2017 Thursday Daytona Duel Day

Looks like it clears up around 7-ish.
 
DanicaFreak said:
likely no practice and the first duel will race a on green track
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A green track is a good thing IMO. Not as much a difference here as elsewhere but I like it when teams have to react to the track rather than go into the event knowing the best possible setup.

It's been mentioned many times that less practice would probably produce better racing. It would certainly showcase the best overall teams having to either adapt or get lucky on the ideal setup.

Can't wait for tonight's mostly meaningless events. I still love the racing but I sure miss when these races had larger implications to the field.
 
Dpkimmel - could you post the Duel lineups here please. I think that was
you that had them somewhere. Thanks.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
A green track is a good thing IMO. Not as much a difference here as elsewhere but I like it when teams have to react to the track rather than go into the event knowing the best possible setup.

It's been mentioned many times that less practice would probably produce better racing. It would certainly showcase the best overall teams having to either adapt or get lucky on the ideal setup.

Can't wait for tonight's mostly meaningless events. I still love the racing but I sure miss when these races had larger implications to the field.
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Could always just do away with the Clash and pole day and just have a 100 lap shootout on Thursday night with 40 some-odd cars to set the 500 field. Hard to get more meaningful than that.

Coming to you in 2020.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Could do away with the Duals entirely and just set the field as is done for the other 35 races. :rolleyes:
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No way. Not gir me. One of my favorite part of speeders. It's a great tradition. I miss when there use to be 60 cars trying to make the field hut it's still slot of fun and I like how the 500 has unique qualifying setup.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
Could do away with the Duals entirely and just set the field as is done for the other 35 races. :rolleyes:
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No need to go that far.....

Like I said, I still love the races. I just miss their importance. Guaranteed starting spots were a big part of the downfall of these races.

Remember back in the day when a failed qualifying attempt in these races meant that the team was going to have to buy a ride to make the show? It used to leave some teams scrambling at the last minute and it became a story leading into the 500. Now, the only ones that are in danger of making the show are a couple of alsorans. No offense to them, but they are teams that would not be missed by average Joe Racefan.
 
For those that are link challenged.....

Daytona 500 qualifying: Can-Am Duel starting lineups
Starting Lineup: Can-Am Duel at Daytona 1
(Thursday, 7 p.m. ET)

DRIVER TEAM
1. Chase Elliott Hendrick Motorsports
2. Brad Keselowski Team Penske
3. Martin Truex Jr. Furniture Row Racing
4. Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Racing
5. Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Racing
6. Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Racing
7. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Roush Fenway Racing
8. Daniel Suarez Joe Gibbs Racing
9. Joey Logano Team Penske
10. Trevor Bayne Roush Fenway Racing
11. Paul Menard Richard Childress Racing
12. Jamie McMurray Chip Ganassi Racing
13. Aric Almirola Richard Petty Motorsports
14. Landon Cassill Front Row Motorsports
15. Matt DiBenedetto Go Fas Racing
16. Chris Buescher JTG Daugherty Racing
17. Brendan Gaughan* Beard Motorsports
18. Cole Whitt TriStar Motorsports
19. Reed Sorenson* Premium Motorsports
20. Joey Gase BK Racing
21. Corey Lajoie BK Racing

and.....

Starting Lineup: Can-Am Duel at Daytona 2
(Thursday, 9 p.m.)

DRIVER TEAM
1. Dale Earnhardt Jr. Hendrick Motorsports
2. Clint Bowyer Stewart-Haas Racing
3. Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Racing
4. Kasey Kahne Hendrick Motorsports
5. Ryan Newman Richard Childress Racing
6. Ty Dillon Germain Racing
7. Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Motorsports
8. Kyle Larson Chip Ganassi Racing
9. Ryan Blaney Wood Brothers Racing
10. Erik Jones Furniture Row Racing
11. Kurt Busch Stewart-Haas Racing
12. Danica Patrick Stewart-Haas Racing
13. Austin Dillon Richard Childress Racing
14. AJ Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Racing
15. Michael McDowell Leavine Family Racing
16. David Ragan Front Row Motorsports
17. Michael Waltrip Premium Motorsports
18. Elliott Sadler* Tommy Baldwin Racing
19. D.J. Kennington* Gaunt Brothers Racing
20. Jeffrey Earnhardt Circle Sport - The Motorsports Group
21. Timmy Hill* Rick Ware Racing
 
"The open team entries that will battle for two Daytona 500 spots in the Duels are Timmy Hill (No. 51 Chevrolet), Reed Sorenson (No. 55 Toyota), Corey LaJoie (No. 83 Toyota) and DJ Kennington (No. 96 Toyota)."

I guess I will pull for Sorenson since we went to the same high school - 25 years apart.
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They will be racing for points in the duels. Pretty
decent article here.
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...ls-work-points-field-set-for-daytona-500.html
 
Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.

Friday Night Areas of fog after 4am. Otherwise, mostly clear, with a low around 58. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening.
 
Yes, I loved the days when there were so many cars there and would see where the cut line would be on those who had to fall back on their qualifying speeds, and where the cut line would be at with the previous season's owner points as far as provisionals were concerned. In one of the categories you'd have some rather high ranking teams miss the show. Those were some fun times.
 
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...trick-daytona-clash-best-finish-by-woman.html

GREAT to hear the fans cheering her......love the days of thunder reference.

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As she walked into the garage to prepare for Daytona 500 qualifying a couple hours later, there were loud and rousing cheers from fans acknowledging her work.


"If you're gonna have one track where I've had good races, you kind of hope Daytona is one of them or maybe the one," Patrick said. "It would be great to get a 500 win, but it's great to run up front.
"We definitely had some luck on our side today with a couple cars spinning down below (on the last lap)," Patrick said. "It felt like a 'Days of Thunder' moment where you see the smoke but hold it wide open and hopefully come out the other side. But that's the name of the game.

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Looks good to me:

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Oh well, they lost the track again. Big shower came in.
Hoping for trucks on track at 4 p.m.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Unheard of.....

They actually mentioned tonight's race's on our local sports talk show here in the Pittsburgh, PA market. Including some names from both lineups. Wow!
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No matter how often I tweet our local stations about it they never bring it up. More important to talk about football in not football season to them
 
Off topic because there is no truck race thread but come one Norm Benning! It was nice to hear other teams helping Norm with his car in order to increase his chances of qualifying. Everybody loves Norm, a throwback kind of guy.
 
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