NASCAR running thread

Re: 2011 NASCAR running thread

Eh, the racing really didn't do anything for me. You're playing roulette and if you're lucky, you hook up with the right person.

That's my uneducated view on it. Glad to see the Woods return to victory lane, though.

 

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Good for a Nationwide full-timer to win the Daytona 500.


(credit: Autostock)

Also, three NASCAR races, three in which the winner accumulated no points. Kudos on a simplified points system!

 

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Wasn't a work of art, but that's the current state of restrictor plate racing. It was different, interesting,sort of fun (IMO). Just cool to see the 21 in Victory Lane. Good, old, racin' folk (the Woods, that is).

 

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Great stuff for the Wood Brothers. Outstanding.

And the first time I had ever heard of Trevor Bayne was a certain board poster's son, who had briefly mentioned him once when I was staying with the poster and his family. Heady stuff ... and I wonder if they remember?

 

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Congratulations Trevor Bayne.

I was standing in the middle of the living room cheering and driving as hard as he was.

 

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As was this fellow Tennessean. Happiest I've been to see a winner since Sterlin' !

 

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(break out a chorus of Rocky Top)

 

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You called it, Joe.

 

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Admittedly, I'm not a NASCAR fan. Always been more of an open-wheel fan (although, auto racing is low on the list of sports).

But, that really wasn't racing. You got teammates pushing each other, instead of trying to pass each other? Is that just what racing has become now? Are all NASCAR races like that now?

AJ Foyt, Richard Petty would be turning over in their graves (if they were dead).

 

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I listened to the final laps on radio on the way to a short meeting. Folks may say that Junior must have bad luck after getting his tires switched out and then got caught up in another wreck today near the end.

Is it me or do I think that it's time that the excuses (wicked stepmom, incompetent crew chief, bad car, etc) are no longer the reasons why he can't win, beyond the bad luck?

I bring it up because Quad City Times writer Nate Bloomquist just inserted a thorn in the side of Junior fans with this column: http://qctimes.com/sports/columnists/article_efcf6d10-3c7c-11e0-9ab8-001cc4c03286.html

 

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That was my feeling ... different, interesting, sort of fun.
Happy to see a young kid win such a big race.