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Quote from Bmxtwins :You say plus a lot

I like addition better than subtraction.
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Loving it so far.

Tire compound difference can be quite massive.
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More like you should like him because Gordon brought him into Cup and owns part of his car.

I'll take Kenseth. Dodge got possibly their last cup title ever, so why not have Toyota get its first this year. Plus it'd be a good slap in the face to Roush and also Joey Logano. Plus I'd like to see Home Depot stay in NASCAR longer, and Kenseth pulling it off would surely help that possibility.

Plus I've liked Kenseth since when he replaced Bill at Dover back in 98 and finished 6th in his first ever start.
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I'm perfectly fine with how they are going about it now after the Italy pre-order situation. But as sinbad said, I hope they focus more on the multiplayer aspect as that is where 95% of my time would be.
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Just a dumb kid that was probably raised improperly by his parents. They are NASCAR fans afterall.

Hearing 3 different possibilities for NAPA:
1. Go with Truex to 78
2. Replace Nationwide for title sponsor
3. Pull out of the sport temporarily and jump on a young kid like Chase Elliott or Ryan Blaney in the future.

I wouldn't mind the 78 getting Truex, his pit crew, and NAPA all at the same time. They got the first two, might as well get the third.
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Exactly one year ago when Brad trailed Jimmie Rustler 7 points when exiting Texas (same as Matt this year): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybbud7k4TZM
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That's why I mentioned Hendrick being one of the first with a true engineering department which Evernham utilized highly. Outside of Bill (super late in career) and Kasey (super early in career), his own team didn't exactly have top drivers.
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Of course not, it was called Rex for a reason. Ray was the one that found the holes in the rulebook and told Rex what to build essentially. Hendrick pushed for an engineering department that other teams fell short on, and with Ray telling them what parts of the car to design and what to aim for, it led them to unparalleled cars on the track. The T-Rex car is what led NASCAR to make a much tighter rulebook, essentially making things more "spec" than ever before, and that's why you couldn't build anymore of those type cars (Ray tried with the Dodges at Daytona and NASCAR penalized them).

Ray had his own share in a team yes, but was not a crew chief nor did he have the engineering department that matched what he had at Hendrick. To say Evernham wasn't a vital part of Gordon's career is more of an insult to Gordon than it is to Evernham. It would also be like already mentioned Knaus with Jimmie Rustler Johnson.

Those two crew chiefs are probably two of the best we will ever see in the sport, turning their above average talent of drivers into legends. You can't be a true Gordon fan if you can't appreciate what Evernham did for him, simple as that.
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I'm not afraid to set you back to reality.

And keep up with Jeff? Psh, more like keep up with Ray Evernham.
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The working up for you guys is just too easy.

But really though, Gordon "in the 90s" is still not what is needed these days. You can win all you want all season, but any bad result in the final 10 races and you might as well count yourself out. Gordon was good at winning races and pulling out a huge gap to second in the championship and then just trying to hold on to it. In 1997, he wouldn't have his championship for example under this points system (heck he nearly threw it away in the old points system), nor would he in 1995. In 2001 he won the championship by over 300 points, yet only had 6 top 10s in the final 10 races. In 2004 and 2007, he would have won the championship if it wasn't for the new points system.

I'm not hating on the guy, I've actually liked him a bit since he got older, but I'll be honest when saying he needs more than a golden horseshoe to win this one. The dude's never had to come from behind, and with Jimmie and Matt being the two he has to surpass... wake up!
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Yep, and you're just another blind 24 fanboy like they all are.
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Stewart just hit the button at the right time. I can't see anybody else pulling off a feat like that.

Kenseth nor Johnson will score outside the top 10 the next few races unless something catastrophic happens to one of them, so Gordon is fighting for 3rd essentially with Kyle and Kevin. IMO, he shouldn't even be in the championship, especially after turn two at Pocono, but that's a whole different topic that we will act like was never brought up.
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Quote from Racer X NZ :stealing open source coding

lol.
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Quote from UncleBenny :I hate how Harvick tried to apologize for what he said after the race Saturday. That's exactly what everyone thinks about the Dillons anyway, I realize he has to try to keep things civil while he still finishes the season with RCR, but it doesn't shock me that's why he left the team.

After the incident in the race RC said on the radio that Harvick had something coming to him. I believe Harvick just gave a PR run-around to keep his ride for the rest of the season. I'm sure RC only cares about the owner's points after all.

Quote from Mr. Kninja :Haha, I got a good laugh out of that. To be fair though, he has had multiple chances to win this season. It was mostly things that he couldn't control that took him out of contention.

While true, they built their own luck as well. But who knows, he could win the next 3 races.
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Just research and learn it. Mainly smaller stocks.
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I'd save a recording of that one, who knows the next time he will get another.
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+1
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If you missed the end of the truck race, find it.
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Quote from BlueFlame :He didn't use one on me.

That explains why you now have a kid.
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Quote from Mustangman759 :@phil when your running in another cars draft you won't have as much downforce, they need to make it so they can use the bumpers but not so its a tandem fest...

Decreased yes, but still plenty.
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Build delayed until early 2009.
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Quote from Mustangman759 :Well I did Q for GTWS other than that I watched the whole thing, and nearly fell asleep. But I am 12 because I hate pack racing... K even danica can do it, hell even michael waltrip could do it. Lets make it interesting already

DE3 must have been terrible in your eyes then.

Quote from DieKolkrabe :IMO, remove the plates, BUT find a way to limit the cars top speed. Obviously going 240 like Rusty did in that Nextel test is absurd, but 205-210 is IMO the upper limit as far as top speed goes.

However, somebody else on another board came out with the cars and tracks are infinitely safer so they can go faster argument. That grinds my gears. Yes the cars and tracks are safer.....but drivers still get hurt or worse around the word. Racing isn't ever 100% safe (nor will it ever be). Just because the cars are safer doesn't mean they should run 240 or 250 or whatever they'd run without plates. That's asking for trouble. Carl Edwards got into the fence WITH the plates and we all know how fast they were running in 09.

Bobby Allison went into the fence unrestricted. That was with 1987 cars and tech, running at around 215. Now imagine what the cars would do with today's tech, running 220-230?

Remebmer, Rusty went 230mph in 2004 in a private test and said the radio cut out at that speed (I think it was), nine years on and we have an uglier car but a faster car due to tech advances. 200-210 is as fast as they need to go.

Going 210 in the current cars would produce the same racing as now. The only reason it was so great in the 80s when going 220-240 is because they lacked so much downforce and were not able to always take corners flat out. It made the drivers actually have to drive the car instead of just cruise around. Now with all the downforce, and the tires being rock solid (which they'd have to be if you don't want plates), then it would be exactly like now but at a higher speed which would be terrible.
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Quote from StableX :Is this the first time they've (sort of) said that the NTM will have tyre wear rather than loss of grip due to increased temperature?

So which time were they incorrect?
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