Richmond Cup race thread

[Jonesi]

Broadcast just started, lots of clouds in the sky. Just looked at the weather forcast for there, hour by hour shows 40% chance of rain increasing to 60% after midnight.

Looks like a race to get up front fast and stay there until they red flag for rain.

[Erki]

I think I saw drops of water on the camera so it's quite moist out there... Gonna be a long night I'm afraid...

[raybak]

Looking at the weather, humidity of 93% isn't good

Ray

[Erki]

Did I just see Ricky Rudd already in the car, with helmet on?

[SOD]

Boogity

[harvick#1]

Boogity

[colinspooky]

yeah, I know how this ends........erm...... wait a sec --- tip of tongue

[Jonesi]

Green/yellow start.
Let's sort of go racing boys ;-)

[Jonesi]

The race is scheduled for 400 laps, 200 laps is an official race. What do you figure is the over/under on green flag laps, 30 laps? ;-)

[raybak]

Not yet, raining quite heavy from the looks of the telecast

[Jonesi]

FoxTrax is showing Carl Edwards leading a lap (a technical no-no) so do they penalize him or just override the computer and put all the laps led in JGs column? ;-)

Red flag now.

[harvick#1]

they really need to set it back to 0, those 12 laps were worthless, If I was the fans, I'd start throwing Beer cans :p :

[Jonesi]

They have a little less than 6 hours to get a 3-4 hour race in tonight (curfew). The weather radar shows the storm system all the way out to Columbus (assuming a general SSE wind) Looks like this is going to be a Sunday race after all.

[dont_be_jack]

They have a little less than 6 hours to get a 3-4 hour race in tonight (curfew). The weather radar shows the storm system all the way out to Columbus (assuming a general SSE wind) Looks like this is going to be a Sunday race after all.

That's what it looked like to me. I checked it around 5 PM and it looked like there was a bad chance of getting the race in. That 2 AM curfew is going to prevent anything from being done.

[dont_be_jack]

Race has been called. It'll happen tomorrow at 1 PM EDT.

[muggle not]

Wonder if Lee Roy got wet. :)

[SOD]

who's going to win this?

Gordon?

[Erki]

What's going on? I see they had an impressive 125-laps green run and then bang! Caution after caution after caution... :\

[SOD]

:dork:

[harvick#1]

What's going on? I see they had an impressive 125-laps green run and then bang! Caution after caution after caution... :\

you know the crap, a Bogus caution came out, then all the lap down cars started wrecking everyone, happens in every short track race.

Harvick had this win, he was still the 4th best car at the end of the race even with all the damage. watch out for the CoT races, Harvick has been great in all of them but Bad luck has screwed him over.

Hendrick may have won the race again, but that 29 machine is excellent.

Hamlin was also reeling in both Johnson and Busch before the race ended.

Penske has been getting alot better also with the CoT

[blakebeatty]

all legitimate cautions though, you have nothing to complain about.

great race, no conspiracy theory...

Harvick had a great car, but the hendrick cars were the class of the field.

Jimmie Johnson earned, and deserved that win.

[Mark in Oshawa]

Man, what are the guys at Hendrick's doing that the rest of them cant figure out?

[harvick#1]

Harvick had the best car today, just bad luck again. Harvick was the only car that could fly around the track low-middle-or high.

Hamlin was fastest at the end of the race but ran out of laps

the Hendrick just have zero bad luck, (except for Mears), and its alot easier compitition when the Hendrick B driver takes out about 10 drivers ;)

[muggle not]

Best car, bad luck, B.S. In Nascar you gotta bring the car home. Some drivers just don't learn how to do it consistently. :)

[blakebeatty]

harvick's wreck was entirely the fault of his team too, it was no bad luck.

[muggle not]

Wonder if Newman and JPM will make up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFnnwdlerJM