Points, Introduction, Congratulatory Remarks


Congrats to zJerry for winning segment 3!!! Also, a big congrats to 77GP for pulling off another win that brings him to second overall in points!!

1) Cowboy6622 2642 Leader
2) 77GP 2600 -42
3) montecarlo3831 2587 -55
4) KidSpace 2585 -57
5) zJerry 2584 -58
6) JuniorCar 2568 -74
7) lougreen03 2489 -153
8) RocknSS04 2464 -178
9) 03JGMonte 1221
10) nichols2k 1041
11) bocareject 1009
12) silverfish 873
13) Teacher 871
14) carlm54stl 374
15) LnLSS06 190
16) bblackstone 92
17) Nocturnx 85
18) jcoeracing 84
19) odessadude 73
20) dustybird 34


No segment points since this is the beginning of our 4th and final segment of the year!! Bittersweet..... of course, we'll have a champion, a segment winner, and 9 more races to claim, but, then the season is over...

This Week's Advice

The regulars are your regulars for a reason here. Also, look back to the flat tracks of the season and see who ran well. Good racing, but somewhat predictable as well if you ask me. Watch practice, and watch qualifying. They seem to matter here more than at the 1.5 intermediates coming up.

Hendrick Motorsports

Not a driver from this organization that I would not recommend!! Jimmie is great here... but the catch is, he always has 1 bad chase race. He usually wins or screws up New Hampshire. Take your bets.

Jeff Gordon hasn't won here since like, Bill Clinton was the president. But he's good here, and Alan Gustafson is known for his flat track set ups.

Dale Earnhardt Jr... statistically, this is one of his better tracks. AFter that great start at Chicagoland, New Hampshire falls in perfet for him!!

Mark Martin has run better these last couple of weeks, and he's good here as well.

Richard Childress Racing

Harvick had a good flat track set up at Richmond a couple of weeks ago. He's good here. So is Bowyer, but Bowyer is driving for a job. Will RCR give up on him? Jeff Burton used to be a grear drvier here... won a race here once leading all 300 laps.

Joe Gibbs RAcing

A good Denny Hamlin track in theory because he's a good flat track racer, but he has no momentum and no luck this year.

Kyle Busch is good anywhere. But Kyle Busch falls apart in the hcase....

Joey Logano did NOT win that race in '09... Greg Zippadelli won when he left him out on fuel in the rain. Still, this is his home track nad he runs good here. Just not a race winner.

Roush Racing

One driver from this stable I recommend... and I have a hard time syaing this. Carl Edwards was good at Richmond, and has improved his flat track program at Nwe Hampshire a lot in the lalst copule of years. we can't really say that about the rest of the Roush guys. And that is why Edwarsd will be their championship contender... 3 flat tracks that are the achilles heel for hte rest of the Roush organization.

Tony Stewart Racing


Hard to deny that this fits both Newman and Stewarts style of driving. I don't know that anyone has picked Newman all year, but he;s in the chase, and running solid, and he won here. Stewart-Haas ran 1-2 here in the "spring" race (more mid summer), so watch out...

Penske

Brad K. seems to be slowly falling off. He's lucked into some good finishes, and luck means a lot in this business, but I just think he is cooling off a bit. Make me a liar, Brad!!!!

Kurt Busch is peaking at the right time. He's a "thrive under controvery" kind of driver, nad he is right there!!! Ran well last week, and this is a good Kurt Busch track!

@$$Hat teams

Juan Montoya, Martin Truex Jr are good here. Jamie Mac seems to blow up anytime he is having a good run. Otherwise, this is how I feel about this track. Good luck with picks, and we'll see how it goes!

 

Just to get my pics in cuz i already know who ima pick

Gordon
Johnson
Kyle Busch

 

Space Picks
1. Dale Jr
2. Tony Stewart
3. Jeff Gordon
* I may change above b-4 the start

 

Space could go on to be the first member to make 3 picks and get 0 points if he doesn't change those picks!!!

 

Here's my pick's
1) Jeff Gordon
2) Kevin Harvick
3) Jimmie Johnson

 

Here you go Jerry! Again, congrats on the win!



You guys waste no time in getting another thread going! I'm nowhere near ready to make picks yet, but I answered Joe Gibbs racing to the poll. The reason I finger that team is because they seem to be the only one who getting caught cheating as a team. And they cheat in Nationwide too. Remember when they caught all 3 Nationwide cars with magnetic gas pedals that duped the dyno test? And all 3 Sprint Cup cars got caught with the illegal oil pans. It happens to them often enough that I think its safe to say they are still cheating every race and just haven't been caught yet.

RCR usually picks one guy to be there experimental scapegoat - usually Bowyer or Menard.

Micheal Waltrip Racing has quite the history of cheating too. Remember the rocket fuel Micheal used himself? Or that time he was caught with a "proprietary car part" engineered by Roush - the old man really freaked about that one...

 

Michael Waltrp doesn't consistently cheat... he just wants to see what it is like to run up front for once, not try to cheat for championships

Good memory on the oil pans... forgot that on.e Michigan in the spring this year, was it not?

 

I can't remember which week they were caught, but they were probably using them for weeks, if not months or years before getting busted

 

I am not ready to make pics yet either. Gonna think about this one. My sig is looking better. Thanks to our team leader photochopper.

 

he's been zmoking that stuff again everyone, don't give him your keys to your Monte, he'll trash it all up with candy bar wrappers................:p