GTP NASCAR Sprint Cup S4 Champs: Akmuq, Hendrick, Chevrolet

[Müle]

Doesn't sound like Mule to be angry with someone...

AngryMule has come out a few times before.

AngryMule doesn't drive very well. He finishes 12 when HappyMule was good enough for a top 5.

 

[Furinkazen]

Great race guys, really happy with my clean sweep although thought it would be closer but I'm not complaining Also, great job on 7th Furi, managed your tyres really well to get 16 laps out of them in the 2nd stint 👍

Cheers 👍

A sweep in only the start of your GTP NASCAR career?

Yep

I'm not happy but the fightback was decent from me. As far as I am concerned, me that little old #24... i'm not finished with him, but it can wait for now. Consider my war on hold.

 

[neljack]

Happy with 2nd in NW and 4th in Sprint in today, not to shabby for a touring car driver eh.....

 

[Carbonox]

And as it stands, that's why you're now getting a permanent ride for SC too...

 

[RedPartyhat]

C'mon Carb, I'm sure it'll be a lot better at 200 laps of Motegi............

 

[Knelly]

Furi, I've apologised. Leave it. Bring a war and you will only get yourself into trouble. I have no beef with you. It's just unfortunate that we always hook up. You will see in the replay I was off the gas for the longest time trying to hold my line. I touch the grass and drift up with a little tap from AC. Again, I apologise that it was you.

As for the Mule, Red, Tom, Knelly incident. I have watched it back and it is a constantina effect starting with me at the back. I hit the brakes fine with enough gap between myself and Red, but as Tom drifted into the same line I had nowhere else to go other than into his rear, which started the whole effect. Apologise that I started that but if you look there was enough of a braking gap between myself and Red at the time of braking.

 

[Carbonox]

C'mon Carb, I'm sure it'll be a lot better at 200 laps of Motegi............

Don't you get it?! This was the ONLY EVER chance for a finish like that. I have NEVER finished an SC oval race without losing the draft unless I've made a deal with another team, and I can't go around doing that every single time. Suzuka East is too twitchy for my loose car, and in HSR I have just never been fast enough thanks to the spin-causing curbs on the banked sections. Simply put, SC is such a disheartening series where everything has to go right even when you're pursuing a simple 7th place. I can't complete perfect races like that. This is NOT a series for me, which I surprisingly only learned after about 10 appearances.

 

[Furinkazen]

Don't you get it?! This was the ONLY EVER chance for a finish like that. I have NEVER finished an SC oval race without losing the draft unless I've made a deal with another team, and I can't go around doing that every single time. Suzuka East is too twitchy for my loose car, and in HSR I have just never been fast enough thanks to the spin-causing curbs on the banked sections. Simply put, SC is such a disheartening series where everything has to go right even when you're pursuing a simple 7th place. I can't complete perfect races like that. This is NOT a series for me, which I surprisingly only learned after about 10 appearances.

Carb. Its a school of hard knocks. Its taken me 3 season essentially to get anywhere near the front, and even then 🤬 happens. Hang in there...

 

[Müle]

Don't you get it?! This was the ONLY EVER chance for a finish like that. I have NEVER finished an SC oval race without losing the draft unless I've made a deal with another team, and I can't go around doing that every single time. Suzuka East is too twitchy for my loose car, and in HSR I have just never been fast enough thanks to the spin-causing curbs on the banked sections. Simply put, SC is such a disheartening series where everything has to go right even when you're pursuing a simple 7th place. I can't complete perfect races like that. This is NOT a series for me, which I surprisingly only learned after about 10 appearances.

If everybody thought like you, nobody would race.

If you're really quitting because you have to make an actual effort to get a decent finish, then good riddance.

I gave it my best today and finished 12th. Only 12th because ACDC and Drop spun on the last few laps. Maybe I should give up, too, right?

 

[Furinkazen]

I got bombed off at Turn 1 on LAP 1(!), and managed 7th. I didn't give up...

 

[Carbonox]

I don't think your example works because you can actually catch back up on the ovals. I'm, however, always the victim, one way or another, and therefore expected to get at least something after all that hard work, pain and tears when trying to get the car up to pace, and then doing even harder work to keep it going for 15 laps on the old, decaying tires.

 

[RedPartyhat]

Don't you get it?! This was the ONLY EVER chance for a finish like that. I have NEVER finished an SC oval race without losing the draft unless I've made a deal with another team, and I can't go around doing that every single time. Suzuka East is too twitchy for my loose car, and in HSR I have just never been fast enough thanks to the spin-causing curbs on the banked sections. Simply put, SC is such a disheartening series where everything has to go right even when you're pursuing a simple 7th place. I can't complete perfect races like that. This is NOT a series for me, which I surprisingly only learned after about 10 appearances.

Wait, why are you upset? You had a really good race, you managed to pass me after you pit on lap 24. If anything, I should be quitting for losing 3 spots on the last lap.

 

[The Bman]

Carb, I had a god awful run in the Nationwide race, but did I give up and swear to never come back?

No, I kept going, even though I knew I would finish last. I still had fun, and that's what matters.

 

[Carbonox]

Wait, why are you upset? You had a really good race, you managed to pass me after you pit on lap 24. If anything, I should be quitting for losing 3 spots on the last lap.

Read my above comment, and I'm the one who basically took 4 positions away from myself, which should've never happened. In situations like these, I really can't forgive myself "just like that".

 

[Knelly]

I got bombed off at Turn 1 on LAP 1(!), and managed 7th. I didn't give up...

You got slid up into. You did not get BOMBED off. Shut the 🤬 up and leave it Furi.

 

[Furinkazen]

You got slid up into. You did not get BOMBED off. Shut the 🤬 up and leave it Furi.

I have.. sorry worded it wrong.. it felt like it at the time... Knelly. I know tonight was totally accidental.

 

[Akmuq]

I was in a position which had a chance at the chase and I quit because of a lack of fun, not a lack of results, as they were decent enough.

Knelly. I know tonight was totally accidental.

That's what she said.

 

[cgr-10]

I was in a position which had a chance at the chase and I quit because of a lack of fun, not a lack of results, as they were decent enough.



That's what she said.

Well I don't find the road races fun but if I want to progress to the chase I kinda have to partake. If I had the oval ability of AC or RFLX I'd just skip the road courses completely.

 

[Furinkazen]

^Missed Knellys post before mine. Oops.

 

[gokartman78]

really enjoyed tonight, although I do hate having a lead foot . Good race Spurgy and Niop, It was fantastic. Well not really spurgy, you were to fast for me to enjoy our battle

 

[Mudd]

Don't you get it?! This was the ONLY EVER chance for a finish like that. I have NEVER finished an SC oval race without losing the draft unless I've made a deal with another team, and I can't go around doing that every single time. Suzuka East is too twitchy for my loose car, and in HSR I have just never been fast enough thanks to the spin-causing curbs on the banked sections. Simply put, SC is such a disheartening series where everything has to go right even when you're pursuing a simple 7th place. I can't complete perfect races like that. This is NOT a series for me, which I surprisingly only learned after about 10 appearances.

Whoa! That's sounds eerily familiar, doesn't it? Tough it out Carb, I got your back for High Speed Ring, that's my playground. I've stated several times, if you allow this series to get under your skin, it's the most stressful series around. Just shake it off and start practicing for the next one, thats really all you can do. Again, sorry I had to bail on ya today, but it sounds like you did ok with the team points.

 

[Furinkazen]

This series has got too professional. Each week there's some grumpy guys who get screwed up, and it's always little teams vs small teams. It's not drop's fault but a product of the whole thing. Perhaps we need more humour - 892hp on Comfort Hards at Motegi anyone?

 

[Carbonox]

I think no one even replied to my previous attempt, but I'll post it again.

I'm proposing a rule from next season onwards that would prevent more than 2 Chase drivers from the previous season driving in the same team. I believe it's clear business that nobody likes superteams.

 

[gokartman78]

I think no one even replied to my previous attempt, but I'll post it again.

I'm proposing a rule from next season onwards that would prevent more than 2 Chase drivers from the previous season driving in the same team. I believe it's clear business that nobody likes superteams.

thats quite a good idea actually

 

[Furinkazen]

I think no one even replied to my previous attempt, but I'll post it again.

I'm proposing a rule from next season onwards that would prevent more than 2 Chase drivers from the previous season driving in the same team. I believe it's clear business that nobody likes superteams.

This is the first season of such superteams and tbh, I see it all going to tears soon anyway. I prefer running a smaller outfit, less headaches. i've had my own idea's about what could be done but I know they won't happen.

Still though, when we do get off the "team war" bandwagon (which inevitably results in us smaller guys getting flipped off...) we have some epic racing. And I don't want that lost.

 

[MustangRyan]

I think no one even replied to my previous attempt, but I'll post it again.

I'm proposing a rule from next season onwards that would prevent more than 2 Chase drivers from the previous season driving in the same team. I believe it's clear business that nobody likes superteams.

While I'm ok with this in theory, we still haven't seen how this season is going to play out at all yet. The only race where the "super" teams have prevailed is the Daytona 500, and that's because 2 Ford and 3 HMS cars were lucky enough to miss a huge wreck in the opening laps that put everyone else behind. Over the course of the race, everyone else left. At SSRX, the biggest team put one car in the top 5. Right now, no current team has more than 2 drivers in the Chase, with Tom, Knelly, and Joe all on the outside looking in.

 

[Furinkazen]

Drop, I would honestly consider splitting teams up a little next season. IRL they may have three or four car teams, but thats because they are in a field of #43. I'd open it up with a combo of teams and hell, have people qualify there way into the race if necessary, like real life. I'll PM you later in season with that idea...

Anyway I think I might be out a chase spot after last night...

 

[Carbonox]

Sorry guys, but after thinking about it, it becomes more clear that I want to leave. This season has still not brought me neither fun nor results (that's a clear sign if you ask me) and moreso, SC and NW both seem to be slowly taken over, and already corrupted by PURE (which should be renamed ESR = Extremely Serious Racing). My calling is in a series where you can get away with a totally accidental corner cut by slightly lifting off and letting the behind driver through. Not somewhere that can go to **** because of one pitstop despite a better-than-ever show on the track.

 

[Müle]

and moreso, SC and NW both seem to be slowly taken over, and already corrupted by PURE (which should be renamed ESR = Extremely Serious Racing).

Okay, so all of 6 drivers (one of which you hired to drive for your team this season) out of a total of 29 full time drivers between two series means we've "taken over and corrupted" the Nascar series'?

Seriously?

PURE has absolutely nothing to do with this. Nadda. Zilch. Zero. Litchi joined all by himself. Owens and Dragonwhisky joined because I asked an open question if they wanted to. Tom and FraiserCrane only joined PURE recently. I raced in Season 2 before PURE even existed. There are more TOCA drivers than PURE drivers here.

This has been serious long before any of us joined in.

My calling is in a series where you can get away with a totally accidental corner cut by slightly lifting off and letting the behind driver through.

Guess what? You can here!

Not somewhere that can go to **** because of one pitstop despite a better-than-ever show on the track.

Guess what? Things like that happen just about everywhere! In real life too!


So basically, you're overreacting and moaning, as usual.

 

[james6653]

If he is leaveing may I take his spot at Joe gibbs?