2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Round 22: Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen

[fieldodreams79]

To the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York and Watkins Glen International for some road course racing!

Two Practice sessions today
Q-ing Saturday at 1110am EST
Green Flag 118pm EST Sunday

Jayski Race Page

Non-regular road racers entered:
BORIS
Ron Fellows
PJ Jones
Tony Ave
Andy Lally
Patrick Carpentier

Weather is clear and a Heluva lot cooler than where I am!

[fieldodreams79]

Courtesy of Jayski:

2010 Sprint Cup Driver Championship Points Standings:
[after Watkins Glen, race 21 of 36]:
rank, car#, driver, points, behind
1) #29-Kevin Harvick [2 wins], 3080
2) #24-Jeff Gordon, 2891, -189
3) #11-Denny Hamlin [5 wins], 2820, -260
4) #48Jimmie Johnson [5 wins], 2803, -277
5) #31-Jeff Burton, 2757, -323
6) #18-Kyle Busch [2 wins], 2724, -356
7) #2-Kurt Busch [2 wins], 2722, -358
8) #14-Tony Stewart, 2719, -361
9) #17-Matt Kenseth, 2682, -398
10) #99-Carl Edwards, 2666, -414
11) #16-Greg Biffle [1 win], 2652, -428
12) #33-Clint Bowyer, 2564, -516
Chase for the Sprint Cup - Contenders:
13) #5-Mark Martin, 2530, -550, 34 points out of the chase
14) #88-Dale Earnhardt Jr., 2435, -645, -129
15) #39-Ryan Newman [1 win], 2426, -654, -138
16) #9-Kasey Kahne, 2396, -684, -168
2009 Chase Drivers not in top 16
21) #42-Juan Pablo Montoya, 2241, -839, -323
36) #83-Brian Vickers, 1158 [out season with illness]

[fieldodreams79]

The Bif quickest in both practices....

http://jayski.com/stats/2010/practices/22wg2010prac.htm

John Paul and Taz showing pace.

Come on Fellows!

[St00ge]

I really hope Ambrose can bag the double here at The Glen, I just hope he doesn't need an engine change or something and dropped down the grid like he has experienced in previous years..

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by St00ge

I really hope Ambrose can bag the double here at The Glen, I just hope he doesn't need an engine change or something and dropped down the grid like he has experienced in previous years..

While I respect your opinion, I'd rather see Ron Fellows pull the double.
Taz has a better shot, however.

[FPV8U]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

While I respect your opinion, I'd rather see Ron Fellows pull the double.
Taz has a better shot, however.

Ambrose already gifted him a win @ Montreal 2008...

[FIRE]

The Glen

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

Ambrose already gifted him a win @ Montreal 2008...

HA! Ron Fellows needs no gifts, my friend.

[fieldodreams79]

Edwards on the pole.
Then Jamie MAC, John Paul, the Dinger and Kurt B. round out the top 5.

LINEUP/Q-ing Results

11) Taz
13) BORIS
21) Fellows

[FPV8U]

I'd say it will probably be Ambrose V Juan Pablo come the business end of tommorow, aslong as they don't hit one another i'll be pumped!

[dj4monie]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

HA! Ron Fellows needs no gifts, my friend.

It was a gift, speed in pit road. He has like a 12-15 second lead in the rain.

Making a braking mistake on the final corner was a gift to Carl Edwards.

Cutting the car off and couldn't get re-fired, allowing Jimmy Johnson to win, another Gift.

He's been the guy to beat and I know why, V8 Supercars have, straight axles, too much power and narrow tires.

Sound familiar?

[fieldodreams79]

...and we're racin'!

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by dj4monie

It was a gift, speed in pit road. He has like a 12-15 second lead in the rain.

Making a braking mistake on the final corner was a gift to Carl Edwards.

Cutting the car off and couldn't get re-fired, allowing Jimmy Johnson to win, another Gift.

He's been the guy to beat and I know why, V8 Supercars have, straight axles, too much power and narrow tires.

Sound familiar?

What did we talk about here road course weekends before Taz came along?

[FPV8U]

Great battle between Ambrose & Montoya here, hope they keep it clean.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by FPV8U

Great battle between Ambrose & Montoya here, hope they keep it clean.

That was a great scrap, indeed!

Taz screwed the entry into 1 on the restart and is back to 4th. Looks like we'll get a good battle between the Dinger and Taz.

Edit:

Taz made quick work of AJ

[FPV8U]

Always something... but back to 2nd now already must say many of the top drivers are making it easy for the faster ars today, Respect to them for that.

[fieldodreams79]

...as Ambrose showed respect in turn 1 to the bottom of the esses. He really could have forced the issue and caused a mess, but he eased back and now is easing towards the lead.

Green flag stops...leaders are in.

John Paul out first.

[FPV8U]

Exactly mate, lots of respectfull racing being shown, we'll for now we arn't at the money end of the race yet.

Hope they keep it clean, Sonoma got a bit messyfor me towards the end this year.

[fieldodreams79]

Hopefully this BS debris no near the racing line full course caution will not begin the messiness.

[MJ_N_09]

^ You know it will. Still, I hope what no one gets screwed by this.

[PabloTeK]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Hopefully this BS debris no near the racing line full course caution will not begin the messiness.

Was that debris off the track totally (i.e. on the runoff)?

Still, gloves are off time I reckon...

Crash >_>

[MJ_N_09]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Stewart took Said out.

[FPV8U]

bye bye Boris...

[fieldodreams79]

That sucks. The messiness begins.

Smoke back on my crap list.

[FPV8U]

LOL at Boris "running tony off the road", stewart must have had a full turn of right lock on there...