Posted on 07/17/2014 6:34:25 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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Good morning, Race Fans. We have a rest week for the Sprint Cup teams, but plenty of racing for the next couple of weekends, starting with Nationwide this weekend, Camping World next Wednesday, and Nationwide and Sprint Cup the that weekend.
Standings to follow tonight or through the weekend.
Good morning. I am off to work. Not much time this year to follow practice and qualifying. Makes picking drivers very hard.
I am amazed how little “time” I find myself with in the summer.
I messed up and didn’t change drivers last week - but it was good for me.
bookmarked
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
Da HillBillies of NASCAR.
Earnhardt Jr. to appear at Watkins Glen Turn 1 Tavern:
#88 National Guard driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. is scheduled to address audience questions at Watkins Glen International during Cheez-It 355 at The Glen, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series weekend, August 7-10. This exclusive Q&A session is scheduled take place in the Turn 1 Tavern on August 10. Next to the towering Seneca Grandstand, the Turn 1 Tavern is a covered hospitality area located trackside, just outside the circuit’s first turn. Fans who purchase a Turn 1 Tavern hospitality admission ticket will have the opportunity to participate in this highly sought after Q&A session with the #88 National Guard driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. In addition to this rare and wildly popular Q&A session, fans with Turn 1 Tavern admissions will enjoy food and beverages at a discounted rate all weekend long, along with a complimentary buffet lunch on both Saturday and Sunday. Turn 1 Tavern hospitality admission provides fans with covered trackside viewing Friday through Sunday and may be purchased at www.TheGlen.com for just $75. Facility gate admission is not included with the purchase of Turn 1 Tavern hospitality.(WGI)(7-22-2014)
Well, looks like somebody has Bee in their Bonnet...
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France comments on Race Team Alliance:
NASCAR chairman Brian France says listening to the consensus voice of the newly formed Race Team Alliance would be a “bad idea.” France, in his first extensive interview on the RTA since the organization of major team owners was announced two weeks ago, told Sirius/XM’s Sirius Speedway show on Monday that NASCAR “didn’t think (the RTA) was necessary.” The nine most powerful race teams in NASCAR announced July 7 they had formed an alliance with the stated purpose of cutting costs and pooling resources. But France said he had no intentions of dealing with the individual race teams as one organization. “That would probably be the worst thing we could ever do — to listen to one voice, even if it were a consensus voice,” he said. “Every decision we’ve ever made that’s important, the more input, the more people we heard from, the better the result. That will never change in the business model of NASCAR, because good ideas come from all over the place.” But it seems NASCAR’s most influential team owners don’t feel that way, since they banded together to form the RTA and speak as one regarding many issues facing the sport. And while France acknowledged the RTA “may figure out some things we’re not aware of” in terms of reducing costs, he repeatedly said NASCAR would be “business as usual.” That includes holding firm on the allocation of a mega $8.2 billion TV contract that kicks in next year - 25% of which goes to the race teams (65% goes to the tracks and 10% goes to NASCAR). The RTA is said to want a bigger piece of the pie, but France said the current percentages were “set for historical reasons - because it’s the right allocation.”(USA Today)(7-22-2014)
Less than 24 hours after [Stewart-Haas Racing's haulers] returned from Sonoma, they are on their way to the Saturday race in Sparta, Ky. It's all part of the weekly routine at Stewart-Haas Racing, or any other NASCAR team, for that matter. Most people know that NASCAR is a traveling circus, a weekly carnival built on rubber and exhaust. But outside of motorsports, few can appreciate everything that goes into creating that big top each week. During a season, the sport travels 38 weekends across 23 markets, and that doesn't include test sessions.
Teams truck race cars and parts, fly dozens of people and set up temporary homes at all of them. The NASCAR schedule makes the logistics and costs of operating a race team unique in professional sports. While stick-and-ball teams have front-office staff, players and administrators, NASCAR teams have pilots, flight attendants, long-haul truckers, engineers, mechanics, even chefs.
Outside of racing, few - if any - face such a challenge of coordinating freight trucking and airline travel across so many weeks. Doing so is an enormous undertaking that takes months of planning. The Kentucky race weekend highlighted just how demanding it can be.
Over the course of three days in June, Stewart-Haas Racing trucked eight race cars and flew more than 100 people to Kentucky for the Quaker State 400. It rented 27 vehicles and reserved 44 hotel rooms. It spent more than $1.5 million, and its four entries finished seventh, 11th, 12th and 21st to collect a combined purse of $428,401. (That doesn't include driver salaries or additional personnel costs.)
As teams prepare to head to Indianapolis for NASCAR's annual Brickyard race, last month's Kentucky race provided a glimpse at what goes into a typical race weekend, how it comes together and how much it costs. See much more on race team logistics and expenses at Sports Business Journal.(7-22-2014)
Stewart says he still deals with pain:
#14-Tony Stewart met with the media Monday on NASCAR’s weekly teleconference and was asked about the status of his leg:
Q. During Speedweeks I think you said your leg was about 65% healed and you were still dealing with some pain. Where are you from the physical standpoint? Are you still dealing with some limitations or pain issues?
TONY STEWART: I still deal with pain every day, but that’s something that’s not even going to probably go away by the end of the year. The reality of it is there might be a point where it will never totally go away, but it doesn’t keep me from doing what I love to do. Like I said, I don’t feel pain in the race car. I haven’t from Daytona on through even this past weekend. So I know that’s probably around 3% of my week that I spend in the race car, but as long as that 3% is comfortable and I can enjoy doing what I’m doing, I can deal with the pain the other 97% of the week.
Q. So like the 97%, is that just the everyday stuff of just kind of getting up and getting everything going type of thing. Just doing normal activities and still feel that little bit of a pinch?
TONY STEWART: Yeah, anybody that’s had broken bones, and Dustin [Long of MRN] can probably chime in and tell you as much as anybody, your body will tell you when it’s had enough and when it needs a break and when it needs a rest. It’s that way when you’re healthy too. If you’ve been on your feet all day, your body will tell you when it’s tired. Unfortunately, when you’ve had the amount of injuries like we’ve had, your body will still do the same thing. It will still tell you when you’re doing something it doesn’t like. It will tell you when it’s had enough. So we try to do everything we can to be as comfortable as we can during the day. But like I said, the scenario could have been so much worse that I don’t feel bad about it. The pain that I have is just part of it. I know the scenario could have been a lot worse and the result could have been a lot worse, so I’m pretty comfortable dealing with the pain each day the way it is.(Chevy PR)(7-22-2014)
In the old days, Nascar was omnipotent and the driver/owners were pretty much like employees.
Now the balance of power is much different with many of the team owners being financial tycoons via other business ventures. And also having sponsor relationships that go way beyond the Nascar realm.
This may get ugly, I hope both sides realize a war will be unwinnable by either side.
Yep
I see this turning out to be just like “inside the beltway”
A buttload of finger pointing, obfuscation, lies and BS from both sides and getting no place fast.
End result NASCAR gets even more screwed up than it is now.
Nobody wins and the Loyal Fans getting F’ed!
When they did this in Indycar racing, the end result was pretty much killing the series as a national sport. But sometimes huge egos over-ride common sense.
yeah, ya need Turn 10 Club package... we always got one since it has it's own parking and johns(the wife loved that) and the tent had A/C and food and booze wi big screen tv's, but after Dale died we never went back...
Still in the middle of the remodel. New oak floors in but won’t have a computer or wi-fi for another 2 weeks.
Is that Santa out front?
There is a Camping World race on now (at least there was when I started putting together standings, but I had to make some changes with the new Windows I am running and a different browser - copy & paste don't work the same way).
SprintCup Chase Standings:
| Driver | Wins | Points |
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| Brad Keselowski |
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| Jimmie Johnson |
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| Dale Earnhardt, Jr |
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| Carl Edwards |
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| Joey Logano |
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| Kevin Harvick |
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| Jeff Gordon |
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| Kyle Busch |
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| Denny Hamlin |
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| Aric Amirola |
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| Kurt Busch |
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| Matt Kenseth |
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| Ryan Newman |
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| Clint Bowyer |
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| Paul Menard |
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| Kyle Larson |
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| Driver | Points | Change |
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| Jeff Gordon |
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| Dale Earnhardt Jr |
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| Brad Keselowski |
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| Matt Kenseth |
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| Jimmie Johnson |
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| Carl Edwards |
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| Ryan Newman |
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| Kyle Busch |
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| Joey Logano |
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| Clint Bowyer |
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| Paul Menard |
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| Denny Hamlin |
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| Kevin Harvick |
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Nationwide Standings:
| Driver | Points | Change |
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| Chase Elliott |
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| Regan Smith |
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| Elliott Sadler |
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| Ty Dillon |
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| Brian Scott |
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| Trevor Bayne |
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| Brendan Gaughan |
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| Chris Buescher |
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| James Buescher |
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| Ryan Reed |
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| Landon Cassill |
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| Dylan Kwasniewski |
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| Dakoda Armstrong |
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Campingworld Standings:
| Driver | Points | Change |
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| Matt Crafton |
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| Ryan Blaney |
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| Johnny Sauter |
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| German Quiroga Jr |
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| Ron Hornaday Jr |
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| Ben Kennedy |
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| Timothy Peters |
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| Darrell Wallace Jr |
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| Joey Coulter |
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| John Wes Townley |
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| Jeb Burton |
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| Bryan Silas |
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| Mason Mingus |
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Campingworld Standings:
| Driver | Points | Change |
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| Matt Crafton |
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| Ryan Blaney |
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| Johnny Sauter |
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| German Quiroga Jr |
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| Ron Hornaday Jr |
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| Ben Kennedy |
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| Timothy Peters |
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| Darrell Wallace Jr |
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| Joey Coulter |
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| John Wes Townley |
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| Jeb Burton |
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| Bryan Silas |
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| Mason Mingus |
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| Team | Segment Points | Season Points | Change |
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| SHSRacing |
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| Jake from State Farm |
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| Jana's Raiders |
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| Rainbow Warriors |
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| Shady Bowl Speedway |
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| TexasT |
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| bowtieboys |
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| Richmond Rocker |
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| Ward Burton's Translator |
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| Questforseven |
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Fantasy Top 10 Season Standings:
| Team | Points | Change |
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| Mofo99 |
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| Jake from State Farm |
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| Lime City Racing |
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| Jana's Raiders |
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| bowtieboys |
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| Richmond Rocker |
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| SgtBob's Privates |
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| Thomas Brothers Country Ham |
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| SHSRacing |
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| Rainbow Warriors |
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