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Is NAPA gonna open their can of whoop-azz?

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:hail1:

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Joey Logano's pass is now being questioned.

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As a result of the Penske racing and front row motor sports issue Jeff Gordon has been added into the chase as he was the one who was affected by the deal between the two teams.

I am a Gordon fan and glad to see him, but not off the current circumstances. Granted had every team played on the up and up he would have been in without NASCAR intervening.

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13 cars in the Chase, and of course Gordon feels he should be in...my question, is it 13 for this year or will it now be 13 from henceforth??

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/stor...-091313#!jhND0

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If it were any other car then a Hendrick car Nascar would not have added a 13th car. The only reason they added cars 11 and 12 was because Jr couldn't finish in the top ten. Nascar has gotten exactly what they deserve. They have been playing favorites for years. Jimmy Johnson owes several champoinships to the chase otherwise he would have never won.

As far as teams making deals and holding cars back to improve the finishing position of another. That has been going on for years and is a part of racing. When Nascar allowed teams to become so big and turning a blind eye to Jeff Gordon (just to name one) being named the owner of a car knowing **** well it was a Hendrick car what did they expect. Of course a team is going to work together, that is why it is called a team.

Sorry, but nascar is reaping what it has sewn and adding a 13th car this year has just opened the door for future problems as the first car out will cry foul now that they know the rules are not set in stone.

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I disagree about opening the door for larger fields as well as just because it was a Hendrick car they let it in, but agree totally about the wheeling a dealing between teams has ways been going on as well as toolboy owes NASCAR for developing the stupid chase crap.

IMHO If anything all this controversy has enlightened everyone to just how dump 72% of a race season is if only the last 28% counts for anything.

Check my post, for years I have said it before and will say it again, the chase is bad for NASCAR!

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The chase is one of Nascars dumbest ideas. The first was allowing teams to become too big. It put a samll team at a serious disadvantage. To fix this Nascar started developing the COT and dictating gears and springs, well that just further helped the bigger teams as they have the resources to do more testing. They need to go back to "Run what ya brung" and let the best combo of car and driver win.

Sorry but Nascar does play favorites and Hendrick is their favorite right now. Do you honestly believe Hendrick would have gotten the same penalty Gibbs did for one connecting rod that clearly gave no competitive advantage. Before you answer, remember what happened to Hendrick when Knaus told Johnson to back the car into the wall if he won the race.

Jeff Gordon not making it into the chase had way more to do with his season than a deal made on the track in the closing laps of last weeks race. If you don't wanna get bumped from the chase because one car passed another then don't put yourself in that position.

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bris09,

Clearly we have a difference of opinion and that is cool. Life would be boring if we all agreed on stuff. But if you look back at toolboys history of rule infractions you will see Hendrick Racing is not exempt. Infact I believe toolboy had a race taken from him for "jumping a start" when the leader spun his tires.

I agree the deals are made all season long not only within a team but with other teams. NASCAR said they took this weeks action becuase if affected the outcome of the chase. My question would be what about the deals that are made the other 26 races that regardless of what the governing body thinks, DOES affect the chase. In other words what if in the first race of the season a team cuts a deal for a position and then they make the chase by one point. That single deal affected the chase.

Bottom line is that in my opinion the chase has been bad for NASCAR and it needs to disappear! Let the driver drive to where the entire 36 races season matters for everyone!

That's all I got to say about that.....

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:agree: Kinda' what I was thinking :agree:





Big Ron :28:

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I agree with you too. In fact, Johnson got nailed two races in a row with penalties that probably cost him the race this year. As for the chase, I think it needs to disappear too but if I remember right, it was not created to "help" certain teams win championships but this was Brian France's idea to try to get more people to watch NASCAR instead of football. Which we all new wouldn't happen. NASCAR ratings always drop when football starts and this was his idea to soften the ratings blow.

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I have mixed feeling about the chase, but I do feel if NASCAR felt stronger about it's success (or lack thereof) it would have found its way into the Nationwide and truck series. That it hasn't is very telling.


Still wondering about the Chevy 'SS' thing, though....


:borg:

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all I know is.. I was up way to late to watch the race!

Hoping to watch my guy kyle bush sweep the weekend!
but ill take second place.. Hope he wins the Chase!

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Almost another sweep. So close.

How about those burnouts though? :eyebrows:

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I know.. so so close!

Burnouts are the best part!

I hate when they dont show it!

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Home town Jeb Burton puts in a good showing in his 1st NNS race finishing 8th.

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For those who still believe the chase and Jimmy Johnson are good for NASCAR, just look at the images of the stands and attendance records over the past 5 years.

No congrats here.

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That is what I told my Dad, I don't think it is good for NASCAR.. but oh well.

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I agree.. not good for the sport..

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Was there a NASCAR race or something today? I was busy watchign the re-run of th eF1 race in Austin.

:borg:

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LOL, as well the FIA World Rally championship stage was in Spain..there is like 5 or 6 Ford's in the top 10.

Good luck to Trevor Bayne with his issues and hopefully Martin STAYS retired this time.

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i'm thinkin' it has more to do with watching duplicates of the same car going round-and-round in circles to advertise products to my wife is more boring than whale snot

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Only 57 more days till the 2014 Daytona 500........

http://www.sunlink.org/images/testtime.html






Big Ron :ANGEL:

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I can't wait.

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Longest 90 days of the year!

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First race of the year boys!

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Fixt. I like how Stenhouse is bangin' Patrick both on and off the track.

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Not good advertising for Chevrolet when the pace car, which was a brand new Chevrolet SS, starts on fire.

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That was a hell of a run at the end by Hamlin. He came out of nowhere. I can just imagine the Exec's at GM were crapping their pants when that Pace Car started on fire. That was hilarious to see that car smoke and burn up.

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Great start to the season !

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Man I missed it, :mad: the pace car caught on fire??? Was it better than when Montoya hit the Jet Dryer???

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No, it was'nt that good. The Pace Car was in front and then you saw smoke coming from the back of the car, and inside the car was smoke, and then alittle fire on the back of the car. Brett Bodine was the driver and he parked it at the beginning of pit road and both the guys got out of the car.

It was so great because you had that bright gold Chevy bowtie symbol in front, and then CHEVROLET on the side rocker panel just screaming "Don't Buy This Car!" as it's smoldering in front of millions of people.

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I just saw it on SportsCenter..classic..and Stenhouse hit the s**t out of Patrick..great day when you can see a Chevy burn up in front of thousands!! :yes:

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A brand new one at the. LOL

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Apparently, the fire in the pace car was caused by extra battery packs in the trunk for the extra strobe lights.
http://jalopnik.com/chevy-ss-pace-ca...ium=socialflow

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OMG that is so freakin funny. The announcers comments made Chevy exes probably have heart attacks, especially "We have NEVER seen anything like this""...man that video made my day, thanks for the post gvervoren!! :worship:
One dude said "Boys we are on fire, they are driving the wheels...let me stop, just to funny!!!!

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Start the friggin' race already. They're really reaching for stuff to talk about when they ask who would you pick in a race, Danica Patrick or Richard Petty? :wtf:

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Gonna be a long night....

:borg:

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I took a nap and can't find any internet info, what is the latest? (I have to work tonight, reason for nap)

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Still in rain Delay.

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Well dang, when do they decide is enough enough and call it??

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Back to racing under the lights!

:borg:

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That was a great race, no stupid debris cautions, cars spinning and no caution. Only caution flags were for real reasons and the drivers all ran 100% for the duration of the race. good times!

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Thought it would be nice to see the #3 car back on the track, but the idiot behind the wheel caused three wrecks. Guess it helps when you grand-dad owns the team, because the kid has no business being out there with the adults.

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:agree:

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Let's see...#3 on the pole an dJr. wins? Nah, there's no fix....

:borg:

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:agree:

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:CHEERS: +1 and Nascar wonders why people have stoped watching.
Pro wrestling anyone? :23:

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What's the story with the points system? I keep hearing them say that if you win a race, your basically in the Chase? What if you have 1 win and 10 DNF's?

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Yup, new rules. they are tailoring it to get Jr. a championship. He would have won last year with the new convoluted system. Win and in. I think it's 16 cars in the chase with 4 cars cut after each of the threee race segments.

:borg: