NASCAR on road courses

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Edited Date/Time 1/22/2012 1:26pm
is about as useless as telecasts of the world cup in the US.
what a frustrating excercise. Never does the fastest guy win. the endless full course cautions are just to let one of the regulars get up front to win.
The only Nascar race that is close to this bad is the Indy 400.
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Larry 6/21/2010 11:18am
6/21/2010 11:18am
kaw rider9 wrote:
You watch Nascar?
I think I may be done with it. But yes when there is not any real racing on I may watch a few laps.
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uk125250 6/21/2010 11:30am
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I can't stand the fact that you can take a NASCAR from 1985 and it will run circles around the current ones on the superspeedways. How gay is that?
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indy_maico 6/21/2010 11:41am
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I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut.

Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan!

Now get back into a proper racing car and leave those taxi-cabs alone!

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Larry 6/21/2010 11:49am
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indy_maico wrote:
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut. Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan...
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut.

Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan!

Now get back into a proper racing car and leave those taxi-cabs alone!

He did very well. It frustrates the hell out of me to see Boris Said get shortchanged every time he races one.
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rocrac 6/21/2010 11:50am
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Nothing is funnier than watching the self proclaimed "worlds best drivers" wadding it up on a road course.
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Larry 6/21/2010 11:54am
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rocrac wrote:
Nothing is funnier than watching the self proclaimed "worlds best drivers" wadding it up on a road course.
Indy's buddy Jan Magnussen would kick the shit out of them driving the pace car they use in F1.
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Tiki 6/21/2010 12:01pm
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indy_maico wrote:
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut. Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan...
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut.

Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan!

Now get back into a proper racing car and leave those taxi-cabs alone!

There is a name out of the past. I havent heard that name in a long time. Mid 90's?
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indy_maico 6/21/2010 12:21pm
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indy_maico wrote:
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut. Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan...
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut.

Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan!

Now get back into a proper racing car and leave those taxi-cabs alone!

Tiki wrote:
There is a name out of the past. I havent heard that name in a long time. Mid 90's?
He last drove F1 back in 98 with Stewart-Ford.



He has been driving sportscars ever since, with a few CART races tossed in.



I worked with him on the SunTrust team in 2005 and 2006.



At the 24 hrs of Daytona in '06, we also had Jeff Gordon as a driver. He was in the car in the middle of the night when it started raining, and he asked to be taken out of the car because he couldn't drive it. Magnussen had just gotten out of the car about 3 hrs before that, but he was our best rain driver so we got him out of bed and stuck him back in the car. He set the fastest wet lap of the race.



I think we finished 3rd that year.



BTW, I won't throw down on Jeff Gordon because he did a good job for us (as long as it was dry!)



The knock on Mags in F1 was his fitness. He smoked like a fiend back then. When he drove for us, he told us that he quit, but I caught him having a smoke against the fence in front of the transporter at a race once!



He has been driving the factory Corvette in the ALMS in the GT class with a lot of success over the last few years, including at LeMans.




Most of all, he was a good guy who always made a point of thanking all the guys on the crew before he left the track for the day.
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Crash82 6/21/2010 12:29pm
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I enjoyed the race, i love the road courses.
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Blake 6/21/2010 12:36pm
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Nascar at Infineon is good time.

I dont think they circle the course faster than the Ferrari F430s in the Ferrari challenge though.

Those cars are barely F430's.
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chuck317 6/21/2010 1:23pm
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dirt late models, now that is racing.
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Rooster 6/21/2010 1:47pm
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The only reason I tune into the road course races is to see Fellows and Villeneuve tear it up.
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indy_maico 6/21/2010 1:57pm
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Rooster wrote:
The only reason I tune into the road course races is to see Fellows and Villeneuve tear it up.
Jacques almost won the Nationwide race at Elkhart Lake this week-end.

It must have been the first time he'd been there since he raced the Reynard there in 1995.
He won there in 94, I think.

In 95 the shock mount studs pulled out of the turbo lid.
TripleFive 6/21/2010 4:13pm
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I was feelin' bad for Marcos, that was a big mistake for the Tasmanian.
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SPYGUY 6/21/2010 5:09pm
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indy_maico wrote:
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut. Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan...
I watched it only because one of 'my' old drivers, Jan Magnussen, was making his Neck-Car debut.

Ran as high as 4th, finished 12th, well-done Jan!

Now get back into a proper racing car and leave those taxi-cabs alone!

That dude used to rock on those World's Strongest Man competitions.

Never knew he actually drove the cars after he got done toting them around on his back.
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indy_maico wrote:
Jacques almost won the Nationwide race at Elkhart Lake this week-end. It must have been the first time he'd been there since he raced the Reynard...
Jacques almost won the Nationwide race at Elkhart Lake this week-end.

It must have been the first time he'd been there since he raced the Reynard there in 1995.
He won there in 94, I think.

In 95 the shock mount studs pulled out of the turbo lid.
Yeah it was a shame to see him fall so far back at the end. He definitely drove better than his results indicate. At least Fellows wound up on the box.

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Trip 6/21/2010 6:30pm
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ROBBY FREAKIN" GORDON!!!! Oh and BORIS too!!! Road courses are the only places those two seem to do well. ... Road courses is where it's at. They need more, I've been dreaming of NASCAR at Long Beach for years...
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indy_maico 6/21/2010 8:28pm
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Trip wrote:
ROBBY FREAKIN" GORDON!!!! Oh and BORIS too!!! Road courses are the only places those two seem to do well. ... Road courses is where it's at...
ROBBY FREAKIN" GORDON!!!! Oh and BORIS too!!! Road courses are the only places those two seem to do well. ... Road courses is where it's at. They need more, I've been dreaming of NASCAR at Long Beach for years...
NASCAR at Long Beach? Here ya go.

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kcadrenalin 6/22/2010 5:22am
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The Nationwide race at Road America on Saturday was a great race. I would like to see the Sprint Cup cars run there too.

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