Night Racin’ Fast Laps at Bristol Motor Speedway
by Charlie Turner
I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow
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The Race to the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship is down to two short tracks and a big, two mile intermediate. That’s thirty, potentially huge, Chase bonus points up for grabs.
Carl Edwards snagged the extra ten points for winning the Michigan race. And MIS is the clone of one of the three tracks remaining - Auto Club Speedwayin Fontana, Fruitland.
Edwards is also the defending race winner of the Bristol night race, which just happens to be the next stop on the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour.
Racing under the lights in Thunder Valleyis one of the true spectacles of motorsports. Maybe of any sport. It has become more than just a race. Anything can happen at Bristol. I can’t wait.
But there’s a whole week to kill before Saturday night. Try our own, four Fast Lap heat race to help make the time go by.
1: Ryan Newman to Stewart-Haas in 2009 wasn’t a very well kept secret; but what could be causing a delay in sponsorship talks?
2: Morgan-McClure Motorsports said NASCAR hijacked their number 4 to give it to SHR. Should NASCAR have been more sensitive to one of its historic teams?
3: What should the penalty be to Joe Gibbs racing for trying to alter the dyno test results after the Nationwide race at Michigan?
4: Four Roush-Fenway cars finished in the top 5 at Michigan. Is that finish a good indication of who should be jettisoned when the team needs to get down to four teams?
Keep your responses down to 100 words or less. We are working through the bugs of a weekly video feature that will take the best of the Fast Lap to, we hope, another level. The first Fast Lap Show would have been making its debut this week, in fact. If only I had remebered to turn the mike on.
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1. From what I’ve seen, read and pulled out of my nether regions it’s all hinging on UPS. UPS, based on who you believe, is looking to sponsor the Truck series, Stewart-Haas, and Roush-Fenway or any combination of the above. Or none of the above.
2. How do you hijack something that belongs to you? Just what we don’t need another whine-fest like the “8 fiasco!” To paraphrase the well-worn: “Just shut-up and cheer!”
3. According to the poll confiscating Stewart’s and Logano’s first born male child is leading.
I tend to think that’s a bit too harsh, I’ll go with the standard 6 weeks in the Sin Bin and a reduction of 200pts to both drivers and owners standings. While on the subject, I speculate on The Why, at Bench Racers.
4. Well, there may be reasons to axe the #26’s driver, but not based on his 10th place at Michigan.
1. I’ll be the contrarian (is that a word?) and say…. nothing is causing a delay. Smoke announced he was leaving at Chicagoland, but didn’t reveal the car until 2 weeks later at Indy. Sure, we knew the sponsors, but it took a while to get all the t’s crossed and i’s dotted. I think the same thing may be happening here.
2. No - MMM hasn’t seen the track, and won’t for the same reasons they had to quit. NASCAR owns the numbers, not teams, and the 4 was good for a while, but ultimately it isn’t on the same level as many others in the sport. But, whining can often go your way, as it did here.
3. I think par the course, the crew chiefs will be suspended and owners points will be taken away - what’s interesting is if the drivers get points taken away, even though they’re both part-time - it won’t affect them much. If NASCAR wanted to send a message, they’d ban the teams from the track for the next few weeks. Of course, that won’t happen.
4. I think anyone who didn’t see the writing on the wall probably wouldn’t after that race. While most everyone has degraded JMac, he’s quietly drove his way up to 18th in points after falling out of the top 35 after Bristol. That’s a good turnaround yes, but not what Roush expects out of his teams.
1– Could it just be that Tony is trying to create some drama much like Junior did a year ago? If all the announcements same at one time there would be no longing for info. Always leave them wanting more.
2– What we have here is a failure to communicate. NASCAR had every right in the world to give Tony the #4 as it had not been used and they own the numbers. A bit of a bad show on NASCAR’s part to not check things out before giving it away. Tony and Ryan took the high road and everybody is happy.
3– What will it be or what should it be? I’ve said it over and over again–if ya really want to “nip it in the bud” suspend the drivers. But they don’t so it will be the usual fines and points penalties. “hold your wrist over here, Joe.”
4– McMurray will be gone or moved when it’s time to shave the teams to four. Too much upside to the others, whether it be because of sponsor relationships or age or potential. Jamie just hasn’t gotten it done.–sorry.