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short track race at Kingsport Speedway

Stock Car Racing History

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/16/16 07:54:33AM

Steve Brynes has received his Checkered Flag!

Stock Car Racing History

The race begins,
as engines roar.
They charge ahead,
like a wild boar.

Immediately they,
vie for position.
Victory and glory,
is their common mission.

Every driver,
maximum speed desires.
Each sharp turn,
burns their tires.

Magnificent machines,
often tease disaster.
Fearless warriors,
strive for nothing but faster.

Their greatest nemesis and savior,
are known simply as brakes.
In order to pass,
they wait for mistakes.

In the end,
only one gets to brag.
The first to kiss,
the checkered flag.

Steve Bryrnes you have won the ultimate kiss of God GODSPEED my friend

Pit Crews/Pit Stops - Then & Now

Stock Car Racing History

Can you remember the first time you loaded a gas powered air compressor up along with hose and gun to do your tire work a little faster? That pump up jack though was a bear to push/pull around on dirt. Sure beat the heck out of that special bent 4 way lug wrench along with that screw jack (and I still have that trusty screw bumper jack) "Memories"

Ed Blanton

Stock Car Racing History

My wife was from Horry Co and remembers him in school . Small world we live in I guess Rest in peace Mr Blanton

Prayers for Member Bill McPeek... Who is Now Back at Home from Hospital

-RacersReunion® OUTREACH

Bill get well -- you are missed on here and at the track

What does it take to be called a HERO?

Stock Car Racing History

How about that girl that rode around on the back of an Olds holding on to a big ole Shifter.. Now she turned heads and stood out better than most Right

What does it take to be called a HERO?

Stock Car Racing History

I guess only special people,not all heros were drivers, could be called heros.. One I remember who shows up in my memories of yesteryear is also known by a few on Racers Reunion. Many have heard of him but to have known him was something special. My "HERO" was the famous Smokey Unick .

DID SOMEONE SAY MARTINSVILLE???

Current NASCAR

MARTINSVILLE, Va. The driver was fuming. What had just occurred in the Martinsville Speedway race was a "punk-ass move," the driver said before vowing retaliation.

"He will get back what he gets back when I decide to give it back," he said.

That's a typical reaction at any of NASCAR's short tracks. But at Martinsville, the tempers are taken to another level.

To wit: The driver above was Kurt Busch, who one year ago had just won the race and was still steamed at Brad Keselowski, who called Busch "one of the dumbest" drivers.

Martinsville, it seems, never fails to deliver. Not when it comes to close-quarters, door-slamming, fender-banging racing and certainly not when it comes to post-race fireworks.

Remember this? "He won't win this championship. If we don't, he won't."

That was Kevin Harvick promising revenge after the most recent Martinsville race when longtime friend Matt Kenseth had wrecked him accidentally, mind you.

How about this? "Hey, you (expletive) ripped off my rear bumper, you (expletive)! You (expletive) ran into the back of me!"

That was Greg Biffle two years ago, delivering those words after surprising Jimmie Johnson during a post-race interview by yanking his collar from behind.

Tempers have also manifested themselves during the race, like in the case of Brian Vickers vs. Matt Kenseth and Brian Vickers vs. Kasey Kahne.

And those are just some of the most recent incidents. The list goes on: Remember Carl Edwards threatening to punch teammate Matt Kenseth in 2007?

Clearly, there's something about Martinsville that makes drivers quite angry and causes them to get more frustrated than usual.

It could simply be that Martinsville is NASCAR's shortest track at 0.526 mile. If so, how to explain that Bristol Motor Speedway is only .007 mile longer, yet Martinsville has more consistent tempers and retaliation?

Ryan Newman, who once clashed with former teammate Rusty Wallace at the paperclip-shaped track, said the combination of heavy braking and a flat surface "just leads to more traffic jams."

"You don't get the jumbled-up restarts at Bristol like you do here," Newman said Friday. "It just gets frustrating when you get stuck behind somebody and you can't really pass them and you're going 5 mph slower through the center of the corner than your car is capable of."

Four-time Martinsville winner Denny Hamlin, who has largely avoided conflict here, said the altercations are a result of tight confines and nearly unavoidable contact.

There's one racing groove on the bottom and drivers often lose patience when getting hung on the outside.

"They're trying to force their way to the bottom and somebody doesn't cut them a break and ends up spinning them out," Hamlin said. "That's usually what happens here and it's probably 90% of why the wrecks happen and people are upset."

That difficulty passing and the lack of room to race often combines into a steamy cauldron of anger stew.

"When you're trying to pass someone for 20 laps or 30 laps, eventually you get frustrated and then that guy gives you the bumper or vice versa," Joey Logano said. "And then that person is mad because you just got moved out of the way, and it escalates from there."

There's a chance for even more fireworks on Sunday, because NASCAR has been stopping all the drivers on pit road this year instead of letting them drive back to the garage (to remove a horsepower-reducing tapered spacer).

That means instead of getting separated after the checkered flag, all the drivers will park right next to one another with the adrenaline from 500 tough laps still quite fresh.

If there's a confrontation, they'll likely have to deal with it themselves. Only two crew members are allowed over the wall, in part to avoid another incident ..

"What is kind of frustrating as a crew chief and a team member, everybody always thinks 'Oh Brian Vickers and Kasey Kahne (are angry with each other),'" Jimmie Johnson crew chief Chad Knaus said. "It's not just them. It's the 60 people that built that car or the 600 people that maintain those cars.

"Every time somebody takes a swipe at your race car you get a little bit madder and a little bit madder. It's not just the guys inside the race car. That is why those things happen." And to top all this off Kurt Busch is on the pole in style leading all the other Bow ties around the paper clip

taken in part from Jeff Gluck

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM

Airing out your tires before the race?? come on

Current NASCAR

I'm sure by now that most race fans have heard that NASCAR lowered the boom on the No. 31 car of driver Ryan Newman late Tuesday afternoon after the results of a tire audit.

Crew chief Luke Lambert has been fined $125,000 and suspended from the next six NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship races, plus he's been placed on NASCAR probation through Dec. 31. James Bender, team tire technician, and Philip Surgen, team engineer, also have been suspended for the next six Sprint Cup races and placed on NASCAR probation through Dec. 31. In addition, driver Newman and car owner Richard Childress each have been penalized with the loss of 75 championship driver and championship car owner points.

Let's face it: The best inspectors in our sport are those competitors in the garage area. It was that way even clear back when I was just entering the sport as a crew member. When you start hearing noise about something going on in the garage area and as that noise gets louder with more people making a fuss about it, well, then there's probably something there.

I realize it's probably confusing to race fans as to why a competitor would put a hole in a tire. The answer is complicated while at the same time simple. There is an optimum air pressure that those tires will perform their best and durability will be at its best. There is a graph that Goodyear puts out every week that has a performance line and a durability line on it. There's a point in that graph where those two lines cross. That's the optimum air pressure point when the tire will perform at its best.

The rub is there is no way to maintain that optimum air pressure. That's why you see teams start their tires very low because the tires will gain pressure over the course of a run. Then as the air pressure continues to grow, you get outside that optimum window of good performance. So anything you can do to reduce that pressure gradually will obviously enhance the window of optimum performance.

I think fans need to understand that when I say a team or teams are putting holes in their tires for a gradual reduction of air, I'm talking about holes that are miniscule. These are holes you couldn't even see. Seriously, I'm talking about a 10,000^th of an inch size hole.

So NASCAR lowered the boom on the No. 31 car for this very issue. Not only has the No. 31 team received the message but I am sure the entire garage area received a clear signal once again from NASCAR that the Big Three -- engines, fuel and tires -- are not to be tampered with.

Airing out your tires before the race?? come on

Current NASCAR

I wasnt going to write this but something is bothering me about the idea of it.

Case in point is deliberately putting holes in your tires before a race so you will lose air as they build up pressure from heat.

And I was always checking mine for any little nail or such. And it could get you suspended? Is this the reason they dive into the pits even if they only got 10 laps on them when a caution comes out? Who would be the driller and who would mark the spots? Puzzling to say the least.. Dave you ever heard of this before? #2 Miller Lite Ford, inspects tires prior to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 16, 2014 in Homestead, Florida." class="image loaded" src="http://img.s-msn.com/tenant/amp/entityid/AAa8AqO.img?h=564&w=874&m=6&q=60&o=f&l=f&x=2159&y=385" width="624">

updated by @johnny-mallonee: 12/05/16 04:04:08PM