HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
Brad Keselowski for causing the big one on the last lap.
Bonehead of the Week: Talladega
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Blaze
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Brad Keselowski for causing the big one on the last lap.
damn you hate Brad don't you.
That was not Brad.
It was Nascar
Nascar came up with this lame ruling that 2 car's can't work together and bump though the turns which made them be so close together that little mistakes cause a wreck.
Vickers bumped Brad which made him bump Kurt which caused it..
bingo.
I had a $5 bet with Cesar that the 83 would dump somebody. Too bad i'll never see the $5.
Blaze
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I don't see it as Vickers fault either.
If Nascar didn't have the rule in place they did then Cars would not have been in such a big bunch and I don't think it would have happened.
Just how plate racing and Nascar is sometimes.
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Steve007
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Vickers pushed Brad into Kurt.
Bonehead=Nascar.
Bonehead=Nascar.
HoneyBadger
I love short track racing (Taylor's Version)
NASCAR definently wins hands down this week.
Blaze
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Brad Keselowski for causing the big one on the last lap.
glad to see you changed your mind thought...lol.
VaDirt
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Bonehead = Nascar. Smaller plate, new rule going into the race....the award definately goes to Nascar.
MRM
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Co-boneheads: NASCAR and Kesolowski
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NASCAR gets my vote.
Blaze
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chromehorn
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All NASCAR.
Brad did nothing wrong.
Brad did nothing wrong.
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foehammer111
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NASCAR for the smaller plates, and the no bump-drafting rule.
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Mopardh9
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Nascar for allowing plates in the first place!
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PettyBlue
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TV coverage for missing Harvick's roof cam shot of Newman landing on his hood.
mike honcho
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NASCARs spin on DEGA
UPDATE: NASCAR's change in the rules to forbid bump-drafting in the turns worked as planned for the most part and should not be blamed for the single-file racing fans saw for much of the first half of the Sprint Cup Amp Energy 500 Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said. "A lot of 500-mile races, when you listen to the teams, they work on their cars, they get their cars to handle and then they log laps during a small portion or the middle third of the race in order to have their equipment ready for the end of the race," Pemberton said in the garage after the event. "It's not uncommon of any 500-mile race that you see that. & [The accidents that] happened today, we didn't have any major incidents in the corner. "The two wrecks that happened, they happened in the free zone where we weren't monitoring the bump-drafting or anything like that." NASCAR never issued a penalty in Sunday's race. There were times when Sprint Cup Series Director John Darby said something to a crew chief. "If it was something that was a warning that was like the final warning, we would have put it out on the main channel and we didn't do that," Pemberton said. "These guys are very good at what they do. It takes them a very short period of time to figure out the best way around these race tracks.(SceneDaily)(11-2-2009
UPDATE: NASCAR's change in the rules to forbid bump-drafting in the turns worked as planned for the most part and should not be blamed for the single-file racing fans saw for much of the first half of the Sprint Cup Amp Energy 500 Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, NASCAR Vice President of Competition Robin Pemberton said. "A lot of 500-mile races, when you listen to the teams, they work on their cars, they get their cars to handle and then they log laps during a small portion or the middle third of the race in order to have their equipment ready for the end of the race," Pemberton said in the garage after the event. "It's not uncommon of any 500-mile race that you see that. & [The accidents that] happened today, we didn't have any major incidents in the corner. "The two wrecks that happened, they happened in the free zone where we weren't monitoring the bump-drafting or anything like that." NASCAR never issued a penalty in Sunday's race. There were times when Sprint Cup Series Director John Darby said something to a crew chief. "If it was something that was a warning that was like the final warning, we would have put it out on the main channel and we didn't do that," Pemberton said. "These guys are very good at what they do. It takes them a very short period of time to figure out the best way around these race tracks.(SceneDaily)(11-2-2009
VaDirt
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Gee, what a shocker
I can't beleive Nascar didn't step up to the plate and say something's wrong. 
Bucky Badger
Go Kyle Go
OK nascar for me....
As for the article..HEY NASCAR...they always ride in single file at plate tracks...WTF ever
As for the article..HEY NASCAR...they always ride in single file at plate tracks...WTF ever
NASCAR.
I don't know if they showed it on tv but after mark fliped he drove on pit road and took off again and crossed the line to take the white flag. It was pretty cool to see him drive away.
I don't know if they showed it on tv but after mark fliped he drove on pit road and took off again and crossed the line to take the white flag. It was pretty cool to see him drive away.
Bucky Badger
Go Kyle Go
Yeah they showed it...but he didn't get too far.
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SlowNeasy
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sounds like a pretty good argument to cut those races to 350-400 miles. long races without action is boring.
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PettyBlue
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Pemberton's an ass. Jimmy Spencer was wondering aloud on TWIN tonight about why the media only wanted to show the wrecks and not mention the "great racing" at Talladega.
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Quote from Jeff Gordon:
"If you want to make this a really exciting race for the whole race, make it 200 miles," Gordon said. "That's why the truck races and other races when they come here are so exciting."
"If you want to make this a really exciting race for the whole race, make it 200 miles," Gordon said. "That's why the truck races and other races when they come here are so exciting."
mike honcho
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but it sells hot dogs.
BINGO.
He went a cross the start finish line. He did not go too far, but he did pass 1-2 cars in doing so.
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PettyBlue
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He also said that he'll be glad when he can see this race on TV instead of from inside a car.
blue92
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NASCAR. As Spencer keeps pointing out they wreck in the straightaways. They should outlaw bump drafting all together. If you loose the draft, sucks for you. The best races I've seen at Dega where before they started bump drafting.
dpkimmel2001
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They've been bump drafting since the invention of the plate. Everyone has their own opinion on it. I like it when it's done responsibly and as long as they continue to run in a restricted manner, I hope to see it continue.
Yes, they have been "bump drafting" at Dega for twenty years. The slam drafting started with the COT because the front and rear bumpers line up now.
VaDirt
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Yup, there's the cause. COT. Yet another step they did "to add to the safety of the car." They're thought was that you now can't lift up the car in front of you by drafting too closely or hitting too hard while drafting, you now have the slam draft (which is what the bump-draft has actually become).
Hmm, which one's worse?