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2020 NASCAR Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by DanOregon, Feb 7, 2020.

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  1. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    NASCAR was so concerned that they might not get a full field for the inaugural race, they gave Winston West Series points, too. They wound up with 86 entries for 43 spots.

    08/06/1994 race: Brickyard 400 (Cup) - Racing-Reference.info
     
    maumann, Sep 30, 2020
    #937
  2. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Couldn't even cover a tornado that hit his own building.
     
    maumann, Sep 30, 2020
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  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    And Nascar is forever to blame for "kissing the bricks" -- was cool when it was an impromptu thing by Jarrett and his crew chief in '96, but now a massively overscripted photo op with every event at IMS. I think the winners of the LPGA event a couple years back even did it, and it's not like you walk right off the 18th green to the bricks.
     
    playthrough, Sep 30, 2020
    #939
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  4. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Didn't Michael Schumacher want to have them paved over?
     
    Driftwood, Sep 30, 2020
    #940
  5. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Ha, I hadn't heard that. The IMS president begged Nascar drivers in recent years to not do burnouts over them. He was especially miffed with an Xfinity winner would do it.
     
    playthrough, Sep 30, 2020
    #941
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Move the Xfinity race back to IRP, please.
     
    wicked, Sep 30, 2020
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  7. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I think it was Schumacher. When F1 raced there, someone complained that they disturbed the start, and I can't think of anyone at the time other than Schumacher with the clout to suggest such a thing.
     
    Driftwood, Sep 30, 2020
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  8. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    Is it still that or is it some godawful thing like “Big Machine Records presents the Florida-Georgia Line 400 at the Brickyard”?

    At one point it was something like that.
    [​IMG]
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Sep 30, 2020
    #944
  9. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Not sure. I think Crown Royal might have sponsored it at one point. I always changed it to the Brickyard 400 when I put it in the paper.
     
    Batman, Sep 30, 2020
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  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I've seen dirt track racing, I've seen NASCAR racing at Bristol - I can't see how those big ass NASCARS are going to handle the dirt and banking at Bristol. Love the idea of moving races around to generate fan interest. It's not like the tracks will go away. Keep the staples and rotate some of the others. Still hoping for a street circuit at some point.
     
    DanOregon, Oct 1, 2020
    #946
  11. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    This year it was sponsored by Big Machine’s hand sanitizer. Bill Sr. must be rolling over in the grave.
     
    wicked, Oct 1, 2020
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  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    Some genuine desperation in that new schedule.

    More road courses ? Convert Bristol to dirt?

    Oy.

    Why not figure-8 racing on ice? Or ramp-to-ramp jumps ? Loops ? Indoors ?

    It's all been done.

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    Azrael, Oct 1, 2020
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