2019 Texas I-- O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 -- Pre-Race Thread

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THE RACE: O'Reilly Auto Parts 500 Monster Energy Cup Series Race

TRACK
: Texas Motor Speedway

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race #7 of 36


Date: Sunday, March 31st, 2019, Fort Worth Tx.

Scheduled Green Flag (approx): 3:15 pm/et

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All Times E/T


Cup, Xfinity and Trucks are racing this weekend.

Friday, March 29
3 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
4 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series practice at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
5 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Qualifying at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
6:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series final practice at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
7:30 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Qualifying at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
9 p.m., NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series Vankor 350, FS1/FOX Sports App


Saturday, March 30
9 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series practice at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
10 a.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Qualifying at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
11:30 a.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series final practice at Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
12:30 p.m., NASCAR RaceDay: Xfinity Texas, FS1/FOX Sports App
1 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series My Bariatric Solutions 300, FS1/FOX Sports App
3:30 p.m., NASCAR Xfinity Series Post-race Show, FS1/FOX Sports App


Sunday, March 31
3 p.m., Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, FOX/FOX Sports App

 
Since NASCAR will be in Fort Worth this weekend, here's a reminder that Fort Worth is a metro anchor with a skyline:

FW Skyline reduced-5.jpg


And, here is Texas Motor Speedway's location within the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex- a two anchor metro area:

Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex-5-2.jpg
 
Please tell me it's gonna be 750HP...
 
There's no way the racing at Texas could get worse, so let's hope "The Package" improves this one
 
Congratulations to Kyle Busch or Penske in advance.
go ahead and speak too soon. Teams were able to come back with data from the west coast swing. As it was, they were guessing out there about the best setup to use and they had no way to make big changes, they had what they had. So yeah there is a good possibility things could be different on the next 1.5 track.
 
go ahead and speak too soon. Teams were able to come back with data from the west coast swing. As it was, they were guessing out there about the best setup to use and they had no way to make big changes, they had what they had. So yeah there is a good possibility things could be different on the next 1.5 track.
Pfff.. its Joey time!

Scientific evidence
suggests this.. Not counting Daytona it has gone Brad Joey Kyle Kyle Brad.. its pretty much physics that Joey will win Texas :D
 
Physics? Maybe. Definitely not statistics. :rolleyes:
Stop trying to bring logic into this

Oh and the stats say Penske has won every 1.5 mile race this season.. and Joey has a 7.4 average finish over 12 races at Texas since joining Team Penske.. including a win in the spring race in 2014.. and he is the most recent winner on a 1.5 :p :D
 
I'm guessing they're using the 550hp & air ducts package at Texas?
 
Stop trying to bring logic into this

Oh and the stats say Penske has won every 1.5 mile race this season.. and Joey has a 7.4 average finish over 12 races at Texas since joining Team Penske.. including a win in the spring race in 2014.. and he is the most recent winner on a 1.5 :p :D
Penske is on fire so far this year for sure. That makes Texas interesting to me to see if they can hold the upper hand. yeee haw No limits Texas
 
Good for ol Vince. I think some of the sharper drivers can use smarts and cunning to get a good qualifying position. Frankly in most instances, it doesn't matter much where the top teams cars qualify. It ain't a ten lap dash.
 
Prepare yourselves for "The Show".

https://www.mrn.com/2019/03/25/qualifying-tweaks-added-deterrence-in-place-ahead-of-texas/

“The inherent problem (at Auto Club) was obviously everybody waiting to the end, and it being unorderly on the end of pit road with people blocking and playing all kinds of games,” NASCAR Senior Vice President of Competition Scott Miller told NASCAR.com. “So really, we want to retake control and make order out of pit road and the way that drivers leave.

“We want to allow every competitor the chance to leave pit road when they want to leave and not be at the mercy of somebody else.”

“One of the things we wanted to hold true to is not to go back to single-car qualifying,” Miller said. “Single-car qualifying is two things — it’s boring and it’s expensive. It also doesn’t create a good show.

“Anytime we go on the track it should be a show. Certainly, we are in, first and foremost, the racing business. But we’re also in show business. We definitely have to provide our fans with something that‘s intriguing to watch and gets them excited about coming back and watching the race.”

LOL.
 
I think we're seeing another aspect of the fundamental changes in the way consumers watch all sports, especially live ones. I don't know if it's changing attention spans or the urge for constant entertainment. I just remember going to events even as recently as 20 years ago where everyone there was focused on whatever the event was they paid to see. Now people expect pre-event activities (sometimes even ones running concurrent with the primary event) and a constant flow of stimuli. It's as if they're there more to be AT an event, without actually caring about the event itself. I don't care about the peripheral stuff myself but if that's what 21st century consumers are after, NASCAR and other sports cannot ignore them without substantial losses in market share.
 
;);););)
“One of the things we wanted to hold true to is not to go back to single-car qualifying,” Miller said. “Single-car qualifying is two things — it’s boring and it’s expensive. It also doesn’t create a good show.

Not being the brightest star in the sky, can someone explain to me the "expensive" part?
It costs the networks two or more hours of broadcast time instead of the single hour they use now. ;)
 
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