Nascar Sprint Cup Championship 2014 - 16 Sonoma

Sadly only three of us tonight but it was fairly decent racing.  And to boot, we survived a massive stretch of brown- and blackouts here in Erie.  Thank God for UPS's

We ran well in practice and were very evenly spread through the field.

Early on, there was plenty of action.

On the way back to the yellow, Darrel was putting some serious moves on the competition:

Back under green, there was some more chaos around the same area between Menard and Stewart.  This did not bring out the caution.

This one did however.

It wasn't as bad as it could have been.

Back under green, Darrel continued his aggressive drive to the front, slamming cars to walls.

The next caution came out when Landin Cassill took to Sandy's rear bumper.  Took em both out.

Coming around the second lap, Darrel got caught on the wrong side of the pitline and was turned something fierce.

But that wasn't nearly as bad as the next spin.  Here, he and Kasey Kahne got together which got him in position before Kesolowski nicked his bumper and sent him into the infield.

Almost at the same time, these two got launched off-track and started re-enacting a chase scene out of the Blues Brothers film.

And it got messy.

What this resulted in was Darrel not realizing that half the field was stalled up in the previous turn.  Assuming all was clear, he proceeded to pull out into traffic.

And paid dearly.

It was this caution I picked to do my one stop for the race.  Unfortunately for me, my entire crew are morons and just stood there.  They stopped being idiots on the second stop which came next lap thanks to a waved off green.

A few more laps back under Green and the wrecking resumed, right around the same spot as usual.

This yellow came out at an unusual spot.  I thought we were still racing the the line but we were not in-fact.  Here, I shot Gordon way wide in the same spot he ran me off nearly three years ago.  Take that.

Another restart foiled!  Wasn't entirely my fault as the idiot, Wise, came flying over to the outside wall directly in front of me.  I tried to miss him, even turned him straight again.  But it was too late and the yellow was already in the flagman's hand.

Again, I aggressively drove back to the line.

We were now closing in on the last ten laps or so and Sandy had made it up to 3rd thanks to some late pit stops from the rest of the field.

And he was driving the wheels off the thing.

He then got wide out of turn six...

...where Jimmie Johnson caught and tossed Sandy to the wall.  Little damage was done.  The caution didn't even wave until...

Back to green with about six more to go

Sandy had fallen back but was fighting hard.

The both of us were pushing our cars right to the edge to get the laps knocked down.

Old Buckey Beaver or Rat Boy as some call him, took Sandy out like he took his teammate, Darrel, out several laps before.

This caution made for the Death Tunnel glitch.  This is the same thing that happened to Scot previously where his car tunneled after a lost connection and reappeared inside another vehicle, Denny Hamlin.  Race done.  I will be scoring as a DNS as there were still plenty of laps remaining.

Coming to the final lap, these two idiots decided to dance and the yellow was thrown.

With nothing to lose, I took retaliation against Hamlin and gave him a shunt coming to take the white and yellow flags.  Sent him straight into the tire wall where his race would end.

We now go to Kentucky: A fun and fast track.  I will need to send a new track folder for this one as the current edition is messed up in certain ways.  I'll let you all know.

Results

Session: Qualifying

P	#	DRIVER	TIME
1	013	T Nadz	1:19.885
2	99	C Edwards	1:20.633
3	18	K Busch	1:21.129
4	15	C Bowyer	1:21.264
5	88	D Earnhardt Jr	1:21.377
6	48	J Johnson	1:21.508
7	5	K Kahne	1:21.600
8	20	M Kenseth	1:21.651
9	2	B Keselowski	1:21.716
10	22	J Logano	1:21.765
11	78	M Truex Jr	1:21.815
12	16	G Biffle	1:22.011
13	41	K Busch2	1:22.195
14	14	T Stewart	1:22.270
15	9	M Ambrose	1:22.281
16	27	P Menard	1:22.314
17	66	J Burton	1:22.326
18	4	K Harvick	1:22.597
19	47	A Allmendinger	1:22.632
20	38	D Gilliland	1:22.643
21	24	J Gordon	1:22.729
22	34	D Ragan	1:22.875
23	31	R Newman	1:23.064
24	061	D Hamilton	1:23.504
25	11	D Hamlin	1:23.615
26	13	C Mears	1:23.695
27	35	E McClure	1:23.725
28	32	T Kvapil	1:23.729
29	55	B Vickers	1:23.850
30	43	A Almirola	1:24.179
31	77	D Blaney	1:24.623
32	52	B Labonte	1:24.642
33	40	L Cassill	1:24.779
34	95	M McDowell	1:24.867
35	98	J Wise	1:25.213
36	17	R Stenhouse Jr	1:25.591
37	10	D Patrick	1:25.628
38	30	D Stremme	1:25.823
39	7	M Annett	1:26.308
40	26	C Whitt	1:26.373
41	36	R Sorenson	1:26.533
42	1	J McMurray	1:27.568
43	021	T Bear	1:49.757

Weather: Clear, 87 °F, Southwest 5 mph

Session: Happy Hour

P	#	DRIVER	TIME
1	013	T Nadz	1:19.089
2	061	D Hamilton	1:20.947
3	88	D Earnhardt Jr	1:22.826
4	31	R Newman	1:22.866
5	48	J Johnson	1:23.082
6	16	G Biffle	1:23.129
7	5	K Kahne	1:23.268
8	18	K Busch	1:23.333
9	9	M Ambrose	1:23.634
10	78	M Truex Jr	1:23.744
11	22	J Logano	1:23.786
12	15	C Bowyer	1:23.814
13	4	K Harvick	1:23.829
14	11	D Hamlin	1:23.877
15	021	T Bear	1:24.203
16	2	B Keselowski	1:24.301
17	41	K Busch2	1:24.310
18	27	P Menard	1:24.330
19	14	T Stewart	1:24.338
20	66	J Burton	1:24.368
21	47	A Allmendinger	1:24.380
22	24	J Gordon	1:24.388
23	99	C Edwards	1:24.526
24	34	D Ragan	1:24.598
25	35	E McClure	1:24.982
26	13	C Mears	1:24.982
27	43	A Almirola	1:25.034
28	55	B Vickers	1:25.237
29	32	T Kvapil	1:25.337
30	38	D Gilliland	1:25.394
31	52	B Labonte	1:25.450
32	95	M McDowell	1:25.547
33	30	D Stremme	1:25.709
34	40	L Cassill	1:25.894
35	10	D Patrick	1:26.204
36	77	D Blaney	1:26.257
37	98	J Wise	1:26.368
38	36	R Sorenson	1:26.487
39	26	C Whitt	1:26.804
40	17	R Stenhouse Jr	1:26.863
41	7	M Annett	1:27.602
42	1	J McMurray	1:31.382
43	20	M Kenseth	1:51.495

Weather: Clear, 73 °F, Southwest 7 mph

Session: Race

OFFICIAL STANDINGS

F	S	#	DRIVER	INTERVAL	LAPS	LED	POINTS	STATUS
1	1	013	T Nadz	65.210	30	23*	185	Running
2	4	15	C Bowyer	-0.72	30	0	170	Running
3	36	17	R Stenhouse Jr	-1.20	30	0	165	Running
4	15	9	M Ambrose	-1.91	30	0	160	Running
5	28	32	T Kvapil	-2.29	30	0	155	Running
6	6	48	J Johnson	-3.14	30	0	150	Running
7	7	5	K Kahne	-3.64	30	0	146	Running
8	3	18	K Busch	-4.57	30	0	142	Running
9	18	4	K Harvick	-4.93	30	0	138	Running
10	19	47	A Allmendinger	-5.30	30	0	134	Running
11	23	31	R Newman	-6.07	30	0	130	Running
12	5	88	D Earnhardt Jr	-6.71	30	0	127	Running
13	2	99	C Edwards	-7.35	30	7	129	Running
14	9	2	B Keselowski	-8.32	30	0	121	Running
15	10	22	J Logano	-9.23	30	0	118	Running
16	26	13	C Mears	-9.57	30	0	115	Running
17	16	27	P Menard	-10.28	30	0	112	Running
18	37	10	D Patrick	-11.37	30	0	109	Running
19	27	35	E McClure	-13.95	30	0	106	Running
20	35	98	J Wise	-16.92	30	0	103	Running
21	34	95	M McDowell	-19.16	30	0	100	Running
22	38	30	D Stremme	-20.62	30	0	97	Running
23	12	16	G Biffle	-23.75	30	0	94	Running
24	21	24	J Gordon	-25.04	30	0	91	Running
25	8	20	M Kenseth	-26.44	30	0	88	Running
26	32	52	B Labonte	-1L	29	0	85	Running
27	30	43	A Almirola	-1L	29	0	82	Running
28	22	34	D Ragan	-1L	29	0	79	Running
29	13	41	K Busch2	-2L	28	0	76	Running
30	17	66	J Burton	-2L	28	0	73	Running
31	11	78	M Truex Jr	-4L	26	0	70	Retired
32	25	11	D Hamlin	-4L	26	0	67	Accident
33	43	021	T Bear	-6L	24	0	64	Accident
34	39	7	M Annett	-17L	13	0	61	Retired
35	20	38	D Gilliland	-21L	9	0	58	Retired
36	33	40	L Cassill	-21L	9	0	55	Retired
37	24	061	D Hamilton	-22L	8	0	52	Accident
38	29	55	B Vickers	-22L	8	0	49	Accident
39	31	77	D Blaney	-22L	8	0	46	Accident
40	42	1	J McMurray	-22L	8	0	43	Fuel Lk
41	41	36	R Sorenson	-22L	8	0	40	Retired
42	14	14	T Stewart	-23L	7	0	37	Accident
43	40	26	C Whitt	-29L	1	0	34	Piston

Caution Flags: 8 (17 laps)

Lead Changes: 2 (2 drivers)

Weather: Clear, 73 °F, Southwest 7 mph

Pitstop Frequency: 2x

AI Strength: 90%

PENALTIES

LAP	#	INFRACTION	PENALTY
7	021	Speeding in pits	Go to end of longest line
8	021	Passing on the inside	Stop and go