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The usual deathbedders bloviating about "The end is nigh." A common theme for R-F at that time. That's what Junior did in 2020... wait and see. He was uncomfortable investing $5 million for a charter that just a couple years earlier had traded for half that amount. Then in 2021, the...

I'm still holding his seat open for Martinsville in the NASCAR Pick 'Em game.

JR Motorsports' move into the Cup Series remains stalled by "analysis paralysis," where it has been bogged down for the last two years. In 2020, Dale Jr. said all they needed was a charter to pull the trigger for launching a Cup team when the Next Gen car was introduced, but charters were going...

NASCAR didn't give a specific date when this project began, but they did say it was early this year. When they announced last week that crash tests were imminent, they said design work and computer modeling had been underway since early in the year. I believe Steve Phelps also acknowledged he...

Zak Brown adds yet another new driver to McLaren's F1 lineup... https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a41597593/mario-andretti-will-drive-a-modern-mclaren-f1-car-at-laguna-seca/

Rodney Childers should STFU. The #4 team got away scot-free with the most egregious example of manipulating the playoffs in the history of the playoffs... wrecking the field on a restart at Talladega 2015.

Forget about that sireen down at the pool room y'all. I came to Charlotte to ring the bell... Ding... Dinger... Dingest... :growl: Didn't work out as planned, but got a P4... not too shabby.

Well said, @Greg. I think we are a long way from a split between Nascar and the team owners. I think a split is unlikely. I also think a sale of Nascar to the RTA is a longshot, but is a possibility. But the owners want and need a bigger slice of the pie, and they have organized themselves for...

Dodge confirms what we all knew... :(

Well, the RTA has retained representation for the media negotiations. And so has NASCAR, separately. That was posted a few weeks ago by Adam Stern, iirc. So the RTA seems to believe they at least have a seat at the table. Second, I certainly don't think a full or partial sale of NASCAR can be...

Here's a link to Jenna Fryer's piece for the Associated Press. It's a good review of the overall situation. https://apnews.com/article/sports-auto-racing-charlotte-michael-jordan-formula-one-00c6f2f2d4f9727ae21bb3dfbb742aec Also, Jordan Bianchi and Jeff Gluck posted an article at The Athletic...

Chris Polk is a senior executive in the Michael Jordan business empire. His opinion... A this just in from NASCAR...

Thinking outside the box... A few years ago, NASCAR was for sale. I wonder if the RTA discussed making an offer. Stranger things have happened, and could happen again. Regarding leverage... The IRL/CART split in Indycar racing worked out badly for the sport. But there are other examples. In...

I agree. The team owners came to the sport largely for sporting reasons... they want and need to race. This has disadvantaged them financially in terms of the business model that has evolved over ~75 years. But if you believe that ultimately water finds its natural level... that natural level...

Is there a penalty for "crying detrimental to the R-F forum?"

The Race Teams Alliance wants more than 25% of the media rights, and are unhappy with NASCAR's initial response to their offer. This will be a negotiation of paramount importance to the future of the sport, I believe. Basically, they teams are squeezed financially, while the sanctioning body and...

** sigh ** So many people just looking for a juicy conspiracy theory... with Harvick and Childers egging them on. The cars tagged for further inspection at R&D lab are not chosen by a "random draw" of all cars entered. That has happened on occasion in the past, but generally the word random...

C'mon man, you're better than that. You're smarter than that. Your reaction is exactly what Harvick and Childers are trying to promote with those tweets... implying *they* are the victims of some sinister Nascar retaliation plot rather than the perpetrators of illegal modifications. They are...

Earlier today in another thread I mentioned the proclivity of many Nascar fans to latch onto dark, dark conspiracy theories even if they are not supported by a shred of actual evidence. Here is an example of what I was talking about. It's shameful that many will try to excuse SHR cheating by...

My interpretation of these two cryptic remarks is that Harvick and Childers are saying... it's awfully fishy that Nascar just happens to discover the 4 car is illegal, and hammers them with an L2 penalty, just a day or two after Harvick makes blunt comments about the Next Gen safety and Nascar's...