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Everything you say is true. Always thought he was little more than a glorified midfielder. Sure proved a lot of people wrong. Comparing owner point standings from last year to this year because that's best way to do like vs. like (63 more points have been handed out this year, this is due to...

The Speedway has a very long relationship with USAC which held onto dirt racing probably too long for championship cars, and used to own the 16th Street dirt oval (converted baseball stadium) not far from the speedway. Dirt short track racing in Indiana has been doing pretty well business-wise...

I think if you told Junior fans 12 years ago the future champion racing for DEI is Truex, not Junior, none of them would believe you.

Master of Science degree from North Carolina State University. Took 2 physics classes there as well. :)

I do agree with both of those. And talent outflux may increase after this year with Jimmie.

2017 season thru Sonoma. Not counting Daytona and Talladega because performance in those races doesn't matter: Truex/Busch/Harvick - won 3 races out of 14, 2 runners-up, 5 3rds, 2 4ths, 3 5ths. Whereas this year their top 5s are 32 out of 42, last year they were 15 out of 42. This year only...

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At what point is this a thing to talk about? I don't consider it a huge positive or negative either way, it's just odd. In those 14 races, those 3 have 12 wins, 8 runners-up, 2 3rds, 5 4ths, and 5 5ths. So in those 14 races, there's only 10 instances out of 42 of any of the 3 not finishing Top...

And as the teams and drivers have further professionalized, that bumping has gone away. To blame the racing entirely is not the issue however. Part of the blame lies on the lack of personalities that draw people to buy a ticket. NASCAR moreso than Indycar or F1 in comparison have always been...

Cool, but it's never talked about. I know supermodifieds are up there...and that's about it. The only drivers I know of that came from the Pacific Northwest are Greg Biffle, some supermod guys, and the odd road racer. It's not an entirely dry region but compared to other parts of the country and...

Politicians killed that one as what they were fine with in year 1 did not become fine in year 3, which is something else you have to deal with in street races that you don't with permanent facilities. Some of them are not bad. I think St. Petersburg is a good course and it's a good event. But...

Pipe Dream: rebuild Trenton.

Pikes Peak? Lime Rock? There's a Portland permanent road course facility right across the river from the city, and it's been there for 58 years. Building a street course in Portland would be the height of insanity when street course events cost $10 million (source: Trackside has mentioned the...

Saturday, June 19, 2010 at Road America, Elkhart Lake, WI 50 laps on a 4.048 mile road course (202.4 miles) Time of race: 2:57:17 Average Speed: 68.501 mph Pole Speed: 108.076 mph Yellow flag at lap 28. Green flag at lap 30. Caution flag at lap 31. Green flag at lap 34. Caution flag at lap...

Seattle - does anyone out there like racing? Honest question. The Northwest in general doesn't have much. There's also this nice track down in Portland that's right there in the city just about. Also, New York was granted a street race by Formula One to TV power player Leo Hindery, and nothing...

It's been better in recent years. I'm just reminded of I think it was the first time Nationwide raced at Elkhart Lake, and the 2nd half of that race was effectively one long caution period. Toronto has a reputation of being a tight track with the potential for yellow-filled crashfests for...

God, that track with NASCAR would be the longest caution period ever.

This smells like a NASCAR exec telling an NBC Sports journo to put the article out as a feeler. To give this thing the time of day for a second, where would they even do a street race? The last thing they want to do is take away from some of their current events. They're already in Fontana...

This statement is on the Wikipedia page for the Race Team Alliance, although it it unsourced: "Failure to field a car results in the losing of that charter."

It's reasonable speculation on my part, the agreements aren't out on the open after a quick google search, but what's the point of having charters if you're NASCAR if the teams having the charters are not required to participate? The charter system provides the teams a guarantee. NASCAR had to...