Homestead race thread

[MD24]

Cup

Ford 400

Qualifying: Saturday, November 19 2:40 pm/et

Green Flag: Sunday, November 20 3:15 pm/et

Nationwide

Ford 300

Qualifying: Saturday, November 19 1:05 pm/et

Green Flag: Saturday, November 19 4:30 pm/et

Camping World Truck Series

Ford 200

Qualifying: Friday, November 18 4:30 pm/et

Green Flag: Friday, November 18 8:00 pm/et

[Alexamateo]

Pulling for Tony to win, but Edwards may have the edge because Roush is so good here and Carl won this race last year. Also, Carl has been very consistent, while Tony has occasionally been out to lunch set-up wise. We'll just have to watch and see. :)

[anthonyvop]

Showed up this morning to pick up my Credentials. Looked up at the sky and went home! I knew today was going to be a wash out

[MD24]

1 99 Carl Edwards
2 56 Martin Truex Jr.
3 4 Kasey Kahne
4 22 Kurt Busch
5 2 Brad Keselowski
6 17 Matt Kenseth
7 24 Jeff Gordon
8 16 Greg Biffle
9 48 Jimmie Johnson
10 11 Denny Hamlin

11 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
12 43 A.J. Allmendinger
13 6 David Ragan
14 39 Ryan Newman
15 14 Tony Stewart
16 78 Regan Smith
17 33 Clint Bowyer
18 9 Marcos Ambrose
19 18 Kyle Busch
20 21 Trevor Bayne

21 29 Kevin Harvick
22 51 Landon Cassill
23 27 Paul Menard
24 83 Brian Vickers
25 5 Mark Martin
26 1 Jamie McMurray
27 42 Juan Montoya
28 00 David Reutimann
29 84 Cole Whitt
30 55 J.J. Yeley

31 31 Jeff Burton
32 20 Joey Logano
33 66 Michael McDowell
34 135 Dave Blaney
35 30 David Stremme
36 47 Bobby Labonte
37 87 Joe Nemechek
38 34 David Gilliland
39 71 Mike Bliss
40 13 Casey Mears

41 46 Scott Speed
42 7 Reed Sorenson
43 38 Travis Kvapil

DNQ
44 37 Mike Skinner
45 192 Scott Riggs
46 32 T.J. Bell
47 193 Grant Enfinger
48 36 Geoffrey Bodine
49 192 Dennis Setzer

[Alexamateo]

Round 1 goes to Carl, who not only wins the pole (and an excellent shot at leading a lap right off the bat), but also has all three of his teammates (Kenseth, Biffle, & Ragan) starting between him and Tony.

I'll bet Tony feels like this guy right now. --> :s

[Sparky1329]

I think all the pressure is on Carl since he's the no-brainer favorite. Tony is as cool as a cucumber because he already has two championship trophies and has nothing to prove. I'd rather be in Tony's shoes right now.

[wedge]

Holy Smoke!

Congrats to Tony Stewart, Darian Grubb and the rest of the #14 crew. Coming through adversity, huge fuel mileage gamble.

No disrespect to Cousin Carl, he gave a heck of a fight in the Chase but he right guy won.

[Sparky1329]

Yay Smoke! Way to go! Wooo hoooo!

[call_me_andrew]

Eat it, Kulwicki!

[harvick#1]

Eat it, Kulwicki!

thats really farce, Kulwicki did it on his own, he didnt buy an already existing team

[Lee Roy]

Impressive win. Stewart backed into the chase without a win and won half of the chase races. Talk about peaking.

[call_me_andrew]

thats really farce, Kulwicki did it on his own, he didnt buy an already existing team

Kulwicki bought Bill Terry's team.

And Tony didn't technically "buy" into the team. Haas gave him half the team because he couldn't afford Tony's salary.

[Sparky1329]

When Tony left Richmond he was 9th in the point standings. His Chicago win bumped him up to the 2nd spot and 7 points out of the lead. That may have been the point when he realized that he and his team could do this and take a shot at the big trophy.

Nobody else on the driver roster had five wins this season let alone five just in the Chase. The #14 team didn't have an easy incident free race today. They bounced back from adversity and went home with the the big prize. It will be nice to see somebody other than the #48 team sitting at the main table on stage at Las Vegas.

[Jared East]

No one seems to be talking about it but I think its really cool how Tony now has the "Triple Crown" Winston,Nextel,and Sprint Cups.

[00steven]

Tony drove his ass off. That was perhaps the finest bit of driving I have ever seen.

[Alexamateo]

....

And Tony didn't technically "buy" into the team. Haas gave him half the team because he couldn't afford Tony's salary.

Not to be persnickety, but if Tony forgoes a salary for a period of time in exchange for ownership shares, he is using money owed to him to buy the team. It matters not if he actually wrote a check or not.

In the mid-60's, my dad was in the grocery business with his uncle, they drew small salaries and split profits at the end of the year. My dad took all the profits for 2-3 years and built our house with cash, he then paid his uncle back by foregoing his share of the profits for 2-3 years to pay him back. He paid his uncle back even though he never actually wrote him a check.

Oh and Congrats to Tony, That was an incredible 10 race run!

[Lee Roy]

Kulwicki bought Bill Terry's team.

And Tony didn't technically "buy" into the team. Haas gave him half the team because he couldn't afford Tony's salary.

You make it sound like Tony is just the "driver". From what I've seen, Tony is truly the "owner" of the team, in that he seems to make most of the decisions on how the team is run. Haas seems to be just a $ilent partner.

[DanicaFan]

I thought the race was exciting. Congrats to Tony Stewart for the win and the Series Champion. He deserved the title after winning 5 of the chase races. It would of been nice to see Carl Edwards win his first one though.

The Nationwide race was good until the last 15 laps when unfortunately Danica Patrick hit the wall and caused her to not be able to finish the race. Not a way I wanted to see her end the season but I look for her to be very strong next year and in victory lane.