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

[GloryDayz]

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

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

[RNR]

Originally Posted by alpha_omega

Nice finish. Congrats to Gordon and his fans.

My loyalty is to the 4 car. That said I don't know how any NASCAR fan cannot be pulling for the 24 a little~

[TrebMaxx]

Yay! Congrats to JG. Now where is the drama with the other chase drivers? 25 some minutes of sucking off Jeff. I was hoping for a rumble between the 22 and 20 teams.

[kstater]

Don't feel sorry for Logano. Hope he gets dumped the next two races so he can't make it to finals

[GloryDayz]

OK, I DVR'd it, so now I know I'll watch it... Woot!

But a hadda golf with my son! And by "hadda" I mean to opportunity presented itself!

[KCTitus]

Originally Posted by "The Dude"

Matt Kenseth jumps off the top rope and elbow drops Joey Logano. NASCAR gets the WWF action they want. Hopefully Gordon can get by Hamlin and Dinger. If not elbow drop their asses

Never was a big Kenseth fan, but I gotta give him the props. Just like Gordon in the 90's no one likes a dominant winner, well, except for 'Diddy' and he took people out all the time.

Of course Nascar wasnts this, it's how they broke onto the national scene. This league is struggling. Losing sponsors, struggling to sell tickets, the cookie cutter races are snooze fests with cars parading around the tracks 2-3 seconds apart. SuperSpeedway races are a joke, and the drivers have to become more cut throat to win the championships and keep their sponsors happy.

I feel bad for Nascar - too many rules, cars are all the same regardless of the manufacturer emblem and too few unique tracks. Top it all off one of their biggest stars is leaving this year and another next year. Sure, you'll still have your June-Yer fans, but Nascar is going to lose a good 20-25% of its fans with those two walking away. I sure as hell wont be watching much, if any, next year. I hardly watched this year.

Great win for the 24...hopefully he can pull it out at Homestead and walk away the champ.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by KCTitus

Never was a big Kenseth fan, but I gotta give him the props. Just like Gordon in the 90's no one likes a dominant winner, well, except for 'Diddy' and he took people out all the time.

Of course Nascar wasnts this, it's how they broke onto the national scene. This league is struggling. Losing sponsors, struggling to sell tickets, the cookie cutter races are snooze fests with cars parading around the tracks 2-3 seconds apart. SuperSpeedway races are a joke, and the drivers have to become more cut throat to win the championships and keep their sponsors happy.

I feel bad for Nascar - too many rules, cars are all the same regardless of the manufacturer emblem and too few unique tracks. Top it all off one of their biggest stars is leaving this year and another next year. Sure, you'll still have your June-Yer fans, but Nascar is going to lose a good 20-25% of its fans with those two walking away. I sure as hell wont be watching much, if any, next year. I hardly watched this year.

Great win for the 24...hopefully he can pull it out at Homestead and walk away the champ.

Quality post...

Edit:

1) Watching from DVR, and having the fly-over done by Cessna's really solidifies the jist of what KCTitus was saying I think...
2) Danica's deal was just funny. LOL!
3) The 20 cracked me up. In the 60s and 70s that would be an epic scrap! It's all good, the 22 deserved it. And their suggestion that NOW it needs to end, well that's just goofy! And them saying thst the 20 had another option to fix what happened, I'm not sure there really was. To answer the 22's kick to the dick in Kansas with some off-track hand slap is just silly. The 20 needs to just stick to the story and lawyer-up. just like the 22 did, and just like the 4 did.
4) The stupid-long red flag delay was pretty funny too. Wow, NASCAR needs to take acting lessons from the NFL when they want to make people think it's all on the up-and-up.
5) The 4 should have been put in the wall too.

[Mav]

I'm fine even as a Penske fan with what Kenseth did as long as someone takes out Harvick.

[RNR]

Originally Posted by Mav

I'm fine even as a Penske fan with what Kenseth did as long as someone takes out Harvick.

I BE WANTIN SUMBODY TO BODY SLAM SUMBODY

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by "The Dude"

I BE WANTIN SUMBODY TO BODY SLAM SUMBODY

It might be what it takes to stop what's going on...

[RNR]

Originally Posted by GloryDayz

It might be what it takes to stop what's going on...

AND THEN HE GOES CRAZY AND KILLS GORDON!!!!!!!

[kstater]

NASCAR yet again took the cop out. Kenseth sat for two races. Ricky Craven sums up my thoughts. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14047292

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by kstater

NASCAR yet again took the cop out. Kenseth sat for two races. Ricky Craven sums up my thoughts. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14047292

That's pretty well said by RC. There's no ****ing way France can let the 22 and the 4 get away with what they got away with in the past two weeks, than say this deserved a 2-race suspension (and not admit he's a coward). So RC is 100% right, France didn't do a ****ing thing with this decision, and it'll just keep happening.

And when they claim, basically, that they don't have an 8-ball and can't be 1000% sure (giving the wrecker the benefit of the doubt), then they can't just change that position this week. You have to be as stupid as France is to not know what the 22 and 4 did in the previous weeks were just as obvious.

NASCAR might lose market share with this decision. Lord knows I might think twice, maybe three times, before I go back to the track. At least I can control my golf game!

[Dylan]

Originally Posted by kstater

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=14047292

Ricky Craven: "Kenseth took out the leader... You can't change the code drivers live by."

ESPN blonde: "What is that code, Ricky for our viewers out there who are watching?"

Craven: "Matt Kenseth excercised the code that if you take something from me, I'm going to take it back."

Bill France slurps down his sixth Wild Turkey Bourbon.

[GloryDayz]

Originally Posted by Dylan

Ricky Craven: "Kenseth took out the leader... You can't change the code drivers live by."

ESPN blonde: "What is that code, Ricky for our viewers out there who are watching?"

Craven: "Matt Kenseth excercised the code that if you take something from me, I'm going to take it back."

Bill France slurps down his sixth Wild Turkey Bourbon.

Eggs-fuggin-zaclee! France just totally took the coward's way out and selectively passed-out a penalty.

Oh, and BTW NASCAR, every driver is there to win EVERY race. Just because you're in "the chase" doesn't mean everybody else needs to drive around the lower part of the track so the chasers can race amongst themselves.

The 22 got what was coming, only an idiot (like France) would argue otherwise. What the 4 car did the week before might have been worse. Again, if France isn't going to "see what was going on" there, DON'T START WITH THE 20 HANDING OUT THE CODE TO THE 22!

[Dylan]

Kenseth should have taken Logano out on one of the blind spots on the track - Just as most drivers do when it is payback time.