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UN! FREAKING! BELIEVABLE! AGAIN!
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0.001 seconds! Closest Cup Series finish ever! (Second-closest NASCAR finish in general behind the 2018 Xfinity Daytona opener at 0.0004!)
I'm not a Larson fan, but man is that the kind of clutch drive that reminds you the kind of driver you're watching. Whenever he ends up in the Hall of Fame, that final half-lap is one of the first clips they're showing.
"Have you ever?" The motto of NASCAR at its finest.
#nascar#nascar cup series#nascar kansas#kansas speedway#adventhealth 400#motorsports#auto racing#sorta sports#kyle larson#i'm not tagging buescher because man that was a tough loss for him (also ford's third photo finish loss in their nightmarish season)#last sunday at my local-ish half price books the cashier guy had a chris buescher shirt on#he was probably going through it#Youtube#i thought buescher had it until the replay happened but nope!#fuck you kentucky derby! nascar only killed their timing system this weekend not horses as well!#oh and also in other new congrats lando for finally winning i guess (idk why you'd watch f1 by now but good for him!)#a finish so good it made me almost forget truex only salvaging 4th after an ill-timed yellow and bad tire call#fire james small#photo finish#nascar photo finish#must watch
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Formula One Was Good Actually?
Yes.
I can't believe it either, but I did actually enjoy the F1 race this weekend.
Okay, so, just going to get the elephant out of the room now - the fact that Lando Norris won instead of Max Verstappen is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but it's not just because of that - and now that I've said that, I'm going to talk about why I enjoyed F1 yesterday at the 2024 Miami Grand Prix.
Full disclosure, I didn't watch the sprint and it doesn't sound like I missed much.
In the race, however, something interesting happened...Max didn't break the field right away. He pulled a bit of a gap on Leclerc, yes, but Piastri in third was quick, and he managed to overtake Leclerc for second pretty early on, even started gaining.
Once Max pit, it was Piastri in the lead by a pretty comfortable margin, then Sainz, then Norris. I tuned into the race around this point since NASCAR at Kansas - also a banger of a race, I might get into that later actually - was in a rain delay. Piastri and Sainz made their pitstops, Lando was actually going quick - IIRC he had the fastest lap at this point - but still, it looked to me like Max had a clear path to the lead for the umpteenth time.
Kevin Magnussen, attempting to overtake hometown driver Logan Sargeant, hit the Williams and sent him into the barrier gearbox first. Logan was out on the spot, Kevin continued, and the safety car came out.
Now, maybe Bernd Maylander was just used to slotting in ahead of Max Verstappen - and can you blame him after these last three years? - but the safety car picked up Max in second, while Lando was free to run to the delta. Everyone knew he was going to make a free pitstop at this point, but with the rest of the field stuck behind the safety car, the question became...is Lando going to put a hole lap on the field?
Well, fortunately or unfortunately, race control waved the field by the safety car before any shenanigans could occur, so when Lando made his stop and came out on fresh hards, he caught the safety car with the rest of the field directly behind.
This is where things got fun.
On the restart, full disclosure, I thought Lando blew it and let Max Verstappen get too close...only for the Red Bull to fail to get the pass done on the start-finish straight. Lando kept the lead...and pulled away for the rest of the race.
Meanwhile, Verstappen spent the first part of the post-SC portion of the race breaking out of Leclerc's DRS range, while behind, Piastri and Sainz where showing that DRS wasn't a free pass this time out. And that's really what I liked about this race - the fact that, lap after lap, Sainz would get DRS on Piastri and would try and pass going into turn eleven...and it wouldn't be enough.
Unfortunately, Sainz eventually just decided to barge his way through and sent Piastri into the pits for a new front wing and fresh tyres, but the idea was there. DRS was an overtaking assist, but it wasn't a free overtake - and that's how I believe it should be.
That being said, as Piastri showed once he was on fresh tyres, a faster car could get by, so he charged through the likes of Albon and Ricciardo, taking fastest lap and eventually finishing thirteenth after having come out of the pits nineteenth. Sainz would get a five second penalty post race.
We had a new winner in Lando Norris, the winner started from fifth on the grid, it was a Grand Prix in the United States at a pleasant afternoon timeslot for me, and for the first time, it felt like it lived up to the hype of Miami.
Now there was also another thing, and it's so divisive that I'm not even sure if I should talk about it in this blog, but it's that Donald Trump was in attendance. He was a guest of Muhammad Ben Sulayem and Liberty Media, they took him through the McLaren garage, he posed with Zak Brown outside the garages, and he took a photo with Ben Sulayem and Lando Norris post-race. Not only that, but David Croft, in his race winning call went "On a weekend where McLaren has welcomed an ex-President into their garage, it's Norris who trumps Verstappen!"
So...in the eyes of some people, Norris' first win is forever going to be associated with a divisive ex-President who is one: subject to various legal proceedings in a number of states, and two: is running for office yet again. I hate that for Norris.
I'm not getting into the politics, I'm not making a judgment either way, please don't use this as a place to rant about your particular political views, I'm just saying it sucks that, a day after this guy's first win, I'm still seeing people talk about a guy who was a guest in the paddock rather than the guy who actually won the race.
It must suck for your first win to be at the center of people's political and moral arguments one way or another. I wish it wasn't a topic of conversation coming out of this race.
So yeah, I got to watch an F1 race I enjoyed for the first time in awhile, I even watched some of the post-race content, and by the time that was wrapping up, it was time for NASCAR.
I really like 1.5 mile triovals and Kansas is one of the best ones. We had moments of three, four, and even five wide in that race, and at the end of it all, we got the closest winning margin in NASCAR history. 0.001 seconds for Kyle Larson in the #5 HendrickCars Chevrolet over Chris Buescher in the #17 Castrol Edge Ford Mustang. I was rooting for Buescher, I desperately wanted Ford to get their first win of the season, but seeing that, I just had to throw my hands up and say it was a good race.
So, while there wasn't any MotoGP or Indycar this weekend, F1 and NASCAR managed to give me a pretty good Sunday of racing. I'm pleasantly surprised and I'm glad I can say that.
I hope McLaren can keep the forward momentum going and actually challenge Red Bull somewhat consistently, and I hope Ford can snap their winless streak in NASCAR sometime soon.
#motorsports#racing#f1#formula 1#formula one#miami gp 2024#miami grand prix#nascar#nascar cup#kansas speedway
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Kansas (1) 2024
WHAT. WHAT JUST HAPPENED. WHAT.
0.001 SECOND MARGIN OF VICTORY.
CLOSEST FINISH IN NASCAR HISTORY.
"The most spectacular, amazing unequivocally, unbelievable ending in the history of the world! And we don't even know who won!" - Bob Cutlass (2006)
Kansas has always been my favorite 1.5 and one of my favorite tracks on the schedule, period, but boy howdy it delivered today in ways I did not know were possible. After a three hour rain delay, it was a fine race, zero complaints, though I did have trouble focusing as I was also buying furniture. Then everyone started falling to pieces during Stage 3 and KyBu ended up bringing out a caution and triggering an overtime restart. And then.
The 5 lined up behind Denny for the restart and rather than be a pusher abandoned him immediately and completely. Ends up on the high line at the last opportunity, Buescher pins him at the wall, they bang against each other down the final shot towards the line, and then....??????
I guess...? The 5 wins...?
0.001 seconds.
Watch them change their minds later tonight and/or the 5 fails tech, lol. But whatever!!!!! Bananaspants stuff happening out in Kansas tonight.
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Top 3 Spring Kansas 2024 Schemes 🏁
2️⃣ Cindric
2️⃣4️⃣ Byron
4️⃣5️⃣ Reddick
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#pixel art#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanart#nascar#austin cindric#william byron#tyler reddick#kansas#*2024 schemes#*pixel--moon#*my art
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What. A. Finish.
#nascar#Kansas speedway#kyle larson#chris buescher#wild#what an insane finish#.001#closest in Nascar history
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This says WAY too much im GONNA CRY
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KYLE LARSON OMG
YUNG MONEY 💰
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NASCAR Cup Series ʳᵒᵘⁿᵈ ²⁸ Kansas 🇺🇸
Tyler Reddick wins, moves to the Round of 12.
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For possibly the first time ever, F1 tops NASCAR in TV Ratings
Link: https://racingnews.co/2024/05/07/for-possibly-the-first-time-ever-f1-tops-nascar-in-tv-ratings/
#F1 News#NASCAR Cup Series News#Cup Series#ESPN#F1#Florida#Formula 1#Formula One#FS1#Kansas#Kansas City#Kansas City Kansas#Kansas City KS#Kansas Speedway#Miami#Miami FL#Miami Florida#NASCAR#NASCAR Cup#NASCAR Cup Series#NCS#Ratings#Television#TV#TV Ratings#Viewership
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NASCAR: Kansas Speedway 'Best Bets'
NASCAR has the drivers firing up their engines at 2:05 PM CDT! Watch on FS1! Today I bring forth two Best Bets for the Spring Race at Kansas Speedway for the AdventHealth 400 in the NASCAR Cup Series!
By TaurusEmerald – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=146053474
Chris Buescher is up against Brad Keselowski for his driver H2H (head-to-head) prop bet! It’s a…
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Joke's on you, Mike Joy! I looked it up before you said it that Clint Bowyer's 300th start was a 23rd place finish at Kansas in early 2014 where Jeff Gordon won! Ha!
Didn't know about the Harvick finishing 2nd part though. So I guess Joy got the last laugh.
#nascar#nascar cup series#nascar richmond#richmond raceway#toyota lovers 400#mike joy#clint bowyer#bowyer still hating kansas speedway just for that bogus 2007 finish shouldn't be this funny#also please don't choke this either truex#not to larson#maybe this booth is actually pretty funny now#especially that looney toons promo story and that story about harvick buying the crappy bunny suit...#...just to be used in driver intros by a guy who lost a bet to him#nascar on fox
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looking at these pics is making me wanna CRYYYYYY cry tears of happiness I had so much fun ;____; absolutely the highlight of 2023 for me
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The Las Vegas Review-Journal claims the Oakland A's will "boost" their economy, increase tourism & give city additional dollars.
Last month, the state of Nevada gave the Oakland A’s $380 million dollars in taxpayer money to go towards a brand-new ballpark in Las Vegas. The hope is to possibly open the ballpark by 2018.
This week, the Nevada State Education Association launched a campaign to try and find any legal way to stop the Oakland A’s from getting any public funding, including litigation. The campaign started a…
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#Charlotte#Charlotte Hornets#Economic Journals#Forbes#Kansas#Las Vegas#NASCAR#Nascar Hall Of Fame#NBA#Nevada#North Carolina#Oakland As#Spectrum Arena#WEAI#Wichita
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Damn Purdy. You can't just put other drivers in the wall.
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Former NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer involved in fatal crash
Former NASCAR driver Clint Bowyer involved in fatal crash
LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Former NASCAR driver and Fox Sports analyst Clint Bowyer struck and killed a pedestrian on a highway in southwest Missouri earlier this month, police said.
The crash occurred June 5 on an exit ramp off of U.S 54 near Osage Beach, Missouri, according to a crash report from Lake Ozark police.
Bowyer, a native of Emporia, Kansas, stopped immediately after the collision and called…
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#Accidents#Accidents and disasters#Arts and entertainment#Automobile racing#Ca#Celebrity#Clint Bowyer#Emporia#Entertainment#General news#Kansas#Missouri#NASCAR#North America#Sports#Sports media#Sports TV#Television programs#United States
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there is no wrong answer, I just cannot make a decision LOLOL 🩷
for my nascar buds, Kansas schemes will be uploaded either Sunday or Monday as per usual 🏁
#pixel art#art#artists on tumblr#digital art#fanart#sailor moon#kpop#nct#exo#stray kids#ateez#monsta x#*pixel--moon#nascar#poll#art poll#⚠️ help me make a decision pls ⚠️#personal 🩷
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