Truck RACE thread --- Charlotte

StandOnIt said:
the first question I would ask. Did you watch the race?
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Nope I wasn't able to, that's why I asked. I wanna know what went down and why what he said was outta line.

I read that his crew made huge mistakes and he addressed that, and that he couldn't pass, but people said he could. So I wanna know what I missed last night.
 
LJ7201 said:
Nope I wasn't able to, that's why I asked. I wanna know what went down and why what he said was outta line.

I read that his crew made huge mistakes and he addressed that, and that he couldn't pass, but people said he could. So I wanna know what I missed last night.
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Kyle Busch specifically did lose spots because of a rookie pit crew, but both times he was in the rear he was able to drive up thru the field. The other trucks? if they were good they could pass all over the track. There was plenty of passing. I think there were at least 4 different leaders of the race. Tough that you missed it, it was a very good race. Kyle Busch wrecked one of his own drivers on a restart late in the race. Noah Gragson was in the front row and Busch who was behind Gragson, jacked him up and almost spun him out.Kyle might have been mad about that, he wasn't able to get the lead and to me it was a really cheap shot. Fulltimer Gragson had been faster than him the whole race and had a really good shot at winning the race
 
StandOnIt said:
Kyle Busch specifically did lose spots because of a rookie pit crew, but both times he was in the rear he was able to drive up thru the field. The other trucks? if they were good they could pass all over the track. There was plenty of passing. I think there were at least 4 different leaders of the race. Tough that you missed it, it was a very good race. Kyle Busch wrecked one of his own drivers on a restart late in the race. Noah Gragson was in the front row and Busch who was behind Gragson, jacked him up and almost spun him out.Kyle might have been mad about that, he wasn't able to get the lead and to me it was a really cheap shot. Fulltimer Gragson had been faster than him the whole race and had a really good shot at winning the race
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Ah ok. Thanks for catching me up.

Then I understand him putting the crew on blast, the protection and coddling fans display toward crews is very patronizing and not how you treat adults doing a job. If a crew sucks then that's that, they're just like everyone else on earth who does a job.

Makes sense that him complaining about the package got everyone riled up then. Let alone the Gragson scenario.
 
LewTheShoe said:
With all due respect, and I really mean that in a positive way as @2 Sweet is a long-time positive contributor with many insightful posts, but this statement is completely wrong, IMO. I enjoy the truck races, but that is racing dumbed down to the junior varsity level. And it is very much a product of aero taking over. Nascar trucks have drag like a barn door and very high downforce, combined with low power. A formula like that for racing at the highest level would be completely bland and unsatisfactory.

Cup racing is big-time racing. It ain't supposed to be easy. It is supposed to be a contest of skill that separates the contenders from the pretenders. And that requires a serious amount of off-throttle time and braking. It requires the drivers to work hard to get back on the gas early and get drive off the corners. It requires a real speed differential between mid-corner and straightaway... which the trucks don't have. I am a strong supporter of Nascar's move in recent years to put the race back in the hands of the drivers at the cup level.
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If Cup racing is big time racing then why did NASCAR take away 100 horsepower starting in 2015? They kind of turned it into the Busch series.
 
As KDB went down to the minor leagues, he must have forgot there were some drivers with more experience than him. He ain't getting the record in the trucks!
 
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