GA_Boater
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Race week 9 coming from Richmond International Raceway with Cup and X-Men. Lets get this out of the way;
Forecast is calling for the wet stuff starting about 1PM Saturday through about 9PM Sunday.. Monday looks good and while I don't show it, Tuesday is perfect.
Sort of odd scheduling this week. The Cup Toyota Owners 400 is Saturday night and the X-Men Toyota Care 250 is Friday night. Usually with a race schedule like this, things kick off on Thursday. For this set of races, all practices and qualifying take place on Friday. Here is the MRN schedule;
45 teams are on the entry list for Richmond, including Chase Elliott in his second Cup attempt or practice to take over the #24 next year. Travis Kvapil is not on the list...again.
News and Notes
iboats Fantasy Live
Yours truly managed to make decent roster changes and pull one out of the fire to take the week. Of course the :first: is lost in the mail.
Aspeck moved up to head the overall ranking.
So make your changes and sit with us during what might be a long rain delay on Sunday. Good luck all. Humpy_Boater, iboats Nascar reporter and rain maker. :doh:
Forecast is calling for the wet stuff starting about 1PM Saturday through about 9PM Sunday.. Monday looks good and while I don't show it, Tuesday is perfect.
Sort of odd scheduling this week. The Cup Toyota Owners 400 is Saturday night and the X-Men Toyota Care 250 is Friday night. Usually with a race schedule like this, things kick off on Thursday. For this set of races, all practices and qualifying take place on Friday. Here is the MRN schedule;
Date | Event | Time | Radio/TV |
FRI 4/24 | XFINITY Series Final Practice | 8:15 a.m. - 10:25 a.m. | |
Sprint Cup Series Practice | 11:00 a.m. - 12:25 p.m. | MRN/FS1 | |
Sprint Cup Series Final Practice | 1:00 p.m. - 2:25 p.m. | MRN/FS1 | |
XFINITY Series Qualifying | 3:45 p.m. | FS1 | |
Sprint Cup Series Qualifying | 5:45 p.m. | MRN/FS1 (5:30) | |
Radio Pre-Race | 7:00 p.m. | MRN | |
TV Pre-Race (RaceDay) | 7:00 p.m. | FS1 | |
XFINITY Series ToyotaCare 250 | 7:30 p.m. | MRN/FS1 | |
Green Flag | 7:46 p.m. | MRN/FS1 | |
SAT 4/25 | Radio Pre-Race | 6:00 p.m. | MRN |
TV Pre-Race | 6:00 p.m. | FOX | |
Sprint Cup Series Toyota Owners 400 | 7:00 p.m. | MRN/FOX | |
Green Flag | 7:14 p.m. | MRN/FOX |
News and Notes
- Denny Hamlin says he's fine and will run the race. This is after having Erik Jones sub for him at Bristol after he bailed during the long rain red flag suffering from neck spasms.
- Nascar says they will do what they can to allow Kyle Busch to take part in the Chase, depending when he returns and meets the Chase rule changes set up last year.
- RCR still has no date for the final #31 Tiregate appeal hearing. So the whole crew is working Richmond.
- Where would we be if Nascar wasn't changing rules. They issued new ones regarding transmissions, rear gear and radio comms between the driver, crew chief and spotter. The trans and gear changes will be treated like engine changes, to the back if changed and it eliminates qualifying gear ratios
- TV ratings for Bristol were in the toilet, primarily because of the long rain delay, and switch to Fox Sucky 1 coverage.
iboats Fantasy Live
Yours truly managed to make decent roster changes and pull one out of the fire to take the week. Of course the :first: is lost in the mail.
Aspeck moved up to head the overall ranking.
So make your changes and sit with us during what might be a long rain delay on Sunday. Good luck all.
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