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who drives for Hynes in the Super Truck series, flew
who drives for Hynes in the Super Truck series, flew
in Pony-Like Screenshots Tue Sep 24, 2019 10:59 amby corse178 • 1.660 Posts
Every NFL team begins the season with hope. We never know when a 4-12 team will suddenly turn things around the next year by discovering a magical rookie quarterback. Of course, we also dont know when an 11-5 team will suddenly encounter a cascade of injuries that drops them to the bottom of the league.Two?games into the season, however, and the picture has already become much clearer. Fans often overreact to how well or how badly teams play early in the season, but we absolutely dont overreact to how important those initial wins and losses are in the standings. Those games have the biggest impact on changing our expectations for which teams will make the postseason. Sixty-one?percent of teams that start 2-0 will make the playoffs, compared with 41 percent of 1-1 teams and just 10 percent of 0-2 teams.So we know that 2-0 teams have helped themselves immensely with early-season wins. But which teams have helped or hurt themselves most? To answer that question, we turned to the 50,000 season simulations we do each week for the Football Outsiders playoff odds report, and we compared this weeks simulations with those we did two weeks ago before the 2016 regular season began. You can find the full playoff odds report on?FootballOutsiders.com, and a full explanation of the simulation at the end of this article.Heres a look at the five teams that have seen their playoff odds improve the most and the five teams that have seen their odds drop the most?in the first two weeks of the season.Better odds1. Philadelphia EaglesOdds before season: 26.2 percent Odds now: 49.0 percentNo team has improved its playoff odds more than Philadelphia, in part because, according to Football Outsiders numbers, no team has played better than Philadelphia in the first two weeks. Of course, thats before opponent adjustments, which we dont apply to our metrics until after Week 4. Cleveland and Chicago arent the toughest?teams to play. But even after we account for the quality of those teams, these Philadelphia wins will still look impressive. Adidas Superstar Pink Australia . The Lightning are 2-0 so far on a four-game road trip, giving the club five straight wins as the guest and improving Tampas away record this season to 11-8-2. NMD R2 Australia . -- Five former Kansas City Chiefs players who were on the team between 1987 and 1993 filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming the team hid and even lied about the risks of head injuries during that time period when there was no collective bargaining agreement in place in the NFL. http://www.nmdaustraliasale.com/ultra-boost-shoes-australia/4.html . Tracey comes to the Blue Bombers after spending over a decade with Queens University. Most recently he was the schools assistant football coach. Adidas Superstar Black Australia . Schenn scored the game-winning goal and added two assists to lead the Philadelphia Flyers to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames at the Scotiabank Saddledome on Tuesday. Ultra Boost Clima Australia .C. -- Manny Malhotra had two goals and an assist, leading the Carolina Hurricanes to a 6-3 win over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday. Young race drivers know no fear. Sara Price takes that to another level. The 17-time motocross national champion is oblivious to breakneck speeds, gravity-defying jumps and, if anyone was wondering, the credentials of her competitors.That became abundantly clear earlier this summer during the IndyCar weekend in Toronto when Price made a jaw-dropping impression as the first woman to compete in the Speed Energy Stadium Super Trucks Series.Most who drive the high-flying Super Trucks for the first time are content to keep the off-road beasts from taking a bad roll. Price, in the second race of a weekend doubleheader, bolted to first on the opening lap, taking the lead when former Champ Car and IndyCar star Paul Tracy overshot a corner and plowed his truck into a tire barrier.If Price knew who Tracy was, she apparently didnt care.What I would say is, Paul Tracy knows who Sara Price is, said Bill Hynes, the team owner/driver who has given Price a full-time ride in the series.Price, who turned 24 this month, races again this weekend in the Sand Sports Super Show in Costa Mesa, California. She wound up eighth and ninth (out of 12) in her debut in Toronto and, and in her first start with UFD Racing last month on The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway, finished a solid fifth and sixth. Each Super Trucks weekend features two races.?Price, a one-time beauty pageant contestant, said shes exactly where she wants to be.This is the coolest thing right now in off-road or anything of its sort, she said. Theyre trucks that are jumping the biggest things you can ever imagine. Getting here was in the back of my mind for a while, and sometimes I was like, Man, how am I going to make it happen? And then [sponsor] BitTorrent stepped up to get me my first race, and after my first race, Team United Fiber and Data signed me for the rest of the year and all of 2017.The daughter of an off-road racer and brother of a motocross racer, Price began racing at age 8. She started collecting motocross championships before long and became the first female factory driver for Kawasaki and an X Games medalist.When she turned to four wheels, she became a force racing UTVs (Utility Terrain Vehicles) and other off-road machines. In fact, it was at a UTV race in Costa Mesa two years ago that she caught the eye of Robby Gorddon, the former longtime IndyCar and NASCAR driver and off-road champion who owns the Super Truck Series.dddddddddddd.She actually led that race and was going to win it until she had an axle break or something like that, Gordon recalled. You know, Ive been watching Sara for a while from motorcycles to the UTV side of things. I think shes one of the better female drivers weve seen in a long time.Gordon called Price after that Costa Mesa UTV race and told her he wanted her in the Super Truck series. A sponsorship deal fell through, though.He had a falling out with the company that was going to fund it, so it didnt happen right then and there, Price said. But it sparked a thing in my brain where it was like, Oh man, I really want to do this.Price found her own sponsor for the Toronto race and made her own break. She was so impressive that weekend that Paul Morris, an Australian V8 Supercar Series veteran who drives for Hynes in the Super Truck series, flew her to Australia the next week to put her through some testing.Soon after, Morris called Hynes from Down Under and said UFD Racing needed to sign her.We were about to do a deal with [accomplished veteran] P.J. Jones, and we had a decision to make, Hynes said. There were a couple of other drivers in the mix, but she, fair and square, beat them out. Shes the driver we wanted in the truck. Shes not the female driver, just the driver.Price immediately justified the showing with her poised run at Charlotte, on a course with a massive over-under jump featuring one lane of traffic flying over another. As Hynes tells it, two-time NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion Matt Crafton tried the jump one time, got out of his Super Truck and said you couldnt pay him to try it again.Hynes is quick to debunk any notion that signing Price was about publicity.You might see pink on her truck, but shes going to put a bumper on you, he said. Shes going to race you like every other racer in the series. You mess with her, she has all the tools to pay you back.Shes going to be a great teammate for me and Paul. The three of us are going to work well together, and were going to get all of us on the podium. Itll be fun for sure. ' ' '
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