2021 Nascar - Race #9, Richmond

[GA_Boater]

Moving a few miles to race at Richmond this weekend. It's Cup and Trucks while X-Men take the week off. The Humpty jinx - Weather looks dry.



News and Notes

• Truex and Hamlin are the front row to start Sunday's race.
• Penalties - Cup had 3 loose lugs and X-Men had 1. Suarez had the ballast issue for 10 driver and 10 team point loss. The #23 X-Car loss an axle worth a crew member suspension.
• The 3 manufacturers will unveil their Next Gen cars on May 5.
• Next month a limited number of guests will allowed in the garages.
• TV ratings - Martinsville race Sunday had 2,299,000 viewers, up 34% from 1.72M viewers for Martinsville on a Wednesday night in June 2020 but off 7% from Sunday afternoon in March 2019 (2.463M). Cup race Sunday was most-watched telecast on FS1 since NLCS Game 6 in October.

iBoats Fantasy Live

• FlaCowboy got off to a slow start, but he has a head of steam up now. Cowboy won for the third time! Congrats and adding to your collection, Cowboy.
• How quickly things change - FlaCowboy is the overall leader again.
• iFL rosters lock at 3:10 Sunday afternoon.

Good luck and stay safe,

Humpty.

 

[LundAngler1650]

I wish they would run half the race clockwise, then a mandatory pit stop, and restart running counter clockwise.

 

[GA_Boater]

Enfinger wins the first caution free heat. TWT look the lead out of the pits and held it until the first real yellow for a Fogleman spin.

 

[GA_Boater]

Cobb brought out yellow #3.

After the restart JH Nemechek took the lead from TWT.

 

[GA_Boater]

Nemecheck wins heat #2.

 

[GA_Boater]

John Hunter keeps the lead on the restart and 2 laps later Kraus spins with a flat.

 

[GA_Boater]

Restart for JH and a lap later Purdy spins into the wall.

 

[GA_Boater]

Cobb parked by Nascar for possible retaliation for an earlier incident she had with Benning. We had another caution for Cram.

Nemechek is still the leader with 57 to go.

 

[GA_Boater]

10th caution with 55 to go.

 

[GA_Boater]

Nemechek leads TWT with 10 to go.

 

[GA_Boater]

Nemechek with the 4th KBM win in a row.

iFL rosters lock at 3:10 tomorrow.

 

[GA_Boater]

It's race day!
3:00pm/et on FOX
Green flag: 3:15pm/ET
Stages end: 80/235/400
Competition caution on lap 30.
iFL rosters lock at 3:10/ET.
No inspection failures, there still may be some caught for unapproved adjustments.

 

[aspeck]

WHAT? I just heard TWT say he made some mistakes, too! Who woulda thought!

 

[GA_Boater]

WHAT? I just heard TWT say he made some mistakes, too! Who woulda thought!

You need your ears checked! LOL

Invocation and Anthem underway.

 

[LundAngler1650]

I liked the planes in the fly by, wish they had showed them more. Where I live, an old yellow Harvard does aerobatics overhead regularly, can never get enough of it, the sound alone is great. Girlfriend and I often go outside and watch when we hear it. We get training planes frequently practicing around here, but they are boring to watch. That beautiful Harvard doing loops and rolls never gets boring! I feel extremely blessed to live out in the country on my own acreage.

 

[GA_Boater]

Motors running and warmup laps underway.

 

[GA_Boater]

Green flag!

 

[LundAngler1650]

Motors running and warmup laps underway.

Hopefully it's as entertaining as the F1 race was this morning.
Watched more TV the last 3 weeks being at home with injuries, that I usually see in a year.

 

[GA_Boater]

Truex led the first 10 laps. Comp. caution on lap 30.

 

[GA_Boater]

Truex led until the competition caution on lap 30.