|| *Comments on the 2011 Virginia 529 College Savings 250:* View the most recent comment <#44> | Post a comment <#post> 1. james-o-matic posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:12 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) busch and edwards.again.boring. 2. potatosalad48 posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harvick blatantly takes out Trevor Bayne in a similar move to what Kyle Busch did to Elliott Sadler in the Truck race at Bristol. 3. AlmirolaFan88 posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:19 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 1 week after the #88 Jr Motorsports team reached a 1 year winless drought, this marks 1 year since the #33 Kevin Harvick Inc. team last won a race. Phoenix Racing (#1) makes it's first non-plate start of the season, and with a cool new matte black paint scheme too. Ryan Truex is also proving those 2 K&N East titles were no fluke either. He's not schedule to run at Charlotte for the final Dash 4 Cash race, but we'll see, he sounded pretty excited for it after the race. 4. Jarrett88fan posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:20 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) The shy one, Kenny Wallace scores his first top-5 finish since Memphis in 2008. As for the NW Title picture, Stenhouse has the speed and Sadler has the durability. The schedule favors Stenhouse with more high-speed speedways, but the big question is: Can Stenhouse be an effective points racer when it is not his style? 5. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I had to work during this one, but it looks like I missed a good race judging from what I saw on NASCAR.com. Yes, Almirola got into the back of Brian Scott and wrecked him, but it was a racing deal. I can see how Scott would be upset at that point though, he hadn't had time to sit anywhere and cool down. Harvick dumps Leffler and Trevor Bayne. Glad to see him finish badly after he did so. Good runs for Ryan Truex, Kenny Wallace and Joe Nemechek. 6. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Forgot to talk about Danica's banzai move which took out Brad. What the hell, Danica?! If you were in position to make a pass, you would have at least been up to Brad's rear quarter panel entering the turn, but you totally divebombed it in there like Steve Wallace did at Montreal. 7. 00andJoe posted: 09.09.2011 - 11:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) #23 sponsor: North Texas Pipe (has been consistently spelled out in every other instance on the site) #52 sponsor: T&T Performance/Metro Ministries #40 sponsor: Cajun Industries #40 status: oil pump 8. Bronco posted: 09.10.2011 - 12:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Forgot to talk about Danica's banzai move which took out Brad. What the hell, Danica?! If you were in position to make a pass, you would have at least been up to Brad's rear quarter panel entering the turn, but you totally divebombed it in there like Steve Wallace did at Montreal." Given that several other drivers have paid the price for Brad's wreckless driving over the years, I think Danica can be excused for her mistake. See Kenseth, New Hampshire 2010, Reutimann, Martinsville 2010, Menard, Martinsville 2011. Aric Almirola has finished outside the top 10 only once after Kentucky, that was at Montreal. He's coming on strong in the second half of the year, but I don't think he's going to win this year. I do think he'll take 3rd in the standings away from Sorenson. Already the 4th time this season where Carl leads the most laps but doesn't win. 9. Cooper posted: 09.10.2011 - 12:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Danica didn't do nothing wrong. She had the faster car and was working on Brad for about 4 laps. But Brad, being the hard racer he is never gave up the spot and eventually paid the price. That's the price you pay for racing hard, sometimes you get the raw end of the deal. But Danica is innocent of any wrong doing, just guilty of bad driving. Now I understand why people don't want their favourite drivers racing in the lower series... Kevin Harvick is looking like a huge tool. With Trevor being a little ticked off, Harvick is probably vulnerable to being retaliated against by T-Bayne in the Cup Series. Also, Brad K needs to wake up and smell the coffee. He doesn't have a chance of winning the Championship if he wastes time trying to beat the likes of Danica Patrick/Brian Scott and all the Nationwide junkers. The Nationwide program isn't making him or the organization any stronger. Brad, I know you want to support Discount Tire, but seriously if you win the Sprint Cup you could probably buy Discount Tire! 10. 00andJoe posted: 09.10.2011 - 12:43 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Brad's wreckless driving" You mean reckless. Because it certainly hasn't been wreckless. =P 11. 1995z71 posted: 09.10.2011 - 12:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I officially hate Harvick now after this race. 12. Bronco posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "You mean reckless. Because it certainly hasn't been wreckless." You're right, that's what happens when you try posting late at night. "With Trevor being a little ticked off, Harvick is probably vulnerable to being retaliated against by T-Bayne in the Cup Series." Highly doubt it, given that he only has 2 or 3 more starts left this year, one of which will be at Talladega where retaliation is out of question. 13. New 14&88 Fan posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:09 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) For some one who likes to rip on Shrub every other month Harvick sure did cause some carnage tonight.First he gets into Leffler than Trevor Bayne gets the raw end of the deal when Leffler break checked Happy and we all know what happened after that.Maybe Kyle lapping him and going on to win(and KHI being merged into RCR) was karmic justice. The Roush cars all looked good tonight(and I'm not just talking about their paint schemes)but in the end none of them had anything for the #18.Ricky Stenhouse though is still my favorite to win the championship though Sadler and Sorenson aren't out of it by any means. How about Ryan Truex coming from shotgun on the field to 4th, and atta boy Kenny Wallace finishing in 5th and Joe Nemechek getting 10th. "Forgot to talk about Danica's banzai move which took out Brad. What the hell, Danica?! If you were in position to make a pass, you would have at least been up to Brad's rear quarter panel entering the turn, but you totally divebombed it in there like Steve Wallace did at Montreal." That was a rookie mistake on Danica's part(plus Brad's night was already going south),nothing intentional but an error that just about every driver has made at one time or another(and no it isn't reckless driving) 14. New 14&88 Fan posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) *Meant to add that it's a problem of over aggressive driving for some. 15. 18fan posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:36 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle would rocket for about 5 laps on every restart then Carl would run him down, battle for a couple laps, then get away, but each run toward the end Kyle would stay closer and closer and the difference between the cars was not great enough at the end for Carl to make up for his poor last stop and pass Kyle. The biggest problem Carl had was Stenhouse was as fast as him for about half of the last run. I was extremely impressed with Ryan Truex and his run from shotgun to 4th and Kenny Wallace ran top 5 all night and got his first top 5 of the year. KHI and Turner seem to fallen behind JGR and, especially and more importantly for the championship, Roush. 16. TheTruthâ?¢ posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:47 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "but you totally divebombed it in there like Steve Wallace did at Montreal. " Worse than Steve did at Montreal, really. Steve got side by side with Carpentier well before the corner. Danica BOMBED it in there in truly amateurish fashion. 17. Watto posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:51 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Danica didn't do nothing wrong." Really? She overdrove turn 3 entry by a mile, it was never gonna stick, she knew it when it was too late, and locked the tires before getting into Brad. That is specifically Danica doing something wrong. With that being said, it's a mistake... Brad wasn't that angry over it. She's learning. Not a big deal. But Danica absolutely DID do something wrong, and if she doesn't learn from it, then she'll make the same mistake repeatedly. "The Nationwide program isn't making him or the organization any stronger." Are you sure about that? Seat time is invaluable, even if the car is slightly different. You can transfer a lot of setup information from Nationwide over to Cup. In fact, when they started hitting on some things earlier in the year on the Cup side, a lot of it was coming from thoughts from the Nationwide side. You can gain a LOT from running the Nationwide Series. Just ask Paul Menard how much it helped him last season when he ran the full schedule. 18. Watto posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:57 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bronco - the Reutimann incident at Martinsville was not Brad's fault. He was there and got ran into the grass. The other two listed, however, are his fault in my opinion. If you wanna talk about specific instances, you need to realize that any given driver in the field has taken people out in wrecks. I can pull out examples of anyone who has gotten wrecked, actually being the instigator in another wreck. If you consider Brad's driving to be reckless, then the entire roster in all 3 series are completely filled with reckless drivers. Of course, you are probably unwilling to admit this, given your anti-Keselowski posts for as long as I've been reading comments on this website. You need to stop looking at certain drivers differently than others and actually take them for what they are. 19. irony posted: 09.10.2011 - 2:11 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Danica just locked her brakes up. It's funny though, people who don't know jack about IndyCar used to say she just rides around making laps, and now she's getting dogged for her aggression. Depending on how she did tonight, I was ready to make the bold prediction that Danica would be a title contender next year. Tonight showed that she still has a long way to go on the flatter tracks however, which ironically are her strength in IndyCar. Jeremy Clements and Timmy Hill have it going on right now. Did I phrase that right? 20. Ivan Balakhonov posted: 09.10.2011 - 2:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kevin Harvick takes the win in nomination "Asshole of the Race". I really hope Trevor will be brave enough to spun Kevin out in one of the Chase races. 21. KBM18 posted: 09.10.2011 - 3:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kevin Harvick drove a typically "Kevin Harvick" type of race. He hit all his patented marks: -complained about his car -dissed his crew -pushed around drivers that he feels are beneath him -acted smug about it afterwards Way to go Kevin, this is the most Harvick-y race you've run in a long while. And while we're at it, I just want to bring up the remarks Harvick made about Busch's Truck team earlier this year. This might not be exact, but he said Busch was too dumb to run his Truck team and ran it into bankruptcy, or something to that effect. But looky now, Harvick is giving up on his own team, and probably putting dozens of people out of work in the process. Busch is struggling to keep his team going, but he's not giving up like Harvick. So the question is, does Harvick ever say or do anything that doesn't later come back to make him look like a fool? The answer is, of course, no. 22. 00andJoe posted: 09.10.2011 - 4:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I too have been very impressed by Timmy Hill this year. I hope he gets noticed and gets better equipment than Rick Ware's next season (not to knock that team, given their resources they're proving as impressive as Hill is). 23. NicoRosbergFan posted: 09.10.2011 - 6:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "She's learning." How much longer will that excuse last? Harvick needs to learn how to stew over something OFF the track. Did he even get a penalty. NO. What the heck NASCAR? Leffler gets 5 laps for a bump draft that wrecks Dale Jr., but Harvick gets nothing for swerving 3 lanes? 24. jr88fan posted: 09.10.2011 - 7:15 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) 20. Ivan Balakhonov posted: 09.10.11 - 2:18 am "Kevin Harvick takes the win in nomination "Asshole of the Race". I really hope Trevor will be brave enough to spun Kevin out in one of the Chase races" It really depends on which races he runs. Like if he runs Dover or Martinsville he will probably get his payback there. 25. DaleSrFanForever posted: 09.10.2011 - 9:20 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hey y'all, give Bronco a break. He's had to wait months to get his digs in at Brad. Danica made a big mistake, but that is what the NWide Series is supposed to be about. Development and learning. So I have no issue. That is what Cup drivers get for running these races. So the move itself doesn't bother me. Of course in an ideal world they wouldn't be learning while backed by a sponsor throwing big bucks at her to run a partial Cup schedule next year whether she is ready for it or not (she isn't). And yes, the "she's learning" crap has been old for a while. She's not ready, and her Cup races will be a disaster. Harvick shows why he hasn't come close to realizing his potential. He can't deal with adversity. He gets frustrated and takes it out on everyone around him. He did exactly the things his buddy Kyle Busch has done. First he cuts across Bayne's nose, puts himself in the wall, then gets mad at the guy for not rolling over for him. He also did the same thing that Kyle did to piss him off, he pulled the dirtiest move in racing. At the same track on the same straightaway where Earnhardt did it in 1986. It was wrong then, and it is wrong now. And you are right, Bayne needs to retaliate in a cha$e race to really drive the point home. Otherwise he will be a doormat. 26. DaleSrFanForever posted: 09.10.2011 - 9:24 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) And seriously, we have to figure out the real deal about KHI. Why would they just, all at once, sell EVERYTHING they spent the last 10 years building? Something is up. 27. Dodge posted: 09.10.2011 - 10:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The only thing about if Bayne retaliates against Harvick during the Chase, NASCAR will probably park him AND suspend him for the next event. I normally don't bash NASCAR but IMO, they should of PARKED Harvick when he dumped Leffler. I believe that if you are a Cup driver, you should not be allowed to wreck a Nationwide Series regular intentionally. Thats how I view the Harvick situation. Maybe it wasn't but that is how it looked. He was upset because Leffler passed him with a little rubbing which in Harvick's mind, meant that he could wreck him. 28. 18fan posted: 09.10.2011 - 11:06 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harvick showed his "if you bump me, I wreck you" mentality in his rookie year with Bobby Hamilton at Martinsville. Unfortunately for him that mentality really hasn't changed. 29. Cooper posted: 09.10.2011 - 11:10 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "17. Watto posted: 09.10.11 - 1:51 am" You know why Danica didn't do anything wrong to Brad K? Because Brad did the exact same thing in the Richmond Spring race to Brian Scott. The exact same thing. So I can't accuse Danica of doing something wrong if my favourite driver made the exact same mistake. That would be hypocritical, and I don't want to be that guy. 30. Smokefan05 posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "-complained about his car -dissed his crew -pushed around drivers that he feels are beneath him -acted smug about it afterwards" Gee, that sounds like your driver now doesn't it? Harvick isn't THE ONLY one who pulls that crap, so don't fool yourself. "Leffler gets 5 laps for a bump draft that wrecks Dale Jr., but Harvick gets nothing for swerving 3 lanes?" Left Turn Leffler is a bigger tool then Harvick is. And Mr. Left Turn has pulled this crap his entire carrer. (i'm purposely leaving Harvick out of this one). So Left Turn gets what he deserves everytime he gets wrecked or penalized for stupidity. "If you wanna talk about specific instances, you need to realize that any given driver in the field has taken people out in wrecks. I can pull out examples of anyone who has gotten wrecked, actually being the instigator in another wreck. If you consider Brad's driving to be reckless, then the entire roster in all 3 series are completely filled with reckless drivers. Of course, you are probably unwilling to admit this, given your anti-Keselowski posts for as long as I've been reading comments on this website. You need to stop looking at certain drivers differently than others and actually take them for what they are." It takes a real fan to throw your favorite driver under when they deserve it, i honestly don't think i've ever seen Bronco throw Carl under the bus for his "reckless" driving over the years. (but then again he was completely 1000% for wrecking Brad K. going 190mph at AMS last year) 31. DaleSrFanForever posted: 09.10.2011 - 1:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "I believe that if you are a Cup driver, you should not be allowed to wreck a Nationwide Series regular intentionally." That would be an excellent rule. 32. Watto posted: 09.10.2011 - 2:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Because Brad did the exact same thing in the Richmond Spring race to Brian Scott. The exact same thing. So I can't accuse Danica of doing something wrong if my favourite driver made the exact same mistake. That would be hypocritical, and I don't want to be that guy." I honestly don't remember that, but if Brad made the same exact mistake as Danica did, what would be hypocritical is if you said that Brad did nothing wrong yet Danica did. Everyone's favorite driver makes mistakes, what's hypocritical is when their fans can't admit it. It's not hypocritical at all to say someone was the cause of a wreck if you would say the same for your own driver. Brad Keselowski's my favorite driver as well. 33. Watto posted: 09.10.2011 - 2:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Kevin Harvick drove a typically "Kevin Harvick" type of race. He hit all his patented marks: -complained about his car -dissed his crew -pushed around drivers that he feels are beneath him -acted smug about it afterwards" So what you're saying is that Harvick and Kyle Busch have a lot in common? "This might not be exact, but he said Busch was too dumb to run his Truck team and ran it into bankruptcy, or something to that effect. But looky now, Harvick is giving up on his own team, and probably putting dozens of people out of work in the process." Sucks for the people who are not going to get into RCR with the transfer, but the truth is that Kevin didn't actually run his team into the ground. KHI did nothing business-wise that called for his team's deconstruction. What happened was that Richard Childress offered him a lot of money to overtake much of it. The reason why Richard did this isn't specified, but I think the likely reason is so that he could oversee the Dillon brothers more closely. I sympathize with the people losing their jobs, in fact a friend of mine works for KHI and his future is somewhat uncertain, but selling vs running your team into the ground is different. For what it's worth, I'm not a Harvick fan. 34. 00andJoe posted: 09.11.2011 - 1:04 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) #50 sponsor: Liberty Tire Recycling/Pinnacle Rubber Mulch 35. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 09.11.2011 - 1:37 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I admit, I may have been a little hard on Danica for that, and yes, I'm sure every driver has done something like that at SOME POINT in their life in a racing series (Jamie Mac, Biffle and Brad K, all favorites of mine have made that mistake plenty of times). Let's just hope for her sake that she learned something from that (such as, you can't be divebombing to pass cars that are a car length ahead of you). Otherwise she'll continue to make that mistake, and will look like a wrecking ball for it. But one thing's for sure: we shouldn't even be talking about Cup for her right now. "Steve got side by side with Carpentier well before the corner." That's true, but the next turn was WAY too narrow for cars to run 3-wide. 36. KBM18 posted: 09.11.2011 - 1:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Sucks for the people who are not going to get into RCR with the transfer, but the truth is that Kevin didn't actually run his team into the ground." I never said he ran it into the ground, I said he gave up on it. He quit. He can say that the reason was to focus on his Cup effort, but the truth is, he quit on his team. And in light of his smart ass remarks about Busch's team, it doesn't make him look good. He could have announced this months ago, so his crew and his drivers would have more time to secure future employment, but instead he lays it on them near the end of the season, after a lot of plans have been made for next year. It makes me sick to my stomach watching him win the Cup race tonight, after that display he put on in the Nationwide race, and after he throws a bunch of hard working people under the bus for his own selfish gain. 37. 00andJoe posted: 09.11.2011 - 3:35 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hm, shouldn't Stenhouse's prize money total be $100,000 more than listed (Dash4Cash), or is that officially counted seperate? 38. Dodge posted: 09.11.2011 - 7:49 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) I think Danica will learn what not to do. She appears much smarter than Steve "Little Talent" Wallace. 39. BR posted: 09.11.2011 - 11:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I don't understand the angst about Danica's mistake... She immediately said she made a mistake so she recognizes it and let's be real every driver out there has made the same mistake probably more than once. Honestly, we have probably seen the same attempted move at least once in every short track race. Look at the Cup race...Kurt Busch did the same thing to Jimmie Johnson. Shouldn't he know better than to make that type of mistake with all of his 'experience'? 40. Anonymous posted: 09.12.2011 - 3:21 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Look at the Cup race...Kurt Busch did the same thing to Jimmie Johnson. Shouldn't he know better than to make that type of mistake with all of his 'experience'?" A lot of people are calling that intentional and saw it coming... Kurt just made sure to make it look less obvious than someone like Bowyer who just turned right 41. Talon64 posted: 09.12.2011 - 6:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) "Given that several other drivers have paid the price for Brad's wreckless driving over the years, I think Danica can be excused for her mistake. See Kenseth, New Hampshire 2010, Reutimann, Martinsville 2010, Menard, Martinsville 2011." ahahaha wow, this is classic. You're couldn't have been ragging on Keselowski more during his struggles, yet you seemed to disappear when he proved you wrong and more so. Then you see your one chance to dump on him and you take it. Like Watto said, it's easy to point out every little incident a driver's been in. Because THEY'VE ALL HAD THEM. And even you have to admit that Keselowski's been moving past all that and racing both clean AND successfully. Just like Carl's been this year too, have to give him credit. 42. Talon64 posted: 09.12.2011 - 7:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch picks up his 51st career Nationwide win and 4th at Richmond. Carl Edwards reaches the 20 top 10 plateau for the 7th consecutive season (166 top 10's in span is 40 more than the next driver, Kevin Harvick with 126). It's his 13th top 2 finish in 26 starts this year. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finishes 3rd for a 2nd straight race, the 2nd time he's put together back-to-back podium finishes (3 in a row, races 20-22). His 12 top 5's continue to lead all NNS regulars and is tied for the most top 10's with Elliott Sadler with 19. Ryan Truex is the highest finishing rookie in the race in 4th, his best career finish and 1st top 5 in 19 series starts. He's now 43 points back of Timmy Hill with (at least) 4 more starts left on the season; If Truex can be the highest finishing rookie in his starts to gain 40 points then he'll need 7 bonus points (from top 10's) to take the ROTY lead (prior to the season-ending panel who awards points based on who has the best chicken dance or whatever). Kenny Wallace gets his first top 5 in 100 races with the 65th of his career (515 starts). Elliott Sadler now has a season-high 6 straight top 10 finishes, but which only includes 1 top 5. Aric Almirola gets his 9th top 10 in the past 11 races. Reed Sorenson gets his first top 10 in 5 races. Justin Allgaier has 3 top 10's in the last 4 races, after just 3 in the previous 9 following his Chicagoland win. Joe Nemechek gets his 3rd top 10 of the season (had none in either of the previous 2 seasons, 55 starts). Brad Keselowski earned his 11th career pole and 3rd of the season. 43. cjs3872 posted: 09.23.2011 - 4:44 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Well, Bayne isn't likely to retaliate against Harvick. It's just not in his personality. As for Bayne being a bit ticked off after the race. If that is true, it would be more at his pit crew rather than Harvick, because he let his crew have it, as much as he could. But let's not forget that that incident between Bayne and Harvick was the second such incident this year. I'm not sure anyone else here remembers this, but late in the NW race at Loudon earlier this year, Harvick knocked Bayne out of the way, which put Bayne in a position to be in the wreck when Steve Wallace ran over Joey Logano. But back to Bayne being upset with his pit crew. He had two bad pit stops at Atlanta, the second of which put him in position to be in the crash when Justin Allgaier got into Reed Sorenson. He had that bad pit stop in this race while challenging for the lead in what was probably the best car in the field. and let's not forget that his pit crew at Iowa left a rear tire loose on effectively three consecutive pit stops. Hopefully he'll get a trouble-free race with a good car before the end of the year, and his seemingly imminent release from Roush's team due to lack of sponsorship. After all, why else would Ford and Roush be moving to remove Bayne from the Wood Brothers car and replace him with Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., thus leaving the 2012 Daytona 500 without it's defending champion. 44. Daniel posted: 05.21.2012 - 12:29 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In using fastest 43: #04 Fain Skinner, #08 Casey Roderick, #50 T.J. 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