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Old 6/16/13, 02:12 PM
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Greg Biffle wins at Michigan

Ford's 1000th NASCAR victory.
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So it IS possible even with other teams "stealing" all your technology and employees...
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Yeah, all it took is a flat tire from Jimmie Johnson in closing laps.
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Always nice to have a win on the home track.
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Jimmie may have caught him, but getting past him would have been difficult. The 16 was hooked up after the last caution.

Congrats to Ford on NASCAR victory 1000.

One of the highlights of the race weekend for me was the Grabber blue Shelby pace car in the Nationwide race Saturday. They really gave it a workout during the pace car rides Sunday morning.
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Woo Hoo way to go FORD!!!
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Did anyone notice that Toyotas lead 0 laps today?
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This is impossible. How could Ford have possibly been in the winner's circle seeing how Nascar is intentionally fixing the races for Chevy?

Or... is it that racing is what it is?



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Congrats to Biffle and Ford. A well deserved win for both. It is good to see the Ford race cars competitive. However, they do not yet have an advantage over the competition but are moving in the right direction. It looks like TRD has detuned the Toyota engines a little too much. As a result, there were no blown Toyota engines.
I wonder how the race would have turned out had Kurt Busch not spun and hit the wall. He looked pretty fast. Carl Edwards was fast in clean air and would fade on long runs. They just have to make a little more progress on Carls car and then he will win some more races.

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Congrats to Biffle and Ford. A well deserved win for both. It is good to see the Ford race cars competitive. However, they do not yet have an advantage over the competition but are moving in the right direction. It looks like TRD has detuned the Toyota engines a little too much. As a result, there were no blown Toyota engines.
I wonder how the race would have turned out had Kurt Busch not spun and hit the wall. He looked pretty fast. Carl Edwards was fast in clean air and would fade on long runs. They just have to make a little more progress on Carls car and then he will win some more races.
Let me preface this by saying that I am no Kurt Busch fan, in fact I can't stand either one of the Busch brothers. Never have liked them.

That being said, I think the most impressive team this year is Kurt Busch, by leaps and bounds. Hes driving the wheels off the thing, its a small single car start up team with no sponsorship, but he is one of the best cars on the track week after week. Its pretty damned impressive in this day and age of mega car, mega money, corporate race teams. Its actually pretty refreshing and I'd like to see more of that in the sport.
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He only won because Jr. Kahne and Johnson had problems, he wasnt fast enough to beat any of those guys
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Originally Posted by Rodimus_prime
He only won because Jr. Kahne and Johnson had problems, he wasnt fast enough to beat any of those guys
I stopped reading after "he won" ... Nothing else matters.
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If the race was supposed to go to the fastest car, they would just hand out the trophy after qualifying. You know that there's more to a race win than that.

The 48 team made a couple of questionable pit calls and it put them in a bad spot at the end. Gordon and Kahne got bit by bad luck and I thought the place was going to riot when Junior's car went south. His engine had that 7 piston sound while he was leading and you could tell that his day was going to be cut short.

With the amount of speed that they carry in to 1 at MIS, I'm surprised that there were not more tire failures. Good on Goodyear for getting it right.
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Yea, I was surprised by the pit strategy of the 48 team.
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ok i guess but chevy probably has 4000 wins and dodge more than ford also ....
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I wonder who has been carrying that banner around to each race waiting for it to happen hahaha. I also like how Jack Roush is just like randomly standing in the back left apparently unaware the picture is even being taken... you'd think they would have said "Hey Jack, we need you for a really important picture" or something!

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Originally Posted by HOSS429
ok i guess but chevy probably has 4000 wins and dodge more than ford also ....
According to Jayski, the top level series stats are:

GM 1042 wins (Chevy/Pontiac/Olds/Buick)
Ford 715 wins (Ford/Lincoln/Mercury)
Dodge 466 wins (Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth)

I'm too lazy to look up Nationwide and Trucks.

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Originally Posted by PonyOx
According to Jayski, the top level series stats are:

GM 1042 wins (Chevy/Pontiac/Olds/Buick)
Ford 715 wins (Ford/Lincoln/Mercury)
Dodge 466 wins (Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth)

I'm too lazy to look up Nationwide and Trucks.

I
well that`s not so bad then ..


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