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Delivery McGee posted:Yeah, I meant "while I was away", pretty sure there was a black guy with a part-time Cup ride this century. Or maybe just a white guy with a traditionally-black name, he was bad enough he didn't rate an in-car camera. That would be Bill Lester
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Bubba Wallace Jr, live interview: "yeah it's loose, I'm just chasing the rear end end around everywhere"
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Jay Robinson is the jackman on the 70 car in the NXS race today. Also, in case you forgot Ken Schrader rules: https://twitter.com/TheBuzzerOnFOX/status/794980971669901312
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Matt DiWhatshisname is out tomorrow with a concussion. They'll all be sitting soon.
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Jr's driving again. https://twitter.com/Amy_Reimann/status/795263976200404992
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theacox posted:Jr's driving again. Well folks I"m going to call it.. see that emblem on the steering wheel? It's a Buick, he's retired folks.
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Nov 6, 2016 15:35
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Nov 6, 2016 19:12
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Chase Elliott has the flu but will start the race. Justin Allgaier standing by to get in if Elliott wants/needs out.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Chase Elliott has the flu but will start the race. Justin Allgaier standing by to get in if Elliott wants/needs out. what's worse for the crew, vomit in the car or having Chase drive it until he gets sick and you have to clean it
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Nov 6, 2016 20:33
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VikingSkull posted:what's worse for the crew, vomit in the car or having Chase drive it until he gets sick and you have to clean it Imagine puking inside your full face helmet. Eesh.
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Nov 6, 2016 20:38
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Remembering the clusterfuck restart at Martinsville, did anyone ever provide an explanation for why some cars went around the leader for the wave around? Or did that pretty much get buried?
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fuseshock posted:Remembering the clusterfuck restart at Martinsville, did anyone ever provide an explanation for why some cars went around the leader for the wave around? Or did that pretty much get buried? what happened at Martinsville is a whole bunch of teams didn't let NASCAR just fix the poo poo they caught the mistake and were sorting it out but like a typical short track race everyone was on the radio protesting poo poo
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I've got free tickets to go see the race today at Texas Motor Speedway, but I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to leave now and wait through whatever rain delay is left. I've never been to NASCAR race before, so I'm kinda on the fence. How are night races?
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Nov 7, 2016 00:38
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Shinjobi posted:I've got free tickets to go see the race today at Texas Motor Speedway, but I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to leave now and wait through whatever rain delay is left. Go. It's worth doing once if nothing else. There will probably be fewer fans than there were earlier today, as some might've given up. The track has no rubber laid down because of the rain, so that will provide a variable for a while. Night races are fun. Take ear plugs. Also, go NOW, because they're CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 00:49
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what channel is this on now?
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wicka posted:what channel is this on now? NBCSN/NBC Live Extra.
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wicka posted:what channel is this on now? NBCSN Shinjobi posted:I've got free tickets to go see the race today at Texas Motor Speedway, but I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to leave now and wait through whatever rain delay is left. Definitely go.
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Shinjobi posted:I've got free tickets to go see the race today at Texas Motor Speedway, but I'm wondering if it'd be worth it to leave now and wait through whatever rain delay is left. If you haven't gone yet and were on the fence, still go. You might miss the start (depending on how far away you are), but this'll be going for three hours at least and there'll almost certainly be a competition caution around lap 25, which will give you a start to the race of sorts. (e- Maybe rent a scanner if you want a companion to the race.) Let us know what you think. You might even get free parking if it's anything like last year's Coke Zero 400 where the parking attendants said screw it and went home. I don't know how TMS does parking. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 01:16 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 01:14
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I'm here. 2 dollar earplugs, and holy poo poo. I've watched a handful of bits and pieces of races before, but tv really doesn't do the speed justice. These things are flying. Still not sure if NASCAR is my cup of tea, but I don't regret coming out here. Start of the race was pretty nifty.
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Shinjobi posted:I'm here. 2 dollar earplugs, and holy poo poo. I've watched a handful of bits and pieces of races before, but tv really doesn't do the speed justice. These things are flying. Auto racing is definitely a "be there" kind of spectator sport. There's two levels of understanding a NASCAR (or oval of any kind) race. The first one is casual, or going to see it live. If you know nothing and go, it will rule. If you're casual and just watch it on TV, you don't get the whole thing. Stage two of being a fan is being hooked by the live racing and learning the ins and outs of why exactly it isn't just simply going fast and turning left. That part takes some work on your part, but there's an underlying complexity to something that should be simple that really gets lost if you watch it casually.
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VikingSkull posted:Auto racing is definitely a "be there" kind of spectator sport. Very well said. For me, racing and hockey are the 2 sports where it is better in person than on TV. Also, both seem to require more than just showing up to get past the initial "wow" factor. I asked my cousin if he wanted to go to the local short track with me this summer. His response, "Why? It's just cars driving in circles." Still working on him.
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Shinjobi posted:I'm here. 2 dollar earplugs, and holy poo poo. I've watched a handful of bits and pieces of races before, but tv really doesn't do the speed justice. These things are flying. Kick rear end.  In addition to what Viking said, you've picked a decent time of year to watch a handful of races to get more of an idea of how the sport works and if it's your thing- it's how I became a fan. The first race I watched was the last race in 1995, after which I forgot about it for a while (I was 8) and picked NASCAR back up for good with 5-6 races to go in 1996. There's so much more to it than meets the eye. If you go again, you'll have to look into "graduating" to a scanner or RaceView rental- you might even pick a driver or two to listen to the next time out. In terms of Goon interaction and learning from others, we do live chats (#nascar on SynIRC) & will likely be doing Goon-watches of all kinds of old races from different series (NASCAR, Indy, lots of dirt track stuff, sometimes drag racing) in our CyTube channel in the off-season. e- Another pretty remarkable thing with regard to how fast they actually go- Chase Elliott (#24) is running those speeds with the flu. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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The only times I've seen poo poo that was actually fast was a NASCAR race and the shinkansen passing through a station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SNlG_2sFXc Both of them look like eh until you walk 10 feet away from the straight and they blow by. NASCAR is a bit cheaper though.
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If you want real HOLY loving poo poo factor, go to NHRA and be anywhere in the stands during top fuel and funny car. That poo poo is no loving joke.
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"Silver Spoon Kid" the stupidest possible nickname OJ MIST 2 THE DICK fucked around with this message at 05:17 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Carl goes from worst to Homestead. Logano, Kyle, Kenseth, Hamlin separated by three points going into Phoenix.  I forgot to switch the RCR cars into my lineup for the race and wound up 1-3-4-11 with 19-78-24-48. So that's cool.
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Racing is also likely the only sport with a very real chance of fans being injured or getting killed. No one wants that, but it certainly adds an allure other sports don't have if you're an adrenaline junky like I am.
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VikingSkull posted:Racing is also likely the only sport with a very real chance of fans being injured or getting killed. I think more fans have died at major league baseball games than have at NASCAR races over the last 50 years
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VikingSkull posted:an adrenaline junky like I am. For full disclosure, "adrenaline junkie" is misleading. Viking could be described as being obsessed with racing related deaths. I don't think anyone could describe with as much depth or morbid detail as Viking can about any terrible crash. exploding mummy posted:I think more fans have died at major league baseball games than have at NASCAR races over the last 50 years I don't have time to find the numbers (but numbers are my thing, so I'll come back with them later), but you are almost certainly correct that more people have died in the 120,000+ baseball games from baseballs to the head than in the 3,351 Top 3 tiers of NASCAR races. Though including the lower NASCAR sanctioned series might bring it closer to even. However, that includes from 1965 until the mid 80s, so I wouldn't be too surprised if NASCAR did beat foul balls to the head. Slickdrac fucked around with this message at 14:01 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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exploding mummy posted:I think more fans have died at major league baseball games than have at NASCAR races over the last 50 years I wasn't talking NASCAR exclusively Slickdrac posted:For full disclosure, "adrenaline junkie" is misleading. Viking could be described as being obsessed with racing related deaths. I don't think anyone could describe with as much depth or morbid detail as Viking can about any terrible crash. I'm LASTCAR but without the humanity e- to be fair I haven't posted "Google (man who shall not be named)" in quite some time to a new person so I'm making progress lol Seizure Meat fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Nov 7, 2016 |
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Nov 7, 2016 14:23
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I'm very curious to see if MLB + NASCAR combined totals have more spectator death than the 1955 Le Mans
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shame on an IGA posted:I'm very curious to see if MLB + NASCAR combined totals have more spectator death than the 1955 Le Mans I don't believe they do.
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It is surprisingly difficult to find spectator death statistics for MLB. The best I could find was from 1900-2000 there were 35 confirmed cases, MLB clubs are very good about covering up deaths somehow. Getting away with a corked bat should be child's play in comparison. I'll do some number theory magic, and halve the 35 confirmed for 50 years, and sprinkle a 20% increase for covered up deaths. Fortunately, there's been incredibly few cases of baseball to the head deaths. Unfortunately, most of the deaths are from rowdy fans, or poo poo stadiums collapsing. I couldn't find any good breakdowns, so I'll just use NASCAR is actually really good about reporting fan injuries and deaths (it seems). Racing in general has a kinda ugly history of fan deaths, 2-3 a year of fan deaths from purely racing related accidents. But NASCAR has been either been very good (and VERY lucky) with them, or they put the MLB to shame in hiding them. Because there's no spectator deaths from racing incidents that I could find anywhere that were NASCAR premier series events, and only four at the track otherwise, 2 mysterious ones, one from lightning lightning, and self inflicted gunshot wound (obviously at Texas). I'll assume there's some from back before constant coverage, but maybe at most about 10? Driver deaths are a whole different story, and NASCAR beats the pants off of baseball in athlete deaths. Rate wise though, 10 deaths in 3300 events is .3% compared to .01% for baseball. Combined 31 over 50 years is nothing to the 50+ at Le Mans, no. But across all US racing alone it tallies up to over 500 racetrack deaths just in the last 25 years (drivers, fans, crew)
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Far more than 10 drivers have been killed in NASCAR races lol e- 28 in Grand National/Cup alone
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Norns posted:Wasn't the 55 LeMans like 80 plus deaths? 80 or more, they don't really know, yes. e- worst spectator accident in the US was at Syracuse in like 1908, 11 IIRC, Barney Oldfield was driving
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VikingSkull posted:Far more than 10 drivers have been killed in NASCAR races lol 22 by my count in the last 50 years in the top 3 series +3 crewmen
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