theGTAking101 Posted May 23, 2016 Share Posted May 23, 2016 (edited) Looks like they already have another sponsor. They'll be announcing the new sponsor in a month. Dale always had nice looking patriotic cars, I'm also glad to see the silver numbers back on his car. This one's actually a reference to his father's 1996 Olympic car: But does anyone else agree that Johnson's patriotic car looks god awful? His 2014 car was probably the best: Here's another Coke 600 scheme: Edited May 23, 2016 by theGTAking101 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068790161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 the NASCAR Hall of Fame 2017 induction class has been voted on and determined. The inductees are - - Benny Parsons - 1973 Cup Series Champion, 1975 Daytona 500 champion, and longtime color commentator for ESPN/ESPN2/ABC and NBC/TNT - Mark Martin - Second on the all-times wins list for the Xfinity Series, 5-time Cup Series championship runner up, 96 combined wins across the Cup, Xfinity and Truck Series - Rick Hendrick - 11-Time Cup Series Champion Owner - 1995, 1997, 1998, and 2001 with Jeff Gordon, 1996 with Terry Labonte, and 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2013 with Jimmie Johnson; 8-time Daytona 500 Champion owner, and 2003 Xfinity Series Champion owner with Brian Vickers - Richard Childress - 6-Time Cup Series Champion owner - 1986, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, and 1994 with Dale Earnhardt, 4-Time Xfinity Series Champion owner - 2001 and 2006 with Kevin Harvick (Harvick also drove for his own team for some of the races), 2008 with Clint Bowyer, and 2013 with Austin Dillon, and 1-time Truck Series champion owner - 2011 with Austin Dillon; 2-time Daytona 500 champion owner - 1998 with Dale Earnhardt, and 2007 with Harvick - Raymond Parks - First Champion team owner in NASCAR - 1949 with Red Bryon The recipent of the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR was also announced - H. Clay Earles, the founder of Martinsville Speedway. - http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm#20160525hof I am so glad that they finally voted Benny Parsons into the Hall of Fame, he should have gone in before Bruton Smith, the owner of SMI did. Brad Keselowski's car for Darlington - Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068795093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 I'm actually more happy about Mark Martin getting in. I'm in love with Bayne's 600 scheme. Roush has a lot of good paint schemes this year. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068795102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 (edited) not NASCAR but... NAPA Auto Parts, Chase Elliot's sponsor, stepped up to sponsor Andretti Autosport with Bryan Herta Autosport #98 team with rookie Alexander Rossi earlier this week for the Indianapolis 500........ well it paid off huge. Rossi just won the 100th Indianapolis 500. It is the #98 team's second Indianapolis 500 win in the last 5 years. The late Dan Wheldon won the 2011 Indy 500 after JR Hildebrand crashed in the last turn. edit: the Coca-Cola 600 has been pushed up by 10 minutes due to possible rain. The 600 will now start around 6:08pm EST. Edited May 29, 2016 by kk9fan97 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068803955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 I always love the pre-race festivities at the Indy 500. It's a great atmosphere and it would be awesome to be there. I'm happy to see a young guy win, and man he was close on fuel. At first I was cheering for my fellow Canadian Hinchcliffe, but after he faded I was cheering for Kanaan, then at the end I was cheering for Hildebrand when he was up front, it would've been nice to see him get redemption for 2011. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068804165 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 Every week Fox Sports becomes a bigger joke.... They show a Coca-Cola promotion and Darrell Waltrip proceeds to open a can of Coca-Cola in the booth and drink it.... now two on-screen graphics falures in a period of 5 seconds - The second Caution comes out for Brian Scott's spin and on the on-scren graphics they show it as being the first caution, completely ignoring the competition caution, and then immediately after pulling that fail off the screen the graphic changes to showing that it is "NASCAR Overtime" on Lap 115 of 400.... They seriously can not go a single broadcast without failing on the on-screen graphics... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068804411 Share on other sites More sharing options...
El Dildo Posted May 29, 2016 Share Posted May 29, 2016 this race is depressing.every 15 minutes they interrupt the action to mention a dead US soldier and how they died. great, thanks. we get it. this is just poorly produced. what a stupid idea. I can't keep watching gtamann123 and theGTAking101 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068804452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 (edited) Truex is unbeatable tonight. Would a win just be too much to ask for? EDIT: lol Logano pit penalty Edited May 30, 2016 by theGTAking101 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068804568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted May 30, 2016 Share Posted May 30, 2016 Edwards caught speeding entering pit road, serves penalty, AND caught speeding entering pit road while serving the penalty.... fail. SlayerSnoopy 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068804624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Hellraiser Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 (edited) I took graphic design as my specialty in high school and I pretty much slept my way through it and I could do a better job of conducting FOX's special effects than they do... Didn't get to see much of the race, but I'm really glad Truex finally got the win he deserved. He absolutely dominated all race, and he was way overdue. EDIT: There doesn't appear to be an IndyCar topic, but did any of you see the end of the race? I thought it was really interesting. So many people have a problem with fuel mileage racing, but I think it makes it so much more intense. Racing is all about risk/reward, and that may very well have been the biggest risk (I don't follow Rossi, so I don't know how talented he is) Rossi will take in his racing career, and it resulted in him winning the 100th Indy 500. It was an ballsy turn of strategy. And the fact he finished out of fuel at practically highway speed makes it that much more amazing to me. Edited May 31, 2016 by Ex Hellraiser theGTAking101 and El Dildo 2 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068809346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 I always watch IndyCar, they put on some of the best races by far. The whole race was crazy, both on track and in pit road. I was hoping to see Townsend Bell win it and he was probably going to up until he crashed with his teammate Ryan Hunter-Reay and Helio Castroneves on pit road. Rossi is actually under contract as a reserve driver with Manor Racing in F1 and despite the fact that F1 is all road and street courses his best runs in IndyCar have been on the ovals at Phoenix and Indy so he definitely has some talent. IndyCar has a doubleheader this week in Detroit on the street course at Belle Isle with a full race on Saturday and another full race on Sunday then they go to Road America after that so they got some good races coming up. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068809963 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 This here must be one of my favorite throwback cars so far, even if I do hate Logano - Based off this - Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068812175 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 Lazy. They didn't even bother to use the correct logos. The #20 team will probably have some kind of Stewart throwback as well. There Stewart was going to be running some old paint schemes this year. theGTAking101 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068812207 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted June 2, 2016 Share Posted June 2, 2016 I remember seeing something about one of Tony's old sponsors coming back for a race. The Xfinity Series Twitter account also said something about wanting a Home Depot throwback or something like that. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068812431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 SHR gm Greg Zipadelli said something about old sponsors and old paint schemes being a possibility. Seeing how we have not seen Stewart's Darlington car yet (but have seen the other 3 SHR cars for that race) maybe they are running something special there. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068819526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 So there was a physical altercation in the garage during today's rain shortened Xfinity Series race between Ryan Reed and Ryan Seig that resulted in punches being thrown and Reed getting pushed over a pile of tires. Both of their pit crews were also involved in the fight that began after Reed wrecked Seig and then when Reed wrecked with Jeremy Clements. http://www.motorsport.com/nascar-xs/news/ryan-sieg-calls-ryan-reed-brain-dead-after-garage-altercation-743657/ Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068821075 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) I guess FOX/FS1 still has not caught on for the need of something permnant on screen alerting people that they are showing last year's Pocono race, because twitter is blowing up like it has every time since FOX quit putting "rain delay" on screen before 2012 when they caused mass confusion for the Daytona 500 and this time everyone is asking why Jeff Gordon is in the #24 and not Elliott.... Nick Bromberg of Yahoo! Sports has been retweeting a bunch of these tweets - https://twitter.com/NickBromberg he's a good one to follow along with Geoffrey Miller of Athlon Sports - https://twitter.com/GeoffreyMiller - They always call NASCAR and the boradcasters (mostly FOX/FS1 since they are always screwing up) on their stupidity and it's rather funny to see. EDIT: THE AXALTA "WE PAINT WINNERS" 400 FROM POCONO HAS BEEN POSTPONED BY RAIN TO TOMORROW AT NOON EST ON FS1, MRN, AND SIRIUS/XM NASCAR RADIO CHANNEL 90. glad I got tomorrow off from work. Edited June 5, 2016 by kk9fan97 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068822543 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 It's crazy how dumb some people can be while they're showing old races. It's funny, during the rain delay in the 2014 Daytona 500, they showed the 2013 race and everyone was spamming Johnson congratulating him. I'm sure a bunch of those people actually thought they the 2014 race was live and that Johnson won 2 in a row.. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068822627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 5, 2016 Share Posted June 5, 2016 (edited) It's crazy how dumb some people can be while they're showing old races. It's funny, during the rain delay in the 2014 Daytona 500, they showed the 2013 race and everyone was spamming Johnson congratulating him. I'm sure a bunch of those people actually thought they the 2014 race was live and that Johnson won 2 in a row.. Alex Bowman tweeted a few minutes ago that his cell phone is blowing up from people saying it is good to see him back in a Cup car.... you can't really blame the people since FOX/FS1 is too stupid to put something permanant on screen that says today's race is postponed that they are showing an old race. Race #2 of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit IndyCar race is about to start on ABC. Sebastien Bourdais won Race #1 yesterday. edit: it looks like NAPA Auto Parts must have extended their agreement with Andretti Autosport with Bryan Herta Autosport and Indy 500 champion Alexander Rossi. ABC just showed Rossi's car and it still has the NAPA logos and paintscheme on it. edit: yup they extended for the Dual in Detroit - http://editor.ne16.com/vo/?FileID=c69095e5-b77a-4854-a3b4-02866f38a1bf&ListID=1000014 edit: well that was a bizarre start... Rahal pitted, Dixon about wrecked the entire field, and then going into turn 1 Takuma Sato, James Hinchcliffe, and Max Chilton wreck to bring out the full course caution. Charlie Kimball ran both Carlos Munoz and Hinchcliffe over and ran Hinch into the wall. Hinch blames Munoz without knowing Kimball ran them over. Says before the green Munoz was runing him to the wall. Indycar is reviewing the incident, as they should. Kimball should be penalized for avoidable contact. edit: They moved Castroneves behind Kanaan for avoidable contact with Kanaan and Dixon in a different incident. Edited June 5, 2016 by kk9fan97 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068822893 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 (edited) wow. Keselowski just got blackflagged for unapproved body adjustments. They have to bring the car back to pit road and fix it. edit: lol Logano just got owned by Newman. He about wrecked Newman on the restart, so going through Turn 1, Newman hit him not once, not twice, but three times and moved him totally out of the way and in the process bent the left rear bumper and quarter panel on Logano's car. Edited June 6, 2016 by kk9fan97 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068825052 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 crazy couple of moments there. Keselowski runs out of fuel while leading, Truex spins after contact with Bowyer, Mears starts smoking, and Kyle Busch is apparently dropping fluid on the track and his engine might be blowing up.... Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068851250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Horrific crash in the IndyCar Series race at Texas. Connor Daly got loose out of turn 4 and went up the track into Josef Newgarden which sent both into the ouside wal extremely hard. Newgarden' car turned over on to it's side, and then slid cockpit first into the wall with Daly's car pushing him into it.. Newgarden got out of his car and immediately collapsed. Daly walked away from his car. The Halmatro Safety Team got Newgarden onto a backboard and as they were loading Newgarden into the ambulance he waved. The SAFER Barrier where they first hit has a huge hole in it. Scott Dixon was behind the wreck and hit a huge piece of debris and and has a big peiece of it stuck between is right front tire and the car. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068851562 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Hellraiser Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 I don't know, man. I really hope Newgarden is alright. I'm sure he's got a bad concussion and probably some compression. It certainly doesn't take much for an Indycar to turn into a torpedo. I really give props to those in IndyCar. They have such a greater level of inherent danger than any other professional racing series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU4V2MACCMk Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068852472 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 IndyCar released an update on Newgarden. He sustained a broken right clavicle, and has a small fracture on his right hand - https://twitter.com/IndyCar/status/742135962419875840 the race itself never went back green, and was halted by rain. It will be made up on August 27th and resume on lap 71. It was rescheduled to that date due to team members from Chip Ganassi Racing, along with drivers Scott Dixon, Sebastien Bourdais, Mikhail Aleshin and Townsend Bell needing to travel to Le Mans for the activities for the 24 Hours of Le Mans. so should we start up a thead dedicated to IndyCar or leave it here? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068852927 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 F1 has its own thread, so IndyCar deserves one as well. But the thing is, how many people on this forum actually watch IndyCar? Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068852985 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) BREAKING: A major fire has occurred at Thorsport Racing (Truck Series #13 Cameron Hayley, #41 Ben Rhodes, #88 Matt Crafton & #98 Rico Abreu). The fire started in the basement around midnight last night and it took fire fighters nearly 8 hours to get the fire under control. The whole back of the building is destroyed and it sounds like the front where the finished Trucks are was not touched by the fire but there is a chance that there is going to be smoke and water damage. Thorsport Racing put out an official statement a couple of hours ago while the fire was stll out of control - http://myemail.constantcontact.com/ThorSport-Racing-Official-Statement.html?soid=1109591091029&aid=Bj_VcEiKzm0 The Sandusky (Ohio) Scanner Live facebook page posted a picture of the damage to the building (top left you can see fire) - https://www.facebook.com/167797306707716/photos/a.215582168595896.1073741828.167797306707716/634834593337316/?type=3&theater they also posted some videos of the fire overnight - https://www.facebook.com/167797306707716/photos/a.215582168595896.1073741828.167797306707716/634834593337316/?type=3 - https://www.facebook.com/167797306707716/photos/a.215582168595896.1073741828.167797306707716/634834593337316/?type=3 edit: more pictures of the damage - https://twitter.com/jillyburnsphoto/status/742375964546584576 edit: the team says some of their trucks survived the fire. They removed all four of their haulers from the building along with some of their tool boxes and pit boxes before the fire spread. Also Kyle Busch Motorsports has reached out to Thorsport and offered them assistance, as has other teams. http://nascar.nbcsports.com/2016/06/13/update-thorsport-racing-haulers-and-some-trucks-survive-fire/ Edited June 13, 2016 by kk9fan97 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068854474 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 (edited) Tonight on NBC at 8pm est, NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., and IndyCar Series drivers Tony Kanaan, Helio Castroneves, and Josef Newgarden will be competing on American Ninja Warrior (This was taped well before yesterday's crash that left Newgarden injured). IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter and a few others were there as well but not competing. edit: Newgarden just did his run. Danica Patrick is there, and so is James Hinchcliffe. edit: Stenhouse, Jr. just did his run.. Edited June 14, 2016 by kk9fan97 Ex Hellraiser 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068856213 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kk9fan97 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 DMR/Monster Games has confirmed tthat all the charter teams will be in NASCAR Heat: Evolution, plus four other teams - http://www.polygon.com/2016/5/22/11735524/nascar-heat-evolution-dusenberry-martin-racing-monster-games so Chip Ganassi Racing - #1 Jamie McMurray, #42 Kyle Larson Team Penske - #2 Brad Keselowski, #22 Joey Logano Richard Childress Racing - #3 Austin Dillon, #27 Paul Menard, #31 Ryan Newman Stewart-Haas Racing - #4 Kevin Harvick, #10 Danica Patrick, #14 Tony Sewart, #41 Kurt Busch Hendrick Motorsports - #5 Kasey Kahne, #24 Chase Elliott, #48 Jimmie Johnson, #88 Dale Earnhardt, Jr. Roush-Fenway Racing - #6 Trevor Bayne, #16 Greg Biffle, #17 Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. Tommy Baldwin Racing - #7 Regan Smith Joe Gibbs Racing - #11 Denny Hamlin, #18 Kyle Busch, #19 Carl Edwards, #20 Matt Kenseth Germain Racing - #13 Casey Mears HScott Motorsports - #15 Clint Bowyer, #46 Michael Annett BK Racing - #23 David Ragan, #83 Matt DIBenedetto Go Fas Racing - #32 Driver TBA Front Row Motorsports - #34 Chris Buescher, #38 Landon Cassil Richard Petty Motorsports - #43 Aric Almirola, #44 Brian Scott JTG-Daugherty Racing - #47 A.J. Allmendinger Furniture Row Racing - #78 Martin Truex, Jr. CircleSport-Leavine Family Racing - #95 Driver TBA (either Michael McDowell, or Ty Dillon) also confirmed is Wood Brothers - #21 Ryan Blaney (Blaney is working with the developers along with Keselowski and Logano) A couple of days ago they released an in-game screenshot on their twitter page - it's aso being reported on the NASCAR Heat: Evolution reddit that the alcohol sponsored cars will be in the game but like with NASCAR '15 Victory Edition they are behind an age verification gate. Ex Hellraiser 1 Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068861930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theGTAking101 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Something I don't quite understand, is what's going on with the commercial that they're shooting. It has so much random scenery. I guess it's just to make it look nice. When DMi posted that screenshot on Instagram, it's stupid how many people were saying it was Forza. First of all, Allmendinger and Truex aren't in Forza, and second of all, it makes no sense for the company to post a screenshot from another game. Some people. The game seems to be coming along really well so far. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068862183 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Hellraiser Posted June 17, 2016 Share Posted June 17, 2016 I haven't been this excited for a NASCAR game in a long time. I absolutely loved Dirt to Daytona, and I still have it (I just wish I had time to play it again. The last really good one was probably Total Team Control. 04 and 05 were the best two, but after 06 it quickly went downhill. Every game from Eutechnyx was crap. I bought 2011 simply because it was the first full game in years, and it turned out to be crap, and the subsequent games looked and felt the exact same. High hopes for Monster Games. Link to comment https://gtaforums.com/topic/685288-official-nascar-thread/page/21/#findComment-1068866948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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