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FuzzySkinner posted:Rumor has it he's bailing NASCAR. rumor has it he has no ride and is literally throwing poo poo on the walls of Jalopnik in the hopes that some sticks
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Boomer The Cannon posted:And JRM reject Steve Arpin. I remember that race. He wrecked out after having a good run. He climbed from the car and waited for the track crew to come pick him up; the look on his face while he sat there, knowing it was his last race, was one of the saddest things I've seen from a driver. Definitely not the way he dreamed of ending his career. Edit- Holy poo poo, looking at his NASCAR stats was brutal. 40 starts. 0 wins. 0 top fives. 0 top 10s. Best Finish: 14th. Final Points Standing: 38th No wonder he was fired. I seem to remember him running better than that. He makes Danica look like the real deal. SpitztheGreat fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jun 4, 2014 |
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Jun 4, 2014 00:41
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SpitztheGreat posted:I remember that race. He wrecked out after having a good run. He climbed from the car and waited for the track crew to come pick him up; the look on his face while he sat there, knowing it was his last race, was one of the saddest things I've seen from a driver. Definitely not the way he dreamed of ending his career. Didn't he sit on scaffolding watching the race for the last few laps?
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Jun 4, 2014 02:05
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Danica is actually one of the better attempts at crossing over from open wheel. Think about that.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:24
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SpitztheGreat posted:Edit- Holy poo poo, looking at his NASCAR stats was brutal. 40 starts. 0 wins. 0 top fives. 0 top 10s. Best Finish: 14th. Final Points Standing: 38th No wonder he was fired. I seem to remember him running better than that. He makes Danica look like the real deal.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:34
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VikingSkull posted:Danica is actually one of the better attempts at crossing over from open wheel. Jeff Gordon.
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Jun 4, 2014 02:37
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VikingSkull posted:Danica is actually one of the better attempts at crossing over from open wheel. Bored and made a list John Andretti Robby Gordon (owns, owns, owns, owns) Tony Stewart Scott Pruett Christian Fittipaldi Casey Mears Adrian Fernandez Paul Tracy Mad Max Papis AJ Allmendinger Patrick Carpentier Alex Tagliani Sam Hornish Jr. Jacques Villeneuve Dario  FranchittiJuan Montoya Billy Boat Danica Patrick P.J. Jones Shigeaki Hattori Andrew Ranger A. J. Foyt IV Larry Foyt Actually the majority of these drivers seem like they'd make up the 1999 CART grid honestly. Robby Gordon and Pruett did decent enough fwiw. I think their sportscar racing background helped immensely (Along with Robby Gordon being kind of a badass).
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Jun 4, 2014 02:52
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Yeah stat wise Danica is in the top 10 of that definitely.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:18
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DW's senility may be spilling over to Silly Season:quote:During Sunday's prerace show on FOX, anchor Chris Myers asked Waltrip if the two free agents are leaving RFR, and if so, where will their new home in 2015 be. The first part of Waltrip's reply wasn't totally surprising. But then Waltrip dropped an obvious bombshell. Reaching over to put his right hand on the shoulder of younger brother Michael, who just happens to own Michael Waltrip Racing, DW's body language and then verbiage said it all - and left Michael staring straight ahead almost in shock. "And Greg Biffle will go to some two-car team that maybe one time had a third car," Darrell Waltrip said. I like that Michael Waltrip had to backtrack out of an awkward situation, but could you be any dumber/less discrete?
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Jun 4, 2014 03:19
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The joke is that Biffle is going to EGR.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:43
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Fag Boy Jim posted:The joke is Biffle fixed it for you.
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Jun 4, 2014 03:50
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Personperson14 posted:Yeah stat wise Danica is in the top 10 of that definitely.
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Jun 4, 2014 04:08
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Boomer The Cannon posted:With the best equipment out of that group, bar none. And probably some of the least natural talent. lovely drivers can poo poo up good equipment, but it's still possible for a good driver to wrangle subpar cars. How many times have we seen Smoke force a broken and poorly setup car into the top10 from a lap or two down?
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Jun 4, 2014 05:15
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VikingSkull posted:And probably some of the least natural talent. lovely drivers can poo poo up good equipment, but it's still possible for a good driver to wrangle subpar cars. How many times have we seen Smoke force a broken and poorly setup car into the top10 from a lap or two down? Yeah. I'm not an expert and maybe this isn't based in fact, but it seems like Danica gets into more unnecessary accidents than anyone currently racing by far, and the most of everyone since maybe Sam Hornish Jr. You hear it with guys like Kenseth or Stewart (two random examples, but oh well), they have some incident happen up ahead of them but usually they make it through unscathed, with DW throwing out a token "good driving there" or something. I've never heard that praise put on Danica. Every time there's a wreck nearby, she becomes a part of it.
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Jun 4, 2014 05:29
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Yet, despite all that, she still performs better than a guy like Dario Franchitti did when he tried. That motherfucker wrecked even more cars than she has.
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Jun 4, 2014 05:46
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VikingSkull posted:Yet, despite all that, she still performs better than a guy like Dario Franchitti did when he tried. That motherfucker wrecked even more cars than she has. He really hated driving stock cars. Like...really hated it. Not just because he sucked at it but stuff like this: quote:He won the IndyCar series title in 2007. He said he thought Nascar was a perfect challenge. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/sports/autoracing/22indy.html?_r=0 Also it sounded like Chip's NASCAR organization was really beginning to die off right then. Dario was pretty much brought in to save it, and well..you can only do so much.
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Jun 4, 2014 06:19
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lol, Dario sucking cost 70 people their jobs e- conversely, if you go back and look at one of the races he was astoundingly bad in, there's 70 people supporting that effort behind the scenes
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Jun 4, 2014 11:36
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VikingSkull posted:Yet, despite all that, she still performs better than a guy like Dario Franchitti did when he tried. That motherfucker wrecked even more cars than she has. The Scottish Steven Wallace
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Jun 4, 2014 12:59
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FuzzySkinner posted:Also it sounded like Chip's NASCAR organization was really beginning to die off right then. Dario was pretty much brought in to save it, and well..you can only do so much.
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Jun 4, 2014 13:27
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Nascar announced a few changes for the CWTS at Eldora in July. Qualifying races will be lengthened from 8 to 10 laps. Pit stops during the two competition cautions that divide the race into three segments will be optional instead of mandatory as they were in 2013. The order for single-truck, two-lap Keystone Light Pole Qualifying will be determined by random draw instead of practice speeds. The top five team owners who fail to qualify for the main event through the last-chance qualifying race will be awarded owner points.
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Jun 4, 2014 14:32
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According to jayski, Edwards to Penske could be a thing for next year.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:15
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so who the gently caress is going to board the Roushtanic? Bayne and Stenhouse?
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Jun 4, 2014 18:17
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kidcoelacanth posted:According to jayski, Edwards to Penske could be a thing for next year. That's going to be a team to reckon with. Fag Boy Jim posted:so who the gently caress is going to board the Roushtanic? Bayne and Stenhouse? Roush looks through old Gong show entrants and starts calling up Kluever, O'Quinn, etc...
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Jun 4, 2014 18:29
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As much as everyone hates Roush, losing that team would be pretty lovely for any manufacturer diversity. That would leave Penske as the sole high quality Ford team.
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Jun 4, 2014 18:31
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gently caress Jack Roush.
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Jun 4, 2014 19:42
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I hope Kyle Larson's career doesn't take a Casey Atwood-esque swan dive, because he just bought a starter house...and it's not exactly "thrifty": https://twitter.com/KyleLarsonRacin/status/473524539922456578/photo/1
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Jun 4, 2014 20:51
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CBJSprague24 posted:I hope Kyle Larson's career doesn't take a Casey Atwood-esque swan dive, because he just bought a starter house...and it's not exactly "thrifty": LOL... @DaleJr: @StenhouseJr @keselowski @KyleLarsonRacin whats inside? 8 bean bags, 80" tv, room full of Capri Sun, life size statue of Optimus Prime?
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Jun 4, 2014 21:00
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Slickdrac posted:As much as everyone hates Roush, losing that team would be pretty lovely for any manufacturer diversity. That would leave Penske as the sole high quality Ford team. Penske: "Team of Last Resort" or "Kiss of Death" for manufactures?
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Jun 4, 2014 22:00
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CBJSprague24 posted:I hope Kyle Larson's career doesn't take a Casey Atwood-esque swan dive, because he just bought a starter house...and it's not exactly "thrifty": to be fair, in the south that house costs like 50 grand
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Jun 4, 2014 22:19
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CBJSprague24 posted:I hope Kyle Larson's career doesn't take a Casey Atwood-esque swan dive, because he just bought a starter house...and it's not exactly "thrifty": I like the first comment from FOX, "Dale Jr. & Brad Keselowski guess what's inside."
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Jun 4, 2014 22:43
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VikingSkull posted:to be fair, in the south that house costs like 50 grand It's north of Charlotte so may be slightly more than that.
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Jun 4, 2014 22:54
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WoO is on CBS Sports Network if you're looking for something to watch. Joey Saldana ran out of gas in a heat race.
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Jun 5, 2014 00:35
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Peanut President posted:It's north of Charlotte so may be slightly more than that. Here that's like a multi-million dollar house so $50k is only a slight exaggeration really.
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Jun 5, 2014 01:06
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CBJSprague24 posted:Let's go to the wayback machine and see who the Drivers Of The Future were from 2004-2008 when everybody and their brother tried to have a NASCAR farm system: E: Some thought-provoking thoughts from Humpy Wheeler: quote:Again, let me rant on about how expensive racing is. Boomer The Cannon fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 02:22
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"Know what else would be good? If unicorns crapped rainbows"
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Jun 5, 2014 02:54
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If only the love affair with the human-operated car wasn't about to start dying out as fast as the current fanbase. I'm sure you'll entice lots of city-dwelling Californians that haven't parked anything in 15 months, to watch 4 hours of red-collard cowboys doing the activity they only associate with renting by the minute as a weekend grocery-getter in a vehicle that doesn't even have a hood anymore, never mind the missing combustion engine. At least you Ken Squier types will have a nice decade of it again being a strictly south-eastern phenomenon at the tail end before it all implodes.
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Jun 5, 2014 03:40
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Shadow Puppet Of posted:At least you Ken Squier types will have a nice decade of it again being a strictly south-eastern phenomenon at the tail end before it all implodes. There's some weird sort of pride factor that Brian France and that family has. They seem unwilling to admit they hosed up with all of the changes made to the sport from 2004-2007, and now keep trying to chase that fanbase they had during that time period that has moved on to other things. The smart thing for them to do would be to admit they over saturated the market. You don't need to run Nationwide the same weekend as Cup at the same track, and you don't need to run Kansas/Dover/New Hampshire twice a season. If the fans aren't showing up for a 2nd race, they're not showing up. Try to lure some fans in/back with decent ticket prices, and overall just trying to make the sport as "Fan Friendly" as possible. Pretty much attempt to go "NHRA" on everybody's asses.
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Jun 5, 2014 04:14
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Slickdrac posted:As much as everyone hates Roush, losing that team would be pretty lovely for any manufacturer diversity. That would leave Penske as the sole high quality Ford team. I made a similar comment a few pages back. If Edwards and Biffle both leave Roush next year then the team will only be one step removed from being a start and park team. I don't think they'd even be up to RCR or Ganassi standards. Roush is going to be like DEI in its last year as an independent team, a complete non factor. It'd be interesting to know what the hell happened over there. Jack Roush almost single handily drove the price of racing through the roof from the mid to late 90s, and then suddenly was overwhelmed on all sides and couldn't keep up. And it's not like they haven't had the drivers, so the problem is at the shop. Penske has done well in adjusting to Ford, and yet Roush, the guy who's been Ford for 20years, still seems to be using specs from the Thunderbird. Where are their engineers? R&D? If you can't win with Edwards and especially Kenseth, then maybe it's time to move on. All good things must come to an end, but the sport definitely needs a big team to replace the void left by Roush. Maybe Petty can keep stepping it up?
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Jun 5, 2014 04:57
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Roush is responsible, directly and indirectly, for a gigantic amount of the problems in NASCAR today. I'd welcome seeing his team folding because as bad as that might be for the sport, the poo poo we have now because of him is worse than losing his lovely, unlikeable team could ever be.
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Uncle Jam posted:Here that's like a multi-million dollar house so $50k is only a slight exaggeration really. the property values in the south are low, you see e- quote:Is it fair that a really talented 20 yr old person that has Humpy, a 20 year old with 100 short track wins already has a development contract lol, jesus christ, if he thinks that's the average driver what does he consider exceptional loving retard Shadow Puppet Of posted:At least you Ken Squier types you callin me old? I will fight you Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 09:03 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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