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Posted By: bobsallyh
on 07/03/17 08:34pm
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Just found out that Kyle Larson on Sunday night won a sprint car race after bouncing off the wall 24 hours earlier at Daytona. Rico Abrue was also there. It is a 1/4 mile bullring called Path Valley Speedway just outside of Spring Run, PA. Talk about racers! It is located about 25 miles from where we lived before going fulltime. The California Racing Assc. (CRA) did a combo show there a number of years ago with an eastern group in which Brad Noffzinger from Huntington Beach, CA. brought his sprinter. He had run some in NASCAR at the time. I was standing close to him in the pits and he said to me "Where the heck are we"? "After we got off the PA Turnpike I thought we were in nowhere". I laughed because knowing where he came from it would be pretty much nowhere.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 07/09/17 08:01pm
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Martin Truex Jr. mops the track with the rest of the field and Kyle is busted again for loose lug nuts. My question is how does a team with a technical alliance with JGR do so well and JGR is doing so bad? Thought there was shared information back and forth? If nothing else, the 78 team looks like the Roush teams of a decade or more ago with its mastery of the the 1.5 mile tracks.
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Posted By: PawPaw_n_Gram
on 07/09/17 09:02pm
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I'm sure the information exchange is working fine.
My opinion is that not running the Xfinity race, Truex was rested, fresh and focused. He didn't try to carry over setup and ideas from the other race.
It was one of those magical nights and the team didn't do a lot of changes which made the car worse. Unlike most of the other teams.
As far as the lug nuts, I don't have any idea why those guys are still going over the wall. Why they haven't been replaced. But it could be Kyle's impatience to get out of the pits fast, not making sure the car is right. Heck in the short interview during the final caution the crew chief said they didn't get all the lug nuts on the car. Why the heck didn't he come back to the pits and get it right. Sure he would have had to go to 11th place for the restart, but he didn't have the setup to beat Truex.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 07/10/17 09:21am
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:
As far as the lug nuts, I don't have any idea why those guys are still going over the wall. Why they haven't been replaced.
Dunno if the over the wall crew is the same group as the crew for Kyle's championship season, but if they are wow! They were money in 2015, not so much to this point in 2017.
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Posted By: Cloud Dancer
on 07/10/17 12:38pm
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There's about 12 or so possible winning drivers. We might as well see the folly of the sport for what it is. It's a contest of money, chassis setup, engine-power characteristics, expertise quality of owner and crew. The true winner is the racecar. We all know that if any of the top drivers are in the winning car, that's who will get most of the recognition. IOW it ain't like boxing.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 07/10/17 07:49pm
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The car is the star, but it takes a good wheelman to make it bring home the bacon. Truex's driving clinic kinda made the Kes's whine look a bit silly.
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Posted By: PawPaw_n_Gram
on 07/11/17 03:30pm
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Did anyone understand the penalty Ryan Blaney got on the last pit stop in the XFinity race?
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Posted By: bucky
on 07/13/17 05:36am
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I initially was puzzled about the Eric Jones/Matt Kenseth thing until I found out yesterday that Eric was only on loan from JGR to Furniture Row for one year.
Eric has been running very well with FR and in the interview I saw with the owner of FR he wasn't specific about why he was leaving.
The kid is going to be giving the other drivers fits for years to come.
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Posted By: mooky stinks
on 07/13/17 02:05pm
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PawPaw_n_Gram wrote:Did anyone understand the penalty Ryan Blaney got on the last pit stop in the XFinity race?
I didn't watch the race but the article I read of the recap said they had an uncontrolled tire on his pit stop.
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Posted By: thomasmnile
on 07/13/17 02:38pm
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Here's another head scratcher, the penalty/fines levied against the #42 team for 'an unapproved rear brake cooling system'. Granted, the 42 did not get through tech inspection prior to qualifying and subsequently started at the back of the field. But, the car certainly went through and passed inspection at some point prior to the race. How was the brake cooling system OK then, but not OK after the race????????
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