2018 Bristol - Food City 500 - Pre-Race Thread

Well I guess the race is back on since they are doing pitstops and counting the laps
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
This schedule is a dumpster fire. I was glad to see Fox pretty much call it out in the pre-race show.

Martinsville has the two worst dates on the scheduled, followed by Bristol (Spring) and Atlanta. Ironically, these are atop the list of favorite tracks for NASCAR fans.
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Agreed and they changed nothing for next year
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
This schedule is a dumpster fire. I was glad to see Fox pretty much call it out in the pre-race show.

Martinsville has the two worst dates on the scheduled, followed by Bristol (Spring) and Atlanta. Ironically, these are atop the list of favorite tracks for NASCAR fans.
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6 MLB games were cancelled today due to weather! It's been a brutal spring for a large swath of the country!

When I was looking at going to a spring race weather was always major concern. It ultimately bit me at Martinsville and Bristol wouldn't have been much better.
 
KodiakRusty89 said:
6 MLB games were cancelled today due to weather! It's been a brutal spring for a large swath of the country!

When I was looking at going to a spring race weather was always major concern. It ultimately bit me at Martinsville and Bristol wouldn't have been much better.
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Four of the last five Bristol Spring races affected by weather. This is becoming as bad as the traditional Pocono rain delays.

Martinsville snow-out was so predictable. I used to live there and I've seen it snow just two days before or after a race frequently, or even hours after.
 
Radar does not look good. There's some heavy rain nearby then perhaps a little window before a huge swath hits from the Southwest. It's been filling in with showers as it is given how much moisture in in the air. I'm not sure if they can get the track dry before the next wave hits.

This sucks.....
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Four of the last five Bristol Spring races affected by weather. This is becoming as bad as the traditional Pocono rain delays.

Martinsville snow-out was so predictable. I used to live there and I've seen it snow just two days before or after a race frequently, or even hours after.
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Martinsville with cool weather and perhaps a coating of snow was possible. Martinsville with 6" of snow which caused the first "snowout" in 25 years was pretty long odds. As it is, their dates definitely suck!

I've been dealing with the Pocono weather for 30 years. The early June weather is usually stable (cooler) but late July, early August in the mountains of Northeast PA is extremely sketchy...
 
FLRacingFan said:
I'd rather the whole day get rained out and they run in full tomorrow or Tuesday than catch a little gap today and race to halfway.

Would hate it for those at the track though.
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Doesn't appear as though anybody is at the track ......... the Mexican series race at PIR draws a bigger crowd
 
These heating and cooling, especially with moisture, fluctuations cannot be healthy for the engines
 
If it looks like it could work out to where the stage 2 winner could also be the race winner it could make for some crazy racing
 
KodiakRusty89 said:
Martinsville with cool weather and perhaps a coating of snow was possible. Martinsville with 6" of snow which caused the first "snowout" in 25 years was pretty long odds. As it is, their dates definitely suck!

I've been dealing with the Pocono weather for 30 years. The early June weather is usually stable (cooler) but late July, early August in the mountains of Northeast PA is extremely sketchy...
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...and don't forget it rains every afternoon in Florida in the summer. Why do they even schedule a race at Daytona in July? It is a crap shoot sometimes the weather cooperates and sometimes it doesn't.
 
DIDIT said:
...and don't forget it rains every afternoon in Florida in the summer. Why do they even schedule a race at Daytona in July? It is a crap shoot sometimes the weather cooperates and sometimes it doesn't.
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At least at night the atmosphere becomes a little more stable, even in Florida. I went to the Pepsi 400 in 2002 and we dodged weather for much of the weekend.

The biggest issue back in the day was the heat. The 400 didn't sell out, or come close, before '98.

I was watching the Phil-Rays game before and St. Pete was under a Tornado Warning! The thunder outside of the dome was crazy!
 
Frustrating weather, think they might have 30 min to 45 min left to try to get this in according to my weather.com app
 
Michfan said:
Drivers are being called to their cars. I swear if I listened to you guys I would have never turned the race on because there would be no way they'd get one lap in.
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You should always listen to us ... and count on the exact opposite happening.
 
Idk looks like the window is a little large and the heavy stuff is East of the track
 
That’s a hell of a radar on Fox. Has anyone stayed in Johnson City TN when attending Bristol?
 
Mopardh9 said:
10 years ago that track would be packed rain or not.
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I remember a spring Bristol race in 1996'ish (before they added all the seats) that was similar to this. Just a miserable event. I think it was eventually called early and Gordon won. Place was packed with probably 80k.

I wonder how many showed up today? 40k? I think Bristol had something like 50k seats in 1990.
 
I actually prefer DW’s country music selection over the crap played on radio today.
 
Mopardh9 said:
10 years ago that track would be packed rain or not.
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I spent Sunday in Asheville, NC a time or two back in the sellout era, with no intention of going to the track that day. I watched drowned puppies slosh back into the hotel, learning I'd missed 10 or 20 laps tops.
 
So those tarps with the driver pictures on them cover up more seats?
 
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