NASCAR Cup Round 2: Phoenix

[gomick]

Bit late, but not much passing going on - Denny Hamlin summed it up in his post race interiew...

STANDINGS (after 2 of 36)

Jimmie Johnson - 90
Dale Earnhardt Jnr - 82
Brad Keselowski - 82
Clint Bowyer - 72
Denny Hamlin - 72
Greg Biffle - 66
Mark Martin - 65
Aric Almirola - 60
Jeff Gordon - 60
Ricky Stenhouse Jnr - 60
Carl Edwards - 59
Marcos Ambrose - 52

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by gomick

Bit late, but not much passing going on - Denny Hamlin summed it up in his post race interiew...

Don't know what he said but one helluva move at the end of the race for Denny. Someone feel free to start race threads in the future...I think I am looking to retire from it. Wish we hadn't run DanicaFan off for this purpose alone.

[gomick]

Was a great move for sure, dont know why we didnt see more of it - will try & find a you tube link of move/interiew...

[Cynic]

I wondered where DanicaFan had gone to. What did you do to upset him?

I'm making a concerted effort to follow this season (Could be a big mistake given the Gen-6 cars performance so far...) so I might post the race threads if no-one else bothers.

[Paradise City]

I knew Edwards had it in the bag. Johnson was strong. Hamlin and mad Brad dazzled.

It was a slog of a race overall.

[fieldodreams79]

Originally Posted by Cynic

I wondered where DanicaFan had gone to. What did you do to upset him?

I think it was our general rapport with him and distaste we all had for his starting unnecessary threads about Danica blowing wind. Dude did a helluva job with race threads, though. I was able to take the good over the annoying.

I'm making a concerted effort to follow this season (Could be a big mistake given the Gen-6 cars performance so far...) so I might post the race threads if no-one else bothers.

Have at it!

[JHamilton]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

I think it was our general rapport with him and distaste we all had for his starting unnecessary threads about Danica blowing wind. Dude did a helluva job with race threads, though. I was able to take the good over the annoying.

More creepy than annoying.

[Cynic]

I do wonder if Danicafan's real name was actually Darrell Waltripp. She seems to have replaced Jnr as his driver-who-can-do-no-wrong.

[The Original Instag8or]

What I noticed during the race was the return of the dreaded aero-push, which is the loss of frontal downforce on trailing cars caused by turbulent air from the leading car. This often results in less passing, and bigger gaps between cars.

My solution to this has always been the obvious: reduce the rear spoiler. This would result in less turbulence, as well as a better overall front/rear balance on the cars in traffic. What surprised me was that Dale Jr said the same thing in his post-race interview... and for years I have questioned that boy's intellect.

[PabloTeK]

Originally Posted by The Original Instag8or

What I noticed during the race was the return of the dreaded aero-push, which is the loss of frontal downforce on trailing cars caused by turbulent air from the leading car. This often results in less passing, and bigger gaps between cars.

My solution to this has always been the obvious: reduce the rear spoiler. This would result in less turbulence, as well as a better overall front/rear balance on the cars in traffic. What surprised me was that Dale Jr said the same thing in his post-race interview... and for years I have questioned that boy's intellect.

The wake does appear to have increased on the speedways; Gordon had some debris on the front of his car, got vaguely near Nemechek in front and it fell off! It wasn't that long ago you had to basically rub up against the car you were following for that to happen...

Interestingly NASCAR have removed the camera dome from the car because it provides downforce to the leader but not those in traffic! If they wanted something aero-neutral surely something like a F1 T-bar camera would be best?

[mrfizz]

What i don't get about Phoenix is how you are allowed to take a short cut! I know that it compromises you're entry into Turn 3 but you see plenty of passes because people basically missed out the elbow. It also causes wrecks, i.e. in the Nationwide race one of my guys Joe Nemechek was taken out by a certain Brazilian (who has been known to crash on demand) who cut the corner and then couldn't get wowed up in time.

I just don't geddit.

[MJ_N_09]

Perhaps we can just have one season long race thread instead. That could be an idea in case someone doesn't step up per weekend.