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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on February 16, 2011 at 5:05pm

I would like to rescind this...sorta. I think they get to change motors after the duels if memory serves me correctly.

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Permalink Reply by Bricoop on February 16, 2011 at 4:00pm

and?...

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Permalink Reply by Tom Fair on February 16, 2011 at 4:13pm

when is the next practice today?

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Permalink Reply by spockko on February 16, 2011 at 4:07pm

up next...danica's wreck

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on February 16, 2011 at 4:10pm

Dustin Long says:

Dale Earnhardt Jr was involved in a crash and is going to a backup car just moments after posting the fastest lap of practice (to that point) at 199.526 mph. Earnhardt was pushing teammate Jimmie Johnson in a two-car draft as the came up on some slower cars that moved up a lane. Johnson got loose as he tried to slow for those in front. Another two-car draft of Martin Truex Jr and Brian Vickers came up on the back of Earnhardt and couldn't slow in time. Both Truex and Earnhardt slid down the track off turn four with Earnhardt crashed into the wall. Both Earnhardt and Truex are going to backup cars.

"I didn't feel good about good about being out there in practice, and I didn't think I needed to be out there practicing,'' Dale Jr. said. "I just had a bad feeling.''

Dale Jr. will start at the rear of his qualifying race now on Thursday. Because he is in a backup car, he'll also have to start at rear of the Daytona 500 on Sunday.

Said Jimmie Johnson: (Robby Gordon) and (David Gilliland) and (Michael Waltrip) started at the bottom of the track in turn 3 adn kept creeping their way toward the top. I was running out of space and I thought the hole was going to close and I lifted and I got turned sideways.''

The consensus from the drivers invovled in the incident was the that slower cars have to be better aware of what is going on around them and stay in their lanes because the closing speed is so significant.

But it seems to me the cars that are passing need to be responsible for passing cleanly. We've heard driver say that the pushing car in a two car draft can only see the spoiler of the car in front. So how the hell is a lead car in a train of 2 or 3 cars supposed to see someone behind closing on them? Johnson F'd up, and is looking for someone to blame.

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Permalink Reply by Chuck on February 16, 2011 at 4:13pm

Yet, there still wound up being plenty of room for the 48 to go by on the high side.
If Robby was in the 88's place right now, yeah I'd be pissed. But I'd be pissed at the 48 for jumping out of the throttle knowing Robby was on his butt.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Fisher on February 16, 2011 at 4:15pm

I've always wondered why they still run the metal spoilers at the plate tracks. Drivers for years have been complaining that the spoiler limits vision so why not run a lexan one? IROC did it on their cars, several other racing series do it on theirs, & if braced right it could work well on these cars at the plate tracks.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on February 16, 2011 at 4:44pm

@Josh, just for conversation.My Late Model like most in the country run a 6 1/2" tall spoiler, and the top 5" is Lexan.For short track racing it makes a huge difference to be able to look thru the car/cars ahead of you.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Gruber on February 16, 2011 at 4:10pm

5) Anything else new for 2011 ?
Yes ! More details Wed Feb 16th

What of this?

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Permalink Reply by alan4s on February 16, 2011 at 4:12pm

If you hadn't noticed, TOG has not been posting here much today. He's at the track taking pictures and tweeting and stuff. I presume any announcement today will have to wait until he's got better internet access and the time to update the site.

Or maybe he was just teasing us with that FAQ. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Greg Jones on February 16, 2011 at 4:25pm

TOG's just a slacker

... and a tease

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Permalink Reply by speedy7 on February 16, 2011 at 4:25pm

My thinking is RG twitched a little bit but kept his line and JJ checked up and that caused it, JJ thinking RG lost it but for a Dayona nano second on JJ's part caused the wreck , nothing to do with RG--me thinks that what I saw...

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