Nationwide Qualifying on now.. eSPN..
Posted on 02/23/2012 3:46:04 PM PST by NormsRevenge
The field is set.
Tony Stewart won the first Duel under caution and Matt Kenseth took the checkered in a caution-free second event to set the lineup for Sunday's Daytona 500.
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Who will ride a lucky airstream to Victory Lane on Sunday?
Will the field get Smoke'd again?
(Excerpt) Read more at nascar.com ...
Present and waiting impatiently for Sunday! That first duel today was a good race warm-up though.
North wind came through here about 4 this morning and is still blowing. Breezy up your way or did it go around?
Can't wait for Sunday!
Nascar sure buggered up these cars. Did you hear some of the water temps during the duels? Holy cow!
We’re over here now...
Nascar sure buggered up these cars. Did you hear some of the water temps during the duels? Holy cow!
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Mooo Moo on that one..
Nascar just can’t stop tinkering .. the water temp and JJ’s supposed bum body part .. they’ve made a joke of the sport.
and in 2013,, new new cars.. oh well.
Another day headed toward 75 here.. may get some showers next week .. we’re at 27% of normal.. I think it’s all the chemtrail spraying down here .. 8-}
Danica was practicing in her backup car .. seems to be fine after the whack she gave the wall in her Duel race.
Trucks tonight,
Nationwide tomorrow,
The Big Wreck Sunday.
Nationwide Qualifying on now.. eSPN..
http://news.yahoo.com/patrick-wins-pole-nationwide-race-daytona-205301425—spt.html
How About THAT! Good for her!!
I’d rather her hit the wall like that in a REAL CAR instead of one of those IRL things...
So excited for her and her team. An example of perseverance and talent, rising above the Good Ole Boys network.
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OW folks tend to avoid holding the steering wheel in a crash because there’s nasty mechanical feedback through the steering as the wheel(s) impact the wall and likely broken arm/hand. The full body on a stock car makes that less likely.
My cynical side wants to say she got the “good” restrictor plate for quals. But I won’t, LOL.
Those new cars for 2013 got them a nearly full page story in the WSJ today. (The newspaper that the guys who write the sponsor checks read.)
Oh man, don’t bumb me out!!!
yeah, I heard that on the commentary. I never knew it before and I was impressed with the discipline it must take to do that. You can talk and talk about emergency procedures but when the shit hits the fan things change and instincts take over.
I did early spring time high altitude trail maintenance with the parks service and they taught us to stand our ground and make ourselves big if we encountered bears on the trail. Someone asked the instructor if he had come across bears coming out of hibernation and what he did. He said he ran like hell. :-)
I don't know how many times Danica has crashed, but I give her credit. I give all of them credit. Any sport at it's highest level is a proof of talent, dedication and an innate ability gene the rest of us didn't get.
Third restart coming up for the truck race...
John King in the #7 wins on another crash...
Got home just in time to watch. Looked there for a while they were going to try and take everyone of them out.
Fox and Friends has been Biffled this morning.
Rain here, roughly 24 hrs after the wind came through. Winds in Daytona 15 to 28 right now. They best hurry!
Ray is back on eSPN but Rusty is still there...
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