GTP Nascar Nationwide Preseason Thread | Spurgy wins on rims!

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What will we do for round 4?

  • Keep it at Special Stage Route X?

    Votes: 9 36.0%

  • Move it to either TRM Road Course, or Circuit de la Sarthe 2009

    Votes: 16 64.0%
  • Total voters
    25
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Nobody wanna give the Nascar newbie a drive? :lol: (Hopefully I can just turn up next sat in any car xD)
 
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Phoenix Racing have made the first signing of their Nationwide Team! Spurgy777 will drive a part time schedule in the 2010 #14 Chevrolet alongside James6653! News on the 2011 #14 and 2010 #42 rides is expected tomorrow!​
 
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I am still however looking for a full time ride in either sprint or nationwide.
 
You're limiting his options slightly by tying him down as 'part time' even though he can apparently do a full schedule.
 
Ya if anyone wants to sign me to a full schedule in either sprint or nationwide that would be great I would love to. Whenever I show up I compete really well. You will have to cut me some slack I will be back to my normal router and internet provider soon. My PS3 is with me at my moms for now but when I get back to my normal router I will be ready to come after the championship no matter what I'm doing.
 
james6653
Ya if anyone wants to sign me to a full schedule in either sprint or nationwide that would be great I would love to. Whenever I show up I compete really well. You will have to cut me some slack I will be back to my normal router and internet provider soon. My PS3 is with me at my moms for now but when I get back to my normal router I will be ready to come after the championship no matter what I'm doing.
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Also, I have one driver currently waiting for a slot, if that seat is not taken, James is having that one.
 
JR Motorsports (Hendrick Motorsports)
Team Owner - RFLX_Niop
#24 (2010 or 2011) - Crazy_Bassist_83
#48 (2010 or 2011) - Smuffyatfcp
#88 (2010 or 2011) - TRYNOR88

Phoenix Racing (Stewart Ganassi Racing)
Team Owner - Furinkazen
#14 Old Spice (2010) - james6653
#14 Mobile 1 (2011) -
#42 (2010 or 2011) -

Roush Racing (Ford Racing)
Team Owner - MULE_9242
#43 Insignia (2010) - OwensRacing
#43 Best Buy (2011) -
#99 (2010 or 2011) - gokartman (part time)

RAB Racing (Team Red Bull)
Team Owner - RedPartyhat
#83 Blue (2010) -
#83 Silver (2011) -
#83 Either (2010 or 2011) -

Kyle Busch Motorsports (Joe Gibbs Racing)
Team Owner - Carbonox
#11 (2010 or 2011) - Chqr
#18 (2010 or 2011) - Cowboys965
#20 (2010 or 2011) - neljack

There are my full-time drivers. I will take reserves if anyone wants to be one. 👍
 
Carbonox
Phoenix Racing (Stewart Ganassi Racing)
Team Owner - Furinkazen
#14 Old Spice (2010) - james6653 / spurgy777
#14 Mobile 1 (2011) - james6653 (if my current choice cannot do it)
#42 (2010 or 2011) - Seat taken.
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^^
 
Pretty much. Any more than 3, and you cannot score Team points.
 
Well, here are my thoughts:

- I started to race in Nationwide with Steve who is a guy I really like.
- I started to race for RBR. I like this car.
- Then i did some replacements for some teams in Sprint Cup and I think guys were glad of my work for them.
- I know Sprint Cup is more recognized than Nationwide and this is why my heart balanced for catch a seat in Sprint Cup
- But one day I said that I need one season more in Nationwide before switch in Sprint Cup. This to improve my nascar skills before having a seat in the big league.
- I know RedpartyHat is already in RBR but he's alone plus he asked me to join him.
- I know Paul would like to have a seat in NW
- Maybe we all 3 could form the RBR for NW season 2 then.

but, I already said yes to Carb for JGR... so..I'm stuck :(
 
Just thought I would post this here since the Draft is underway.

I have two Nationwide starts, one at HSR and another at the season finale at Indy. I finished 9th on lap 38/40 at HSR and had finished 5th at Indy on the lead lap. These are my best tracks, as well as Twin Ring Motegi Super Speedway. My worst tracks, however, are Suzuka East and Daytona.

However, I need a good setup if I am to live up to my expectations. I am no expert at tuning and might struggle given I do not have a good tuning setup. Once I do have a good setup, however, I am set (no pun intended) for the weekend and may be able to contend for the win.

I will only miss two races, the season opener at Daytona, and the race at Nurburgring. Otherwise, I will be ready to race at a moment's notice.
 
On road courses I'll be fine but it''s just setups for Ovals I need lol cmon you know I'm good for it :(... (We doing any Indy road races etc in place of say Road Atlanta or Road America?)
 
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2010 #14 - James6653 / Spurgy777
2011 #14 - FrasierCrane
2010 #42 - Seat Taken, just waiting for reply off driver who I have told has the seat.

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Paul (and anyone else without a seat so far), this Saturday's race at Nurb, I'm sure there will be free slots, so you can just show up in any car as a sort of "tryout" to show what you've got to the owners.
 
MÜLE_9242
Paul (and anyone else without a seat so far), this Saturday's race at Nurb, I'm sure there will be free slots, so you can just show up in any car as a sort of "tryout" to show what you've got to the owners.
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I thought I did that last season :lol:
 
james6653
I thought I did that last season :lol:
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James, I'm going to be brutally honest with you for just a minute. Yes, you did sign up for last season. But, you only showed up to drive on time just once out of the 12 scheduled races. When you did show up, you finished 11th out of 15 drivers at Indy. You got last-place points for showing up after the Madrid race had already started. You missed a lot of races when you were supposed to be there, and that worries car owners. The worst thing for a car owner is to have a guy that doesn't show up for races when he was supposed to, because then the owners have to scramble to find a replacement on very short notice or run the race for their own team, because they don't want to lose a chance to earn points.

With the number of Nationwide drivers that just moved up to the Sprint Cup, the Nationwide fields are going to be even harder to reliably fill, so drivers that show up every week are at a premium. You'll definitely get a seat if you show up every week, but it might not be the same one every week. You need to show the car owners that you are willing to make a commitment to running full-time in the series before you can expect a car owner to make a commitment to you.
 
MustangRyan
James, I'm going to be brutally honest with you for just a minute. Yes, you did sign up for last season. But, you only showed up to drive on time just once out of the 12 scheduled races. When you did show up, you finished 11th out of 15 drivers at Indy. You got last-place points for showing up after the Madrid race had already started. You missed a lot of races when you were supposed to be there, and that worries car owners. The worst thing for a car owner is to have a guy that doesn't show up for races when he was supposed to, because then the owners have to scramble to find a replacement on very short notice or run the race for their own team, because they don't want to lose a chance to earn points.

With the number of Nationwide drivers that just moved up to the Sprint Cup, the Nationwide fields are going to be even harder to reliably fill, so drivers that show up every week are at a premium. You'll definitely get a seat if you show up every week, but it might not be the same one every week. You need to show the car owners that you are willing to make a commitment to running full-time in the series before you can expect a car owner to make a commitment to you.
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Well I'm running 2 teams in the continental tire series and 1 team in the rolex series so I know what It's like to scramble for a driver on a days notice so I will be way better this season and I know I was terrible last season just trust me when I say I'm gonna be 2x better this season
 
james6653
Well I'm running 2 teams in the continental tire series and 1 team in the rolex series so I know what It's like to scramble for a driver on a days notice so I will be way better this season and I know I was terrible last season just trust me when I say I'm gonna be 2x better this season
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Just show up to all of the races ready to go, do your best, and you'll have a full-time seat before you know it. 👍
 
I'm probably going to have the 18th August (Sprint Cup and NW Season 4 opener IIRC) as a TOCA off week, it will double as a mid season TOCA break and ensure both NASCAR events can run best they can. Hell, if drop's regulars agreed, the 500 could be bought forward by a few minutes as well.
 
Question for MULE,

Whats the point of giving a bonus point for qualifying if we can't use qualifying setups. And you are writing the Q times down anyway and we have a formation lap. So why can't we use a qualiy setup? You are going to re-form the grid on the pre-race pace laps. Just doesn't make sense to me. And I also have awesome quali tunes that I worked on in SC. They were pretty good, I usually came 3rd-5th in quali in SC. So I would expect a 1st-2nd in NW quali. This definitely takes away lots of work I put into my tunes. I just don't see the reasoning in eliminating quali tunes?
 
kenkwilinski
Question for MULE,

Whats the point of giving a bonus point for qualifying if we can't use qualifying setups. And you are writing the Q times down anyway and we have a formation lap. So why can't we use a qualiy setup? You are going to re-form the grid on the pre-race pace laps. Just doesn't make sense to me. And I also have awesome quali tunes that I worked on in SC. They were pretty good, I usually came 3rd-5th in quali in SC. So I would expect a 2nd in NW quali. This definitely takes away lots of work I put into my tunes. I just don't see the reasoning in eliminating quali tunes?
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FIXED. LoL
 
Hi guys, looking foward to this series, won't be able to make all the races, but should be able to make most of them :) Will be coming to the pre-season at Nurb GP/D as well, anyone set any times yet? I've done a 1.30.4 but still got lots of time to gain :)
@Owen, you have a strange sense of humour :)
@kenk, if you're that good at setups that you have a race setup as well as a quali setup, I think you'll be fine with just the one, anyway, quali doesn't matter much because you can just draft past people anyway. :)
 
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