Nascar

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Xfinity race on in T minus 25 minutes. Austin Cindric on the pole.

 

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Austins car is junk today. Truex is cherry picking the field. Time for a rum to calm my nerves. Lol

 

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Decent race today. Is there any bigger baby than Kyle Busch in Nascars 3 series? Maybe Noah Gragson? Once again he had another driver trying to fight him after a race. Lmao! What a loser. Congrats to Justin Allgaier out lasting Martin Truex for the win

 

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Chase Elliott to the back again for multiple infractions in pre race tech. Gibbs and Hendrick teams keeping Nascar busy this year it seems? Maybe time for stiffer penalties?

 

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Quite the ending today as Kyle Larson had a super dominant car with long green flag runs the whole race. Ryan Blaneys acr just kept getting better and he was able to run down Larson on the last long run and win the race today. Here were your top 10 cars: 12-5-48-11-18-3-17-24-19-4

 

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Congrats also to Chris Buescher who had a legitimate top 10 car all day running strong for the Roush Fenway team.

 

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You may need to win this year to get in the playoffs with 6 different drivers winning in the first 6 races. Here is the playoff standings as they sit after Hotlanta:
Larson 2018
Hamlin 2018
Truex 2012
Blaney 2010
Byron 2009
Logano 2009
Bell 2007
Kez 2007
McDowell 2005
Harvick 2005
Elliott 2002
Buescher 2001
Kyle Busch 2000
Dillon 2000
Bowman 2000
Kurt Busch 2000

 

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Heres the top 10 point standings for the drivers if you are interested:

Hamlin 277
Larson 234
Logano 214
Truex 212
Kez 206
Harvick 203
Blaney 191
Byron 188
Bell 183
Elliott 183

 

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The most anticipated race of the year is next weekend in Bristol where the Cup series will race on dirt for the first time in over 40 yrs. Practice on Friday, Saturday will have qualifying via heat races and Sunday is race day. Should be interesting and a real wild card race

 

[Rhodesie]

like seeing the driver's hand the flag off to a young one in the stands. pretty kool.

 

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like seeing the driver's hand the flag off to a young one in the stands. pretty kool.

Yeah he does that after all his wins. He looks till he finds a young fan that follows him and then hands off the flag to them. Pretty classy.

 

[arff]

Dirt action this weekend.
See how the dirt boys do.

Fords should be good since farmers like Fords in the dirt.

 

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Practice day at Bristol. Wonder how many back up cars the teams brought? Lol

 

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Steve Letarte posted a video of all the changes made to the Cup cars to race on dirt.

1. No front splitter with a higher ride height on the front
2. Added bracing in the front and rear quarter panels for better life in contact with the wall and other cars
3. Screening on the front grille and air intake to keep dirt out of the engine and the radiator fins
4. Gripped bias tires on the car. No more smooth radials
5. Narrower and taller rear spoiler for extended life from collisions
6. More tear offs on the windshield and some drivers will have a wicker screen in front mounted on hood to stop mud from hitting the windshield
7. Drivers will carry a dust wand for the inside of the windshield and mirrors if they need to clean the inside

Should be entertaining!

 

[tripster]

It will be interesting to see if they can even run as fast as an actual late model dirt car.

 

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20.20 lap time for Blaney in final practice. Not sure what a late model would run?

 

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Nascar held 2 dirty and dusty practices today with only 2 casualties. Kyle Larson killed a motor and will start from the back and Ty Dillon did some plowing in the loose dirt at the bottom of the track and tore up his front end. He too will go to the back

 

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Heres the top 15 fastest lap times in the final practice: 12-48-11-22-14-19-9-34-24-18-99-20-21-2-5

 

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Watching practice now

 

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Nascar has some problems to deal with. They had no plans of pitting for cautions but rather only at stage completions. Tires will not last for the final stage length so they are looking at options with Goodyear. Drivers will never be able to see out of windshields either if they don't stop to tear off tear offs. Also lots of cars over heating as rads get plugged from mud and dust. Could be a battle of attrition tomorrow and tonight.