2009 Watkins Glen Weekend Discussion

Join in and discuss all the action from Watkins Glen right here. Robby will run BOTH races this weekend, as well as having PJ Jones in the #04. Weekend schedule as follows:

FRIDAY , 8-7-09

11:45am - 1:20pm NSCS Practice ( Ended up 15th quickest )

1:30pm – 3:00pm NNS Practice ( Ended up 2nd quickest )

3:10pm NSCS Qualifying ( Starts 22nd )

5:30pm NNS Final Practice (ended up 3rd )

SATURDAY , 8-8-09

10:10am NNS Qualifying ( Qualified 3rd quickest )

12:00pm – 12:45pm NSCS Practice ( Ended up 35th quickest )

1:20pm – 2:20pm NSCS Final Practice ( ended up 16th quickest )

2:30pm NNS Driver Introduction

3:00pm NNS RACE – Zippo 200 ( Finished 14th )

SUNDAY 8-9-09

1:30pm NSCS Driver Introduction (ESPN)

2:00pm NSCS Race – Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen ( Finished 18th )

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Permalink Reply by FlyHiFlyLo on August 10, 2009 at 5:27pm

Agreed... I was just kid'n

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Permalink Reply by Blues on August 10, 2009 at 4:12pm

Nice comeback! One of these days......

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on August 10, 2009 at 5:51pm

It's too bad NASCAR doesn't give teams some time a day or two before the race to actually run some laps on the track so they can identify problems like a PS pump before the race starts. Oh, what's that? Teams do have that opportunity? Oh, well, ummmmm... never mind.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 10, 2009 at 5:59pm

Possible he could have run 100 laps on Saturday and not had a problem with it? Could it have had a 'slow' leak to it,and not been a problem if the race ran on Sunday ? ( I am not a power steering pump expert , so I dont know )

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Permalink Reply by GrayAntiMatter on August 10, 2009 at 7:28pm

Several mechanical problems this weekend. Very discouraging. Wasn't practice ruined on Friday by a parts failure as well? Yes, yes it was.

You can never really know when the nail is going to fall out of the horse shoe though....

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Permalink Reply by Slider316 on August 10, 2009 at 6:20pm

had the same thought...course it can be a two-edged deal...run too many laps and you end up with kaboom. Still, put some laps on the thing and you'll find stuff like faulty tranny brackets...wait..that did happen....lol

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Permalink Reply by TOG on August 10, 2009 at 6:30pm

that happened before they turned one lap.

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Permalink Reply by Rob Harris on August 10, 2009 at 6:29pm

Or the team could have decent parts mileage program in place that tracks which parts have how many miles them...oh wait...the got shit canned when jlow got released.

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Permalink Reply by Mike/WC77 on August 10, 2009 at 6:48pm

Soooo what your saying is parts like pwr strng, alternators, water pumps, rear gears, master cyl, oil coolers, etc...these things can't run the whole season? So why is it you think these things aren't replaced in a reasonable timeframe?

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Permalink Reply by mojoman521 on August 10, 2009 at 9:39pm

bud.......they have a better parts mileage system than they ever had....the transmission is supplied by an outside vendor....treat it just the same as an engine failure or a tire failure............thats the deal.............jlow didnt handle that anyway..........................hell when he was there most parts had no numbers.....................