NASCAR Sprint Cup at Talladega

[Crafty_]

Halfway through the chase and its still all to play for with only 86 points separating all the chase drivers. This is a plate track and drafting is the name of the game.

No nationwide this weekend, but the trucks had a close finish with Mike Wallace pushed over the line by Ron Hornaday, despite a strong challenge from Dillon & Busch.

Back to the cup race (starts around 7:15pm uk time).

Mark Martin on pole from Jimmie Johnson, team mates Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt are 5th & 6th.

Trevor Bayne had a good qualifying session up in 4th, he's going to need to buddy up with someone.

Montoya has an upturn in fortunes in 15th, Jamie Mac his teammate in a lowly 39th.

Speaking of lowly positions Kyle Busch finds himself all the way down in 34th but will have Logano to help him - you can bet those guys will be coming through the pack.

[SystemParanoia]

channel?

[anonymous-user]

Premier Sports channel 433, its free to view this weekend until midnight.

[Crafty_]

Premier Sports if you have it, I'm gonna go check to see if "RaceBuddy" is free for the cup races - it lets you watch online.

Failing that the usual streams can be found, especially if your name is justin..

[Crafty_]

tux said:

Premier Sports channel 433, its free to view this weekend until midnight.

Didn't know that, thanks !

[mikial]

I read somewhere Jeff Gordon saying it`s a three way race after last weekend ...any thoughts ?

Edited to add : Showing also on Sky Sports 2 Monday night at 7 .

Edited by mikial on Sunday 23 October 15:45

[marksx]

Is there anywhere this can be watched online?

[thunderbelmont]

According to the channel guide - it's Freeview for this weekend. If a non-subscriber could confirm...... have you got a picture??

The 3M Pre-Race Show is on at the moment - that too is billed as Freeview.

[MonkeyHanger]

Non subscriber here. Currently watching the pre race show

[Mister V]

Wow, every car carrying a tribute to Dan Wheldon.

Nice to see.

[Crafty_]

marksx said:

Is there anywhere this can be watched online?

PM'd

[marksx]

Crafty_ said:

PM'd

Thanks!

[eastlmark]

Great stuff, Love seeing the 24 get dropped by Bayne and ending up 27th!

[Occam's Razor]

A shame Smoke didn't get a better result after running at the front for so long. These restrictor plate races are quite exciting - some hard hits to the wall though.

[samvia]

Thanks for the heads up, caught some of it in between the Gold Coast race. Love the end of these restrictor plate races, organised chaos!

[Crafty_]

The last 30 laps were pretty good, the late cautions totally screwed up the pairings.

The #48 didn't finish well, it is maybe a little too soon but he's gonna have to go some to make it 6 this year.

I hope Smoke can do it.

Martinsville next weekend!

[Allyc85]

I saw the last 50 laps or so of a very enjoyable race, won by just 0.019 seconds!

[Mister V]

Crafty_ said:

The last 30 laps were pretty good, the late cautions totally screwed up the pairings.

The #48 didn't finish well, it is maybe a little too soon but he's gonna have to go some to make it 6 this year.

I hope Smoke can do it.

Martinsville next weekend!

They should have listend to Junior and ran up front the whole time. leaving it to late to make a charge cost them.