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Stumbled upon this video of someone opening up an old can of Davey Allison's Chili:

Probably similar in smell, color, and consistency as if you opened Davey's casket after all this time as well.

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Las Vegas Motor Speedway considers eliminating seats for NASCAR races

The bloody gash on Kyle Busch's forehead wasn't the only cut at Las Vegas Motor Speedway last week. The track appears poised to ax more seats that were largely empty at the Kobalt 400, and TV ratings for the March 12 NASCAR race were down 17 percent. What, if anything, does it mean for the viability of a second NASCAR race in Las Vegas?

The Kobalt 400 produced a late pass for the lead and a pit road fight pitting hometown hero Busch against Joey Logano and members of Logano's pit crew. It seemed to be the shot in the rocker arm LVMS was seeking.

It was announced March 8 that Las Vegas also will host a fall playoff race starting in 2018. LVMS President Chris Powell said he was "thrilled" with the early demand for tickets.

But fans who sought to renew seats in Sections 1 and 3 - the lower grandstands fronting the Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt Terraces - were told they could not purchase them for 2018. "We are not prepared to sell tickets in those areas," Powell said. Does that mean Sections 1 and 3 will be eliminated? "A final decision hasn't been made."

A 2018 seating chart on the speedway's website shows the lower grandstands in front of the terraces grayed out.

With NASCAR attendance and TV ratings in freefall, no fewer than 11 tracks have reduced seating capacity since 2007 - some by as much as 40 percent. Seats at LVMS were widened on the front straightaway before the sweeping grandstand between Turns 3 and 4 was shoveled under in 2015, reducing capacity to around 108,000. Attendance for last Sunday's Kobalt 400 was estimated at 70,000. (NASCAR stopped releasing attendance figures in 2013.)

If the sections in front of the terraces are eliminated, it would trim LVMS capacity to around 80,000.

--- Las Vegas Review-Journal ---

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Sterling Marlin - " I got run over by a bug-eyed dummy.: After being wrecked by Greg Biffle

Furniture Row Racing's #77 hauler got damaged in hit-and-run highway crash early morning on their way to Auto Club Speedway.

http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/ ... jones.html

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I'm surprised no one has posted about plates at indy, or dillon not being penalized.

We really don't care anymore.

Edit: so, plates at indy was posted in the FU thread a couple hours ago, but that news is days old.

I delayed my post until I saw what size they will be using

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Why can't they just dirty up the cars a bit? Like add a wicker to the roof and/or spoiler. Make em punch a big ole hole in the air IMO

Or race at IRP.

I was listening to Jr's podcast the other day and even he said get the Xfinity cars back to IRP. Xfinity at IMS is a failure. When you have the most popular driver, an Xfinity team owner saying that, time to fuckin suck it up and admit the fuckin failure.

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Amen.

His popularity shouldn't really matter to such decisions. It's just the very facts and validity of what he and many others have said and are saying: the cars suck at Indy and they own at IRP.

Rewatching 2001 season and so often the cup, Busch and trucks are racing at 3 different tracks at the same weekend, why does it need to be so homogenised, go to different tracks, shake it up a bit have more variety.

You want your mind blown? Go look at the tracks and type of tracks the Trucks ran at in the mid to late 90's...

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Louisville (less than .5 mile, between 3 and 10 corners)
Flemington (square track driven like a circle)
Mesa Marin (high-banked half mile)
Saugus (flat short track)
I-70 (dog-legged high-banked short track)

Those are the type of tracks I'd want to see the Trucks run on. Different tracks with character.

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Colorado was used for trucks too wasn't it, about 1/3 mile, South Boston, Memphis, hell spruce up Wilkesboro and Rockingham have xfinity and trucks headline acts at unique locations.

Since nobody has posted a race thread for California. Here is the link to the Random Fantasy Game.

https://randomfantasyracing.com/

I got the #15 of Reed Sorenson this week.

Tried that. Didn't work.

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#95 of Michael McDowell

I'll follow you out the window...