Nascar - One Race From Indy & Four Races From Charlotte

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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;

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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.

iBoats Fantasy Live
FloridaFishingNetwork took the checkers at Kansas, earning the slurpee11.png Congrats FFN.

TB2448 is still leading the overall results.
Get your changes made before the race Sunday evening. Good luck.


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17%? And you know last year was probably down from the year before... That's a huge drop.... The NFL has been going down too, hence, the reinstated dance like idiots with your buds when you do something spectacular like tackle a player....:rolleyes:
 

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The ratings for 2015 were way down because of rain delays and the race didn't finish 'til after 1 AM. So 2017 was up 5% from 2015, but it doesn't count with the delays.

In the X-race, Blaney won, followed by Harvick, A. Dillon, Bell and Hamlin. So no X-Reg got the coveted playoff points for a win.

Forgot a few more miles of racing tomorrow - The Monaco Grand Prix is live on NBC starting at with pre-race at 7:30 AM Eastern. Two hours later Indy kicks off and finally, the Coke 600 at 6:16. Rain may impact Indy and Charlotte. F1 doesn't care, rain or shine they be racin'.
 

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One down, two to go. Sebastian Vettel won the Monaco Grand Prix under sunny skies. Indy, not so much;

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Just saw the replay of the "BIG CRASH"..... Heck of a hit.
 

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Just heard that Takuma Sato finally won the 500! I have been cheering that guy on since he started, way to go!
 

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Missed the start of the 600. We lost a few cars in the first 30 laps. Elliott & Keso are in the garage.
 

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Yellow for DiBenedetto tasting the wall, which turns red for lightning in the area.
 

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yep. Still getting them. Race hasn't restarted. I'm going to watch a movie instead.....
 

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They sure are, MT.

Still about 45 minutes before the restart. No rain behind the storm that shut it down.
 

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I see it is now official if they have to stop it again, they are over half way done.

This has been quite a day, because I have not been able to watch any of the races! Because of the stupid agreements between channels!

Arg!
 

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Truex wins Heat #2. The race is at half way - Let it rain and end this. Gosh, it's long!

Heat #1 ended over 3 hours ago. :doh:
 

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Only 75 laps to go - It may end, but not before midnight.

Hamlin won Heat #3.
 

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The Childress Grandkid won, Austin Dillon.

justkiddin 5 is the unofficial iFL winner. Final results on Tuesday.

Good night!
 

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Nascar's Fantasy Live is messed up - Surprise, surprise. It's only half unlocked. :doh:

When the final results are available, the official iFL winner will be announced.

Next race is from Dover with the Trifecta - Cup, X-Men and Trucks.
 
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