**** OFFICIAL 2015 NASCAR THREAD **** (And Jeff Gordon's Last Full Season)
 

Here's to Jeff's last chance season...


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<table class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"> <tbody><tr> <th>No.</th> <th>Race Title</th> <th>Track</th> <th>Date</th> <th>TV</th> </tr> <tr> <th>
</th> <td>Sprint Unlimited</td> <td rowspan="3">Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach</td> <td>February 14</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>
</th> <td>Budweiser Duels</td> <td>February 19</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>1</th> <td>Daytona 500</td> <td>February 22</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>2</th> <td>Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500</td> <td>Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hampton</td> <td>March 1</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>3</th> <td>Kobalt Tools 400</td> <td>Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Las Vegas</td> <td>March 8</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>4</th> <td>CampingWorld.com 500</td> <td>Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale</td> <td>March 15</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>5</th> <td>Auto Club 400</td> <td>Auto Club Speedway, Fontana</td> <td>March 22</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>6</th> <td>STP 500</td> <td>Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway</td> <td>March 29</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>7</th> <td>Duck Commander 500</td> <td>Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth</td> <td>April 11</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>8</th> <td>Food City 500</td> <td>Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol</td> <td>April 19</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>9</th> <td>Toyota Owners 400</td> <td>Richmond International Raceway, Richmond</td> <td>April 25</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>10</th> <td>Talladega 500</td> <td>Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln</td> <td>May 3</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>11</th> <td>Kansas 400</td> <td>Kansas Speedway, Kansas City</td> <td>May 9</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>
</th> <td>NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race</td> <td rowspan="2">Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord</td> <td>May 16</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>12</th> <td>Coca-Cola 600</td> <td>May 24</td> <td>Fox</td> </tr> <tr> <th>13</th> <td>Dover 400</td> <td>Dover International Speedway, Dover</td> <td>May 31</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>14</th> <td>Pocono 400</td> <td>Pocono Raceway, Long Pond</td> <td>June 7</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>15</th> <td>Quicken Loans 400</td> <td>Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn</td> <td>June 14</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>16</th> <td>Toyota/Save Mart 350</td> <td>Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma</td> <td>June 28</td> <td>FS1</td> </tr> <tr> <th>17</th> <td>Coke Zero 400</td> <td>Daytona International Speedway, Daytona Beach</td> <td>July 5</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th>18</th> <td>Quaker State 400</td> <td>Kentucky Speedway, Sparta</td> <td>July 11</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>19</th> <td>New Hampshire 301</td> <td>New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon</td> <td>July 19</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>20</th> <td>Crown Royal 400 at the Brickyard</td> <td>Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Speedway</td> <td>July 26</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>21</th> <td>Pennsylvania 400</td> <td>Pocono Raceway, Long Pond</td> <td>August 2</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>22</th> <td>Cheez-It 355 at The Glen</td> <td>Watkins Glen International, Watkins Glen</td> <td>August 9</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>23</th> <td>Pure Michigan 400</td> <td>Michigan International Speedway, Brooklyn</td> <td>August 16</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>24</th> <td>Irwin Tools Night Race</td> <td>Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol</td> <td>August 22</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>25</th> <td>Bojangles' Southern 500</td> <td>Darlington Raceway, Darlington</td> <td>September 6</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th>26</th> <td>Federated Auto Parts 400</td> <td>Richmond International Raceway, Richmond</td> <td>September 12</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Chase for the Sprint Cup</th> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Challenger Round</th> </tr> <tr> <th>27</th> <td>MyAFibStory.com 400</td> <td>Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet</td> <td>September 20</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>28</th> <td>Sylvania 300</td> <td>New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Loudon</td> <td>September 27</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>29</th> <td>AAA 400</td> <td>Dover International Speedway, Dover</td> <td>October 4</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Contender Round</th> </tr> <tr> <th>30</th> <td>Bank of America 500</td> <td>Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord</td> <td>October 10</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th>31</th> <td>Hollywood Casino 400</td> <td>Kansas Speedway, Kansas City</td> <td>October 18</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th>32</th> <td>GEICO 500</td> <td>Talladega Superspeedway, Lincoln</td> <td>October 25</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Eliminator Round</th> </tr> <tr> <th>33</th> <td>Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500</td> <td>Martinsville Speedway, Ridgeway</td> <td>November 1</td> <td>NBCSN</td> </tr> <tr> <th>34</th> <td>AAA Texas 500</td> <td>Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth</td> <td>November 8</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th>35</th> <td>Quicken Loans Race for Heroes 500</td> <td>Phoenix International Raceway, Avondale</td> <td>November 15</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="5">Championship</th> </tr> <tr> <th>36</th> <td>Ford EcoBoost 400</td> <td>Homestead-Miami Speedway, Homestead</td> <td>November 22</td> <td>NBC</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

I'm excited to get what Carl can do with Gibbs. It's going to be a great season.

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Too much Indian food today?

FYP

Not much of an offseason for NASCAR.

Nice pic, good providing the schedule...:thumb:

That's a good thing IMO...

Wow! Awesome photo, GloryDayz...

I wonder if the 24 will be wearing that rainbow a time or 2 this year?

I would hope so, but he did put emphasis that he doesn't want to use the "R" word yet. I think he'll be back.

Agreed, but maybe they could use some more rest.

Would be nice...

A few updates.

Chase Elliott will be driving Jeff Gordon's car next season

Carl Edwards is a bad ass

Spring Unlimited tomorrow

Chase has some shoes to fill, but seems as up to the job as anybody else. Let's hope the HMS shop keeps turning out those awesome engines....

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When I was a kid/teenager I followed NASCAR really close. My dad and I watched every race each season and attended several in person.

I (and we) began losing interest as they started bringing in more rule changes and making the cars more uniform. I more or less stopped following it a season or so after they changed the name from Winston Cup. My understanding is that the trend has continued and they've tried hard to make it appeal to a wider audience with the Chase thing.

What's this 'contender round/eliminator round' stuff about?

Simply said, they're trying to crate a play-off in a sport that needs the same 43 cars racing in the last week as they had in the first week.

As for the rest of it, if they didn't do what they're doing they'd have the $4T teams (like my own HMS) wiping-up the track with the $1M teams. There's a lot more to it than that, but most of it, how do you get 43 cars out there, many of which have a real shot to win? And, like any other sport, they want to make sure "the gear" is about as equal as you can get so that it's the drivers and pit crews winning the races, not the car with 300HP more than the rest.

So it's just a matter of limits. Add to it they added safety they're looking to infuse into the sport, and you get an added layer.

That being said, I think we all wish they'd get rid of the restrictor plates. Let them rip!

If SPRINT spent more time making a network that doesn't suck than advertising they might not be laying-off so many people...

BK is 2015's first wreck... Larson might get a talking to, he just slowly drove up onto him.. LOL, Brad's going to be pissed!

Big wreck.... Many new cars will be built from scratch...

Gotta love a big wreck.

I love them more when Jeff's not affected!

Wow.... NASCAR will be lucky if folks don't end up racing with rentals at the rate they're going through cars in this qualifying format!

They've got enough problems filling the stands with all this changing bullshit they have been doing.

This group qualifying it's utterly stupid. Difference is, Nascar does not control the views or opinions of the drivers like the NFL does its players, yet.

The drivers should all band together and have everybody run one 5 minute lap.

I wonder what would happen if somebody backed all the way down pit road. What happens to the sensor...

What's gay about this is that not only will a LOT of cars get torn up, in Daytona all that matters is getting in, but the 30th lap it won't matter where you started.

Dumbest thing I've ever seen
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LOL, now cars that are out of it are going to start blocking for their team mates. I like it!!! so those with provisionals might never even try, just help their friends who don't have provisionals get in by blocking.

I think Mr. France has some work to do to fix this mess they invented!

Well if they think this is going to work, they're going to need a whole lot more rules governing how things can go down...

It sure would have been nice had they simply tried having the car you qualify with, as it was, being what you start the race with. So, no changes in setup, no new tires, no more fuel, just park the car and race it the way you crossed the start/finish line with at the end of your qualifying run. THAT would have brought-in some interesting strategy.

Oh, and are the 5 points for the pole (if you can get it from the others who need those same five points) worth starting the race low on fuel and a setup that won't translate well into the draft?? IDK, but it would be interesting... Well, more interesting than this bullshit...

Maybe they should qualify at night with no lights.

I agree with what Kurt Busch said, Daytona qualifying is the single most prestigious thing for the crews and guys that build the cars. Go back to the old format.

Especially for what GloryDayz said, 30 laps into the actual race it won't matter where you qualified.

OK, it's dumb as all get out, but since Jeff won it I guess I'm a little less un-OK with it...

LOL, I'm a total homer!

Yeah I'm sitting here bitching about it and was glued to the tv. Thanks Bill France.

Oh, I hope this shit ends after this. This appears to have been a failure as-is...

Enjoyed the changes last year, up to and including the knock out qualifying, except it was horrible at the super speedways...it's ridiculous.

As with the race next week, maybe for each super speedway race, they could just borrow the PowerBall Lottery's machine and fill it with 43 ping pong balls representing the drivers and then turn it on. First one to pop out is the winner/pole sitter.

Seems about the same amount of skill as what happens most of the time anyway and I say this as a Gordon fan. I figure this will be my last year of following Nascar closely.

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Yeah, today wasn't a good showing for NASCAR, they may need to rethink this one quickly (before the competitive side of these guys makes a mockery of it).

Nice

In case anyone forgot, the Twin 125's Bud Duels are running tonight. As in, right now.

Fox Sports 1 (or a sketchy stream) for viewing.

Starting positions:

BUDWEISER DUEL #1

1 No. 24 Jeff Gordon Drive to End Hunger Chevrolet
2 No. 20 Matt Kenseth Dollar General Toyota
3 No. 5 Kasey Kahne Farmers Insurance Chevrolet
4 No. 33 Ty Dillon Cheerios/Kroger Chevrolet
5 No. 1 Jamie McMurray Cessna/McDonald's Chevrolet
6 No. 83 Johnny Sauter Dustless Blasting Toyota
7 No. 6 Trevor Bayne Advocare Ford
8 No. 43 Aric Almirola Smithfield Ford
9 No. 2 Brad Keselowski Miller Lite Ford
10 No. 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford
11 No. 23 JJ Yeley MAXIM Fantasy Sports App/Dr. Pepper Toyota
12 No. 27 Paul Menard Peak/Menards Chevrolet
13 No. 47 AJ Allmendinger Kroger/USO Chevrolet
14 No. 4 Kevin Harvick Budweiser/Jimmy John's Chevrolet
15 No. 14 Tony Stewart Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet
16 No. 13 Casey Mears GEICO Chevrolet
17 No. 46 Michael Annett Flying J/Pilot Chevrolet
18 No. 42 Kyle Larson Target Chevrolet
19 No. 95 Michael McDowell Thrivent Financial Ford
20 No. 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota
21 No. 29 Justin Marks American Born Moonshine Toyota
22 No. 35 Cole Whitt Speed Stick Ford
23 No. 40 Landon Cassill Carsforsale.com Chevrolet
24 No. 30 Ron Hornaday Jr. Smokey Mountain Herbal Snuff Chevrolet
25 No. 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Nationwide Chevrolet

BUDWEISER DUEL #2

1 No. 48 Jimmie Johnson Lowe's Chevrolet
2 No. 18 Kyle Busch M&M's Crispy Toyota
3 No. 19 Carl Edwards Arris Toyota
4 No. 3 Austin Dillon DOW Chevrolet
5 No. 78 Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row/Visser Precision Chevrolet
6 No. 16 Greg Biffle Ortho Ford
7 No. 9 Sam Hornish Jr. Twisted Tea Ford
8 No. 17 Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Fastenal Ford
9 No. 21 Ryan Blaney Motorcraft/Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center Ford
10 No. 55 Michael Waltrip Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota
11 No. 32 Bobby Labonte C&J Energy Services Ford
12 No. 7 Alex Bowman Toy State/Nikko Chevrolet
13 No. 31 Ryan Newman Caterpillar Chevrolet
14 No. 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation Chevrolet
15 No. 10 Danica Patrick GoDaddy Chevrolet
16 No. 62 Brian Scott Shore Lodge Chevrolet
17 No. 51 Justin Allgaier Brandt Chevrolet
18 No. 38 David Gilliland Love's Travel Stop Ford
19 No. 26 Jeb Burton LiveDeal.com Download the App Toyota
20 No. 44 Reed Sorenson Golden Corral Chevrolet
21 No. 34 David Ragan Kentucky Fried Chicken Ford
22 No. 98 Josh Wise Phoenix Construction Ford
23 No. 66 Mike Wallace Crazy Vapors/X8 Energy Gum Toyota
24 No. 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Express Toyota

After 15 laps:

20
6
47
14
88

Hendrick guys shuffled Kenseth right outta there.

Bayne crashes with 9 to go.

88
24
5
22
27

...and Joonyer wins Duel #1, followed by Logano and Gordon.

Better get use to those Gibb boys. Carl and Kyle looking good.

Well there you go it's Jeff and Jimmie on the front row. And Danica made it in even after being wrecked by Dinny.

Sucks that I'm missing this. Duck!

I missed the mayhem!



Friday night: NASCAR Truck Series, Friday, Feb. 20 / 07:30 PM ET
Daytona International Speedway

"Given the serious nature of the findings and conclusions made by the Commissioner of the Family Court of the State of Delaware, NASCAR has indefinitely suspended driver Kurt Busch, effective immediately," NASCAR said in a statement. "He will not be allowed to race nor participate in any NASCAR activities until further notice.

Shucks...

I commend Nascar for waiting for it to be adjudicated in a court of law...btw, the Trucks are running.

Crash on lap 15

what a mess...

She told him that she was a mercenary who killed people for a living.

Surprised that she let him live.

wow...they better hold their line...

Yikes, these trucks are moving all over the track

Edit: Caution, caution is out

LOL

It's refreshing to see that there are no Sprint Cup drivers in this race...let the kids shine.

Wow

The Big One!!!!!!!!!!!

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Unbelievable - We're watching a damn commercial as the Big One goes down and takes out almost the entire field...

Looks like four trucks are left intact.

Looks like the 4 truck and that blue ford slowed way down and caused all that.

Hey, Al!

How can you run out of gas on the first race - JC, they had months to figure out and plan for the race.

Hell with Ty Dillon - Both brothers are irksome.

Nascar already ****ing up. ROFL

The truck is falling apart and no caution? Debris flying all over the place

Good thing Tifft spun or Sauter's hood would have decapitated someone sitting in row 10.

Heh...barabond everywhere during this race, yet during the Sprint Cup, debris cautions are thrown for 3/16" washers on pit road.

NASCAR makes up the rules as they go along... :D

32 to go. this should be fun

OMG LMAO

Fire show

NASCAR doesn't care - They're cold and just want to go home and get the hell out of there.

Super Speedway racing...drive in the back of the pack, right blinker on...finish 10th.

It would be nice if they told us how many trucks are on the lead lap.

9,000 commercials - 15 min. of racing

Fox's leaderboard sucks...they need to go back to the scrolling leaderboard.

hahahahahaha Silas has no vision due to his hood popping up over the windshield

we watch two laps of racing and then go to a commercial

Keselowski owns a truck?

10 to go

I am rooting for Keselowski's truck.

Reddick
Theriault
Lagasse
Jones
Black Jr.

8/9 to go.

Time for a commercial

Keselowski owns two trucks? LOL

7 to go

Mikey pimping for Dillon the entire race.

Dillon in the back racing with the no-names - Mikey thinks he is going to win...

Mikey, Let it go, the race is over for him...

Tyler Reddick wins Daytona

awesome ending - 4 wide for 2nd.

Keselowski's truck wins! First time owner, first time winner at Daytona

Dillon is just coming around turn 4

Shitty last 20 laps.. very boring and the fact that the guy in the other blue ford didn't try for the win.