Who among us does not like Nascar?

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.

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?

Kerm and brownie,

Who are your drivers?

I'm happy about the Gordon decision

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.

Kyle is the Jon Williams of NASCAR.

Cast the other drivers as ILXORS:

Kyle would never ban me tho.

Tony Stewart = Tombot?

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.

Actually that goes for NASCAR and ILX...

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.

I know I'm not there yet, but part of me wants to be the Robby Gordon of ILX.

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.

Kyle Busch is crazy talented BTW. I have him in an office pool.

Greg Biffle as gabbneb
Richard Petty as Ned
Juan Pablo Montoya as chaki

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.

Do you have a problem with that Greg?

Danica

http://www.autoracingdaily.com/images/featured/Danica_Patrick_9966.jpg

Danica is so 'formidable'

I said, DO YOU HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT GREG?

http://cdn.faniq.com/images/blog/dandanspeed.jpg

Mom!

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.

Tombot has tried, in the past, to deliberately wreck me. But I avoided it. Who's good at avoiding wrecks? maybe I am him.

Aw you are Truex then honeypie :)

I do like that car that has no sponsors. Can't remember the drivers name.

I believe that would be Travis Kvapil, who I think should be driving the Aflac duck car.

-- The Biff

me

When you go to the track rent one of these:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2378/2307460034_314f084a54_b.jpg

look at those ducks on the 99 crew jackets!

Pwned!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDp8anVM0eU

maybe too obv, but Elliott Sadler as YGS

i keep reading this as "who among us does not like nancy?"

IACFTPWBAA how are the studies coming?

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!

here=Tasmania?

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.

close; victoria.

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.

LOL bad=mad

Wait what?

I have you in an office betting pool in Phoenix, didn't you know?

I'm a Nascar driver?

I fear a big one on this thread now.

OH I SEE

http://bryancookart.wordpress.com/files/2006/12/kyle-dynamite-bc.jpg

Hit List: Who's the hippest?

none of those guys are as hip as Chad on the Couch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XkHlXl1u4M&feature=related

i still want to see that Jimmie in NYC video

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.

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

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.

talk about some good acting