BRISTOL--5mike5

[5mike5]

alright boys we are off to my personal favorite track BRISTOL....otherwise known as Thunder Valley, The Bullring, Gladiator Stadium, ect ect....its just flat out AWSOME...really dont think we will have to worry about boring long green flad runs this week, nor be waiting til the final 10 laps to see some great racing....IM FIRED UP for this weekend...Both Nationwide series and CUP will be racing this weekend, just a bit earlier than the last 2 weeks...saturday and sunday early afternoon...be back in my regular routine this week after being gone most all of last week so im ready to dig in starting NOW

**KEEP IN MIND BRISTOL WAS JUST RE-CONFIGURED AND REPAVED for last seasons night race in August, so on top of having the new car to still fill out this season, track is still brand spanking new...but this is a drivers racetrack so not sure the car will have much effect on this race

Now BRISTOL is a 0.533 mile short track oval with 36 degrees banking in ALL corners and 16 degrees of banking on all straights on front and backstretch...both front and backstretch measure out at only 650 feet long.

GOODLUCK this weekend everybody....I CANT WAIT!!!!

[5mike5]

NATIONWIDE RACE:

SATURDAY @ 2pm airing on ESPN2

[5mike5]

SPRINT CUP RACE:

SUNDAY @ NOON airing on FOX

*(Green flag isnt til 1:15pm or so i think)

[5mike5]

just heard ricky craven say kennseth ran fastest laps of the entire race on those old tires...i mean that should be almost impossible...not to mention the track had to be up in temp as well....even though clean air always means alot on 1.5 tracks, that senario goes against almost everything i know about nascar...track being rubbered in from the whole race cant do that can it?

how the bloody hell did he run fastest laps of the whole race? i havent looked but surely i misunderstood and he meant kennseth's fastest laps...even that i could somewhat understand with him not really being leader in clean air all day until that last run, but fastest laps of all day for the field?

[MatI]

Hey mike, I saw that ricky craven segment too. I got the impression he meant Kenseth's personal fastest laps.

[5mike5]

Hey mike, I saw that ricky craven segment too. I got the impression he meant Kenseth's personal fastest laps.

oh ok, thought maybe i misunderstood or misheard what he said....thanks...i was baffled thinking he meant everybody

pretty unreal evenwith him on old tires,but clean air still means that much on those track types...

[MatI]

Yeah, still pretty hard to imagine. Def comes down to that clean air.

I wonder if we will start seeing lots more cars going for no tyres on late restarts to get that track position.

[5mike5]

F1 start this weekend?

[MatI]

yep, this weekend. About 2 miles from where I live!

[5mike5]

yep, this weekend. About 2 miles from where I live!

oh thats awsome!

are u going to the race?

[MatI]

I'll be going Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I have no idea how the pecking order is looking yet, keen to see them in action and get a better feel for it.

[5mike5]

I'll be going Friday, Saturday, Sunday.

I have no idea how the pecking order is looking yet, keen to see them in action and get a better feel for it.

have a good time...sounds like a killer weekend!.

check in and let us know how it looks if u get a minute

[MatI]

will do mate.

[Optional]

Remember at Phoenix how they were saying they could have run 1 set of left side tires for the entire race if they had wanted?

Maybe the tires were similar at LV and did not really affect times that badly. (wasn't really watching for drop off so just guessing)

Coupled with low fuel weight, clean air, and Kenseth going hard rather than pacing himself as he may have been for most of the race.

All just theories.



BTW, Opti needs some winners this week please!

[5mike5]

winners coming opti's way this week

[Vegas39]

I expect all 3 Gibbs cars will be strong. Vickers worth a look as top 5 in both Bristol races last year

[5mike5]

I expect all 3 Gibbs cars will be strong. Vickers worth a look as top 5 in both Bristol races last year

is Vickers ruunning the #55 in the CUP race?

i havent looked at nationwide field yet either, but be some value in there cause im sure kyle is running it and he will be a huge favorite, as he should be

[Vegas39]

is Vickers ruunning the #55 in the CUP race?

i havent looked at nationwide field yet either, but be some value in there cause im sure kyle is running it and he will be a huge favorite, as he should be

Yes vickers in 55

[Vegas39]

Kyle, Harvick and Keselowski in NW race

[5mike5]

Kyle, Harvick and Keselowski in NW race

nice deep field since few nationwide regs are solid here

[bmansell33]

just heard ricky craven say kennseth ran fastest laps of the entire race on those old tires...i mean that should be almost impossible...not to mention the track had to be up in temp as well....even though clean air always means alot on 1.5 tracks, that senario goes against almost everything i know about nascar...track being rubbered in from the whole race cant do that can it?

how the bloody hell did he run fastest laps of the whole race? i havent looked but surely i misunderstood and he meant kennseth's fastest laps...even that i could somewhat understand with him not really being leader in clean air all day until that last run, but fastest laps of all day for the field?

looks like kenseth was fast lap of race

[5mike5]

WOW

he sure did run the best lap all day..

id like to know what lap # that best lap of the day was run on

thanks Bmansell

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Nascar and F1... Great weekend racing.

[yisman]

Tuesday afternoon. Books slow posting lines this week.

[5mike5]

u know if Greek hasnt posted 5dimes is still a little while away probably...books did same crap almost all last year...no idea how they pick when they post....even a 2:30am my time last year...lol...i just started not sleeping til they posted

there wont being any suprise odds this week for openers...but i also am not risking missing the best # of the week on a few guys....not going to be a week to have a good # of drivers....but hopefully maybe a few of the better guys here have bad sessions and books overreact to practices and/or qualifying and get a betterr #s on raceday to add to openers..thats what im doing at least...but im not holding my breath for that to happen

[5mike5]

im was going over some #s for last season, and holy hell did betting cover wagers NOT pay off overall..the few that helped didnt outweigh the money overall $$ i spent on them..guess i shouldnt expect them to though..1 reason is we won a ton of the races overall, so all that does id take away from profit on winning races...but i still like having them just might not use as many this year or for as many races..of course when i do im sure will bit me in the arse...its like a small security blanket...'11 season for me they did help more than hurt though...guess it all depends but im always looking at ways to get better i guess

just looking at some stuff from last season and figured id post that......

[yisman]

u know if Greek hasnt posted 5dimes is still a little while away probably...

yeah always

a few books clone lines and they are the first to open (greek, sportscrook.ag, I think betus)

then 5 Dimes comes in some time after, usually at least 6 hours, with their own lines

Greek and sportscrook.ag used to regularly have lines up Tuesday morning.

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Whats the Max at 5Dimes for nascar race winners and H2H's?

[5mike5]

Whats the Max at 5Dimes for nascar race winners and H2H's?

u can bet them as much as u want( after odds change), but h2hs are $250 win amount on favs and bet amount on underdogs...

$250 for most race winner PER BET....u can max them as many times as u want when odds move....even if they come back to odds u already have maxed out...like last week i had max bets on kennseth at several diiferent odds, and some were same after moving

its easy cause if u max bets odds will usually move immediatley....ive maxed same h2hs/driver win odds many times every race and ive never been stopped and i do that weekly

(even though they are still taking some measures against me at times on certain things

[JayHorne3]

Anybody not taking Kyle this weekend? Wonder what the opening odds on him will be..

[5mike5]

5-1 or close to it. About what he has been for years here. Kyle Jimmie and bk will all be 7-1 or lower. This is a pick and choose race.

[Vegas39]

Kyle and Jimmie both opened 5-1 at LVH here

[5mike5]

might be my shortest roster of the whole season....

hopefully dimes gets little better than what im expecting and vegas laid out

very few longer odds drivers i would even consider.

[5mike5]

Kyle and Jimmie both opened 5-1 at LVH here

DAMN IM GOOD!!!

(actually im not, Tri sent them 2 me so i saw already )

[Vegas39]

About as I expected and guessing Kyle 3-1 for nationwide