Rate the race: Richmond

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What kind of rating do you give to Saturday night's race?

I have to give it a 4. Boring race, didn't seem like there was much passing except for a few cars like Burton, Harvick, and a couple of others. Even Johnson couldn't make one of his typical runs to the front. A not-so-typical Richmond race which usually tend to be good. This one was a real snoozer.
 
I give it a 7.5. I love short tracks and lots of side by side racing. Root em out of the way if you can't pass. Once again double file restarts thwarts Jeff Gordons plans for winning. He used to be the man when leading, not anymore. Busch is the man, he looked like Busch of old. Own the top and run off and leave em.
 
Except for the first part of the race (only 8 cars on the lead lap at one point, I'd give it a 7. Lots of racing, and we didn't know until the end who was gonna win.
 
VaDirt said:
Except for the first part of the race (only 8 cars on the lead lap at one point, I'd give it a 7. Lots of racing, and we didn't know until the end who was gonna win.
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First 100 laps- goose-egg. Last 75 or so laps- 6. The middle- 4 at best.
 
Richmond was by far the most boring race this year. The ending got it for me... I will give it an 8.
 
Smoke14 said:
Richmond was by far the most boring race this year. The ending got it for me... I will give it an 8.
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5 It was nice seeing Jeff lead but the end just took the whole wind out of my sails! Bah! Jeff has got to finish it one of these days....
 
WNY24Fan said:
5 It was nice seeing Jeff lead but the end just took the whole wind out of my sails! Bah! Jeff has got to finish it one of these days....
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I agree completely!

How much bad end of the race luck can one guy have?
 
I'll give it a 7. It got a little snoozy for a while but I really like the double-file restarts. Great finish, too.
I'm sick of NASCAR throwing the "mystery debris" caution every time the cash cow is close to going down a lap :mad:
 
BobbyFord said:
I'll give it a 7. It got a little snoozy for a while but I really like the double-file restarts. Great finish, too.
I'm sick of NASCAR throwing the "mystery debris" caution every time the cash cow is close to going down a lap :mad:
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Did anyone else notice the beer coozie that Waltrip and McRaynolds were calling a spring rubber? :D
 
It was OK not a lot lead changes, it was either the Gordon or Busch show, a long green flag run where the leader just took off in clean air, the final restart was good. overall 5
 
Doesn't appear that I missed much in this race. However, all was not bad, I'll give our local race a solid ten at Bowman Gray Stadium. Good old fashion local racing that included not just one, but two cat fights in the stands and a couple of the good old boys on the track went at it as well. Kind of reminiscent of Cale and Bobby and Donnie.
 
BobbyFord said:
I'll give it a 7. It got a little snoozy for a while but I really like the double-file restarts. Great finish, too.
I'm sick of NASCAR throwing the "mystery debris" caution every time the cash cow is close to going down a lap :mad:
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Nascar really screwed up in the Nationwide race..They Thought a car was going to hit the wall and the caution flew...The car never hit the wall...what a joke
 
WNY24Fan said:
5 It was nice seeing Jeff lead but the end just took the whole wind out of my sails! Bah! Jeff has got to finish it one of these days....
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He is waiting on Darlington this weekend to win because I am goiing to be there. GO JEFFY:beerbang:
 
tkj24 said:
He is waiting on Darlington this weekend to win because I am goiing to be there. GO JEFFY:beerbang:
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nah he will wait till Dover when I'm there because he knows I would hate that:(
 
I'd give it a 5.

Not much of a race due to Kyle's unexpected dominance, but sometimes that happens. Some good restarts and 3-wide racing keeps this from being a bust.
 
VaDirt said:
Did anyone else notice the beer coozie that Waltrip and McRaynolds were calling a spring rubber? :D
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I noticed that. Once they kept slowing it flipping over and over, I noticed it was a coozie. I laughed.
 
MRM said:
I noticed that. Once they kept slowing it flipping over and over, I noticed it was a coozie. I laughed.
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The funniest thing though was that Jaws and Dipstick (waltrip and mcreynolds) were pretty much adamant that it was a spring rubber.:D
 
I thought it was funny in the truck race,one of the trucks was in the pits for an unplanned stop and the announcers were insisting he must have had a tire going down.Meanwhile,on the screen, is a shot of his crew spraying ether into the carb intake and they never mentioned it.
 
the reace - 2, pure crap.

the finish - 9, Kyle wins. Really would have liked to see Jeff hang with him longer for a tighter finish.

The mystery cautions are just getting stupid. What was with the flaming ****, did they ever say what that was?
 
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