Picks/Homestead/SunAfternoon
 

It's almost over...

Homestead feels like the last day of school. Your tongue is hanging out, it's been a long year, but the season is almost over and you can relax ,take a breath, relax... almost time to enjoy the holidays.

Maybe it's not that way for you, but I'm dragging through doing this math here lately... so to me, not having to do points again until February is a reward!

I know some of you won't check in over the winter... so to you, I say thank you for participating, I wish you the best of luck, and I look forward to seeing all of you and and a friend when we return for Daytona in February to run the 2014 season.


Points and Congratulatory Remarks

Devin (MnteCrloSS47) is putting the pressure on me by winning at Phoenix! An impressive 1-2-3 finish (possibily the first time that has happened all year) won Phoenix for Devin....

The overall lead is held by a stout 112 points by myself going into the last race of the year.

The segment lead has a considerable 23 point advantage going into Homestead, held by butch049.

Overall

1) Cowboy6622 3492 Leader
2) MnteCrloSS47 3380 -112
3) BlazedSS 3363 -129
4) STUMPMI 3338 -154
5) monte carlo 3831 3316 -176
6) butch049 3289 -203
7) Ricks 2006 SS 3282 -210
8) 77GP 3269 -223
9) Leprechaun93 3261 -231
10) SSmeansSuperSexy 3257 -235
11) 02 Earnhardt 3243 -249
12) SupplySgt 3214 -278
13) carlm54stl 3182 -310
14) zjerry 3162 -330
15) RocknSS04 2057
16) 03JGMonte 1915
17) KCFITZ78 1903
18) silverfish33 1835
19) 05MistreSS 869
20) BocaReject 180
21) Evan 2000 160
22) DarrynSami 115
23) Lorenzo 114


Segment 4

1) butch049 919 Leader
2) monte carlo 3831 896 -23
3) Ricks 2006 SS 888 -31
4) carlm54stl 880 -39
5) Cowboy6622 880 -39
6) BlazedSS 875 -44
7) 02 Earnhardt 873 -46
8) STUMPMI 871 -48
9) SSmeansSuperSexy 857 -62
10) MnteCrloSS47 840 -79
11) zjerry 828 -91
12) KCFitz78 814 -105
13) 77GP 813 -106
14) Leprechaun93 764 -155
15) SupplySgt 742 -177



This Week at Homestead

For a couple of years, I had said that you should pick whoever is running for the title.... becuase in 2011, Edwards and Stewart ran 1-2 pretty mcuh everywehre. But last year, Keselowski and Johnson both fumbled... and we saw the 20 team fall part in Phoenix while the 48 ran well. I'm thinking the 48 may run well this week, but I don't see him taking any major chances or anything either.

Whiel the 20 has to dominate and win this race, I wonder if the pressure will get to them too. Jason Radcliffe seemed like he had been out in the desert too long the other day.


Also, Homestead is a track with graduated banking.... making it sort of like a Kansas or maybe a LAs Vegas, but the straightaway here alters your entry to 1 and 3 quite a bit compared to those tri ovals too...

HENDRICK

Jeff Gordon has a lot of top 5's and top 10's here, with only a couple of bad finishes at all. He got the win last year, and is running well in these last races here... plus, he tested..

Jimmie Johnson has never had to run to win here, and seems to have had some bad luck over the years here too. Last year, he was about to dominate and win this race... adn a couple years earlier, he ran 2nd ot Carl Edwards while trying to secure teh 2010 championship.

Dale Jr scored his first top 10 finish at Homestead last year... with a 10th place run.

Kasey Kahne is great on these tracsk... but he has wrecked a lot of cars this year. and he has a few top 5's here.

Childress Racing

Harvick has an average finish of 7.92 here... lots of top 10's at this track. Will Kevin win one more with Childress, kind of like how Stewart won with a crew chief who was leaving?

The other Childress cars... meh.

Furniture Row

Kurt Busch is good at falling apart at this last race of the year.... remmeber how he got fired at Penske

Stewart Haas

Newman might secure a 12th place run.... Danica will probably crash... Martin is just logging laps...


TOYOTA TEAMS


Gibbs
Kenseth has a win here in 07 and ran 18th last year... htat doesn't sound like championship winning numbers..... but, he has been among the best at 1.5's all year.... until August... so I don't see myself picking MatT Kenseth, stick a fork in him!

Kyle Busch is usually in survival mode when he gets to Homestead.. but ran 4th last year, 8th a few years back...

Hamster won this race once... but he just needs the year to be over too.

Michael Waltrip Racing

Clint Bowyer has run 2nd and 6th here in the last couple of years... so he is alright here. But the MWR guys have cheated, so what do you do?

Truex is on the way out... Sadler is his old self...

FORD TEAMS

Roush

Edwards has a great record here... 12th last year was his worst finish since 2004!!!! He's won twice, and loves this track too!

Biffle has been hit and miss, but won this race 3 years in a row 04-06.

Stenhouse might do okay piggy backing off hte others...

Petty

Aric Almirola has a 4th and a 7th here..... in 2010 and 2012. this guy is decent on 1.5s and good at Homestead. I'm looking at him....

Ambrose was unlucky 13 here...

Penske

Brad K doesn't have a single top 10 here....

Neither does Joey Logano....



My Picks

Wow... Ford 400, it's a Chevrolet forum, and I own two Ford's and a Chevroelt... hmm... .so lets try....

1) Kevin Harvick
2) Carl Edwards
3) Joey Logano

48
29
88

Good luck EV1!

1. #48 Jimmie Johnson
2. #29 Kevin Harvick
3. #99 Carl Edwards

Dale Jr
Carl Edwards
Brad Keselowski

24
48
88

Anyone see where trevor bayne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis

I heard he can still race though right?

He can, yes. I look forward to watching him race for years to come... kid is younger than I am... and I'm young!

he still plans to run for a 2014 Nationwide title and wants to get to the Sprint Cup...


This guy has just had such a rough time.. he rose from obscurity to a Daytona 500 win, then down allegedly with Limes disease, which now appears to have been a first sign of MS coming out.... then he makes a romantic proposal on a ski slope, gets married mid week, wins a race in Iowa 5 days later.... now this....

aw it announced on channel 4 news today he has MS.... But he will still be able to race.:thumbsup: The team,owners are behind him 100%:)

Well here goes nothing!
Harvick
Logano
Bowyer
Been fun guys and hope to see you all back next year along with somenew guys. You shouldnt steer clear through winter because Duane always has new ideas and takes polls on them..Just saying!

Gordon
Johnson
Kenseth

1) Matt Kenseth
2) Kevin Harvick
3) Jimmy Johnson

Matt Kenseth
Brad Keselowski
Jimmie Johnson

Here my picks..



1) Brad Keselowski
2) Jimmie Johnson
3) Jeff Gordon

My Picks
 

#1 Kenseth
#2 Kyle Busch
#3 Harvick :thumbsup::congrats:

Kyle Busch
Kevin Harvick
Dale Jr

Harvick
Kenseth
Kahne.......


Thanks Duane for another exciting year of fantasy Nascar here on the MCF.........

1) Newman
2) Harrvick
3) Keselowski

Kyle Busch
Jimmie johnson
Matt kenseth. That's it for this yr. I told you DAVID. I'd BEAT you in segment 4. :eek:. yeah yeah You won over all. But that's not what I said near the end of summer to you PAL :rotfl::rotfl:...........Later Gator

Butch I'm pretty sure you beat me by a few points. I think Rick may have won the race though. Another case of all top ten with no win to show for it.

1) Leprechaun93 44 39 35 118
2) butch049 44 37 35 116
3) Ricks 2006 SS 37 35 44 116
4) MnteCrloSS47 44 35 35 114
5) SupplySgt 37 35 42 114
6) 02 Earnhardt 42 32 39 113
7) STUMPMI 35 35 42 112
8) SSmeansSuperSexy 33 35 44 112
9) monte carlo 3831 35 44 31 110
10) 77GP 35 36 39 110
11) BlazedSS 33 35 42 110
12) zjerry 39 35 33 107
13) Cowboy6622 35 32 36 103
14) carlm54stl 35 35 32 102
15) KCFITZ78 27 35 39 101

Overall:

1) Cowboy6622 3595 Winner
2) MnteCrloSS47 3494 -101
3) BlazedSS 3473 -122
4) STUMPMI 3450 -145
5) monte carlo 3831 3426 -169
6) butch049 3405 -190
7) Ricks 2006 SS 3398 -197
8) 77GP 3379 -216 (this tie will be checked before a final result is published)
9) Leprechaun93 3379 -216
10) SSmeansSuperSexy 3369 -226
11) 02 Earnhardt 3355 -240
12) SupplySgt 3328 -267
13) carlm54stl 3284 -311
14) zjerry 3269 -326
15) RocknSS04 2057
16) KCFITZ78 2004
17) 03JGMonte 1915
18) silverfish33 1835
19) 05MistreSS 869
20) BocaReject 180
21) Evan2000 160
22) DarrynSami 115
23) Lorenzo 114

Yup I knew I didn't win that one. Oh well, ran strong the latter part of the season. Missin a race and those bad races at the midpoint of the season meant I never really contended after my season opening win at Daytona.

2nd in points, ill take that it was a hard fought 2nd!

Congrats Keane on the win and Congrats Duane on the champ!

My worst segment of the year by far!! Congrats to butch for pulling it off though!!!

1) butch049 1035
2) monte carlo 3831 1006 -29
3) Ricks 2006 SS 1004 -31
4) 02 Earnhardt 986 -49
5) BlazedSS 985 -50
6) Cowboy6622 983 -52(This tie will be checked before the final Segment results are posted)
7) STUMPMI 983 -52
8) carlm54stl 982 -53
9) SSmeansSuperSexy 969 -66
10) MnteCrloSS47 954 -81
11) zjerry 935 -100
12) 77GP 923 -112
13) KCFitz78 915 -120
14) Leprechaun93 882 -153
15) SupplySgt 856 -179

Too little too late for me, but i'll take the win. Good season everyone.

98 days to Daytona.....


Anyone want me to do a Championship speech? I have a white dinner jacket I'll wear for it....

I don't have all the sponsors... maybe my speech will sound more like this...

I can live with a 4th!:thumbsup:

Congrats Keane... and congrats Duane!:thumbsup:

at least I finished higher than Dale Jr,,,,:rotfl:

Congratulations duane and everybody else on a good season. May everyone have a safe off season and holidays. Cya in February

First season lost 1 hole race because of my error (posting for a race 2 late) and still came in 3rd for the year not bad. Watch out for me next year Boys I looking too move up just a couple spots !! LOL

Congrats Duane! :congrats: