|| *Comments on the 2014 Great Clips 300 to benefit Feed the Children:* View the most recent comment <#57> | Post a comment <#post> 1. Kenny posted: 08.30.2014 - 5:57 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Hell yes Chase this is his first career pole I think right? 2. We need more Onion posted: 08.30.2014 - 6:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Anything is better than a cupper in p1. Also, Mike Harmon ran an acceptable pace on a 1.5 miler. What? 3. Kirk posted: 08.30.2014 - 6:36 pm Rate this comment: (3) (0) He drove it like he stole it. (There. Someone had to do it. Now, on with the race!) 4. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 6:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chase Elliott gets the pole at his home track. 5. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 7:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott gave the command! 6. murb posted: 08.30.2014 - 7:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Awesome Bill with the command. 7. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 7:48 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Kyle Busch drops a couple of positions in the opening lap. 8. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:08 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harvick passes Elliott for the lead and starts to pull away. 9. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) 40 laps in and only 15 cars are on the lead lap. I sense a Jacques caution coming soon... 10. Taylor posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chris Buescher's paint scheme is awesome looking! 11. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nothing has really happened so far... 12. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bayne is really loose. 13. Taylor posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) How Bayne hasn't wrecked yet I'll never know 14. DB1995 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:29 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Everyone is racing at Atlanta except Trevor Bayne who is at Eldora. 15. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sure enough, Jacques is here. 16. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) It took NASCAR 72 laps to throw the first debris caution. Maybe they're making progress in terms of shying away from that if the Bristol Cup race and tonight is any indication. They need to just let the races play out and not throw cautions at all if there's no good reason to, however. 17. We need more Onion posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:35 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Let's just ignore this one now. If it was only a boring race without BS cautions, then okay. It happens. But this is a cup asshat dominated race with BS cautions and tremendous amount of boredom. That's it. Go Clements! 18. murb posted: 08.30.2014 - 8:53 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Elliott Sadler just keeps throwing points away. 19. Christian posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) @18 Face it as long as Sadler is gonna be stuck in the #11 car at JGR he wiull never win a championship since the #11 car is the so called R&D car. 20. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Another debris caution. 21. DB1995 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I have literally never seen a race as boring as this. 22. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Rain. 23. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:22 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Harvick keeps his lead as they go back racing. 24. Jarrett88fan posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:47 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This is nature of racing from a fan's perspective, the previous week's race could be awesome and the following week not so intriguing. 25. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:50 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wow, only one lead change all night long. 26. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Just 9 cars on the lead lap. 27. murb posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:56 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) LOL One lead change. 28. Schroeder51 posted: 08.30.2014 - 9:58 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) So basically, the winning pass happened in the opening 40 laps of the race! Harvick utterly dominates and scores an incredibly easy victory. Good for him, I guess...but to be honest, this was probably the most dull Nationwide race of the whole year. Other than Harvick utterly owning the competition, a couple of Jacques cautions, and some rain, nothing much really happened in this race. Oh well, they can't ALL be exciting... 29. Sarf52 posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:00 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Nice run for David Ragan...I think we'll be seeing a whole lot more of him in the Nationwide Series as he's been pretty dismal in cup this year...Elliott Sadler 2.0? 30. epzik8 posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:14 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) Harvick is still good at Atlanta with the Cup pole and Nationwide win, although it would have been nice to see Chase Elliott win. 31. RCRandPenskeGuy posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This race was more competitive in the earlier stages, Harvick made it boring once he took the lead though, and there weren't even that many battles throughout the field. Watching Trevor Bayne keep from wrecking his car when it was sideways was fun though. 32. The Long Shot posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) When the races have been good this year in Nationwide, they've been borderline great. When they're bad, they're horrible. 33. Sarf52 posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Update #17: NationalCashLenders.com/Nuke Optics 34. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 08.30.2014 - 10:53 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Update #60 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ford EcoBoost #4 FW1 Wash & Wax / FastWax.com #44 Wealth Without Borders/www.wwbworld.com #52 Jimmy Means Racing #74 Mike Harmon Racing #89 Racing With Jesus / Courtney Construction #72 James Carter Attorney / CrashClaimsR.us #10 Heroes Behind the Camo / SupportMilitary.org Withdrew #13 Carl Long Headrush / OCR Gaz Bar Dodge Derek White Crew Chief: Kevin Eagle 35. racefangurl posted: 08.31.2014 - 12:18 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Trevor Bayne may be a lot of things but he ain't bad. No one outside the top-6 is likely to climb into it, but the order of these, I'm sure will change. Maybe even a new points leader, like Regan Smith. Brian Scott could fall from the top-5, if things fall right. Sadler may climb back to the top-3, if he has a good race and Ty makes a rookie mistake somewhere. Just some ideas as to how the order may change. 36. cjs3872 posted: 08.31.2014 - 1:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (1) Well, it doesn't happen that often in NASCAR any more, but this race was one of those rare races where there was one car (Kevin Harvick) about a quarter of a second faster than the entire field throughout the entire race, and any time you have that, especially at a track where everyone has to pit at roughly the same time because of tire falloff, the you're going to have a runaway like this race was. However, another two or three laps, and this race might well have had a different outcome, because Joey Logano was coming at Harvick hard in the final two or three laps to make the margin of victory just a half a second. Of course, part of it was Harvick being conservative in traffic with the lead (and car) he had, but he almost took it too easy. How impressive was Harvick's performance in this race? Only nine cars finished on the lead lap, only two cars, those of Elliott Sadler and Matt Kenseth, were one lap down, and Trevor Bayne was on a lap by himself for the final third of the race, first one, and then two laps down. That means that only 11 other cars were within close to five miles of the leader when the race ended. And Roush's team hit a new low tonight, as Fred Biagi's car, driven by ex-Roush driver David Ragan, finished well more than a lap ahead of any Roush car (officially two laps, according to the rundown), and was on the lead lap for practically the entire race, finishing there for a ninth place finish, while the Roush cars couldn't get out of their own way. This makes me wonder if Roush hasn't already mailed it in for 2014, as far as the NNS is concerned. However, unless something really strange happens, the NNS championship battle is going to end up being a replay of what just wrapped up in the IndyCar series, which is an inter-team battle for the championship, because Chase Elliott is now 15 points ahead of Regan Smith, with nobody else within 35 points of the lead (where third-place Ty Dillon is), and since Elliott seems to be the only NNS driver capable of winning races, the element of the four-point boost for wins isn't likely to help anyone trying to catch him, except possibly in the race at Kentucky when the Cup Series is racing elsewhere. One mistake by Smith and they can almost begin engraving Chase Elliott's name on the championship trophy as soon as 2-3 races from now, because Smith's now the only driver capable of catching teammate Chase Elliott for the title, and Elliott's got a definite speed advantage on Smith. 37. murb posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:04 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Yeah, it was a great run by David Ragan. I'd actually love to see him do the Sadler/Smith/Hornish method and go full time NNS racing next year (maybe even reuniting with Roush? - they'll have an opening with Trevor moving up to Cup). Judging from how he ran in this series with Roush (2 career wins, including one at Bristol where he outdrove Carl Edwards), as well as how he has done in the #98 car recently (four top 15s in six races), I think he would do really well. I don't know if it's very likely, but I'd love to see it happen. 38. b4il3y posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:34 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) Yes I'd love to see David Regan have a chance. He's earned it. As for the rest of this race. Glad I watched football tonight. 39. Hinch27 posted: 08.31.2014 - 4:56 am Rate this comment: (1) (0) I don't see why NASCAR doesn't just give out the points to the drivers with highest finishing points eligible driver getting the win points, meaning Elliott gets 47, Smith 42, Scott 41, Dillon 40, and so on... seems unfair that in reality Ty Dillon finished directly behind Brian Scott, but lost TWO points instead of ONE. 40. Anonymous posted: 08.31.2014 - 9:01 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) @28. Only the road courses and restrictor plates are exciting. And that's only artificial excitement caused by the track layout or drafting. Every other race has been absolutely abysmal. @21. Wait until next week, it's a continuous cycle. 41. Nick gorney posted: 08.31.2014 - 2:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (2) I hate this race cause green finished last can't chase finish last asshole 42. epzik8 posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:04 pm Rate this comment: (0) (1) Caution for Nemechek. 43. racefangurl posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) If Chase has a bad race in the next months, Smith could be champion. Both drivers have led the points and are race winners. As I said in my comment last night, I can't count Smith out. The Nationwide top-6 best performance breakdown: Chase Elliott, Regan Smith, Ty Dillon and Elliott Sadler all have wins, Brian Scott's been fifth twice and Trevor Bayne's been second twice. Given Smith is within striking distance of leader and has led before, so given his experience, I can't count him out yet. Maybe if he falls way back, I could. If he had a bad September, lost second and fell to, say 50 points back, I'd probably count him out, but then, I might think whoever was second had a shot. Like if Sadler redeemed himself somehow. Say he took advantage of a rookie mistake Ty Dillon made and was quite close in points to Chase(if Chase still had the lead), as Smith is now. Only Ty and Brian have never even shared the lead. Chase, Smith and Sadler have led and Trevor shared the lead with Smith after Fontana. 44. racefangurl posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:14 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cjs, is Smith falling from second to due a bad time in September and Elliott Sadler redeeming himself by having a good race when Ty Dillon made a rookie mistake the kind of strange you mean? The Sadler redemption that brings him to striking distance of the lead and Smith's fall both happen in my scenario. I remember last year, Smith choked when he had a big lead and Austin Dillon won the title. Or are you talking more like what happened last year? Or are both my hypothetical scenario and the last year scenario the same sort of strangeness? 45. epzik8 posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Custer turned by Tagliani. 46. epzik8 posted: 08.31.2014 - 3:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wrong race again. Sorry! 47. cjs3872 posted: 09.01.2014 - 2:54 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Chase Elliott is going to need two bad races for even Regan Smith to catch him, racefangurl, simply because he has more speed than Smith does. And with a 15-point lead and Cup drivers likely dominating every race left this year, except for Kentucky, the boost for winning races in not likely to come into play. Chase has the speed to overcome one bad race, because he's not going to fall very far behind with one bad race, if he falls behind at all, so I think he's going to need two bad races to lose the championship, and that's if Smith doesn't have any the rest of the season. In fact, I think Smith has a better chance to fall from second place (and he's 20 points ahead of Ty Dillon and 33 ahead of Elliott Sadler) than he does at catching Elliott, because that 15-point gap may as well be 25 or more, because Elliott is the only driver that's proven capable of consistently running with the Cup guys. Others have shown they can at times, but Elliott's the only guy that has consistently showed that he can run with the Cup guys. 48. racefangurl posted: 09.01.2014 - 11:38 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ty Dillon makes rookie mistakes. I think that reduces Smith's chances of a fall from second, as long as Smith has no bad races. If Sadler redeems himself by having a good race in which Ty Dillon makes a rookie mistake, that changes the odds of a fall. Chase could blow a tire and lose his lead, like he did earlier. Or Chase could get wrecked by someone, like Dylan Kwaniewski. That would give Smith the lead if he had a good race. When a driver has a yellow strip on his car, I go by that alone as far as whether or not they can be champion. I think Chase will beat Ty as Rookie of the year. Mark Eddinger believed in Smith and unless he collapses, I can't give up the idea of him champion due to his early points lead. I still think he has a shot. Anyone that believes Chase will be champ believes pie-in-the-sky stuff. Clayton Caldwell caused that, me believing the possibility of Chase Elliott, the rookie champ's pie-in-the-sky. Tony Stewart wasn't a rookie champ, was he? He was 4th. Rookie Stewart was a race winner 3 times, including 2 Chase races. I checked his stats special on this website. 49. racefangurl posted: 09.01.2014 - 11:40 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ok, Stewart was a Cup racer, but he had three wins, like Chase in Nationwide this year. Three wins is no guarantee of championship, at least with a rookie driver. 50. Daniel posted: 09.02.2014 - 2:25 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) 43 entered at Richmond: -Mike Bliss in the #10 -Jeff Green in the #14 -Hermie Sadler in the #19 -Ryan Blaney in the #22 -Robert Richardson Jr. in the #23 -Kelly Admiraal in the #29 -Cale Conley in the #33 -Josh Wise in the #40 -Will Kimmel in the #44 -Matt DiBenedetto in the #46 -Chad Boat in the #84 -Cody Ware in the #86 -Josh Reaume in the #87 -Morgan Shepherd in the #89 -Mike Wallace in the #93 (I think Ryan Ellis will wind up driving it though) -#25 & #98 not entered 51. numbah10hatah posted: 09.02.2014 - 7:09 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) UPDATE: Cody Ware is now in the #23. The #86 is TBA. 52. numbah10hatah posted: 09.03.2014 - 7:31 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) And Matt DiBenedetto should end up in the #40 by the end of the week, he is driving the #40 car for the rest of the season. 53. Daniel posted: 09.03.2014 - 10:28 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) -Kevin Lepage now in the #74 54. Daniel posted: 09.03.2014 - 9:38 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) -Matt Frahm in the #46 -#86 has withdrawn 55. racefangurl posted: 09.04.2014 - 10:21 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) It's just pie-in-the-sky to think Chase will win at Richmond. Regan Smith maybe, but short tracks can be rough on rookies. 56. Nascar Lead Lap Points posted: 09.06.2014 - 10:25 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sponsor Updates #74 Mike Harmon Racing #52 Jimmy Means Racing http://www.actionsportsinc.com/p947558855/h131cbdb0#h131cbdb0 http://www.actionsportsinc.com/p947558855/hb5fd413#hb5fd413 Crew Chief of the #13 was Kevin Eagle 57. Rich posted: 04.20.2021 - 10:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Allen Bestwick along with Andy Petree and Dale Jarrett were the commentators. Dave Burns along with Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Jim Noble were the pit road reporters. 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