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It's been time to step away for years. Good luck to Marco though.

This is a legitimate possibility. The news that they were handed off to Versant and Versant wants a playoff is about what I expected: NASCAR is going to let the tail continue to wag the dog by having a spun off media entity with no name recognition and a bunch of dying cable networks with...

NASCAR are the defendant in the lawsuit and they're agreeing to the terms set forth by 23XI and FRM because they are concerned that this going further will in fact hurt them a lot worse. Unsurprisingly, they are being asked to pay money for things like "share of charter funds" for charters they...

Counter claim by NASCAR thrown out. So much for the folks hoping cartel charges against the teams were gonna stick (lmaoooooo at that notion). Anyhow, Jordan Bianchi seems to think the chances of a settlement are high enough he just wrote something paywalled at The Athletic about it.

I am not even the biggest fan of golf but I feel like the LIV/PGA thing is being totally misrepresented here. The Saudis set up a separate golf league with an entirely different structure (literally team golf) and then paid the golfers enormous sums of money to move over to golf for LIV. They...

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Luckily for everyone, Joey Logano and his 11 top ten finishes for 2025 is still in the game. If he wins one of the next two weeks, he pushes out someone who won more and finished higher in the standings on average every week yet again for another year. Sure, all the data suggests the fans hate...

I mean, this the same logic as the people (and they exist) who say that Indycar's split didn't mean anything because it always would have wound up like it is now. That's speculation posing as evidence. There's an intervention here with NASCAR, there's been an experiment run for 20 years, there...

Rico and Reutzel being face/heel is pretty fun as a dynamic. Kinda prefer Rico wins given Reutzel had to sit out a minute and it feels weird he might win a championship by getting points based on his average finishes.

Why is she disagreeing in the first place? Do you think it's the job of journalists to try and convince people of their personal positions or relate information? This isn't something like "Danielle Trotta believes genocide is bad". This is literally Danielle Trotta telling fans on social media...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalistic_objectivity Whether or not the notion is dead is a different thing. I mean, which hive mind are we talking about? Unless you're agreeing with her that she's actually part of NASCAR, which makes her less of a journalist and more of a marketing...

She's pro playoffs because she's the sort of "journalist" who was trained that engagement mattered more than accuracy or truthfulness.

The Mick Schumacher test clearly went well for all parties and I gotta imagine that come hell or high water, he's appearing in Indycar next year for RLL. IDK who is going to be on the outs as a result of it. I know the expectation is DeFrancesco but if he has a contract that winds up being too...

It probably doesn't do anything massive immediately, no. The number of people like me is not that large; maybe a hundred thousand or so strong across the entire country. I should be a rounding error, but NASCAR's viewership has slipped so much in recent years that here in the final run to the...

I'll just cut it off at the usual portion where we start to get back into the "when it really counts" which means none of the races near me count to also interject with, "I do think the championship needs to crown the guy who is the best or had the best year." In fact, further, I won't watch...

RAB2-RAB2-RAB2-RAB2-8869 What's that again?

Right. And so it is safe to say that in other eras of the sport, being Cup champion was not nearly as important or desirable and those titles accordingly mean a little less than others. I mean, that's how I've seen it for a long time now. There's just a fundamental difference about discussing...

Exactly. Now for the next part: Why would he have only chosen to compete in four full seasons? I'm asking this rhetorically. We both know why. But at the same time, it sorta matters if we're gonna talk about how legitimate a championship is when the perceived best competitor isn't even...

Here's an easy way to discuss the issues of Old NASCAR: Are there people who think David Pearson was better than Richard Petty? Yes. How'd that happen if Richard won so much more? Well....

Actually, I can, because the point of that argument is to try and paint individuals as being hypocrites for not having similar opinions about the system in 1965 vs. 2025. The system in 1965 sucked: it didn't produce particularly legit champs which was, I am very willing to bet, a concern of RJ...