GA_Boater
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Penalties and sponsors top the news this week with the last race in what's called the West Coast Swing. Cup and X-Men are running and Trucks return next week at Martinsville. From MRN - The schedule;
Once again a short field as only 37 teams have signed up to compete. Rain is in the forecast for Friday afternoon and overnight into Saturday.*
News and Notes
Humpty_Boater
*Not claiming to be a weatherman. Not a good one anyway. :smile:
Once again a short field as only 37 teams have signed up to compete. Rain is in the forecast for Friday afternoon and overnight into Saturday.*
News and Notes
- Penaties - Chase Elliot got an L1 hit like Harvick did, only his was for suspension (trailing arm mounting), not rear window; 25 driver/owner points, Car Chief 2 race suspension, Crew Chief $25K fine. 5 teams had loose lugnuts and CC's fined $10K. 2 X-Teams had loose nuts resulting in $5K fines. Also 2 team members were indefinitely suspended for substance abuse, no idea what teams.
- Lowes is dropping sponsorship after this season for Jimmy Johnson. Lowes has been the #48 primary since 2001 when Johnson moved full time into Cup.
- Busch is once again the Official Beer of Nascar and will sponsor the Busch Pole Award. Busch/Bud were the official beer from 1988 to 2007. Busch began it's pole award program in 1978 until also becoming the official beer 10 years later. Busch replaces Coors as the pole award program.
- TV ratings - Phoenix on Fox had a 2.7 rating against a 3.0 last year, which was lower that the previous year, etc., etc.
- With a win at Atlanta and now Phoenix, we have the first 2018 double winner in FlaCowboy or AKA FlaBonester. Cowboy is also the overall leader ahead of Trackchick Stars. Congrats, Cowboy.
- Qualifying cutoff for the 5 point Pole Bonus is 7:10 PM ET.
Humpty_Boater
*Not claiming to be a weatherman. Not a good one anyway. :smile: