[5mike5]

Alright guys were off to Loudon, NH for chase race #2 this Sunday....hope its as good as last week as we beat the bookie to crumbs as usual....all 3 nascar series will be in action this coming weekend, with Trucks and Nationwide series racing at Kentucky on friday night and saturday afternoon....the Loudon CUP race will be held Sunday early afternoon again....

Loudon is a 1.058 mile oval racetrack...banking in the turns is 9 and 7 degrees (variable), and pretty much flat on the straights at only 1 degree of banking...the front and backstretch both measure out at 1,500 feet

as usual, l ive already started watching last race and gathering my Loudon notebook, and all driver notebooks for study...being it is the 2nd race here this season, it makes for a much easier week of prep work...

All regulars are welcome and encouraged to contribute thoughts/leans as always, and i really appreciate all the help and information every1 provides us with every week..thats the main reason this thread is the gem it is, we all actually help and root each others play on every week...and what a season it has been my friends

GOODLUCK and hope we all hit'em big this weekend...AGAIN!!!

[5mike5]

SPRINT CUP SCHEDULE:

PRACTICES: FRIDAY @ noon, then SATURDAY @ 9:15am and 11am (all on speed)

QUALIFYING: FRIDAY @ 3:40 (speed)

CHASE RACE #2: SUNDAY @ 1PM (ESPN)

*all times are et

[Vegas39]

Tough week as quite a few run real well here

[5mike5]

NATIONWIDE SCHEDULE: (KENTUCKY)

PRACTICES: FRIDAY @ 3pm(espn2) and 6pm(speed)

QUALIFYING: SATURDAY @ 12:35pm (speed)

NATIONWIDE RACE: SATURDAY @ 3:30pm (ESPN)

**all times are et

[Vegas39]

Top 14 at New Hampshire (since Feb 2010)

Driver Avg Fin Races Wins Top 10 Rating Laps Led Jeff Gordon 6.20 5 0 4 111.8 6.92% Tony Stewart 8.20 5 1 3 106.2 10.11% Dale Earnhardt Jr. 9.60 5 0 3 92.0 0.00% Ryan Newman 10.00 5 1 4 103.0 12.11% Denny Hamlin 10.00 5 0 3 99.3 9.98% Kevin Harvick 10.20 5 0 3 90.8 0.07% Clint Bowyer 10.80 5 1 3 107.2 15.30% Jimmie Johnson 11.20 5 1 3 102.7 2.06% Greg Biffle 12.60 5 0 2 87.6 0.07% A.J. Allmendinger 13.75 4 0 1 81.7 0.00% Kurt Busch 14.40 5 0 2 91.9 5.26% Kasey Kahne 14.40 5 1 2 108.3 14.90% Carl Edwards 15.00 5 0 1 85.7 0.33% Joey Logano 15.20 5 0 2 78.6 0.33%

[5mike5]

TRUCK SERIES race (KENTUCKY) is FRIDAY night at 7pm airing on SPEED channel

[5mike5]

will be going for 20 wins in last 22 CUP races

amazing season guys, just amazing

hopefully dont lose last 9 in a row...LOL

[Vegas39]

keep it going Mike

[5mike5]

Tough week as quite a few run real well here

agree, not an easy race to predict

[Vegas39]

Will lead to trouble for me as can't not play Newman this week

[5mike5]

u think this is newman's best track overall?

has to be up there with 3 wins i think

[Vegas39]

Yes no doubt with the 3 wins here I'd think so. Plus he has 6 poles here and this one is key to starting up front IMO

[Optional]

Do you think the #24 has something go wrong again?

[Vegas39]

Do you think the #24 has something go wrong again?

I'd bet yes

[5mike5]

**12 different winners last 14 races at loudon (7yrs)

WOW...

only repeat winners are BOWYER ('07, '10) and newman ('05, '11)

[Vegas39]

Do you think the #24 has something go wrong again?

Each week I think we can eliminate at least one drivers shot at title.

Gordon done

[5mike5]

5 of last 10 winners started 10th or worse at NH

but 3 of last 4 winners started from the front row

[Vegas39]

Always seems to be one team that nails set up here and can run away from field. But seen fuel mileage races here too

[5mike5]

Always seems to be one team that nails set up here and can run away from field. But seen fuel mileage races here too

agree, but also 2 of past 4 winners didnt even lead 10 laps total, and last winner kahne only lead 33 laps in june here...ur boy newman only 1 to lead over 100 laps and win the race...dominant cars havent been fairing very well at the checkers last few years here....bowyer lead over 100 in his latest win too

this place has had some strange races for sure...

[Optional]

[Vegas39]

4 drivers with 3 wins here so its a tough week

[Vegas39]

Bad track for Kenseth too

[5mike5]

denny hamlin should have won easy last race here if u remember, crew chief took 4 tires late screwed him bigtime...he had best car and just ran put of laps at the end to make up for grubb's terrible pit call....

1 of the dumbest crew chief fukk ups of the year

[Vegas39]

Yes I remember that Mike.

[Optional]

Bad track for Kenseth too

Not to mention Edwards... although he must be damn consistent to have an Avg finish of 14 with only 3 top 10s from 16 starts.

[Optional]

4 drivers with 3 wins here so its a tough week

6 drivers actually!

[Vegas39]

6 drivers actually!

yes my mistake

[5mike5]

use to be a track several guys dominated at, but that is far from the case now

wins more than 4-5 years ago are almost meaningless, at least imo

[5mike5]

use to be a track several guys dominated at, but that is far from the case now

wins more than 4-5 years ago are almost meaningless, at least imo

prove me wrong jeff burton (4 wins here)

[Vegas39]

prove me wrong jeff burton (4 wins here)

he was good here with Roush. Remember he led all 300 laps one race

[5mike5]

yeah he was great here back in the day

[Optional]

use to be a track several guys dominated at, but that is far from the case now

wins more than 4-5 years ago are almost meaningless, at least imo

last 5 years.

[5mike5]

hey vegas u ever watch "hell on wheels" on AMC??

great show

my personal favorite show comes back on next month on AMC too, "The Walking Dead"

im addicted to that show

[Vegas39]

No Mike never seen that one

[5mike5]

" The Walking Dead" is about zombies .....its a MUST watch show...sounds lame, but fukkin awsome

"hell on wheels" is about the building of the continental railroad back in the day.....its damn good too

"boardwalk empire" season 3 started last night too remember!...im getting ready to watch it right now, recorded on DVR last night