Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA

Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183857

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 21:47

- 06 Feb 10, 21:47#183857

Piquet is running 5th, Danica is 15th out of field of 43. we will see if either of them crash..

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183858

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 21:48

- 06 Feb 10, 21:48#183858

Holy sh**! the big one happens on lap 7

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183859

By Gaz - 06 Feb 10, 21:53

- 06 Feb 10, 21:53#183859

jeez.

Nelson in Top 5 though - that must be confusing for him

edit: Where's Ricky Bobby by the way?

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183864

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 22:00

- 06 Feb 10, 22:00#183864

Yeah they both make it out of the accident. It took out about 10 cars out of the 43. Danica moves up to 13 Piquet is still 5th. The announcers are talking about him saying "I bet Piquet is wondering what he was thinking by getting into one of these cars." The crash took out another lady, Milka Duno, who normally drive IRL. Everyone is dipping their toe in the nascar water.

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183865

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 22:01

- 06 Feb 10, 22:01#183865

Gaz wrote:jeez.

Nelson in Top 5 though - that must be confusing for him

edit: Where's Ricky Bobby by the way?

He's on fire!!

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183866

By Gaz - 06 Feb 10, 22:02

- 06 Feb 10, 22:02#183866

Stealthgate007 wrote:
Gaz wrote:jeez.

Nelson in Top 5 though - that must be confusing for him

edit: Where's Ricky Bobby by the way?
He's on fire!!

Dam, was he invovled in the crash?

i was hoping to see him Shake and Bake.

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183871

By Denthúl - 06 Feb 10, 22:14

- 06 Feb 10, 22:14#183871

I'm actually semi-impressed by Piquet so far. His qualifying was pretty good, too. Thanks for keeping us informed

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183876

By racechick - 06 Feb 10, 22:15

- 06 Feb 10, 22:15#183876

Hope Nelson does well. I still think he got a raw deal in F1. Hope he's happier in NASCAR

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Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183878

By 7UpJordan - 06 Feb 10, 22:17

- 06 Feb 10, 22:17#183878

Danica shouldn't be in NAStyCAR.

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Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183879

By Jensonb - 06 Feb 10, 22:18

- 06 Feb 10, 22:18#183879

...God NASCAR is boring.

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Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183881

By Gaz - 06 Feb 10, 22:28

- 06 Feb 10, 22:28#183881

Jensonb wrote:...God NASCAR is boring.

i just said it was Nascar to some americans apparenlty this isn't Nascar.

Well looks the same to me...

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183882

By cap-dude - 06 Feb 10, 22:30

- 06 Feb 10, 22:30#183882

Tis not Nascar. As the thread title says this ARCA. Same thing Scott Speed did before joining Nascar I believe.

Danica is only tipping her toes in stock cars anyway. She's still doing a full season of Indy this year.

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Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183884

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 22:32

- 06 Feb 10, 22:32#183884

They just go back to restart as the last restart caused another accident. took out two cars. Im pretty impressed with PQ. Danica is up to 10th after the last restart.... Holy... another accident. Jill George flipped upside down!! Third caution. DP and NP are still ok... Jill George is fine, but the car flipped OVER and is a pile of rubble. She is lucky to walk away from that one..

ARCA is a feeder series to Nascar. Scott Speed went after F1, Montoya started there. Its easy money for F1 drivers.

Red Flag.. Cars are parked.

Lot of crashing and a little racing..

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183885

By Gaz - 06 Feb 10, 22:37

- 06 Feb 10, 22:37#183885

is this much crashing normal for stock cars?

Re: Nelson Piquet and Danica Patrick start ARCA#183894

By Stealthgate007 - 06 Feb 10, 22:48

- 06 Feb 10, 22:48#183894

No not normal at all. You may get one or two at the beginning, but drivers settle down after that and have some long runs. Daytona always have the big one because its so fast and the cars run really close to each other. Its more exciting then people make it out to be..

They fixed the catch fence and retaining wall and are about to go back to racing..

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