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#196

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Bottom post of the previous page:

kals wrote:Johnson will win this year. Calling it.

The Chase concept is stupid. End of story.
Exactly.

You can start the chase being #1 in the standings, take a second and a third in the first two races and then lose it all in the last one of the three.

This chase thing is there for the spectacle not for the sport.
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Talladega Races this Year

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Yes, the chase is unfair, great drivers and good cars are out now, the one who has lead the whole season wasn't Jimmie, he won two races in the beginning and then he got lost but now he's favorite to the title for the chase.
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NASCAR has announced new guidelines for Cup drivers competing in lower series for 2017. Drivers with more than 5 years of full-time Cup experience will be limited to 10 Xfinity Series and 7 Truck Series events a year. These same drivers will also be prohibited from competing in any Xfinity/Truck Chase races.

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THAT is a good thing.

Only i hope the sponsors won't leave the lower series. Kyle Busch said once that he could not get that easy sponsors for his own team KBM when he would not be the driver.
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When they see they don't have any other option than to sponsor a regular, they will soon fall in line. And if they don't, there are always cheaper sponsors to replace them. Maybe that will drive the costs down in the series too.
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Good point!
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As long as it doesn't kill the series it's meant to protect.

Although maybe it would have just been less complicated to take away the win when a cup driver gets caught cheating which in turn results in the guy he beat missing out on a chase spot, cos that would never happen would it? ;)
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#204

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Win for 48.
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ok.

Jeezz. Last year i watched almost every race. Something snapped in the pre-season and i havent watched a race again since the Daytona 500.
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One question, guys, were the other years where Jimmie Johnson won because of the chase this way? I mean this year, he was lost the whole season but he's in the chase because he won two races at the beginning and now he's gonna win again the title because of the chase.
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In his prime he was very dominant. Won at least 3 or 4 races a year before getting into the chase.
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#48 got the Chase figured out a long time ago.
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Richard Petty Motorsports driver Brian Scott is retiring after this season to focus on family:
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Who?
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Cheeveer wrote:Who?
No idea, but judging from his letter, he was so crap that even God Almighty himself had to step in and tell him to call it quits...
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