With the Budweiser Shootout will start not only the Daytona Speed Week, but also the motor sport season. From today until 29.11. So you can look forward to a hopefully nice motorsport year. First up is the Budweiser Shootout
In the shootout, it is a "promotional" race that is one that belongs not to the championship and will be hosted by a sponsor. This then also means that the sponsor determines the rules of what has made this year for ehrblichen trouble. It is not the first rule change, especially not when it comes to the end of the race, but one that has caused resentment among fans and drivers. Previously it was so that the field was composed of drivers who had been on pole last year or were able to win the shootout before. That was pretty easy and sometimes did, especially those teams in the Shootout, which appear in other races not far ahead. For those teams that was important, because then you could win television time and therefore sponsors. But this year everything is different.
Reason for the fact that Budweiser is no longer sponsoring the poles of a race. Instead of the "Bud Pole" it now says "Corrs-poles." The competition did not allow them the opportunity to escape, but that means that in the "Budweiser Shootout" would now mean that everyone takes part in it, who has won the "Corrs-poles." A PR nightmare. So Budweise has come up with new rules. Now only allowed to do with the first six cars of a finished product in stock Meiser (Owners Points). So it's no longer a driver, but the starting number. There are also four wild-card riders of any brand. This is either a former champion, or the seventh-placed a brand. And so it happens that this year, Tony Stewart does not in the race, but his Nachjolger Joey Logano. The fans there are only so middling and I must say also that this scheme is somewhat modest.
What remains is that there is no qualification for the race there, but the starting order is drawn. The then rinsed Paul Menard on the poles, which, although in practice yesterday put his car easily after a puncture in the wall, but should start up front today. The rest of the list looks like this:
01. # 98 Paul Menard (Yates Ford)
02. # 19 Elliott Sadler (Dodge Petty)
03. # 43 Reed Sorenson (Dodge Petty)
04th # 82 Scott Speed (Red Bull Toyota)
05th # 11 Denny Hamlin (Toyota-Gibbs)
06th # 14 Tony Stewart (Stewart / Haas Chevrolet)
07th # 83 Brian Vickers (Red Bull Toyota)
08th # 96 Bobby Labonte (Yates Ford)
09th # 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. (Hendrick Chevrolet)
10th # 18 Kyle Busch (Toyota-Gibbs)
11th # 99 Carl Edwards (Roush Ford)
12th # 2 Kurt Busch (Penske Dodge)
13th # 7 Robby Gordon (Gordon Dodge)
14th # 9 Kasey Kahne (Dodge Petty)
15th # 26 Jamie McMurray (Roush Ford)
16th # 6 David Ragan (Roush Ford)
17th # 55 Michael Waltrip (Waltrip-Toyota)
18th # 44 AJ Allmendinger (Petty Dodge)
19th # 20 Joey Logano (Toyota-Gibbs)
20th # 12 David Stremme (Penske Dodge)
21st # 48 Jimmie Johnson (Hendrick Chevrolet)
22nd # 00 David Reutimann (Toyota, Waltrip)
23rd # 31 Jeff Burton (Childress Chevrolet)
24th # 07 Casey Mears (Childress Chevrolet)
25th # 17 Matt Kenseth (Roush Ford)
26th # 16 Greg Biffle (Roush Ford)
27th # 29 Kevin Harvick (Chevrolet-Childress)
28th # 24 Jeff Gordon (Hendrick Chevrolet)
The format of the race has changed little. First, there are 25 rounds (instead of 20 like last year), then a break of 10 minutes, then a final segment of 50 laps. This means that one refuel in the second segment, in any case. Whether you need new tires, depending on the mix, which has brought with Goodyear. It does not look as you would get through without change.
In the first part of the race is happening according to experience anything or nothing. The drivers check their vehicles, the road situation and are working out what you need to change during the break, or right at the next pit stop. In the second part it will be even funnier. Will you win, you have to look that one thus 30 laps before the end comes slowly forward. The last five rounds, as usual, then the sheer madness.
In training, there was the first comparison between Chevy, Toyota, Dodge and Ford after the race in Miami last year. I was struck by how well received the Chevy, but even if Toyota had not seen the front, you could see how easy it was Kyle Busch, to cheat through the field. This could, however, also seen in the Dodge drivers. The first engine of the year, Platzer had to complain about RCR and Jeff Burton.
To predict a winner, is impossible. Similar to the Daytona 500, it is all about, in the last three rounds to position themselves as well. This requires a good bump behind a Drafter, a whole train is best, so you can win. It can really win everyone who starts in the Shootout.
The race starts at 02.00 clock on our time and will last approximately 2 hours. Streams are very yesterday has seen many, so that should also be tonight no problem.
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