Entry for Daytona Top 6 Pick'Em Contest

#79
#79
Just wanted to add that Dale Jr probably could have won this race if Burton hadn't left him out to dry.
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#80
#80
Finally!!

FIN ST CAR DRIVER MAKE SPONSOR PTS/BNS LAPS STATUS
1 5 6 David Ragan Ford UPS "We Love Logistics" 47/4 170 Running
2 16 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Affliction Clothing: Live Fast 43/1 170 Running
3 37 20 Joey Logano Toyota The Home Depot 41/0 170 Running
4 13 4 Kasey Kahne Toyota Red Bull 41/1 170 Running
5 38 18 Kyle Busch Toyota Interstate All Battery Center 40/1 170 Running
6 4 24 Jeff Gordon Chevrolet Pepsi Max 39/1 170 Running
7 31 29 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Budweiser Folds of Honor 38/1 170 Running
8 10 27 Paul Menard Chevrolet Quaker State / Menards 37/1 170 Running
9 30 42 Juan Montoya Chevrolet Target 36/1 170 Running
10 9 43 A.J. Allmendinger Ford U.S. Air Force 34/0 170 Running
11 19 14 Tony Stewart Chevrolet Burger King 34/1 170 Running
12 20 83 Brian Vickers Toyota Red Bull 32/0 170 Running
13 36 11 Denny Hamlin Toyota FedEx Express 32/1 170 Running
14 25 22 Kurt Busch Dodge Shell / Pennzoil 31/1 170 Running
15 26 2 Brad Keselowski Dodge Miller Lite 30/1 170 Running
16 39 34 David Gilliland Ford Front Row Motorsports 28/0 170 Running
17 15 9 Marcos Ambrose Ford Dewalt 27/0 170 Running
18 17 16 Greg Biffle Ford 3M 27/1 170 Running
19 6 88 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet National Guard Heritage / Amp Energy 26/1 170 Running
20 8 48 Jimmie Johnson Chevrolet Lowe's Summer Salute 24/0 170 Running
21 12 31 Jeff Burton Chevrolet Caterpillar 24/1 170 Running
22 18 1 Jamie McMurray Chevrolet McDonald's 23/1 170 Running
23 11 39 Ryan Newman Chevrolet Bass Pro Shops / NRA 23/2 170 Running
24 28 78 Regan Smith Chevrolet Furniture Row Companies 21/1 170 Running
25 23 00 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron's Dream Machine 19/0 170 Running
26 21 51 Landon Cassill Chevrolet Thank A Teacher Today / Security Benefit 0 169 Running
27 7 71 Andy Lally * Ford Interstate Moving Services 17/0 169 Running
28 41 32 Terry Labonte Ford C&J Energy 16/0 169 Running
29 27 38 Travis Kvapil Ford Long John Silver's 0 169 Running
30 43 87 Joe Nemechek Toyota AMFMEnergy.com - Pellet & Wood Stoves / Extenze 0 169 Running
31 24 47 Bobby Labonte Toyota Kingsford 13/0 168 Running
32 32 13 Casey Mears Toyota GEICO 13/1 164 Running
33 1 5 Mark Martin Chevrolet om 12/1 164 Running
34 38 7 Robby Gordon Dodge Speed Energy 10/0 163 Running
35 34 56 Martin Truex Jr. Toyota NAPA Auto Parts 10/1 162 Accident
36 3 33 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet Wheaties Fuel 9/1 162 Accident
37 14 99 Carl Edwards Ford Subway 8/1 144 Running
38 35 135 Geoff Bodine Chevrolet Luke & Associates 6/0 143 Wheel Bearings
39 40 36 Dave Blaney Chevrolet Golden Corral 5/0 47 Accident
40 29 60 Mike Skinner Toyota Big Red 0 5 Wheel Bearings
41 2 21 Trevor Bayne Ford Motorcraft / Quick Lane Tire & Auto Center 0 4 Accident
42 33 66 Michael McDowell Toyota HP Racing LLC 2/0 2 Electrical
43 22 97 Kevin Conway Toyota Extenze 0 1 Rear Gear
 
#81
#81
Earnhardt's happy.

“The 1 [of Jamie McMurray] just drove into the side of me and turned me into the apron,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “And I had it saved and he came on and got him another shot. He brought the KO punch the second time and spun us around.”

While that didn’t make him happy, Earnhardt Jr. just seemed bewildered with the way the two-car draft worked and didn’t feel he had the ability to move through the field.

“What kind of move can you make?” Earnhardt Jr. said. “What kind of freakin’ move can you make racing like this? There ain’t no move you can make.

“You just hold it on the mat and try not to wreck into each other, and you see how good we are at that.”

At one point late in the race, Earnhardt Jr.’s two-car drafting partner Jimmie Johnson pitted while Earnhardt Jr. didn’t.

“I’m driving my car, doing what I’m told,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “They decided to do something different. I can’t run the whole damn thing from the seat of the damn race car.

“I’m just doing what I’m told out there.”

For Earnhardt Jr., his winless streak was extended to 110 races. He remained seventh in the standings and still has a 39-point cushion on 11th.

“It was a foolish freakin’ race,” Earnhardt Jr. said. “I don’t know what to tell you. … We had a caution at the end and we’re all plate racing.

“We’re just going to all run into each other. That’s how it’s going to go. The guy in front, he’s just trying to get on out there and the rest of us are going to crash into each other.”

Earnhardt Jr. didn’t want to talk about his opinions of the two-car draft.

“I don’t like this kind of racing,” said Earnhardt Jr., a frequent critic of the style. “You know it.”

Instead, Earnhardt Jr. urged the media to write about what they felt about the racing.

“You guys need to get your own freakin’ opinions and write what y’all think about it because I think it’s pretty damn close to mine,” he said. “I’m going to stop putting my damn foot in my mouth with y’all and getting my ass in trouble. Y’all write what y’all think."
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#83
#83
can u blame him? wtf was mcmurray doing? there's no way any of them could win, and he forced the issue which costed several cars bad finishes
 
#84
#84
Vol Mania 21 said:
can u blame him? wtf was mcmurray doing? there's no way any of them could win, and he forced the issue which costed several cars bad finishes
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Cant blame him, just tired of reading clips with him griping about crap every week.
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#88
#88
jtrain, i agree with you. 48 left him out to dry, if the role was reverse then i bet jr wldn't do the same. gordon left mark out to dry as well
 
#89
#89
I only hope they change the two car crap for Dega. I doubt that will happen but I think NASCAR will make changes for the 2011 Daytona 500. ALL they have to do is make mandatory rear height requirements different at the plate tracks where if a driver tries to push he'll just lift the other guys rear tires off of the ground and cause a wreck. Also, I would have them mandate some type of rules that makes the cars heat up and blow up if they try to push for more than a couple of seconds at a time.

Some of the drivers that say this 2 car stuff is the "wave of the future" are sorely mistaken IMO. NASCAR will change the rules somehow by Daytona of next year to get rid of the push drafting for good. Then in 20 years we'll have some documentary of the one year of the pushing phenomena in NASCAR and have all the drivers talk about how much they hated it.
 
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