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Posted By: thomasmnile on 02/26/18 04:37pm

It's not an article, but a Twitter post from a Sports Business Daily writer on the Jayski website is reporting Monster has asked NASCAR for another extension on its decision to extend sponsorship beyond 2018.

Posted By: bobsallyh on 02/26/18 06:12pm

"Providers of racetracks", must be a new term for what used to be known as promoters. Come on Cloud, we all know you were one!

Posted By: mco65 on 02/27/18 07:00am

thomasmnile wrote:

MCO65: Daytona or any plate race is meaningless as a predictor of a driver's season. The winner is pot luck. Look at who won. It wasn't Ryan Blaney who led over half the laps, yet the media drivel of the last week suggests Dillon is the guy to beat this season. Ask Kurt Busch what it did for him in 2017. Dillon BTW qualified 25th for Atlanta and starts at the rear due to a rear gearset change. Other than prestige, Daytona doesn't mean that much in the grand scheme.....

Hum, i respectfully disagree... One of the aspects of racing that I enjoy is that every race is a mini championship in itself.. compared to baseball where a team win 3 or 4 games a week, basketball and hockey where teams win 2 or 3 a week and football where good teams will win 2 or 3 a month.. in racing.. good teams/drivers win only 2 or 3 times a season and each one of those wins is a HUGE DEAL! Think about it, a WIN gets you in the Playoffs... so in the grand scheme of things, every race win is HUGE! again, that's just how i see it..

Granted winning at Daytona is not a predictor of how competitive you will be throughout the year because there are only 4 plate races a year and 30 or more cars have a legitimate shot at winning a plate race where as other tracks on 10 or 15 cars honestly have a shot at winning...

Posted By: PawPaw_n_Gram on 02/27/18 08:00am

Just as a win on opening day doesn’t indicate a team will be in the World Series, Super Bowl or NBA Championship, it does set the mood for the season.

NASCAR Racing is like any other sport in that 15-20% of the teams are going to be strong all season, 15-20% are just hanging on hopping for decent runs 60-70% have a chance at some very good runs, but not often.

We all knew RCR Racing with Ryan and Austin are in the middle group.

We know that Penske, Hendrick, Gibbs and Stewart-Haas each have one or two drivers/teams that will be threats to win each week. Harvick is in that group.

But as mentioned a Daytona 500 win is special. A driver who wins that race is always remembered, but it certainly isn’t a prediction of the rest of the season.

However it does mean that Austin will be in the playoffs.

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Posted By: TxGearhead on 03/03/18 06:01pm

For todays kids with short attention spans, I suggest heat races. 10 cars, 10 laps. Your finish places you in the feature of 50? 100? laps. No more laying back until the finish. Foot in the gas all the way.
The same thing every racetrack in the US does every weekend.

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Posted By: thomasmnile on 03/04/18 06:57pm

Well, Harvick puts on another driver education clinic at Vegas. Early season, but haven't seen Ford dominate like that on 1.5 mile tracks since the heyday of Roush Racing in the early 2000's.

How about Fox spinning NASCAR's continuing comedy with their 'rent a wrench'? IMHO, there should be NO penalties for loose lugnuts until NASCAR fixes THEIR problem.

Posted By: bobsallyh on 03/04/18 07:53pm

Yep, Thomas, I posted about the FRANCECAR air wrench deal awhile back. And again today it raised it's ugly head. Dr. Steve O'Donnell stated it was to keep teams from spending money to continue to develop quicker guns. Bottom line is FRANCECAR just wanted more control and they get the money the teams would have been using for R&D. If I was a team owner, if MY gun breaks, I'll bite the bullet, but if the rental goes down, I'd airmail it thru the FRANCECAR hauler door. The hierarchy just continues with bad decisions and lousy rules!

Posted By: sneakygroundbuzzard on 03/04/18 08:11pm

the reason they went to the mandated air wrench is because the majority of the teams requested it. they did this through the RTA (race teams alliance). the RTA is the group responsible for a lot of so clled cost saving measures in all of the NASCAR divisions.

there were only a few teams that were spending millions on research and development of faster air wrenches and the majority of the teams dodnt have that kind of money so the RTA stepped in and asked NASCAR to do something about it to level the playing field.

i believe all this R/D on air wrenches really started getting out of hand when coach Gibbs got into racing and was looking for an edge. then other filthy rich team owners followed suit. i.e. Hendrick,Rousch etc.

not that i agree with this new rule.or many of the other new rules through out the different divisions,but this is what i have heard from listening to the NASCAR channel on sirius sat radio.

Posted By: bucky on 03/05/18 03:34am

Could it be that teams are souping up the guns? Racers will be racers after all, and I'd go look at and test the 48's guns first [emoticon]

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Posted By: Cloud Dancer on 03/05/18 06:09am

It's the business of NASCAR, it's their problem to solve,....again and again if necessary. If it was easy, we would still talk about it.... [emoticon]

What I saw is that Kevin Harvick drove a faster car than my guy, Kyle Busch.

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