Trucks at Bristol

No worries...he still has plenty of time to spin himself out again.
 
You know what pisses me off? NASCAR didn't throw the caution when Brad turned himself around...When the Cup guys do that, the caution is out before you can blink an eye
 
Pretty damn impressive starting from the rear of the field @ Bristol and getting the checkered flag with the exception of 'The Dump' move. Can a race winner get The Bonehead award for the week? It may be deserving in this case.

Post race tempers.....

As Kyle Busch drove away from the field in the O’Reilly 200, the heat was on among some of the drivers in typical Bristol Motor Speedway fashion Wednesday night.

Battling for second behind Busch, Timothy Peters and Elliott Sadler got together on lap 164. Sadler eventually lost his front brakes and blew a right front tire, ending his day after 190 of the scheduled 200 laps remaining. Peters nursed his truck home in eighth.

Peters tapped Sadler under caution to show his displeasure.

While Sadler was long gone from the track, there was no talk among the drivers afterward. That wasn’t true for Matt Crafton and Austin Dillon as they exchanged some words on pit road following the event after Crafton got into the back of Dillon on the final lap.

The worst injury among those drivers involved in the 13 cautions was to Ken Schrader, who left the track with a sore foot that banged against a pedal after a hard wreck. Schrader hit the wall hard after getting collected by David Starr, who had spun and slid up the track.

Sadler, who had won the last time he had raced the Kevin Harvick Inc. truck at Pocono, was particularly disappointed. The crash with Peters left him 26th in the final rundown.

“We had a great run going and he kept chopping me off, chopping me off, chopping me off,” Sadler said. “I guess his spotter told him to block me. He waited too late and we got hooked. It messed our car up.”

Peters obviously said he wasn’t blocking and said “everybody has an opinion.”

“I understand he’s trying to rejuvenate his career, but I’m trying to make mine, too,” said Peters, who is driving for Red Horse Racing and is third in the standings. “He just drove straight through us. … I’m a little disappointed but we still salvaged a top-10.

“It didn’t really run good at all [after that]. But the guys did awesome repair jobs in the pits. It’s Bristol. The fans are happy. Fans are good, tempers are high.”

As far as Crafton and Dillon, Crafton said he didn’t mean to get into the back of Dillon.

“I did not intend to wreck him,” Crafton said. “I was racing for position trying to get something and I got into him harder than I meant to.”

Crafton's admission didn't provide much solace for Dillon.

"Crafton at the end, he didn’t know what he was racing for obviously – just tore up a bunch of trucks for no reason," Dillon said. "I guess we’re a rookie but I don’t understand what he was racing for. He took out a bunch of trucks for no reason and we didn’t need that for the truck series."
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
As far as Crafton and Dillon, Crafton said he didn’t mean to get into the back of Dillon.

“I did not intend to wreck him,” Crafton said. “I was racing for position trying to get something and I got into him harder than I meant to.” [/B]
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Who does this guy think he is kidding? Pure BS!

He drove into Dillon several times and didn't bother to lift or even brake.

Almost the same thing that butthole Busch did to Cobb earlier in the race.
 
Most of the stuff Dillon got into wasn't of his making and Peters was blocking Sadler low, lap after lap, and when Sadler went high, he tried to block there and it didn't work.

IMO, Sadler raced him as clean as he possibally could and clearly had a faster truck.
 
Peters kept blocking Sadler lap after lap and I guess he saw what happens when you do that. As far as Austin goes, the kid hit everything on the track.....twice lol

I'm no Matt Crafton fan by any means but he was a lead lap truck and AD wasn't was he? Can't really blame him for moving him out of the way.
 
Not to mention Crafton had fresh tires and Dillion wasn't just 1 but 2 laps down
 
Stewart Fan said:
I'm no Matt Crafton fan by any means but he was a lead lap truck and AD wasn't was he? Can't really blame him for moving him out of the way.
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What was Dillon supposed to do? Pull over and let Crafton pass?

Dillion had trucks in front and along side of him. Crafton just felt he should punt Dillon to get him out of the way.

Plus the fact that they are in a points battle and Crafton is right behind Dillon in the points. What better way to gain a few by wrecking your competition.
 
Anyone notice the large crowd for the truck race? Quite a few people in the stands for that one -vs- the amount that were there last fall for the same race. This year Bristol included the Camping World Truck Series tickets along with the season tickets @ no extra charge. Nice move by Bruton IMO. He's trying to do anything to get that place full this weekend. I just looked online and seats are still available for this Saturday night's race. Unheard of.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Anyone notice the large crowd for the truck race? Quite a few people in the stands for that one -vs- the amount that were there last fall for the same race. This year Bristol included the Camping World Truck Series tickets along with the season tickets @ no extra charge. Nice move by Bruton IMO. He's trying to do anything to get that place full this weekend. I just looked online and seats are still available for this Saturday night's race. Unheard of.
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I dunno...didn't look like a large crowd to me. I'd hate to see how few people would be there if season holders didn't get free tickets
 
Bucky Badger said:
I dunno...didn't look like a large crowd to me. I'd hate to see how few people would be there if season holders didn't get free tickets
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I was there last year and believe me, that was far larger than last year. Last year was an example of what happens when they make you pay for those tickets.

This year I was unable to go. I called a buddy of mine yesterday that camps at the same campground that I normally do. He said there were far more campers there this week, by Wednesday, than there has been for a while.
 
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