Nascar - FOMCO Is Pulling For #2 & #4 - Homestead

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Ford must be hoping for a championship for Keso or Harvick so they can have bragging rights over the Toyota camp of The Twerp and Truex, the 4 Cup contenders. X-Men chasing the X-Cup are Allgaier, Byron, Hemric and Sadler. Truckers going for the title are Sauter, Crafton, Bell and Cindric.

Weather shouldn't be a worry for the 39 Cup entries. For the final time this year, the schedule from MRN;
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New and Notes
  • Pheonix penalties - None for Cup or Trucks, but 3 for the X-Guys. Bell and Blaney had loose lugs, but contender Allgaier had an unattached rear brake cooling hose meaning his crew chief is on a one race suspension. JRM replaced the CC with the team car chief Billy Wilburn.
  • Kenseth will be in a Dewalt themed car with the same scheme he ran in his rookie year in Cup. Very appropriate for what may his last Cup race. Good one, Matt. :thumb:
  • Along with Kenseth and of course Junior, more drivers will running their last race with their current teams. Too many to mention, but I'm sure the NBC broadcast crew will cover that in the 90+ minute pregame show.
  • The winner of the EcoBoost 400 will have a Contender 25' bay boat to take home as the trophy.
  • Miami Zoo's pet vulture Peanut, made his pick for the 2017 Cup champion. It was The Twerp. :blue:
  • Phoenix TV ratings - 2.24 down from the 2.41 in 2016, both on NBC. 2015 on NBCSN was 1.4 and 2014 was 3.1 on ESPN.


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This may be the comeback of the year. Trackchick Stars ran away last year but has been quiet this year, but slowly creeping up. After 2 wins in a row at Texas and again at Phoenix, TCS has three wins this season and moved to the top of the overall leaderboard, zooming around sportsman 3. Congrats. TCS. slurpee11.png
This is the last chance to score a win or earn some swagger. Good luck all.

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Higher ratings than Monster - No Phantom Debris Cautions[SUP]TM[/SUP]
 

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I'll be watching the Axalta series intensely Saturday and rooting for a JR Motorsports Championship.
 

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I'll be watching the Axalta series intensely Saturday and rooting for a JR Motorsports Championship.

Chances are good with Allgaier, Bryon and Sadler in the JRM stable, Sam.
 

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That Buzzard is confused. It will be Truex or Harvick to win the Cup Series.
 

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Junior is changing the motor out cuz a problem in practice. He'll be starting at the back. :blue: I would like him to pull a Kenseth.
 

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Danica plans after Stewart-Haas came out today;

Run the Daytona 500 and Indy 500 next year. Also in talks with NBC.
 

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Qualifying results for the last Cup race of 2017 and Run For The Roses - Hamlin wins the pole, followed by Truex(P), The Twerp(P), Kenseth, Keso(P), Stenhouse, Larson, Busch41, Harvick(P), Suarez, Blaney and the 12th qualifier Bayne.

The playoff guys are starting 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 9th.

Trucks wave off in about 30 minutes, give or take a Nascar minute, to race to the Truck championship between Sauter, Crafton, Bell and Cindric.
 

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1st Truck heat is over and Bell wins it. The other 3 contenders are in 6th, 7th and 8th.

No cautions so far.
 

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2nd heat won by Rhodes. Bell was 2nd. The playoffers were in the top 8.
 

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20 laps to go and Bell is in 3rd with Sauter, Cindric, Crafton, 4, 5 and 6.
 

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5 left and Bell now has 11 seconds on Sauter and Bell got to 2nd place.
 

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white flag and Bell has almost half a track over Sauter.
 

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Christopher Bell is the 2017 Truck champ.

Oh yeah, the race was won by Chase Briscoe as he wins for the first time in his Nascar career.

Only 2 cautions and those were for the end of Heats #1 and #2.
 

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Briscoe's 1st win also gave Top Rookie honors in the final Team Keso Truck race as Keso is shutting his trucks down.

Bell's championship may be a springboard as he moves up full time to Xfinity next year with Gibbs.
 

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I would think tomorrows ratings will be off the charts since it's Jr's last run.....
 

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Mark Packer statement this morning:

Dear Danica,
We're really gonna miss you.
Signed,
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I would think tomorrows ratings will be off the charts since it's Jr's last run.....

If they aren't, Nascar has a big problem.

So far in the 1st practice this morning, Elliott and Truex have scraped the wall. Both are fixing the dings.

X-Men qualifying is underway on CNBC.
 

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Reddick wins the X-Pole. The playoff guys are starting Hemric 4th, #9, Byron 6th, Sadler 14th and Allgaier 16th.

Last Cup practice of the season starting at 1 ET.
 
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