2011 Racing Voting

Its back for 2012, and a hella alot different than last year. All series will be eligibel for this year instead of just NASCAR.

Voting will begin on November 21st.

Possible Returning Categories
Driver of the Year:(Name 1 in each series)
Team of the Year:(Name 1 in each series)
Reject of the Year:(Name 1 in each series)
Reject Team of the Year:(Name 1 in each series)
Tough Luck:(Name at least 3)
Turn-around Driver:(Name at least 3)
Hardest Hit:(Name at least 1)
Best Race:(Name at least 5)
Worst Race:(Name at least 5)
Most Exciting Finish:(Name at least 5)
Most Intense Rivalry[Formerly Best Rivals]:(Name at least 2)
Most Popular Driver:(Name 1 in each series)
Trevor Bayne Award(Biggest Upset):(Name at least 5)
Barnhart Award(Dumbest Call):(Name at least 2)
Dumbest Move:(Name at least 5)

I'll complete this later, but for now;
Driver of the Year: Dan Wheldon (RIP)

Driver of the Year:
Cup: Carl Edwards
Nationwide: Trevor Bayne
Trucks: James Buescher
Indycar: Dan Wheldon
F1: Sebeastian Vettel
V8: Shane Van Gisenberg

Team of the Year:
Cup: Roush-Fenway
Nationwide: Roush-Fenway
Trucks: RCR
Indycar: Ganassi
F1: Red Bull F1
V8: Team Vodafone

Reject of the Year:
Cup: Brian Vickers
Nationwide: Steve Wallace
Trucks: Todd Bodine
Indycar: Brian Barnhardt's Officiating
F1: Lewis Hamliton
V8: Jonathan Webb

Reject Team of the Year:
Cup: Ganassi
Nationwide: Turner Motorsports
Trucks: Kyle Busch Motorsports (On the sheer fact with Kyle Busch the team is horrible)
Indycar: KV Racing
F1: Williams
V8: HRT

Tough Luck:
1. Hildebrand losing the Indy 500 in the last turn
2. Allgaier running out of gas at Road America
3. Blaney getting spun out of contention for the win at Dega in the Spring

Turn-Around Driver:
1. Dan Wheldon
2. Brad Keselowski
3. Paul Menard

Hardest Hit: Everyone in the Vegas Indycar crash, Not counting that...
1. Audi's at Le Mans
2. Reutimann and Ragan at the Glen

Best Race:
1. Indy 500
2. Bathurst 1000
3. Canadian GP
4. Nationwide Montreal
5. Sprint Cup Glen

Worst Race:
1. Any Nascar Cookie Cutter
2. Any F1 Asian race (Might be one or two exceptions)
3. Coke Zero 400
4. Nationwide Glen
5. Any California race (Exception being last 3 laps of Cup race)

Most Exciting Finish:
1. Indy 500 Finish
2. Bathurst 1000 Finish
3. Canadian GP finish
4. Aaron 499 Finish
5. Sprint Cup Glen Finish

Most Intense Rivalry:
1. Kyle Busch vs KHI
2. Power vs Franchitti

Most Popular Driver:
Cup: Marcos Ambrose
Nationwide: Blake Koch
Truck: Norm Benning
Indycar: Dan Wheldon
F1: Vitaly Petrov
V8: Shane Van Gisbergen

Biggest Upset:
1. Regan Smith Darlington
2. Trevor Bayne Daytona
3. Ed Carpenter Kentucky
4. Sam Hornish Phoenix
5. Kids Eating Free at Dega

Dumbest Call:
1. New Hampshire Indycar
2. Some of the calls both Nascar and Indycar made this season

Dumbest Move:
1. Maryeve Dufault failing at spin turn at Montreal
2. Kennedy Lepaging Swindell at Dover
3, Liuzzi taking a shortcut in to 3 cars at Monza
4. Ragan choking away the Daytona 500
5. Castroneves wiping out his teammate at Long Beach

Driver of the Year:
Cup: Regan Smith
Nationwide: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Truck: Austin Dillon
IndyCar: Will Power

Team of the Year:
Cup: Stewart-Haas
Nationwide: Roush
Truck: RCR
IndyCar: Ganassi

Reject of the Year:
Cup: Michael Waltrip
Nationwide: Jason Leffler
Truck: Todd Bodine
IndyCar: E.J. Viso

Reject Team of the Year:

Cup: Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing
Nationwide: Turner Motorsports
Truck: Whatever Jennifer Jo Cobb's team is called.
IndyCar: K-V Racing Technologies

Tough Luck:

1. J.R. Hildebrand losing the Indy 500.
2. Elliott Sadler getting screwed by Jason Leffler.
3. Cole Whitt running out of gas at Texas.
4. Dale Earnhardt Jr. running out of gas in the Coke 600.

Turn-around Driver:(Name at least 3)

1. Tony Stewart
2. Brad Keselowski
3. Ed Carpenter

Hardest Hit:

1. David Reutimann and David Ragan at Watkins Glen (Cup)
2. Ana Beatriz at Kentucky (IndyCar)
3. Regan Smith at Talladega (Cup)
4. Morgan Shepherd and Jason Leffler at Phoenix (Nationwide) (Fall)
5. Ricky Carmichael at Dover (Trucks)
6. Clint Bowyer at Dover (Nationwide) (Spring)
7. Jeffery Earnhardt and James Buescher at Martinsville (Trucks) (Spring)

Best Race:

1. 2011 Indy 500
2. Cup Talladega (Fall)
3. Nationwide Montreal
4. Cup Watkins Glen
5. Trucks Texas (Fall)

Worst Race:

1. California in all series.
2. Cup Kentucky (400 mile piss break)
3. IndyCar New Hampshire (Rain + Oval = DEATH MODE ENGAEG!)
4. Coke Zero 400
5. Nationwide Watkins Glen

Most Exciting Finish:

1. 2011 Indy 500
2. IndyCar @ Kentucky
3. Aarons 499
4. Nationwide at Dover (Spring)
5. Nationwide at Iowa (Fall)

Most Intense Rivalry[Formerly Best Rivals]:

1. Power VS Franchitti
2. Kyle Busch VS KHI
3. Tony Stewart VS Carl Edwards for the title.

Most Popular Driver:

Cup: Trevor Bayne
Nationwide: Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
Trucks: Austin Dillon
IndyCar: J.R. Hildebrand for all the wrong reasons.


Biggest Upset:

1. Regan Smith at Darlington
2. Trevor Bayne at Daytona
3. Dan Wheldon at Indianapolis
4. Ed Carpenter at Kentucky
5. Paul Menard at Indianapolis

Dumbest Call:

1. IndyCar at New Hampshire.
2. NASCAR throwing a yellow on the last lap at Talladega (Nationwide)

Dumbest Move:

1. Jacques Villeneuve divebombing at Road America and Montreal (Nationwide)
2. Jason Leffler doucheing Elliott Sadler out of a championship (Nationwide)
3. David Ragan choking at the Daytona 500 (Cup)
4. Alex Kennedy takes a page out of Kevin Lepage's book (Nationwide)
5. Steven Wallace. 'Nuff said. (Nationwide)
6. Todd Bodine from Talladega to Martinsville. (Trucks)

Driver of the Year:
Tony Stewart [Cup]
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. [N'wide]
Austin Dillon [Trucks]
HILDEBRAND!!! [IndyCar]
Sebastian Vettel [F1]

Team of the Year:
Roush Racing (not Fenway) [Cup/N'wide]
Richard Childress Racing [Trucks] (KHI and RCR are the same.)
(Sadly) Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates [IndyCar]

Reject of the Year:
Vickers or Ragan [Cup]
Rusty's daughter [N'wide]
Norm Benning [Trucks]
Wade Cunningham [IndyCar]
Anybody who doesn't do as good as Red Bull [F1]

Reject Team of the Year:
K-Automotive Racing [Cup]
Turner Motorsports [N'wide]
Rick Ware Racing [Trucks]

Tough Luck:
1. Hildebrand crashing away the Indy 500 [IndyCar]
2. DAEL JEWNYUR running out of fuel in the Coke 600 [Cup]
3. Whitt running out of fuel on a restart at Texas [Trucks]
4. Anybody who's not Vettel [F1]

Turn-around Driver: Tony Stewart, Brad Keselowski [Cup]

Hardest Hit:
1. Reutimann at Watkins Glen (I was there! ) [Cup]
2. Bowyer at Dover [N'wide]
3. Kanaan in Baltimore practice [IndyCar]

Best Race:
Daytona 500 [Cup]
Any race that Danica crashed [N'wide]
Fall Talladega [Trucks]

Worst Race:
All 1.5 milers [NASCAR in general]
IZOD IndyCar World Championship [IndyCar]

Most Exciting Finish: Kentucky Indy 300 [IndyCar]

Most Intense Rivalry:
Kyle Busch vs. RCR [Cup/Trucks]
Steven Wallace vs. refraining from crashing [N'wide]
Power vs. Franchitti [IndyCar]

Most Popular Driver:
Trevor Bayne [Cup]
DANICA DANICA DANICA DANICA [N'wide]
Austin Dillon [Trucks]
HILDEBRAND!!! [IndyCar]

Biggest Upset:
1. Trevor Bayne winning the Daytona 500 [Cup]
2. Regan Smith winning the Southern 500 [Cup]
3. Dan Wheldon getting the Indy 500 win after finishing runner-up for 2 or 3 years in a row [IndyCar] (RIP NEVER FORGET)
4. Ed Carpenter getting his maiden win after so many years of trying [IndyCar]
5. Paul Menard STARTING THE EMPIRE at Indy [Cup]

Dumbest Call: Barnhart at New Hampshire [IndyCar]

Dumbest Move:
1. Jacques Villeneuve divebombing twice [N'wide]
2. #23 KENNEDY'D at Dover [N'wide]
3. Helio taking out both his teammates in the first race [IndyCar]
4. Brian Vickers bulldozing at Martinsville [Cup]
5. Steven Wallace [N'wide] (I had a reason for him, but he wrecked it.

Possible Returning Categories
Driver of the Year:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Dillon

Team of the Year:
Cup: Roush
Nwide: Roush
Trux: RCR

Reject of the Year:
Cup: Kyle Busch
Nwide: Kyle Busch
Trux: Kyle Busch

Reject Team of the Year:
Cup: Gibbs
Nwide: Gibbs
Trux: KBM

Tough Luck:
Dale Jr at Martinsville, and Charolette
Gordon at Indy
Burton at Dega

Turn-around Driver:
Tony Stewart
Marcos Ambrose
Kasey Kahne

Hardest Hit:
Ruetimann at The Glen
Smith at Dega

Best Race:
None.

Worst Race:
The Rest.

Most Exciting Finish:
Dega 1
Dega 2
Martinsville 1
Martinsville 2
Cocaine 600

Most Intense Rivalry[Formerly Best Rivals]:
Harvick vs Kryle
Dickers vs Kenseth
Dickers vs Stewart

Most Popular Driver:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Buescher

Biggest Upset:
Ragan at Daytona 2
Menard at Indy
Smith at Darlington
Ambrose at Glen
Stewart's Chase

Dumbest Call:
Phantom Yellows
Giving Brian Vickers a NASCAR license

Dumbest Move:
Kyle Busch punting Hornaday into ze wall.
Vickers wrecking Kenseth
Vickers wrecking Stewart
Vickers wrecking Ambrose
Vickers wrecking Kahne


I don't watch any other forms of major racing.

Nick399 wrote:

Possible Returning Categories
Driver of the Year:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Dillon

Team of the Year:
Cup: Roush
Nwide: Roush
Trux: RCR

Reject of the Year:
Cup: Kyle Busch
Nwide: Kyle Busch
Trux: Kyle Busch

Reject Team of the Year:
Cup: Gibbs
Nwide: Gibbs
Trux: KBM

Tough Luck:
Dale Jr at Martinsville, and Charolette
Gordon at Indy
Burton at Dega

Turn-around Driver:
Tony Stewart
Marcos Ambrose
Kasey Kahne

Hardest Hit:
Ruetimann at The Glen
Smith at Dega

Best Race:
None.

Worst Race:
The Rest.

Most Exciting Finish:
Dega 1
Dega 2
Martinsville 1
Martinsville 2
Cocaine 600

Most Intense Rivalry[Formerly Best Rivals]:
Harvick vs Kryle
Dickers vs Kenseth
Dickers vs Stewart

Most Popular Driver:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Buescher

Biggest Upset:
Ragan at Daytona 2
Menard at Indy
Smith at Darlington
Ambrose at Glen
Stewart's Chase

Dumbest Call:
Phantom Yellows
Giving Brian Vickers a NASCAR license

Dumbest Move:
Kyle Busch punting Hornaday into ze wall.
Vickers wrecking Kenseth
Vickers wrecking Stewart
Vickers wrecking Ambrose
Vickers wrecking Kahne


I don't watch any other forms of major racing.

All of your driver/team votes are rigged.

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

Voting will begin on November 21st.

LOL whoops.

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

Voting will begin on November 21st.

Casey Lester wrote:

Nick399 wrote:

Possible Returning Categories
Driver of the Year:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Dillon

Team of the Year:
Cup: Roush
Nwide: Roush
Trux: RCR

Reject of the Year:
Cup: Kyle Busch
Nwide: Kyle Busch
Trux: Kyle Busch

Reject Team of the Year:
Cup: Gibbs
Nwide: Gibbs
Trux: KBM

Tough Luck:
Dale Jr at Martinsville, and Charolette
Gordon at Indy
Burton at Dega

Turn-around Driver:
Tony Stewart
Marcos Ambrose
Kasey Kahne

Hardest Hit:
Ruetimann at The Glen
Smith at Dega

Best Race:
None.

Worst Race:
The Rest.

Most Exciting Finish:
Dega 1
Dega 2
Martinsville 1
Martinsville 2
Cocaine 600

Most Intense Rivalry[Formerly Best Rivals]:
Harvick vs Kryle
Dickers vs Kenseth
Dickers vs Stewart

Most Popular Driver:
Cup: Edwards
Nwide: Stenhouse
Trux: Buescher

Biggest Upset:
Ragan at Daytona 2
Menard at Indy
Smith at Darlington
Ambrose at Glen
Stewart's Chase

Dumbest Call:
Phantom Yellows
Giving Brian Vickers a NASCAR license

Dumbest Move:
Kyle Busch punting Hornaday into ze wall.
Vickers wrecking Kenseth
Vickers wrecking Stewart
Vickers wrecking Ambrose
Vickers wrecking Kahne


I don't watch any other forms of major racing.

All of your driver/team votes are rigged.

Too bad I can vote how I want...

GOMD

Driver of the Year: Sebastien Vettel

Team of the Year: Red Bull F1

Reject of the Year:
1 The Entire World Touring Car Championship
2.Brian Barnhardt's Officiating


Reject Team of the Year:
Earnhardt Ganassi Racing
Aston Martin LMP1 Program


Tough Luck:
1. Hildebrand losing the Indy 500 in the last turn

Turn-Around Driver:
1. Dan Wheldon
2. Brad Keselowski
3. Jeff Gordon

Hardest Hit:
1. Las Vegas Indycar
2. Both Audi's at Le Mans
3. Karl Reindler and Steve Owen, V8's at Barbagallo

Best Race:
1. Indy 500
2. Bathurst 1000
3. Canadian GP
4. 24 Hours of Le Mans
5. Petit Le Mans

Worst Race: Copying straight from Alta because I agree.
1. Las Vegas Indycar

Most Exciting Finish:
1. Indy 500 Finish
2. Bathurst 1000 Finish
3. Canadian GP finish
4. Aaron 499 Finish
5. GT2 Finish at ALMS Laguna Seca 6 hours
6. Overall finish at ALMS Road America.

Most Intense Rivalry:
1. Kyle Busch vs KHI
2. Hamilton vs. Massa in F1
3. (I know nobody here will get this but ill put it for the hell of it)
Neal vs. Plato in BTCC

Most Popular Driver:
Cup: Jeff Gordon
Nationwide: Kenny Wallace
Truck: Parker Kligerman
Indycar: Dan Wheldon
F1: Jenson Button
V8: Garth Tander
Other: Allan McNish

Biggest Upset:
1. Regan Smith Darlington
2. Trevor Bayne Daytona
3. Ed Carpenter Kentucky
4. Sam Hornish Phoenix
5. Audi beating Peugot at Le Mans with 1 car.

Dumbest Call:
1. New Hampshire Indycar

Dumbest Move:
1. Kyle Busch dumping Hornaday
2. Brian Vickers at Sonoma/Martinsville
3. David Ragan Daytona 500
4. Castroneves hitting everybody in early season.

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

Voting will begin on November 21st.

Navycook75 wrote:

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

VerizonGuy12 wrote:

Voting will begin on November 21st.

LOL. You also have 1911 posts.

This thread wins.

Might as well start it now tbh.

You're three days late, Mike.

Driver of the Year:

Sprint Cup - Jeff Gordon. Definitely turned his luck around this season.
Nationwide - Trevor Bayne. The boy definitely has potential, and not just because he's in a Roush car.
Trucks - Austin Dillon - Rookie of the Year and then a championship. There's only a few others I can recall ever having done that.
IndyCar - Dan Wheldon - Raced like a champ all season before his career was cut short.

I'm neutral on the topic of ARCA and Formula One.

Team of the Year:

Sprint Cup - Wood Bros. - For finally getting their car back in victory circle.
Nationwide - Roush Racing - Even for a low class series like this, Roush dominated all season.
Trucks - Richard Childress - More because of Childress owning Kyle Busch's sorry a** than the team's performance, to tell you the truth.
F1 - Red Bull - I was hoping I wouldn't have to say this, but Vettel won just about everything this season. IT'S A CONSPIRACEEEEEEEE.

Reject of the Year:

Sprint Cup - Michael Waltrip - Drove like a tool all season. He could've hit everything but the pace car.
Nationwide - Tie between Steven Wallace and Alex Kennedy - Steven Wallace for obvious reasons, but Kennedy's move at Dover was more retarded than anything Wallace could do.
Trucks - Kyle Busch - Second race at Texas, 'nough said.
IndyCar - EJ Viso - Again, for obvious reasons.
ARCA - Wayne Peterson - Normally I would have said Milka Duno, but Peterson didn't finish any of the races he started this season.

Reject Team of the Year:

Nationwide - Rick Russell - Also known as Mr. I <3 S&P.
ARCA - Any car owned by Wayne Peterson - See above.

Tough Luck:

- Dale Earnhardt, Jr. -- Actually, not so much.
- Jamie McMurray. Went from winning races at NASCAR's best racetracks to nothing.
- Trevor Bayne. If it wasn't for that infection he got early this season, we could've seen something else.

Turn-around Driver:

- Jeff Gordon. As mentioned before, went from nothing to a handful of wins and an otherwise successful season.
- Marcos Ambrose - It took him long enough just to win one race.
- Paul Menard - Tell me, why do they call him the Empire?

Hardest Hit:

- Clint Bowyer's wreck at Dover in the Nationwide Series.

Best Race:

- 2011 Aaron's 499 - We went to the end of the race without a green-white-checkered? WHAAAAAT?!
- 2011 Southern 500 - It's the combination of Regan Smith finally getting the win he should've gotten three years ago, and then Kevin Harvick giving Kyle Busch what he deserved.
- 2011 Bucyrus 200 - That race probably couldn't have gotten any more chaotic, but it was a thrill to watch.

Sorry, that's all I got.

Worst Race:

- Any race that was rained out.
- Any race Kyle Busch won.

Most Exciting Finish:

- 2011 Ford 400
- 2011 Aaron's 499 - The one thing that ruined it for me was the fact Jimmie Johnson had won.
- 2011 Coca Cola 600 - We all shat our pants coming out of Turn 4.
- Any race that was won on a fuel gamble.
- Any race that had a first time winner (who wasn't David Ragan).

Most Intense Rivalry:

- Kyle Busch vs. Kevin Harvick
- Kyle Busch vs. Ron Hornaday
- Kyle Busch vs. Richard Childress
- Kyle Busch vs. NASCAR
- Kyle Busch vs. the World

Most Popular Driver:

Sprint Cup - JEWNYUR!!!1!!2
Nationwide - Kyle Busch
Trucks - Austin Dillon
IndyCar - Danica Patrick. Definitely ESPN's favorite.
ARCA - Ty Dillon
F1 - Sebastian Vettel. Only guy to win anything this season.

Biggest Upset:

- Trevor Bayne's storybook ending to the Daytona 500. First guy to win that race in a Wood Bros. car since 1976, youngest person to win it, won it the day after his 20th birthday, and he won it in his second Cup start. What a mouthful!
- David Ragan fluking the Coke Zero 400 (and Matt Kenseth had nothing to do with it!). We may not have liked it, but it's probably the first and last time we'll ever see Ragan win a race.
- Regan Smith winning the race he should've won three years ago.
- Mike Conway winning an IndyCar Series race after that massive wreck at Indy last year.
- Sam Hornish, Jr.'s win at Phoenix in the Nationwide Series. I honestly didn't think he still ran in NASCAR.

Dumbest Call:

- Most any call NASCAR has made this season.
- Whoever's idea it was in IndyCar to race in the rain on an oval track.

Dumbest Move:

- Brian Vickers' sabotage against most everybody in Sprint Cup.
- Kyle Busch dumping Ron Hornaday for something he himself did.
- Elliott Sadler basically screwing over his and everybody else's chances at the Nationwide title in one wreck.
- Kurt Busch driving like an all around tool at Talladega.
- Anything Michael Waltrip has done.

Matt....Wayne only ran like 1 race...

kensethfan wrote:

Nick399 wrote:

Matt....Wayne only ran like 1 race...

http://racing-reference.info/drivdet/peterwa01/2011/A

He led 0 laps.

Matt, are you so sure Steven won't outfail Kennedy someday? And about Ambrose, you had to see him take this long to win because he only has 2 chances to win all year.

Casey Lester wrote:

Matt, are you so sure Steven won't outfail Kennedy someday? And about Ambrose, you had to see him take this long to win because he only has 2 chances to win all year.

I know this is off topic, but dammit Casey, everytime I see your avatar, I think you're Navy.

LOL. It's just that picture was the funniest thing I've ever seen. I had to make it my avatar.