NASCAR 2012

[Lavabe]

CAUTION 34 David Ragan hit wall
40 laps to go
1/2 the field comes into the pits
8 of the 19 cars on the lead lap stay out, including Blech and Hamlin.
Kes pits.
JJ back in the race.
Blech, Hamlin, Harvick, KK, Bowyer, JG, Logano, Kes, Kenseth, KuBu

[Lavabe]

32 laps to go CAUTION, Smoke hits the wall (after two laps of green flag racing)
This will be interesting: Newman bobbled, Smoke slowed down, Almi tagged Smoke, and Smoke went into the wall.
Menard has some brake issues, but will benefit from the caution.
Restart 27 laps to go
25 laps to go:
Blech, KK, Hamlin, Harvick, JG, Bowyer, Logano, Kenseth, Kes, MM
Newman 13
Almi 14
Biff 17
Hornish 18
Menard 20
Labonte 23
Mears 25
Jr 27
JJ 33
Truex 42

[Lavabe]

Caution 10 laps to go
Hornish into the wall
Hornish had a flat going on after Danica nudged him. When the tire went out, Hornish hit the wall.
Harvick had been gaining on Blech.
Labonte gets the Lucky Dog. Almi and MM come in to the pits, but no one else does.
Restart at 8 laps to go.
Harvick, Blech, KK, Hamlin, Bowyer, JG, Kes, Logano, Kenseth, Newman
Biff 12
MM 13
Almi 19
Menard 20
Labonte 22
Mears 25
Jr 27
Hornish 30
JJ 33
Truex 42

6 laps to go... JG into the wall, but no yellow.
Kenseth has some smoke.

[Lavabe]

2 laps to go
JG tags Bowyer, collects him into the wall (Bowyer had tagged JG before)
CAUTION
Logano collected into the wall as well.
Almi had some minor damage.
JG had been black-flagged, ignored it, then tagged Bowyer
The crews are fighting!! Bowyer and JG's crews with JG!!
OH THE HUMANITY!!

It'll be a green-white-checker finish.

[Lavabe]

Red flag. Lots of oil on the track. Almi got caught up in it...which is how he got into the others.
The restart will have this order:

Harvick (short on fuel), Blech, KK, Hamlin, Kes, Newman, Biff, KuBu, Kenseth, MM
Menard 11
Labonte 16
Bowyer 17 (out)
Almi 18 (out)
Logano 19 (out)
JG 23 (out)
Mears 24
Jr 25
Hornish 30
JJ 33
Truex 42

Bowyer's crew chief was interviewed, and said SHIT on tv.

[Lavabe]

Note that Richard Childress was interviewed during the red flag, and he's the one who said that Harvick is short on fuel.
I suspect that JG will not be racing next week.
Expect lots of fines.
In all of this, Danica may finish in the top 15.
Getting ready to restart.

[Lavabe]

Kenseth (he had tire problems) and Burton pit.
RESTART!!

HARVICK WINS!!
CRASH FINISH!!! ABout ten cars crashed as they cossed the finish!
Newman crashed, but crossed in 5th... he crossed the line backwards.
All started when Danica hit the wall the lap before, but didn't get the yellow.
Oil went over the track.
Most everyone crashed afterwards.

Harvick, Hamlin, Blech

Can't tell the rest of the order.

By the way, Hamlin nearly spun out Blech.
Kes now leads the Chase. He had a pretty damaged car in the end, but he took 6th.

[Lavabe]

Seriously, I don't know how folks escaped here unhurt... including Danica.
Order of Finish:
Harvick, Hamlin, Blech, KK, Newman, Kes, Biff, KuBu, Menard, MM
Labonte 15
Almi 16
Jr 21
Mears 22
Bowyer 27
Logano 28
JG 29
Hornish 31
JJ 32
Truex 42

[YmoBeThere]

Looks to me like she got hit by Jeff Burton...

[Lavabe]

Order of Finish:
Harvick, Hamlin, Blech, KK, Newman, Kes, Biff, KuBu, Menard, MM
Labonte 15
Almi 16
Jr 21
Mears 22
Bowyer 27
Logano 28
JG 29
Hornish 31
JJ 32
Truex 42

This was the order on ESPN TV, and on the ESPN web site.
Yahoo has a much different order of finish.
WACKY!!

[Lavabe]

OMG... two weeks in a row, I won. GO FIGURE!!
I won with 353 points, followed by Miles with 288 points. Iowa finished third with 225 points. No one else broke 200 pts.

Colchar still holds a lead, but it is now just 78 pts. That's still a monster lead, but I might be able to make it look close.

369 pts behind me is Ymo, but Miles is only 29 pts behind him. Lawgrad is 136 pts behind Miles, Tilly is 75 pts behind LG, and Iowa trails Tilly by 97 pts.

OKAY folks... next week is the last race of the season, at Homestead, FL. Choose Bowyer and JG at your own peril. We shall see what happens this week upon review of the Phoenix race.

Looks like Kes is going to win the Chase. He leads JJ by 20 points. We shall see!!

[colchar]

Colchar still holds a lead, but it is now just 78 pts. That's still a monster lead, but I might be able to make it look close.

This week was an absolute shit show for me...talk about shitting the bed!

My seemingly insurmountable lead has all but disappeared and I am going to have to do well next week to hold off the late charge by Lavabe!

[Lavabe]

Jeff Gordon was docked points, fined, and placed on probation for the remainder of the season (one race left), but he will definitely be racing at Homestead this weekend.

Still won't pick him. ;)

[colchar]

Since Lavabe and I have picked the same drivers a few times this year, I am hoping we do the same this week!

[Lavabe]

Since Lavabe and I have picked the same drivers a few times this year, I am hoping we do the same this week!

Not happening this week, but having said that, I highly doubt that I can make up all of those points in one week.

I'm wondering if I can make it higher in the playoff segment of the season. I am currently number 926 in the whole yahoo pool. Would be really neat if I could finish in the top 100.

[colchar]

Since Lavabe and I have picked the same drivers a few times this year, I am hoping we do the same this week!

Not happening this week, but having said that, I highly doubt that I can make up all of those points in one week.

Is my lead not down to something like 80 points? I am fairly certain that you made up something like 150 points last week, and a couple of hundred over the last 3-4 weeks, so this week is a bit of a nailbiter for me!

[Lavabe]

Is my lead not down to something like 80 points? I am fairly certain that you made up something like 150 points last week, and a couple of hundred over the last 3-4 weeks, so this week is a bit of a nailbiter for me!

Yeah, but now I have to decide on whether to pick drivers that you won't pick, or to pick the drivers that give me maximum points. If it's the former, then I may finally use JPM, Reagan Smith, JamieMac, Casey Mears, and Landon Cassill... all in the same week!
Yeah, THAT would be crazy.
And of course, this is the week where you have to wonder just how much Kes is racing for the win or racing for the Championship (and taking it easy).

[Lavabe]

Since Lavabe and I have picked the same drivers a few times this year, I am hoping we do the same this week!

Well, we didn't choose the same in the A list.
We did choose three of the same drivers in the B list.
On the C list, we both chose Stenhouse Jr, but we differ on the other.

[colchar]

Since Lavabe and I have picked the same drivers a few times this year, I am hoping we do the same this week!

Well, we didn't choose the same in the A list.
We did choose three of the same drivers in the B list.
On the C list, we both chose Stenhouse Jr, but we differ on the other.

How can you see that? After reading your post I tried to check your drivers but cannot see them.

ETA: Ignore my comments above. I was having a brain fart. I just checked the group picks and can see them all now.

[colchar]

It appears Keselowski was fined for tweeting while driving. What a twit.


http://www.wheels.ca/news/tweeting-in-t ... -thinking/