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Postby shafnutz05 » Fri Aug 18, 2017 11:52 pm

Spent the evening at Lernerville, 4/10mi dirt oval. Crazy stuff, not for me as it's so intense for so long. Crazy to watch though.

Someone I know is interested in maybe having me drive an Enduro car for him. I would absolutely do that.
Awesome. The World of Outlaws has always had an appeal to me...I think I need to make a trip up to Port Royal at some point.

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:01 pm

Ambulances on pit road, The King is pissed, Danica is unemployed, and nobody really cares.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:22 pm

I really try to care about NASCAR.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:23 pm


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Postby dodint » Tue Sep 12, 2017 6:27 pm

Smithfield coming off the top rope. Nice.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Tue Sep 12, 2017 7:36 pm

Smithfield coming off the top rope. Nice.
Yup. Great response.

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Postby relantel » Fri Sep 29, 2017 12:28 pm

A handshake is a handshake.... except when it isn't.

It's nice they didn't miss words but RPM did put their name in victory lane once.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:20 pm

Yes, I rarely watch NASCAR anymore. But the fact that Dale Jr. is retiring has me really sad, for some reason. I guess it's just hard to believe that the 27 year old kid that won at Daytona four months after his father died is now leaving the sport. I think it's also partially another part of the NASCAR that I love being dead and gone. Tony Stewart retiring....Jeff Gordon...etc. I loved NASCAR and didn't miss a race in the early 2000s, and that era couldn't be further gone. The new "young guns" or whatever do nothing for me.

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Postby dodint » Sat Oct 14, 2017 10:24 pm

Was that Junior's only win? ;)

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Postby shafnutz05 » Sun Oct 29, 2017 8:34 pm

What an absolutely ridiculous finish at Martinsville today.

@thehammer24 Your boy is a shtbag (yes, I know he isn't here :lol: )

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Postby relantel » Mon Oct 30, 2017 12:14 pm

@shafnutz05 is funny in a way to see Denny Hamlin, a Virginian, booed so much at one of his "home" tracks. Then TV interviewed Chase Elliott and you would have thought he was Dale Jr.

It's not the first bonehead move Hamlin has made at a Virginia track. He once led 380 of the first 381 laps at Richmond before he had a tire going down, and instead of pitting, he stayed on the track, causing a yellow. Dale Jr was the leader and would have run away with it at that late point. So Hamlin stops on the track, draws a yellow, and Kyle Busch spins Jr after a restart, allowing Clint Bowyer to sneak by while Busch had lifted. Whole scenario avoided if Hamlin takes his lumps and pits.

Kind of why I wasn't sad when Hamlin himself got wrecked after that last night.

(My watching was by DVR after the fact of course... annoyed that Hamlin's teammate benefitted from Hamlin's act though. Elliott is about to break out, kind of like Kyle Larson had those slew of runner-up finishes before he won. Only question may be can he do it while he is still in the 24, as he shifts to the 9 next season as William Byron comes aboard the 24.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Sun Nov 19, 2017 5:41 pm


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Postby shafnutz05 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 6:04 pm

I hate this championship format so much...

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Postby CBear3 » Sun Nov 19, 2017 10:50 pm

Good for Truex, solid enough to win the 36 race format or the 1 race.
Especially cool for all the heartaches behind the scenes

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:37 am

Good for Truex, solid enough to win the 36 race format or the 1 race.
Especially cool for all the heartaches behind the scenes
Yup, happy he won. Still can't believe that the 88 is retired.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Mon Nov 20, 2017 12:51 pm

Also nice to see someone not in a major stable (though I guess Furniture Row is major stable) win.

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Postby shafnutz05 » Mon Nov 20, 2017 6:48 pm

Also nice to see someone not in a major stable (though I guess Furniture Row is major stable) win.
FR Racing is a one-car stable...it most definitely is not a major stable. Very happy for Truex.

Regarding Junior's retirement celebration on pit road, apparently he went out of his way to make Kenseth a part of it. Kenseth, a great driver who is out of a ride next year, isn't really leaving on his terms. They wanted the 88 to do a backwards lap for the fans, and he asked them if Kenseth could go around as well. He's a class act and Brian France doesn't deserve him.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Mon Nov 20, 2017 7:08 pm

Evidently Matt Kenseth was snubbed by NBC as well.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:46 pm

Kevin Harvick

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 2:56 pm

The only tracks worth a crap that the Cup series isn't already at are road courses, Iowa and maybe Gateway. None of the short tracks have the facilities to welcome the travelling circus. The race track business is as bad as the race team business. The overhead is great enough that unless you know you're hosting a race there's no point in building one.
The only oval built in the last 20 years (which is a time NASCAR peaked in popularity) that wasn't owned by ISC or SMI is Iowa, and Rusty built it knowing that his name would get him on Nascar's schedules.

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Postby dodint » Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:01 pm

Traveling circus should be easy to accommodate since the stands are pretty much empty. ;)

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Postby CBear3 » Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:12 pm

Ha. Ha. :)
They've grown too big for their britches. It wouldn't surprise me if affiliated personnel outnumber spectators for every session except the race.

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Postby Freddy Rumsen » Tue Jan 23, 2018 3:33 pm

I already have tickets for our local dirt track (Cherokee Speedway) and am already planning on attending the asphalt track in Hickory, NC and dirt in Gastonia, NC.

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