Random NASCAR Stuff to talk about.....

16 years ago today, we lost Adam Petty.

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Team Penske 2 and Team Penske are the same. I could not sign in on my Tablet without creating a new account.
 
Is glad there are about 10 more xfinity sponsors then 2012. The Sep. Dover race was ugly with only about 15 sponsored cars.
Hopefully Watermelon and Uncle Bob return.
 
  • Hornish staying busy without racing: During his eight years as an open-wheel racer, from 2000 until he jumped to NASCAR in '08, Sam Hornish, Jr. was a mighty goliath, reaching the podium a staggering 47 times-19 on the very top step-while claiming three series championships. "That was just about a perfect fit for me, as far as car and driver and racing style," Hornish says. "Like a glove." You'd think a guy that good would be trying to line up on the starting grid for the centennial edition of the Indy 500. But Hornish isn't about that life anymore. He hung up his helmet at the end of last season, after an eight-year run in stock cars that fell well short of his open-wheel standard. The setbacks might've been easier to handle if Hornish weren't so insular, anxiety riddled and self-flogging on the job. So in late-November 2015, after finishing 25th at the Cup season finale at Homestead, Hornish unharnessed himself one last time and exhaled. He hasn't peeked in his rearview mirror much since. There's no need. Life after racing has kept Hornish in a spiraling heel-toe dance. When his daughters' school let it slip that they were having problems drafting substitute teachers, Hornish volunteered. "I've gotten to do everything from music to gym to pre-calculus," says the man who views his supervisory services-which have taken him from pre-K classes up through high school. Hornish's only regret, really, is that his wife, Crystal, is the only member of his brood who's witnessed his triumphant moments at the track in the flesh. "The kids were all born after my IndyCar career, and they weren't at the NASCAR races I happened to win either." So he's carting the whole gang along back to Indy for this year's 500 to ride in the parade and revel in many, many other pre-race festivities.(Sports Illustrated)(5-13-2016)
 
is really having bad PTSD from the downfall of the busch series as I move my 1 64 cars on my play mat. All 66 entries at Daytona were sponsored
at Daytona 1996. 66 to 19 sponsored cars is so so so bad and depressing. I loved #57 budget Gourmet #51 Lucks snacks and
#6 Suburbian Propane. Is sad mad at Peyton Manning and Tom Brady for stealing this generation into a football generation!!!!!!!
 
4tires17gals said:
is really having bad PTSD from the downfall of the busch series as I move my 1 64 cars on my play mat. All 66 entries at Daytona were sponsored
at Daytona 1996. 66 to 19 sponsored cars is so so so bad and depressing. I loved #57 budget Gourmet #51 Lucks snacks and
#6 Suburbian Propane. Is sad mad at Peyton Manning and Tom Brady for stealing this generation into a football generation!!!!!!!
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#57 Budget Gourmet was Jason Keller, my all time favorite Busch Series driver. I still have a ton of those 1/64 Busch cars from the 90s back when I used to collect them. I agree, it's really sad that sponsorship is so hard to come by nowadays, but I don't think the NFL is the reason. The downfall of that series has been tough to watch but I don't know how to realistically fix it.
 
2 Sweet said:
#57 Budget Gourmet was Jason Keller, my all time favorite Busch Series driver. I still have a ton of those 1/64 Busch cars from the 90s back when I used to collect them. I agree, it's really sad that sponsorship is so hard to come by nowadays, but I don't think the NFL is the reason. The downfall of that series has been tough to watch but I don't know how to realistically fix it.
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Ol' Butt Chin? He was fun to watch. I do miss those days when the Busch series had a set of full-time competitive wheelmen with no interest in moving to Cup, when the only Cupper they had to worry about was that black #60 Winn-Dixie guy.
 
I love the inconsistency from Fox Sports when it comes to Victory Lane, some weeks they do it, some they dont, one reason why I am looking forward to NBC is they always did some sort of post race show last year.
 
jws926 said:
I love the inconsistency from Fox Sports when it comes to Victory Lane, some weeks they do it, some they dont, one reason why I am looking forward to NBC is they always did some sort of post race show last year.
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I think Fox does a post-race, but the time remaining in the TV window determines whether it's on the same network or on one of their other channels.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
I think Fox does a post-race, but the time remaining in the TV window determines whether it's on the same network or on one of their other channels.
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Poor choice of wording, yes, the race broadcast does in fact include some post race coverage, but its not a post race show like Victory Lane is.

I was talking about Victory Lane and calling it a post race show , and that is what it is, and its not being aired this week.
 
jws926 said:
Poor choice of wording, yes, the race broadcast does in fact include some post race coverage, but its not a post race show like Victory Lane is.

I was talking about Victory Lane and calling it a post race show , and that is what it is, and its not being aired this week.
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Ah. I'm with you now.
 
Rick would have to pay harvick a boatload just to out-bid SHR, then he'd have to pay SHR a ton to buy out childers' contract, then pay childers a ton to sign, then buy out Kasey's contract... Not gonna happen for a pair that have maybe 5 good years left between them. With Larson you just need to buy out two significantly cheaper drivers contracts and then sign Larson. He'd practically take a pay cut to drive for HMS.

kymartin6 said:
It seems contracts aren't worth the paper they are written on...... Kevin and Kasey are both under contract but all it takes is money to buy them out.......
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Harvick is a free agent at the end of the year, which does make things slightly easier. This happens all the time in other sports too.
 
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