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Spinout!: December 2011
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Tuesday, December 6, 2011. What Now For Kurt Busch. With Kurt Busch's "mutual" ouster at Penske Racing, we are left to wonder who will get his old ride in the #22 Dodge? I believe the reason he had to leave the Penske #2 ride last year was because the new sponsor of the 22 demanded a "championship caliber" driver. That verbiage cuts Kurt's potential replacements down to Bill Elliott, Terry Labonte, Kimi Raikkonen, and not much else. The other big question is where will Kurt wind up? Links to this post.
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Spinout!: View From The Flagstand: 2012 First Half
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Sunday, July 15, 2012. View From The Flagstand: 2012 First Half. The season started off with a bang, literally, as Juan Montoya detonated a jet blower truck as the Daytona 500 was under caution. As a prime-time tv audience watched the delayed Daytona 500, Montoya plowed into the track cleaning machine and brought about another two hour delay late on a Monday night. Is there a chance that NASCAR's tv partners would treat the fans the same way they treat their stick and ball sports' fans? I am sure he was ...
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Spinout!: August 2012
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Sunday, August 26, 2012. View From the Flagstand: Hamlin Hammers Bristol. Hello, excitement, so nice of you to show up at Bristol once again. After a few years of falling ticket sales and rather tepid racing, Bristol Motor Speedway tinkered with the track surface hoping to bring the magic back to what was once the toughest ticket in NASCAR. For several years the annual night race at BMS was THE one event that every NASCAR fan considered the holy grail. A must-see, bucket list, type of spectacle. Danica P...
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Spinout!: February 2012
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012. View From The Flagstand: Kenseth Cruises at Daytona. The Daytona 500 was rained out on Sunday, started on Monday, and finished early Tuesday morning. Matt Kenseth won his second 500, at about 1 am, after a two hour red flag with 100 miles to go. Danicamania. Please. This is how you turn off fans that have stuck with NASCAR forever because they love the competition. Simply saying that she is the next big thing doesn't make it so. How about letting her on-track p...We saw the cl...
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Spinout!: March 2012
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Monday, March 26, 2012. View From The Flagstand: Smoke Reigns in Cali. Tony Stewart won the rain shortened event in Fontana, California on Sunday. Even though only 129 of the scheduled 200 laps were completed, Stewart had the fastest car and looked destined to win rain or no rain. Kyle Busch led 80 of the 129 laps while starting and finishing 2nd. Dale Earnhardt Jr was 3rd. Kurt Busch scored his first top-10 for Phoenix Racing, coming home 9th. You would be wrong. Why are they still racing here? View Fro...
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Spinout!: December 2012
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Saturday, December 8, 2012. 2012 From the Flagstand. As usual, we skip January. Which left only a couple of days before our four March. Races Smoke won two of them, way out west. Four races into the year and each of NASCAR’s four manufacturers (Ford, Toyota, Chevrolet, and Dodge) had a race win. Kurt meltdowns: 2. The first day of April. At Talladega in May. It took eleven races before JJ won his first this season. Uh oh, could be a long year for the multi-timer. Kurt meltdowns: 3. Five different drivers...
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Spinout!: View From the Flagstand: Hamlin Hammers Bristol
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Sunday, August 26, 2012. View From the Flagstand: Hamlin Hammers Bristol. Hello, excitement, so nice of you to show up at Bristol once again. After a few years of falling ticket sales and rather tepid racing, Bristol Motor Speedway tinkered with the track surface hoping to bring the magic back to what was once the toughest ticket in NASCAR. For several years the annual night race at BMS was THE one event that every NASCAR fan considered the holy grail. A must-see, bucket list, type of spectacle. Danica P...
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Spinout!: September 2012
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Sunday, September 9, 2012. The NASCAR season is now down to its ten race playoff dash. The twelve driver Chase field for the championship was set Saturday night in Richmond. That 400 lapper was rain delayed a couple of times, Clint Bowyer won, and Jeff Gordon willed his way to the final wild-card spot in the Chase with a stirring second place run. Hamlin and Keselowski are on their own in the Chase. Although, Hamlin may find help from his two non-Chase teammates, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano, easier th...
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Spinout!: Daytona 500 Props
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Sunday, February 16, 2014. One of the interesting things about the Super Bowl earlier this month were the number of proposition bets you could wager, on almost anything. If you had bet that the first score of that game would be a safety, you would have cashed in a 40-1 jackpot. With an eye toward the prop bets on the NFL's big game, I decided to set my own prop bets for NASCAR's big race. the Daytona 500. 1 Which type car will lead the 1st lap: Chevy 2-1, Toyota 3-1, Ford 4-1. February 16, 2014 at 8:10 AM.
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Spinout!: Chaser's Bar
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Sunday, September 9, 2012. The NASCAR season is now down to its ten race playoff dash. The twelve driver Chase field for the championship was set Saturday night in Richmond. That 400 lapper was rain delayed a couple of times, Clint Bowyer won, and Jeff Gordon willed his way to the final wild-card spot in the Chase with a stirring second place run. Hamlin and Keselowski are on their own in the Chase. Although, Hamlin may find help from his two non-Chase teammates, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano, easier th...