NASCAR at Chicagoland

The Chase begins for 16 Sprint Cup drivers going for the championship at Chicagoland Speedway, the first race of the Challenger Round. Brad Keselowski has won 2 of the last 3 races here at the Windy City. Matt Kenseth won the last time out in dominant fashion at Richmond.

Xfinity (Saturday) and Trucks (tonight) are here as well.

Cup Entry: http://www.jayski.com/news/stats/2015/story/_/page/27-Chicago-2015-Entry-List

Xfinity Entry: http://www.jayski.com/news/nxs/2015/entries/story/_/page/NXS-2015-26-Chicago-Entry-List

Truck Entry: http://www.jayski.com/news/campingworld/2015/story/_/page/2015cts16chicago-entry

Truck Race was on FS2.

Spoiler:

First win in trucks since 1999 for Nemco! (Ron Fellows at The Glen)

Great win for JHN!

Ryan Reed is starting in the top 10.

>Ryan Reed
>Top 10

What is this.

Bubba Wallace finished 3rd in Xfinity!

RetrogradeRenegade wrote:Bubba Wallace finished 3rd in Xfinity!

The 2nd best part of yesterday's races. John Hunter winning the truck race puts the icing on the cake.

Got to give it to Denny Hamlin for being a dumbass on Lap 2.

GG Johnson and Harvick.

Kyle is such a master hypocrite. Hope he chokes like he usually does lol.

*insert weekly awful race post here*

Decided to tune in this week hoping for a good race to kick off the chase. Probably not tuning in until Homestead now.

I hope Joe Gibbs Racing just implodes.

Joke of a race, season and sport. Indycar save us please.

Go away Denny. So-so race. A 4.5/10.

Wasn't that bad of race really. 6/10ish IMO. It'll be interesting to see what happens with Harvick now.

meh

Only entertainment value was Jimmie Johnson taking out Harvick. Glad I didn't go to this one.

If the whole broadcast would have been an endless loop of Harvick hitting the wall then I would have given it 18/10 but it didn't so I give it Fudderwacken/10.

I thought it was pretty good

Cynon wrote:Only entertainment value was Jimmie Johnson taking out Harvick. Glad I didn't go to this one.

If the whole broadcast would have been an endless loop of Harvick hitting the wall then I would have given it 18/10 but it didn't so I give it Fudderwacken/10.

What are you, ProJared or something?

PackerMan71 wrote:

Cynon wrote:Only entertainment value was Jimmie Johnson taking out Harvick. Glad I didn't go to this one.

If the whole broadcast would have been an endless loop of Harvick hitting the wall then I would have given it 18/10 but it didn't so I give it Fudderwacken/10.

What are you, ProJared or something?

No, I just know how terrible the Tim Burton Alice in Wonderland is.

My review on the myAFibRisk.com 400 @ Chicagoland:

Meh, so-so race.

There were some stretches where the racing was REALLY boring, like from lap 51-120, but the first 50 laps were really good, with Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex, Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch fighting hard for the lead during that entire stretch leading up to the first of the green flag pitstops, which was easily the most entertaining portion of the race to me.

The end of the race was pretty mundane up until the final caution set up the final five lap shootout. The restart was pretty crazy, but once Hamlin got the lead, that was pretty much it, and the race ends with yet another boring finish.

Gotta give props to Hamlin. Torn ACL in his right knee, spins out and falls a lap down early in the race, and comes back and wins. Still, it's yet another JGR win, and those are getting pretty old at this point.

Final rating for the myAFibRisk.com 400 @ Chicagoland:

Little bit of a middle of the road race. Wasn't good, wasn't bad. A 4.5/10.

Next race, we head to New Hampshire.