Posted on 02/12/2016 6:47:31 PM PST by mabarker1
Hello Racing Fans!!!
Well We made it past the Stupid Bowl and now it's time to GO RACING again!!!
Got a Truckload of new Rules,Regulations and other assorted stupidity of the hour to sort out.
We have four NASCAR Races and 1 ARCA Race with Practice and Qualifying for all of the Events.
We have new TV Hosts to break in and train.
Geeze, My head hurts already.
<- Click for Driver/Car Listing for All 3 Series.
(((PING)))
I’ll be back later got some stuff to take care of.
It was fun to watch practice on tv tonight.
Seemed like a long off season.
The DTs are almost over.
Starting Line Up for the Sprint Unlimited at Daytona International Speedway:
(by a draw done by crew chiefs at Daytona)
1) #48-Jimmie Johnson, Lowe's Chevy
2) #2-Brad Keselowski, SKF Ford
3) #47-AJ Allmendinger, Kroger/Stouffer's/Lean Cuisine Chevy
4) #42-Kyle Larson, Target Chevy
5) #31-Ryan Newman, Caterpillar Chevy
6) #13-Casey Mears, GEICO Chevy
7) #78-Martin Truex Jr., Furniture Row/Denver Mattress Toyota
8) #15-Clint Bowyer, 5-hour Energy Chevy
9) #18-Kyle Busch, M&M's 75 Toyota
10) #3-Austin Dillon, DOW Chevy
11) #17-Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Fastenal Ford
12) #10-Danica Patrick, Nature's Bakery Chevy
13) #20-Matt Kenseth, Dollar General Toyota
14) #27-Paul Menard, Peak Antifreeze/Menard Chevy
15) #11-Denny Hamlin, FedEx Express Toyota
16) #16-Greg Biffle, KFC Nashville Hot Ford
17) #43-Aric Almirola, Smithfield Ford
18) #14-Brian Vickers, Mobil 1 Chevy
19) #19-Carl Edwards, ARRIS Toyota
20) #5-Kasey Kahne, Great Clips Chevy
21) #41-Kurt Busch, Monster Energy/Haas Automation Chevy
22) #4-Kevin Harvick, Busch Beer Chevy
23) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., Taxslayer.com Chevy
24) #1-Jamie McMurray, McDonald's Chevy
25) #22-Joey Logano, Shell Pennzoil Ford
See the lineup on the Sprint Unlimited Lineup page (pdf)(2-12-2016)
Happy Hour Practice for the Sprint Unlimited Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the top five and notes:
#11-Hamlin 198.930
#15-Bowyer 195.253
#43-Almirola 194.885
#14-Vickers 194.805
#4-Harvick 194.763
slowest: #19-Edwards 75.517 and #47-Allmendinger 189.155
no laps run: #13-Mears, #16-Biffle, #20-Kenseth, #78-Truex Jr.
most laps run: #4-Harvick 23; #41-Busch & #27-Menard 22
No incidents reported.
See the fastest speeds and more on the Sprint Unlimited Happy Hour Practice Speeds page (pdf)(2-12-2016)
1st Practice for the Sprint Unlimited Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway is over, after 55 scheduled minutes, the top five and notes:
#42-Larson 199.344
#5-Kahne 199.159
#11-Hamlin 199.067
#27-Menard 198.979
#19-Edwards 198.715
slowest: #41-Busch 190.026 and #31-Newman 190.375
most laps run: #22-Logano 30; #14-Vickers 28
Twenty-five drivers are entered and all ran some practice. No incidents.
See the fastest speeds and more on the Sprint Unlimited Practice 1 Speeds page (pdf)(2-12-2016)
Thursday, February 11
6:30 PM NSCS HAULERS ENTER
Friday, February 12
12:00 PM 9:00 PM NSCS GARAGE OPEN
3:30 PM NSCS RANDOM DRAWING & DRAWING FOR PIT SELECTION
5:00 - 5:55 PM NSCS 1st Sprint Unlimited PRACTICE
6:30 - 7:25 PM NSCS Sprint Unlimited FINAL PRACTICE
Saturday, February 13
8:00 AM - 11:00 PM NSCS GARAGE OPENS
6:15 PM NSCS DRIVER / CREW CHIEF MEETING
7:50 PM NSCS DRIVER INTRODUCTIONS
8:15 PM NSCS RACE
Race Coverage of the Sprint Unlimited Sprint Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway is scheduled for Saturday, February 13, 2016.
Television (TV): FOX at 8:00 pm/et;
Pre-Race show at 6:30 pm/et; green flag approx. 8:29pm/et
Radio: Motor Racing Network (MRN) and Sirius XM Satellite NASCAR Radio 90
Scheduled Race Re-Airs:
TBA
Track Specifications:
Track/Race Length: 2.5 mile oval, 75 laps, 187.5 miles
Segments: two segments with a competition caution at lap 25 separating the segments.
Tri-oval with 31-degree banking in the turns
18-degree banking in the tri-oval and 6-degree banking on the straightaways
Date track opened: 1959
Banking in turns 1-4: 31 degrees
Banking in tri-oval: 18 degrees
Banking on backstretch: 3 degrees
Banking on the straightaway: 6 degrees
Length of frontstretch: 3,800 feet
Length of backstretch: 3,400 feet
Grandstand Seating: 101,500
Pit Road Speed: 55 mph
Pace Car Speed: 70 mph
Pit Road Length: 1,600 feet
Pit Road Width: 50 feet
Opened: 1959
Race Festivities/Officials:
Grand Marshal: TBA
Command to start engines: TBA
Honorary Starter/Wave Green Flag: TBA
Honor Guard: TBA
Invocation: TBA
National Anthem: TBA
Flyover: TBD
Tire: Goodyear Eagle Superspeedway Radials:
Set limits: Unlimited: 6 sets for the event;
Tire Codes: Left-side -- D-4596; Right-side -- D-4600
Tire Circumference: Left-side -- 87.91 in. (2,233 mm); Right-side -- 88.39 in. (2,245 mm)
Minimum Recommended Inflation:
Left Front -- 27 psi; Left Rear -- 27 psi;
Right Front -- 50 psi; Right Rear -- 48 psi
Notes: Teams in all three NASCAR series will run the same Goodyear tire codes at Daytona throughout Speedweeks . . . this is the same combination of left- and right-side tires that these teams have run at Daytona since July 2013 . . . as on all NASCAR ovals greater than one mile in length, teams are required to run inner liners in all four tire positions at Daytona . . . air pressure in those inner liners should be 12-25 psi greater than that of the outer tire.
Goodyear Blimp: Goodyear's "Wingfoot One," based out of Pompano Beach. Fla., will be in the air over Daytona International Speedway throughout Speedweeks . . . the ship will be a part of Fox and Fox Sports 1's television coverage of the Sprint Unlimited and Sprint Cup qualifying during the first week, and the Can-Am Duel and the Camping World Truck, Xfinity and Sprint Cup races during the second week.
Way too long an off season!
The good ‘ol days!
That You in the Pic ?
The withdrawls were terrible. Time for some more racing!
That’s why I packed the DVR with stuff till I only had 2-3% of empty space;)
Racers and fans need to get after their congress critters about the EPA’s new regulation they slipped into a larger batch of regulations. Any emission controlled car or engine cannot have their emission controls removed even if the vehicle or engin is only used off road. This is a bit of a paraphrase but close enough. SEMA has a petition going. If one likes freedom and motor sports one needs to sign it and get the damn rogue EPA back under the control of congress.
Are your cars going to wreck my cars this year?
Got a Link ?
Only intentionally if I can MC
Safety Update:
All cars will be 100% NERF!!!
No, I was a scrawny little 21 year old. That is the owner/driver who had a long career in Nascar type racing in the pacific northwest. Name is Harold Hardesty from Oregon
Very glad its not on ESPN this year.
Sorry no. Beyond that I wouldn’t know how to make one. Try SEMA petition in your search engine. Lots of info pop up.
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