Racing Discussion Thread

GC Jimmie

god damn it

what a joke

Jake Poulin wrote:

what a joke

How? NASCAR didn't use the claw and only judged it by eye site. They screwed themselves on this one.

heh

:FacePalm:

It really was a pretty harsh penalty though for a car that never even made it to tech.

Still it's Jimmie Johnson and I would have loved to see him dig out of that hole.

TheShermanator wrote:

It really was a pretty harsh penalty though for a car that never even made it to tech.

Still it's Jimmie Johnson and I would have loved to see him dig out of that hole.

He was already up to 17th in points, this moves him to 11th now.

NASCARGearHead wrote:

Jenna Fryer ‏ @JennaFryer
Points restored, suspensions overturned. Knaus and Malec on probation

Jenna Fryer ‏ @JennaFryer
Knaus 100k fine stands

Very surprising.

NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =_= I mean. I don't mind him not losing his crew chief and car chief. But why give him his points back.

My response to giving the points back

Nascar either fucked up when they assessed the initial penalty or they fucked up when they took it back. Personally, it seems a little far-fetched t hat they upheld their ruling in the appeal only to reverse it 1 week later. What changed durign the past week? lol

Jake Poulin wrote:

what a joke

Agreed!

lemonhead75 wrote:

Nascar either fucked up when they assessed the initial penalty or they fucked up when they took it back. Personally, it seems a little far-fetched t hat they upheld their ruling in the appeal only to reverse it 1 week later. What changed durign the past week? lol

The appeals court. Went from the team to the main guy only.

OMGZ NASCAR TOTALLY SUCKS JIMMIEZ DICK THIS IS BULLSHIT HOW DARE THEY LET HIM GO AND CHAD KANUS BE CHEATARZZ BLAHHHHH!!!!!!111one!!!11

BRISTOL UPDATE: Speedway Motorsports, Inc., CEO Bruton Smith said yesterday that he is moving ahead with plans to return Bristol Motor Speedway to its previous configuration. Speaking on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's The Late Shift with Buddy Baker and Jim Noble, Smith said feedback from fans has been overwhelmingly in favor of changing the legendary speedway's layout. "I'd say it's about 75% from the race fans that they'd like to see us put it back the way it was five years ago," he said. Smith said he has already consulted with engineers about making the necessary changes. "It will absolutely still be concrete," he said, "but we will (redo) the profiling. We have on paper exactly the way the track was before we came in and redid it. We're going to have all the elevations, the ingress and egress as it was before we completely redid it. We will here again offer race fans (the track) the way it was. It's not a major change that we did," insisted Smith. "We took up all the old concrete that was breaking up and causing a lot of problems. We completely redid the speedway, and fans got the idea that it's not the same. I guess it's not the same, since they told us that, and the race fan is always right. When the race fans speak, you listen. And that's what we're doing now." The SMI owner said the changes will be made before the Aug. 25 Sprint Cup Series night race. "You have a good contractor, your plans, your blueprints and a million dollars, and you just go ahead and do it. I've got engineers working on this as we speak. I have not taken this up with NASCAR yet, but that's what we will do," Smith said. "Once we're ready, we'll do it. There will be a press announcement of exactly what we're doing. I want it to be exactly correct -- the way these fans perceive it -- and I want to see 165,000 fans scrambling for tickets the way they have in the past."(Jayski/Godfather Motorsports)(3-21-2012)

Brad Keselowski visits Lego Land, and look at the scoring tower Jake:

i guess people want to see the drivers douching each other out of the way for 500 laps instead of actual good racing. oh well.

Part of Bristol racing is being able to move somebody without wrecking them. That's part of short track racing in general. Besides it's alot harder to spin somebody from just a bump now with the COT than it ever was pre 2007. I suspect there still won't be 20 caution races.

bakes991 wrote:

Brad Keselowski visits Lego Land, and look at the scoring tower Jake:

oh yeah

lmao

Do you have a psd of that logo lol

nope thats the best pic i have of it, not that hard to make if you have the normal logo though

Or have a photoshop guru aka Brian Wallace make it

Damn that's impressive, right down to the number of people in the stands!

Ross Kenseth, son of Matt Kenseth, will be racing saturday in PASS late model series at South Boston.

ok, someone make that into a psd then, my ps skills are non existant