M'ville RACE thread

#17D500winner said:
Keselowski, crying on Twitter

Brad Keselowski‏@keselowski9m
Huh? I make and admit to mistakes all the time. @timmer5026: @keselowski huge fan but sucks that you can't take the blame”

Brad Keselowski‏@keselowski32 mins
Im here. Laughing at all the hate tweets. #freeEntertainment @epicfail2929: .@keselowski probably won't be on social media for a while...”
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Four-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon was asked Friday about how long drivers should wait before contacting each other after on-track incidents. Gordon long dismissed such actions and explained why:

“I think it’s ridiculous that we are texting and calling one another after incidents like that. There is only one reason you call the guy and that is because you don’t want a confrontation. You don’t want an issue, you don’t want the guy to wreck you at the next race and you are worried about where you are going to finish in points and all that stuff," Gordon said.

“So you are just trying to smooth things over so you don’t have any enemies out there, but you are only doing it for your own benefits. There are very few guys out there that you friendship and bond off the track is stronger than you competitiveness on the race track. I don’t think that exist a whole lot if any at all. To me if you have made a mistake and you have done something that you regret and you feel bad about and you generally feel that way you should reach out to that guy.

“But it doesn’t have to happen over the phone or by text, maybe it could. Maybe it’s you wait until you get to the next race or maybe you are at a test and you see them and maybe you let a couple of days go by and calm down and have a conversation. Again, I mean it’s usually only the guy that is concerned about what is coming back to him, it’s the one reaching out.”

Came from a Jim Utter article. That's how a real champion does business.
 
Special nod to Gordon for tearing up a good racecar early. **** happens, we'll go for it in the ugly car in Texas. Still worked out well all things considering..

Also way to go Danica!!! I actually thought you could do well today, jokes on me. Thank you for proving to myself why I have no faith in you.
 
#17D500winner said:
6 Time Champ‏@NotJimmieJ9m
#NASCAR should park @keselowski until 2016

Jeremy Wolf‏@JeremyWolf184m
@NotJimmieJ @keselowski he acted like a baby who didn't get his way. Also should learn how to wreck someone... that was sad to watch

Brad Keselowski‏@keselowski2m
Who said I was trying to wreck Kurt? you're assuming too much. @JeremyWolf18 @NotJimmieJ

6 Time Champ‏@NotJimmieJ2m
@keselowski @JeremyWolf18 You sure wasn't trying to kiss him. You wanted him wrecked
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I like Brad, but he is going acting like Kyle Busch right now
 
#17D500winner said:
6 Time Champ‏@NotJimmieJ9m
#NASCAR should park @keselowski until 2016

Jeremy Wolf‏@JeremyWolf184m
@NotJimmieJ @keselowski he acted like a baby who didn't get his way. Also should learn how to wreck someone... that was sad to watch

Brad Keselowski‏@keselowski2m
Who said I was trying to wreck Kurt? you're assuming too much. @JeremyWolf18 @NotJimmieJ

6 Time Champ‏@NotJimmieJ2m
@keselowski @JeremyWolf18 You sure wasn't trying to kiss him. You wanted him wrecked
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Honestly though after the first mess, they pretty much just played with each other. Side by side until they initiated another drivers wreck.
 
Actually I agree with Brad.

I had just tune in around the time those two were roughing each other up. Sure as hell didn't look like Brad wanted to spin him or anything. It is alot harder to do what he did then to spin someone at Martinsville.

Brad talks alot of nonsense but he does show respect on the track though. Kurt would have been back in the garage if it was some other driver.
 
reck said:
Actually I agree with Brad.

I had just tune in around the time those two were roughing each other up. Sure as hell didn't look like Brad wanted to spin him or anything. It is alot harder to do what he did then to spin someone at Martinsville.

Brad talks alot of nonsense but he does show respect on the track though. Kurt would have been back in the garage if it was some other driver.
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Might not was trying to wreck him but Brad was out of line to mess with a guy who was innocent.
 
DUN24 said:
Brad Keselowski proved today why he is an absolute jackass.

Yeah it's totally Kurt's fault you slammed into the 5 and your car came over into him. If Kurt would have tried to stop they all would have been torn up.
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Agreed 100% with the second part of your post. I'm thinking and hoping that Brad just doesn't realize what really happened and will come around once he calms down enough to actually watch a replay of the incident without his angry blinders on. I didn't see it live, but yeah, based on the short video clip of it that they played at the end of the broadcast, he appears to be very wrong on this one.

His outburst was quite entertaining, though. Brad talks a lot, but very rarely does he spout off with that much gusto.
 
"...I can't believe he overreacted and he's as upset as he is," Busch said. "The 5 car was trying to pull into his box, Brad ran into the back of him, I steered right to go around Brad and then he clobbers our left‑side door, and it's like, 'OK, accidents happen on pit road.' It's congested. It's not a place to race, because of all the pit-crew guys down there and I didn't think much of it, and then once we were back out running, he targeted us, he was aiming for us. He tried to flatten all four of my tires. That's a no‑fly zone. That's a punk‑ass move and he will get what he gets back when I decide to give it back..."
From here...> http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-me...-kurt-busch-martinsville-speedway-damage.html
 
BOWTIE GUY said:
what or they going to do when all the cars crashing into the wall on old tires?
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I've seen ARCA drivers go 200 laps at Rockingham on two sets of tires. If the best drivers in the world can't go 400 miles at Chicago on six sets of tires, they've got issues.
 
Mr. Gregory said:
@BobbyFord is right. I found a video clip of the pit road incident:



In the humble opinion of this Brad fan, Brad needs to calm down, admit that he was wrong, and apologize to Kasey for hitting him on pit road and to Kurt for his misdirected anger.
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Looked like a racing deal on a short track and Brad couldn't let go of it. Nobody is going to intentionally "drive through" someone on pit road and chance destroying their own car on lap 50.
 
Kyle18fan said:
Heck ya he did, I just wonder who talked Kurt back into the race after he said they were done
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Maybe the CC, or Kurt just realized that his car wasn't really all that bad. Regardless, it lit a fire under his ass and as a result, we got to see some good short track racing :)
 
If Keselowski would've been in the right hand lane, ahead of KuBu, none of that would've happened. Some of his fans on Twitter are eating his BS up with a spoon and I'm sure will come up with any number of reasons why KuBu's to blame. They're delusional.
 
#17D500winner said:
If Keselowski would've been in the right hand lane, ahead of KuBu, none of that would've happened. Some of his fans on Twitter are eating his BS up with a spoon and I'm sure will come up with any number of reasons why KuBu's to blame. They're delusional.
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Those fangirls' opinions on racing keep me away from twitbook.
 
I thought the nice clean finish topped off the trash Kielbaski was spreading all over the track. Great racing all day long!!!!!
 
Going to take some time to catch up on this thread because I couldn't keep up with it on my phone. Was just having too much fun finally getting to watch a race at my favorite track after all these years! :D

We had good seats and the people that had tickets next to us didn't show so I had room for my cooler. ;) Got full on some hot-dogs and stuck around for both races. It was chilly and windy this morning (got to the track at 10am) but once we got in our seats and people started filling in there was enough of a wind break that it wasn't that bad.

Sun popped out and the wind let up after the start of the race and it felt nice for awhile there. By the end of the truck race is was freakin' freezing in the stands. Lots of people left about halfway through that race but we stayed for the duration. Guy was cooking out next to his camper where we parked and told us we were "hardcore" for staying in that weather. :laugh:

Anyway we had a blast and I already have plans to get tickets for the fall race. I didn't get to meet up with any of y'all today but I'd love to the next time I'm at the track. Going to try to see about going to Richmond too and maybe Dega at some point in the next couple of years. If I go to Dega I want to make a bit of a vacation of it and stay in the infield, never seen a race from the infield and I hear if you're going to do it Dega is the place to go. :headbang:

I took a couple of videos with my crappy phone and I'm in the process of uploading them to youtube. Will post them up in a few.

Man I love this sport and the fans. Today was so much fun and brought back so many memories of watching races with my Dad at this track as a kid. Pretty much the perfect day. Man, I love NASCAR. :D

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Man I really need a new phone, I forgot how awful the camera on it is! :( Should have taken more pictures too but the battery on it is terrible as well.

I have a couple of videos to share, sorry about the quality in advance. I wasn't really trying to stand up and be that guy either so I didn't make much effort to get a good view. ;)

Anyway here is a short video from the cup race. I forget what lap I started recording it on but it was near the start of the race sometime after the competition yellow. Ends with a wreck out of turn 2 but you can't really see it that well.



Next I have the start of the truck race, the first three minutes or so are pace laps and my hands were going numb. By this point the sun had dipped below the stands in turn 1 so we were started to get a little cold. It's a little shaky until the green flag drops around the 3 minute mark. I only recorded for awhile because it was too much trouble to record and try to watch the race at the same time. I like to watch the entire track and you can't do that peeking through a little screen. ;)



Had a ball. My friend tried to talk me out of leaving at 50 laps to go in the truck race because we were getting cold and our asses were starting to hurt (6 solid hours in the stands will do that ;)) but I told him we were staying the course. Glad we did 'cause it was a good finish.

Best part is Jimmy didn't win, we were worried about that. The entire house was against him most of the day and when it got down to the end and they were racing for the lead every time he got passed the fans went nuts. Reminded me of the good old days when everyone booed Gordon. ;)
 
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What ever happened to loudmouth Denny? Did he slip into the shadows after the race in hopes that people would forget he was supposed to be a factor?
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Funny. People complain when drivers don't show emotion and they complain when they do show emotion. I loved the Kurt/Kez feud.
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I don't believe any fans don't want drivers to show emotion. I think it's that fans want drivers to show emotion so they can ridicule them for it.

I loved it too. Brad let his mad show and made a fool of himself. It was very entertaining.
 
mreed said:
I don't believe any fans don't want drivers to show emotion. I think it's that fans want drivers to show emotion so they can ridicule them for it.

I loved it too. Brad let his mad show and made a fool of himself. It was very entertaining.
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Some people like professionalism, others enjoy aggression and raw emotion. Being a JJ fan, I'm obviously okay with the clean-cut, professional demeanor that some drivers posses, but I definitely enjoy emotion, especially when it's negative and anger-inducing :D
 
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