this thread is for:

quoting days of thunder

talking about all sorts of racing

discussing plans for attending future racing events from local grassroots stuff to sprint cup

and just generally getting your boogity boogity boogity on

haters is gonna hate, but we don't really care

i'mma start this thread off with the greatest music montage in history:



[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 6:02 PM. Reason : f]

8/10/2009 5:41:04 PM

8/10/2009 5:42:54 PM

hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah

8/10/2009 5:43:16 PM

so which one of you is which ?

8/10/2009 5:46:04 PM

i'm the first yellow frog and ragged is the second

8/10/2009 5:47:03 PM

hahaha, i totally had that in the box ready to post and didnt'

8/10/2009 5:48:07 PM

this thread pretty much screams win.

everyone is gonna hate until they find out the fun involved in this

8/10/2009 5:48:42 PM

^^what? the picture? i can't see it

8/10/2009 5:50:51 PM

no, exactly what you wrote

8/10/2009 5:52:13 PM

8/10/2009 5:52:44 PM

failure picture postin

8/10/2009 5:52:51 PM

ARCA/Remax Series American 200 Oct. 11th at Rockingham

are you a bad enough dude to cruise down US 1 with us ragged?

http://www.rockinghamracewaypark.com/american200.html

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 5:56 PM. Reason : that's the weekend of my fall break, son]

8/10/2009 5:56:32 PM

got it marked. cant wait to get into the new grandstands

8/10/2009 6:11:09 PM

i found out that the #10 from the PASS race saturday was dave blaney's 15 year old son ryan blaney

8/10/2009 6:14:50 PM

oh hell yeah. to bad his pops cant drive like him

8/10/2009 6:15:49 PM

haha. apparently he got tangled up with someone and had a tire rub on the fender. that's why he had to come in.

i'll probably go to WCS again friday. gonna have to hang around raleigh for a job on saturday and there won't be shit else to do.

8/10/2009 6:19:49 PM

i cant roll friday got some plans with the softball team

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 6:32 PM. Reason : sadface]

8/10/2009 6:25:36 PM

I'll see your Days of Thunder and raise you a:



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8/10/2009 6:25:42 PM

^^it's cool. there's always OCS on Aug. 29th.

8/10/2009 6:33:52 PM

So can I use this thread to speculate whether or not Schumi can put the slowly-improving F60 on the top of the podium?

8/10/2009 6:34:09 PM

sure, but don't expect me to discuss it with you

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM. Reason : hard to rub when you ain't got a fender]

8/10/2009 6:36:27 PM

^^dont expect much of an answer, cause there isnt much grassroot F1

8/10/2009 6:39:11 PM

i'd rather go to local grassroots stuff than a sprint cup event any day

8/10/2009 6:40:33 PM

I can stick to fenders-only if you want.

Do you think a legitimate gasoline-powered challenger will emerge in LMP1 in the next two years?

8/10/2009 6:42:01 PM

not my cup of tea

8/10/2009 6:47:10 PM

I can make this a NASCAR-centric topic.

Since NASCAR has completely abandoned the original aesthetic of the Cup series, why don't they embrace technology and get rid of the tiny wheels and ancient engines that make the cars so goddamned ill-handling and unresponsive?

8/10/2009 6:51:45 PM

i think you're missing the point here, dude

8/10/2009 6:54:25 PM

Quote :

"talking about all sorts of racing"

Also, why don't they put a goddamn $50 windshield wiper on Cup cars and race in the rain like real men?

8/10/2009 6:54:56 PM

ok, go on

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 6:57 PM. Reason : did you ever see what happened when the busch series ran in the rain?]

8/10/2009 6:56:17 PM

http://www.nascar.com/video/cup/2009/08/10/cup.wat.high.five.nascar/

i just watched this wreck from earlier today

8/10/2009 6:58:14 PM

every single person that gets in a wreck while racing had/has it coming

8/10/2009 6:58:58 PM

Quote :

" did you ever see what happened when the busch series ran in the rain?"

Yes. The guys who know how to drive went to the front.

8/10/2009 7:04:11 PM

it wasn't a very fun race to watch imo

8/10/2009 7:07:57 PM

I suppose I'm more inclined to appreciate driving skill, and rain is the great equalizer in that department.

I really wish they'd bring back IROC in its original incarnation, where they used a combination of road courses and ovals and ran either RSRs or Camaros. I'd be very interested to see someone like Schumi run someone like Smoke in an identical GT car on a road course.

8/10/2009 7:12:47 PM

i'd rather watch two weekend warriors battle it out on any of the great short tracks around NC, SC, or VA

8/10/2009 7:33:15 PM

An IROC race at Hickory or South Boston would be pretty cool.

I wish they'd still run Cup races at the fairgrounds.

8/10/2009 7:34:48 PM

^there were never any cup races held at the fairgrounds that i'm aware of, or any major nascar sanctioned events for that matter. possibly you're thinking about raleigh speedway, which ran a few grand national (the top class at the time) events back in the 50's. my dad has some great stories from going to races there when he was growing up. it was the second ever super speedway, fwiw.

i really want to see some events come back to north wilksboro. i feel fortunate enough to have seen one of the final events there as a kid. supposedly it's been opened back up for some bush testing recently which is a good sign. last time i pulled in there everything was all run down, grass growing out of the cracks in the track, etc.

[Edited on August 10, 2009 at 8:11 PM. Reason : .]

8/10/2009 8:08:28 PM

keep the tracks to 1 mile or less(except plate tracks). aero push sucks

8/10/2009 8:10:56 PM

do away with restrictor plates and put air jacks on the cars

8/10/2009 8:17:11 PM

i stand corrected, partially. there were never any cup events at the fairgrounds, but i just called my dad and he said he recalled two grand national races being held around 1970. he attended one, which richard petty won....

8/10/2009 8:18:27 PM

oh and BTW

The Last American Hero is a great stock car racing movie, Days of Thunder is more of a "Modern NASCAR racing for Dummies" film.

8/10/2009 8:20:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWGH0fnc-58

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIKa1dcA3xw

8/10/2009 8:24:21 PM

^fuckin A right. as epic as two lane blacktop and vanishing point.

8/10/2009 8:32:03 PM

Cup is Grand National.

The NASCAR Grand National series became Winston Cup in 1971, but the name "Grand National" wasn't transferred to the Sportsman series until 1986.

Anyway, the point is that there were top-flight NASCAR races run on dirt at the fairgrounds.

8/10/2009 8:35:14 PM

Quote :

"Cup is Grand National."

eh, sort of... while it was technically the same series, imo it's important to designate between the two eras/names because of all the changes that rjr brought about. especially in relation to the fairgrounds, since rjr took the series away from all dirt tracks.

Quote :

"Anyway, the point is that there were top-flight NASCAR races run on dirt at the fairgrounds."

agreed.

8/10/2009 10:23:18 PM

Quote :

"Yes. The guys who know how to drive went to the front. "

nobody wants to see racing at 30 mph

Quote :

"Days of Thunder is more of a "Modern NASCAR racing for Dummies"

actually its more about Tim Richmond,lol

8/10/2009 10:30:15 PM

so how bout OCS on Aug 29th dude? no special race, just their usual stuff. late models, limiteds, grand stock, pure stock, legends, and bandoleros i think

8/10/2009 10:34:21 PM

Quote :

"I really wish they'd bring back IROC in its original incarnation, where they used a combination of road courses and ovals and ran either RSRs or Camaros."

Hell yes.


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8/10/2009 10:38:28 PM

Quote :

"The Last American Hero is a great stock car racing movie, Days of Thunder is more of a "Modern NASCAR racing for Dummies" film."

It has been several years since I watched The Last American Hero, so forgive me if my memory fails me; but if I remember correctly the ending sucks. You're sitting there watching it and you start to think things are finally turning for the main character...Then it ends in some fade to greatness moment, the credits start rolling, and you're like; "That's It?" Junior Johnson does not approve.

Days of Thunder was a good movie. Box office success or not...It was good.

8/10/2009 10:44:40 PM

set 'em up

8/10/2009 10:45:43 PM