Official 2019 NASCAR Thread

[JEBar]

Atlanta Motor Speedway this weekend, with Sunday’s Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500 (2 p.m. ET, FOX, PRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio)

[JEBar]

a cooler but beautiful morning in the neighborhood .. .. as mentioned in our post in this thread back on Jan 7th (the day we arrived in Texas at Lake Conroe), we had a new elevating gear, two new elevator tubes and a new Jack Antenna installed in our OEM roof, over the air, TV antenna .... sadly, last week large overhanging limbs over our camper prevented us from using it while camped at Medina Lake .... over the air TV signal reception in that area is all but nonexistent so I don't know if we could have gotten a signal from a FOX station so we could watch the Daytona 500 .... fast forward to today and we raised our new Jack Antenna for the first time .... its bringing in 48 stations, most importantly channel 26.1 which is the Houston FOX station .. .. really looking forward to being able to watch today's race at Atlanta

[fortyshooter]

What happened to all the supposed pack racing that the new 550 HP package was to bring??
1st stage was all strung out. They used to run 195+ at Atlanta last couple years.

[Vaquero]

All I saw was the last 20 laps.

RP

[JEBar]

Las Vegas Motor Speedway ....Sunday, March 3, 2019 | 3:30 PM ET .... FOX

[JEBar]

a young driver to keep an eye on ===> Hailie Deegan

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2018/ ... ries-west/

UPDATE :

now 17 years old, she's doing well and making progress .... last night in a last lap pass he plowed her way to a win at Vegas on dirt .... in this link ===> https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2019/ ... egas-dirt/ , that pass can be seen .... she's in the 19 car .... one common criticism of Danica was she wasn't aggressive enough .... Hailie doesn't seem to have that issue .... that might be expected coming from dirt tracks and not from Indy cars

[fortyshooter]

Wow...noticed a lot of missing seating areas!!

[stevej]

Candyman has no one to blame but himself for not breaking out the broom!

[JEBar]

with 3 races in the books, it appears that the new rules package has increased passing in the pack .... sadly, no more passing for the lead than last year

[JEBar]

ISM Raceway .... Phoenix .... Sunday, March 10, 2019 | 3:30 PM ET .... FOX

[220]

Our local aussie V8 supercars kicked of last weekend, clean sweep for the DJR/Penske mustangs topping every practice session taking both poles and race wins. Im torn on the looks of it, the body having to be massaged in just about every direction to fit over the control chassis is out of proportion compared to the road car.

This will probably interested a few of you, a speed comparison between a road mustang nascar mustang and supercars mustang last weekend.
Dick Johnson behind the wheel of the supercar he is the DJR in team DJR/Penske 73 now but 5 time champ and did a bit of nascar racing in the 80's, Marcus Ambross behind the wheel of the nascar and current aussie champ McLaughlin in the road car.

https://www.supercars.com/videos/champi ... -face-off/

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Kyle Busch wins it.

Swept the week-end.

That's 199 now for all 3 Series.

Not bad for a guy that's only 33.

[GeoBoy]

Kyle Bush is an awesome driver.

[JEBar]

a young driver to keep an eye on ===> Hailie Deegan

https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2018/ ... ries-west/

UPDATE :

now 17 years old, she's doing well and making progress .... last night in a last lap pass he plowed her way to a win at Vegas on dirt .... in this link ===> https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2019/ ... egas-dirt/ , that pass can be seen .... she's in the 19 car .... one common criticism of Danica was she wasn't aggressive enough .... Hailie doesn't seem to have that issue .... that might be expected coming from dirt tracks and not from Indy cars

another update on Hailie Deegan .... Kevin Harvick is one of her fans ===> https://www.nascar.com/news-media/2019/ ... s-to-race/

[cooperhawk]

Kyle Bush is an awesome driver.

In his post race interview he compared himself to this three year old son. Right on, but that's what make him who he is. I have followed him for many years. Back in the day they said he was Mister 110% that always wrecked. I figured that he would eventually figure out how not to wreck. He finally has. He has great talent.

[Vaquero]

Joe had a few words about him.
https://www.nascar.com/video/franchise/ ... le-week/#1

RP

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Another point in time that I wonder again.

How much does Hendrick regret letting him go?

As much as he strives to hire performers, in a certain way like no one else does, he once had him.

[JEBar]

last year the reports were the Chevy teams were disadvantaged by having to figure out their new Camaros while the other brands were running established vehicles .... this year the other teams have new vehicles and hit the ground running .... makes me wonder

[Vaquero]

Another point in time that I wonder again.

How much does Hendrick regret letting him go?

As much as he strives to hire performers, in a certain way like no one else does, he once had him.

Well he just had to have "junior"
Jr. only won 17 races for Hendrick. Only 26 in his career.
In the same time period Kyle won 47 +1 this year.
As of right now in that series alone he has 52.
Only driver to win all the series races in a weekend at Bristol, and he did it Twice.

Hope he can get another Championship this year.

RP

[Cowboy Gun Fan]

Hendrick could have booted Casey Mears instead, which he ended up doing the year after anyway.

But Kyle was hard to deal with back then.

That is one reason why I'm a KB fan today.

He is probably the most improved, attitude wise, more than anyone in the garage, besides being a great driver.

And I credit his wife for that, but Kyle himself deserves credit as well.