Thursday, September 30, 2010

The Trifecta- Home on the Range Edition

Greetings, race fans! This week's Trifecta finds us "Home on the Range" (Kansas's state song) for NASCAR action with a side trip to Miami for Indy Car's season finale.

Despite a valiant effort by Kristen and moseby last week (both were one win away from a perfect score) Tez managed to hold on for the win and take the lead in the chase for the Coveted Triple Lug Nut Trophy. No need to panic, though. With six races still left on the schedule, everyone is still in the hunt (of course, it would take JJ-like domination for some of us to pull it off).

This week's races:

1.) The NASCAR Nationwide Series race from Kansas, Saturday October 2; green flag drops at 3:46pm ET (entry list)

2.) The IRL season finale from Homestead/Miami, Saturday October 2; green flag drops at 7:00pm ET (entry list)

3.) The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race from Kansas, Sunday October 3; green flag drops at 1:16pm ET (entry list)

28 comments:

  1. NNS- Carl Edwards

    Indy- Dario Franchitti

    Cup- Kurt Busch

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  2. Now you've got me singing that song SB!

    Drivers jinxed for this week include:

    NW - Kyle
    Indy - Helio
    Cup - Jimmie

    I am going for JJ-like domination this week!

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  3. You talkin' about me SB? LOL

    Kristen! Are you trying to hex Kyle?

    Okay then...

    IRL - Will Power for the title!

    NWS - Carl Edwards for the cookie cutter!

    Cup - Kevin Harvick to get back on track!

    Thank you, thank you...

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  4. I'm going to wait until some practice is done :)

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  5. NNS--Kevin Harvick

    IRL--Ryan Hunter-Reay

    Cup--Carl Edwards

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  6. IRL DRIVER CHANGE

    Ryan Briscoe

    Now it reads as follows:

    NNS--Harvick

    IRL--Ryan Briscoe

    Cup--Edwards

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  7. NNS - Harvick

    IRL - Dario

    Cup - Smoke

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  8. NW - Brad Keselowski
    Indycar - Scott Dixon (and Will Power sneaks the title)
    Cup - Denny Hamlin

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  9. Kristen- sing along with me "It's a small world aftter all" (or would you prefer Mahna Mahna?)

    Dwindy- anyone with less than 3 wins pretty much has their work cut out for them (BTW, my ancestry.com membership expires the end of the month. If there are any names you want me to run through while I still have full access, just send me names and dates)

    jon- Katie has 3 words "FEAR THE VOODOO!"

    And with that, the Beagle picks:

    NW- Bad Brad continues his stranglehold on the points

    IRL- Dario hogs the spotlight and wins both the race and the Championship

    Cup- Jeffie G finally wins one

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  10. I like your prediction on Dario Speedy! ...and I was seriously considering swaping Kurt for Jeffie after qualifying. But, I don't want to jinx Jeff. I don't want to jinx Kurt either! I just thought it was time for Kurt to conquer one of his poorer tracks. Good luck to all!

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  11. After one-

    athens 1
    tez 2
    sb 2
    klv 3
    hanny 3
    jon 4
    moseby 4
    cr 14
    dwindy 14

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  12. And after two-


    tez 3
    hanny 4
    klv 8
    jon 8
    athens 9
    sb 10
    moseby 12
    cr 22
    dwindy 39

    Dwindy- I said JJ like domination NOT Jr like domination :o)

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  13. Will the kiss of death continue tomorrow with my picks???

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  14. Well based on JJ spinning in happy hour today I'd say I'll be joining you shortly Dwindy!


    Oh gawd SB! Do NOT start with the Mah Mah Mah...

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  16. Dario finishes 8th, and still takes the championship!

    Dwindy, how come you didn't pick Danica? lol

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  17. Okay Tez.... JGR vs JGR.... Which one will "settle" for points instead of trying to win?

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  18. I could tick you off by taking Kyle right now, Gene....but I'm not that kind of person, lol

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  19. True to her word, Kristen showed JJ-like dominance and scored her 4th win of the season.

    Congrats, klv!!!

    The final standings:

    klv 10
    jon 14
    tez 15
    sb 15
    moseby 16
    athens 20
    hanny 25
    cr 35
    dwindy 42

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  20. I'm Jealous!

    Oh Well... WTG Kristen!

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  21. Woot! =) I thought I had jinxed JJ pretty good...

    Mah mah mah mannanah!

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