Thread: NASCAR 2009 Silly Season

Originally Posted by DanicaRules

Well now it appears that Bobby Labonte will be driving the #96 car for Hall of Fame Racing for 2009.

The reports of what Bobby will drive this year have bounced around a lot.

Wait...what? I thought he was confirmed for DEI/Ganassi. What in the world happened? So who's driving the 41?

Originally Posted by Pold Denis

Do you feel that Smith will be able to help Furniture Row improve a lot?

Rgds

No, Furniture Row did pretty well with Kenny Wallace and Joe Nemechek. I mean with Wallace and Nemechek they qualified for a good majority of the races. However, if the money isn't there (and it isn't for Furniture), it wont really make much of a difference

This situation is similar to Front Row Motorsports back in i think 2006 with Kevin Lepage. Lepage qualified for about 85% of the races and even finished 8th in the Daytona 500. But the year after that the team completely failed because of poor financing and Lepage didn't qualify for a single race.

Furniture and FRM are different yes, but imo they're in the same sinking boat

Originally Posted by DanicaRules

As for Regan Smith at Furntiure Row, it cant hurt the team. However, he is set to only run a 12 race schedule including the Daytona 500. It just makes no sense to me how the rookie of the year last year with no DNF's cant land a full-time ride this year.

Ya, he should have been the first knocked out driver to land a full-ride

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Watch them throw the yellow at record pace just for advertisement!

Originally Posted by Lizardfolk

I actually dont understand why the fact that NASCAR has a lot of cautions is such a big deal.

1. It always brings the field closer
2. Cautions always change pit and tire strategies and it's always fun to see who's gamble played off and who at the last minute chance their strategies
3. Cautions help to stop one guy from leading the entire race (after all oval racing is about competition instead of driving on a difficult course )
4. Cautions aren't exactly random as any small shread of debris would send the car flying into the wall and since ovals doesn't exactly have sand pits or runoff areas more cautions are needed. Anybody who knows anything about motorsports would know that

Agreed, thats one thing I like about the caution flags. Seems it just makes the raes all that more interesting

I am not feeling so good about Smith seeing him loosing his positions.

Agreed, IMO smith's future doesn't look to bright

I am really amazed about R. Smith!