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They did that again at a later point in time. It was a TV movie for Fox I think called Chariots of Fire which was a much much worse movie than Days of Thunder. The two movie cars were Lake Speed in the Melling #9 sponsored by ACE, and Greg Sacks in the Hardee's #20. I think it was both drivers'...

There's really no point to the Twins nowadays. My favorite two quirky racing events of the year used to be Indy 500 Bump Day and the Daytona 500 Twin 125s. Bump Day is closer to being back to a thing than the Twins. For the Twins they need about 50 cars to show up and get rid of charters...

I think the making the championship more of a crapshoot as the final 4 thing has done will democratize the championship (case in point, Joey Logano, by any quantifiable measure of the rest of the 2018 season, the weakest driver of the 4 at Homestead with a chance) while also meaning we're never...

Slippery slope if they're light on inspection. I get NASCAR wouldn't want to try and sanction a car that won the race and therefore the title, but keeping to the norms everyone else has stops teams from designing cheater cars and then one of the loser cars calls the sanctioning body out on it...

Thinking back to last year's race, unless I'm remembering a different year, the only guy outside the top 4 that tried to compete for the win was...Kyle Larson. Edit: Think I was remembering 2016 where he finished 2nd. But in 2017 he finished 3rd at Homestead. So that's 3 years in a row where he...

There were a few years in the '90s where whatever sponsor Geoff Bodine had wound up going to a Roush car.

There's a lot of gnashing of teeth in the NASCAR journalism world, which rightly so for the defending championship and current contending team disappearing, but if this situation is aided by Gibbs and Toyota aiming to get the team to disappear, which has the end effect of strengthening Gibbs'...

All the new blood is at the back of the field. They're slowly moving up the field because people in front of them are dying at a near-steady rate. There's a pretty dark line in the Cup field after 30th place between Ty Dillon, Bubba Wallace, the Front Row cars, etc. and the rest of the field...

Another poster elsewhere said this is Gibbs doing business Formula 1-style. I'm inclined to agree. Still though, if you farm everything out, you leave yourself vulnerable to this degree. When in the history of any form of racing is the factory happy when the customer beats them with their...

Well, got the Kahne retirement correct in my prognostications.

I've read DeLorenzo off and on over the years, and he makes some good points, but he's also been saying the same thing for years. He's more a Detroit auto industry insider than anything. I'm sure what he says about the good ole boy relationship between NASCAR and Ford/Chevy is true, just as it...

Maybe that's all a sign they pushed him way too soon? Think about it, this is MIGHTY HENDRICK. Think of all the things Hendrick have done, with rookies in their cars. They're crowing about a stat of finishing 6th at one particular track.

That is desperately digging hard to find a positive. Good finish for Byron and all that, but wow.

There's only 36 drivers that could beyond just in theory have a shot at the playoffs, because that's your charters. There's only 30 real cars in the field that can contend for the 16 spots however, there's a significant dropoff after 30th place and the Ty Dillon/Roush #6/Leavine/Front Row/JTG...

I'm aware. Go to my share of Midwest dirt races. I've read NASCAR dictates the prep so not surprising.

they were in the middle of 3 and 4 and I said out loud "he can just run him into the wall and he'll win", which is what he did.

This track is so black.

My guess is it was much simpler than that. Since paint jobs change pretty often, a car that had previously passed inspection with a dark paint scheme went to a different track with a light paint scheme and their car that previously passed no longer did. We can take a look at paintjobs over the...

Not going to, not for a hydrocarbon fuel burning engine anyway. I'm waiting for the day passenger cars and trucks get DEF. That implementation is going to be fun.

I'm a former Cummins engineer and work with a lot of ex-Navistar engineers. They don't have many kind things to say about their company leadership during this period. Caterpillar did the exact same thing with their road-going diesel engines. They put a lot of marketing into saying EGR was...