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NASCAR: Analysis of Kansas in October 2011

am 11. From on 11 October 2011 at 08:09 │ Comments {0}

Jimmie Johnson is back! After he was giving Kurt Busch at Dover had just beaten, dominated the period champions in Kansas almost at will. After a long green phases would only Johnson Kasey Kahne at the end can be really dangerous, but also the Red Bull when he was standing just last restart.

197 of 272 laps led Jimmie Johnson on Sunday at the Kansas Speedway, grabbing himself off to Dover for the second consecutive year, the majority leadership miles. This time it reached the end had even for a trip to Victory Lane after he was last weekend, even with 2nd place behind Kurt Busch satisfied. Initially it looked like a triumph of the Ford team of Roush Fenway Racing, for the first third of the race were especially Matt Kenseth (26) and pole-sitter Greg Biffle (23) - in comparison to Johnson - in some laps that also they were entitled to the trophy.

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NASCAR: Pocono Preview August 2011

am 5. From on 5 August 2011 at 08:19 │ Comments {0}

After the classics of Indianapolis, it continues this weekend at Pocono, where the second race of the season's controversial Triovals is on the agenda. The June edition Jeff Gordon won the Busch brothers, and before the four-time champion should also be on Sunday after his second place finish at Indy again the favorite to win the trip to Victory Lane.

Twice a year the Sprint Cup at Pocono Raceway , where the road carries most of lengthy 500-mile race. Actually, this is Trioval with his three very different turns and straights an interesting track, but the racing action has unfortunately often not up to its ambitious Speedway. Clean air and track position here, and the leader often rides alone against the anticipated victory, while the field behind him like gum pulls apart. It so happens that present themselves in most cases three or four drivers to be dominant and in the end the victory out among themselves.

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NASCAR: Kansas Preview June 2011

am 3. From on 3 June 2011 at 08:20 │ Comments {0}

We are not in Kansas anymore? Yes we are! And for the first of two times recently, because in 2011 the Sprint Cup moves on to the Kansas Speedway two races per year. After Coca-Cola 600 again follows a "normal" races, but this must not mean that it is less-exciting. Transmission is by the way again at the usual time.

The Kansas Speedway is like the Charlotte Motor Speedway, also a 1.5-mile long intermediate oval, but has a much smaller banking. For exact details, and a comparison with other stretches of its approximate construction can be read in the above linked description Oval. The layout suggests that the Roush Fenway Racing Speedway would be best, which flashed in the last week again with a terrific team effort. Unfortunately, the team of Jack Roush, the Coca-Cola did not complete 600 with a trip to Victory Lane, but to have another opportunity in Kansas. I think that Carl Edwards, Matt Kenseth and Greg Biffle will be here again those pilots to beat.

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NASCAR: Richmond Preview April 2011

am 29. From 29 April 2011 at 08:26 │ Comments {2}

The ninth race of the season decided this weekend for the first quarter of the year. In Richmond, it is already the third true short track racing to Bristol and Martinsville and also only the second floodlit battle instead of Texas. The four editions since 2009, Joe Gibbs Racing dominated, Denny Hamlin may come at last in the hallways?

Three months or a quarter of the NASCAR season is now already old when the Richmond International Raceway race of the season No. 9 is present of 36. This is the orientation phase is completed and now it is to eradicate the last remaining problems and continue to consistently retract Top 10 results, you want the "Race to the Chase" to take half of the season, then made a comfortable position in attack. Here I am thinking especially of Denny Hamlin, Jeff Burton, Joey Logano, who had a good history in Richmond, but so far in 2011 have not yet come to a reasonable flow. The third true short-track race of the year will ring in the 0.75 miles long D-shaped oval, this one about a two-week night shift in the Sprint Cup, as in Richmond and Darlington run under floodlights. For orientation: Then it follows Dover at the usual time on Sunday before the All-Star Weekend (also at night) and the Coca-Cola 600 (late Sunday) pending!

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NASCAR: Talladega April 2011 analysis

am 19. From on 19 April 2011 at 08:21 │ Comments {2}

As expected, the restrictor-plate battle of Talladega a whopping lottery, which actually had any of the 43 starters to win. It was by no means boring, especially the insane finish equaled the closest finish in the history of electronic timing, the Jimmie Johnson decided just for themselves.

Four short-wides they had at the Talladega Superspeedway already seen frequently, but never in the final sprint for the win. Eight cars, six of which poured in within a tenth of a second beat, without any crash and fair for a place in the Victory Lane. That it has not crashed it was really a miracle. Contexts it could with the new practice of two-car trains, which has now taken the final and on the other restrictor-plate oval. For although the car ride together now total close, but it is always in pairs, making the gap in the field of cars shooting across much larger. The dreaded Big One was made at the end, but still had some early pilots take home. Not as Jimmie Johnson, who won his first race of the season at Talladega 2011th

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NASCAR: Bristol Preview March 2011

am 18. From on 18 March 2011 at 08:12 │ Comments {0}

This weekend starts the Sprint Cup, after a short break by full back and because of daylight saving time in the U.S., the race begins on Sunday, even an hour earlier than usual. And turning on / log-worth, is because on the 800m-long concrete runway at Bristol has always offered neat action.

The Bristol Motor Speedway is one of the great tradition of NASCAR tracks, because the 0.5-mile short track has been since 1961 with two races in the Sprint Cup represented. The track boasts a road made of concrete, which is due to progressive banking to drive in two lanes 24 to 30 ° bends. Having been in the past year, the SAFER Barrier extended to two outputs curve by several meters, the distance to the resurfacing of 2007 is difficult to get back. For in Bristol, do not have a: space! With a track length of just 800 meters high, steep bleachers, the stadium building that is more reminiscent of the Colosseum in Rome.

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NASCAR: Daytona 500 2011 Analysis

am 22. From on 22 February 2011 at 15:51 │ Comments {3}

The issue number 53 of the legendary Daytona 500 is the same story and put on some early season records. At the biggest race of the year, but won not a favorite but a nearly blank slate, because RCR and Hendrick patzten.

Trevor Bayne won on Sunday, a mere 20 years of the Daytona 500 for the tradition of the Wood Brothers team wrote and thus a true Cinderella story. He also improved the record of the youngest Daytona 500 winner Jeff Gordon (1997, 25) by as much as five years. The Wood Brothers, it is the first victory for almost ten years (Elliott Sadler 2001 in Bristol) and a good chance this year, possibly with some additional sponsors to return full time. The 1.5 million U.S. dollars in prize money should be a more welcome support.

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NASCAR: Talladega October 2010 Analysis

am 2. From on 2 November 2010, at 08:25 │ Comments {1}

The restrictor plate race at Talladega offered up to a reasonable final lap just about everything has a super speedway give away this: many lead changes, a big question mark at the end of voltage and tidy! The Chase-table after this weekend creates the best conditions for a close title fight in the remaining three races.

In the nearly three hours on Sunday evening caused restrictor place racing for proper action, even if it was no longer to finish under green flag. Because the battle for the lead beginning of Turn 1 at the moment of release of the yellow phase was still in full swing, the NASCAR officials first had to consult the video tapes to determine a winner. At that time, two were two car trains on the way to the finish line: Clint Bowyer was pushed by Juan Pablo Montoya and Kevin Harvick got a push from David Reutimann. I'll try something different than usual, describing the path towards this scenario.

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NASCAR: Kansas Preview 2010

am 1. From on 1 October 2010 at 08:29 │ Comments {0}

The third Chase race will this year be held at the Kansas Speedway, which is one of the newer NASCAR tracks on the calendar. In addition, the championship race at the weekend is the first playoff event of the season At present in a 1.5-mile oval

The NASCAR history at the Kansas Speedway is now really easy to use: It is only since 2001, the Sprint Cup in the Midwestern U.S., and the years even with a race of the season. The heartland of the United States is otherwise fairly NASCAR poor, because the nearest distances, for example, the Texas Motor Speedway and Kansas' sister track, the Chicagoland Speedway, and at least have been times at least one state as a buffer between itself and the Kansas Speedway. In the new calendar for 2011, Kansas was then awarded a second date next to the Chase-date, pending the beginning of June.

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NASCAR: Dover Preview September 2010

am 24. From on 24 September 2010, at 08:23 │ Comments {0}

The second Chase race takes place this weekend at Dover, and some drivers have to make many good points. One of them is just the New Hampshire winner Clint Bowyer. A massive point deduction due to a rule violation threw him far behind.

Clint Bowyer won last Sunday's first race of the Chase in New Hampshire and moved in at number 2 in the points behind leader Denny Hamlin right before. A super start, which was now, however, slowed by NASCAR. The story begins one week in advance, however, in Richmond: After the local race officials took the car with the # 33 under their wing and brought it to Concord, North Carolina from in-house R & D center for more detailed inspection. It turned out that Richard Childress Racing fairly narrowly on the work by the templates specified dimensions. Although the car was within a valid parameter in terms of dimensions and distances, but it was enough for NASCAR uttered a warning to RCR, not to exceed the line.

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