Quite an accomplishment for the NASCAR / Hendrick / Garage 56 program. Completed the 24-hour distance with great pace and just one mechanical hiccup.
They really represented the technical capacity and expertise of NASCAR teams quite well. Chad Knaus doing Chad Knaus things.
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These points are covered – and countered – at length in the article. They don’t sell the stock. They borrow against forever. And write off the interest.
Wallace's car is not notably damaged. It was just involved and half-spun. They didn't want to burn tires off in the few laps to end the stage. And that decision may have just caused a car still capable of finishing in the top-5 to hit hauler at halfway.
Imagine how interesting Daytona 500 qualifying would be with an equivalent to boosting horsepower for Indianapolis 500 qualifying
Never mind, it doesn’t compare to the fun of Saving Teams Money
Early return on NASCAR's new car: Two of the last three Cup champs have been responsible for caution flags in 40 laps of intermediate track competition
The FOX camera work during NASCAR broadcasts that repeatedly zooms in tightly on fans is just weird and borderline exploitative. Who the hell wants that?
Lap 57 caution for light rain after 20 laps of green completely changed the race.
Winners:
+22 Keselowski
+16 Kurt Busch
+14 Alfredo
Losers:
-31 Kyle Busch
-25 Kyle Larson
-24 Tyler Reddick
-23 Byron, Dillon
-20 Elliott
Sunset in Pocono is 8:38 pm, with civil twilight ending at 9:11 pm. If sky stays clear, I’d bet visibility remains good enough to race until at least 8:50 pm. (Eastern)
Noah Gragson on why he doesn't believe he could have or should have done anything different this past week. He says it's important to "stay true to myself." He says people tried to change him, "slow me down" and it didn't work for him.
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"We are all-in on the charter system.…Our race teams by and large are losing money. … We can solve that with two key pillars. One is to make sure they are getting additional revenue. … Secondly, and not small, honestly, is some type of cost containment."
Harvick also continues to lament not racing the IMS oval, would like to try a choose rule at road courses and noted that the new car is easier to shift but also easier to mistime.
Mike Joy is leaving the vast majority of his audience in the dark by bringing his Twitter “Keyboard Warrior” frustrations to air — even using the most optimistic of counting
I am really enjoying the idea of NASCAR using OSS inspection to check cars to the thousandth of an inch that will soon lumber and bounce around a literal dirt track.
NASCAR is at North Wilkesboro tonight because the current president (who beat the guy who tried to overthrow the government) signed a law that ultimately dropped a bucket of money on Speedway Motorsports Inc.
Life is quite interesting.
Easy to whiff on these things, but the crowd at Indianapolis today feels a bit larger than the 2019 oval race and similar to Saturday’s IndyCar/Xfinity attendance.
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The No. 23 team is currently very worried they screwed up trying to save tires after the previous yellow and didn't meet minimum speed to clear the crash clock.
Gragson has repeatedly failed to control his car on the inside lane during late race situations this season to the expense of the entire field.
That’s why a simple mistake like tonight gets an outsized reaction from Burton.
"I don't think Bubba Wallace has anything to apologize for," Lindsey Graham says on Fox News radio re: Trump's tweet. "You saw the best in NASCAR. They all rallied to Bubba's side. I would be looking to celebrate that kind of attitude rather than being worried it's a hoax."
Harvick wrecking Busch for a playoff point – and knowing it wouldn’t be penalized – is exactly the junk NASCAR should have stopped with Ryan Newman in 2014.
I think NBC NASCAR booth could stand to explain *why* Noah Gragson was suspended and ultimately released when explaining everything else going on with the No. 42 car