Nascar SCS Geico 500 at Talladega Superspeedway Sunday October 19 on ESPN at 2:00 PM ET

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[mabarker1]

Confusion reigns about Talladega qualifying: NASCAR's new qualifying format put Brian Vickers on the pole at Talladega Superspeedway but left many drivers angry and confused, and three full-time teams failed to make Sunday's race. Kevin Harvick called the format "the dumbest thing I've ever seen in my life," and Kyle Busch said heat races should be used to set the field at superspeedways. Dale Earnhardt Jr. called for a return to single-car qualifying at Daytona and Talladega instead of the group formats, and Jeff Gordon tweeted, "Wow never been so frustrated & confused trying to qualify for a race. Not the way we intended to start the weekend." Drivers admitted when they arrived at Talladega that they didn't understand the qualifying format, and it showed as there were no clear strategies throughout the field. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. [Reed Sorenson] and Justin Allgaier, ... full-time Sprint Cup Series drivers, failed to make the field.
NASCAR cut the field in half for the first round of qualifying, when 23 cars had five minutes to make their qualifying lap. Nobody wanted to be the first driver on the track, and many sat on pit road waiting for traffic to pull out. The first drivers were beat by the clock as they tried to time it to make their fast lap at the end of the five minutes, but their times were not counted because many of them failed to cross the start/finish line in the allowable time.
"I thought being the last car in line would be beneficial for us. We had Jeff Gordon leading the pack there I thought we would have a good shot at putting a good lap in, but my spotter was telling me, 'Hey, you have 30-seconds to get across the start-finish line' as we were entering Turn 3," Stenhouse said. "(Gordon) kept slowing the pack down and we didn't get a good lap and never got across the start-finish line in time. My spotter was giving me the information I needed and I wish (Gordon's) would have been doing the same."
The bottom of the field consisted of championship contenders Denny Hamlin, Harvick, Joey Logano and Busch and many other NASCAR heavyweights. Tony Stewart will start 37th and is followed by Hamlin, Harvick, Logano, Busch, Kyle Larson and Gordon. Brad Keselowski and Matt Kenseth will drop to the back of the field because Keselowski changed his alternator and Kenseth changed his engine.(Associated Press)(10-19-2014)

[mabarker1]

Re: Qualifying rules/format of the hour IMO.

Well again it looks like brainless France and the clowns in the NUTSCAR Trailer have managed to screw the cat on the dining room table during dinner yet one more time...

Ol' Big Bill is gonna be waiting for the brainless one when they meet again.

[Chode]

[ican'tbelieveit]

Race on soon. Race 3 of the Contender round where 4 more chasers will be eliminated. Should be an interesting Talladega afternoon.

[mabarker1]

Got My earplugs ready because if JR don’t win-— Well Y’All know...

The Laptop went dead spider this week so I’ll be in and out on the Hampster Wheel Driven Desktop.

Pre-race show Rusty just basically said that the Honeymoon for 6whine and brown nose may be coming to an end.

[prisoner6]

Good afternoon!

Did they show the post race drama from last week?

Figured that and Danica getting sorta dissed would be all the hype this week...

[MtnClimber]

MC is in. Still can’t get the driver select to work. Can’t change drivers. The button to remove all drivers does not show up.

[rabidralph]

I was in Greensboro, Friday morning, and I walked right past Kevin Harvick and his family, as they were heading out to their jet. I was preoccupied with catching my car ride to my destination. When I got in the van, the guys said that Darrell Waltrip was in the lobby of the airport as well. Dang!

[SgtBob]

I got noise canceling head sets...;-). Can’t believe I get to watch a live race...thought the Grands were gonna move in!

[Chode]

smoke-em if ya got-em... 8^)

[prisoner6]

Blown tire on...???

Caution.

[prisoner6]

Mcmurray?

Logano into the weeds...Jr lucky.

[prisoner6]

Our Durango is getting a lot of black brake dust on the rt frnt. Took it apart today...found nothing. Pads good, rotor good. Used A LOT of brake cleaner and stuff. Didn’t open garage door....WOOO...! Need to make,a beer run....

Man that cleaner stuff was strong!

[SgtBob]

I gotta date with a good stick, an some scotch after the race...too much drama on display a mear 12 feet to my right, to enjoy a good smoke;-)

[Chode]

LOL... i hear ya

[Chode]

don't know, i'm in and out

[prisoner6]

Parked next to a new Veloster at my son’s beer store. How do people of real size get in and out of them? How do they see out the back?

JJ and Keslow on a restart.

[rabidralph]

This race is getting better and better!

[CedarDave]

Danca takes lead from Johnson, 19 laps to go, green light pit stops starting.

[prisoner6]

Ummm...is this breast awareness month???