NASCAR 2013

TheChrisD

It's a very interesting set of schedules for 2013, especially the Trucks!

(Weeks used instead of dates, given the varying race days - especially as Trucks have some Wednesday and Thursday night races)
|Cup|Nationwide|Truck
Feb, Week 3|Bud Shootout||
Feb, Week 4|Daytona 500|Daytona|Daytona
Mar, Week 1|Phoenix|Phoenix|
Mar, Week 2|Vegas|Vegas|
Mar, Week 3|Bristol|Bristol|
Mar, Week 4|California|California|
Mar, Week 5|||
Apr, Week 1|Martinsville||Martinsville
Apr, Week 2|Texas|Texas|Rockingham
Apr, Week 3|Kansas||Kansas
Apr, Week 4|Richmond|Richmond|
May, Week 1|Talladega|Talladega|
May, Week 2|Darlington|Darlington|
May, Week 3|All-Star Race||Charlotte
May, Week 4|Charlotte|Charlotte|
June, Week 1|Dover|Dover|Dover
June, Week 2|Pocono|Iowa|Texas
June, Week 3|Michigan|Michigan|
June, Week 4|Sonoma|Road America|
June, Week 5|Kentucky|Kentucky|Kentucky
July, Week 1|Daytona|Daytona|
July, Week 2|New Hampshire|New Hampshire|Iowa
July, Week 3||Chicagoland|
July, Week 4|Indianapolis|Indianapolis|Eldora
August, Week 1|Pocono|Iowa|Pocono
August, Week 2|Watkins Glen|Watkins Glen|
August, Week 3|Michigan|Mid-Ohio|Michigan
August, Week 4|Bristol|Bristol|Bristol
September, Week 1|Atlanta|Atlanta|Mosport
September, Week 2|Richmond|Richmond|Iowa
September, Week 3|Chicagoland|Chicagoland|Chicagoland
September, Week 4|New Hampshire|Kentucky|
September, Week 5|Dover|Dover|Las Vegas
October, Week 1|Kansas|Kansas|
October, Week 2|Charlotte|Charlotte|
October, Week 3|Talladega||Talladega
October, Week 4|Martinsville||Martinsville
November, Week 1|Texas|Texas|Texas
November, Week 2|Phoenix|Phoenix|Phoenix
November, Week 3|Homestead|Homestead|Homestead

frostie500

TheChrisD wrote: »

It's a very interesting set of schedules for 2013, especially the Trucks!

Cheers Chris, much handier to see everything like that rather than having a bunch of dates-we can see the double and triple headers this way!

Anyone heading over for a race next year? I was over at Daytona this year and couldn't recommend it highly enough. Really great week. Id be half tempted to do the double header of Texas NASCAR and Austin MotoGP in April. That would be a great couple of weeks!

marco2068

sprint unlimited on saturday night/ sunday morning 1am setanta sports 1

also 12pm next friday week, daytona truck race.

so for the first time we have the trucks @12pm friday night/sat morning

saturday the nationwide on motors tv

and the 500 on sunday.

lots of beer and popcorn needed :D:D

Infoanon

marco2068 wrote: »

sprint unlimited on saturday night/ sunday morning 1am setanta sports 1
lots of beer and popcorn needed :D:D

Danica Patrick is on Pole for the Daytona 500 - Nascars viewing figures will go through the roof....... Jeff Gordon was second, all 3 Srewart Haas racing cars were in the top 6 - though only 1st and 2nd are set in stone for the 500 next weekend.

btw Milka Duno(also Ex Indycar) is 2nd on the grid for the ARCA race at Daytona.....

TheChrisD

Still annoyed Mr. "Who Wears The Firesuit in This Relationship" won the Unlimited :mad:

Jordan 199

I see Kyle Busch and his ex team mate Joey Logan set the same time 45.973s :eek:

Anyone going to take a shot at who will be crowned Sprint Cup champion this year? I'd like to see Hamlin win.

TheChrisD

Mr. Beery wins the first Duel race. Edwards and Bayne crashed out with 7 to go.

Infoanon

TheChrisD wrote: »

Mr. Beery wins the first Duel race. Edwards and Bayne crashed out with 7 to go.

Seems to have it sussed for Sunday - Kyle Busch won the 2nd duel

frostie500

Raging that I wont be able to see any of the early season races, Id say this weekend should be a good race

Charlie-Bravo

First race of the season...Let's go racin' - can't believe how long it has been...here we go, Trucks!

Grim.

Mental crash at Daytona hope everyone is ok

EDIT: i've the removed video as there are reports form the track of multiple casualties

TheChrisD

A few people on Twitter reporting one fatality.

Grim.

Pit lane being cleared for Helicopters aswell

Grim.

I've just seen a pic of a wheel in the upper tiers of the grandstand, also reports of 8-10 people taken to hospital two in critical conditions.

TheChrisD

https://twitter.com/MartySmithESPN/status/305437928203636736

https://twitter.com/TheCatchFence/status/305438641352761346


EDIT: Boards needs Twitter oEmbeds.

Grim.

This is essentially what happened during the nascar press conference

Ghost Train

Real mess of cars coming over the line, wonder does having it happen in the final stretch before the finish line make it worse with drivers keeping their foot in, I guess it could happen any time. Maybe lucky for the driver the car went in to the fence the angle it did.

good few photos here
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/02/23/fan-injured-daytona-500-nationwide-crash-accident-daytona-international-speedway/1941869/

gs39t

Sky headline "28 fans and one driver injured in last lap crash... " :rolleyes:

Michael Annett was the only driver injured and that was in the turn 2 big one earlier in the race. (He's OK)

Latest news is the two critical patients were upgraded. Really hope no one was really badly hurt.

Infoanon

gs39t wrote: »

Sky headline "28 fans and one driver injured in last lap crash... " :rolleyes:
Latest news is the two critical patients were upgraded. Really hope no one was really badly hurt.

Nascar update is 28 injured - 14 treated at the circuit and 14 taken to hospital, the 2 critically injured are now stable.

The front of Kyle Larsons car penetrated the catch fencing with one of the tyres going into the spectator area and many spectators been sprayed with Carbon Fibre.
The 500 will go ahead - the catch fencing was repaired by 2am.

Not to sure what caused Regan Smith to lose control whilst leading - it did not look like he got a bumper rub.
Hopefully all make a full recovery - last lap crashes at Super Speedways seems to be the norm in Nascar....

Infoanon

gs39t wrote: »

Michael Annett was the only driver injured and that was in the turn 2 big one earlier in the race. (He's OK)

Michael Annett (No.43) did not have a crash earlier in the race - he was running in 4th with 10 laps to go.There was a crash with Ausin Dillon with 5 laps to go that took Annett out - heavy frontal impact - 11 cars in total involved and the race was red flagged

gs39t

Infoanon wrote: »

Michael Annett (No.43) did not have a crash earlier in the race - he was running in 4th with 10 laps to go

The big one happened with 5 to go and Annett went head on in the turn 2 wall and was transported to hospital.

EDIT: Sky's headline implies the injured driver (Annett) was involved in the last lap crash

Infoanon

gs39t wrote: »

The big one happened with 5 to go and Annett went head on in the turn 2 wall and was transported to hospital.

EDIT: Sky's headline implies the injured driver (Annett) was involved in the last lap crash

Sky have confused the two crashes - the first crash with 5 laps to go was Annett and Dillon colliding leading to a 20 minute red flag, the last lap crash was were Kyle Larsons car pierced the catch fencing.
Looking at it again it looks like Brads car did clip Regan Smiths car which led to the accident.
There are no reports of an injured driver on the mainstream motor sports channels.

gs39t

It was Sky News. Facts arent an issue I suppose :pac:

Regan said he tried to block Kes. coming to the line (as you would) and it turned him. No one's fault, product of the type of plate racing.

60% chance of rain for today, but the track is repaired and ready to go.

TheChrisD

Driver intros done, national anthem done. We're going green very soon!

Big Nasty

Anywhere I can stream this online for free?

Any of the sites that came up on the googles want me to sign up! :mad:

decisions

If I were you's I would keep links to PM only.

TheChrisD

Keep and eye out for besweeet on JTV. He seems to have restarted his streaming business. Already gone through two channels tonight though, so probably not good if you want it left full-screen on a second monitor.

Big Nasty

Sitec wrote: »

http://nutjob.eu/njtvx2.html

Finally, something that works. Thank you!

decisions

Sitec wrote: »

Or stop being a whingebag

Or you could read the charter?

Sorry for offering a bit of advice.

decisions

Sitec wrote: »

Backseat modding is in the charter.

Report it then...

Big Nasty

Less handbags, more racing.

decisions

Patrick in the lead

decisions

I still think she can do it.

TheChrisD

What a lame-ass finish, with a lame-ass winner.

Infoanon

TheChrisD wrote: »

What a lame-ass finish, with a lame-ass winner.

Not a great finish to the race - lame last 20 laps - delighted for Mark Martin hoped he would finally get that win and Jnrs third second in 4 years

gs39t

Two years in a row Greg Biffle is in position to win the 500 and fails to even try.

(And twice gets passed by Jr coming to the line )

neddynono

Is any channel showing the cup race from Phoenix live? I can find the nationwide series on motors tv and the pre race on setanta but not the cup??

marco2068

http://www.setanta.com/ie/tv-listings

It's definitely on, it says phoenix @8pm ss1

Charlie-Bravo

Gotta get me one of those wax-vax's. Wow the US ads are gas sometimes. Good nationwide race so far...

Infoanon

Looking at the ESPN Schedules and it looks like Nascar 1hr highlights are going to be on in the next few weeks

Charlie-Bravo

Just watching a bit of the Daytona Sprint practice there. - what determines the starting order? Is there a qualy for fastest lap or is it determined some other way?

TheChrisD

Daytona qualifying is different:

- Top 2 in speed qualifying are locked into the front row.

Then the field is split into two qualifying races, the Duels. Odd-numbered in Race 1, even-numbered in Race 2. Starting in order of speed qualifying.

- The next 30 positions (3-32) are filled with the top 15 from each Duel race, excluding the front row. Race 1 in the odd-numbered positions, Race 2 in the even-numbered positions.
- The next 4 positions (33-36) are filled with the fastest 4 drivers according to speed qualifying who are not yet in the field.
- The next 6 positions (37-42) are filled according to the owner's points from last year of the drivers not yet in the field. These drivers are ranked by owner's points, and not speed.
- The final position (43) is a provisional spot which can be taken by a past champion not already in the field. Each champion gets 6 provisionals per year. If more than one past champion wants to use the provisional, the most recent champion gets the spot. If there is no-one using the provisional, the spot goes to the next car in owner's points not yet in the field.

Charlie-Bravo

Read all of that but will need to re-read to get a better gist of it. Thanks!

decisions

Anyone else watching?

Charlie-Bravo

Yep, feeling a little nauseous watching them go round a half-mile circuit. It's mad the way the cars are so prone to punctures with the tight turns and once it happens you're in the wall collecting whoever is near you.

Charlie-Bravo

Plenty of wrecks in the last 3 races at Kansas - STP400 race on now. Let's go racing...

TheChrisD

Fúck you Vickers. And definitely fúck you Harvick.

Charlie-Bravo

What did I miss?

Infoanon

astrofluff wrote: »

What did I miss?

Vickers wrecked with 6 laps to go while Montoya was leading with victory in sight.

Montoya along with half the field then pitted for tyres for a green/white chequere finish - Harvick who was second at the time of the wreck went on to win.....

Stewart and Kurt Busch had a bit of a difference at the end of the race ! after Busch hit the back of Stewart pushing him out of the racing groove leaving him down in 18th

Sterling Archer

For anyone thats hasn't seen it yet, the roof hatch is back, but only for Hamlin

http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/shakeandbake/after-10-years-the-roof-hatch-is-back-at-talladega/

marco2068

great finish in the nationwide last night, late night but worth it entertainment wise