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2012 NASCAR Season Long Thread

Not sure what's worse: 48 winning or the fact that my 4yo is apparently a huge JJ fan. He is ecstatic.
 
JJ just needs to hit the wall in Phoenix and end it. That team is just too damn good, it sickens me.
 
Will NASCAR park its boi next week? Should, but I doubt it. They'll give him probation until February 1.
 
VaDeac said:
Will NASCAR park its boi next week? Should, but I doubt it. They'll give him probation until February 1.
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I dunno, think about KB at Texas. There is precedence for suspension. Only difference was KBs was under caution.
 
There is precedence, but we're talking about a superstar in the sport. Absolutely should be parked - wrecked a guy who barely tapped him (Gordon wrecked himself on that one), caught him on fire, took out another car and almost wrecked the championship leader, to the benefit of his teammate. And hasn't expressed the slightest bit of remorse- he's all but invited NASCAR to park him - "theyll do what they have to do, just like i did what I had to do."
 
They went all Bowman Gray out there!...If Homestead is sold out, they park him...if not, they put Jeff and Clint on the marquee, and sell the joint out.
 
Agree that Gordon should be parked. Don't agree that there is precedence. What KB did in the past was habitual. So were Harvick's actions. This is really the one and only time I have seen Gordon acted like this.
 
Um, so i haven't read 1 bit of reaction yet & i watched the race somewhere without sound/captions (so this might be a gutsy call), but what the hell happened on the final G-W-C?

Danica's car was clearly caught in the 'normal racing-line' (and had no way of clearing before traffic caught up to where she was) which I thought determined the safety of the track & whether or not a yellow was thrown.

As I've alluded to in the past... I was pretty damn close to the sport a couple of years ago & something like that seems extremely black and white to me. I've seen track officials get HAMMMERED for allowing races to go on with much less 'in the way' near the checkered stripe at >.5 mile tracks. Again, maybe I missed something that's already been clarified... but i feel like if somebody got injured in that wreck at the end, NASCAR would be in a world of hurt.
 
"It's the double standard that I spent a whole week being bashed by a half-dozen drivers about racing hard at Texas and how I'm out of control and have a death wish," he said. "These guys just tried to kill each other ... they should be ashamed. It's embarrassing."

Brad's getting turned next week... Wouldn't surprise me at all to see it happen about 3/4ths into the race just as he's coming close to clinching & some of the veterans see their last chance to dump him.
 
If NASCAR cared about safety, they would just park Danica. She is a fucking disaster week in and week out.

And one of these days Hornish is going to clean her clock. The wreck with Hornish is different from most wrecks where Danica just runs out of talent, in this case, she clearly wrecked him.
 
stevewhite14 said:
If NASCAR cared about safety, they would just park Danica. She is a fucking disaster week in and week out.

And one of these days Hornish is going to clean her clock. The wreck with Hornish is different from most wrecks where Danica just runs out of talent, in this case, she clearly wrecked him.
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Check out what she did to Landon a couple of weeks ago...
 
Here's what @keselowski said:

​"Well, it's the doublestandard that I spent a whole week being bashed by a half a dozen drivers about racing hard at Texas and how I'm out of control and have a death wish, and then I see bullshit like that. That's fucking bullshit. That's all you can call that. These guys just tried to kill each other. You race hard and I get called an asshole for racing hard and called with a death wish, and I see shit like that, and it just pisses me off. I'm not yelling at you, Dave, but it's just fucking ridiculous, and they should be ashamed. It's embarrassing."
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vtwhat etc said:
Um, so i haven't read 1 bit of reaction yet & i watched the race somewhere without sound/captions (so this might be a gutsy call), but what the hell happened on the final G-W-C?

Danica's car was clearly caught in the 'normal racing-line' (and had no way of clearing before traffic caught up to where she was) which I thought determined the safety of the track & whether or not a yellow was thrown.

As I've alluded to in the past... I was pretty damn close to the sport a couple of years ago & something like that seems extremely black and white to me. I've seen track officials get HAMMMERED for allowing races to go on with much less 'in the way' near the checkered stripe at >.5 mile tracks. Again, maybe I missed something that's already been clarified... but i feel like if somebody got injured in that wreck at the end, NASCAR would be in a world of hurt.
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According to Robin Pemberton, as the field was coming out of turn 2, she had already moved down to the apron and was out of the racing groove. She may have been past the entrance to pit road, but I'm pretty sure she wasnt. She stayed on the track rather than head down pit road like she should have. She'd been told by her spotter that the white flag was out, and she wanted to try and limp to the finish. In doing so, she dropped a ton of oil in the bottom groove in 4. Robin says the Nascar spotter in 4 couldnt tell it was oil (sounds a lot like Watkins Glen) so they let them race it out. IMO, they just wanted to see them race to the finish, and didnt want it to end under caution, even though it should have.
 
Translated: Women can't drive.

tsywake said:
According to Robin Pemberton, as the field was coming out of turn 2, she had already moved down to the apron and was out of the racing groove. She may have been past the entrance to pit road, but I'm pretty sure she wasnt. She stayed on the track rather than head down pit road like she should have. She'd been told by her spotter that the white flag was out, and she wanted to try and limp to the finish. In doing so, she dropped a ton of oil in the bottom groove in 4. Robin says the Nascar spotter in 4 couldnt tell it was oil (sounds a lot like Watkins Glen) so they let them race it out. IMO, they just wanted to see them race to the finish, and didnt want it to end under caution, even though it should have.
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