Have you tried ESPN 8 ("The Ocho")?
― felicity, Wednesday, 5 March 2008 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
NASCAR said the victory by Carl Edwards at Las Vegas this past weekend, his second Sprint Cup win in a row, was tainted and slapped Edwards and his Roush Fenway Racing team with its toughest penalty yet. Edwards was docked 100 points - knocking him out of first place - and stripped of the 10 bonus points he earned for the win.
In addition to Edwards' penalty, crew chief Bob Osborne was fined $100,000 and suspended six weeks, and Jack Roush was docked 100 owner points.
The penalties stem from post-race inspection Sunday when NASCAR discovered the cover was off the oil tank in the race-winning No. 99 Ford.
Rival competitors circulated a photo via e-mail Tuesday of Edwards doing a celebratory backflip off his car, and the cover is clearly not attached to the oil tank. It's believed that by opening up the oil tank trunk, the air is able to circulate through the car and create as much as 10 percent more downforce.
― brownie, Friday, 7 March 2008 02:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Serves him right for depriving the good fans of NASCAR of victory burnouts. If Carl Edwards just smoked his tires like a normal hipster winner, he may not have been caught.
Meanwhile, Robby Gordon won an appeal against NASCAR. (Dodge inadvertently sent him the wrong Charger nose.)
"We plan to put this issue behind us and concentrate on making the Chase in 2008," Gordon said. "Our goal is to be a model team in the future and never go through something like this again."
Maybe the extra burnout from Watkins helped with the appeal?
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 03:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Kerm and brownie,
Who are your drivers?
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 05:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm happy about the Gordon decision
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Friday, 7 March 2008 13:46 (sixteen years ago) link
I can't decide on a driver. At first it was "Front Row" Joe Nemecheck then it was Sam Hornish. Now I think it's Kyle Busch because he brings the lols.
I do like that car that has no sponsors. Can't remember the drivers name.
― brownie, Friday, 7 March 2008 16:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Kyle is the Jon Williams of NASCAR.
Cast the other drivers as ILXORS:
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 16:44 (sixteen years ago) link
Kyle would never ban me tho.
Tony Stewart = Tombot?
― brownie, Friday, 7 March 2008 16:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I think I like everybody in proportion to how much I know about them and how often I hear their name, with a little bit of regional favortism thrown in. But there's no, "I can't stand that asshole, Dick Trickle!" And I'm only a mildly militant Chevy guy.
― Kerm, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually that goes for NASCAR and ILX...
― Kerm, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I fear a big one on this thread now.
Kyle is so misunderstood. I like his recklessness more than Robby's, because it seems less emo and he's in control enough to bring things back from the edge - I think people are seeing him as less preumptuous now that the extent of his skills is becoming clear. I'm glad that RG appealed and won, though. "Actions detrimental to stock car racing," lol.
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago) link
I know I'm not there yet, but part of me wants to be the Robby Gordon of ILX.
― Kerm, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
haha Tony Stewart/Tombot OTM
Guess I have to be Danica Patrick(not many options)
Kerm, you can do it. Just keep your nose clean and you'll stay in the top 35.
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
Kyle Busch is crazy talented BTW. I have him in an office pool.
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Greg Biffle as gabbneb Richard Petty as Ned Juan Pablo Montoya as chaki
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
I knew there was a reason for fear
Biffle's from a part of Washington that's politically significant, but seems totally uninteresting from a tourism perspective. Not that I've been there.
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 March 2008 18:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Do you have a problem with that Greg?
Danica
http://www.autoracingdaily.com/images/featured/Danica_Patrick_9966.jpg
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Danica is so 'formidable'
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I said, DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT GREG?
http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/dandanspeed.jpg
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:31 (sixteen years ago) link
Mom!
― gabbneb, Friday, 7 March 2008 19:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Brownie, Kyle would spin you out at random and not even notice, because he is a RACECAR, not a truck. Whereas Tony would put up with running behind you for a while and then very deliberately wreck you.
Dale Earnhardt Sr as Laurel, obv.
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Tombot has tried, in the past, to deliberately wreck me. But I avoided it. Who's good at avoiding wrecks? maybe I am him.
― brownie, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:53 (sixteen years ago) link
Aw you are Truex then honeypie :)
― felicity, Friday, 7 March 2008 20:56 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe that would be Travis Kvapil, who I think should be driving the Aflac duck car.
-- The Biff
― gabbneb, Saturday, 8 March 2008 00:59 (sixteen years ago) link
me
― youn, Saturday, 8 March 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
When you go to the track rent one of these:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2378/2307460034_314f084a54_b.jpg
― felicity, Sunday, 9 March 2008 02:59 (sixteen years ago) link
look at those ducks on the 99 crew jackets!
― gabbneb, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Pwned!
― felicity, Sunday, 9 March 2008 21:53 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDp8anVM0eU
― gabbneb, Monday, 10 March 2008 04:02 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe too obv, but Elliott Sadler as YGS
― gabbneb, Tuesday, 11 March 2008 12:52 (sixteen years ago) link
i keep reading this as "who among us does not like nancy?"
― J.D., Tuesday, 11 March 2008 15:55 (sixteen years ago) link
IACFTPWBAA how are the studies coming?
― felicity, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 01:08 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the free-to-air tv stations here has announced it will be showing nascar on its high-definition channel. i need a new tv!
― haitch, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:34 (sixteen years ago) link
here=Tasmania?
― felicity, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I bet 25 on Truex last weekend. You bet matchups so he was going against Boywer. Truex started in 3rd and ended up 2 laps down when it finished. I blame Goodyear tires and felicity.
― brownie, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
close; victoria.
― haitch, Wednesday, 12 March 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Boywer makes me so bad. He will top 10 you to death.
On a brighter note, my standing $5 bet on the Catsuppppppp Dude won me $40.
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:05 (sixteen years ago) link
LOL bad=mad
Wait what?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:18 (sixteen years ago) link
I have you in an office betting pool in Phoenix, didn't you know?
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm a Nascar driver?
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
OH I SEE
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://bryancookart.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/kyle-dynamite-bc.jpg
― brownie, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Hit List: Who's the hippest?
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 00:50 (sixteen years ago) link
none of those guys are as hip as Chad on the Couch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkHlXl1u4M&feature=related
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 March 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i still want to see that Jimmie in NYC video
― gabbneb, Thursday, 13 March 2008 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I was hoping that was going to be Chad Knaus of NASCAR Performance.
I wish I could find tape of that. All I have is Jimmie ringing the closing bell at the NYSE.
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 03:50 (sixteen years ago) link
Road courses do remind me of pole position, tho, as well as this toy-electric-track-racing place (what are these called?) I went to at least one party at as a kid.
Are you thinking of Slick Track? There's a "road course" in Long Beach where you ride around in mini stock cars.
Best driver: Loren Wallace for GEICO
― felicity, Thursday, 13 March 2008 23:19 (sixteen years ago) link
No, these were like model cars, not ones you could actually sit in. Someone dropped the name on another thread, and I've already forgotten again. I loved driving around in go-karts on the "road course" at Golf 'n Stuff in Ventura when I was 10-12, tho.
<3 Loren Wallace. Those guys are such geniuses.
― gabbneb, Friday, 14 March 2008 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link