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After much hype, much anticipation, NASCAR's Coca-Cola 600 was derailed by bad weather and controversy.
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Man, I feel bad for Kyle Larson. This whole month was all talking about Kyle Larson, attempting to run both the Indy 500 and Coke 600 in the same day. Looked fast at Indy, speeding penalty ruined finish. Flys to Charlotte, looked like the 5 car was fast even with Allgaier in it, makes it back…. and it rains and NASCAR calls the race. Absolutely brutal for Larson.
Dude led laps in the Indy 500. Hard to say that sucks don’t ya think? As days go, strapping on an Indy car for an afternoon seems basically awesome to anybody with a brain. Come on man.
Really sucks that it got called had a couple people watching with me at a bar when the rain started
Yep i was there in Charlotte. Was having a hell of a time until the rain. I was so pissed that they didn’t start it up after waiting over an hour. But hey, going to a race is always fun.
I was there, too, and it sucked.
Yea but why hell make race so late .. so idiots can watch Indy … FFS full race could be run if started earlier .. besides no excuse for not running the rest of the race after drying track or noon on Monday
They’ve never ran on Monday if the race was past the halfway point. They only run on Monday if they can’t run at all on sunday…or if it rains before halfway. It’s always been that way…don’t see them changing it now.
I was there as well
@@roblapouple7552They want the viewers to themselves. They know Indy will take away some of their viewers.
My dad and I were at the Coke 600 in-person tonight and there was too many people to count who said they had NO idea why the race did not continue. There was still a huge crowd waiting for the race to continue. Everyone was super bummed and everyone started booing when the PA announcer said the race was official. If we feel bad as fans, I can’t imagine how Kyle Larson is feeling since weather affected both his races.
Charlotte “quiet time”
They said race would have went on until 3 a.m. would be too late. But I think there was more to it! NASCAR you cannot trust anymore! Always respected NASCAR as a sport but lately I am not sure!!!
Kyle was awesome.
I am an Elliot fan first but love all the Hendrick drivers. I was so disappointed that Kyle had the penalty.
@@mtredeker7294151 laps to go would have been 2 hours max
This was all ways my favorite weekend for watching races. Watch the Indy 500, Coke 600, been doing that for years. Right now I’m just very disappointed and watching classic races and Nascar youtubers to try to get my racing fix.
Mother Nature hates Motorsports so much that she prevented Larson from running all 1100 miles
You know what. At least it had some decent racing, even if it didn’t go the full distance. The Monaco GP actually sucked for the whole thing, and I say that as a European. Indy was definitely the star of the day though.
We had a prediction game on a Discord server since there were so many big races. I don’t normally watch NASCAR, but I watched this and enjoyed it while it lasted. Might have to catch a few more of these.
https://youtu.be/n-8wJdjvjIU
Monaco is a glorified parade
Monaco always sucks.
That was gonna be a crazy race but mother nature just had to show up didn’t she
https://youtu.be/n-8wJdjvjIU
Could u imagine watching…. the whole indy 500 with no commercials and then tuning in to that joke of a broadcast from nascar and fox.
https://youtu.be/n-8wJdjvjIU
My brain is so conditioned to this point, when they said with like 60 laps to go that there was no more ads unless a caution, I couldn’t comprehend lol
@MikeShreds. it’s unreal. I have been a fan since 1992. After watching the indyvrace I seen how much nascar really feels about their fans. Well let’s be real. Us fans have been getting the big number ones from nascar for years.
Maybe we had different broadcasts lol but my Feed had just as many ads
Fox literally came back from commercial break, just to back to commercials. The Indy 500 was such a nice race to watch, because there wasn’t an ad every 5 minutes.
Never in my life have I heard about humidity affecting the decision to call the race
We’ve had fog as the deciding factor before
Had the humidity problem at our local track years ago. It happens.
They race in Florida, sounds like bs lol
Vortex theory would’ve taken care of the fog look up dirt tracks geez do it all the time in East Tennessee the fog would’ve lifted
@@Redslayer86 it would be like 1am at the earliest that theyd start back going putting the finish around 3am. bs or not, they werent getting the race in last night or today.
I was there at the race myself.. I was super pissed how they ended the race.. I waited so long after the rain to be told that it wasn’t happening. I’m a huge Kyle Larson fan and I didn’t even get to see him race at the Coca Cola 600
Blame Kyle for going to stupid fkn Indy .. all the other NASCAR drivers got to run a few laps ..
Kyle chose Indy fans over NASCAR fans.
Ok makes sense now all the Larson haters must be libtards because you all act the same what he is upset about the most is staying at the track after wet and cold to finish a race in which his driver is expected to drive for NASCAR to call the race and leave everyone in the dark it’s common sense man I’m a supervisor at work in the back of my mind any thing we do I got to kinda know how long it takes or how long it might take to know if I can get it done with a day 2 shifts or the weekend nascar knew exactly how long it would take also they have rain tires and stuff but nascar don’t have to worry about it much longer nascar or killing nascar the same way Joe Biden is trying to kill America
Kyle choosing Indy over Charlotte was the right decision though.
@roblapouple7552 Kyle will probably have a good 15ish more opportunities to race the 600 though. While he may very well attempt the double again, the Indianapolis 500 can’t be guaranteed ever again. And it’s still the greatest race in the world
In 2001 I witnessed Tony Stewart finish 6th at the Indy 500 and go on to finish 3rd at the Coke 600. He remains to be the only one to run all 1100 miles. I knew that was a big deal when I saw it. I don’t think I fully realized HOW bid a deal it was. Today was a reminder.
So what’s that have to do with the damn weather that screwed Larson
@@aaronlewellen5Larson looked human in the Indy car ! Was a good learning experience though.
And that was when there were far less similarities between the two. You had the much more dangerous cars that were just flying in Indy Car and the Cup Cars were unrestricted but not IRS.
@@aaronlewellen5 nothing. Maybe your addiction to larson is the problem???
@@ThatsBadTV Don’t know what you truly consider as “looking human”, but it was his first ever attempt at the Indy 500 and he was running 8 positions ahead of the guy that finished 2nd and almost won when he got his speeding penalty. Take out that speeding penalty and Larson had a legitimate shot at winning the race.
Once again this just Proves my Point, Halfway is not a Good Marker it needs to be 2/3. How can you call a Race Complete at HALFWAY Congress Requires a 2/3 (Which is Considered an Actual Majority) and we should too.
2/3 is a supermajority and it’s not for everything. They pass bills with simple majority.
And PEDO joe can veto.
@@fuelvoltsTrue, but for race fans, halfway is a big money loss as you get half of what you paid for.
Figured YouTube would delete my comment about our GARBAGE PRESIDENT joe biden. LET’S GO BRANDON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or at least make it a case by case basis. 151 laps to go at CHARLOTTE the home track when the next day is a holiday anyway. Just finish it Monday, I mean 151 laps is longer than the truck race and 75% of the xfinity race
The one Time everyone is off Work the Next day and they call it
Nascar needs to drop FOX
@@midwesttrainchasers8587 what has fox have to do with it
@stickmanguy5583 fox didn’t want the coverage to go past their curfew
@@stickmanguy5583 FOX literally told NASCAR to end it. NASCAR was gonna run the race again, hence why drivers were told to report to their cars 15 minutes… shortly before they called it. FOX has got to go!
KB – Shows how great Kurt Busch was and never got any credit for his double.
Tony Stewart was even more impressive in 2001
https://youtu.be/n-8wJdjvjIU
Things lined up better
I can’t agree with you more. Things just were lined up better.
Shout out to Justin Allgaier for driving Larson’s car to 13th. It’s so disappointing that Larson didn’t get to drive in the 600.
As a NASCAR fan. As soon as Indy got rain delayed. I focused 100% on Indy and didn’t even think about Charlotte. Best day ever what a race. If Larson hadn’t missed that shift and got that pit road penalty. He would have been in contention for the win. Mind boggling
LMAO no he was never in contention. You Nascar fans are hilarious. I love how your two excuses are things he messed up on lmfao. “If the quarterback wouldn’t of thrown the game losing interception, he would have won the game” Is basically what you just said. Delusion, 18th place and people are saying he was close hahahahahahahahhahahahahaha
Fox couldn’t wait for those Big Bang re runs. Never in the 35 years of watching Nascar have I heard humidity as an excuse.
To be fair, Humidity could affect the ability to dry the track.
@@drummerbob10 Yeah that would be great if it was actually true. People at the track have posted pictures from shortly after they announced the race was over that showed the track was nearly completely dry.
I don’t watch Indy Car for the most part but since Larson was racing I watched Indy. One thing I noticed is that Indy Car can actually pass on the track and doesn’t have to make passes in the pits. NASCAR could learn from this, but I doubt they will.
I told my dad they need to give Cup cars back their horsepower. Indy sucks for NASCAR, but if you give them power, they can pass even there.
What boggles my mind, is how we can go nearly two hours with the guys in the Charlotte booth, yapping non-stop, talking to a bunch of different drivers, with ZERO commercial breaks… But apparently NASCAR races need commercials in the middle of green-flag racing, where we regularly miss passes for the lead, and crazy wrecks…
God I can’t wait for FOX’s piece of the schedule to be over.
That’s just Fox thinking it’s still 2005, when it’s not anymore
Good catch re-FOX, maybe they don’t get advertisers $ when they’re not racing?