Hey Carbon our driver made it to the Chase!!!

[WMC]

Add Jeff Gordon to the chase... Who wants him????

[Stainless]

Add Jeff Gordon to the chase... Who wants him????

How did he get in? Replace Bowyer?

[WMC]

Nope added 13 in the chase. stuff going on right now about deals being made between drivers. Big No No.

How did he get in? Replace Bowyer?

[Stainless]

Nope added 13 in the chase. stuff going on right now about deals being made between drivers. Big No No.

Cool, I think all the Hendricks cars are in the chase now.

[hbchgirl]

Cool, I think all the Hendricks cars are in the chase now.

Cool!!! 🏁

[gn7]

They not only added Gordon, but I guess the whole thing with Boyer allows Nascar to rewrite the rule book. Because under the original wild card rule, you COULD NOT get a spot in the chase without a win from the wild card slot, regardless how many points you had. Before the shit hit the fan, the only way Gordon could get in the chase was to win the race. But hey, its nascar, and its a dictatorship, and they can do what ever the hell they like.

In my opinion, this is a bad idea, and it discredits nascar even more than the Boyer incident.
But hey, and Bill France Sr himself said, this is a dictatorship, and I am the dictator. It the suits want the gay boy from Park Ave, New York, in the chase, then they will find a way to get him in.

[Stainless]

2013[edit source | editbeta]
Whereas the Chase field under this system has always been comprised of twelve drivers, the one exception to this rule was in 2013, with 13 drivers in the Chase, as the result of a controversial finish to the Federated Auto Parts 400 at Richmond, when Clint Bowyer appeared to spin intentionally to bring out a caution in an attempt to manipulate the finish of the race so as to help his Michael Waltrip Racing teammate Martin Truex, Jr. clinch a Wildcard spot in the Chase over Ryan Newman, who had been leading at the moment of caution. This was further suggested by radio communications on Brian Vickers' team telling him to pit under green. Newman was shuffled back on the cycle of pit stops, and ultimately ended up finishing third to Carl Edwards and Kurt Busch, and tied Truex in final points for second Wildcard spot. Truex won the tiebreaker on top-five finishes. However, the following Monday, NASCAR issued some of the most severe penalties imposed on a team in its history. All three MWR teams were docked 50 owner/driver points. As the penalty was applied to pre-Chase point totals, it ended up knocking Truex out of the Wildcard spot and put Newman in his place.
Afterwards, there was further controversy when radio transmissions were discovered suggesting that Front Row Motorsports and Penske Racing had struck a deal for David Gilliland to give up a spot on the track for Joey Logano, allowing Logano to race his way into the Chase and take the final lock-in position by one point over Jeff Gordon. A second NASCAR inquiry resulted in both teams being placed on probation for the remainder of the year. Although Logano was allowed to keep his Chase berth, the field was expanded to 13 with the addition of Gordon. NASCAR chairman Brian France has always had the power to expand the Chase field in exceptional circumstances, and decided to invoke it in order to put Gordon in the field. NASCAR determined Gordon would have qualified for the Chase if not for the "unfair disadvantage" he had suffered due to Penske/Front Row's collusion.[5]

[gn7]

NASCAR chairman Brian France has always had the power to expand the Chase field in exceptional circumstances, and decided to invoke it in order to put Gordon in the field. NASCAR determined Gordon would have qualified for the Chase if not for the "unfair disadvantage" he had suffered due to Penske/Front Row's collusion.[5]

Like as when Nascar' s most favored son is inline for an expanded chase field?
Kind of reminds me of the Pink Floyd tune, MONEY MONEY MONEY!

Just not sure how Nascar manipulating the field is somehow better than the teams doing it. But then, the team owners aren't the dictators of the phoniest racing on earth.

[Stainless]

Hey GN7, so not to BS around, I was the guy over "there" that asked "what are your credentials?". I had no clue who you were because of the screen name you were using, and thus i was defending the fort. Someone sent me a pm, and I went to yet another website to see who you are, and found out you definitely have the credentials. Anyway, I'm not one to BS behind the keyboard and wanted to shake your keyboard hand and see if you want to pick up one of the remaining cars in the chase bet we have going here. When i saw you posting in the Scarlotta thread I figure your going to be a regular on HB, so might as well be friends. Oh and I'm cool with the Lucas guy too!

[gn7]

Not really sure of the "incident", but I assume it was on RDP. I have a reasonably good memory, so if I don't recall it, it wasn't something that I felt I needed to. So you can tell how much it must have bothered me. No harm done.
As for a pick in the chase. Anybody I would pick has been taken.
Heres my take on it:

Jimmie isn't done re writing the record books, and has the most proven chase runs.
Kyle has something to prove after the disastrous showing he displayed in his last chase.
I don't even know what to say about Kurt, but for the money that team is running on, it pretty unbelievable.
Never take you eyes off Kasey, all he has ever needed was a car that ran.
Jr and Gordon are just field fillers and no chance in hell. I am thinking 12 and 13th place in the chase. Hendricks keeps them both for sentimental reasons.

The rest have me pretty bland,