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[Slim-Rob]

Who do you think will win the chase this year, based on what you saw today at the Daytona 500. Dale Earnhart Jr. is looking strong this year, and I think he will do well if he can get Truex Jr. running up front with him. Stewart will do good unless he gets into trouble by NASCAR.

As far as the Busch and Craftsman Truck series go, I am unsure as to who is going to win because there is not much coverage of them.

CHEVY will always DOMINATE NASCAR though.

[Miss Kitty]

I truly think Ryan Newman will have a strong showing this year. Now that RW is out of his way he can shine.

I just wish they would get away from those stupid restrictor plates. Let em' race. And stop letting the race end on a Yellow flag.

[slorch]

I have always liked jeff Gordon, I know alot of people hate him.

my wife was at the race, and everybody was booing Gordon, but they were giving Stewart hell for being put to the back of the line twice also. maybe it's just the winner they harrass, unless it's Junior.


I also like Jimmy Johnson and the Labontes( of course)- it was hard to remember Bobby was in the 43 today and not the ole green 18

What is y'all's take on #24, and be real , not the rainbow warrior crap....

[DragonBand06]

Who does Tony Stewart think he is, playing bumper cars out there today? Wasn't he the one talking about "the safety of drivers' lives" earlier in the week? He sure showed a lot of concern with his driving... :confused:

It looks like Jr. and Jimmy J. will be strong, and did you notice how well Gordon did? He went from Top 10 to 41st in that incident with Stewart, then came back to 7th... until McMurray put Kurt Busch into the wall! He fell back to 36th, and in the last 14 laps came back to 26th... not too bad for having that much bad luck. :eek:

[Miss Kitty]

If you ain't bumpin, you ain't driving...LOL

I don't like Gordon much. But that is mainly because everyone else does. LOL I think he is talented. But I think the talent on the track is vast and some other drivers are finally getting some respect. Guess what, I am not a Jr. fan either. :D

[DragonBand06]

I am a Gordon fan, but I'm not saying all that b/c I am. Stewart was also running very well UP the field, just not SIDE-TO-SIDE. :mad: The one with JG was understandable, but side-bumping Jimme twice and just plain WRECKING Kenseth wasn't exactly classy or safe... :eek:

[lonny23]

Johnson and Gordon will be hard to beat. Newman will do real well this year, too. Martin is my sentimental favorite, but you know I have to be loyal to Bobby Labonte and Kyle Petty since they're with Petty Enterprises.

[Reaganrattler07]

If he doesn't kill himself, Tony Stewart.....

[dragons08]

watch out for casey mears, the change will help him tremondusly!

Dale Jarrett is my driver, and thats who im sticking with..he had the typical 'dale jarrett' day..avoid the big one, be around at the end, and he pull off a top 10

[Reaganrattler07]

Hail Joe Gibbs Racing!

[dragons08]

Hail Joe Gibbs Racing!
haha stewart had a fast car, as did jj yeley untill he crashed whos the 3rd car out of the joe gibbs stable again this year? all the shifting around this year is confusing..

we got marlin into the 14
mears into the 42
busch into the 2
mcmurry into the 26
labonte into the 43
streme into the 40
waltrip into the 55


a ton of people, those are the ones that come to mind first, i know im missing some

[Reaganrattler07]

Stewart could've easily won the race....if it weren't for his antics....

[dragons08]

Stewart could've easily won the race....if it weren't for his antics....
yeah, but if stewart didnt act like a jackass, the race wouldnt have been exicitng..it was cool watching the 'fighting' between stewart and other drivers..watching how stewart willed his way back to the front, it added 'drama' to an already exciting race

[drgnbkr]

I have always liked jeff Gordon, I know alot of people hate him.

my wife was at the race, and everybody was booing Gordon, but they were giving Stewart hell for being put to the back of the line twice also. maybe it's just the winner they harrass, unless it's Junior.


I also like Jimmy Johnson and the Labontes( of course)- it was hard to remember Bobby was in the 43 today and not the ole green 18

What is y'all's take on #24, and be real , not the rainbow warrior crap....

I'm a Gordon fan..he's just flat out good..I never understood the Earnhart deal..I guess you have to go back a few years to get it..I did like the Dale & Jeff duels before he was killed...2 different styles.if you got in Dales way, he'd just knock you out of the way. Jeff would find a way to make the pass...

[GoOwls]

I'm a Gordon fan..he's just flat out good..I never understood the Earnhart deal..I guess you have to go back a few years to get it..I did like the Dale & Jeff duels before he was killed...2 different styles.if you got in Dales way, he'd just knock you out of the way. Jeff would find a way to make the pass...

Yeah, he'd nudge your bumper and get you loose and send your nose into the wall. Jeffie is just as rough a driver as the rest......he is just better at making it look like "incidental contact", to borrow an NFL term.

Stewart, Johnson, Newman, Jr., and Sadler are my picks to win this year.

Kyle Petty and Bobby Labonte are my sentimental favorites....and Kyle is my boy. When he goes out of the race, I just tevo the rest of it and go do something else, most of the time.

I have 55 different paint schemes of cars that Kyle has raced in 1/24 scale diecasts. I guess that makes me a fan of his.

[drgnbkr]

Yeah, he'd nudge your bumper and get you loose and send your nose into the wall. Jeffie is just as rough a driver as the rest......he is just better at making it look like "incidental contact", to borrow an NFL term.

Stewart, Johnson, Newman, Jr., and Sadler are my picks to win this year.

Kyle Petty and Bobby Labonte are my sentimental favorites....and Kyle is my boy. When he goes out of the race, I just tevo the rest of it and go do something else, most of the time.

I have 55 different paint schemes of cars that Kyle has raced in 1/24 scale diecasts. I guess that makes me a fan of his.

I'm kind of the same way about tuning out..If Gordon is'nt competitive I find something else to do..& I don't even know why..I went to my first race at Texas Motor Speedway for the second race last year..what a spectacle..I drive by the track constantly, but when Nascar hits town, it becomes a mid size city!

[lonny23]

Yeah, he'd nudge your bumper and get you loose and send your nose into the wall. Jeffie is just as rough a driver as the rest......he is just better at making it look like "incidental contact", to borrow an NFL term.

Stewart, Johnson, Newman, Jr., and Sadler are my picks to win this year.

Kyle Petty and Bobby Labonte are my sentimental favorites....and Kyle is my boy. When he goes out of the race, I just tevo the rest of it and go do something else, most of the time.

I have 55 different paint schemes of cars that Kyle has raced in 1/24 scale diecasts. I guess that makes me a fan of his.
I was at Kyle's last win at Dover in 1995. I was telling Miss Kitty yesterday that the good thing about Hot Wheels sponsoring the Petty's cars was that you could always find their cars in stores.:cool:

[Slim-Rob]

I truly think Ryan Newman will have a strong showing this year. Now that RW is out of his way he can shine.

I just wish they would get away from those stupid restrictor plates. Let em' race. And stop letting the race end on a Yellow flag.

The restrictor plates are important because those tracks run too fast without them.

The race ended on a yellow flag after it had already run over a few laps. There was a yellow flag that went through the end of the 200 laps and they ran 2/3 extra laps after they went green. NASCAR rules only allow this to happen once. So when the caution came out at the end that ended the race.

[Slim-Rob]

All I know for sure is that Chevrolet will continue its dominance of NASCAR this year. Stewart is riding around in a Chevy, and he came back to front a couple of times. Gordon moved up through the field with ease, when Jr. fell back to 21st he easily came back up into the top 10. Not to mention a Chevy won the race:D

[SVite]

I`ll say Hendricks racing ,either JJ,or Jeff to win it this year.JJ has been so close, it`s time,if he can get Knause off the suspended list!:D

[SVite]

I thought,and was hoping that Gordon,JJ,both Busches,and every other driver that stewart wrecked last year,was going to run him into the wall!And for some reason none of them do it!I dont know if Tony has mafia ties:confused: ,but they sure dont ever get even.

I`m sure hoping again this year!Add Matt to the growing list of Tonys unfriendly list!

[drgnbkr]

I thought,and was hoping that Gordon,JJ,both Busches,and every other driver that stewart wrecked last year,was going to run him into the wall!And for some reason none of them do it!I dont know if Tony has mafia ties:confused: ,but they sure dont ever get even.

I`m sure hoping again this year!Add Matt to the growing list of Tonys unfriendly list!

If they wreck him..they wreck themselves..thats when it gets to be an art..you spin the other guy like Dale Earnhart, Sr. & keep on goin..

[dragons08]

I thought,and was hoping that Gordon,JJ,both Busches,and every other driver that stewart wrecked last year,was going to run him into the wall!And for some reason none of them do it!I dont know if Tony has mafia ties:confused: ,but they sure dont ever get even.

I`m sure hoping again this year!Add Matt to the growing list of Tonys unfriendly list!
last year remember stewart 'mellowed' out, there was a new tony..looks like its old tony again

[GoOwls]

I thought,and was hoping that Gordon,JJ,both Busches,and every other driver that stewart wrecked last year,was going to run him into the wall!And for some reason none of them do it!I dont know if Tony has mafia ties:confused: ,but they sure dont ever get even.

I`m sure hoping again this year!Add Matt to the growing list of Tonys unfriendly list!

I guess that you must have missed an incident early in the race when Gordon was passing Stewart on the inside in turn 2 and forced his way up the track into Stewarts front left fender and made both cars bump the wall. I've heard that some feel Stewart should have lifted and given Jeffie room, but this is a restrictor plate race, if you lift, you drop, it wasn't Tony's responsibility to lift on a plate race, it was Jeffies responsibility to not move up the track until he cleared Stewart. Did Jeffie get a penalty for rough driving? Is anybody mentioning anything about this incident? Nobody but me. It's pretty easy to focus on the guy with a record and forget the other offenders........NASCAR seems to think so too.

[AZTiger]

This is funny, everyone thinks "old tony" is back....hardly. tony's got the best LEGAL crew (ahem Jimmy Johnson) in NASCAR and he'll always be there at the end of the race.

[SVite]

I guess that you must have missed an incident early in the race when Gordon was passing Stewart on the inside in turn 2 and forced his way up the track into Stewarts front left fender and made both cars bump the wall. I've heard that some feel Stewart should have lifted and given Jeffie room, but this is a restrictor plate race, if you lift, you drop, it wasn't Tony's responsibility to lift on a plate race, it was Jeffies responsibility to not move up the track until he cleared Stewart. Did Jeffie get a penalty for rough driving? Is anybody mentioning anything about this incident? Nobody but me. It's pretty easy to focus on the guy with a record and forget the other offenders........NASCAR seems to think so too.

That early in the race Tony should have given room to Gordon.Tony and Jr both race erratic,jeff cant do what they do every once and while?The good thing is that they both overcame that incindent.

Kyle Busch was doing nothing that Tony was`nt doing,but Nascar lighty slapped tonys hand,for almost starting a huge wreck by pushing Kenseth out to the middle of the track,and then shooting back up the track!I dont mind that kind of racing as long as Tony gets hammered like Kyle did every once and a while.

[AZTiger]

That early in the race Tony should have given room to Gordon.Tony and Jr both race erratic,jeff cant do what they do every once and while?The good thing is that they both overcame that incindent.



That's also false. In plate racing, Tony can't let up there, because if you back off the throttle you lose so much momentum. He did nothing wrong in that wreck, he was just holding his line and keeping his momentum.

sidenote: NASCAR In Car PPV was giving a preview last week, and I was watching Tony's in car cam and you get to listen to the radio, man, after he almost got in a wreck those two times it was funny to listen to him on the radio.

[drgnbkr]

I guess that you must have missed an incident early in the race when Gordon was passing Stewart on the inside in turn 2 and forced his way up the track into Stewarts front left fender and made both cars bump the wall. I've heard that some feel Stewart should have lifted and given Jeffie room, but this is a restrictor plate race, if you lift, you drop, it wasn't Tony's responsibility to lift on a plate race, it was Jeffies responsibility to not move up the track until he cleared Stewart. Did Jeffie get a penalty for rough driving? Is anybody mentioning anything about this incident? Nobody but me. It's pretty easy to focus on the guy with a record and forget the other offenders........NASCAR seems to think so too.

Stewart whines all week and then goes out & drives like a drunk leaving a bar..it's pretty obvious..but he does need people defending him I guess...

[GoOwls]

Stewart whines all week and then goes out & drives like a drunk leaving a bar..it's pretty obvious..but he does need people defending him I guess...

.......just like he needs folks to ignore the wrongs of others and blame everything on him. I'm no Stewart fan, I'm a Petty fan, but if you saw the whole race, and by your comments I assume you couldn't have, I believe Tony just said to himself at some point in the race, "OK, we talked about this, everybody said they would try to be better, NASCAR said they would enforce penalties, and if everybody's going against their word.....well the gloves are coming off".

There was way too much "rough driving" and NASCAR did nothing. You have to defend yourself at some point if NASCAR won't do it.

If that makes me an apologist........fine......at least I'm not blind.

[dragons08]

This is funny, everyone thinks "old tony" is back....hardly. tony's got the best LEGAL crew (ahem Jimmy Johnson) in NASCAR and he'll always be there at the end of the race.
in most sports, cheating is legal till you get caught....you almost have to push the envolope in nascar, and knaus does that to give his team the greatest advantage possible

[SVite]

That's also false. In plate racing, Tony can't let up there, because if you back off the throttle you lose so much momentum. He did nothing wrong in that wreck, he was just holding his line and keeping his momentum.

sidenote: NASCAR In Car PPV was giving a preview last week, and I was watching Tony's in car cam and you get to listen to the radio, man, after he almost got in a wreck those two times it was funny to listen to him on the radio.

Your telling me he could`nt let his foot off the gas?They drive with one foot on the gas,and one on the brake!!!By the way they both recovered,so i would imagine Big Tony would have recovered from getting out of the gas,for a split second!Tony thinks,and does what ever the hell he wants!Just like Dale Sr. did!

[AZTiger]

Your telling me he could`nt let his foot off the gas?They drive with one foot on the gas,and one on the brake!!!By the way they both recovered,so i would imagine Big Tony would have recovered from getting out of the gas,for a split second!Tony thinks,and does what ever the hell he wants!Just like Dale Sr. did!

And THAT, is why I love the guy, just like I loved Dale Sr. growing up.

If Tony let off the gas, he'll probably lose multiple spots there.

[DragonBand06]

...But there's no way you can say Gordon was "rough driving" there. That happens everyrace for one, and secondly, I doubt he was trying to get both of them into the wall... that's just stupid. Stewart was just asking for a black flag the way he was driving. I guess we'll see if he changes any today.

[drgnbkr]

.......just like he needs folks to ignore the wrongs of others and blame everything on him. I'm no Stewart fan, I'm a Petty fan, but if you saw the whole race, and by your comments I assume you couldn't have, I believe Tony just said to himself at some point in the race, "OK, we talked about this, everybody said they would try to be better, NASCAR said they would enforce penalties, and if everybody's going against their word.....well the gloves are coming off".

There was way too much "rough driving" and NASCAR did nothing. You have to defend yourself at some point if NASCAR won't do it.

If that makes me an apologist........fine......at least I'm not blind.

Yeah, I watched the whole race and your kind of out of touch if you want to defend Stewart..he's a hell of a driver but...a big ol baby who'll probably melt down at some point, costing himself a lot of cred...IMO

[Slim-Rob]

Your telling me he could`nt let his foot off the gas?They drive with one foot on the gas,and one on the brake!!!By the way they both recovered,so i would imagine Big Tony would have recovered from getting out of the gas,for a split second!Tony thinks,and does what ever the hell he wants!Just like Dale Sr. did!

In restrictor plate racing they do not come of the gas. If they come off that pedal they will lose multiple positions.

[SVite]

In restrictor plate racing they do not come of the gas. If they come off that pedal they will lose multiple positions.

Whats more important,letting your foot up,or denting your fenders,where your aero is screwed.I know about resrictor plate racing,but wrecking could mean a DNF,like Tony got sunday at California.......:D

[drgnbkr]

If they can't lift on the gas pedal, why does it have a spring on it? There is a time to go all out and a time to let up..Stewart has the first part down...

[CLFalcon2006]

It's important to remember that Daytona and Talladega are only 4 races on a long schedule and are a very different animal. I would hardly start arguing over whos gonna have the better year based on how they finshed at Daytona, remember especially that drivers that win Daytona are usually cursed the rest of the year.

Based on Cali yesterday I expect another strong year from the Roush cars as well as ther Hendricks. Look for the Miller Car and Kurt Bush to be good this year, apparently the only thing holding that team down was Rusty Wallace (as much as I hate to say). After Johnson's 1-2 punch I would put him in early contention for the championship but it will take along time until I say a daytona winner is gonna be the champion. Mears is currently 2nd and has a good team but he's not championship material just yet. I'm seeing a battle between Bush, Gordon, Keneseth, and Stewart for the most part all year. Carl Edwards, Mears, Johnson, Martin, Junior, and McMurray will be up there but I just don't see them as champions yet.

[dragons08]

biffle would also be a guy to watch out for..he's had bad luck the first two weeks, but obviously a winning car yesterday, once this bad luck goes away, watch for biffle to make a chrage like last year

[SVite]

biffle would also be a guy to watch out for..he's had bad luck the first two weeks, but obviously a winning car yesterday, once this bad luck goes away, watch for biffle to make a chrage like last year

Biffle won the 1st Texas race last year,just dominated it!

[dragons08]

Biffle won the 1st Texas race last year,just dominated it!
yeah, i was at that race, biffle had the best car by farrrrrr..he had the best car yesterday as well, just a little bad luck