GA_Boater
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The second race of the season is almost coming from my backyard, if 70 miles away is my backyard? I'll be watching on Fox.
All three series will be screeching tires - Cup, X-Men and Trucks. It all kicks off Friday. As always, the activities from MRN;
AMS has begun a Perfect Race Weather Guarantee this year after the 2015 Eskimo 500. Nascar juggled the schedule last year and moved the race to the week after the D500. Nascar should have looked at some historical data first - It was a miserable, wet and cold weekend, as history would have shown. So AMS came up with the guarantee If the high temp doesn't reach 50 or the race is postponed, you can get a credit for future events at AMS. Ya gotta read the fine print, though.
The weatherman is holding up his end - The forecast looks good. Sunny and mid-60's on Sunday.
We may be seeing some fallout of the new Charter system With the field reduced to 40 spots, down from 43, according to Jayski's the entry list is only 39 teams. I can't remember when a Cup race did not have a full field. Now qualifying is really not very suspenseful! Jeb Burton may have moved back to X-Men too soon.
News & Notes
iboats Fantasy Live
An IFL rookie crushed the league. Urea 24 led the D500 results and leads the league by almost 100 points. And it's early in the season! Display your :first: proudly. Congrats Urea 24.
Don't forget to massage your picks in time for the race on Sunday. Good luck to all.
From the official Nascar race viewing throne, BarcaLounger - With the remote in one hand and a cold one in the other.
Humpty_Boater
All three series will be screeching tires - Cup, X-Men and Trucks. It all kicks off Friday. As always, the activities from MRN;
AMS has begun a Perfect Race Weather Guarantee this year after the 2015 Eskimo 500. Nascar juggled the schedule last year and moved the race to the week after the D500. Nascar should have looked at some historical data first - It was a miserable, wet and cold weekend, as history would have shown. So AMS came up with the guarantee If the high temp doesn't reach 50 or the race is postponed, you can get a credit for future events at AMS. Ya gotta read the fine print, though.
The weatherman is holding up his end - The forecast looks good. Sunny and mid-60's on Sunday.
We may be seeing some fallout of the new Charter system With the field reduced to 40 spots, down from 43, according to Jayski's the entry list is only 39 teams. I can't remember when a Cup race did not have a full field. Now qualifying is really not very suspenseful! Jeb Burton may have moved back to X-Men too soon.
News & Notes
- The first Chaser of the year is Denny Hamlin after winning Daytona by a hair. His first Daytona win and the first win for Toyota
- This week, the SHR guest driver for Smoke is Ty Dillon. Dillon will be ping-ponging with Brian Vickers for the next three races. After that - who knows? Or how long before Stewart can get back behind the wheel?
- Big change for Stewart-Haas Racing next year. They are jumping the Chevy ship to climb the Ford boarding ladder.
- This is Nascar, so there were warnings and a penalty issued following Daytona. 4 teams got warnings for failing the Star Wars Laser Inspection. The sole penalty was to the #78 (Truex Jr.) crew chief for roof flap fault which was not fixed within a 5 minute window, which resulted in sitting out qualifying. As usual, I'm puzzled by Nascar - What a surprise!. Harvick and Vickers had their Q-ing times disallowed for failing post-Q-ing inspection when out of spec track bars were discovered. Vickers, Harvick and Truex were moved to the back for the Duels. Truex's team gets a further penalty and nothing more for the #14 & #4? So much for Nascar's consistency pledge!
- Contrary to previous statements from Nascar, Daytona winnings were released. Hamlin got a little over $1.5M. One more example of week-to-week changes.
- TV Ratings - The downward trend continues. The Unlimited, Duels and the D500 had lower ratings than last year. With the advent of the Charters, I think the Duels have outlived any usefulness.
iboats Fantasy Live
An IFL rookie crushed the league. Urea 24 led the D500 results and leads the league by almost 100 points. And it's early in the season! Display your :first: proudly. Congrats Urea 24.
Don't forget to massage your picks in time for the race on Sunday. Good luck to all.
From the official Nascar race viewing throne, BarcaLounger - With the remote in one hand and a cold one in the other.
Humpty_Boater
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