Truck Series-Nashville 200 Racethread

[slorydn1]

Harvick paces final practice: #2-Kevin Harvick was quickest in the final practice session for the Nashville 200 at Nashville Superspeedway with a top speed of 156.282 mph. Rounding out the top ten were; #17-Timothy Peters, #18-Kyle Busch, 13-Johnny Sauter, #88-Matt Crafton, #29-Brad Keselowski, #33-Ron Hornaday Jr., #15-Steve Wallace, #51-Aric Almirola, #14-Rick Crawford. There were 38 trucks on track for the final session.(4-2-2010)

Busch leads first practice: #18-Kyle Busch had the fastest lap with a top speed of 156.257 mph to lead the first practice session for the Nashville 200 at Nashville Superspeedway. Rounding out the top ten were; #29-Brad Keselowski, #88-Matt Crafton, #17-Timothy Peters, #2-Kevin Harvick, #4-Ricky Carmichael, #33-Ron Hornaday Jr., #3-Austin Dillon, #60-Stacy Compton, #5-Mike Skinner. There were 37 trucks on track for the first session. Complete practice speeds are posted on the Nashville Practice Speeds Page.(4-2-2010)

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Since NO ONE on TV considers nationwide or truck Practice important enough to televise on an off weekend for cup......

[71Fan]

Yup....seems silly but here's the deal as best I've been able to figure it out. Remember, this is all ssimply opinion that will be refuted by anyone in charge

Speed has a Pay For Play policy. You bring the product you want on their channel along with the money and they air it. They then sell commercial time etc, while charging varying amounts to the producers/event promoters.

This is basically why the ASA wasn't seen on Speed after it's shake-up.
The new ASA big dogs refused to pay and tried to pass the charge on to event promoters who also balked.

[slorydn1]

Yup....seems silly but here's the deal as best I've been able to figure it out. Remember, this is all ssimply opinion that will be refuted by anyone in charge

Speed has a Pay For Play policy. You bring the product you want on their channel along with the money and they air it. They then sell commercial time etc, while charging varying amounts to the producers/event promoters.

This is basically why the ASA wasn't seen on Speed after it's shake-up.
The new ASA big dogs refused to pay and tried to pass the charge on to event promoters who also balked.


I truly believe it was even simpler than that.....the Barrett Jackson Auctions took precedence....even Speed's F1 coverage has suffered because of the auction...Bob Varsha is covering that instead of f1... :eek:

[slorydn1]

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[slorydn1]

Lap 20 and its starting to look like a Kyle Busch snooze fest......

[slorydn1]

typical....a driver stinks up the "show" and nascrap throws a caution for debris that's waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay out of the racing line

[slorydn1]

*yawn*

[harvick#1]

indeed, I thought there was a time that cars/trucks had to post or go to the pits, many trucks were 4-5 seconds a lap slower

[71Fan]

Whatever it was was, it was on/near the line entering pit road. It was a good yellow.....meanwhile...

Pretty much a snoozer other than I love a good bass whoopin, and the kid I compare to Dan Gurney took the win. Had to fight off going to sleep in the easy chair within the first few laps. Liked how he said that if Sam wants come by and beat up a truck it's ok with him.