NASCAR Cup Round #17:Quaker State 400; Kentucky Speedway

[fieldodreams79]

Wonder if the highways around the speedway will be the parking lot or if everyone will actually make it to the race this year.

JAYSKI

[fieldodreams79]

JJ on the pole.

Green flag in less than 2 hours.

[HJJ]

Frickin' boring race. Lots of aluminum showing up on TV. I guess Burton couldn't convince the masses that they made improvements from last years clusters. Seriously, the crowd has looked better for Indycar.

[HJJ]

Racin' is getting better.

[fieldodreams79]

Even the PRN guys didn't seem to be getting too excited, but nothing says 'merica, like the stars and stripes hanging out of the blue deuce doing donuts in the bluegrass state.

[Paradise City]

Kasey Kahne made that race. What a star. Yeah, you could probably chop off the first few hours and hours and hours of that event, leaving the last twenty in!

[FAS33]

Originally Posted by HJJ

Frickin' boring race. Lots of aluminum showing up on TV. I guess Burton couldn't convince the masses that they made improvements from last years clusters. Seriously, the crowd has looked better for Indycar.

aren't they all boring?
more excitement in the pitstops..

[muggle not]

This race reminded me. Whatever happened to montoya, he has been MIA all season. Looks like his venture into nascar has about tanked.

[FIRE]

Originally Posted by HJJ

Frickin' boring race. Lots of aluminum showing up on TV. I guess Burton couldn't convince the masses that they made improvements from last years clusters. Seriously, the crowd has looked better for Indycar.

Bruton has an idea:

Bruton Smith would like mandatory cautions: Speedway Motorsports Inc. chairman Bruton Smith said NASCAR needs to implement mandatory cautions, or race stoppages, to bring more excitement to the races. "Call it what you want, but you've got to have caution flags," Smith said Saturday before the Sprint Cup race at Kentucky Speedway. "That creates excitement. You can't just sit there with nothing happening. It ruins the event. It's damaging to our sport." Cautions flags and caution laps are down this year in NASCAR. Many races this season have produced long green-flag runs without a lot of passing up front. Smith said NASCAR needs to deliberately create more double-file restarts. NASCAR made a rule change in 2009 that moved all the lead-lap cars to the front of the field, double-file, on all restarts after a caution flag. Those restarts often cause bumping late in races, and sometimes additional accidents. Smith said he wouldn't mind seeing a pseudo halftime at each race to cause an additional restart. NASCAR spokesman David Higdon said Friday: "We are constantly looking at ways to improve the racing. And we have mandatory cautions when we think it's needed at an event." But those mandatory cautions usually are for safety reasons so teams can check their tires and officials can check track conditions.(ESPN.com)(7-1-2012)

[joeb]

Originally Posted by FIRE

Bruton has an idea:

Wow. I mean Wow.....

[Clive Brown]

Bruton. What an effing idiot!

If you want to improve Cup racing, then voluntarily give up the fixtures at some of SMI's boring cookie cutters, and transfer the fixtures to exciting venues like Rockingham, North Wilkesboro, Road America and Laguna Seca.