FOFC Racing - Sprint Cup Series - Season 3 - FINAL STANDINGS POSTED!
 

Welcome to Season 3 of the FOFC Sprint Cup Racing Series. If you would like to sign-up, head on over to our sign-up thread. We now have sign-ups ongoing for our Truck Series as the Sprint Cup Series is currently full. If you already have drivers in the Cup series but want more, sign-up for the Truck Series. New drivers to the series will have to first enter the Truck Series and earn their way to the Cup series.

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PLAYOFF FORMAT

After 10 "regular season" races, the top 10 drivers, as determined by points accumulated during the season, automatically advance to contend for the Sprint Cup championship. These drivers are joined by two "wild card" qualifiers, specifically the two drivers ranked from 11th through 37th in drivers' points who have the most regular-season race wins. The 12 drivers' championship points are reset to a base of 1,000 per driver. Each of the 10 automatic qualifiers receives a bonus of 3 points for each win during the regular season, while the two wild card qualifiers receive no bonus. Every driver then will receive a bonus for their final position after 10 races. Wild card qualifiers receive no bonus.

1st - 20 bonus points
2nd - 18 bonus points
3rd - 16 bonus points
4th - 14 bonus points
5th - 12 bonus points
6th - 10 bonus points
7th - 8 bonus points
8th - 6 bonus points
9th - 4 bonus points
10th - 2 bonus points

Normal scoring applies during the Chase, with race winners earning 43 base points plus 3 bonus points, all drivers who lead a lap earning 1 bonus point, and the driver who leads the most laps earning 1 bonus point in addition to any other points earned.

PROMOTION/RELEGATION

If any driver from the truck series whose owner only has one driver in the Cup Series is eligible to be promoted to the Cup series if they finish in the top 5 of the truck point standings. Only one driver for each owner will be eligible this season even if two finish in the top 5.

Any driver that finishes in the bottom 5 of the Cup Series standings will be at risk for demotion. This season, however, we will only allow demotion of drivers whose owner has two cars in the series. If a driver finishes in the bottom 5 but only has one car in the Cup Series they will not be eligible for demotion.

Also, if you have a Truck driver and he finishes in the top 5 of the truck standings, he is eligible to replace one of your Sprint Cup drivers if you wish.

For future reference, past champions of the Cup Series will automatically be exempt from any demotions.

SCORING SYSTEM

The Daytona 500 will kick off Season 3 tomorrow. Get your stat changes in before then.

Can't wait to get started in Season 3. Zach's team has made a lot of changes to the car so hopefully they pay off.

First, I want to thank you for doing this. I really am enjoying it and I appreciate you taking the time to run it.

Hawk Grey alternate sponsor-- University of Iowa

Chuck long alternate sponsor-- St. Louis Cardinals

Avery Thomas Alternate Sponsor - Coca-Cola

The Nielsen boys spent much of the off season in practice, with Rob giving his Danish cousin Magnus several pointers. The two worked on a lot of strategy this season, and Magnus is hopeful his fortunes will turn around this season.

Love the Vernor's car.

Here is the starting grid for the Season 3 Daytona 500.

Race #1 of 15 - Daytona 500 Results
 

As always, the Daytona 500 was a terrific race. This year we had 84 lead changes among 30 drivers throughout the day. Blue Neckansack led 32 laps on the day and Wallace Bryant led 31 as those two were the lap leaders but there was no one dominate car throughout the day.

As the race wound down, Bryant held the lead with 3 to go. Behind him was Comrade Twelve, winner of the Season 2 Daytona 500. Heading into turn 4 on lap 198 Twelve made the pass on the inside and took the lead. Behind him Red Neckanback and Helen Wheels would try and make the move for the win but were unable to as Twelve took the checkered flag for his 2nd straight Daytona 500 win.

The highest finishing rookie on the day was Chuck Long in 4th. Connor Root finished 14th, Will Kizer 29th and Jeremy Letto 42nd.

Standings after Race #1 of 15
 

OH COMRADE MY COMRADE!! THE COLLECTIVE IS SO PROUD!!!

Mediocre start to the season for the #51 team. But you never know what will happen at Daytona anyway. The next two races will be a big test to see if all the changes we made in the offseason take effect.

Crazy though that Comrade Twelve won two straight 500's.

Great start for Long in his Sprint cup debut. Grey was solid at 11th.
Good start to the season for Godzilla Mortorsports.

Bad Start for the #46, at least he led 2 laps for bonus points.

Poor start for Will. Next week hopefully we'll have a better showing.

Solid start for the #39 team, led 12 laps and picked up eleven spots from our qualifying position. Congrats to Comrade on the win, looking forward to New Hampshire.

Great qualification time for Avery, just poor showing in the race.

Man, my guy sucks. It's obvious I know nothing about NASCAR or any other kind of racing. I'm just enjoying reading it all though

Race #2 of 15 - Sylvania 300 Results
 

Season 2 was a tough one for Right Now Motorsports as Dexter Jackson Sr. finished 35th in the points and Ricky Anderson Jr finished 42nd and was demoted to the Truck Series. Today's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire might have made up for all of that. Dexter Jackson Sr. completely dominated almost the entire race as he led 258 of 300 laps on the day, only losing the lead for a significant portion to David Ginsberg after pit stops. A final caution with only 8 laps to go bunched up the field again but Jackson pulled right away from Luke Duke to take the win. Lew Sifford ended up 2nd, followed by Duke in 3rd, David Ginsberg in 4th and rookie Connor in 5th.

Standings after Race #2 of 15
 

Dexter Jackson holds the points lead after two races and is followed by Lew Sifford, and Indy Wahl. David Ginsberg, Hawk Grey, Helen Wheels and Connor Root are all tied for 4th.

Another poor start to the season for Rob.

Well that's more like it! Looks like all the changes the crew made in the offseason have paid dividends already for the #6 team. Now hopefully the rest of the season is like today was for Dexter and the guys.

Another Race with laps led, but at least I was able to finish this one, despite it being just outside the Top 10. Now if he can keep this up, I'd be satisfied as long as he don't fall into the Bottom 5, I'd hate to see him fall back to trucks.

Welcome to the big leagues, Chuck. He really struggled.
Hawk had another consistent performance.

The All-Star race will once again be after race #6 and will feature race winners from both Cup and the Truck series. All drivers who won a Cup race in Season 2 or 3 will be entered and any driver who won a Truck race in Season 1 or 2 will be entered. Here are the current drivers who are qualified for the race.

Comrade Twelve
Al Cohallik
Benton Gale
Jace Hunter
Rob Nielsen
Bo Duke
Comrade Path
Patrick Hutt
Hawk Grey
Helen Wheels
Dexter Jackson Sr.
Avery Thomas
Red Neckanback

Jeremy Letto
Connor Root
Max Gresham
Jackson Pace
Bob Fulton
Russ Wheeler
Jack Topper
Chuck Long
Nile Kinnick
Brett Hawkins
Coy Duke

Wow DD Racing sucked ass...

I'll take an 11th. We need consistency if we are going to contend this year.

You see Sifford in 2nd and Wheels tied for 4th? Join Ninth Circle... :devil:

Top 5 finish and tied for 4th in points! Root is starting off his rookie year strong.

A top 10 for Will Kizer and the #5 team. Great race for the guys earlier on in his rookie season. We're gunning for that Rookie of the Year title.

Race #3 of 15 - Duck Commander 500 Results
 

Fort Worth, TX - Avery Thomas and his DD Racing #20 crew left everyone else shaking their heads as they left Texas Motor Speedway today. Thomas, driving a special #20 Coca-Cola sponsored car was able to stretch his fuel longer than any other driver in the race and wound winning by 22.78 seconds over second place David Ginsberg, who was the only other driver to finish on the lead lap. Thomas led 76 laps over the races final segments for his first career FOFC Sprint Cup Series win. After Ginsberg in 2nd, rookie Chuck Long put together a great 3rd place run. In 4th place was Luke Duke and Wallace Bryant was 5th.

Rookie Connor Root had a great run early on and led 67 laps before getting involved in an accident and finishing 30th. Dexter Jackson Sr. followed up his dominating win at New Hampshire by leading the most laps, 113, and finishing 8th. Bo Duke led 59 laps on the day before breaking a valve on the car and finishing 37th.

Standings after Race #3 of 15
 

It sure looks like Dexter Jackson Sr. and the #6 team found something that worked in the offseason as he leads the points by 8 over David Ginsberg. In 3rd is Lew Sifford who looks to have taken some pointers from teammate and Season 2 champ Helen Wheels. Wheels is tied for 4th with Wallace Bryant.

Some early surprised includew 2-time playoff drivers Bo Duke and Wheely McStephens who finds themselves 36th and 38th early on as well as Patrick Hutt, a 5-time winner on the circuit, who is 40th.

hmm, I appear to be stuck middle of the pack, hopefully things improve as the season goes on. getting a spot in the chase would be nice although I doubt it at this rate. at least I'm consistent at 1 thing, leading at least 1 Lap per race so far.

Boom! There we go!

Avery Thomas redeems himself!

Alright time for Chilton to step up and make DD Racing a force!

I nice run by the #44 team.
Patrick Hutt has made an enemy of Hawk Grey after sending him into the wall for no apparent reason.

No top 10's yet but sitting in a playoff spot. Hopefully we stay consistent.

Jeez. Bandit just has no idea how to start a season.

Damn, Bo having no luck to start the season. Need to pull it together if we want to make the chase.

Well, a little bit of bad news, my computer that I run the game on crashed today. Good news is I recently saved most of the stuff onto a flash drive. I'm going to try and transfer the game over to my other computer and then get everything updated on it and start running races again. I'll try and get as much done as I can this weekend and hopefully start up with race 4 next week.

Hopefully everything works out for you. if you need a New Computer let me know and I'll help you find one or choose parts for a build.

Nice, first team win. I think Fast Eddie is saving it for a late push this season, since he got out well and faded last year.

Still trying to get everything transferred onto a different computer but have ran into a few problems. Hopefully I'll get everything sorted out soon.

Good news! Looks like I have gotten everything figured out and we should be able to get going again tomorrow!

Race #4 of 15 - STP 500 Results
 

For the most part it was the usual suspects that find themselves up front at short tracks once again running in the lead. Rob Nielsen took the pole but only led 5 laps before finishing 6th. The remainder of the race, three drivers took turns in the lead. First it was Patrick Hutt who led 108 laps before giving up the lead to Bo Duke who lead 104 laps before rookie Connor Root took over the lead and led for 75 laps. Root wasn't able to hold off Red Neckanback however. Red took the lead and led 140 laps to take the victory, his 2nd career win at Martinsville. In 2nd was Root followed by Bo Duke, Hutt and Aaron Kappe.

Standings after Race #4 of 15
 

Despite not yet leading a lap on the season, Lew Sifford finds himself leading the points after 4 races. David Ginsberg is 2nd followed by Dexter Jackson, Connor Root and Luke Duke.

Haha, Lew! Keep at it!

Stroker Ace, doing his thing, lingering near the top ten for a late season run.

Bo Danville, also doing his thing, being terrible.

and Thus my Led Laps Streak is broken, at least I Finished the race though.
Glad to see you got everything back up and running.

Poor showing for Dexter but still looking good in points.

Race #5 of 15 - Quicken Loans 400 Results
 

Great racing today from Michigan. Will Kizer took the pole and led the race's first 36 laps before fading to an 18th place finish. For the remainder of the race it was the group of Connor Root, Patrick Hutt, Bo Duke, Mustafa Henderson, Helen Wheels and Wheely McStephens battling it out. With 30 laps left, Root took the lead and held off challenges from Hutt and Duke to get his first career victory.

Standings after Race #5 of 15
 

Season 1 Truck Champion Connor Root is showing his truck series title was no fluke as he takes the points lead after his Michigan win. Lew Sifford is 2nd followed by Mustafa Henderson, Dexter Jackson and Helen Wheels.

Looks Like no Rookie of the year or Playoffs for me this season with how I'm performing, at least I'm 20 spots above last so I got some kinda buffer between me and falling to trucks again

Comrades, the committee is disappointed that the fast start has been squandered. The motherland is counting on you.

Grey moves up to 9 after a terrible showing in Michigan. Long is just outsid the playoffs. He needs to get some consistency. Top 10 followed by a bottom 10.

DD Racing has stepped it up with Chilton getting a T10 Finish and Avery finishing at 12 in Michigan. Hoping we keep it up for the season.

If someone wants my 2 tickets in the series, they can have them.

I'd be interested in them if it's OK with cmp, unless someone running the trucks don't have a team in the Cup then I'm OK with them getting it to have some Cup experience.

yeah, I got busy and I got distracted and I'd much rather that someone who would participate in the dynasty would get involved.

We'll end up using those spots for Truck Series drivers at the end of the season and have two less get demoted. I do have an idea for those two spots for the remainder of the season and will post them later today.

The All-Star race will once again be after race #6 and will feature race winners from both Cup and the Truck series. All drivers who won a Cup race in Season 2 or 3 will be entered and any driver who won a Truck race in Season 1 or 2 will be entered. Here are the current drivers who are qualified for the race.

Comrade Twelve
Al Cohallik
Benton Gale
Jace Hunter
Rob Nielsen
Bo Duke
Comrade Path
Patrick Hutt
Hawk Grey
Helen Wheels
Dexter Jackson Sr.
Avery Thomas
Red Neckanback

Jeremy Letto
Connor Root
Max Gresham
Jackson Pace
Bob Fulton
Russ Wheeler
Jack Topper
Chuck Long
Nile Kinnick
Brett Hawkins
Coy Duke

Sticking around in the top 10. Maybe we'll finally get a playoff berth for Dexter.

Race #6 of 15 - Coors 400 Results
 

Red Neckanback once again has shown the racing world that there is no better short track driver. Red led 320 laps on the day and held off a late challenge from hot shot rookie Connor Root to win his 2nd race of the season. Bo Duke, who has been one of the best short track drivers as well, led 31 laps early on before getting into an accident and finished 42nd.

Standings after Race #6 of 15
 

Connor Root continues to impress and holds a 13 point lead over second place Lew Sifford. Helen Wheels is 3rd, Mustafa Henderson 4th and Red Neckanback is 5th.

DNF #2 in 6 Races...I'm not doing to good in my rookie year.

Zach gets the top 10. We need to get that #99 car in victory lane.

Man. I need a win from Grey. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride.

Wow. Qualify 2nd, retired with 67 laps to go. Rough season for Stroker so far.

Sitting pretty in the Chase standings. Can't ask for much more. :)

Here are the final list of automatic qualifiers for the All-Star Race.

Comrade Twelve
Al Cohallik
Benton Gale
Jace Hunter
Rob Nielsen
Bo Duke
Comrade Path
Patrick Hutt
Hawk Grey
Helen Wheels
Dexter Jackson Sr.
Avery Thomas
Red Neckanback

Jeremy Letto
Connor Root
Max Gresham
Jackson Pace
Bob Fulton
Russ Wheeler
Jack Topper
Chuck Long
Nile Kinnick
Brett Hawkins
Coy Duke
Kellen Killinger

All-Star Day
Schedule of Events

Race #1 - Truck Series Qualifying Race
-Winner advances to the All-Star Race

Race #2 - Cup Series Qualifying Race
-Winner advances to the All-Star Race

Race #3 - All-Star Race
-All-Star race will consist of 3 segments.

The 1st segment will be 20 laps long. The winner of this segment will receive a $25,000 bonus. Starting order for this segment will be a random draw.

The 2nd segment will be 20 laps long. The winner of this segment will receive a $50,000 bonus. Starting order for this segment will be a random draw.

The 3rd and final segment will be 20 laps long. The winner of this segment will receive a $250,000 bonus and be the Season 3 All-Star Race Winner. Starting order for this segment will be determined by the average finishing position of the first 2 segments.

If a driver cannot finish either of the 1st two segments they are eliminated from the event.

Will just hasn't been very good this year. He'll get the hang of it soon we hope.

All-Star Day

Truck Series Qualifying Race

Johnny Pace took the lead with only 2 laps remaining from Andrew Kizer to win the Truck Series Qualifying Race and head to the FOFC All-Star Race.

All-Star Day

Cup Series Qualifying Race

Benton Gale passed Mustafa Henderson with 2 laps left to get the spot in the All-Star Race.

All-Star Day

All-Star Race

Segment #1

After the random draw it was Coy Duke sitting on the pole and Connor Root 2nd. Coy led the race's first lap before Root was able to make the pass and after that point there was no catching the #39 car. Root led the final 19 laps of Segment #1 to take the victory. His teammate Max Gresham was 2nd, Coy Duke 3rd, Brett Hawkins 4th and Bo Duke 5th. Impressive showing for Truck drivers as they grabbed the 2nd, 3rd and 4th spots.

All-Star Day

All-Star Race

Segment #2

Again, like Segment #1, one driver dominated the 20 laps of action. This time it was Jackson Pace who got the pole after the random draw and led all 20 laps of racing. It seems like everyone is laying back waiting for the final shootout. Benton Gale was 2nd followed by Dexter Jackson Sr., Connor Root and Mustafa Henderson.

All-Star Day

All-Star Race

Segment #3 Lineup

Connor Root has earned the pole for the final 20 lap shootout after his performance in the first two segments. Jackson Pace will be on the outside pole.

All-Star Day

All-Star Race

Final Segment

Connor Root is just too good right now. After starting on the pole, he lost the lead on two different occasions but was able to get it right back both times and held off Jackson Pace to win the 2nd annual All-Star race. Jackson Pace finished 2nd followed by Brett Hawkins, Bo Duke and Mustafa Henderson.

In his last four races counting the all-star race, Root has 2 wins and 2 second place finishes.

A 13th place finish and a 5th place finish in the last 2 races have me firmly out of the bottom 5, for now. I guess I should have paid more attention in the offseason when it was time to change my stats, although I don't know how to improve Mike Schaplowsky. Sometimes he is a top 10 finisher, other times bottom 10. No consistency, has to have something to do with the different type of tracks.

As I admittedly know nothing about racing, my guy is pretty much a crap shoot.

Also, I am interested in putting a driver in the truck series as well, but I can't remember how the rules work as far as promotion/demotion, stuff like that. What's the max I can have in each series? Thanks for doing this. It's nice to actually be involved in a couple interactive dynasties where somebody else is in charge of them besides me!

You can have up to 2 drivers in the Truck Series as well as 2 in Cup so 4 maximum.

Root is having a sensational year so far, leading the points with a couple wins. Hopefully the good luck continues and the #39 team can continue their winning ways.

Whispers around the garage about steroids and the #39 team.

I'm at my brother's wedding for the weekend so no new races until Monday.

That's the first All-Star race without Stroker Ace. Sad times.

We're back at it today with the longest race of the season, the Coca-Cola 600.

Race #7 of 15 - Coca-Cola 600 Results
 

Blue Neckansack's #96 team has had a terrible Season 3, struggling all season and finding themselves in danger of possibly being demoted to the trucks. That all changed today as the #96 team put a great car together and led the race's final 36 laps as Blue passed Wheely McStephens to get the win. McStephens was 2nd followed by Avery Thomas, Rob Nielsen and Hawk Grey.

Connor Root leads the points by 1 over Lew Sifford. Defending champion Helen Wheels is 3rd. Only 3 more races until the playoffs.

1st Top 10 #HYPE!

2 in the playoffs. Need some solid races. It seems like the the #11 team always feels the pressure down the stretch though.

Mustafa's barely hanging on.

Race #8 of 15 - Cheez-It 355 Results
 

What a shocker from Watkins Glen today. After finishing 15th in the Truck Series race at Watkins Glen, D.J. Kennington stepped into the #61 Subway/Peak Ford Fusion for a surprise last second entrant into the Sprint Cup Series Cheez-It 355. Kennington went on to crush the field. He started on the pole and led 70 of the race's 90 laps in his first career Sprint Cup Series start. No other car could even stay close to Kennington. He lost the lead for a bit after pit stops but regained it after only a few laps. In 2nd today was Hawk Grey who keeps up his strong run this season. In 3rd was Jace Hunter followed by Hana Ginsberg and Magnus Nielsen. Kennington is next entered into a Sprint Cup race at Iowa.

Standings after Race #8 of 15
 

After a rough outing at Watkins Glen for Connor Root, Lew Sifford has taken back the points lead and has a healthy 23 point lead over Root. With only 2 races remaining until the playoff Sifford has essentially locked his spot up. As of today, the two wild card positions would go to the 11th and 12th place drivers putting the top 12 in the playoffs.

Bo Duke, sitting in 29th place, is in danger of missing the playoffs for the first time as he has struggled all season long. Wheely McStephens sits only 1 spot ahead of Duke and looks like he will miss the playoffs for the first time as well.

Al Cohallik, a playoff driver last season, is in danger of being demoted to the Truck Series unless he can turn his season around in the next 7 races.

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Well, I wasn't expecting that to happen!