2010 NASCAR running thread

Robin Braig hangs out at the track between sessions.



Seriously, saying you don't want to pave the track because of the "unique character" of the track is ridiculous. Do Fenway and Wrigley refuse to maintain the grass because they don't want to mess with the "unique character?"

 

That was on cable and this was on national TV so the audience was much, much bigger. This is like NFL having turf problems during Super Bowl.

 

Robin Braig: “It may not need repaving. We’ve been told by the drivers, crew chiefs, NASCAR, Goodyear, that the uniqueness of this track is special. … We don’t want to repave – paint the whole house – when all we have to do is a little touch-up.”

In other words, "We've rebuilt the tri-oval grandstand, added suites, put up a museum, put in lights, added the SAFER barrier NASCAR takes credit for even through Tony George financed it, and are building an addition to the Superstretch grandstand, but nah, we don't want to pave a track with pavement that's better suited for an alley in the Bronx. That would cost $5 million, and we can't get that back even if we sell chunks of the old track for souvenirs."

 

Besides getting rid of the plates?

The drivers need to control themselves and exercise a little bit more control than a masturbation freak in vault full of Hustler's. It's a fucking plate race, it's probably going to come to you, even in the final four laps. Absolutely pathetic that they literally couldn't go two laps without running into each other.

 

I've been out all day -- not that I would have watched Daytona anyway -- and this is what I have learned from reading parts of this thread and a few interbet reports:

Some dude nobody ever heard of won the greatest American race, after there was a two-hour delay because of a huge mother pothole somewhere on the greatest American race track and after they ran two extra green-white-checkered laps to create an artificial exciting finish.

From what I can tell NASCAR just became WWE on wheels.

 

Just became?

 

wcv, you're close, except it was five cars down to four sted four to three.

McMurray has never been with a shitty team. But he's had plenty of shitty results. Good guy? Sure. Good driver? Maybe. The new generation's Derrike Cope for winning this race? Absolutely.

 

That's what the drivers want and that's what the fans want: less of the NFL (no fun league) rules. Grab your moonshine, pour a glass and enjoy it.

 

I'll take "sort of." But McMurray has four career wins. One came in his second start. The other three have been plate races.

Nearly 1/3 of his career races, he's finished in the top 10. But only 33 of those have come in the 145 races since he left Ganassi. So...48 of 114 races with Ganassi, he was in the top 10. When he was EASILY the best car they had. Move him to Roush where he was just another cog, and he was...a cog.

Others' top 10 finishes since the start of the 2006 season:
Roush teammates:
Greg Biffle 60
Matt Kenseth 76
The Carl 77
David Ragan 19 (in 111 races)

Others:
Jimmie Johnson 94
Brian Vickers 33
Kasey Kahne 55
David Reutimann 15 (in 100 races with a startup team)

Point: In most any fantasy league, I would assume McMurray is a low B maybe C level driver option. His name WILL stand out in the list of 500 winners in the "who the hell is THAT?" way in 30 years.

 

Oh, Waltrip BLOWS. McMurray is WORLDS better than Mikey as a driver. I wouldn't insult Jamie by comparing him to that blowhard. At least Jamie seems genuine and likeable.