Line-up and weather
 

Qualifying rained out, do they line up by points?

What's the weather supposed to be like for the weekend?

If it rains during the scheduled race, any chance of completing the race
on Monday?

Line-up and weather
 

Mine Isn't Yours wrote:

Qualifying rained out, do they line up by points?

When qualifying is rained out, the starting order is determined by
points. But there are exceptions for road courses and also if Joon yer
needs help.


What's the weather supposed to be like for the weekend?

Getting mosly light just after dawn. Lighter as the day progresses
until it starts to darken near dusk.



If it rains during the scheduled race, any chance of completing the race
on Monday?

The race will be run at least to its half-way point. If the NASCAR gods
don't have a bad hangover, they might finish the race on Monday.
Chances are bad for that.

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Mine Isn't Yours wrote:

Qualifying rained out, do they line up by points?

I think the first 35 are on points, but there might be some different
way (like number of previous qualifying attempts) to determine the
last eight (or seven, if there's a champions provisional).

What's the weather supposed to be like for the weekend?

Thunderstorms on Saturday; slight chance of rain on race day.

If it rains during the scheduled race, any chance of completing the race
on Monday?

According to the National Weather Service, it should be clear Sunday
night and all day Monday.

-- Don

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On Mar 27, 11:22*pm, Don Del Grande
wrote:
Mine Isn't Yours wrote:
Qualifying rained out, do they line up by points?

I think the first 35 are on points, but there might be some different
way (like number of previous qualifying attempts) to determine the
last eight (or seven, if there's a champions provisional).

What's the weather supposed to be like for the weekend?

Thunderstorms on Saturday; slight chance of rain on race day.

If it rains during the scheduled race, any chance of completing the race
on Monday?

According to the National Weather Service, it should be clear Sunday
night and all day Monday.

-- Don

They have lights at Martinsville, (they use them for the modified
race), so they could run late. If they run one lap past halfway, it's
an official race, and would not be continued.

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george9219 wrote in
:

They have lights at Martinsville, (they use them for the modified
race), so they could run late.

I don't think they have enough lights to run a televised race, so
if it gets dark they'd probably call it.

If they run one lap past halfway, it's
an official race, and would not be continued.

To be more accurate, if they run one lap past halfway it's an
official race and they do not have to continue it. Whether they
actually do or not is at NASCAR's discretion (altho, since NASCAR
is a slave to the TV folk, the likelyhood of their continuing on
Monday if they're past halfway is pretty much zero).

John

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Don Del Grande wrote:

Mine Isn't Yours wrote:

Qualifying rained out, do they line up by points?

I think the first 35 are on points, but there might be some different
way (like number of previous qualifying attempts) to determine the
last eight (or seven, if there's a champions provisional).

If I'm reading Jayski's site right, the order for the "go or go
homers" is (a) most qualifying attempts, then (b) owners points, then
(c) it says "best finish", but this might be the "standard" tiebreaker
(most wins, then most 2nds, then so on down to 43rds, then best finish
in the previous race - then again, that's the same as "best finish,
then best 2nd-best finish, and so on"). Since nine drivers had
qualifying attempts in every previous race so far this season, 36-43
was based on points (although there was a tie in points for the last
spot, so they went to the best previous finish tiebreaker).

-- Don

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"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
...

......to other newsgroups makes you look like an idiot.



You should tell that to the first guy that posted, not some poor schmuck
that replied several posters later, else it makes you look like the idiot.

crossposting
 

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:58:13 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" wrote:


"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
...

......to other newsgroups makes you look like an idiot.



You should tell that to the first guy that posted, not some poor schmuck
that replied several posters later, else it makes you look like the idiot.



FWIW, if you don't realize it, you (and any who respond without trimming the
headers) are cross-posting to a number of unrelated groups. If you do realize
it, um, well...carry on, I guess...

HTH

crossposting
 

riverman wrote:
On Mar 29, 7:49 am, wrote:
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:58:13 -0700, "Jeff Strickland" wrote:

"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
...
......to other newsgroups makes you look like an idiot.
You should tell that to the first guy that posted, not some poor schmuck
that replied several posters later, else it makes you look like the idiot.
FWIW, if you don't realize it, you (and any who respond without trimming the
headers) are cross-posting to a number of unrelated groups. If you do realize
it, um, well...carry on, I guess...

HTH

Apologies for jumping into rec.autos.sport.nascar, but I want to add
to rdean's point that no one constructively participating in this
thread is from rec.outdoors.fishing.fly, so if you delete roff from
the header, you will still be communicating with the intended
participants.

(Just in case you were concerned that trimming the header would remove
people who were active.)

Thanks. Enjoy your chats.

--riverman


If you're enjoying it, then why not keep reading and posting back? Who
cares? Maybe you need some education.

crossposting
 

wrote in message
...
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:58:13 -0700, "Jeff Strickland"
wrote:


"Tom Littleton" wrote in message
...

......to other newsgroups makes you look like an idiot.



You should tell that to the first guy that posted, not some poor schmuck
that replied several posters later, else it makes you look like the idiot.



FWIW, if you don't realize it, you (and any who respond without trimming
the
headers) are cross-posting to a number of unrelated groups. If you do
realize
it, um, well...carry on, I guess...

HTH

I actually went to the original post and coppied all of the groups back in
just to make my point.

FOR THE RECORD
There are only two groups in this crosspost. Hardly an example of a serious
problem. The larger issue is that the original post has no importance to
either group it was posted to.