******Official 2011 NASCAR thread******

[Old Dog]

Will list favorite drivers in this post as they are submitted. If you have one, let me know and I will include it.


Favorite Drivers
Buck - #48
Bugeater - #14
CaliforniaChiefs #48 #99
Demonpenz - #88
Dannybcaitlyn - #17
factortobe - #88
Gracie Dean - #24, #33
Hydrae - #47
jenksme - #88
kcxiv - #47 #14
kstater - #88
KurtCobain - #4
kyle delexus - #18
R8ers - #18 #11
RedNeckRaider - #29
RubberSponge - #5
Sfeihc - #17 & #2
Sofa King - #88
smittysbar - #99
TrebMaxx - #99 #88
truebigdog - #33
UCFGoldenKnight - #5


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Public group named "KC Chiefs fans"

[RNR]

Originally Posted by Dylan

RedNeckRaider: The season just began. It ain't over. I'm confident, he'll have more chances of winning a race.

However, thanks for the support.

Thanks but remember there is a BIG difference between the paperclip and a 200+ mph track...different code~

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Dylan

I respect your opinion. But loose doesn't cut it -- Harvick had the fastest car on the track. And Junior's car was faster than Kyle. Therefore in the crossover, if Junior got Harvick loose and made the pass -- Harvick's super speedy car would of still beat him Junior over the finish line.

First, I'm an 88 fan. His dad before that.

The Harvick pass was done on lap 497. If Jr. taps him out of the way the chances Harvick could get back to him in a position to do the same thing or pass is slim. Especially since Jr. only gave up the spot because he screwed up all by himself and got loose....the reason Harvick made the pass. It was all on Jr.

I understand you like Earnhardt's honesty and clean racing. Just be advised that will rarely get a win, and never a championship.

You could tell in the post race interview Jr. was seriously upset. Probably at himself.

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by RedNeckRaider

I tried to rep you again but got the old "have to spread it around" I hear what Dylan is saying. What is funny to me is this gee golly I want to be liked thinking. Harvick flat out put the 18 in the fence in the last race last year for clowning around and trying to help his team member beat Harvick. He could have got even Sunday but he knew he had it coming last year. I am not saying free for all but I would bet my last dollar if Jr would have got the 29 loose and hung on to win...or even if he didn't win not a single driver including Harvick would have held it against him. Sure right after the race Harvick would have bitched in the heat of the moment. After he cooled off and watched the replay he would have thought good move! On the track you have to be respected and Jr is too nice IMO~

Jr. thinks fans rooting against him is a bad thing. It's fricking stock car racing. Shoving people out of the way is a normal thing.

[Dylan]

Well guys, You convinced me -- I believe your right. Your points are well taken. Thanks

In that case, Junior needs to work on his confidence he seems to had lost with the last two CC's at Hendricks.

[LiveSteam]

For you neck car fans

[LiveSteam]

O I forgot PING!

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

For you neck car fans

LiveSteam: Is Starling Merlin in this race?

[LiveSteam]

Originally Posted by Dylan

LiveSteam: Is Starling Merlin in this race?

I couldn't tell you. What I know about NASCAR is left turns & something to do with prohibition .

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I couldn't tell you. What I know about NASCAR is left turns & something to do with prohibition .

I'll go into more detail here now and then :

NASCAR Founder's Grandson Popped for DUI
Posted Oct 8th 2009 4:50PM by TMZ Staff

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A grandson of NASCAR founder Bill France was arrested early Thursday on drug charges in Daytona Beach, according to a police report.

J.C. France faces charges of possession of narcotics and driving under the influence. France posted $4,500 bond and was released from Volusia County jail Thursday afternoon.

France, 43, was driving a 2007 green Lamborghini when he was stopped shortly after midnight Thursday. Authorities believe he was racing his half brother, 40-year-old Russell Van Richmond. France failed to stop at a traffic light and swerved on the roadway before coming to a stop in a parking lot.

Richmond, who was driving a 2003 Porsche when he was stopped, reportedly threatened the officer during the arrest.

"No, this is a mistake for you," he told the officer, according to the report. "I'm a France, we own this city."

Authorities continued with the investigation, and Richmond called for their commanding officers.

"You're done," he reportedly told an officer. "Your job is over. This is the biggest mistake ever and your (sic) so done in Daytona."

While conducting a search during the traffic stop, authorities found containers with a "white cakelike substance." The substances gave a presumptive positive reactions for cocaine when they were tested.

Richmond faces two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance, driving under the influence and two counts of threatening a police officer. He posted $10,500 bond and was released from custody Thursday.

France is the son of NASCAR board member Jim France and a driver in NASCAR's Grand-Am Series. Richmond is the son of Jim France's ex-wife. The two share a home in Daytona Beach, according to the police report. A telephone number listed for Richmond rang unanswered Thursday evening. A man who answered the phone at a number listed for France said he was not available.

COMMENT

This is the product of several generations of inbreeding.

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Dylan

Well guys, You convinced me -- I believe your right. Your points are well taken. Thanks

In that case, Junior needs to work on his confidence he seems to had lost with the last two CC's at Hendricks.

It's not his confidence that's the problem. It's his not wanting to be seen as the bad guy. Not a good thing in stock car racing. Never has been. When it becomes the norm we'll have 43 different winners every season.

Believe me I want him to win just as bad as you do. Hendrick is giving him all the tools to win and if he doesn't it's on him. Wish his dad could give him a vision.

[Dylan]

I'm just getting started with reading information & opinion, made by respected sports journalists that cover NASCAR:

Excerpts from The Charlotte Observer: For Earnhardt, closing out a win can't be easy

It's easy to sit on the couch and list all the things you would have done if you'd been driving Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car over the final few laps at Martinsville Speedway.

Of course, most of us don't have the slightest idea how to drive a race car, let alone maneuver it around a tricky paperclip-shaped short track with Kevin Harvick bearing down on the bumper.

It's been a long time, though, since he's had to do any defensive driving. Nobody is saying he's forgotten how to protect a lead late in a race, but it's never as easy as it looks on TV, and it certainly wasn't for Earnhardt on Sunday.

Stuck in a 98-race losing streak, in a car that was probably only good for a top-10 finish, he suddenly found himself in position to race for the win. Crew chief Steve Letarte's strategy and some lucky breaks put him right behind Kyle Busch racing for the win late in Sunday's race. Nobody would have been surprised if Earnhardt had run Busch over to knock him out of his way.

But Earnhardt didn't wreck him. He instead patiently worked his way onto Busch's rear bumper, and gave him a little nudge when it was time to take the lead. Was it out of bounds? Absolutely not, and Busch said so himself.

"I was holding him up, so it was good for him," Busch said. "He took the lead. No harm, no foul."

Maybe he should have forced Harvick to move him out of the way. But he didn't, and Harvick, with a faster car, earned it with a solid pass. Then he got back on Harvick's bumper for one last shot at it, and maybe he should have wrecked Harvick to take back the win.

He didn't, though, and his crew chief said that was the right thing to do.

"You can't bump a guy who just ran you down from straightaway back and passed you," Letarte said Monday. "We took it on the chin and understood we were probably a third- or fourth-place car that came home second. And that was all Dale Jr. at the end. I think a lot of people in the sport kind of wrote him off. He hasn't forgotten how to drive, he hasn't lost the desire."

Now Earnhardt will move on this week to Texas, site of his first career win 11 years ago, and where if he doesn't win Saturday night, his losing streak will hit 100 races. But he's got plenty to feel good about right now - he's obviously faster this year, he's eighth in the standings and his 11.2 average finish right now is up from the last two seasons.

And maybe he learned on Sunday that he can get to the front again, and wins might not be that far away. As he reflected, though, on what might have been, he couldn't help but wonder what he could have done differently.

Knowing that there was possibly something that he did that cost him that victory forced him to temper his excitement with the reality.


Read more: http://www.thatsracin.com/2011/04/04...#ixzz1Ic6FXG11

http://www.thatsracin.com/ Few other articles on Harvick & Earnhardt...

Maybe my opinions are not that far off the mark...

[Dylan]

I'm happy for Harvick: On the virtues of hard work - Camping World Trucks, Nationwide Series & the Sprint Series.




Back on top

It took 30 races and a late move past the son of the team's greatest star, but Kevin Harvick finally got Richard Childress Racing a hard-earned Martinsville victory.

Harvick makes another late move, wins again

By Jim Utter - [email protected]

MARTINSVILLE, Va. – We’ve seen this before.

In fact, it was just last week. Kevin Harvick battles through adversity and into contention in the final laps and pulls off a stunning win.

While Harvick and his Richard Childress Racing team were celebrating, Earnhardt’s fans were again left to wait. Still, his opportunities for victories appear to grow with each passing week.

Harvick passed Earnhardt cleanly with four of the 500 laps remaining and held on to win Sunday’s Goody’s 500 at Martinsville Speedway.

Last week in Fontana, Calif., Harvick led only the last lap in earning his first Cup win of the season.

He was much more dominant Sunday – he led six.

“Just a great character‑building day for our team,” said Harvick, who earned his first series win at Martinsville.

“I don’t know how many character-building days we can have, but we’ll keep enjoying them as long as we wind up this way.”

Harvick’s team owner, Richard Childress, wanted to see Earnhardt pick up a win as much as anyone – but not at one of his driver’s expense.

“Kevin had to do what he had to do right there at the end and I was proud of him,” Childress said. “It’s just – Dale Junior will win races. He will come back.

“We have been in that situation. We have had a long dry spell, so I know what it meant if he could have won that race.”

Less than two years removed from what Harvick calls his worst season as a driver, he remembers, too. That’s also why he doesn’t take for granted the opportunities he’s had the past two weeks.

“Something that we have only done – I think once before – is win back‑to‑back weeks,” Harvick said.

“To come out this season and win at race tracks that we had not won at before – but we feel like we have been fairly good at the last couple of years – is good for our confidence, to say the least.”

It’s also good for his championship hopes.

He is now fifth in the series standings, and perhaps more importantly, the only driver with more than one win this season. That should bode well in case he needs to utilize NASCAR’s new “wild card” rules to get into the Chase.

“I think when you look at the two wins … I’ll take our chances on making the Chase with the wild card stuff,” Harvick said.

“So here we are, six weeks into the season, and I feel like we can take more chances than we did last year.”


Read more: http://www.thatsracin.com/2011/04/03...#ixzz1IcK40IxE

[Dylan]

I asked LiveSteam: Is Starling Merlin in this race?

God love him, he answered:

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

I couldn't tell you. What I know about NASCAR is left turns & something to do with prohibition .

How sweet!

[Demonpenz]

I forgot to tell you something about the truck race on friday, you know how drivers are now in the habit of when they get spun out they put the hammer down so they can go ahead and flip all the way around to avoid hitting the wall? This one dude tried to do that when he was spun around and floored the gas right into the wall hitting it way harder. Never seen that before.

[RNR]

Originally Posted by Dylan

I'm just getting started with reading information & opinion, made by respected sports journalists that cover NASCAR:

Excerpts from The Charlotte Observer: For Earnhardt, closing out a win can't be easy

It's easy to sit on the couch and list all the things you would have done if you'd been driving Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s car over the final few laps at Martinsville Speedway.

Of course, most of us don't have the slightest idea how to drive a race car, let alone maneuver it around a tricky paperclip-shaped short track with Kevin Harvick bearing down on the bumper.

It's been a long time, though, since he's had to do any defensive driving. Nobody is saying he's forgotten how to protect a lead late in a race, but it's never as easy as it looks on TV, and it certainly wasn't for Earnhardt on Sunday.

Stuck in a 98-race losing streak, in a car that was probably only good for a top-10 finish, he suddenly found himself in position to race for the win. Crew chief Steve Letarte's strategy and some lucky breaks put him right behind Kyle Busch racing for the win late in Sunday's race. Nobody would have been surprised if Earnhardt had run Busch over to knock him out of his way.

But Earnhardt didn't wreck him. He instead patiently worked his way onto Busch's rear bumper, and gave him a little nudge when it was time to take the lead. Was it out of bounds? Absolutely not, and Busch said so himself.

"I was holding him up, so it was good for him," Busch said. "He took the lead. No harm, no foul."

Maybe he should have forced Harvick to move him out of the way. But he didn't, and Harvick, with a faster car, earned it with a solid pass. Then he got back on Harvick's bumper for one last shot at it, and maybe he should have wrecked Harvick to take back the win.

He didn't, though, and his crew chief said that was the right thing to do.

"You can't bump a guy who just ran you down from straightaway back and passed you," Letarte said Monday. "We took it on the chin and understood we were probably a third- or fourth-place car that came home second. And that was all Dale Jr. at the end. I think a lot of people in the sport kind of wrote him off. He hasn't forgotten how to drive, he hasn't lost the desire."

Now Earnhardt will move on this week to Texas, site of his first career win 11 years ago, and where if he doesn't win Saturday night, his losing streak will hit 100 races. But he's got plenty to feel good about right now - he's obviously faster this year, he's eighth in the standings and his 11.2 average finish right now is up from the last two seasons.

And maybe he learned on Sunday that he can get to the front again, and wins might not be that far away. As he reflected, though, on what might have been, he couldn't help but wonder what he could have done differently.

Knowing that there was possibly something that he did that cost him that victory forced him to temper his excitement with the reality.


Read more: http://www.thatsracin.com/2011/04/04...#ixzz1Ic6FXG11

http://www.thatsracin.com/ Few other articles on Harvick & Earnhardt...

Maybe my opinions are not that far off the mark...

There is some truth there but again what is his crew chief going to say? My guy blew it? he should have bumped and ran? (which in that case 3rd was the worst outcome or a possible win) His crew chief has to back his play and defend it. Jr is showing signs of being a front row guy again, and the last thing he needs is his crew chief throwing him under the bus. Rather people like him or hate him NASCAR is better off with Jr running up front and winning races~