NASCAR Cup Round #12: Coke 600 - Charlotte Motorspeedway

[fieldodreams79]

Formerly known as the World 600 and the Memorial Day weekend tradition. Now, it's the finish of the greatest single day in motorsports as the biggest GP, biggest AOW race and the 2nd (or 3rd) biggest stockcar race.

JAYSKI

Denny Hamlin sets track record while grabbing the pole.
Top 10 starters:

1 11 Denny Hamlin FedEx Office Toyota 195.624 27.604
2 78 Kurt Busch Furniture Row Racing / Sealy Chevy 195.221 27.661
3 20 Matt Kenseth Home Depot / Husky Toyota 195.094 27.679
4 55 Mark Martin Aaron's Dream Machine Toyota 194.595 27.750
5 15 Clint Bowyer 5-hour Energy Toyota 194.503 27.763
6 5 Kasey Kahne Time Warner Cable Chevy 194.349 27.785
7 16 Greg Biffle Fastenal Ford 194.238 27.801
8 18 Kyle Busch M&M's Red-White-Blue M-Prove America Toyota 193.952 27.842
9 1 Jamie McMurray Bad Boy Buggies Chevy 193.694 27.879
10 39 Ryan Newman Quicken Loans Chevy 193.639 27.887

Mike Bliss misses the show.

Green flag 616pmEST.

[gomick]

Ambrose 19th - can win from there

[fieldodreams79]

Green flag for the longest race of thee season.

Beer, TV, MRN on the deck...check, check and check.

[MJ_N_09]

Uh......Red Flag because apparently the cable that Fox's fancy camera moved along snapped off and several cars hit it and the camera and Nascar is letting all cars check and repair the damage from this major blunder. Epic Fail, Fox *facepalm* Marcos Ambrose had the worst damage with a severed brakeline BTW.

[fieldodreams79]

Fox doing their best to prolong the longest race of the year for more Waltrips and other dooshbaggery.

[Paradise City]

The blimp will probably deflate and land on the front stretch next.

[canamman]

First time for everything. Camera cables wrecking cars is a first for me.
NASCAR seems to be making the right calls.

I like the Waltrips but I am begining to grow weary, really, with all the
unimportant media cvg. Always trying to make something out of nothing.
But then again I guess thats taught in journalism 101.

[MJ_N_09]

On the bright side, the race is back underway now with everyone able to fix the damage to their cars, then being allowed to line back up according to the running order before the caution. Almost like nothing ever happened.

[gomick]

Junior & Kyle blow up on the same lap - Kyle sure does have a lot of retirements in Cup...

[broadrun96]

Just flipped over and was Gordon given a jet pack for this weekend? Just seemed like he made two passes, guessing not for position, on cars that looked like they were nailed down.

[canamman]

These cookie cutter triovals just produce such dull entertainment
in the middle 80 % of the race its really unwatchable. Great finishes
if you are still awake.

[FordCosworthPanoz]

I'm half drunk so it's okay.

[broadrun96]

It could be worse, they could run at Michigan for 600 miles. I think that track could make watching paint dry fun and exciting.
Keslowski throwing himself in the I wrecked Danica sword there? Don't think he did anything in that incident and was taken out by Danica being pushed up track by I think the 17.

[FordCosworthPanoz]

WOW, the Big One at Charlotte.

[Salamus]

There goes another good result for Gordon.

[broadrun96]

Yeah, when was a NASCAR event red flagged twice and neither was for rain? Was an impressive amount of debris and looked like wall foam flying thru the air after that.
And typical Fox fashion, no commercial in the red flag, yellow comes out lets go to break now.

[FordCosworthPanoz]

Pothole 500 2010?


I was there...

[fieldodreams79]

Long day...need to get this crap going again, so I don't pass out.


KurtB can't get it started after red flag....

[FordCosworthPanoz]

Originally Posted by fieldodreams79

Long day...need to get this crap going again, so I don't pass out.


KurtB can't get it started after red flag....

Right now I'm a zombie, but boy it's worth it!

Today is a great day to be a motorsport fan.

[MJ_N_09]

I was gonna say what a great story it'll be if Almorola makes the chase along with Menard...tonight just made it alot harder for the first of the two drivers. Everyone is just trying to get everything they can on the restarts and it often ends up being all for nothing.

Also, should I point out that it's a full moon tonight? Just saying. Also notice that Danica is again wrecked because of something her BF did.....yeah.

[MJ_N_09]

..and here we go again!!!!!!!!! It's like they all forgot how to drive. A long night of 600 miles will do that sometimes.

[broadrun96]

Last car left with straight panels wins?

[FordCosworthPanoz]

Anybody remember the 2005 Coca Cola 600?

[gomick]

10th caution & the Ambrose badluck is gone for season 2013, snuck through that Johnson spin - top 5 result will happen tonight for the #9

[Scooter185]

It's been a fun day of racing, glad the red flags delayed the race so I could get home from work and see the end! But wow 3 red flags today between 2 of the 3.