Nascar 2018 Race #17 - Welcome Back NBC - Chicagoland ********* 400

[GA_Boater]

A good point from Bob Pockrass;

Seeing the ease Truex and Johnson and Hamlin have gotten into top half of the field, wonder -- if u fail postqualifying tech, should you have to start the race on your qualifying tires? Since rule is now everyone starts on stickers

Truex is in 14th, Hamlin 16 and JJ in 21st - Took 14 laps!

 

[GA_Boater]

Truex 6th after 34 laps.

 

[GA_Boater]

No cautions, only 16 cars on the lead lap and Truex up to 3rd. 1.5 mile tracks suck with the way Nascar has these cars set up.

Almirola won heat 1.

 

[GA_Boater]

I see NBC's Mikey is on screen with a water slide. :facepalm:

 

[GA_Boater]

Hey - A debris caution is now exciting! LOL

 

[WIMUSKY]

Because curiously you rarely see them anymore, unlike the half dozen per race in previous years...:lol:

 

[GA_Boater]

Harvick wins the 2nd heat.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Logano 2 tire stop, takes the lead!

 

[GA_Boater]

A real yellow for Hamlin spinning and eating the wall. True debris! LOL

 

[WIMUSKY]

Guess not, 2 stayed out..

 

[GA_Boater]

Joey is playing the rain game - 2 tire stop and in 2nd behind Keso.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Happy back to the lead....

 

[WIMUSKY]

Harvick checked out, but Shrubby is on the move..

 

[GA_Boater]

Harvick checked out, but Shrubby is on the move..

Yeah, but with this setup, Harvick will keep running away until a debris caution :smile:, he pits or the approaching rain catches him.

 

[WIMUSKY]

I think the rain will drift north of the track...

 

[WIMUSKY]

And we have a caution...

 

[WIMUSKY]

Shrubby out of the pits 1st...

 

[GA_Boater]

LaJoie for the last yellow.

See, only cautions kill the leaders momentum. Bet The Twerp runs away on the restart if Harvick can't get around him.

 

[WIMUSKY]

Shrubster is leading, although Harvick is right there...

 

[GA_Boater1]

Now Happy is back by almost a second. He caught The Twerp, but that's about it.