Well, been waiting for OLB to start a thread


Anyway, Practice is rain delayed.

Looks like Practice at 6:15pm ET

Qualifying at 8:30 or 9pm ET

well, if they resort to the point standings to set the field that will be a big + for JPM, but also for the guys he's chasing...

monty not off to a good start, not liking his set-up. figures they can qualify around 25th as it is now, taking a big swing @ it after practice.

Lotsa guys taking a shot at grtting in the race tonight.
47 Entries, not bad.

Does not look good so far for M.

Live Qually

Monty 14th in practice.
Time to put a lap down, doesn't look like a fast ride off the trailer, which hasn't happened to them in awhile.
Think JPM will lean on the wall again?

Is he bringing another new car?

Second laps are strangely slower for everyone so far.
Jp

Wow!
192 mph by JJ
New record for the COT car.
Scary fast track.

now...

Our boy totally got out of it in turn 4....
Was on a decent run up to then.
Jp

rain coming?

Johnson just rules the Chase, huh? Pretty amazing watching car after car dip at the end against his turns 3 and 4.

Well Papis made the race. Seems to be getting better at qualifying, but he still totally sucks for pace in the race.

JPM's #42 team have some work to do.

How to Stop Jimmy Johnson In the Chase This guy has come up with a way to stop JJ come Chase time in 2011

Who's P7 Mike Bliss? WTF? Nascar is funny sometimes. So many drivers I've never even heard about can qualify 7th! The guy apparently is in since 1975?

I'm sure Monty is going to be fine on race pace.

JJ on pole again. Pffft. Race over.

In fact, JJ will win his 4th consecutive title and probably win the next 4 seasons.

Can't help to think it's all done and dusted.

Yeah it's NASCAR racing.

Buy an old car and old motor, gather some mates and qualify in 7th. Yeeha

Mike Bliss is in since 1975? Boy, he's older that I thought.

Mike was 10 in '75. He started in the truck series in 1995.

awesome job by Jimmie. They really know how to get it in gear for 10 races. And I still hate the chase.

Some work to do tomorrow.

Go 42!!

All it takes is one wreck...

JJ is a class above the rest. In every aspect, he can even speak. Unlike that Wawd guy.

When more open-wheel fans start watching NASCAR comes Jimmie Johnson dominating like Schumacher... At least it's familiar for JPM ;)

could be the long turns there dont suit montoya's style of diamonding the corner, or atleast the exit so much :\

and there are guys in nascar who can speak well, carl edwards is a great speaker

that is correct carl edwards is ok,

but 90% of them are wawd buwtons

Not really---

JJ
Kevin Harvick
Jeff Gordon
T-Stew
Kasey Kahne
Matt Kenseth
Ryan Newman
Kyle Busch
Kurt Busch
Joey Logano
Scott Speed
Robby Gordon
Jamie Mac
Sam Hornish
Greg Biffle

need I go on?

None of these people are from the South, all of them have a basically "standard" US accent.

they're a really small team, something like 30 people or so in total. but; they bought their car from RCR, along with some tech support - and poof seventh place.

I didn't like NASCAR before but this year one channel here has aired all the races live and now I'm really into it. Jimmie Johnson is amazing.

Go 24 and 20!

30 ppl for 1 car? How many heads per car is the avg NASCAR team? A 2 car GP2 team is about 15, about the same is F3ES team and there are teams from 15 ppl with 4 cars in FR2.0:)

7th for a works RCR car would be good right now...

i think theres 7 pit crew, +spotter + crewchief? + driver so youve got 10 there. i guess you need a sign man, two guys to hold the tyres, couple of guys for passing the fuel, cleaning the grill etc...

A quick peek at the Hendicks site
says there are three distinct departments, Engine, Chassis and Human Performance (Pit Crews, training staff)
For a 4 car team they have 80+ guys in the engine shop and 80+ in the Human Performance end, doesn't say how
many in the chassis dept. but I would imagine about the same or maore than the engine shop.
So the Hendicks team averages about 60 guys per car.
That probably isn't accounting for their own air force of pilots and ground crews or their ground transport and hospitality, so add another 60 or so personnel there, and you are up to 75 people per car.

The 48 really knows how to get around Charlotte. Hopefully MM can find away around him in the end! MM winning and JPM second and JJ a distant 43d would make my day!

You can't even spell, go figure.

americans...

sorry I forgot Stewart, I hold this guy in high regard

Saw a pic of JPM in blue and white overall, thought he was back at Williams.

they probably have around 12-15 at the track. but they have a couple people @ the shop getting another one together, some office people talking with sponsors, truck drivers, camper drivers, and so on.... most of the big teams in nascar support around a hundred employees.

hold onto to that hope for dega, jimmy owns this track.

TRACKPASS IS FOR FREE THIS RACE

If you dont know about it, you MUST check it out during the race. Great way to follow a driver

http://www.nascar.com/promos/trackpass/fre...tml?sc_cid=e173

Here is the Blue Lysol livery for the 42 team this weekend
Jp

Great. You philistines will be sucking up all my bandwidth.

I guess I won't have to relay the JPM convo data...unless most of you mollusks decide to listen to the other drivers.

that's some good stuff. They're really been dressing Juan and the car in some very nice liveries.

The black Polaroid look really made me think he's the new Intimidator. The blue just looks nice. I think it's more slimming than the red!

there is a very cool article about Montoya in nascar.com

Oh hell yes you will..
I'd rather heard/read it from you than in real life..(my ears hurt anyway)
Jp

Hmmm...
I thought you had something else planned while the race was on tomorrow night...

Dale Jr is the driver who's the most painful to listen to. Sometime his 'english' is so bad I'm embarrassed for him. But, he has eleventy gazillion $$$ in the bank and I don't...