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Tristar 7AT · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:48 am

Have big giant stupid accidents gone down since the rule?

No.

Have cars not willing to go below the yellow line caused accidents?

Yes.

Will getting rid of the line cause more accidents?

No.

Will drivers driving like stupid assholes continue to junk the entire field by the end of every race?

Yes.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 1:04 am

Ian-S wrote:

In other news JR says they should scrap the yellow line rule and let the drivers police themselves, thoughts?

This is what I've been asking for since the first time they announced the yellow line rule.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 5:15 am

Didn't it come in after Jeff Gordon caused a wreck at Daytona?

Chris A · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 3:47 pm

I think it was more of a response to the Mike Skinner/Tony Stewart crash at Talladega in the spring of 1999. Though there was a close call in the Daytona 500 as well when Gordon went below the line to take the lead and just barely missed a damaged car limping around on the apron (was it Rudd?).

Ian-S · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 9:23 pm

To quote Dirty Mo (assuming that is Jr's co-host), it was "bought in to protect the drivers from themselves" according to NASCAR.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:10 pm

Ian-S wrote:

To quote Dirty Mo (assuming that is Jr's co-host), it was "bought in to protect the drivers from themselves" according to NASCAR.

Dirty Mo is the nickname of Mooresville, NC, and what Jr named his property (western town & race car graveyard) / podcast group

the co-host is Mike Davis

Joe A · PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:44 am

Chris A wrote:

I think it was more of a response to the Mike Skinner/Tony Stewart crash at Talladega in the spring of 1999. Though there was a close call in the Daytona 500 as well when Gordon went below the line to take the lead and just barely missed a damaged car limping around on the apron (was it Rudd?).

It was Ricky Rudd and, if I remember correctly, Rusty forced Gordon down to the apron in some sort of insane attempt to keep the lead - either hit a slow Rudd and wreck the whole field or back off and let Rusty keep the lead. Admittedly, speaking from someone who hated Gordon back in the day, his move to take the lead was one of the all-time badass moves in NASCAR history.

Dan Belcher · PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 11:57 am

Joe A wrote:

Chris A wrote:

I think it was more of a response to the Mike Skinner/Tony Stewart crash at Talladega in the spring of 1999. Though there was a close call in the Daytona 500 as well when Gordon went below the line to take the lead and just barely missed a damaged car limping around on the apron (was it Rudd?).

It was Ricky Rudd and, if I remember correctly, Rusty forced Gordon down to the apron in some sort of insane attempt to keep the lead - either hit a slow Rudd and wreck the whole field or back off and let Rusty keep the lead. Admittedly, speaking from someone who hated Gordon back in the day, his move to take the lead was one of the all-time badass moves in NASCAR history.

That was such a big balls move. Every time I see a replay even now it still makes me nervous.

racer612008 · PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 3:42 pm

ISC / NASCAR merger has been completed

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Atlanta Motor Speedway is proposing a $1 billion casino resort to be added to the track's property
https://www.11alive.com/article/sports/ ... 022f64d128
rendering from Lake Country 94.7FM & 102.3FM

Chris A · PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:14 pm

Is anyone else starting to look at big projects like this and have that creeping, back-of-the-mind thought that this is all futile and the world will be unrecognizably dead in a few decades?

SBan83 · PostPosted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 6:30 pm

Chris A wrote:

Is anyone else starting to look at big projects like this and have that creeping, back-of-the-mind thought that this is all futile and NASCAR will be unrecognizably dead in a few decades?

Fixed, and agreed.

Cartman · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:11 am

Is it me, or does it look like they used the pre-1997 paperclip layout in the render?

Joe A · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 2:48 am

They did. The grandstand's also on the old location where the frontstraight used to be. Currently, AMS's frontstraight is on the side of the nearest highway - U.S. Highway 19/41.

Tristar 7AT · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:57 am

So... Atlanta metro will have two theme parks, turn the track into the pre-97 oval with the old seats reinstalled and gambling in Georgia?

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

mclaren2008 · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:48 am

There could be a pretty ugly story developing if what I read on Twitter has any truth. I think it's fake news, but give it a week and we'll see.

Ian-S · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:52 pm

Some of us don't do tweeter so give us a clue and don't leave us hanging like that...

Cartman · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:19 pm

I'm sure there's a metaphor for NASCAR's downfall somewhere in this.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/barstoolsports/status/1184472548140027904[/tweet]

Joe A · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 6:38 pm

Ian-S wrote:

Some of us don't do tweeter so give us a clue and don't leave us hanging like that...

Smart man. Twitter is a cesspool.

There's a nasty rumor being shared by Drunken Brian France on Twitter that a married NASCAR driver (who has won a race this season) was caught fooling around with a Monster Energy girl.

[tweet]https://twitter.com/DrunkBrianF/status/1185241885234946049[/tweet]

[tweet]https://twitter.com/DrunkBrianF/status/1185259776961400832[/tweet]

Cartman · PostPosted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 8:06 pm

I'm not well informed on DBF, is he supposed to be a NASCAR insider going incognito through a parody account? Because that's how he comes off in those tweets IMO.

Wreckinturn4 · PostPosted: Sun Oct 20, 2019 12:58 am

copied from a reddit post of things that happened this week

Quote:

300 birds going on a kamikaze mission and attacking the HoF
Austin Theriault and Kyle Larson injuries
JTG hauler catches fire
Kaulig hauler crashes
MRN hauler hits a deer
Xfinity 07 hauler crashes
Ex truck series owner found dead in river
Ex JGR plane crashes in Alaska
Gray Gaulding has an allergic reaction on plane
Monster girl cheating fiasco
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. to the 37 in Cup and the subreddit explosion part I
Harrison Burton to the 20 in Xfinity
RWR Hauler catches fire
Hemric and Ragan start 1-2
Smithley wrecks leaders in the most dumbass move in NASCAR in the last 15 years (other than Lepage-gate) during the Xfinity race
Brandon Jones wins at Kansas and the subreddit explosion part II
Reddick and Custer fight on pit road
Harvick barred from qualifying in Cup race
NASCAR takes 12 tracks in $2 billion ISC merger
Gaughan doesn't give two fucks about flipping at Talladega AND LEADS
YRB wins at Talladega by .007 seconds

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