BRISTOL SPOILER THREAD

JPM will start 37th this Sunday.

 

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Thanks for spoiling. Guess I don't need to watch the TIVO now.

 

Sorry. Didn't think about taping qualifying.

I tried to change the thread title but can't figure out how to do it.

 

I think it is preferred that we do not put any kind of results in the thread heading, in fact we should use the word ***spoiler*** as a prefix.


Bristol is NASCAR's most popular track, and the action is not condusive to a JPM.

 

Ron, how do you think JPM will do there?

 

Jeff Gordon got the pole.

Top 25 places within a quater of a second.

 

Hey Tony. It is pretty obvious I am not a big JPM fan. Even my Columbian friends find his arrogance a bit much.

Anyway, Bristol is not like the superspeedways, this is more like NASCAR used to be, side by side door banging racing where almost anything goes. Drafting/slipstreaming will not be a big factor. It will require the abiity to actually manhandle the car and also deal with the difficulty of passing in tight corners. I do not think he will do very well.

Take a look at an aerial of the speedway, basically a stadium with seating all the way. It is so popular, they are trying to add even more seats.
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Hi,

I'm not, in general, a big fan of taxicab racing. [Although, I have been to the night race at Bristol - Unfriggin' believable!]

Anyway, like many others, JPM's arrival piqued my interest, and furthermore this is the debut of the 'car of the future' - With 'adjustable front and rear aerodynamics' - To get to the point, I think JPM is going to scythe thru' the field He's smart, drives hard and can manhandle the car. His experience with "advanced" aero setup has got to help him with this COT thing IMHO.

But then again, I could be wrong.......

My 02c, cheers,
Ian

 

Hmmmm......... I think you are wrong. :]

 

My boy Jeff Gordon got 3rd and takes 2nd behind Burton by 2 measely points in the standings.

JPM thirty something...falls 4 spots to 19 in the standings.

 

Gordon's first in the standings, Burton is 3 points behind. Good thing for Kyle that Burton is a gentleman racer

JPM doesn't do well, but he's kept the car in the top 35 standings, and is thus locked into the races for the rest of the year.

 

Thanks Ron, you were right on the money.

 

I guess you were correct

But, as has been noted, at least he's "in" for the rest of the year [Although I'm pretty sure he'd have received some kind of exemption/rule change/Nascar fancy-footstep had that *not* been the case ]

Cheers,
Ian

 

You are correct about the "in".

JPM should do OK on the 1 1/2 mile and larger speedways where slipstreaming is the key to a good showing. Fortunetely for him, NASCAR no longer frequents the small tracks like Bristol to any extent. If they did, he would not last the season. Manhandling a car in NASCAR is much different than manhandling an F1 car. It separates the boys from the men, and right now, JPM is just a boy.

 

I keep hearing how he is in over his head and not capable of running with the big boys in NASCAR.

And yet I read all the front runners in NASCAR saying that JPM will be a race winner and future champion. What do they know that some here don't??

 

He did manage to place 5th in the Nextel Cup race Atlanta last week - and apparently would have won if not for a last-minute caution.

 

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