2015 Las Vegas - Kobalt Tolls 400 - Pre Race Thread

The closer we get to race weekend every week, I get really excited and happy. My heart beats a little faster, my days are a little brighter, I see something related to NASCAR/Racing/Drivers in everything I do.

However, this week I'm a big old sad mess cause I'm gonna miss Vegas. :(

To make matters worse my friends are gonna be IN Vegas, and won't even attempt to get an autograph for me. Hussies. :mad:
 
ChexOrWrex said:
One of those "wrinkles in the inspection process" is cutting the inspection time down dramatically.
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The teams will adapt. That's what they do.

I would wager that there will be far fewer initial failures this week.
 
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Chassis selections for this weeks race: see the list of many teams [that report or post them] and what chassis were selected by the team to run in Kobalt 400 Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

If a driver/team is not listed, the team doe NOT report chassis information on pre-race PR, website or social media:
#3-Austin Dillon will pilot Chassis No. 477 in the Las Vegas 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. In 2014, Dillon raced this Dow Energy & Water Chevrolet SS to a 24th-place finish at Dover in September, a 20th-place finish at Richmond in September and a 14th-place finish at New Hampshire in July.
#5-Kasey Kahne: Crew chief Keith Rodden has selected Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 5-888 for Sunday's race at Las Vegas. Most notably, in 2014, Kahne led 70 laps and finished sixth driving the chassis at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in July. He also raced it at Pocono Raceway in August, where he started 12th and finished 10th.
#15-Clint Bowyer: Chassis No. 812 serves as the primary chassis for Bowyer at Las Vegas, is is a brand new chassis. Chassis No. 816 serves as the back-up chassis and is new, was the backup in Atlanta.
#24-Jeff Gordon: Crew chief Alan Gustafson has selected Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 24-895 for this Sunday's Kobalt 400. Gordon raced the chassis to a record-breaking fifth Brickyard 400 victory in July, a win at Michigan International Speedway in August and a 14th-place finish at Kansas Speedway in October in 2014.
#27-Paul Menard will utilize chassis No. 480 for this weekend's 267-lap event at the 1.5-mile track in Las Vegas. This #27 Quaker State / Menards Chevrolet SS has four previous starts from the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season including Indianapolis, Chicago, Charlotte and Homestead.
#31-Ryan Newman will pilot chassis No. 491 in Sunday's Las Vegas 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. This #31 Caterpillar Chevy is a brand new car and will take to the track for the first time on Friday when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams practice and qualify at the 1.5-mile speedway.
#32-Mike Bliss Crew Chief Clinton Cram will be bringing chassis 742, which will serve as the primary car. This chassis previously ran at the fall Texas event in 2014 with Joey Gase. Chassis 755 will serve as the backup car.
#33-Brian Scott will pilot chassis No. 460 in Sunday's Las Vegas 400. This chassis has seen action at three previous tracks in 2014 including Auto Club, Atlanta and Phoenix.
#41-Regan Smith will pilot Chassis No. 838 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Sunday's Kobalt 400. It was previously a #10 chassis for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammate Danica Patrick. It made its debut in April 2014 at Texas Motor Speedway, where Patrick started 24th and finished 27th. She was running in the top-15 with the car in June at Pocono but cut a tire, crashed and finished 37th. Chassis 838 then raced in August at Atlanta, where Patrick started 27th but finished a career-best sixth. It was last used in October at Kansas, where Patrick qualified 29th and over the final 30 circuits moved from 23rd to record an impressive 16th-place finish. Since then, Chassis No. 838 has undergone updates and will see its first laps of the season this weekend at Las Vegas.
#48-Jimmie Johnson: For the Kobalt 400, Knaus has selected chassis No. 48-922, which is a brand-new car. The backup car is No. 48-824, which last saw action at Pocono in June 2014.
#55-Brian Vickers: will drive primary chassis 817 in which Clint Bowyer finished eighth with at Homestead and 18th at Kansas in October. The backup chassis 813 was last driven by Bowyer Charlotte in May finishing 17th, 10th and sixth at Michigan races and ninth at Dover in September.
#88-Dale Earnhardt Jr.: This weekend, crew chief Greg Ives and the No. 88 team will unload Hendrick Motorsports Chassis No. 88-810. Earnhardt most recently raced the car at Kansas in October 2014. It is the same chassis Earnhardt drove to Victory Lane at Pocono in June and August of last season.
 
Pat said:
Dustin Long‏@dustinlong 9m9 minutes ago
@nateryanon #NASCAR adjusting @LVMS schedule to help teams get through inspection (VIDEO): http://bit.ly/1M6Zkhz
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Except that Nate Ryan doesn't really have the story correct the way he presented it..

Teams aren't going to get an extra hour to get it right. They will be getting an extra 15 minutes over each of the next three weekends. After that, the inspection process will go back to what it was last weekend. They are going to shorten the last practice before qualifying by 10 minutes and start qualifying 5 minutes later than it has been previously scheduled.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...how-nascar-inspection-works-atlanta-2015.html
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Except that Nate Ryan doesn't really have the story correct the way he presented it..

Teams aren't going to get an extra hour to get it right. They will be getting an extra 15 minutes over each of the next three weekends. After that, the inspection process will go back to what it was last weekend. They are going to shorten the last practice before qualifying by 10 minutes and start qualifying 5 minutes later than it has been previously scheduled.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...how-nascar-inspection-works-atlanta-2015.html
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Don't that just figure. :mad:
 
All times ET

FRIDAY, MARCH 6:

ON TRACK-- 3-4:15 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series practice, FOX Sports 1 (Follow live)
-- 4:30-5:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series practice, FOX Sports 1 (Follow live)
-- 6-7:25 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series final practice, FOX Sports 1 (Follow live)
-- 7:50 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coors Light Pole Qualifying, FOX Sports 1 (Follow live)

PRESS CONFERENCES (Watch live)
-- 1:45 p.m.: Brett Moffitt
-- 2 p.m.: Brian Vickers
-- 2:30 p.m.: Brennan Poole
-- 4:35 p.m.: Comcast announcement with Carl Edwards
-- 5 p.m.: SMI announcement
-- 5:30 p.m.: Jeff Gordon
-- Post-NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying

GARAGECAM (Watch live)
-- 2:30 p.m.: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
-- 4 p.m.: NASCAR XFINITY Series
 
1st Vegas race 17 years ago

The top five finishers were Martin, his Roush Fenway Racing teammate Jeff Burton, Rusty Wallace, Johnny Benson and Jeremy Mayfield
Finishers 6-10 were Jimmy Spencer, Dale Earnhardt, Bill Elliott, Chad Little and Rick Mast
Not a single one of the top 16 finishers in the inaugural Las Vegas 400 is still racing full time in NASCAR today.
The only driver in that race who is still competing full time in the Sprint Cup Series is Jeff Gordon, who finished 17th in the first Vegas race
 
Biffle has the bestest train horn.. a totally different sound from the rest.

 
Pat said:
Biffle has the bestest train horn.. a totally different sound from the rest.

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Thank you oh so much for that. I have never seen the hauler parade and stayed up last night to watch the nascar.com link provided earlier. All it showed was the inside view . This was great. Sad thing is we had a chance a few weeks back to go to this race and decided against it as it always looks cold for the Vegas race. Sure am kickin myself now
 
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Chip Ganassi Racing has made major changes to one of their top cars. 4 of the 6 crewmen on the #42 of Kyle Larson have been moved to another team that CGR supplies crews for (#7, #46). Tire Changer Chris McMullen, Carrier Doug Riepe, Jackman Mark Jannsen, and Changer Dennis Terry were all told this week that they will not be on the #42 in Las Vegas. As far as which team they will be on….not sure. Most likely it would be the #7 team.

from here
 
sdj said:
Thanks for posting this, way cool video.:) Biffles was a mimic of the Old Steam locomotives from years ago.


Plus the Show Girl posts are great as well!
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That explains it. I know some of the others have train whistles but Da Biff's was different.
 
Whiskyb said:
Thank you oh so much for that. I have never seen the hauler parade and stayed up last night to watch the nascar.com link provided earlier. All it showed was the inside view . This was great. Sad thing is we had a chance a few weeks back to go to this race and decided against it as it always looks cold for the Vegas race. Sure am kickin myself now
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:Las Vegas is one of the tracks I wish I had seen. There's so much going on outside the track. I've never been to a hauler parade either. :(
 
Chryss said:
I feel this is a Larson week.

But then again, I think every week is a Larson week it seems like.
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He'll win when nobody expects it. They don't have the overall speed to beat Harvick or the Hendrick cars
 
Pat said:
:Las Vegas is one of the tracks I wish I had seen. There's so much going on outside the track. I've never been to a hauler parade either. :(
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I've been to a few but not like that one.
 
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Jeff Gordon. He's due some good luck.
 
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