Cup RACE thread --- Texas

The radar shows it's still raining in Dallas. :sad:

However, it's dry in northern Fort Worth, where the track is located! :pbjtime:

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The little bit of green by the radar site in southern Fort Worth is mostly erroneous data / ground clutter.
 
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I know exactly how these hauler drivers are feeling right now because every day that they have to stay in Texas is a day less travel time they have to get everything to Martinsville and that is multiplying the pressure on them. The later it gets the less time they have to deal with unforeseen obstacles like breakdowns, traffic jams, detours, slow moving construction zones, and wrecks that shuts the whole road down for hours. Probably the 3 biggest fears a hauler driver has is losing the whole hauler and all of it's contents to a fire, theft, or for his crew and all of the fans to be at a race track waiting for a race car and you not delivering that race car. I was fortunate to make it to every race during my 20+ year career but I had my share of close calls.
 
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Nitro Dude said:
I know exactly how these hauler drivers are feeling right now because every day that they have to stay in Texas is a day less travel time they have to get everything to Martinsville and that is multiplying the pressure on them. The later it gets the less time they have to deal with unforeseen obstacles like breakdowns, traffic jams, detours, slow moving construction zones, and wrecks that shuts the whole road down for hours. Probably the 2 biggest fears a hauler driver has is losing the whole hauler and all of it's contents to a fire, or for his crew and all of the fans to be at a race track waiting for a race car and you not delivering that race car. I was fortunate to make it to every race during my 20+ year career but I had my share of close calls.
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Just got this from my Buddy who is the hauler driver for PPM racing about his current trip out to Cali. They are running Super Trofeo Series ( Lambo's) this weekend. Holy moly

Long story, get comfortable. This is my 13th trip of 2020. Did I say 2020? Started out pretty normal sat heavy traffic on 64 to Richmond. Got to Roanoke and delayed 45min by an accident, delayed another 45min in Knoxville for another accident. Get past Knoxville and rain starts, continues the rest of the night. Stop on the other side of Nashville for the night, park and go inside at 11:05 the restaurant closes at 11. Get up Sunday and drive to Oklahoma city, park and go inside, the cook didn't show up for his shift. Restaurant closed. Wake up to more rain, hit the road and it quickly changes to freezing rain and ice. Get loose twice, the first time the driver behind me said nice save. The second time I realized it's wind gusts pushing me around on the ice. Trudge along and don't get out of the ice till the other side of Amarillo. Make it into New Mexico and get stopped at the port of entry. Sir you need to buy a permit (guess I snuck through the last 4 years). Go back out to the truck and notice the trailer suspension is down and there's an air leak. Figured since it's 19° out the air valve must have frozen. Pour a whole bottle of alcohol in the air lines to no avail. Call for road service cause there's no way to get under the trailer to fix it. Road service gets there, show him where he needs to jack the trailer up. His jack is frozen he has to go back to the shop to get another one. Two hours into it he gets the trailer up and finds ice built up on the cable you pull to drain the air tanks. This block of ice was the size of a soccer ball. Breaks the ice off everything's
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. Get into New Mexico the ice stops almost dry roads. Park about midnight, before I can get tucked in for the night it starts snowing. Wake up to 6-8" of snow, wait an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot because it's a hill to get out and trucks are getting stuck. Make it out on to the highway and just like the day before trucks & cars in the ditches everywhere. Trudge along at a blazing 35 mph on packed snow and ice. Accident in Albuquerque delays another hour. Roads get better but don't get out of the snow until about 40 miles into Arizona. Was actually able run the speed limit for awhile. Here I sit in Kingman Az. See if I can get the truck washed in the morning and then see what California has in store for me. Wish me luck.
 
Not only has it stopped raining here in Fort Worth- we could actually see sunshine later this afternoon.

Clear skies are pushing in from the southwest. Fort Worth is a little bit north of the northeast corner of clear skies.

Also, you can see Hurricane Zeta in the southeast corner of this image. It's about to make landfall in Louisiana.

EDIT: The forum is struggling the process the animated GIF, so here's a still image.

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Looks like I have two hours to get done with work, stop at the store to get some kabobs to grill and then grill while race starts. 2 Hour warning?
 
Brentford said:
Don't want to get overly excited, but all the weather has seemed to pass with nothing else behind it. With lights at the track, there is no reason we don't race today. Even if it takes 4 hours to dry the track, they could still race.
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@Nitro Dude

I wanna ask a general hauler driver question...

Anytime over the years when i encountered one of the Cup teams haulers on an interstate they were completely hauling @zz... I mean several notches over the speed limits. Sometimes they have a police escort...

Is this the standard for most NASCAR haulers on the roads each week? Do they always travel over the speed limits, or was it most likely just circumstances the times I encountered those sightings?
 
Spotter22 said:
Just got this from my Buddy who is the hauler driver for PPM racing about his current trip out to Cali. They are running Super Trofeo Series ( Lambo's) this weekend. Holy moly

Long story, get comfortable. This is my 13th trip of 2020. Did I say 2020? Started out pretty normal sat heavy traffic on 64 to Richmond. Got to Roanoke and delayed 45min by an accident, delayed another 45min in Knoxville for another accident. Get past Knoxville and rain starts, continues the rest of the night. Stop on the other side of Nashville for the night, park and go inside at 11:05 the restaurant closes at 11. Get up Sunday and drive to Oklahoma city, park and go inside, the cook didn't show up for his shift. Restaurant closed. Wake up to more rain, hit the road and it quickly changes to freezing rain and ice. Get loose twice, the first time the driver behind me said nice save. The second time I realized it's wind gusts pushing me around on the ice. Trudge along and don't get out of the ice till the other side of Amarillo. Make it into New Mexico and get stopped at the port of entry. Sir you need to buy a permit (guess I snuck through the last 4 years). Go back out to the truck and notice the trailer suspension is down and there's an air leak. Figured since it's 19° out the air valve must have frozen. Pour a whole bottle of alcohol in the air lines to no avail. Call for road service cause there's no way to get under the trailer to fix it. Road service gets there, show him where he needs to jack the trailer up. His jack is frozen he has to go back to the shop to get another one. Two hours into it he gets the trailer up and finds ice built up on the cable you pull to drain the air tanks. This block of ice was the size of a soccer ball. Breaks the ice off everything's
1f44c.png
. Get into New Mexico the ice stops almost dry roads. Park about midnight, before I can get tucked in for the night it starts snowing. Wake up to 6-8" of snow, wait an hour and a half to get out of the parking lot because it's a hill to get out and trucks are getting stuck. Make it out on to the highway and just like the day before trucks & cars in the ditches everywhere. Trudge along at a blazing 35 mph on packed snow and ice. Accident in Albuquerque delays another hour. Roads get better but don't get out of the snow until about 40 miles into Arizona. Was actually able run the speed limit for awhile. Here I sit in Kingman Az. See if I can get the truck washed in the morning and then see what California has in store for me. Wish me luck.
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Yep, those type of trips are not any fun. Speaking of Flagstaff, I left the shop in California a couple years ago heading to Topeka and just about 30 miles east of Flag 2 trucks loaded with hazmat crashed and both of them burned to the ground and I had to sit in traffic for 8 hours.
 
Nitro Dude said:
Yep, those type of trips are not any fun. Speaking of Flagstaff, I left the shop in California a couple years ago heading to Topeka and just about 30 miles east of Flag 2 trucks loaded with hazmat crashed and both of them burned to the ground and I had to sit in traffic for 8 hours.
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I always thought it would be nice if you could pin it on the GPS and when the traffic started moving the GPS would go off like an alarm clock. At least you could jump in the bunk and get some shut eye, or watch a movie etc.
 
JGR_20 said:
@Nitro Dude

I wanna ask a general hauler driver question...

Anytime over the years when i encountered one of the Cup teams haulers on an interstate they were completely hauling @zz... I mean several notches over the speed limits. Sometimes they have a police escort...

Is this the standard for most NASCAR haulers on the roads each week? Do they always travel over the speed limits, or was it most likely just circumstances the times I encountered those sightings?
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The way the schedules line up I'm usually going the other direction and they are on the other side of the freeway but the times that I have ran with any of them they pretty much obeyed the law. They can't afford the points on their CDL and the big team drivers are pretty professional drivers anyway. The highway patrol normally won't bother you if it is not on a crowded highway and you don't go over 5 mph over the limit. Now days most of the speed limits are at a speed that you don't need to speed in a truck anyway. But, the Government was talking about mandating a set speed governor on all trucks between 60 or 65.
 
I agree with the "law enforcement usually doesn't bother you if no more than 5mph over and in a rural areas with less traffic". I routinely run 75mph in rural 70 mph zones and never get bothered but anytime I see Nascar haulers going the same way as me those guys are always strolling 80-85mph.
 
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I agree with the "law enforcement usually doesn't bother you if no more than 5mph over and in a rural areas with less traffic". I routinely run 75mph in rural 70 mph zones and never get bothered but anytime I see Nascar haulers going the same way as me those guys are always strolling 80-85mph.
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If you were on the 10 east of El Paso then 85 would be 5 over the speed limit. :)
 
That's way outta my lanes and I probably shouldn't have said anything so I'll shut up :D
 
Harvick really might luck out cause of the weather. Getting to run half of a hot lap there won't hurt getting those tires warmed up either lol.
 
And here we go, again
 
That Bristol race they mentioned.

I wonder if the cars was just kept at the track to make sure no one messed with them.


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Man this has been a depressing ass season being a Kenseth and Kyle Busch fan. Kenseth has absolutely no luck this year
 
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