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With all the talk of William Byron being an EA character come to life, Alex Bowman's story is pretty incredible itself when you stop and think about it.mischief posted:I'm not thanking her for a drat thing until she gets naked. Well, I mean: CactusWeasle posted:Is this like the time she didnt win pole for Daytona and the next day 'accidentally' posted a skin shot on twitter E- Have the hand it to FOX with probably 8 hours of coverage on the network before it's all said and done. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 19:25 on Feb 18, 2018 |
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Mahoning posted:I was a huge NASCAR fan from like 95 to somewhere around a decade ago. I keep trying to get back into it but every year I turn on the Daytona 500 and everyone has different sponsors, different numbers, and there’s like 20 new drivers. It’s so inaccessible. I agree with Blaney and Wallace. Also Kyle Larson. Go all three of them today. Also Stenhouse for the comedy.
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Jimmebot done, Chase out, Danica's career over, Bowyer down a cylinder, Blaney leads? A Good Race.
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Feb 18, 2018 22:58
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iospace posted:Danica doesn't seem upset with what happened, which is nice for once. I didn't see the interview but she's been pretty checked out all week.
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Feb 18, 2018 23:03
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God damnit. Honk my Dong, Austin.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:44
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https://twitter.com/bobpockrass/status/965622960588492806 Dale's Tweet is in Korean. 
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Feb 19, 2018 19:21
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The 36 chartered cars are the only ones entered for Atlanta. Harvick and Mikey got their wish.iwentdoodie posted:The only reason she's doing this is her agent talked her into it. Any argument about her loving racing was nixed by her own words. I'm beginning to wonder how much her agents have pulled the strings over the years and how in control of her own career she really has been. I've always seen her as an incredibly savvy marketer/business person and envisioned her as someone largely running the show, but now I'm curious. In other words, it seems like the agents wanted more to do with the double than she does. E- I spel gud. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 02:41 on Feb 20, 2018 |
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Feb 20, 2018 02:37
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I also thought of the 10 winning in Danica's swan song and that would've been the best subplot they wouldn't have brought up.Boomer The Cannon posted:If we're going to have the Xfinity series basically mirror the Cup series, and have the rules packages as close as they are, why not get all crazy and turn Cup/Xfinity into an A/B tour, with the top 5 Xfinity teams from Saturday* getting a set of tires and spots 37-41 in Sunday's race? Alternately, you keep the Buschwacker rides eligible and, when they advance, they must run an under-contract development driver in the car. Failure to comply (or something like if they don't run Top 20) means you can't run Buschwackers when you go back to NXS. 
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Feb 20, 2018 03:10
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https://twitter.com/danielmcfadin/status/965641597844148224 Mother of God.
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Smithfield is back with Petty, getting on the Bubba Bandwagon while the gettin's good. Six races as primary on the 43: http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2018/story/_/id/22518809/smithfield-sponsor-six-races-richard-petty-motorsports
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I was spoiled having nice, organized lists of drivers to choose from in the fantasy game which we don't have this year, so I'm making unofficial ones based off last year's standings. Feel free to use these as a guide if it helps organize them: -A-list: Truex, Kyle, Harvick, Keselowski, Elliott, Hamlin, Larson, Blaney, Johnson, Logano (in place of Kenseth and because he feels like he fits here) -B-list: A. Dillon, McMurray, Stenhouse, Kurt, Kahne, Newman, Bowyer, Jones, Suarez, Bayne, Menard, T. Dillon, Buescher, Almirola (in place of Jr for the same reasons as Logano on the A) -C-list: Byron, Bubba (as rookies because that's how Yahoo did it), Bowman, McDowell, Dinger, Ragan, Cassill, DiBenedetto, Whitt, Gaulding, Sorenson, Earnhardt, Cope, the field. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Feb 21, 2018 |
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Feb 21, 2018 17:43
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Jeff Gluck did a good sitdown with Mike Joy on how he got into broadcasting and this was one of the highlights for me:quote:Many of the FOX management were former CBS people, because FOX Sports was started when they got the NFL contract from CBS, so they absorbed a lot of those people. So as 2000 rolled around, CBS pretty much assumed that I would move with the NASCAR property to FOX. I'm curious as to who he's talking about. Ken Squier and Eli Gold were "company men" from MRN, but so were Joy and AB. I remember reading Rick Allen auditioned for it and didn't get it, but he was an outsider. http://jeffgluck.com/mike-joy-fox-sports-interview-how-i-got-here/
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exploded mummy posted:Chris Myers didn't do PBP at that time right I don't think so. I seem to remember him saying the plan for him was to be the pre-race host all along and that he thought he and Jeff Hammond would be in a studio in LA before finding out he would actually be at the track. They actually used him as a pit reporter for an ARCA race in 2001 when the A-team went to Kentucky.
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https://twitter.com/bobpockrass/status/967066410278162437 "I made a joke on a podcast and you referenced it in an interview YOU CAN'T PLAY WITH US ANYMORE!"
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https://twitter.com/DaleJr/status/968087124481363968 Oh MAN, is that tempting avatar material if I ever decide to get rid of Torts...
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I AM ROBERT YATES. HOW DOES I PIT CREW MANAGEMENT? https://www.nascar.com/video/franchise/all-videos/unusual-racing-story-slugger/ TL;DR- Slugger Labbe, at the time the front tire changer for Dale Jarrett, was named crew chief for Kenny Irwin in 1998 at Atlanta. Yates, Labbe, and Todd Parrott didn't realize they hadn't replaced Labbe with a new tire changer on the 88 crew until they were on the airplane to Atlanta, so Labbe did both during the race. 
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Feb 27, 2018 19:36
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Jeff Gordon would entertain the idea of running a truck at Martinsville: https://nesn.com/2018/02/jeff-gordon-teases-return-to-nascar-driving-but-with-one-condition/
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Feb 28, 2018 14:43
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Galaxy Motorsports and WCW were clearly meant for each other in 2000. http://racing-reference.info/showblog?id=3198
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I think we need a Good Dale Jr. Tweets thread at this point: https://twitter.com/NASCARONFOX/status/969973105849384960 https://twitter.com/DaleJr/status/970161560424452096
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quote:As it turns out, Chase Elliott's team was talking about it during Sunday's race. The same Chase Elliott who had a roof flap popped up one year in 500 qualifying?
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quote:HoF Nominees There'll only be four to debate because know Gordon will be the fifth. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Mar 7, 2018 |
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iospace posted:Gordon Early impression vote: Gordon, Gant, Baker, Kulwicki, Stefanik/Rudd; Guthrie. I wouldn't mind seeing McGriff, Wilson and/or Farmer get in based on their age, though.
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Slickdrac posted:Gordon, Baker, Kulwicki, Guthrie, Hunter/Seagreaves The last three are up for the same award.
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Kyle Larson is apparently having second thoughts in the near term about running Indy: https://twitter.com/JennaFryer/status/972196675317092354
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Bring forth the Busch Clash! http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2018/story/_/id/22750443 Now bring back good racing next. e- Kevin Harvick could've joined JGR or Cal Wells' team (the Tide 32) instead of RCR: https://twitter.com/NASCARONFOX/status/973273757388128256 DW last night on RaceHub said he could've put Jimmiebot in his Truck in the late 90s but passed because he didn't think an off-road driver would be able to transition to NASCAR. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 15:22 on Mar 14, 2018 |
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iospace posted:I want to see a graph of NASCAR's ratings since... 1990. Because that should be interesting. When a sanctioning body goes out of its way to stop making public ratings, attendance, purse, and shutting down a guy's hobby blog about the economics of racing, you know things are getting pretty ba-- oh wait, we did that like like 5 years ago.
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Elephanthead posted:Why would you sponsor a car when you can just buy airtime during the race. The Official ______ of NASCAR.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Kurt Busch's 2003 Throwback for Darlington is https://twitter.com/AcrossTheStripe/status/974315750637924352 That'd be a good regular paint scheme to be honest.
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https://twitter.com/brentdewar/status/974614933865365506 https://twitter.com/brentdewar/status/974673527419867136 https://twitter.com/B_DayKH4/status/974675362742448129 This guy is one of the higher ups for NASCAR. If you've ever wondered what's wrong with this sport... CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 17:11 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Elitist Bitch posted:His Twitter kind of makes it look like he works for SHR rather than the mothership, but he does not tweet like he is a real bright dude. This was my argument when they ran the heat races which were effectively pointless because they had run qualifying before and those in the heat races were in the field. There was nothing to lose in the heat as the field was determined.
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The Roseanne 300?
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https://twitter.com/jeff_gluck/status/975414664585666561iospace posted:Give us the rundown as to why, please (other than Joey needing to gently caress off back to cup) I tried to watch but got to Stage 2 and saw the inevitability of the one good Cup guy in the field winning and gave up.
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Races like that make me miss phantom debris cautions.
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SLICK GOKU BABY posted:Yea, but if you're running in 10th and your teammate is 30th, have them take a little spin, bring out the caution. And then you're in position to win the race. I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Federated_Auto_Parts_400?wprov=sfla1
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https://twitter.com/RCRracing/status/976224402567245824?s=19 The NASCAR dork in me is slightly annoyed given 8 isn't an RCR number.
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kidcoelacanth posted:It might as well be, with the DEI connection. Dale was asked in one of his last podcasts last year if he'd like to run the 8 in NXS and he initially considered it, only to remember ^that^ and decide it wouldn't be as cool.
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Speaking of paint schemes, Byron's Liberty ride will have white numbers now because his spotter was having trouble picking out the red numbers on the side of the car: http://www.hendrickmotorsports.com/news/articles/89341/elliott-meets-the-super-troopers e- How in the gently caress was that the link it copied when I clicked that article? Here, have the right one: http://www.hendrickmotorsports.com/news/articles/89350/byrons-liberty-university-scheme-gets-an-update And the picture:  I like that car in spite of Liberty. CBJSprague24 fucked around with this message at 04:28 on Mar 21, 2018 |
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The only interesting thing about William Byron is he's an EA NASCAR Career Mode driver come to life.
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quote:"Obviously, retail is under a lot of pressure and we have seen some defections," Phelps said. "The defections, to me, including Lowe's frankly -- this isn't a NASCAR issue. It is a retail issue.  http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/22861999/how-nascar-helps-teams-land-keep-sponsors In case you wanted to know how much it costs to field a backmarker team: http://www.espn.com/racing/nascar/story/_/id/22848334/nascar-bk-racing-income-statements-2015-2016-shows-costs-run-underfunded-race-team
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It's been 20 years, but remember when Square D spent money for Kenny Wallace to run midpack all year? That's not happening today. Brent Dewar is actively Tweeting fans who question the sport at this point. He chirped Goodyear and Ford for not participating in FOX's side-by-side program and, when I suggested if IndyCar can do it, so should NASCAR, he said "It's not NASCAR". Well...the concept came around 18 years ago and still hasn't become a full-race thing like it has in IndyCar so...I mean...it is NASCAR in a way.
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