some State fans like to say they want to win more than the bball team...i disagree with that

however I do think most Dale Jr. fans want him to win than he does

2/28/2012 1:00:03 AM

i don't think i'll ever get over the fact that they hire a girl to stand beside the driver after a race

2/28/2012 1:02:04 AM

chugging a mountain dew after that's got to be disgusting. I know its for the advertisers and stuff, but ugh

2/28/2012 1:03:48 AM

oh, of course go and interview danica

2/28/2012 1:07:57 AM

^^you'd be surprised how many of those bottle are filled with water.

i know for a fact that when Dale Jr is shown drinking a twist off Amp that it's filled with water. same with Kyle Busch when he used to drink Nos after wins.

2/28/2012 8:37:40 AM

man, did you see those guys turn left the other day? it was AWESOME

2/28/2012 3:42:29 PM

wow, what a refreshing and original remark!

tell us more

2/29/2012 8:21:17 AM

I know. With aaronburro's clever wit he displayed here, he must be a Chapel Hill grad.

2/29/2012 11:12:57 AM

wow, what a refreshing and original remark!

tell us more

2/29/2012 11:24:20 AM

ok, he's trolling and if he doesn't like it, fine, no one's forcing him to watch it or come on the thread

2/29/2012 11:48:07 AM

Penske jumping to Fords in '13....good move for the team. Probably going to put Dodge in another hiatus for a few years unless they can throw some serious money at another team.

http://www.nascar.com/news/120301/penske-racing-moves-to-ford-2013/index.html

3/1/2012 6:10:43 PM

danicash managed to go a whole race without crashing but finished 3 laps down. She refused to talk to the media after the race, so we may never know why she thinks she was so damn slow all day.

3/4/2012 7:27:21 AM

Quote :

"Earnhardt Jr. suggested an inconsistent tire contributed to the team's troubles. "The track has aged a little bit, and it's going to age a lot out here in this desert," he said after finishing 14th. "So it's time to soften the tire up and do something different with this tire. It's greasy; it don't get into the track. It just lays grease like a film on top of the track, and it's just real slick.""

Dear Jr,

it's supposed to be difficult to drive. if it wasn't then you guys wouldn't get paid millions of dollars. man up and stop making excuses. damn

3/5/2012 6:15:01 AM

everyone hated the tires, especially the right sides. When you're on an oval and only changing left sides then the right side is way too hard.

3/5/2012 8:20:25 AM

Bring back tire wars. Competition is good.

3/6/2012 3:52:44 PM

^

fast tires != safe tires

3/7/2012 6:53:51 AM

Some "crazy" ideas i have to make nascar better:

1. caution laps dont count with less than 10 to go.
2. let all the odd numbered positions have lane choice on a restart not just the leader.
3. guaranteed restart with 5% of the race to go. screw a fuel mileage race.
4. random initial starting order. why should the fastest car start at the front if you want to see passing? still have qualifying for the pit stall selection and to see who makes the race out of the top 35.
5. no air tools on pit stops. make em use a 4-way
6. six bonus points for a win instead of 3

3/18/2012 7:17:08 AM

Hmmm.......anybody watch the Nationwide race today and hear Danica Patrick's symposium of the thermodynamics of an internal combustion engine after something knocked a hole in her radiator?? "...when the water goes away, there's no heat to heat the engine up. So then it gets to the coolant and the coolant cools it down....." She said she got this valuable info from "the Hendricks guys". I'm sure they were very proud of her. ;-)

3/24/2012 9:01:46 PM

^Sounds like her technical knowledge is about the same as her driving talent level.

Of course it never rains in cali until you schedule a nascar race

3/25/2012 8:44:50 AM

Nationwide ratings this year up about 10% from last year.

3/28/2012 9:33:51 AM

audio messing up for eeryone else?

4/1/2012 1:56:48 PM

http://www.google.com/racing/

http://www.nascar.com/video/none/none/120331/cup-mar-google/

[Edited on April 1, 2012 at 2:16 PM. Reason : .]

4/1/2012 2:13:18 PM

well that sucked. Gordon had the best car all day.
stupid reutimann

[Edited on April 1, 2012 at 4:49 PM. Reason : .]

4/1/2012 4:45:27 PM

hilarious

4/1/2012 4:48:40 PM

oh great i get to drive home through this shit race traffic. UGH

4/1/2012 5:33:07 PM

^^^ i, too, wanted big daddy to win

at least we got an exciting finish

4/2/2012 2:45:15 AM

Two of the best cars fighting for the lead with 4 laps to go was exiting enough for me.

4/2/2012 9:10:55 AM

i enjoyed watching the people sitting on their front porch in walkertown watching the haulers/motorcoaches drive by.

[Edited on April 2, 2012 at 11:56 AM. Reason : TOTALLY NOT REDNECKS]

4/2/2012 11:56:16 AM

It was good to see racing at the Rock again. I just looked at the truck series schedule and it only has 22 races listed. I think it used to be 25. They should add some more races to the schedule and bring back North Wilkesboro.

4/16/2012 12:05:19 AM

^this

it also grinds my gears that they keep adding more down force dates to the schedules when short tracks have better races.

4/16/2012 5:43:28 AM

^ the sanctioning fees are too high so it's hard for the tracks to have Truck races where they're not piggybacking off NASCAR and not lose money on it; that said, big crowd at Rockingham yesterday I thought and good to see racing back at the Rock again

4/16/2012 8:45:41 AM

http://www.frontstretch.com/mmclaughlin/38345/

Quote :

"The Key Moment – With 31 laps left to run, Greg Biffle made a banzai pass on Jimmie Johnson for the lead. Johnson had been struggling with lapped traffic most notably in the person of one Ryan Newman. The pass caused such a stir amongst the nearly dozens of fans left awake in the grandstands it woke up several others in their respective rows. Sixteen laps later Johnson, slapped the wall to all but seal the deal for Biffle. In a Nutshell – I’ve seen better racing contests between amphibians. Putrid, utterly and relentlessly putrid to a degree that redefines putridity. What They’ll Be Talking About Around the Water Cooler This Week Any more questions as to whether these 1.5-mile cookie cutters are destroying a once exciting sport? Humpy Wheeler, NASCAR visionary and ex-head honcho at Charlotte, spoke about his own unique ideas on how to fix the racing at the intermediate tracks this week. Wheeler proposed that the field compete in several heat type races with the best finishers heading to the main event, a format used at most local short tracks. (And, of course, a “consolation” race for those not qualified for the main after the heats.) Run the main event for a short distance for all the marbles and let them have at it, basically ensuring four or five good races at an event rather than one long boring one like Saturday night’s debacle. I’m not sure how that would work as far as the points system, but I’m willing to try anything to avoid another “race” as monotonous as what we endured Saturday. Overall Rating (On a scale of one to six beer cans, with one being a stinker and a six pack an instant classic) — We’ll give this race one can of tepid Lone Star you have to share with a dying cowboy in the backseat of a Greyhound bus out of Abilene. (Few people outside of Texas may realize that Lone Star is the only product to be marketed both as a beer and a paint thinner.) "

4/16/2012 11:59:17 AM

Pictures from yesterday:





I've heard estimates of 30,000+

Oh yeah,

4/16/2012 2:33:37 PM

^Nice

I'm going to Darlington in May. We are making a day trip. Going to be late getting home and I have to be up for Mothers Day at church

4/16/2012 2:42:33 PM

yeah, we left Clayton at 7am and were home by 8pm. We weren't in any hurry to get into traffic and we stopped for dinner in Aberdeen.

4/16/2012 2:52:25 PM

Quote :

"^ the sanctioning fees are too high so it's hard for the tracks to have Truck races where they're not piggybacking off NASCAR and not lose money on it; that said, big crowd at Rockingham yesterday I thought and good to see racing back at the Rock again"

What about the Nationwide series? I would think they could draw a good enough crowd at North Wilkesboro. Maybe they could do a Nationwide/Truck/Southern Modified two day event. NASCAR has changed over the past 15 years. It seems like more and more drivers from the cup series are racing in the lower divisions too. You get to see a lot of the same drivers no matter what series you go to see in person.

4/16/2012 7:59:38 PM

Quote :

"NASCAR has changed over the past 15 years. It seems like more and more drivers from the cup series are racing in the lower divisions too. You get to see a lot of the same drivers no matter what series you go to see in person. "

Which a lot of fans hated because you never get to see anyone develop in the minor leagues which is part of their raison d'etre, the Cup drivers took all the sponsorship money since they're higher-profile leaving nothing for anyone else, all the Cup drivers of course got the best rides, no Nationwide driver got the marketing benefit of being a Nationwide series champion, so NASCAR changed the rules to make Cup drivers ineligible for the lower series championships which has led to less drivers from Cup racing in the two lower divisions the last couple years. The damage has been done when you look at the complete lack of new drivers in Cup that have stuck around in recent years. This year's Rookie of the Year will be start-and-parker Josh Wise, which is somehow worse than when Kevin Conway won it. Going back to 2010, there's been no one that's come in fresh and has stuck, and I imagine that'll hold for 2012 since I don't think Josh Wise is going to get a better ride.

And for guys that occasionally compete in Cup, even Trevor Bayne who won the 2011 Daytona 500 can't find a sponsor for Nationwide and had to sit out last weekend despite being high in points. I have to think people like Stenhouse (imagine he ranks higher in Ford's internal ranking system than Bayne) and Allgaier will move up within the next year or so provided the ride and money is there, Patrick will move up because she has a pretty face, and Austin Dillon will move up due to nepotism, but the past few years for plucking talent from the lower ranks has been almost nonexistant.

[Edited on April 17, 2012 at 9:13 AM. Reason : /]

4/17/2012 8:49:56 AM

Quote :

"so NASCAR changed the rules to make Cup drivers ineligible for the lower series championships"

This will Auto-Correct the situation by having competitive seasons in the lower leagues.

4/17/2012 4:52:45 PM

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nascar/story/2012-04-19/nascar-driver-lawsuit-michael-rodriguez-drive-for-diversity

this guy filed suit saying he was kicked out of nascars drive for diversity program but he looks too white. Even if true he has no case obviously. Thousands of white drivers couldnt even try out. Thats the point.

4/19/2012 4:32:30 PM

wish Truex would have pulled that out

4/22/2012 4:13:26 PM

Fuck denny

4/22/2012 4:33:21 PM

Fuck hamlin

4/22/2012 4:37:52 PM

great finished to the NW race last night. would have been better if hamlin would have punted him. the post race interview of kurt would have been entertaining watching him try not to let old kurt come out.

4/28/2012 7:59:38 AM

but then hamlin would have won and we dont want that.

4/28/2012 11:19:18 AM

Nice BS debris caution with 15 to go

4/28/2012 10:45:35 PM

yep another kyle bush caution. fucking ass fuck. that was tonys race

4/29/2012 1:26:55 AM

so edwards was in 2nd place waiting for a restart but happens to cross the start line before the leader still under yellow and the scoreboard incorrectly shows him as the leader. So the dumbass thinks he is the leader and takes off way before the starting zone. muhahhahahahahhaha

4/29/2012 11:38:46 AM

nb4 JRSUCKS

no wins and only 5 points back from the lead.

NEXT WEEK AT DEGA!!!

4/29/2012 11:48:53 AM

I was sitting right behind the flag stand at the Nationwide race. Talk about a finish!

I hope to catch the replay of the cup race this week. I missed it due to the TBMF + Sugarland concert Saturday.

4/30/2012 10:31:32 AM

#notafan

4/30/2012 6:01:09 PM