***official 2009 nascar season thread*** last race!! 48 or 5

[jcr557]

so matt kenseth one the daytona 500 out of luck and then won at california. joey logano has yet to finish a race. montoya is up there in points. seasons looking interesting

[redline454]

stopping this years daytona 500 shouldnt have happend.. races last season were on till early hours

[HickRocket1258]

There was rain in the forecast at Daytona and they said it would of taken about 3 hours to dry the track once the rain stopped.

[jcr557]

congrats to Kyle Busch. sucks Jimmie spun out with 5 laps to go.

[jcr557]

anyone watching? montoya's been leading since lap 2 i think. bump lol. this thread is kinda old. im going to the poconos next weekend, anyone esle going?

[jcr557]

so 2 more races till the chace and no one shows interest? damnn a HUGE car forum and no NASCAR interest. owell

[461_SS]

I drive a real stock car. Does that count? :-P

[HickRocket1258]

Originally Posted by 461_SS

I drive a real stock car. Does that count? :-P

Haha no it doesn't.

[jcr557]

And let the chase beginnn!!

1 Mark Martin 5040
2 Tony Stewart 5030
3 Jimmie Johnson 5030
4 Denny Hamlin 5020
5 Kasey Kahne 5020
6 Jeff Gordon 5010
7 Kurt Busch 5010
8 Brian Vickers 5010
9 Carl Edwards 5000
10 Ryan Newman 5000
11 Juan Montoya 5000
12 Greg Biffle 5000

[HickRocket1258]

I'm hoping that Brian Vickers wins it. He's a cool cat.

[jcr557]

4 peat Jimmie, Edwards or Montoya are my 3 picks. Sucks Kyle Busch didnt make it and was surpirsed with his reaction after the last race lol

[jcr557]

so people on the radio called in to say jimmie kinda cheated to get pole cause he got to practice on the new set of goodyear tires before anyone else did at dover. this could be true, but jimmie always does good so who knows if there might be a penalty for him cause supposively chase drivers aren't allowed to test out new tires but who knows... anyways 48 and 42 start side by side. lets see what happenss. anyone going to dover this sunday? cause imma be there

[jcr557]

3 more races to goooooooooo

[jcr557]

jimmie johnson or mark martin, last race is starting nowww!!!

[Teku18]

well jimmy got it

[HickRocket1258]

I'm sorry but I thought the Chase format was good when it first came out but now I'm not so sure I like it. My dad and I have lost some interest in it because Johnson keeps winning all the time it seems like. Out of the past 4 championships he has one, who knows if he would of won them if there was no chase. I think that just only having 12 cars being able to win it is getting old. They should change it so everyone still has a chance.

[angdefeo]

I am a new fan of Nascar. And after paying attention and watching many races for the past 2 seasons, I can say that i didnt care about the races this past weekend. Jimmy Johnson's constant winning has made it boring to watch.

I read an article somewhere, i think on my Sprint phone's Nascar application, that going into the Arizona race this year, Tony Stewart would have been in first place if they were still racing under the old format before the chase format started.

2 questions for everyone about things that i dont understand.
-1. Could Jommy Johnson's team be cheating? I find it hard to think that his teams ability to set up the car makes him so much faster than his Hendrick's teammates and other teams using Hendrick's motors.

-2. I remember that about 2 seaesons ago, Toyota was on a winning streak and Nascar changed the rules which ended up slowing down the Toyota cars. Why and what did Nascar change in order to affect just the Toyota cars?

[HickRocket1258]

Ang, I remember the whole thing with Toyota. I don't remember what the difference was but apparently it was a big enough advantage for Toyota that they had to change whatever it was they changed.

I don't think they are cheating, when you have crazy funds from an owner such as Hendrick, you tend to get more money funded towards your program. As long as teams like those are around, the small team owners will never have a chance unless at a restrictor plate track. I feel bad because I'm always pulling for some of those small teams to have a good weekend and you are always seeing them in the back of the field. It's a good format to make it interesting towards the end, but then when things happen like they did this year, it doesn't make it quite as interesting.