2010 NSCS Season Redux

Bryan Rodriguez · Oct 3, 2023

(If you are wondering, yes, this was the 2013 Mock Series Thread, however I wanted to start a new one without pretty much littering the threads with dead mock series and since the 2013 Thread has been abandoned for some time, I may as well just reimagine the post with something new)

Welcome along to a brand-new season of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series racing. 2010 has been brewing all throughout the off-season, and with the switch from Wings to Spoiler during the off-season, this NASCAR season is sure to produce some action pack racing throughout the season. Many changes have been sweeping over silly season, so without further due, lets dive into the changes for the new decade.

Keys: Retired - Dropped - Rookie - Changed Teams

After 4 underwhelming seasons with Jack Roush & the maximum limit of cars per team reduced from 5 to 4, Jamie McMurray will move to Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing's #1 entry with full-time sponsorship from Bass Pro Shops & McDonalds's.
With McMurray in the #1, Martin Truex Jr moves on from Earnhardt-Ganassi to Michael Waltrip Racing's 2nd Entry: The Renumbered #56 Napa Auto Parts Toyota replacing Michael Waltrip who retired from full-time racing last year and will now drive in select races (including the Daytona 500) in a 3rd Car, The #51.
After a Horrendous 2009 Season, David Stremme has been let go, with 2009 Aarons 499 Winner, Brad Keselowski replacing him for his first full-time season (Despite being his first Full-Time season, he does not compete for ROTYH)
2003 Truck Series Champion, Mike Bliss has been hired by Tommy Baldwin Racing to drive their #36 Wave Energy Chevrolet for at least 14 races this year.
Despite planned to go full-time in the Nationwide Series, Kevin Conway has silicified a rock-solid deal with Front Row Motorsports to extend the lifespan of the #37 Car for the team with full-time sponsorship from the one and only: E X T E N Z E (This possibly cannot go wrong at all
After bouncing from ride-to-ride last season, Travis Kvapil will compete Full-Time for Front Row Motorsports in the #34 Long John Silver's Ford.
After driving the #44 last season, A.J Allmendinger has moved to the #43 Best Buy as the #44 gets rebranded to the #98 Menards Ford for Paul Menard. (RPM switches from Dodge to Ford for the Season)
A new team, Whitney Motorsports enters the Sprint Cup Series in 2010 with journeyman Terry Cook running for ROTY honors.
Michael McDowell will drive the #55 Full-Time for Prism Motorsports alongside Dave Blaney in the #66.
After an underwhelming 2009 Season, 2000 Sprint Cup Champion, Bobby Labonte will drive full-time for TRG Motorsports in the #71 Taxslayer.com Chevrolet.
And Finally, Another New Team, Keyed Up Motorsports will attempt the full season with 2007 Coke 600 Winner, Casey Mears in the #90 Chevrolet

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Schedule for 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Season:

1	Sunday, February 14th	Daytona International Speedway	Daytona 500
2	Sunday, February 21st	Auto Club Speedway	Auto Club 500
3	Sunday, February 28th	Las Vegas Motor Speedway	Shelby American
4	Sunday, March 7th	Atlanta Motor Speedway	Kobalt Tools 500
5	Sunday, March 21st	Bristol Motor Speedway	Food City 500
6	Sunday, March 29th	Martinsville Speedway	Goody's Fast Relief 500
7	Saturday, April 10th	Phoenix International Raceway	Subway Fresh Fit 600
8	Sunday, April 19th	Texas Motor Speedway	Samsung Mobile 500
9	Saturday, April 25th	Talladega Superspeedway	Aarons 499
10	Sunday, May 1st	Richmond International Raceway	Heath Calhoun 400
11	Saturday, May 8th	Darlington Raceway	Showtime Southern 500
12	Sunday, May 16th	Dover International Speedway	Autism Speaks 400
13	Sunday, May 30th	Charlotte Motor Speedway	Coca-Cola 600
14	Sunday, June 6th	Pocono Raceway	Gillette Fusion Proglide 500
15	Sunday, June 13th	Michigan International Speedway	Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400
16	Sunday, June 20th	Infineon Raceway	Toyota / Save Mart 350
17	Saturday, June 27th	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Lenox Industrial Tools 301
18	Saturday, July 3rd	Daytona International Speedway	Coke Zero 400
19	Sunday, July 10th	Chicagoland Speedway	LifeLock 400
20	Sunday, July 25th	Indianapolis Motor Speedway	Brickyard 400
21	Sunday, August 1st	Pocono Raceway	Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500
22	Sunday, August 8th	Watkins Glen International	Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen
23	Sunday, August 15th	Michigan International Speedway	Carfax 400
24	Saturday, August 21st	Bristol Motor Speedway	Irwin Tools Night Race
25	Sunday, September 5th	Atlanta Motor Speedway	Emory Healthcare 500
26	Saturday, September 11th	Richmond Raceway	Air Guard 400
	12 Drivers	----Chase For The Sprint Cup----	10 Races
27	Sunday, September 19th	New Hampshire Motor Speedway	Sylvania 300
28	Sunday, September 26th	Dover International Speedway	AAA 400
29	Sunday, October 3rd	Kansas Speedway	Price Chopper 400
30	Sunday, October 10th	Auto Club Speedway	Pepsi Max 400
31	Saturday, October 16th	Charlotte Motor Speedway	Bank of America 500
32	Sunday, October 24th	Martinsville Speedway	Tums Bring It On 500
33	Sunday, October 31st	Talladega Superspeedway	Amp Energy Juice 500
34	Sunday, November 7th	Texas Motor Speedway	AAA Texas 500
35	Sunday, November 14th	Phoenix International Raceway	Kobalt Tools 500K
36	Sunday, November 21st	Homestead Miami Speedway	Ford 400

Bryan Rodriguez · Oct 9, 2023

Other Notes for the Season:

1. I'm not covering Exhibition Races.
2. I'm running 25% Distance for All Races.
3. Due to BC being a pain in the butt and killing the framerate in the game, I will be sticking to 2003 rules for this season (like racing back to line, and Single File restarts) so expect random tomfoolery in some races.
4. I'll be using points format and versions of track from which the timeline takes place (so we'll have the 2007 Points Format and a lot of Revamped Reload tracks.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy this series and I'll see you for the Daytona 500!

Bryan Rodriguez · Jul 11, 2024

Round 1: The Daytona 500

Welcome everybody to the 52nd Annual Running of the Daytona 500. I am your host, Bryan R, and 42 of NASCAR's greatest drivers are prepared to kick this season off into gear!

After coming up short of the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship, Mark Martin will start on the pole with 2004 Daytona 500 winner, Dale Jr. on his outside.

Now as they take the command to fire the engines, here is your starting lineup.

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Lap 1: Mark Martin falls back to 5th while the fans roar for the new leader, Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Lap 6: Clint Bowyer takes the lead away from Dale Jr.

Lap 8: Dale Jr comes back to the lead with Kyle Busch hot on his heels.

Lap 11: LITTLE JAMIE BABY takes the lead away from Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Lap 12: Coming into Turn 1, the 33 gets hooked by the 29 and pulls a miraculous save to keep his position.

Lap 13: Dale Earnhardt Jr comes back to the lead from Jamie Mac.

Lap 14: Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, and Dale Jr. go 3 Wide entering Turn 3 with Bowyer coming out on top.

Lap 18: Clint Bowyer loses the lead again to Dale Jr.

Lap 27: Lap Car Mike Bliss decides to pull the conversational art of slowing Dale Jr. down not only putting the 33 back into the lead, but causing a loud crowd of boos from Jr Nation.

Lap 31: Jamie McMurray takes the lead away from Clint Bowyer. (Fun Fact: Entering this race, McMurray had 0 Day500 finishes 25th or higher.)

Lap 33: Pit Cycles begin as Mark Martin & Kyle Busch head to pit lane and slowly one by one headed down to pit road during the next few laps.

The Digger Cam

Sunoco Sign Cam

The Cone Cam because why not.

Lap 40: Pit Cycles end. Now Greg Biffle, Martin Truex Jr, David Reutimann, and Denny Hamlin are in the hunt for the Harley J. Earl Trophy.

Lap 44: Matt Kenseth bump drafts Clint Bowyer causing the 33 to take the lead from Dale Jr. and from here, he never looked back.

and despite McMurray and Kenseth trying their hardest to pass the 33, it was too late. Coming Out of Turn 4, CLINT BOWYER IS A DAYTONA 500 WINNER!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finishing Results from the 2010 Daytona 500:

Point Standings after the Daytona 500:

Next Race: Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway

Bryan Rodriguez · Jul 14, 2024

Round 2: The Auto Club 500

Welcome everybody to Auto Club Speedway for the Auto Club 500. I am your host, Bryan R, and 42 of NASCAR's best drivers are ready to go in this 500-mile race.

After a great run in last week's Daytona 500, Jamie McMurray will start on the pole with his teammate, Juan Pablo Montoya on his outside.

Now as they take the command to fire the engines, here is your starting lineup.

And the pace car is in, GREEN FLAG At Auto Club!

Ignore the Chase Walls.

Lap 1: As the field went to Turn 3, Dave Blaney (who somehow managed to qualify in 9th) tagged the 00 of Reutimann sending him up the track, into Harvick and Hornish, sending all 3 into the wall with Tony Stewart, Casey Mears, and Aric Almiroli adding fuel to the fire shortly after.

And to make things more chaotic, during this ordeal, the 19 of Sadler gets spun by Nemechek spinning him into the 34 of Kvapil, causing him to crash into the wall with the already crashed machines of Harvick, Hornish, Stewart, Mears, and Almirola.

Lap 5: The Field goes back with Daytona 500 Winner Clint Bowyer leading.

Lap 6: Jimmie Johnson passes Clint Bowyer for the lead.

Lap 9: Kurt Busch in the Blue Deuce passes Johnson for the lead thus causing a back-and-forth in the lead with the two for the next sereval laps

Lap 15: Johnson had taken the lead two laps earlier when suddenly, the 34 of Travis Kvapil (2 laps down) blocks JJ in the outside causing his teammate, Mark Martin to take the lead.

Lap 17: Defending Auto Club 500 Winner, Matt Kenseth passes Mark for the lead.

Lap 18: Matt Kenseth, Jimmie Johnson, and Kurt Busch go 3 Wide, but its Kurt Busch on top of it all.

Lap 20: Jeff Burton takes the lead away from Busch.

Palm Tree cam (cuz why not)

Lap 22: Jimmie Johnson takes back the lead from Burton.

Lap 23: Kurt Busch takes the lead away from Johnson.
Lap 32: Matt Kenseth retakes the lead from his former teammate Kurt Busch and holds on to it for several laps.

Lap 32: The Pack was charging to the 17 causing Kenseth to overdrive Turn 1 and causing this 3-Wide battle for the lead between Clint Bowyer, Jimmie Johnson, and Jeff Burton. (Burton came out on top with the lead)

Lap 33: Jimmie Johnson retakes the lead from Burton and Martin.

Lap 34: Mark Martin enters pit road resulting in the only pit road cycle of the race.

Lap 38: Pit Road Cycle ends with Scott Speed in the lead for the first time this season.

Lap 40: 48 tracks down Speed and retakes the lead again.

Lap 42: The 34 slows down Johnson again sending Kurt Busch back to the lead.

Lap 44: Mark Martin goes 3-wide and takes the lead from Kurt Busch and a charging Scott Speed.

Lap 45: Jimmie Johnson takes the lead and doesn't look back.

until the final lap when Travis Kvapil made the stupid decision to STILL BLOCK THE 48, causing Kurt Busch to pass the 48 and WIN THE AUTO CLUB 500!

(For anyone wondering, Jimmie Johnson was not happy with the shenanigans of Kvapil and approach him after the race, later stating that he should be fined for the BS he was doing on the track. So far, NASCAR has not yet decided whether to penalize the 34 or not.)

Race Results:

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Point Standings after Race 2:

Next Race: Shelby American at Las Vegas Motor Speedway

Bryan Rodriguez · Jul 17, 2024

Round 3: The Shelby American

Welcome everybody to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Shelby American. I am your host, Bryan R, and 42 of NASCAR's best drivers are ready to go gambling in this 400-mile race.

After a clutch win at Auto Club last week, Kurt Busch will start on the pole with 2001 Winner, Jeff Gordon to his outside.

Now as they take the command to fire the engines, here is your starting lineup.

Lap 1 - Kurt Busch leads them for most of the lap before hitting the wall in Turn 1, giving the lead to Jeff Gordon.

Lap 2- Caution comes out for multiple incidents:

1. Bliss & Kvapil make contact sending the 36 into the wall with Denny Hamlin and Brain Vickers.

2. At the same time Bliss crashes, the 66 tags Harvick sending the 29 into the wall with Allmendinger, Mears, Ambrose and Gilliland.

3. In Turn 3, Matt Kenneth gets turned by Keselowski and goes into the wall with Reutimann And Sam Hornish Jr who to make things more chaotic got plowed TWICE by Bobby Labonte and Marcos Ambrose.

Only the 17, 29, and the 36 continued to race, the rest DNF'ed.

Lap 7 - Race Restarts, but in Turn 4, Gordon spins into oncoming traffic causing Jeff Burton to ARCA brake Jeff Gordon, sending him flipping through the frontstretch, then Max Papis hits the rear of the 24 sending him spinning with McDowell slamming hard into his door with Kurt Busch, Reutimann, Boris Said, and Matt Kenneth wrecking behind them.

Bold of Newman to avoid having a car on his roof.

(2,31,26,55,24,16,13 all DNF)

Lap 12 - Truex leads over Martin.

Lap 14 - Teammates Kyle Busch and Joey Logano collide in Turn 4 causing both to spin with Kahne, Bowyer, Harvick, Ragan, McMurray, and Harvick all wrecking along with them in the front straightaway.

Lap 17 - 34 leads due to pit cycles, however he falls back as Regan Smith leads the lap.

Lap 19 - Tony Stewart takes the lead away

Lap 21 - Mark Martin takes the lead away.

Lap 38 - Elliott Sadler spins in 4 nearly avoiding getting hit, but Joe Nemechek hit the front of Sadler's car, overheating the car, causing Him and Sadler to exit out of the race.