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The current 48 numbered team isn’t the same team that Gordon owned/owns a percentage of. Jimmie’s old 48 was re-numbered to the 5. Larson and Cliff Daniel’s took over that old 48 team. The current 48 with Bowman is the old 88 team, and current 24 with Byron is the old 5 team from when Kasey...

Denny has stated flat out on his own podcast that he has signed his last Gibbs contract and that it’s for 2026 and 2027, and also said last year at Phoenix something to the effect of “only have a couple more tries at this”. It isn’t news that next year’s 500 will be his last.

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Plenty of driver contracts have been bought out or broken via exit or performance clauses.

Agreed, and I think he’ll get picked up by a bigger team in a couple years or so. I can see him taking over the 48 eventually.

I agree with this. Carson has made some boneheaded moves, but I’ve felt since he was a truck regular that he’s one of the next big Cup talents of the next generation. Spire isn’t yet the best place to showcase talent, but I think if he were in say a Hendrick car that we’d be talking about him a...

I can’t imagine how difficult it is to sell sponsorship at the local/regional level these days. Unless you’re a business owner that’s funding your own team for fun and slapping your own company name on the car, I don’t see how outside businesses could really be convinced that forking over...

Good luck on hypothetically selling any of those non-big 3 teams on becoming even slightly more disadvantaged against the big 3 than they already are. What incentive is there for them to play ball with that?

You can’t say “pretty much” in a situation like that though. “We pretty much only screwed over a small number of teams, so whatever”.

I don’t understand your point. You asked me a question and then answered the question.

Best two cars still isn’t fair to the smaller teams because the larger organizations still had more resources to find speed regardless. They’ll alway have the advantage in a scenario like this.

It’s fair in F1 because every team is two cars per the rules. I don’t know how NASCAR could make it fair when Gibbs and Hendrick have four entries (and the extra data from having those extra cars to keep finding more speed) compared to the likes of Legacy or Haas. It would be totally skewed...

Add me to list of fans who's interest has declined. I went from being sure to not miss a race, to watching maybe six races this past season. The championship format makes the Cup title meaningless to me now. The races that I did watch mostly ended in green-white-checkered wreck fests, which I...

I don't think this is the case anymore. Gone are the days when a company like Wrangler would come in and want to advertise their rugged drivers doing rugged things in their rugged jeans. Today's sponsor deals are often determined by which team can give the best Business 2 Business deals, or else...

He doesn't have to have a car, he just has to write a big enough check to rent one.