Good Nationwide race. Nice to see Hornish win, felt bad for Sadler...
Yeah, a casualty of sorts for the way drivers were using the apron on the dog leg. Leffler caused it, but Sadler's line had a large part to do with it. Felt bad for Morgan Shephard, who was headed to a top 20, a big thing for his self-funded team.
It was nice to see Hornish finally break through. He got close a few years back in the 77 cup car for Penske at Pocono, but didn't hold on. Still remember when he was being courted by DEI back when Pennzoil was still on the 1 car. Think it took a few more years before Penske got him to jump from Indycar.
Kahne gets a win for Red Bull, their 2nd, and Kahne's first in over 2 years.
Think this makes 18 different winners this year? It was at 15 thru Richmond, such that Stewart, Bowyer and Kahne make 18. 19 is the modern record for different winners in a season.
2010 winners not yet won in 2011: Biffle, Reutimann, Montoya, McMurray. Biffle is probably the best chance, as he/his team are really good at Homestead.
Stewart and Edwards achieved the same number of points out of Phoenix, such that the gap remains 3 points going into Homestead. With this points system, the only scenario that assures either driver the title is a win. Win w/o leading most laps is 47 points, while 2nd leading most laps is 44. So Edwards could finish 2nd in that scenario and lose the title to Stewart if he wins, on wins tiebreaker. Such that both drivers control their own destiny.
Wow. That's nuts. Stewart was so good yesterday then his car jut slowed down. Edwards would have if not forthat awful pit stop. Really like Kahen-glad to see him win. Also, how about Burton turning his season into a positive note this chase. He's been up front the last handful of races.
Well... here we go, last race of the season .. I'm a Gordon fan so it doesn't really matter to me
who wins the championship ..but I'm betting Stewart takes it !!
Gordon for the win .. Stewart for the championship !!!
14 and 99 have been by far the best two cars of the last few weeks. 99 has passed 50+ cars tonight. Unreal. Love to see a couple more restarts. Smoke looks unstoppable!
That race was absolutely awesome on so many levels. I almost crapped my pants when Grub called for Tony to save fuel, and he fell to 20th place. However, i don't think the call was as bad as Andy Petrie was stating. If it stayed green, everyone was going to have to stop again. If the caution came out, Tony had shown he could pass everyone on the restarts.
So explain to me how Stewart is the champion? Smoke-Edwards finished 1-2 respectively, but Edwards had a 3 pt lead.
With 43-1 for 1-43, they give a 3 point bonus for winning, 1 point for leading a lap, 1 point for leading most laps. Max points is 48, max points for 2nd is 44. Stewart didn't lead the most laps, and Edwards did, hence 47 and 44 points for 1-2. The first tiebreaker has always been wins, which Stewart had locked up.
(don't ask me what NASCAR does if they decide to have larger fields again - the old point system worked for positions worse than 43rd, but it's been many years, 20+, since they had a 44 car field - but it was recent enough that Earnhardt Sr had a 45th place finish once. The old point system did award owners points to those cars that failed to qualify at 3 point intervals as if they were 44-45-46-etc place. I would think the answer would be to increase the winner's points by the number of places added. It is worth noting that it isn't all that many years ago - late 90s - the short tracks had field limits of 36 cars.
Congrats to smoke he drove the wheels off of that thing.
I'll say this - Edwards finished with 9 top 10s in the chase, with an 11th, and finished 2nd the last two races, but it still wasn't enough. Stewart matched Johnson's feat of five chase wins a few years back. Even more remarkable in that Tony declared his team done with two races to go in the regular season and teetering in 10th.
Kind of fitting, in a way, that Stewart bookends the 5 year run of the 48 car.
And, now thanks to NASCAR scheduling, Speedweeks at Daytona starts a week later next year.
Absolutely insane performance by Stewart. The only thing I can even remotely compare that to is when Earnhardt came from like 18th in 3 laps at Talladega to win. What Stewart did tonight on the restart was absolutely incredible.
Absolutely insane performance by Stewart. The only thing I can even remotely compare that to is when Earnhardt came from like 18th in 3 laps at Talladega to win. What Stewart did tonight on the restart was absolutely incredible.
The race as a whole was phenomenal.
It really was, and we missed a lot of very good racing, I'm sure, because ESPN rightfully focused on Stewart and Edwards who were 1 and 2 all night. That track is so great with so many viable lines.
Not a real Nascar fan, but I watched the second half of tonight's race because a good friend of mine loves Stewart. That was a pretty awesome race by both guys, Stewart just couldn't be stopped.
Wow, Kurt Busch fired from Penske! He may be out of a ride next year, or have to race for a team like front row motorsports. Might be the best news for David Ragan who is the early favorite to replace Busch.
This. Kurt didn't learn much, it seems, from Jimmy Spencer's punch 8 years ago or so, and Kyle didn't learn from Richard Childress. Seem to recall Roush having suspended Kurt the last couple races of a season before he went to Penske.
This move has to be Shell related. Shell had moved from Kevin Harvick, who they liked, to Penske because it was going to cost them less $$. Well, the team they left won four times, to 2 for Kurt, along with image headaches.
