Nascar Week #18 - Kentucky

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This week's races are at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta. Truck, X-Men and Cup are running on three successive nights beginning Thursday evening. No restrictor plates! From MRN, this weekend's schedule;

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40 names on the entry list, so all will race. Weather is fair for most of the time except Friday may have early morning T-Storms.

News and Notes
  • Only one written warning for McMurray, a really light week at Daytona. However, X-Man Darrell Wallace got a $15K fine for calling race officials Muppets in a post-race tweet. :lol:
  • Some TV viewers felt there were a lot of commercials during this race. Pete Pistone on MRN says balderdash. A small comparison from this year and last;
    • Category20162015
      Total number of commercials12496
      Total minutes of complete race broadcast190203
      Total race broadcast time143168
      Total Commercial time4735
    • I agree with the fans.
  • TV ratings - Fans must like to watch commercials - Ratings up 25% and viewers up 43% over last year when the race was delays until Sunday

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The Coke 0 400 gave us our first 3 time winner. Ttownmatt2 won the marbles for his 3rd :first: of the year. Congrats.

Vertical Pedal is holding on to the lead in the overall standings - But now only by 20 points over Trackchick Stars.​

Get your lineups ready before Saturday's green flag. Good luck, all!

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Young Truck rookie William Bryon won last night's Truck race and Shrubby won X-Men tonight.

Cup qualifying was cancelled because of rain, resulting in the field being set by points.
 

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The only positive thing I can say about all the commercials is I'm glad they use the dual screen at times so we able to see the race.

Have to pay the piper, yes I understand that, but come on folks.
 

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Lap 11 - First yellow for Stenhouse scraping the outside wall.
 

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Lapp 25 - Competition caution.

Harvick keeps the lead out of the pits.
 

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Busch41 stayed out during the yellow, so he is 1st, followed by Harvick.
 

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Johnson backs it into the wall on the restart. 3rd yellow on lap 32.
 

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A 2fer!

Caution 5 - Dibennetto in the wall and #6 for Elliott spinning into the wall.
 

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Caution 6.1 - A pickup caught fire in the parking lot! :eek:
 

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Yellow #7 for The Dinger, Buescher, Scott and others in a nice one.
 

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More mayhem. #7 had something break and he ate the wall. #8.
 

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The 9th caution for Bowyer spinning.

So far 41 laps under yellow out of 162. Too many cautions and not one debris flag. With so many damaged cars, it must be coming.
 

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Oh no! The Dinger returns to the track and it started smoking and shedding parts. Like the hood!

The 10th yellow!
 

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Cassil ties the caution record with #11 by contacting the wall.
 

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Keso wins on a fuel gamble. He had to be pushed to victory lane.

Smokin'! - aspeck wins his 2nd race out of the last 3. If he passes post-race inspection. :smile:
 

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Just a little bumping on pit road before inspection and all will be okay .... Gotta quick check lug nuts also ...
 
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