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Schedule
DAYTONA 500
Sunday, Feb 17
2:30 PM Daytona International Speedway

Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500
Sunday, Feb 24
2:00 PM Atlanta Motor Speedway

MARCH 2019
Pennzoil 400 presented by Jiffy Lube
Sunday, Mar 3
3:30 PM Las Vegas Motor Speedway

TicketGuardian 500
Sunday, Mar 10
3:30 PM ISM Raceway

Auto Club 400
Sunday, Mar 17
3:30 PM Auto Club Speedway

STP 500
Sunday, Mar 24
2:00 PM Martinsville Speedway

O’Reilly Auto Parts 500
Sunday, Mar 31
3:00 PM Texas Motor Speedway

APRIL 2019
Food City 500
Sunday, Apr 7
2:00 PM Bristol Motor Speedway

TOYOTA OWNERS 400
Saturday, Apr 13
7:30 PM Richmond Raceway

GEICO 500
Sunday, Apr 28
2:00 PM Talladega Superspeedway

MAY 2019
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race at Dover
Sunday, May 5
2:00 PM Dover International Speedway

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race at Kansas
Saturday, May 11
7:30 PM Kansas Speedway

Monster Energy Open
Saturday, May 18
6:00 PM Charlotte Motor Speedway

Monster Energy NASCAR All-Star Race
Saturday, May 18
8:00 PM Charlotte Motor Speedway

Coca-Cola 600
Sunday, May 26
6:00 PM Charlotte Motor Speedway

JUNE 2019
Pocono 400
Sunday, Jun 2
2:00 PM Pocono Raceway

FireKeepers Casino 400
Sunday, Jun 9
2:00 PM Michigan International Speedway

Toyota / Save Mart 350
Sunday, Jun 23
3:00 PM Sonoma Raceway

Camping World 400
Sunday, Jun 30
3:00 PM Chicagoland Speedway

JULY 2019
Coke Zero Sugar 400
Saturday, Jul 6
7:30 PM Daytona International Speedway

Quaker State 400 Presented by Walmart
Saturday, Jul 13
7:30 PM Kentucky Speedway

Foxwoods Resort Casino 301
Sunday, Jul 21
3:00 PM New Hampshire Motor Speedway

Gander Outdoors 400
Sunday, Jul 28
3:00 PM Pocono Raceway

AUGUST 2019
Go Bowling at The Glen
Sunday, Aug 4
3:00 PM Watkins Glen International

Consumers Energy 400
Sunday, Aug 11
3:00 PM Michigan International Speedway

Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race
Saturday, Aug 17
7:30 PM Bristol Motor Speedway

SEPTEMBER 2019*PLAYOFF RACE
Bojangles’ Southern 500
Sunday, Sep 1
6:00 PM Darlington Raceway

Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard Powered By Florida Georgia Line
Sunday, Sep 8
2:00 PM Indianapolis Motor Speedway

*South Point 400
Sunday, Sep 15
7:00 PM Las Vegas Motor Speedway

*Federated Auto Parts 400
Saturday, Sep 21
7:30 PM Richmond Raceway

*Bank of America ROVAL 400
Sunday, Sep 29
2:30 PM Charlotte Motor Speedway Road Course

OCTOBER 2019*PLAYOFF RACE
*Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race at Dover
Sunday, Oct 6
2:30 PM Dover International Speedway

*1000Bulbs.com 500
Sunday, Oct 13
2:00 PM Talladega Superspeedway

*Hollywood Casino 400
Sunday, Oct 20
2:30 PM Kansas Speedway

*First Data 500
Sunday, Oct 27
3:00 PM Martinsville Speedway

NOVEMBER 2019*PLAYOFF RACE
*AAA Texas 500
Sunday, Nov 3
3:00 PM Texas Motor Speedway

*Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Race at ISM Raceway
Sunday, Nov 10
2:30 PM ISM Raceway

*Ford EcoBoost 400
Sunday, Nov 17
3:00 PM Homestead-Miami Speedway


Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus split up. With Knaus going to William Byron. Kevin Meendering goes to Jimmie Johnson. Lowes has also exited.

Daytona 500 is the last restrictor plate race, they will be using a combination of a smaller tapered spacer to reduce engine horsepower to a target goal of 550 (from 750) and aero ducts to foster tighter racing on a majority of speedways measuring longer than 1 mile.

Ford will (finally) be using the Mustang instead of the Fusion.

Lots of drivers changing teams/car numbers and some new drivers and crew chiefs coming up from Xfinity.

Boogity boogity...

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Demon motorsports kicked of the year by winning pole and then crashing the **** out of the Daytona 500. Local Driving idiot Ray Miller can't get out of the way of lapped traffic sending the Number 2 Miller Genuine draft car to an early out.

Well my boy Kenseth retires so I be pulling for Chase on this one. Hoping for a good race and not that single file shit all the way til 3 to go!

JFC, what an idiot. Miller should probably make himself scarce in the pit.

Sad when the most exciting part of the race is cars wrecking on pit road.

That is me and I don't race online because I am terrible

There was some racing better than Ithought it would be

Paul Menard.. yikes.

Crazy, fiery wreck.

This is garbage. F1 and Indy are light years better than this. This is just demolition derby at the white trash county fair

Crash on every lap at the end. This looks like a Chiefs game w/DPI in last 4 minutes

NASCAR got their “feel good” story for the week.

Gibbs son passes away on 1/11 and the 11 Gibbs car ends up in victory lane.

drive @ almost 200 mph professionally and get back to me.

They should have 40 lap races, that's when it gets crazy. Too bad Byron got taken out by Boyer in the last crash, he was very competitive today.

Indy drivers go much faster and don’t have the crap we we saw in this race

apples and oranges.

You need some more bacon from Amirola to Michael Waltrip was awesome.

I fell asleep. Boring

who won?

****ing keslowski

Sad how many empty seats today. Sport has really fallen out of the spotlight.

Never replaced Dale Earnhardt, Rusty Wallace, Jeff Gordon

Yeah the rookies are a bunch of no-names and aren't lighting up track. I remember when NASCAR tried to play off the good looks of Kahne but he couldn't win enough and is now unsponsored. They need to find the next Richard Petty of NASCAR and sell the hell out of him.

I can see Chase Elliott being that guy.

Yyyyyyyyyup.

Ricky Rudd Bill Elliot Jeff Gordon Dale Earnhardt Jr and senior terry and bobby labonte. Nascar needs a reboot.

Bobby Labonte was my guy back in the day. Have not really followed since he retired and they went to this "chase" crap.

That it is

Nobody really cares about NASCAR anymore. Just look at all those empty seats at Atlanta. The ONLY thing keeping NASCAR alive is their TV contract. The CHASE and the LAME Stages have killed this sport. The stage thing was the last straw. They stop the race during the race at the end of a stage? Nothing more than a mandatory caution. SO STUPID.

I saw something about stages when I happened to actually look at the TV yesterday. What is that?

And what is up with the talk I heard during Daytona about it being the last restrictor plate race? Something about an engine change or something.

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I know Larson struggles at Martinsville but @ 50/1 odds on mybookie.com is definitely intriguing.

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Each race is now broken into 3 stages...winner of the stage gets a playoff point and the top 10 of the stage gets series points. It's an attempt to allow for strategy and for some drivers to score points they otherwise wouldnt.

I'm really not sure if its done anything for the sport, but it's a way for those in playoff contention (a previous race winner is a playoff participant) to get an edge against fellow competitors.

I have followed it from a distance and really dont care about the points racing...

Old school was pure points racing, but that was too boring and now, it's just become ridiculously confusing. I thought the playoffs were a good idea, but Nascar needs to finish (like PGA is now) before football starts. They need maximum eyeballs and they dont start their 2 month playoff until football starts.

They are getting rid of the restrictor plate in favor of another HP limiting part in the engine...the problem has always been limiting HP and the superspeedways are just a joke of a race, but unfortunately that's Nascar's bread and butter.

The sport is dying...they never should have expanded as large as they did and built so many cookie cutter tracks. If they were smart, they would have made the tracks be less than 1.5M and each track unique. Of course the most popular track, Bristol, has lost its luster and that's truly a shame.

There is a new generation of racers, but they have NO personality and the veterans that remain have no personality. I think Nascar is going the way of Indy racing. Both sports will become one race sports...

Head of nail, meet hammer

I like the stages, it gets them bunched up thoughtout the race. Having a driver dominate just because he’s in clean air is boring as ****.

I also like the new package for this year. We’re seeing more passing now.

This week is one of those weeks where viewership will be down because you have to have the FS1 network of the app. Going with a channel that is not a very common channel is ridiculous. If someone that doesn't carry extra packages wants to watch it they will have to find a free stream.

Here’s my cash game lineup (double ups or 50/50s)

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Wow!!! I like this!!!

Bristol will be the first round cutoff race, that’s going to be a crazy ****ing race!!

Double header at Pocono!!!!

Daytona being the last race of the regular season is awesome. No driver wants to rely on a Daytona race to make playoffs. Shits wild fam.


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Going to my first Nascar race in Watkins Glen! How long does a race typically last? And what should I expect? I will be sure to post pics!

I heard road courses can be difficult to see all the action. Depends on how many cautions there is to determine the length of the race. Since it’s a road course I would say 9 cautions total (including stages). 4 hours of racing

I figured 4 hours, and probably wouldn't see everything(Being a road course). But I am sitting by the start/finish line. Do they tailgate there? Im planning on drinking some brewski's. Should be a good time.

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Love him or hate him, you cant deny the impact DW has had on growing the sport over the last 45 years
. Wont be the same with out his involvement on a weekly basis

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It won’t be the same, but he definitely needs to move on. NASCAR is headed in a different direction, trying to get some of the younger crowd to watch. Saying shit like “boggity boggity boggity lets go racing you bunch of hotdogs” is not a way to attract new people.

Meh, ever since Jeff Gordon left and the current set of dominant drivers, sans Jimmie Johnson and Bubba Wallace, I'm just not finding it as interesting as it used to be. I record them, and if somebody interesting wins, then a watch it.

Late start tonight and some cool throwback paint schemes.

I lost all interest in NASCAR when they implemented STAGE racing. So stupid. Nothing more than a Mandatory Caution Period. LAME. 5 Laps of caution after each STAGE and the laps count? The CHASE/Playoff point system is also STUPID. No wonder NASCAR is dying. If it works don't fix it. They fixed it and now it's broken.

Stage racing did it for you? Heh...ok...I think it was broken way, way before that.

Building the cookie cutters and expanding unnecessarily west where no ones GAF about nascar. Along with the expansion, the 'car of tomorrow', the unnecessarily long caution periods, debris cautions that take 5+ caution laps, speed limits on pit road are just a few that ruined it for me. I've always hated super speedways and the restrictor plates...how anyone finds that enjoyable save for the last 2 laps, is beyond me.

One of the things I disliked about the old point system and it reached a head just before they changed it was it didnt put any premium on winning, rather it was simply based upon consistency. When Kenseth won his championship, it was an absolute joke...he beat out multiple race winners because he never DNF'ed...so effing what? They implemented the playoffs a year or two later.

the series needs to contract, and like Golf, finish their season before football starts...last weekend at Darlington should have been the final race of the year.

I think the points should award the winner a number of points that's slightly more than half the points given for the entire race. So let's say every race provides for 100 points, 55 got to the winner, the remaining 45 points are divided by the number of laps, and that "portion of 45" amount is awarded to the leader of each lap. That way winning matters the most, but leading matters too.

As for restrictor plates, **** 'um...

But I'm all for more road tracks being added.

Guess I’ll watch the end of this race instead of football.

NO1CURR

Turned it on...watched about 10 laps, couldnt stomach the boring ass 'racing' with the leader out in front 2+ seconds and no real drama. Apparently, Gibbs Racing is going to have 3 drivers in the final 4...i doubt Nascar appreciates that, but hell, the only thing Nascar cares about is another TV contract.

When this sport winds up on motortrend tv, the game is over.

Ha, so it would seem...i remember when the official NASCAR thread was page after page. Anyway....its over, congrats to Kyle Busch.

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‘This one’s for Rowdy Nation!’ Busch caps season with second title

The Candy Man can. And did.

Kyle Busch secured his second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship Sunday at Homestead-Miami Speedway, besting perhaps the most impressive field of championship contenders in the six-year history of the elimination-style playoffs.

Busch outran fellow finalists Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr., winning the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400 on the strength of a clever pit strategy and a car that came to life under the lights. Hamlin was making his first Championship 4 appearance since 2014, while Harvick and Truex were making return trips to the finale.

“We have a great race team and a great owner,” an emotional Busch said after climbing from his car. “Everybody always says you never give up and we’re no different,. Sometimes we may not be the best, sometimes we may not have the right track position. Today we had a really good car and I could race around and move around.

“There’s always your doubters, there’s always your haters,” Busch said smiling. “You know what? This one’s for the Rowdy Nation. You guys are the best. Thank you so much.”

Busch had claimed the series’ regular-season championship in September, building a stockpile of playoff points that guided him to his fifth straight appearance in the Championship 4 field. The 34-year-old driver also won the title in NASCAR’s premier series in 2015, the second year of the elimination format.

Sunday’s march to the title capped a brilliant — and sometimes, difficult — year for the driver of Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18 Toyota. A four-win regular season marked his fifth straight year with multiple victories in NASCAR’s top series, but Busch entered the Miami race winless since early June. That skid, plus a dominant Round of 8 from all three of his title competitors, put “Rowdy” and the No. 18 team flying under the radar for championship weekend.

“We had a cold spell there,” crew chief Adam Stevens. “It’s been well-documented, believe it or not. Quite a few questions about it. Felt a little bit like 2015 to me. Take the broken legs out of the equation. We were hot early in 2015 when Kyle came back. We didn’t win since Indy that year, then came to Homestead and got the job done.”

Busch also scored four Xfinity Series wins and five victories in the Gander Outdoors Truck Series, totals that helped him surpass 200 career wins in NASCAR national series competition in March.

The year was not without tragedy, though. Joe Gibbs’ son J.D., co-founder of Joe Gibbs Racing, died in January after complications after a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease.

“It’s been a difficult time,” Busch said. “To be able to reward them with a championship, I don’t know how much it means to them, but it’s the best I can do. I know JD was looking down on us all season long.”

Busch becomes the 16th driver with more than one premier series championship. Seven-time champ Jimmie Johnson is the only other active driver with multiple titles on his resume. Busch also is the first repeat champion in the elimination-style postseason.

Both championships came with Stevens calling the shots on the pit box. The 41-year-old crew chief raced dirt late models before starting his NASCAR career as a fabricator with Richard Petty Motorsports.

Busch’s first title was a story of resilience as he recovered from severe leg and foot injuries after a crash in the season-opening weekend at Daytona International Speedway. He missed 11 races but met the criteria for a playoff waiver in a big way, winning five races on his path to a title-clinching performance at Homestead.

Busch also is a former champion of what is now called the NASCAR Xfinity Series, riding a nine-win season to that tour’s title in 2009.

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People still watch NASCAR?

Every now and then, but not regularly. Tuned in to the finale yesterday with 17 to go.

Glad that Kyle won his 2cd.

I always liked his brother Kurt better. Loved it when Kurt did the double on Memorial Day weekend a few years back.

There's your answer for the first part...

KY Busch, keslowski, Logano, all little bitches

tune in today - off to DC ;)

America's sport.

lots of empty seats

Never wanted to see a Cadillac blown up so much before in my life.

The everloving **** is wrong with you?

****ing stupid!

Mods should ban you from this thread.

TRUMP and FOX, a match made in heaven. I doubt any of this would have happened if the DAYTONA 500 was on another network.

It's raining.

TV crew said it was SOLD OUT!

It's the Daytona 500. It's always sold out. How do you not know that?

It's ONLY the FIFTH consecutive year that this race has "SOLD OUT" according to their website. Is it SOLD OUT because they removed the backstretch grandstand? They removed 50,000 seats a few years ago as part of their "Dayton Rising" project. It should have been called "Daytona Downsizing". STAGE racing pissed off the majority of the DIE HARD NASCAR fans. The Point system is lame and the CHASE Playoff system is stupid. If it works don't fix it. NASCAR is paying the price for tweaking with a product that worked. Throwing a Checkered/yellow after a STAGE? It's nothing more than a mandatory caution period. Five laps of caution for what? That's 10 laps of needless (non-racing) caution per race. These laps shouldn't even be counted but they are. NASCAR over thought themselves. A GENERAL ADMISSION ticket to this years Daytona 500 costs $200.00!!

I go to both of the kansas races and prices are still 79 even though the stands are half empty. Cool for me though there is NO waiting to park at all. I got Logano winning this race even though not my favorite. Logano did a good job as a colar person.

I haven’t really watched NASCAR since Dale Earnhardt (sr), Jeff Gordon, Rusty Wallace, etc. WTF is this stage 1, 2, and 3 crap? Sounds dumb. How long has this been a thing.

I'm picking COLE CUSTER

Rusty Wallace is why I wore number 2 while playing hockey.

stage racing has been around for 3 seasons I think. Hasn't had the impact that I think they would hoped, but it does do is provide time for adds and people to go piss and come back if you are at the race. Nascar keeps trying to make it a traditional sport but that isn't what it is.

I got the scanner pack and it isn't great. 20 bucks down the drain save your money

I didn’t like the playoff thing either. I’ve been watching formula one and a little Indy car the last couple of years. I’ve been more into those series

Indycar has been really really good. Penske buying IMS is going to pump it up better. f1 is f1. The playoffs are dumb but I guess nascar knows what they are doing.

This race will conclude tomorrow

this sucks, got all hyped up that racing is back and it rains.