NASCAR 2012!

[fatboy69]

Done. Thank you.

[DanB7290]

I heard that the NASCAR folk are taking a leaf out of FOM's book when it comes to online streams, our friend Justin is very popular so they'll be talking to him first. Hopefully my other mate with his special box will be left alone for a while, has helped me with the Indy 500 and Coke 600 today. Can't help brut thinking Sky might be getting streams shut down, as Indy is on Sky Sports and NASCAR is on a channel where you have to pay Sky money...

[DanB7290]

Looks like the 48 pit crew have been taking lessons from McLaren

[steve y]

coppice said:

Am seeing my first NASCAR at Charlotte in October. Tickets booked , including pit lane and race shop tour. Oh and Mustang to drive there from Atlanta - got to do it properly for my first trip to USA! Any hot tips for a first timer who has watched road racing since the 60s but never been to anything like NASCAR- apart from a very dull afternoon at Rockingham watching whatever pale imitation they ran in Northants.

Check out if the Richard Petty race experiance is running when you are there, you get to drive a toned down sprint cup replica, I went 145mph when I went and as our colonial friends are eager to say, "IT WAS AWESOME!" enjoy your trip. We are going to the Kansas chase race, picking up a buddy near Atlanta and cruising up in a Cadillac!

[DanB7290]

steve y said:

Check out if the Richard Petty race experiance is running when you are there, you get to drive a toned down sprint cup replica, I went 145mph when I went and as our colonial friends are eager to say, "IT WAS AWESOME!" enjoy your trip. We are going to the Kansas chase race, picking up a buddy near Atlanta and cruising up in a Cadillac!

That sounds amazing, I've begun to plan a US road trip after Uni is finished, and of course attending at least one NASCAR event is high on my list of priorities.

Just a quick note to everyone, if you haven't got twitter then I'd highly recommend you do, most of the drivers are on there and do post some really interesting stuff. Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson have been posting photos up from testing at Atlanta today, and I'm sure you'll remember a few weeks ago, we had a red flag and Brad Keselowski tweeted a photo from inside his car. Here's a few to get you started:

Brad Keselowski: @keselowski
Mark Martin: @55MarkMartin
Michael Waltrip: @mw55
Scott Speed: @scottspeed
Jeff Gordon: @JeffGordonWeb
Jimmie Johnson: @Jimmiejohnson

[Crafty_]

Team people
Steve Letarte @steveletarte
Leonard Wood @leonard_wood
Greg Zipadelli @gzipadelli

Media
Dick Berggren @dickberggren
Darrell Waltrip @allwaltrip
Jamie Little @jamielittleespn

Drivers
Kyle Busch @kylebusch
Juan Pablo Montoya @jpmontoya
Trevor Bayne @trevorbayne21
TJ Ford @tjford413
Mark Martin @55markmartin
Matt Kenseth @mattkenseth
Jimmie Johnson @jimmiejohnson
Joey Logano @joeylogano
Jeff Burton @rcr31jeffburton
AJ Allmendinger @ajdinger
Elliot Sadler @elliot_sadler
Jamie McMurray @jamiemcmurray
Denny Hamlin @dennyhamlin
Kasey Kahne @kaseykahne
Michael McDowell @mc_driver
Landon Cassill @landoncassill
Princess @danicapatrick
David Ragan @david_ragan
Robby Gordon @robbygordon

I follow too many people

[DanB7290]

woah you have a much bigger list than I do, cheers will be adding some more people tonight.

[Fane]

Try @Team_Onion - Todd Bodine, driver in the truck series, for an alternative viewpoint. I really enjoy his tweets. EDIT - if you can *enjoy* tweets

Edited by Fane on Thursday 31st May 11:35

[Crafty_]

First trip to Dover this weekend. All three classes will be battling on the monster mile.

Green Flags, UK time.
Truck: 9:50pm Friday
Nationwide 7:15pm Saturday
Cup 6:15pm Sunday

So ironically we are back to normal timings, but given its a bank holiday night races would of been ok !

Nationwide race is love on motorsTV 7pm Saturday.

Mark Martin is back in the #55
Truck racer Ty Dillon will be making his debut in nationwide.

[Stu R]

Nationwide starting now - Motors TV as usual.

Looking foward to this one

[Crafty_]

Dover just looks a totally crazy place to be going that fast..

A few minutes away from green

[Stu R]

Seriously fast track, and it's had a lot of rain on it recently. Could be a hairy one judging by that, and the first 4 laps!

[anonymous-user]

Whats with the tv coverage? looks like online streaming.

[Stu R]

They overlay loads of graphics and ads at the bottom in the US. Syndicated channels like Motors TV don't show them. The quality goes to hell when they do the picture in picture stuff like leader cam etc or when it goes to frames to show the bottom bar.

The regular picture's quality isn't great either, but I think that's mainly due to the fact it's not an HD feed and the light is pretty awkward. Compared to ESPN's coverage in the US it's certainly looking a bit... 'budget'.

That was quite an impact on the wall - I'd love to see a super slo-mo of it as the radiator went pop in quite some style!

[hornet]

Memories of the old "And They Walked Away" clips from The Monster. Crazy track.

[hornet]

Ooh, Hornish and Danica again. Hmmm.

[Crafty_]

Yeah sam and danica don't seem to be able to keep away from each other

Naughty Joey getting impatient with the #24 too.

[Crafty_]

P8 for Ty Dillon, thats pretty respectable for a maiden NNS drive.

[hornet]

Crafty_ said:

P8 for Ty Dillon, thats pretty respectable for a maiden NNS drive.

But he's not Danica, so nobody will give him any credit for it. Yeah, she annoyed me in Indycar and she still annoys me in NASCAR. Felt sorry for Ryan Truex losing out on the win, but I suspect he'd have been caught even without those backmarkers blocking him, as he was skating around all over the place at the end. Not sure if the Cup race clashes with Indycars from Detroit, but shall do my best to catch it. Dover is certainly an interesting track!

[Crafty_]

Agree on all points, you do wonder how long the danica charade will continue before someone goes "actually, we can do better". I guess it'll be when the bucks stop rolling in.

Poor truex looked gutted didn't he, he got a nod from Mark Martin on twitter for his performance though, which must mean something.

In other news Kurt Busch reminded everyone why he's an asshole :
On Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_OJCl5wJUw
Off Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJV64B_QdaM