRACTICE
5:30 PM NNS QUALIFYING INSPECTION
6:00 PM NSCS & NNS REGISTRATION CLOSES
9:30 PM NNS GARAGE CLOSES

Friday, July 4th
10:00 AM NNS REGISTRATION OPENS
1:00 PM NNS GARAGE OPENS
2:45 PM NNS DRIVER/CREW CHIEF MEETING (DRIVERS MEETING ROOM)
3:10 PM NNS QUALIFYING
7:00 PM NNS DRIVER INTRODUCTION
7:30 PM NNS RACE (100 LAPS, 250 MILES)
8:00 PM NNS REGISTRATION CLOSES

 

Sprint Cup Schedule:

 

Wednesday, July 2
6:00 PM NSCS HAULERS ENTER

Thursday, July 3
8:30 AM NSCS GARAGE OPENS & INSPECTION BEGINS
11:00 AM NSCS SPOTTERS MEETINGS
3:00 PM NSCS ROOKIES MEETING & RANDOM DRAWING
4:00 - 5:20 PM NSCS PRACTICE
6:35 - 8:00 PM NSCS FINAL PRACTICE
10:00 PM NSCS GARAGE CLOSES

Friday, July 4
9:00 AM NSCS GARAGE OPENS
5:10 PM NSCS QUALIFYING IMPOUND
7:30 PM NSCS GARAGE CLOSES

Saturday, July 5
3:00 PM NSCS GARAGE OPENS
5:30 PM NSCS DRIVER/CREW CHIEF MEETING
7:00 PM NSCS DRIVERS INTRODUCTION
7:30 PM NSCS RACE

 

It's Florida, so scattered showers abound Friday and Saturday. Likely, this little guy won't be an issue (although it looks like I'm going to be clipped. Ah well.)

 

Edited by Dilla, 03 July 2014 - 09:21.

[whitewaterMkII]

Daytona.

Love it.

[Andrew Hope]

Tempted to call in sick on Friday night but a man's gotta eat. My whole week has been the left side of my brain screaming "You can afford to eat $90 once in a while, especially for Daytona" while the other side of my brain calmly points out it's just Nationwide and it would take more than $90 falling out of the sky into my lap to watch Kyle win again.

 

$15 on Jenny Hamlin and $15 on ol' Mikey to win it all by the way. Denny is 14/1 @ $210 and Mikey is 40/1 @ $600. Sly 20 on Bowyer to win the whole damn title as well.

Edited by Andrew Hope, 03 July 2014 - 16:00.

[paulb]

Go Danicuh!

[SR388]

Bubba Wallace jr races tonite!

[SR388]

Angling for a crash in qualifying.

[SR388]

Wow they just got screwed by rain. 

[Dilla]

Sweet starting top 3 for Sprint Cup race: 1. David Gilliland 2. Reed Sorenson 3. Landon Cassil.

[Ross Stonefeld]

And Labonte in 4th

[Lemnpiper]

Sweet starting top 3 for Sprint Cup race: 1. David Gilliland 2. Reed Sorenson 3. Landon Cassil.

 

 WOW   

 

  I wonder if Vegas offered odds on qualifying  what picking they trifecta would have paid .( a million  maybe 2 million)

 

  Throw in Labonte for the quadfecta and you' re looking at Penske money

[Victor_RO]

Wonder what the odds are for one of them actually winning the race and sneaking into the Chase. 

[Andrew Hope]

So this race starts in about an hour and a half. Good chance of rain, though.

 

If Mikey or Denny win this one, drinks are on me next week.

[Richard T]

POWEEEER!

 

[Jim Thurman]

So this race starts in about an hour and a half. Good chance of rain, though.

 

If Mikey or Denny win this one, drinks are on me next week.

 

If Mikey wins, it's all down to his exceptional perifial vision. 

[SR388]

Why are they starting so early!? I'm gonna miss the first portion while I'm in church!

[Risil]

Why are they starting so early!? I'm gonna miss the first portion while I'm in church!

 

Them godless fancy-living Daytona Beach folks

Edited by Risil, 06 July 2014 - 08:59.

[artista]

Selfish European me, or better said, selfish AND European me actually finds 11 am ET a pretty convenient time for a race to start.

[Richard T]

Selfish European me, or better said, selfish AND European me actually finds 11 am ET a pretty convenient time for a race to start.

 

Thats 17:00 CET-ish? (16:00 GMT)

[artista]

Thats 17:00 CET-ish? (16:00 GMT)

Think so; it's mostly (except for a couple of weeks a year) 6 hours difference to CET

[grackle]

Daytona Cup should start 3 hours after Silverstone Formula 1 starts. Pocono's Indycar starting during the Cup race at 4 hours past the start of Silverstone which is about 2 hours away from now.

grack

[SR388]

Selfish European me, or better said, selfish AND European me actually finds 11 am ET a pretty convenient time for a race to start.

Well I am happy our European friends benefit from this.

I apologize for my comments last night. I was very upset and being rude. Most of all I was selfish.

[artista]

rude posts? I haven't seen any here

 

PS. In case you deleted them, or wrote it somewhere else, there is no need to tell me what they were about.

[Andrew Hope]

The end of Daytona will clash with the start of Pocono but at least this isn't one of those days where every race has 3 hours between it or something.

[SR388]

rude posts? I haven't seen any here

PS. In case you deleted them, or wrote it somewhere else, there is no need to tell me what they were about.

The one where I was upset about having to miss the start of race for church.

[Andrew Hope]

The one where I was upset about having to miss the start of race for church.

I didn't think that was rude. I just thought it was weird you were annoyed you were missing the start of church, for church.

[artista]

The one where I was upset about having to miss the start of race for church.

mate, I don't know if it's because I'm Spanish, but I also didn't see anything rude in that post

[grackle]

Canadians trying to find it: despite Rogers saying something else is on, go to tsn2.

[artista]

Hoping for a boring quiet race, I already had today enough big ones

[Andrew Hope]

Thank God our young men and women are out there protecting my freedom and allowing me to live my life in peace. My life in freedom is great: I'd much rather be slaving away in a factory 50 hours a week for $11 an hour instead fighting off foreign invaders, gunning down infidels, chain-smoking, grenade-throwing, vodka-drinking, and RPG-shooting. I could be forced to live a warrior's life, living off the land and fighting bravely for my country with occasional breaks to nail female soldiers in a dirty old foxhole right now, but thankfully I live a life of peace, where I'm free to eat too much too often, get drunk and break my phone, pay off credit cards and work overtime every weekend.

[Andrew Hope]

Big One on lap 20. Harvick, Joonyer, Johnson, Gordon, Stewart, Larson, Bayne, Edwards all involved.

[Ross Stonefeld]

Doing it on your way to the competition caution. AMAZING.

[Andrew Hope]

Danica trying to kill her crew is the highlight of the race so far.

[Andrew Hope]

Invisible debris saves Danica again...

[Dilla]

The whole ****ing field.

[Andrew Hope]

Oh **** guys Kyle Busch is upside down!

[artista]

That was the whole field except 2 or 3?

[Risil]

That's a whole lotta wreck. Weird how the cars couldn't run side-by-side in the daytime at the Daytona 500, but by the summer they're having no trouble.

[Dilla]

Lol only 12 cars have no damage.

[Andrew Hope]

Almirola wins!

[Dilla]

CALL IT!!

[Youichi]

So the cars sat under covers on pitlane, can't be worked on.

 

Can they work on the ones which were wheeled into the garage ?

[Risil]

So the cars sat under covers on pitlane, can't be worked on.

 

If the cars are under covers, how could the officials tell?

 

I bet Hendrick has dwarf mechanic in the back of JJ's car who's prepared for just these eventualities.

Edited by Risil, 06 July 2014 - 18:25.

[artista]

So the cars sat under covers on pitlane, can't be worked on.
 
Can they work on the ones which were wheeled into the garage ?

I would also like to know the answer to the second question, if possible

[Dilla]

I don't believe so, no.

[artista]

Thanks a ton!   Still trying to learn.

[Dilla]

Aric is your winner! First Chase surprise.

[LuckyStrike1]

Aric Almirola in the Chase. 

 

Yes. NASCAR makes sense. 

[Ross Stonefeld]

It's only 3:30 on the East coast...

[Dilla]

^More rain showers on the way with the amount of time and money it takes drying the track. It's already been delayed once an I doubt TNT would allow another all-day rain delay in when the race is beyond halfway.

[nosaj100]

^More rain showers on the way with the amount of time and money it takes drying the track. It's already been delayed once an I doubt TNT would allow another all-day rain delay in when the race is beyond halfway.

 

True, but they spent forever with the 500 this year waiting to get the track dry under the same circumstances.  And they've done it elsewhere too. It just seemed like they gave up quicker than they usually do. But it's probably for the best. Over half the cars were out of contention and it was a mess from the start, lol. Does anyone really want to see if a damaged Gordon and Junior can beat like 12 other cars, most of whom you're surprised they are even in the race to begin with (Hi Terry!)? Heck, they'd probably wreck again and have 5 cars finish the entire race. Just go ahead and give Almirola his lottery ticket

Edited by nosaj100, 06 July 2014 - 19:52.