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Topic: Nascar Follies

Posted By: JIMNLIN on 02/19/18 07:51am

Good to see new names in the winners circle but how he got there just cheapens his win. However I did get two naps in and read some more on my western book and even looked in on RV.net. I had to mute most of the race. Fox really sucks with their in car camera noise/on track camers noise and krank it up racket. I wish my tv had some type of sound mixer so I could eliminate their racket. The wife is a big Gordon fan and commented on over hype before the race by Gordon and the rest of the team in the booth. Come on short tracks "good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" ............ Will Rogers '03 2500 QC Dodge/Cummins HO 3.73 6 speed manual Jacobs Westach '97 Park Avanue 28' 5er 11200 two slides

Posted By: bguy on 02/19/18 08:29am

Austin Dillon didn't do anything wrong. Aric Almirola didn't do anything wrong. It's almost always the same result when the leader tries to block a car with a good run on the last lap, but he had to try and block him. The only way I see a different outcome is if maybe someone like Mark Martin was in the 3 car. --------------------------------------- 2011 Ram 1500 Quad Cab, 4x4, 3.55, HEMI 2009 TL-32BHS Trail-Lite by R-Vision

Posted By: FlatBroke on 02/19/18 08:58am

Looked like “The Intimidator“ was in the #3 the last lap. Hitch Hiker "08" 29.5 FKTG LS

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 02/19/18 08:58am

The word "wrong" is not the appropriate word to use, in this case. The NASCAR way of looking at it is to judge it based on the wording of the rule in the official rule book. There is no official rule that covers taking out the race leader on a super speedway. I say dillon sure enough DID something wrong, but he did not break any official rule. Willie & Betty Sue Miko & Sparky 2003 41 ft Dutch Star Diesel Pusher/Spartan Floorplan 4010 Blazer toad & Ranger bassboat

Posted By: PawPaw_n_Gram on 02/19/18 09:13am

Watching live I thought Austin took him out, and it didn’t make sense. Because IMHO if it had been any other car with the lead the yellow would have flown and there would be another GWC. But looking at the slow motion replay this is what I saw. 1 - Dillon bumps Almirola in the rear. It may have been deliberate, but just as likely it was from the push effect. 2 - Dillons car pulls away from Almirola’s rear bumper by a foot or two. 3 - While the cars are separated, Almirola’s car starts to spin to the outside. 4 - When Dillon makes contact with Almirola again, the #10 has already spun past the point of potential recovery. Being so close to the wall the car has no room for the driver to recover. Lower or on the straight a recovery is possible. 5 - Dillon ‘drives’ through the #10 and is lucky to not get spun himself. Probably a 50/50 chance of Dillon also wrecking. As for driving through - there is absolutely no way that Dillon could have lifted or have dragged the brake without causing a huge wreck and getting crashed out of the race. NASCAR veterans teach younger drivers to ‘drive through’ such situations. Now one caveat - The whole sequence took less than two seconds, maybe less than one. Neither Dillon nor Almirola really knows what they were thinking, what actually happened. Both have used selective memory to edit their view of the event. That’s human nature. Everyone does it. I’ve seen too many instances over the years where drivers were simply wrong about what happened. They can’t see outside the car, and at Daytona the spotters don’t have a really good view either. Did Dillon make a conscious decision to take out Almirola if that was the only way to get past him? Maybe, I’m sure he, and every other driver, has had that thought. These things happen much too fast for anyone to seriously believe the event was pre-planned, or to believe that Dillon’s thought process during was more than ‘shoot, can’t wreck’ Drivers have to react too fast to have a what should I do thought process. There simply isn’t time to consider any options. Remember the in-car earlier in the race of Kyle Busch saving the car on the first flat. Everyone of us would have wrecked four times, while Kyle was saving the car. He never thought about how to save the car. He was analyzing the problem while letting his reactions save the car. Full-Time 2014 - ???? “Not all who wander are lost.” "You were supposed to turn back at the last street." 2012 Ram 2500 Mega Cab 2014 Flagstaff 832IKBS TT

Posted By: paulcardoza on 02/19/18 09:16am

Seems like a risk the "blocker" takes when the "blockee's" car is a bit faster during the final laps, no? Paul & Sandra Plymouth, MA 2014 Heartland Cyclone 4100 King

Posted By: downtheroad on 02/19/18 09:42am

Can we agree that Fox's full size "scroller" down the side of the screen that takes up about 20% of the view of the race is TERRIBLE. "If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane." Arctic Fox 25Y GMC Duramax Blue Ox SwayPro

Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 02/19/18 09:43am

The participants who actually saw what happened have made up their own minds, their own version. And, at the end of this season, we will have sufficient information to see if there is a consensus. It's called, I'm saving a bumper for you. I raced too many years to not know the culture.

Posted By: Travlingman on 02/19/18 11:44am

Was that Ricky Bobby's/Cal Norton Jr's x-wife in victory lane? 2017 F-350 King Ranch DRW 2014 Landmark Savannah(sold) 2022 DRV Mobile Suite 40KSSB4

Posted By: 8.1 Van on 02/19/18 02:40pm

Dale Jr had fun at Daytona with two of his drivers coming in 1-2 in the Xfinity race on Saturday ! 2002 Chevy Express LS 3500 8.1 155" WB passenger van 3.73 posi (GT4/G80) 2003 Thor Citation 41-ZBSR 41ft TT

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