GA_Boater
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We are at the end of what's known as the West Coast Swing. The 5th race of the season comes from Fontana, CA. Cup and X-Men will be battling on Saturday and Sunday. Cup has 38 teams on the entry list. Of course The Twerp is on the X-list, too.
Let's start with the weather. A retweet on Jayski's, who is slowly coming back on Twitter, has the forecast;
That's good news. LOL From MRN, the weekend schedule;
[h=1]Auto Club Schedule of Events[/h]
All Times Eastern (Local Time 3 Hours Behind)
Friday, March 15
Monster Energy Cup Series Practice: 1:00 p.m.-1:55 p.m. (MRN/NASCAR.com)
Xfinity Series Practice: 2:05 p.m.-2:55 p.m. (NASCAR.com)
Xfinity Series Final Practice: 4:35 p.m.-5:25 p.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Qualifying: 5:30 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Saturday, March 16
Monster Energy Cup Series Second Practice: 12:00 p.m.-12:55 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Xfinity Series Qualifying: 1:10 p.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Final Practice: 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Radio Pre-Race: 4:30 p.m. (MRN)
TV Pre-Race: 4:30 p.m. (FS1)
Xfinity Series Production Alliance Group 300: 5:00 p.m. (MRN)
Sunday, March 17
Radio Pre-Race: 2:30 p.m. (MRN)
TV Pre-Race: 3:00 (FOX)
Monster Energy Cup Series Auto Club 400: 3:30 p.m. (MRN/FOX)
News and Notes
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Good luck,
The Humpster
Let's start with the weather. A retweet on Jayski's, who is slowly coming back on Twitter, has the forecast;
That's good news. LOL From MRN, the weekend schedule;
[h=1]Auto Club Schedule of Events[/h]
All Times Eastern (Local Time 3 Hours Behind)
Friday, March 15
Monster Energy Cup Series Practice: 1:00 p.m.-1:55 p.m. (MRN/NASCAR.com)
Xfinity Series Practice: 2:05 p.m.-2:55 p.m. (NASCAR.com)
Xfinity Series Final Practice: 4:35 p.m.-5:25 p.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Qualifying: 5:30 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Saturday, March 16
Monster Energy Cup Series Second Practice: 12:00 p.m.-12:55 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Xfinity Series Qualifying: 1:10 p.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Final Practice: 3:30 p.m.-4:20 p.m. (MRN/FS1)
Radio Pre-Race: 4:30 p.m. (MRN)
TV Pre-Race: 4:30 p.m. (FS1)
Xfinity Series Production Alliance Group 300: 5:00 p.m. (MRN)
Sunday, March 17
Radio Pre-Race: 2:30 p.m. (MRN)
TV Pre-Race: 3:00 (FOX)
Monster Energy Cup Series Auto Club 400: 3:30 p.m. (MRN/FOX)
News and Notes
- 2020 Hall of Fame nominee list has been released. Plenty of tweets about why so and so isn't on the list and why so and so is on the list. :smile:
- Bristol is only selling seats on the front and back stretch, with no corner seats, for the next race in April. They say it's only for the spring race. I'm sure it isn't because they can't fill the house. :bolt:
- Phoenix only had loose/missing lugnuts in post race inspection flunks.
- The Twerp has won 199 races across Cup, X-Men and Trucks. The argument has begun about if King Petty's 200 wins are better than The Twerp's upcoming 200th win. Being unbiased, Humpty has no comment. :lol:
- New rule - Pit road speeds during qualifying will be enforced beginning this week. That's news to me, I thought pit road speeds were always in effect. Entry speeding gets a pass-through and exit speeding DQ's that qualifying attempt. In both cases this means the driver has to do it all over again if time is left in the session.
- Schedule changes coming in 2021? Phoenix has 42,000 new grandstand seats following a $178M modernization and this was the 2nd race after project completion. 10,000 of those seats were empty on Sunday. France family's ISC owns the the track and one of the things under discussion is moving the spring ISM race to be the 1st race of the year, ahead of Daytona. This may be considered shocking taking the shine off of Daytona's apple.
- TV ratings - 10,00 empty seats didn't mean no one watch. Ratings were up to 2.8 vs 2.7 last year. 2017 was 3.0.
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- 4 races under our belt and 4 different winners. iFL is keeping pace with Cup racing. LOL FloridaFishingNetwork won at Phoenix. He gets his 1st :first: this year. Congrats FFN.
- Samo60 is still sitting on top of the overall leaderboard by 4 points, with Fasteddie370 in second place.
- The pole locks at 5:35PM tomorrow.
Good luck,
The Humpster