GA_Boater
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A busy Sunday coming up 1100 miles of dizzying racing - At Noon, the Indy 500 and at 6:16 PM, the 4 100 lap races that are the new Coca-Cola 600. Indy has a 3 1/2 hour TV window, while the Coke 600 has a 4 1/2 hour window.
Since the Nascar dead time between stage yellow and stage green flags is running in excess of 10 minutes, we'll be seeing at least 30 minutes of unneeded caution laps. Forced bathroom breaks?
For all the talk by Nascar to shorten race weekends, they blew it for the Coke 600. The event started today, Thursday with X-Men practice, Cup practice and Cup qualifying. Nothing is scheduled for Friday. Kind of strange. Here is the schedule from MRN;
Qualifying was a couple of hours ago and Harvick has the pole, followed by The Twerp, Elliot, Kenseth, Jones, Hamlin, Blaney, Truex, Bowyer, Keso, McMurray and finally Busch41 rounds out the top 12. Larson, the current points leader, didn't make it through inspection in time and is starting at the back along with LaJoie, who also didn't get inspected in time.
But where in the world is Joey Diego? Why he's starting in the 23 spot.
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Since the Nascar dead time between stage yellow and stage green flags is running in excess of 10 minutes, we'll be seeing at least 30 minutes of unneeded caution laps. Forced bathroom breaks?
For all the talk by Nascar to shorten race weekends, they blew it for the Coke 600. The event started today, Thursday with X-Men practice, Cup practice and Cup qualifying. Nothing is scheduled for Friday. Kind of strange. Here is the schedule from MRN;
Qualifying was a couple of hours ago and Harvick has the pole, followed by The Twerp, Elliot, Kenseth, Jones, Hamlin, Blaney, Truex, Bowyer, Keso, McMurray and finally Busch41 rounds out the top 12. Larson, the current points leader, didn't make it through inspection in time and is starting at the back along with LaJoie, who also didn't get inspected in time.
But where in the world is Joey Diego? Why he's starting in the 23 spot.
News and Notes
- Hall of Fame class of 2018 was announced - Red Byron, Ray Evernham, Ron Hornaday Jr., Ken Squier and Robert Yates. Jim France is getting the Landmark award.
- Aric Almirola will miss 8-12 weeks after suffering a compression fracture in his back at the Kansas race 2 weeks ago.
- The Option soft compound tire used during the All-Star race consensus is it didn't do much. But Nascar isn't giving up.
- After more than a quarter of the cars at Kansas failed to make a qualifying run because they didn't clear inspection, Nascar says they will look into the process. Larson didn't make a Q-ing run today because of inspection issues. Nascar said the crew didn't position the car on the laser machine correctly. I think I see the problem - The Nascar laser inspection method is faulty if a car needs to be in a perfect spot to be measured. The machine should be able to adjust for car position by keying off of hardpoints as long as the car is within a certain range of positions on the machine.
- Changes to the 10 race playoff schedule for next year include adding Richmond and the Charlotte infield road course. Details at http://www.nascar.com/news-media/2017/05/23/2018-nascar-national-series-schedule-released/
- TV ratings for Kansas were down 17% from the year before.
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FloridaFishingNetwork took the checkers at Kansas, earning the Congrats FFN.
TB2448 is still leading the overall results.
Get your changes made before the race Sunday evening. Good luck.TB2448 is still leading the overall results.
Humpty_Boater