Martinsville race thread

[MD24]

Cup

Goody's Fast Relief 500

Qualifying: Saturday March 31, 11:40 am/et

Green Flag: Sunday April 1, 1:15 pm/et

Camping World Truck Series

Kroger 250

Qualifying: Saturday March 31, 10:00 am/et

Green Flag: Saturday March 31, 1:30 pm/et

[call_me_andrew]

Weather looks bad on Friday and Saturday, but should be nice on Sunday.

[patrickmartin]

Weather.com had it at like 50-60% a few days ago and it's been progressively getting less and less, today's gorgeous and tomorrow's only a 20-30% chance then Sunday's supposed (supposed to is a dirty word with weather around here) to be beautiful. Hopefully it'll bring the people out and pack the place.

[MD24]

1 5 Kasey Kahne
2 29 Kevin Harvick
3 11 Denny Hamlin
4 15 Clint Bowyer
5 39 Ryan Newman
6 55 Brian Vickers
7 2 Brad Keselowski
8 18 Kyle Busch
9 24 Jeff Gordon
10 20 Joey Logano

11 27 Paul Menard
12 9 Marcos Ambrose
13 56 Martin Truex Jr.
14 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr.
15 14 Tony Stewart
16 47 Bobby Labonte
17 78 Regan Smith
18 31 Jeff Burton
19 43 Aric Almirola
20 1 Jamie McMurray

21 17 Matt Kenseth
22 48 Jimmie Johnson
23 98 Michael McDowell
24 34 David Ragan
25 13 Casey Mears
26 16 Greg Biffle
27 22 AJ Allmendinger
28 99 Carl Edwards
29 10 David Reutimann
30 26 Josh Wise

31 83 Landon Cassill
32 42 Juan Montoya
33 23 Scott Riggs
34 93 Travis Kvapil
35 74 Reed Sorenson
36 32 Ken Schrader
37 87 Joe Nemechek
38 38 David Gilliland
39 30 David Stremme
40 51 Kurt Busch

41 33 Hermie Sadler
42 36 Dave Blaney
43 249 J.J. Yeley

Did Not Qualify
44 52 Scott Speed
45 119 Mike Bliss
46 37 Tony Raines

[Lee Roy]

I'd love to see Reutimann get about a 10 race suspension for that ignorant move of his today.

[00steven]

What a mess at the end. No respect out there, guys dive-bombing the corners, and the mess with Reutimann. That's why in my opinion the field should be reduced to about 35 cars. There are just to many garbage cars out there waiting to ruin a quality teams race.

[harvick#1]

What a mess at the end. No respect out there, guys dive-bombing the corners, and the mess with Reutimann. That's why in my opinion the field should be reduced to about 35 cars. There are just to many garbage cars out there waiting to ruin a quality teams race.

isnt Reutimann SHR's 3rd car, oh wait, only when Danica drives :rolleyes:

[patrickmartin]

Yeah...hate that happened. Reutimann has always seemed like such a respectable guy out there too, had it not been Danica's ride at Darlington none of that would have ever happened. And the announcers were pissed over it too. David's not rude or dumb enough to that, but they don't want Danica to have to make that race on her on. Just wrong guy wrong place.

[AussieV8]

Here's a simple idea. Once the race hits 10 laps to go, remove the cars that are 5 or more laps down, but still classify them as finishers. It gets the worst of the cars off the track and out of the way without severly impacting their ability to score points for the top 35

[Lee Roy]

Maybe a better solution is to lock in the top 35 at the begining of the year and then those teams don't have to worry about trying to stay on the track in questionable situations.

[call_me_andrew]

Here's a simple idea. Once the race hits 10 laps to go, remove the cars that are 5 or more laps down, but still classify them as finishers. It gets the worst of the cars off the track and out of the way without severly impacting their ability to score points for the top 35

That's not great if you're running 37th and 150 laps down trying to pass the off-track 36th place driver who is 141 laps down.

[Alfa Fan]

There is an obvious solution. Just have everyone as a go or go home entry, no reserved slots, no "provisionals", nothing, either you make the top 43 on speed or your out.

[Lee Roy]

There is an obvious solution. Just have everyone as a go or go home entry, no reserved slots, no "provisionals", nothing, either you make the top 43 on speed or your out.

No other major league racing series does this, why should NASCAR?