RACE thread ---- The Open and the All-Star

[HoneyBadger]

The short track package is so bad.

 

[Blaze]

Larson has a fast piece

 

[Hendrick4ever]

The short track package is so bad.

Smaller brakes and more horsepower would solve 90% of the problems with it.

 

[nickp]

Who will be the first NASCAR Cup Series winner at North Wilkesboro Speedway since Jeff Gordon last won there on September 29, 1996?

 

[Efisher131]

DW still mad about the 1990 Spring race lol

I’m still mad about the 1990 points standings and I wasn’t even alive

 

[Blaze]

Chase on Chase violence

 

[HoneyBadger]

DW still mad about the 1990 Spring race lol

NASCAR was in the Screw Job business that entire year.

 

[HoneyBadger]

I’m still mad about the 1990 points standings and I wasn’t even alive

1990 Winston Cup Champion Mark Martin

 

[Thegeneral23]

How Kyle Busch get 2 laps down? Smh

 

[Biggreen695]

Kevin Harvick truly throwing it back to his 29 days. That car is awful.


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[34R7H130UND]

How Kyle Busch get 2 laps down? Smh

Theyre that bad tonight

 

[AdoubleU24]

Larson wasn't going anywhere until they put tires on it earlier

 

[HoneyBadger]

Shocks.

 

[Thegeneral23]

Man they need to give these guys back the damn horsepower this **** sucks!

 

[Naitch]

"The year he sat out"

That's a delicate way of putting it Clint.

 

[donthaveanickname]

this is the first All Star Race that I have watched since 2020

It's the first All Star Race I've ever watched, it just never felt relevant to me before.

 

[34R7H130UND]

It's the first All Star Race I've ever watched, it just never felt relevant to me before.

Well, now you see how competitively relevant it is lol

 

[TexasRaceLady]

 

[JBone88]

The wider tires really kill the effectiveness of the bump and run here. The cars are sliding around on a worn out race track, but you can’t move anyone with that much contact patch.

 

[Biggreen695]

That could be a mistake. Sure he’s fast but we saw in the first stage how important fresh rubber is.


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[LibertyU24]

Not a very thrilling All Star Race

 

[Mispeedway15]

Man they need to give these guys back the damn horsepower this **** sucks!

To me it’s been a great race for what it is. There’s been a good bit of passing, but Larson is just fricking dominating

 

[HoneyBadger]

This car just sucks on good tracks.

 

[34R7H130UND]

Watrip won Nashville FG 8 times including 4 in a row.

 

[Speedbowl14]

Not a very thrilling All Star Race

Never is unfortunately. Thought they'd put on a good show tonight... instead we're getting Richmond 2.0

 

[Biggreen695]

If we do this again next year we need to be in the heat of the day on a hot slick track. It’s cool in the Carolina’s this evening. The open was a great race and I’m wondering if the difference in the grip is the difference in the quality of racing.


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[HoneyBadger]

That could be a mistake. Sure he’s fast but we saw in the first stage how important fresh rubber is.


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Nobody’s gonna pit under green sadly.

 

[hmmm298]

Sometimes I wonder what else is in Clint’s pudding other than proof.

Or maybe what number proof that pudding is.

 

[JBone88]

This car just sucks on good tracks.

Love the vibes. The environment. Facilities. Everything that went into bringing NWB back. The Next Gen car just sucks ass.

Put the Xfinity cars on this surface and you’d have the race of the season.

 

[*WEAVER*]

Larson just turned on iRacing inside the car that's how bored he is.

 

[Thegeneral23]

So everybody been crying for years to go back to this boring track?? Please make me understand.. this race terrible

 

[Mispeedway15]

Nobody’s gonna pit under green sadly.

This is exactly what NW racing has always been. Long green flag runs and lots of tire wear

 

[nickp]

replacing the first Darlington weekend with North Wilkesboro have that be the new throwback race

 

[FLRacingFan]

Am I wrong or is this not similar to what NWB was back in the day? Only five to ten guys finishing on the lead lap, single dominant cars, Geoff Bodine lapped the whole damn field in ‘94. Some more action would be nice but I don’t necessarily think this is bad.

 

[RaceCritter]

I really can’t stand the 14.

 

[Get That 88 Up There !!]

I mean Geoff Bodine lapped the whole field here once not sure what people were expecting

 

[FLRacingFan]

replacing the first Darlington weekend with North Wilkesboro have that be the new throwback race

Probably Bristol dirt if anything. SMI for SMI.

 

[AdoubleU24]

This car just sucks on good tracks.

While I don't disagree, I don't think that's 100% of what's happening tonight. I just don't think the overall length, format, and the natural progression of the race because of those factors allow for the all-star event to ever be anything besides average or less than.

Like the Clash, I think we could do without.

 

[TexasRaceLady]

 

[donthaveanickname]

The best way to fully appreciate this weekend is to look at pictures of this place in recent years. Makes this weekend all the sweeter.

These pictures were posted about three weeks after I was there. 2017 was the year I really started learning about NASCAR history and I just didn't want to miss the opportunity to see this track in person before it gets demolished.
Hopefully I'll get to attend a race there someday.