Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 30, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 Guess I missed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 2nd 4th 7th for me 2nd 4th and 6th for the mrs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 30, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 2 minutes ago, Blackstar said: Guess I missed it. I watched football instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 30, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 9 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: 2nd, 7th and 8th today. Just now, DAVE said: 2nd 4th 7th for me 2nd 4th and 6th for the mrs. Dammit! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 30, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 (edited) 3 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: I watched football instead. I'd like to say I at least made money but I switched the controls in the truck from A/C to heat and windows all fogged up and that familiar sweet smell rolled through the cab. FML Didnt make enough to pay for a heater core. Edited September 30, 2018 by Blackstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 30, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 Just now, Blackstar said: I'd like to say I at least made money but I switched the controls in the truck from A/C to heat and windows all fogged up and that familiar sweet smell rolled through the cab. FML Awww damn...that sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Blackstar Posted September 30, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 1st, 7th, 17th if I'm reading this right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted September 30, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 27 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: I watched football instead. x2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member steve from amherst Posted September 30, 2018 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 3rd , 4th , 7th 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted September 30, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted September 30, 2018 Hell all of us did pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 Just now, Jimmy Snacks said: Hell all of us did pretty good. *Well. "All of us did pretty well." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted September 30, 2018 Share Posted September 30, 2018 3 hours ago, Wildboer said: It's sure as shit more entertaining than a regular Charlotte race. 3 hours ago, f7ben said: It says a lot about this forum when this faggoty ass red neck fucking bullshit is the longest thread going. What in the actual fuck us wrong with you faggots 1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said: 2nd, 7th and 8th today. Nice 54 minutes ago, DAVE said: 2nd 4th 7th for me 2nd 4th and 6th for the mrs. 44 minutes ago, Blackstar said: 1st, 7th, 17th if I'm reading this right. 55 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: I watched football instead. Me too until the second game came on. Then I switched over. 27 minutes ago, steve from amherst said: 3rd , 4th , 7th 23 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Hell all of us did pretty good. 7th, 17th and 18th. I'll take it considering who I picked 22 minutes ago, Zambroski said: *Well. "All of us did pretty well." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 40 minutes ago, Zambroski said: Did I make you feel unwanted? Good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 4 minutes ago, ckf said: Did I make you feel unwanted? Good Not really. The “NASCAR” in the thread title does that. Also, “Ben” in the title does that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 1, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 1, 2018 Just saw the finish...fucking JJ almost won it for me...SMH. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted October 1, 2018 Share Posted October 1, 2018 1 hour ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Just saw the finish...fucking JJ almost won it for me...SMH. He gave it the ole collage try, LOL! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Well wtf. NASCAR Will Reduce Cars to Just 550 HP at Half of Its Cup Series Races Next Year NASCAR wants the cars in its top-level Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series to not string out like a broken bracelet from a Walmart claw machine, and encourage actual side-by-side/back-and-forth racing. NASCAR will try to do that, in part, by taking its Cup Series cars from about 800 horsepower down to 550. NASCAR announced its new rules package for 2019 on Tuesday, which, depending on the race track, includes some big aerodynamic changes and restrictions on the engine. The changes are similar to what NASCAR did with its Cup Series All-Star race this year, which made the racing great to watch but didn’t get the best reviews from the people actually driving the cars. Here’s the gist of the new aerodynamics and car package that’ll be used at all tracks in 2019, summarized from NASCAR’s press release: Rear spoiler will be eight inches tall by 61 inches in length next year, up from 2.375 inches by 61 inches this year Larger front splitter than this year, with a two-inch overhang Wider radiator pan, measuring 37 inches wide in the front and tapering to 31 inches at the rear The release said NASCAR will use aerodynamic ducts on the front of the cars to “transfer air to the side of the car away from the front tires,” with the intent of making the racing closer, at certain oval tracks longer than a mile next year. The ducts won’t be used at road courses, smaller tracks and certain large ovals. The aerodynamic changes are kind of the opposite of what NASCAR has done in the past few years, and even NASCAR recognized that in its announcement—it said these changes have “the intent of adding downforce to stabilize handling, a break from a trend of downforce reduction” between 2015 and 2018. But aerodynamics isn’t the only change. NASCAR’s also cutting power in the Cup Series, dropping engines from the roughly 750 HP they’re at now to 550 HP at half of the races next year. That’ll be done with a tapered spacer, which has basically the same function as a restrictor plate like the ones used at Daytona and Talladega—lowering power by restricting airflow to the engine. The restrictions, in NASCAR’s words, “both restrict the passage of air through the engine to reduce horsepower, but the tapered spacer’s funnel-shaped design allows for a slightly more efficient flow and throttle response.” At five races the cars will get this smaller restricting spacer and no aero ducts. (Those races are both Pocono Raceway race dates, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway.) Other tracks using the spacers will use the ducts. And on short tracks and road courses neither the smaller spacer nor the ducts will be on the cars. Because all of that is hard to visualize, here’s a photo of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series rules package next to the the 2019 one announced this week: There have been talks about NASCAR mandating this kind of rules package for next year since its Cup Series All-Star race over the summer, where reports are that the cars ran around 400 HP with restrictor plates. The limits to the engine and aerodynamic changes in the All-Star gave the car out front less of an aero advantage over others, and cars shot past each other in a way that looked almost effortless at times—closer to what passing looks like with plates at Daytona and Talladega, and further from how labored passing can look with the current package and aero advantage for the leader at other tracks. NASCAR thought about using a rules package similar to the All-Star one at other races this season, but a lot of teams and drivers were not having it. Despite how entertaining the race was, former Cup Series champions Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch had some convincing arguments against it. Here’s what Busch said earlier this year, via ESPN: “It’s not necessarily what I signed up for to be a race car driver to bring the whole field closer together and have it dictated by some type of a plate race,” Busch said. “But if that’s what we’re going to have going forward, then I guess I either need to think about how to get really good at it or getting out of it, so we’ll see what happens.” And here’s Harvick, also from ESPN: “Just remember this,” Harvick cautioned after his victory Saturday night. “There was a large buzz about the low downforce package that we currently race when we left the All-Star Race one year.” He’s right. When teams have time to work on new rules and throw their resources at them, the results can change. Either way, what’s done is done, and NASCAR’s taking a drop in power at a lot of tracks next year in order to hopefully pull cars closer together. Regardless of what does happen in the long run, we can expect good racing for at least a few weekends—until teams “figure out” (learn how to cheat?) the new package, like Harvick said Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 4, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 4, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 4, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 4, 2018 Buddy and David seemed skeptical about tapered spacers back in the day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckf Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 I'm all for it if it eliminates the follow the leader that we see at some tracks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 2 hours ago, ATOMIC PUNK said: . Great vid. Totally agree and have said it before... nascar needs to put the stock back in stock cars....a talented driver should be able to compete without having to have corporate money 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Jimmy Snacks Posted October 4, 2018 Author Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted October 4, 2018 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted October 5, 2018 Share Posted October 5, 2018 4 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said: Nice Herb Tarlick pants! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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