GTP Nascar Nationwide Series | Series Champion: OwensRacing

[OwensRacing]

Congrats Owens 👍

Thank you, never expected to be in race for points let alone battling for the Championship at the last race. My home track as well. So it was just epic.

Race review:
My nerves were out of control at start. Knew we had wicked fast set up on the car. One we tuned down so it was better in aero. Having minimal testing under worn tires and drafting we decided to abort our tune that ran 52.3's in free air and add some aero to help stabilize our draft runs. Well race starts all going well for me. Sam(kartman) has trouble and is out. Eric(DraginWhiskey) has some trouble and loses lead pack. Shoot now I'm alone in a crowd of three RAB cars all know that the title is on the line between me and their star driver Rich(MustardAddict). They do a great job keeping Rich out front and in clean air. Had some help from Carbon and Ken(CrazyBasist) keeping up with the RAB crew. They ran us clean and fair. My tires start to wear and this is where I realized we should of went more aero on the car. So I lose the main pack with this issue. Pit stops come up lil earlier then planned. Go in with Carbon and come out alone. From taking 45 liters. Wasn't looking to run out of fuel. So planned 190-200 liters used for race. Anyway. Come out and run alone for a few laps. Hook up with Ganon and we start stomping down. 51's. Eric my teammate slows himself to pit with Ganon and I for second and final time. Come into 3 way hot with bump draft and about lost car. Que to pit. We all swing in. Eric and I take 40 liters and Ganon needed 50. So we was out alone. Teammates hooked up and trucking. Sitting around 4th now with Davey out and Smuffy out. I was secure in my Championship title if Rich wins. With a few to go things got wild. I ended up spinning Eric and we both lost loads of time. Got my car right and tried like heck to keep Ken from catching me and losing the championship. Finally checkered flag and still in 4th. Was a great day all together. Excitement from lap 1 to lap 101.

Also want to take some time to say thanks to Mule for being our Team Owner and putting together a great team.

Like to thank Sam for being in our team and developed a good friendship through our practice.

Last but not least my good friend Eric. I think we tuned at least two hours each week for the races. In that time we found a niche in our tuning and as a team have produced some amazing results. Through this time we become friends. Just want to say that if anyone looking to hire me. You have to hire Eric and I. That guy is my teammate and when you get a person that you can simply be yourself and produce great results. Have fun. Laugh. It is what made this season the most enjoyable season I've had. Thank you Eric. Look forward to many more races as your teammate.

In closing thank you all who raced. With our you guys this wouldn't be nearly as exciting of a series. Great group of clean racers.

 

[neljack]

I think I kept 4th in the standings, well happy with a top 5 finish!

 

[RedPartyhat]

Had the perfect plan for the race and it was executed with perfection but even that wasn't enough

Great job winning the series Owens 👍

 

[Müle]

Owens did what he had to do, and did it without any Sprint Cup drivers pushing him the whole way. Makes it even more impressive, imo.

 

[Dragonwhisky]

Thanks Jeff. While my role was minor and mostly consisted of helping test out tunes and being there to bounce ideas off of, I am happy to have helped out the team and you get to the finish line. I've learned quite a bit from everyone but Owensracing specifically took me under his wing and provided much needed coaching when necessary.

Thanks to Mule for offering me the wheel and Sam for being fast. Damn pity you couldn't have made and stayed in more races.

Congratulations to Jeff and all the podium winners this year!

 

[RedPartyhat]

and did it without any Sprint Cup drivers pushing him the whole way.

I agree, Matty is a wonderful driver 👍

 

[Rich S]

Is this the last Nascar season for gt planet? It'd be nice to have another nascar season for sprint cut/NW. Although I might be working the ski hill on saturdays, dont know. I'll try to schedule around Sat's if you guys will do another season. Maybe with more HP this time to make the cars a bit less tame.

I agree, Matty is a wonderful driver 👍

He did good today. I dont know what the deal was with him "lagging" I never saw him lag.

 

[D4LVY]

Mule, you can't be humble in victory, let alone defeat. Dunno what your problem is, I couldn't care less how crappy your job/life are... This is the guy that lords it over everyone as race organiser but can't even turn up on time to open the lobby...

I'm sure I remember overtaking you in a race so the SC driver comment applies to you too.... Only you weren't quick enough to help your team mates.

Owens, great job and congratulations. Mustard, I'm gutted for you.

There ends my rant.

 

[Müle]

Mule, you can't be humble in victory, let alone defeat. Dunno what your problem is, I couldn't care less how crappy your job/life are... This is the guy that lords it over everyone as race organiser but can't even turn up on time to open the lobby...

I'm sure I remember overtaking you in a race so the SC driver comment applies to you too.... Only you weren't quick enough to help your team mates.

Owens, great job and congratulations. Mustard, I'm gutted for you.

There ends my rant.

Uh...

hu?

Really?

 

[Rich S]

Mule, you can't be humble in victory, let alone defeat. Dunno what your problem is, I couldn't care less how crappy your job/life are... This is the guy that lords it over everyone as race organiser but can't even turn up on time to open the lobby...

I'm sure I remember overtaking you in a race so the SC driver comment applies to you too.... Only you weren't quick enough to help your team mates.

Owens, great job and congratulations. Mustard, I'm gutted for you.

There ends my rant.

Yeah that's how I feel too. 👍 I'll back you up on that one & expose myself to Mule and all his fans. The entire time I've felt Mule does everything in a bias manner. He'd not a good host imo .

 

[The Bman]

Yeah that's how I feel too. 👍 I'll back you up on that one & expose myself to Mule and all his fans. The entire time I've felt Mule does everything in a bias manner. He'd not a good host imo .

Even I'll agree on that. 👍

 

[cgr-10]

Awesome job Jeff, congratulations mate 👍

 

[Müle]

Oh please.

Yeah, just keep throwing **** and hate at me. Go right ahead. See if I give a damn.

 

[D4LVY]

It's just about showing respect for the NW field who have on the whole raced really hard and fair. I've thoroughly enjoyed the season so to see spikey comments at the end of the season from the 'organiser' is the equivalent of flipping the bird to everyone here. So much effort from everyone and no respect shown....
That's why I reacted.

 

[Furinkazen]

I don't see any spiky comments...

 

[RedPartyhat]

To sum it up: MULE has been supporting Ford for the season rather then being the unbiased race host.
But this is a pointless discussion IMO.

 

[Müle]

All I was doing was publicly congratulating Jeff on his efforts. I was saving everyone else for a much bigger post later.

And to set the record straight, I have had little if involvement with Roush's setups, strategies, etc for pretty much the entire 2nd half of the season. I had absolutely no idea what setup they had this week, nor any idea when they were going to pit.

 

[Dragonwhisky]

I would have to disagree with you folks bashing mule. He pretty much left us to our own devices for all but maybe 3 races. Think we had a grand total of 3 practices with the entire team, to include the SC drivers all season. Mighta' been only 2. I have no idea what you gentleman are referring to with the biased remarks. Of course perhaps there was other stuff going on that I wasn't exposed to but pretty much every race Mule made a point to not give us much information that might have helped. He was a team owner. Don't know if his organizer hat was the first to go on his head for the season or team owner hat. I just don't recall getting anything out of Mule that I would consider unethical.

Seems to me, for a contest that has no real intrinsic value, you folks are being a bit overly sensitive.

 

[RedPartyhat]

All I was doing was publicly congratulating Jeff on his efforts. I was saving everyone else for a much bigger post later.

And to set the record straight, I have had little if involvement with Roush's setups, strategies, etc for pretty much the entire 2nd half of the season. I had absolutely no idea what setup they had this week, nor any idea when they were going to pit.

I think what D4ve is trying to say is that if Red Bull wins and Ford wrecks or something, you react by saying stuff like "Uh we got so unlucky with the wrecks, just a terrible race by ford." And if Ford wins then your reaction is somewhere along the lines of "YES! Suck it Red Bulls!" (aka putting down Red Bull because Matty was pushing Mustard).
Rather then just being an unbiased host.
Along with the fact that you take forever to update tables and you missed hosting races because you were sleeping.

But like I said, I think this is a really pointless debate.

 

[D4LVY]

Furi, this is what I'm talking about. Disrespectful to Mustard and all the other runners... I suppose he was saving that one to use if Mustard had won the championship. Dunno what his problem is, maybe he has a caffeine allergy.

MÜLE_9242 Thanks, I will Online Now!
Owens did what he had to do, and did it without any Sprint Cup drivers pushing him the whole way. Makes it even more impressive, imo.

 

[Müle]

Yeah, I think there's definitely some overreacting going on here. All coming from 1 team, complaining about me over a bunch of trivial, pointless things.

Am I not allowed to be happy for my friend, the guy I personally asked to join my team winning the championship, when for the last two weeks, he's had significantly less assistance than those he was battling against? I never once said it was a bad thing to have help. I just said that it looked good on Owens being able to do it on his own. Kartman has had internet problems the last two weeks, while Dragon, two weeks in a row lost the draft out of his control.

But no, I guess I have to be some emotionless robot who just sits there bored and not doing anything, not allowed to work a real job and make real money. I meant no disrespect towards anyone. Why would I?

I took this on knowing it would be early for me. I made a concession, making it even earlier because of TOCA. Yes, I slept in a few times. Oh well. You guys dealt with it. I made sure it didn't happen again this week.

If you're trying to keep me from being happy, you've done a good job. Thanks a lot. You're a real great party pooper.

 

[kenkwilinski]

Hey I've had problems with Mule in the past but I got over it and have apologized. You guys need to think about how much fun this is and not bring any un-needed tension to this series. Especially if you let this great host do another season next time around.

 

[smuffyatfcp]

Pointless argument TBH. Thanks Mule for hosting the series

 

[kenkwilinski]

Actually I just realized I must be blocked from Mule because in the last two weeks including today, I have sent him apologetic messages. But due to his block on me, he will never know how sincere of a guy I am n how much I actually appreciate all he has done for us.

 

[The Bman]

I do appreciate Mule hosting the series. It's just that some things that happened caused/can cause suspicion that Mule had a clear bias. I think that Mule did have some bias, though not as much as the other guys who think he was biased.

Although most of that may contribute to the fact that RAB's drivers are pissed that they lost.

 

[Furinkazen]

Yeah even though me and MULE are not best buddies to say least we did have a season after Chqr relinquished reigns. Be grateful a little guys.

 

[D4LVY]

Furi, I know, I know. I am grateful for the series being hosted by MULE but it'd been a much better experience if the host stayed neutral with his comments, it's the right thing to do. I'm sore at being dc'd and Mustard and RAB missing out, but to hear him cheering when I black screen is pretty sickening. I know pretty much everyone has had a dc at some point during the season but I wouldn't cheer for that. I'd say 'hard luck mate'.

 

[carracerptp]

Congratulations Owens 👍
Well done.

 

[neljack]

So wait one of the questions wasnt answered, whats the future for NW on GTP now?

 

[Knelly]

Congrats to Owens on the championship. And also to Red Bull for having the closest group of drivers, with the best team strategies and results.

Both Owens and RBR deserve a round of applause.

Gutted for your DC Dave. It sounds like that may have swung it away from Mustard. Hard luck bruvva.