Blaney would have finished 6th in a full season format and I think that was the worst until Logano a year later. 6th is high enough, especially in today’s NASCAR, to be considered one of the best.
Probably the most talented female driver to ever drive a Cup Car. Transitioning to Cup at her age and not looking totally lost is an incredible achievement. If she had moved over instead of Danica, she would have had much better results.
Like I point out regularly, this system does a pretty good job of rewarding season long consistency with playoff points. If you enter without a lot of them (as Bubba will), you need Joey Logano-esque levels of clutch to win your way through to the Champ 4.
Logano’s run last year is an extreme...
And networks are paying A LOT more money for NASCAR.
I am fine with the playoffs but I prefer a full season championship.
But knowing the NASCAR fanbase, the bitching will start as soon as we have a runaway champion, just like people bitched in 2003.
I would argue that you can’t advance through the playoffs without consistency in the regular season. You get bonus points for your points finish and your stage wins.
SVG needs to be getting as much seat time as he can on ovals. Put him in Xfinity races, Truck races, and even CARS tour races.
He just needs to learn ovals.
Which again is a weird statement on a NASCAR forum. It would be like going to a movie forum and attacking community theater or an NFL forum and attacking high school football.
Comments like that are why the grassroots of our sport are dying.
Josh Berry is one of the last of a dying breed, a guy who used to be the norm in NASCAR. We should reflect on why it’s rare to see guys work during the week and race at the short track on the weekend.
When Reddit was proclaiming that he would be a championship threat from the get go, I disagreed. It turns out, I was right.
We’ve all seen this before. Right now, he’s a more level headed and worse version of Robby Gordon.
I would like to think that owners learned their lesson there. Joe Gibbs didn’t and let Joey Logano light the world on fire with Penske. If Marks lets Zilisch walk, someone will pick him up.
SVG is an irrelevant back marker most weeks and Zillich will be a rookie who will likely struggle for a couple of years (if guys like Byron and Gibbs are any indication).
Zillich might be a short term downgrade until he finds his footing but this will work long term if Marks is patient. Ross...