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Cup is a big boy sport. Bring big money or go home. The guys who win aren't afraid to spend it either, even if common sense would say otherwise.

I don't disagree with anything Despain said there, but I do think you can't ignore the fact that this whole circus was set in motion BECAUSE Richmond was not honest about what was going on. His behavior and lack an explanation for it only encouraged people to jump to conclusions. No matter how...

And I don't care if a Childress car EVER won a race, he was one of the guys making sure there WAS a show every week. If guys like Phelps would have been there in the trenches with guys like Childress and Hylton and Langley and McDuffie and Means and Scott, maybe they would have a little more...

I think one of the issues NASCAR misses sometimes is that this sport exist because people are fans of drivers, cars and teams. NASCAR itself is just a necessary evil that allows the actual event to take place. Nobody has any particular loyalty to NASCAR as an entity any more than they do the...

You will get no argument from me about NASCAR management. I'm beginning to believe that gang couldn't pour piss out of a boot if you wrote the instructions on the heel.

You might be right, but even so, as a sanctioning body you really DO need to take the higher road. I'm fine with the fact that at least some in NASCAR had serious differences of opinion with RC, but those comments show a complete lack of respect for someone who has been as loyal as an ally as...

I'm not going to suggest NASCAR did everything right in either the Richmond or Mayfield cases, but as for Richmond, HE was the one who was not forthcoming and NASCAR was forced to react to what they were actually seeing; a serious illness, some erratic behavior, and a failed drug test. I happen...

Someone with RC's tenure has every right to speak his mind, and everybody has a right to voice an opinion. For NASCAR management to call someone that has been a part of your sport for almost 60 years a stupid redneck, especially considering the history of this sport is WAY beyond what should be...

True, BUT RC has been a loyal foot soldier for NASCAR since the late 60's, and whether you agree or disagree with his point of view, he deserves a hell of a lot more respect than he got in those texts. If you ask me who is (or should be) more important to NASCAR, Phelps or Childress, Phelps...

Look, if you want to rag on Jim France, take a number. As I have said, he has been a HUGE disappointment to me leading NASCAR. As for the "Felon", all he did was answer the phone and take the deal, and it's not HIS job to see that Ford and Toyota didn't get their feelings hurt. Honestly, despite...

I have been saying it for years. Phelps has to GO. I wouldn't hire that clown to scrub toilets in a whorehouse.

Sorry, I don't see any correlation between the two. In fact, I think using the development of the Next Gen car is an argument AGAINST involving more people. I ask the question again. How would YOU represent three manufacturers with one car in a meaningful way that any non-NASCAR fan boy is going...

Once again I have to ask the question, unless you wanted to present some mongrel of a car, SOMEONE was going to get left out of the project. How exactly would YOU have handled this project to everyone's satisfaction? How do you make three manufacturers happy when you only need ONE car?

Everyone knew the deal going in. Yes, it was just for show, but NOBODY at HMS or Chevrolet treated it that way for a single second. It's easy to poo-poo it after the fact, but if the engine would have blown up in the first hour or they had been 10 MPH off the GT car pace, you would have...

I would be all in favor of going back to production based engine designs, BUT, because of the widely different engine architectures, you would quickly find yourself in a BoP situation like sports car racing, which drives me nuts.

Presumably Dodge doesn't care.

The measure of success was to qualify at a GT class speed ( they did) finish all 24 hours (they did) to run lap times that were competitive with the GT class cars in the race (they did), and to grab tons of positive attention for NASCAR (they did).

How do you collaborate? Put a Chevy engine in a Camry? Build a generic car that isn't anything? Could it be that the goal was to align with one team that could basically do the job 100% in house under one roof? Why not just acknowledge that the Chevy-HMS team knocked it out of the park and move...

I'm sure you'll disagree, but I don't think this car would have generated even half as much of the interest it has if it was a Toyota. It simply HAD to be a Camaro or Mustang. Obnoxious rip snorting American muscle car with a big American style V8. Having a fake four door grocery getter with a...

And how is that different than it has EVER been? Surely you don't actually believe Chase's dad was the MPD all those years do you?