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Harveygod
Jan 4, 2014

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VikingSkull posted:

tell that to Casey Mears' career

Mercy killing doesn't count.

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L_Harrison posted:

Yeah but Kyle Busch wins races. Tony Stewart has a good day when he finishes one spot ahead of Danica.

Yes, and winning races is very important.

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I like Biffle. He has everything working against him: he's too old, has no connections, and is weird-looking. And yet, he's managed to accomplish quite a bit in a sport that values youth, connections and attractiveness. It's genuinely impressive.

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JRM can't field cars in the cup series due to the 4-team cap.

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VikingSkull posted:

There's zero stopping Jr. from leaving Hendrick and joining JRM

gets around both the cap and the current driver issues

That actually sounds not unfeasible. On that note, who owns the number 8 now?

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CBJSprague24 posted:

If anyone held the rights to it, it would be Ganassi, because they own what's left of DEI.

Then again, he would probably take 88 with him and Hendrick would bring the 25 back. That number has a lot of significance with Rick because it was the car his dad owned.

That's what I figured would happen should they go that route.

I was also under some impression that there was some atypical dealings with the DEI/Ganassi merger. Theresa stopped showing up so they dropped the Earnhardt name. That seemed strange enough to me to suggest that maybe they didn't merge all of their intellectual properties. But I have no idea and can't back that up beyond "it just seemed different," so you're probably right.

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BMB5150 posted:

So I have family come out here who knows NASCAR and sometimes watches, mainly Sprint Cup watched the Xfinity race and probably the most proud thing I've heard as a fan. My cousin said "Michael Waltrip sounds very gay." I was very proud of hearing that.

My wife said the same thing when she started watching. This actually endeared him to her (or is it her to him?).

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VikingSkull posted:

I see him like 10 times every time I go to the race track, regardless of the track or type of car

hat, glasses, mustache, Goodwrench jacket, he's piss poor at hide and seek just saying

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Trump and Kim Jong Brian actually match up well together. They inherited all their money and their own endeavors have been failures.

This is timed perfectly with their still-active search for a new title sponsor, which I'm sure won't be affected by this at all. Look forward to Super-Chase 5.0 to determine the winner of the 2017 Trump Cup.

I can imagine Sprint is glad that their contract is over this year.

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VikingSkull posted:

45 minutes from NYC with direct rail access bro, it was gonna be a crazy facility

Makes sense. Imagine if they put a track next to LA, it would sell out at least 2 races. It might even warrant booting a solid racetrack and a crown jewel from the schedule.

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Seriously though, I'm sorry for you that it didn't get made. You would have at least enjoyed it after if the rest of the city lost interest.

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CBJSprague24 posted:

Ah yes, TRAC.

I think you're right about preventing a split. What other stock car series are even out there which would be comparable aside from ARCA or whatever ASA's top class is now?

None right now. It seems preemptive to me. NASCAR's not going away anytime soon, but the ratings and attendence have been declining long enough that maybe they're worried that eventually someday someone else competing with them won't be impossible like it is now.

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kidcoelacanth posted:

MWR closed down, dude.

So then one was available. Try to keep up.

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Jan 4, 2014

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Possibly Chicken posted:

Chase had probably never thought for himself once in his life.

quote:

At 20...

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Jan 4, 2014

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CBJSprague24 posted:

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I remember watching Kenseth punt Smoke at Rockingham in '98 to get a win in a blank Monte Carlo with a generic firesuit and thinking "Well, that's cool, but is he going to go anywhere without sponsorship?".

He actually had a little unpaid Lycos decal on the back to thank them for sponsoring an earlier race.

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Jan 4, 2014

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"It's okay, Little Tony. I have a great brain."

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Smokey posted:

The son and daughter of Bill Jr., I don’t know them. I’ve heard the daughter (Lesa France Kennedy) is sharp and the son is an rear end in a top hat. My boy Sam went to high school with Brian, and he seconded his rear end in a top hat rating.

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VikingSkull posted:

This is the same organization that uses clips of Kyle Larson's car spraying debris in the crowd as a marketing tool

That's a little different, since Larson didn't intend to fly into the fence.

Kenseth's wreck and The Fight were people choosing to do something. Then NASCAR said "Don't do that again!" and "Come see people do those things we've told them not to do! Quintessential!"

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tater_salad posted:

I too would pay money for a second gms hat just to support the tram. poo poo I'm thinking of buying the silvsrado in iracing so I can run the allegiant air scheme and slap a goon car logo on the tailgate.

Here's what I've been using:


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Alain Post posted:

My favorite part is that nobody in the press was allowed to say it raced like poo poo until the Gen6, when all of a sudden everyone acted like they were saying the CoT like poo poo all along, and that NASCAR was so smart to change it.

brian_france.txt

Also the same thing with the top-35 rule. "Good thing we got rid of that convoluted provisional system."

Same people a few years later: "Good thing they're bringing back provisionals. The fastest cars should start every week."

Same people a few years later: "Good thing we got franchising."

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Remember when they used a cable-suspended camera and it failed and fell into the race and then they stopped using it?

:unsmigghh:

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VikingSkull posted:

they are secretly turning Bristol into a giant laser weapon IMO



The last 24 races have not been really exciting.

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I think he chose something like "Lady in Red" a few years ago. There was some other live driver interview and he stopped and asked "what's that?"

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e- Vickers...in...Dillon...Puts...kink in my Fantasy...
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Fauxhawk Express posted:

I don't really watch racing anymore but lol at all the pics of empty seats on twitter.
Every race matters.™

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VikingSkull posted:

allow me to complain about empty seats in a series that funds its races via TV and owns the tracks outright

About that...

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VikingSkull posted:

the thing that's gonna kill NASCAR is their inability to "get" the internet

This. I also want to complain that ARCA doesn't stream races not broadcast on TV. Like, why not? How much would a few cameras and a skeleton crew really cost?

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ayn rand hand job posted:

Tony comes back and Prince dies :tinfoil:

Come to think of it, has anyone ever seen Prince and Chyna in the same place at the same time?

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You know, Dale Jr is a cool guy and all, but I sort of hope he's the one who gets killed/deformed just to spite NASCAR.

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VikingSkull posted:

crosspost from AI



Netcode!:argh:

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Slickdrac posted:

Something about Bowyer just bugs them and then they need to scratch that itch.

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Stay safe restrictor plate ghost.

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CactusWeasle posted:

Take everyone's HANS device away and you'll eliminate most of the dumb race ending drivers

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Robby Gordon Glove-Shooting guns to bring out yellow flags.

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CBJSprague24 posted:

Add a Nitrous boost for the three most popular drivers in each race.

In other news, there may be a format change coming to the All-Star Race.

https://twitter.com/mikejoy500/status/727874661116215296

I liked when they lined up the final segment by average finish of all segments. It helped that Kurt Busch was really exciting to watch that night.

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CBJSprague24 posted:

They have to mix it up somehow, because NASCAR Imitates Football is boring as poo poo.

All Star: Rocket League. :getin:

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kidcoelacanth posted:

The All-Star race is ultimately meaningless so they can gently caress around with it as much as they want as far as I'm concerned.
This.

mearn posted:

If anything it needs to be more ridiculous.
Absolutely this.

I think they should also give the defending NXS and Truck champions each a spot.

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soggybagel posted:

I had to watch this race for work yesterday. As a NASCAR outsider the 20 minute caution is so stupid.

Also the sequence where a truck ran out of gas, blocked the pit entrance so trucks had to do another lap, to another truck running out of gas was real high quality.

Similar to drivers' development schedules, you should start by watching ARCA races.

In fact, just watch ARCA races as it's all downhill from there.

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Does she still own that Garage-mahal?

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This should be the first thing in the OP.

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Possibly Chicken posted:

HEY

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MEEEEEE?

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Still better than 2004:

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:black101:EVERYTHIN ABOWT U!



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