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Nascar Race #34 - "I Won't Hit Him On Purpose - Really" 500 at Texas Motor Speedway
This weeks has a full slate - X_Men and Trucks and the middle Cup race in the Eliminator round. Everyone will be avoiding contact lest they suffer the same fate as Matt Kenseth.
With Jeff Gordon winning the Martinsville race, he is one of four drivers who will be eligible to race for the 2015 Chase Championship. The Chase driver points following Martinsville;
Too bad Logano is in last place. If the stars stay in alignment, that's where he finishes. His best finish at the Fall Texas race is third and and the same for the Fall Phoenix race. He did win the Spring Texas race last year.
Everything kicks off Thursday afternoon with two Truck practices and finishing with the AAA Texas 500 Sunday afternoon. The good news is the final three races will be on NBC, so no searching for a streaming broadcast for cable-less viewers like me. The MRN schedule;
The entry list is 45, no 44, check that, 45 with Erik Jones sitting in for Matt Kenseth who called in sick. The Bubble Boys are Reed Sorenson and Michael McDowell, both need to qualify on speed and if qualifying is cancelled McDowell and Ryan Blaney will be sweeping the parking lot for leftover rib bones from someone..
Weather - Thursday has about an inch of rainfall forecast, pretty much all day long and early, early rain for Saturday morning. The rest of the week end looks clear right now and only Thursday's Truck practice should be impacted.
News and Notes
OPINION - Nascar has punishment for every little thing, from using the wrong lugnuts to using unapproved parts and for personnel issues, such as failing a drug test. Why don't they have predetermined punishment for overly aggressive retaliatory driving. It was OK for Logano to push Kenseth out of the lead at Kansas. Does Nascar have "favorite sons" as the driver I love to hate, Kyle Busch, said in the post-race news conference above?
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With only three races to go, good picking is a priority. So make any changes in time for the race, have fun and good luck to all.
Hoping typos are at a minimum,
Grumpty Humpty
This weeks has a full slate - X_Men and Trucks and the middle Cup race in the Eliminator round. Everyone will be avoiding contact lest they suffer the same fate as Matt Kenseth.
With Jeff Gordon winning the Martinsville race, he is one of four drivers who will be eligible to race for the 2015 Chase Championship. The Chase driver points following Martinsville;Too bad Logano is in last place. If the stars stay in alignment, that's where he finishes. His best finish at the Fall Texas race is third and and the same for the Fall Phoenix race. He did win the Spring Texas race last year.
Everything kicks off Thursday afternoon with two Truck practices and finishing with the AAA Texas 500 Sunday afternoon. The good news is the final three races will be on NBC, so no searching for a streaming broadcast for cable-less viewers like me. The MRN schedule;
The entry list is 45, no 44, check that, 45 with Erik Jones sitting in for Matt Kenseth who called in sick. The Bubble Boys are Reed Sorenson and Michael McDowell, both need to qualify on speed and if qualifying is cancelled McDowell and Ryan Blaney will be sweeping the parking lot for leftover rib bones from someone.
.Weather - Thursday has about an inch of rainfall forecast, pretty much all day long and early, early rain for Saturday morning. The rest of the week end looks clear right now and only Thursday's Truck practice should be impacted.
News and Notes
- Not much new this week, Well OK, it isn't every week Nascar hands out a two race suspension, is it?. JGR and Kenseth are appealing. naturally. The appeal will held tomorrow (Thursday) morning and the final appeal will be tomorrow afternoon. I was shocked he got two races and will be more that shocked if it is reduced or set aside because it was decided by Nascar Sunday right after the race, in my opinion. This is a good report from AutoWeek on the possibilities on overturning the sanction, however slim.
- Danica may have also suffered from the Kenseth fallout. She was fined $50K and lost 25 points for her little "love" tap on Gilliland. She really needs to practice how to take out another driver, doesn't she?
- Kyle Busch post-race interview - "Did he do anything wrong? I don't know. Did he do anything right? I don't know," Busch said. "I think it all depends on whose name's above the door on whether or not you're allowed to do it." Busch said he wasn't sure NASCAR needed to necessarily curtail any of the actions taking place in recent races, but needed to enforce its rules consistently. "It's boys being boys right now. You got to be consistent. I definitely feel NASCAR is very consistent in being inconsistent on calls," he said. "I think it's 'BS.' "They better - I say 'They better', but they don't have to listen to me for squat. Really doesn't matter what I say." Asked on pit road after the race if he would be racing next week at Texas if he had done the same thing as Kenseth on Sunday, Busch simply said, "Nope."
- Gordon's thoughts before the Kenseth penalty announcement on Nascar.com as he was on the receiving end of Nascar's wrath following his take-out of Bowyer during the Chase in 2012. In a sense, The Gordon-Bowyer affair was far worse, even though it ended Bowyer's Chase hopes that year.. The crews ended up fighting and Gordon only paid $100K and 25 points.
OPINION - Nascar has punishment for every little thing, from using the wrong lugnuts to using unapproved parts and for personnel issues, such as failing a drug test. Why don't they have predetermined punishment for overly aggressive retaliatory driving. It was OK for Logano to push Kenseth out of the lead at Kansas. Does Nascar have "favorite sons" as the driver I love to hate, Kyle Busch, said in the post-race news conference above?
- TV Ratings - Too bad very few saw all the fireworks because the ratings sank one more time. Officially every race on cable, all 19 of them, were down on ratings from last year when all 36 races were on broadcast TV. I know Nascar doesn't care because they get the cash regardless of ratings and FOX/NBC doesn't care because they get more cash from the cable/satellite companies than for advertising. Fox and NBC better start looking at ESPN and how they are beginning to suffer after pursuing the same path.
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It was breakfast in bed to accompany the :first: trophy presentation of the year to the Admiral, AKA as BluesCrew. Menu was OJ, Dippy Eggs, crispy bacon, toast with butter and strawberry jam and Bloody Marys (doubles). Congrats, BluesCrew.
In the race to the iboats Fantasy Live Championship, FlaCowboy increased his lead with a Martinsville third place finish. His lead is now 325 points over 64osby after a loss in points the week before.
In the race to the iboats Fantasy Live Championship, FlaCowboy increased his lead with a Martinsville third place finish. His lead is now 325 points over 64osby after a loss in points the week before.
With only three races to go, good picking is a priority. So make any changes in time for the race, have fun and good luck to all.
Hoping typos are at a minimum,
Grumpty Humpty
