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From what I know of each, I feel fairly confident that Jr is someone who I would enjoy spending time with and being in a conversation with, but yes, I don't know at this point how anyone could argue that Dale Jr. was a better race car driver than Chase Elliott. I don't even think it is...

Beyond that ratings were down for a little while last year - which, I mean, they've been down YOY plenty of times since 2005, it obviously didn't stop a big deal going through - did anyone do any real analysis to determine causation vs. correlation on it being because he was hurt? From what...

Wife went up to bed and that's when I got my Dirtvision sub for the year. Being able to borrow someone's login for awhile was nice but when push comes to shove, there's something about hearing Johnny Gibson's voice introing the feature that changes my heart rate and attention. You pay twice as...

Did Bubba The Love Sponge finally sell the track? Also, holy s#it at some of those rides for the B-Mods.

Racing at the same place multiple times a year isn't bad or anything necessarily, but it does feel like a holdover from a prior era of the sport to me in some ways. How many tracks fill the stands twice a year? How many would probably be more likely to feel like a major, significant event each...

...why not go FULL FREAKSHOW? It'll never have that much value for data collection and there won't be any similarly sized tracks in the series ever. Honestly, the thing is that we're supposed to be having fun, so like, let's have fun. We don't need to pretend we're talking about something that...

No, I fully understood what you were and are saying.

Nothing says that they have to lock in EV technology. Could instead opt to be a better test bed for it than Formula E. I'm pretty sure I know what the real reason is we haven't seen it and I'm pretty sure you do too. It's a fear of pushback from the fans like the OP; same reason we went from...

Everyone who is unhappy has their own missive but man does it ever bum me out to see people put "Bubba Wallace Exists" at a similar level to the playoff system or stage racing. And it happens all the time, which reminds me that my issues are actually "the racing" and many other people's...

My interest isn't purely in how much more appealing meritocracy is. There is an economic component here too. Those are my responses. If you want to get clear answers, you must ask clear questions.

Are you asking me to watch it? That's a great question, to which I'd ask you, "How many next Jeff Gordons do you think have gone undiscovered every single year?" Why do you think this is analogous to Lawrence Stroll paying for Lance to use a helicopter to take between the mansion and the...

You just described how it would potentially prevent parents from spending money. You alternately didn't describe how you know or have evidence establishing that the only source of future race car drivers being well heeled children.

First off, since I know the question is "wHeRe iS tHe mOneY cOmiNg fRoM?": obviously the answer is "NASCAR's cut of it's major revenue streams." They can't both be making so much money that even God would shy away from suing them and also struggling to stay afloat. They have chosen to pocket a...

"Are parents not supposed to use their influence or money to help their kid?" No. Of course they can from a moral and legal perspective. The "problem" is that I don't celebrate rich parents pouring money into their kids this way. I wouldn't celebrate any kid or parent where the parents paid for...

I've heard plenty to the contrary over the years to this. PLENTY. Here's where I'll acquiesce: Jeff went to Florida to race because Bickford saw a story on Speedworld that a 13 year old was racing there. Otherwise, it was Bickford being the man knocking down doors to get his stepson to race...

NASCAR has made zero agreements with the drivers unless the drivers own the team they race for. The teams have been challenged to have drivers be exclusive to them because the share of revenue to drivers has decreased, not increased, over the last 20 years, and nonexclusively to Cup has become...

Actually, to my point above, I do think there are repercussions. This is a ladder system we have now is more akin to something we'd see in Formula cars in Europe, but the ecosystem is still that of "stock car racing" and it winds up being like a square peg being pushed into a round hole. It...

On dirt, it is both easier for me to ignore the things I dislike about what modern racing is now and more difficult. Easier in so much as the danger presented in a midget or sprint car is significantly higher, and thus the notion that I am watching people pay to risk their lives for my...

If Kyle Larson retires or loses his ride to Hendrick, what does he owe the TV network? The TV network contracted with NASCAR. That doesn't mean NASCAR gets to act however it wants to in order to put a race on Fox.

Racing revolves around money. The issue with that has always been that money corrupts, and clearly, there are many people in racing to corrupt. Obviously I can't argue with you that the pathway to Cup racing (and Indycar racing, and F1) is constructed at present around the development of young...