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Kwasniewski gets new crew chief: Dylan Kwasniewski, driver of the Turner Scott Motorsports #31 Chevy in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will have a new crew chief atop the pit box when the series moves to Chicagoland Speedway for Saturday night's EnjoyIllinois.com 300. Turner Scott officials confirmed Thursday that car chief Shannon Rursch has replaced veteran Pat Tryson as crew chief for the team.



I bet he still hits everything on the track.
 
*WEAVER* said:
Kwasniewski gets new crew chief: Dylan Kwasniewski, driver of the Turner Scott Motorsports #31 Chevy in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will have a new crew chief atop the pit box when the series moves to Chicagoland Speedway for Saturday night's EnjoyIllinois.com 300. Turner Scott officials confirmed Thursday that car chief Shannon Rursch has replaced veteran Pat Tryson as crew chief for the team.



I bet he still hits everything on the track.
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Did Dylan run over the last CC?
 
Brad Keselowski was on the Marty and McGee podcast this week, co-hosting while Ryan McGee went on vacation. The whole thing is worth a listen, but the highlights to me were his thoughts on being an owner in the NCWTS series. He says a competitive team loses $1 million/year, but he's willing to take that loss to be competitive and provide opportunities in the sport for others. Maybe we should be thanking Kyle Busch for dominating the series.

He didn't talk much about the RTA, saying he believes it is too early to speculate much about it before it has taken any action, but he did say that he feels drivers have little leverage in any potential negotiations because they are highly replaceable. Not sure I agree with him on that one, but he does indirectly bring up a good point in that replacing 43 racers would be a lot easier than, say, 700 professional basketball players or 1.700 professional football players. Not dipping nearly as far into the talent pool to find those replacements.

He says the TV money will make sure NASCAR prospers regardless of the drivers or attendance, but having seen how quickly the TV companies were ready to bail on certain conferences after the recent college sports realignments (or offer better contracts for conferences that got better in order to lock up their rights), he couldn't be more wrong on that.

http://espn.go.com/espnradio/play?id=11252928

The conversation about being an owner starts around 5:30, the bit about the replaceability (is that a word?) of drivers is around 10:30.
 
*WEAVER* said:
Kwasniewski gets new crew chief: Dylan Kwasniewski, driver of the Turner Scott Motorsports #31 Chevy in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, will have a new crew chief atop the pit box when the series moves to Chicagoland Speedway for Saturday night's EnjoyIllinois.com 300. Turner Scott officials confirmed Thursday that car chief Shannon Rursch has replaced veteran Pat Tryson as crew chief for the team.



I bet he still hits everything on the track.
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CC isn't the problem. Kid just can't drive.
 
Shannon Rursch has crew chiefed a total of 5 nascar races. Goofy hat came in 17th Rursch's first race with him. Tryson has been on a downhill slide, so maybe it will be an improvement.
 
Harvick: 'Time for...Chase Mode'

It’s time. Enough of the playfulness, enough of the trial-and-error, enough of the mistakes.

“It’s time for us to get into Chase mode,’’ Kevin Harvick said Thursday afternoon during a Chevrolet event at the Brickyard Crossing Golf Course.

Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway begins a season-ending stretch of 17 consecutive weekends of racing. Now is a time to reset goals and refocus priorities.

Harvick is ready.


Link to story
 
Yep.....

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@jeff_gluck

Kurt Busch says the NASCAR championship race should be up for bid like the Super Bowl is.

Kurt Busch says put 'Dega last race before Chase so guys won't hang back and points race. Swap it with Richmond in the Chase.

"It works because NASCAR owns both those tracks," says Kurt Busch of swapping fall Talladega and Richmond.
 
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@jeff_gluck

Kurt Busch says the NASCAR championship race should be up for bid like the Super Bowl is.

Kurt Busch says put 'Dega last race before Chase so guys won't hang back and points race. Swap it with Richmond in the Chase.

"It works because NASCAR owns both those tracks," says Kurt Busch of swapping fall Talladega and Richmond.
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If NASCAR insists on making the final race an all or nothing affair, it does make sense to rotate. There's no reason Miami should always get a championship race.
 
Interesting nugget about Gordon's performance so far. Too bad the average run to the finish is only about 20 laps these days.

He is getting better. Take restarts. NASCAR's loop data reveals that one year ago, Gordon ranked 15th among all drivers when it came to speed on restarts, measuring top speed reached over the first two green flag laps. This year he's sixth. (Loop data also backs up his claims of being best on long runs. He ranks a solid first.)

http://m.espn.go.com/rpm/story?stor...rand=ref~{"ref":"http://t.co/KdYcs4Bpey"}&wjb
 
StandOnIt said:
Earnhardt was the first man to win at the brickyard @ 1:40
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Always thought that comment was idiotic.

So, joking that Gordon was either just a kid or a girl - he let himself get beat by a little kid/girl? Ha!

Leno also beat him in the tractor race that night. Leno - "Im the first man WITH HAIR to win!"
 
ChexOrWrex said:
Always thought that comment was idiotic.

So, joking that Gordon was either just a kid or a girl - he let himself get beat by a little kid/girl? Ha!

Leno also beat him in the tractor race that night. Leno - "Im the first man WITH HAIR to win!"
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Put the joke in context

When Jeff Gordon was just starting out, he was one of the first very young guys to get a top tier Winston Cup ride. Everyone called him a kid because compared to everyone else, he WAS.
 
The Nature Boy said:
Put the joke in context

When Jeff Gordon was just starting out, he was one of the first very young guys to get a top tier Winston Cup ride. Everyone called him a kid because compared to everyone else, he WAS.
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It's not that serious, man. I like big butts.
 
Judging by Qualifying... Tomorrow might be Harvick's day assuming a Muffler Bearing doesn't fall out the damn thing...
 
FenderBumper said:
Not a chance. His CC will call him to the pits with 10 to go and change the muffler bearing.
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The muffler bearing changer will then grab a 9/16" when really he needed a 1/2" and it will turn into a 90 second pit stop.
 
Two NASCAR team planes collide on ground at Concord Regional Airport

A team Joe Gibbs Racing team plane collided with a parked plane from Stewart Haas Racing at Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport on Sunday night as NASCAR teams were returning to the Charlotte area following Sunday's Crown Royal 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

A team spokesman for SHR said an empty and parked SHR plane was hit by another plane as that plane was parking. The plane's wing hit the tail of the parked SHR plane.

No one was hurt, the spokesman said.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Two NASCAR team planes collide on ground at Concord Regional Airport

A team Joe Gibbs Racing team plane collided with a parked plane from Stewart Haas Racing at Concord (N.C.) Regional Airport on Sunday night as NASCAR teams were returning to the Charlotte area following Sunday's Crown Royal 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

A team spokesman for SHR said an empty and parked SHR plane was hit by another plane as that plane was parking. The plane's wing hit the tail of the parked SHR plane.

No one was hurt, the spokesman said.
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Blind Matt Kenseth must have been piloting
 
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