2019 Nascar - Race 13 - Charlotte + Indy

[GA_Boater]

It's the once a year long, long, long Sunday. Indy 500 coverage begins on NBC with the prerace at 11 AM and finishes up at 10:30Pm on Fox for the end of the Coke 600.

No Indy car or Nascar driver will be taking a 1100 mile Sunday drive this year or as it's called - Double Duty. Tony Stewart is the only driver managing to complete both races, finishing 6th at Indy and 3rd at Charlotte in 2001. Kurt Busch was the last to try in 2014, finishing 6th at Indy but crashing out of the Coke 600. Robby Gordon tried 5 times and finished both races in 2002, but he finished a lap down at Charlotte and was 1 lap short of 1100 miles.

40 teams are on Cup entry list for qualifying tomorrow. Rain chances are relatively light with the heaviest Saturday over night and ending by early afternoon Sunday. It shouldn't impact the race, Here's MRN's schedule;

[h=1]Charlotte Schedule of Events[/h]
All Times Eastern

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Thursday, May 23
ARCA Menards Series Final Practice: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Monster Energy Cup Series First Practice: 2:35 p.m.-3:25 p.m. (FS1 – 3 p.m.)
Xfinity Series First Practice: 4:05 p.m.-4:55 p.m. (FS1)
ARCA Menards Series Qualifying: 5:00 p.m.
Xfinity Series Final Practice: 6:05 p.m.-6:55 p.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Qualifying: 7:05 p.m. (PRN/FS1)
ARCA Menards Series General Tire 150: 9:00 p.m. (FS1)

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Saturday, May 25
Monster Energy Cup Series Second Practice: 8:35 a.m.-9:25 a.m. (FS1)
Xfinity Series Qualifying: 9:35 a.m. (FS1)
Monster Energy Cup Series Final Practice: 11:05 a.m.-11:55 a.m. (FS1)
Radio Pre-Race: 12:30 p.m (PRN)
TV Pre-Race: 12:30 p.m. (FS1)
Xfinity Series Alsco 300: 1:00 p.m. (PRN/FS1)

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Sunday, May 26
Radio Pre-Race: 5:00 p.m. (PRN)
TV Pre-Race: 5:30 p.m. (FOX)
Monster Energy Cup Series Coca-Cola 600: 6:00 p.m. (PRN/FOX)

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I have no idea why Friday is an off day. I thought Nascar was all about cutting team costs and an extra day of team road expense makes no sense.

News and Notes

• Kansas pemalties - Only a couple of cars with loose or missing nuts.
• ISC, the France family owned race track group will be bought by Nascar. Of note, former CEO and chairman of Nascar Brian France, will be bought out and will have no part of Nascar going forward. He was arrested and charged with DUI and possession last August. In February he was removed (kicked out) and the buyout cuts his last tie to Nascar.
• 2020 Hall of Fame inductees will be Joe Gibbs, Bobby Labonte, Wadell Wilson, Buddy Baker and Smoke - Tony Stewart.
• DC Solar, a primary sponsor of Kyle Larson before shutting after the Feds charged the owners with running a Ponzi scheme back in March, bilked Warren Buffet out of $340M. I think he can afford it, but still, even the smart guys get burned.
• TV ratings - Kansas viewership was up a bit from last year, no idea on the rating. The All-Star race was 1.3, down from 1.5 last year.

iBoats Fantasy Live

• Is this getting old or what? Jip won his third race in a row and no ties this week! Humpty may have to borrow from Jip since he has 3 of these :first: and can spare 1 or 2. LOL Congrats, Jip.
• Justkiddin 5 has a good hold on 1st place in our league.
• The Cup pole locks a 7:00 PM tomorrow.

Taking extra naps getting ready for Sunday,

Humpty.

 

[GA_Boater]

Cup qualifying is over and all the teams can take beauty naps until Saturday. They have an early wake up for the first practice at 8:35 AM and a second practice before the X-Race.

The 12 fastest qualifiers are lead by Byron, then Almirola, The Whining Twerp, ADillon, Harvick, Suarez, Joey, Bowyer, Stenhouse, Hemric, Busch1 and Elliott.

Your rosters lock at 6:10 PM on Sunday. Don't get all wrapped up in the Indy 500 and forget to make your picks.

 

[aspeck]

It is a long working weekend for me ... probably won’t get to check in on the race until after it is over... we will see how this goes...

 

[GA_Boater]

If they go OT it may not finish before bedtime, 'speck.

This morming's Cup practice top 5 - Suarez, The Whining Twerp, ADillon, Blaney, and Harvick.

One more practice before the X-Race with Bell on the pole.

 

[GA_Boater]

Final Cup practice results - Suarez, Hemric, Hamlin, Preese and The Whining Twerp had the 5 fastest times.

X-Men coming up at 1PM on FS1.

 

[GA_Boater]

Reddick wins the X-race with 8 real cautions. A lot of tires going down.

Joey is predicting 600 miles of full-contact racing tomorrow evening.

 

[GA_Boater]

So far today - Lewis Hamilton won the Monaco GP and Simon SIMON Pagenaud win the Indy 500.

Heats tonight are all 100 laps - 400 total for 600 miles. Tifft to the rear for failing inspection 2 times - The rest are OK.

Wallace came to the pits during pace laps.

And it's time for the green flag!

 

[GA_Boater]

Pole sitter Byron leads lap 1, only 399 to go.

 

[GA_Boater]

Larson is testing the strength of the wall - It's pretty stout and he has the stripes to show for it.

 

[GA_Boater]

Jones brings out yellow - Rt, front down and scraped the wall hard.

 

[GA_Boater]

DeBennedetto hits the wall for 2nd yellow. Tire again and he's done along with Jones.

 

[GA_Boater]

3rd caution for Truex, Tire again and into the wall.

 

[GA_Boater]

The Whining Twerp caused Stenhouse to go for a big spin. Couldn't tell if he hit or just took the air off, but it's fair to say The Whining Twerp hit him.

4th yellow with 13 laps in the heat.

 

[GA_Boater]

5th yellow for Hemric, 4 to go under green.

 

[GA_Boater]

Keso wins the 1st heat.

 

[MTboatguy]

It is going to be a long night!

 

[GA_Boater]

Buescher yellow for a wall strike. He scraped a few laps ago and continued. 6th real caution.

 

[GA_Boater]

Goodyear is saying three of the tire issues are caused by too little air pressure - Add pressure.

 

[GA_Boater]

Bowyer caught in the speed trap! Too fast on pit road and will restart at the rear.

 

[GA_Boater]

Wallace - Crew over the wall early, to the back.