|| *Comments on the 2010 Royal Purple 200 Presented by O'Reilly Auto Parts:* View the most recent comment <#37> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Dodge posted: 05.07.2010 - 10:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Man, what a great crew chief Dan Derringhoff is. 2 times in 4 weeks Clint says I have a tire going down and the crew chief keeps him out only to blow it out and wreck. 2. Eric posted: 05.07.2010 - 11:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good runs by Stanton Barrett and Coleman Pressley. 3. New 14& 88 Fan posted: 05.07.2010 - 11:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Gotta hand it to Shrub, only he would cry "It's over, We lost we can't win BAWWWWW!!!!!" while sitting in the Top Five with a car equal to his team mate whose dominating the race...what a winner he is. Great run for Jason Leffler in the 10 car, Steve Wallace finally finishes a race on the lead lap after a string of bad luck going back to Bristol.Coleman Pressely impressed me as well...he could be headed for big things in the future. 4. loomer posted: 05.07.2010 - 11:13 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Coleman Pressley has another great run in the Robert Richardson owned car 5. Cfob posted: 05.08.2010 - 1:27 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) As it has been mentioned, strong run for Coleman Pressley. Brad Keselowski gets a top 10 on the only active Nationwide track he has raced at that he previously had not had a top 10 finish at. Just Allgaier was very impressive with some of the moves he made in this race. This guy has big things in his future. I find it funny JR Motorsports fires Kelly Bires, who had solid finishes in the 88, and brings in Steve Arpin, who has been dismal in the 7 car. A very boneheaded move there. If you want to keep Danica's car in the top 30, put someone in it that will run significantly better than Danica (say Kelly Bires, Scott Wimmer or Landon Cassill). I am happy to see they'll be having JR Fitzpatrick around for the road course races, though I'm still not sure if he'll be any better than Arpin. 6. 18fan posted: 05.08.2010 - 2:23 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Steve Arpin is a pile of trash at thus level. 7. Zed 3_88fan4eva posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Boy people on here cant give anyone a chance. Steve Arpin is a good driver, hes had only three starts (at three tough tracks) and you guys are already wanting to get rid of him. Give him a freaking break. Give him time to at least get used to driving in the Busch series and then comment on him. Its reasons like this why Casey Atwood is just a start and park now 8. Anonymous posted: 05.08.2010 - 9:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jr. Motorsports screwed at what tracks to have Steve Arpin race at a first place since 2 out of the 3 tracks are not ideal for a rookie driver to make their first 3 starts at. Talladega and Darlington are tracks are not easy tracks for a rookie a first place. It is reasonable for expecting a rookie to do decent at a short track. 1 1/2 and 2 mile tracks are good for rookie drivers to race at if the equipment is good. Darlington is a very hard track that even veteran drivers can wreck 2 times in a day like Kyle Busch did on the cup side in practice and qualifying. Kyle wasn't the only drive to hit the wall at Darlington on the cup side. If a rookie driver does good here, that is a great accomplishment to put it mildly. I consider Darlington the toughest track on the circuit that isn't a plate track or a road course. Talladega is track depends a lot on drafting a first place and is a track that veteran drivers don't trust rookies at all. The other problem is nature of the race there causes a lot of cars to be teared at. 9. DaleSrFanForever posted: 05.08.2010 - 9:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Yeah, give Arpin a chance. If he's still doing this after awhile, then we can call him a bust. Besides, the race wreck he got caught in wasn't his fault. And for the love of God, somebody hand Kryle Busch some Midol, or a pacifier, or something. What a baby. Post #3 covers it well. This after he wrecked the hell out of his Cup car in qualifying by deciding he can drive the COTank wide open at Darlington. For everyone in the media trying to call him "championship caliber" after his win at Richmond should feel pretty dumb now. Of course I guess they have to find something to talk about other than JJ's inevitable 5th consecutive Cup title. Nobody will come close to him and the #48 in the cha$e. And I don't see how anyone could stand to work for Kryle. They bust their asses all week and give him the best equipment out there, and he whines the whole time. "I'm done!" "I'm done!" "I'm done!" If I were the crew chief, when he said that, I say "Alright, we're done too!" and pack my shit up and load the hauler. Let him figure out the rest of the race on his own. Maybe then he'll appreciate just how good he's got it. And my favorite: "Denny freaked me out by staying out." Huh? What a dumbass. Championship level talent, Bush League level mental capacity. 10. JamieMcmurrayFan posted: 05.08.2010 - 9:41 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) anyone notice jason keller has just gotten 3 consecutive llf's. to bad he has a major loser for a crew cheif lol. 11. Willy on Wheels posted: 05.08.2010 - 10:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Arpin should finish out the ARCA season unless he wants to be the next Jon Wes Townley or Steve Wallace. And here is a little message to Kryle Bitch: IT IS THE NATIONWIDE SERIES!!!!!! Quit whining about finishing 2nd. There are some drivers that would kill someone for a 2nd place finish in the Nationwide series and Joe Gibbs equipment. I can see why they put Racing for Kids on your car. It is because you act like a little kid! Grow up already. This isn't even the Sprint Cup. 12. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 05.08.2010 - 1:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race should show that Kyle hasn't changed a damn bit since 2008, unlike the media's ridiculous claim. He really needs to get a grip, finishing second to your teammate in equal equipment is pretty much a win. But he is the poorest sport in NASCAR. 13. 18fan posted: 05.08.2010 - 2:46 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DSFF, your JJ ass kissing is getting really annoying. He only wins as much as he does because his car is so much better and his crew chief is a known cheater. 14. Cooper posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch doesn't deserve the attention he gets. He's a good driver; that had all the connections in the world to get him where he is today. I betcha if you gave him the equipment some other drivers got early in their day, he'd be kissing the earth for a second place finish. Kyle has had nothing but excellence, but just like a spoiled little rich kid they want more. I don't respect "those" people and I never will, whether there walking on the street,in a fancy restaurant, or on the race track. Thumbs Down to Kyle Busch Thumbs Up to Stanton Barrett(he's actually a decent driver) 15. Anonymous posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Imagine how many people would throw hissy fits if JR Motorsports fired Arpin after three races. Probably the same people saying that they should. NASCAR fans are so goddamn ridiculous. 16. DaleSrFanForever posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Trust me, I'm no fan of JJ's by any means. I am sick of watching him win. But I'm just telling it like it is. JJ is gonna win the Cup again this year. That is a foregone conclusion. I hope I'm wrong, I hope after Homestead I'll be happily writing an "I was wrong" post. That will be the sweetest tasting crow ever. But it won't happen. And it is because of reasons like the ones I posted earlier. Yes he has good equipment, but so do a lot of other people. He is just the only one in that group with the mindset to bring home the Cup. The rest wilt once things start going wrong. The 1st and 2nd place finishers have a history of doing really bad when expectations are high. 17. Anonymous posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Man my IQ dropped at least 20 points while reading these comments. 18. DaleSrFanForever posted: 05.08.2010 - 4:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cooper, I couldn't agree more with everything you said. The best, as in the ones who get results, started off in either Busch or Cup in second rate equipment, learned how to fight and claw, and once given elite equipment, dominated. JJ (a start up Herzog Busch team), Gordon (Bill Davis' early 90s Busch stuff), Stewart (pre-Toyota JGR Busch teams), Kenseth (John Reiser's independant Chevy's), and of course the older guys who had to drive junk to get their foot in the door. 19. Bronco posted: 05.08.2010 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) How about that. After 5 races in the #21, John Wrecks Weekly scored 484 points and had a 22.4 average finish with one DNF. Clint Bowyer steps into the car following John's Phoenix practice crash, runs 5 races and scored 478 points and has a 22.8 average finish with two DNFs. Also, John has also completed more laps than Clint. Haha, so much for the veteran helping out the rookie. I hope this means that John will be back in the car for Dover and beyond, because there is no reason for him to be funding a car which he isn't even driving. And putting Steve Arpin in the #7 was a dumb move when you consider that Scott Wimmer led laps and had top tens at both Bristol and Nashville driving the same car. But at least Big Mac is kicking ass in the #88 car, and is doing better than even Dale Jr did the last two seasons. This was Denny's third straight win at Darlington, all from the pole. 20. Cfob posted: 05.09.2010 - 1:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Boy people on here cant give anyone a chance. Steve Arpin is a good driver, hes had only three starts (at three tough tracks) and you guys are already wanting to get rid of him. Give him a freaking break. Give him time to at least get used to driving in the Busch series and then comment on him. Its reasons like this why Casey Atwood is just a start and park now" I'm giving him as much a chance as they gave Kelly Bires. "Imagine how many people would throw hissy fits if JR Motorsports fired Arpin after three races. Probably the same people saying that they should. NASCAR fans are so goddamn ridiculous." I'm not saying they should fire Arpin. I'm saying it was a dumb idea to get rid of Kelly Bires, Scott Wimmer and Landon Cassill and replace them with Arpin. Also, I'm not a NASCAR fan, I'm a race fan, which is why I'm pulling for Kelly to get a decent ride, I saw him race pre-NASCAR and I know what kind of talent he has. "How about that. After 5 races in the #21, John Wrecks Weekly scored 484 points and had a 22.4 average finish with one DNF. Clint Bowyer steps into the car following John's Phoenix practice crash, runs 5 races and scored 478 points and has a 22.8 average finish with two DNFs. Also, John has also completed more laps than Clint. Haha, so much for the veteran helping out the rookie. I hope this means that John will be back in the car for Dover and beyond, because there is no reason for him to be funding a car which he isn't even driving" Wasn't Bowyer in the car to analyse where the 21 program was at? Maybe it is just a testament to how far the RCR Nationwide program has fallen. 21. Frank posted: 05.09.2010 - 6:58 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Let me stay for Kyle Busch. First of all I think his crew knows his attitude better than we are. Don't think they could say "ok, we're done too" because chance of be on VL in case of Kyle is about 50% in NNS. Next, why are you think that driver from dominant team who will not go for the championship should be happy with 2nd? Remember, 2nd is the 1st looser and I've heard NASCAR is a lot about that - either you going for championships and prefer consistency either going for race wins. Of course cha$e completely tores up this philosophy but, as it was told, it's not the Cup. Kyle matured, his Cup season shows it a lot. N'Wide is other deal. 22. Andre for Governor posted: 05.10.2010 - 9:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It was good to see Kenseth crash and keep that car out of the top 30 for another week. Colin Braun dropped that car out of the top 30 so he should be the one who gets it back in the top 30. Braun can run in the top 15 or 20 if he can stay out of trouble, and several of the wrecks he has been in weren't his fault just like the second one Kenseth was in that ended his night. The same could be said for Stenhouse, when he doesn't wreck he can run in the top 15. 23. Talon64 posted: 05.10.2010 - 5:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I didn't get to watch the Nationwide but looking at the list of cautions Ricky Stenhouse wrecked himself out. Was it a tire problem or just a driver problem? Also, Matt Kenseth just about MISSED this race! Denny missed the Darlington NNS race a couple years ago because the #18 wasn't locked into the show and he wrecked in qualifying but Kenseth was just plain slow. Even with Kenseth the #16 isn't running much better than they were with Colin Braun so hopefully Jack's getting the message loud and clear that the guy sitting on the pit box is the guy who should be in a car instead of Stenhouse. "And for the love of God, somebody hand Kryle Busch some Midol, or a pacifier, or something. What a baby. Post #3 covers it well. This after he wrecked the hell out of his Cup car in qualifying by deciding he can drive the COTank wide open at Darlington. For everyone in the media trying to call him "championship caliber" after his win at Richmond should feel pretty dumb now. Of course I guess they have to find something to talk about other than JJ's inevitable 5th consecutive Cup title. Nobody will come close to him and the #48 in the cha$e." Who cares? It's only Nationwide, and Kyle expects to wins every Nationwide race because JGR has the best cars and Kyle's the best driver in the series so he should. He's more realistic when he comes to Cup, although I don't think he gave any interviews after his 7th in the Cup race. Jason Leffler gets his first top five of the season but gets beat by Kasey Kahne driving his regular car. Kahne's driving a Dodge in Cup, a Toyota in Nationwide and he'll be driving a Chevy in 2011. lol Michael Annett, Mike Wallace, Stanton Barrett and Coleman Pressley had great finishes. Coleman S&P'd his 5 races last year and wrecked out at Bristol this year but since then he's finished his last 2 races and done so in 18th and 15th. I hope he keeps it up, it'd be nice to have another Pressley running full time and competitively in Nationwide down the road. Justin Allgaier's season is starting to come a bit unglued but through little fault of his own; he's running top 10, even top five every race but either tires are going down or he's getting wrecked at an RP track or having problems on restarts. But he hasn't finished worse than 17th so he's still keeping contact with the leaders in the standings. 24. Talon64 posted: 05.10.2010 - 6:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Denny Hamlin's 10th career Nationwide is his 3rd straight win at Darlington from pole. He hasn't finished outside the top 10 in his 5 Darlington NNS starts, even in 2004 when he made his first career Busch start here and finished 8th! Kyle Busch finished 2nd, his 26th runner-up finish in Nationwide which puts him 5th all time. It's just his 2nd top five and 3rd top ten in 7 Nationwide starts at Darlington. Jamie McMurray finishes 3rd for a 2nd straight race in the #88 and a 2nd straight race at Darlington (finished 3rd in 2006, 4 top fives in 10 Darlington starts including RWI's last Nationwide win back in 2004). The #88 has moved from 13th to 10th in the owners standings the last 4 races thanks to 2 top fives and 3 top ten from Jamie. Kasey Kahne's 4th is his first top five in 8 Nationwide starts at Darlington. It's his 8th straight season with at least one top five in Nationwide. Jason Leffler finishes in the top five for the first time this season and it's just his 2nd top ten, all driving the #10 instead of his regular #38 ride. It's his 2nd top five in 8 Darlington NNS starts and he's on a 5 race top ten streak there. At this point last year Leffler had 3 top fives, 7 top tens and was 3rd in the standings but so far in 2010 he's only 9th. At this point last year Carl Edwards had led in 9 of the first 10 races for 343 laps, and he was only 37 points behind the point leader. This year he's only led 5 races for a toal of 62 laps and he's already 199 points behind. Brad Keselowski's 7th breaks his streak of top fives at 8, but it's his first top ten at Darlington in 4 Nationwide races (and ties his best NASCAR finish at Darlington, he finished 7th in the Cup race last year). Keselowski's average finish of 4.3 is 3rd best of any driver this year, only bettered by Tony Stewart with a win in his lone start on the season and Denny Hamlin who has a win and a 2nd in 2 starts. Kevin Harvick finishes in the top 10 for the 6th time in 11 Darlington starts but only has 1 top five, a 5th from pole in 2003. Brian Vickers finishes in the top 10 for the 5th time in 5 races this year, keeping the #32 tied with the #33, #22 and #20 for most top tens so far this season with 9. Paul Menard's 6 top tens is the most he's had in a season since 2006, his last full season in Nationwide. Stanton Barrett's 14th is his first top 20 finish in Nationwide since a 17th place finish at Milwaukee in 2008. Coleman Pressley finishes a career-high 15th, and makes it 2 for 2 for finishing in the top 20 when he finishes a race (6 DNF's in his first 6 Nationwide starts, 5 of them S&P's last season). Justin Allgaier finishes outside the top 10 for a 5th straight race after starting the year with 5 straight top tens. Jason Keller's 21st place finish moves the #35 up to 32nd in the owners standings, 70 points behind 30th. Despite missing 3 races, the #35 is now ahead of the #6 (LOL LOL LOL) and the #26 who's made every race this season and just 46 points behind the #16 in 31st. Brian Scott was the highest finishing rookie in 25th. 25. Dodge posted: 05.10.2010 - 11:07 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jason Leffler gets his first top five of the season but gets beat by Kasey Kahne driving his regular car. Kahne's driving a Dodge in Cup, a Toyota in Nationwide and he'll be driving a Chevy in 2011. lol Actually, Kahne is driving a FORD this year. 26. Talon64 posted: 05.11.2010 - 5:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Actually, Kahne is driving a FORD this year." I forgot about that but it just means that it completes the foursome for him. LOL 27. Talon64 posted: 05.12.2010 - 6:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) James Buescher and the #1 Phoenix Racing team have parted ways, so Ryan Newman's going to be in the car this weekend at Dover. It was inevitable after Miccosukee left, but Buescher's going to be driving the #31 Turner Motorsports Truck team the rest of the season where he should be a lot more competitive. 28. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 05.13.2010 - 12:32 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) No big surprise, as James Finch is known for shitcanning drivers this way. I think he thinks his team is a lot better than it is and should be winning championships, but his team is just decent. If he would keep one good driver and build enough stability, then maybe he could have a better team. But as long as there is a revolving door, it won't get better, only worse. 29. DaleSrFanForever posted: 05.13.2010 - 1:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Agreed ^ 30. Talon64 posted: 05.13.2010 - 5:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "No big surprise, as James Finch is known for shitcanning drivers this way. I think he thinks his team is a lot better than it is and should be winning championships, but his team is just decent. If he would keep one good driver and build enough stability, then maybe he could have a better team. But as long as there is a revolving door, it won't get better, only worse." This situation is a lot different than past cases of him firing drivers. Losing Miccosukee before the season started was always going to be bad for Buescher, I think he would've stayed in the car the whole season (or at least most of it) if they had the sponsorship. Also, Finch is trying to sell Phoenix Racing so it's not a very stable situation for a young upcoming driver to be in. There's always the possibility that the team shuts down if Finch can't find a buyer. The team and Buescher are both better off this way IMO. 31. JamieMcmurrayFan posted: 05.22.2010 - 11:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) brian scott gets the unlucky guy award (highest finishing driver not on the lead lap) 32. Daniel posted: 05.21.2012 - 12:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #05 Willie Allen & #96 Johnny Chapman Out using fastest 43: #09 Chad McCumbee & #24 Eric McClure 33. ch posted: 07.22.2013 - 3:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #92 / #96 Owner: Bob Keselowski (Teammate to the #26) 34. numbah10hatah posted: 12.31.2013 - 6:42 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anyone know what happened to Chad McCumbee in qualifying for this race? 35. PF posted: 04.23.2016 - 7:19 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Two more torn up race cars for Roush. I dont think there's been a 10 race stretch in the history of nascar where a team has obliterated as many cars as Roush busch cars in that stretch. 36. Jared DiCarlo posted: 07.13.2017 - 5:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Danny O'Quinn, Jr leads the only lap of his career 37. SweetRich posted: 02.21.2020 - 6:47 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The Commentators For The Race Were Marty Reid, Rusty Wallace And Andy Petree. The Pit Road Reporters Were Jerry Punch, Dave Burns And Jamie Little. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: