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Kofoid appears to be out of the Chili Bowl due to an unspecified medical issue post-return from Australia. Also I have to spend time doing a CB pool entry real soon since, you know, it closes tomorrow with the start of the first heat race.

The Frances selling NASCAR has been a talking point since NASCAR and ISC merged for that specific purpose and will continue until that inevitably happens. It has not happened because until now, the sport had uncertainty (lawsuit, prior to that was the media deal). They'll sell a portion or the...

My only contribution on Gluck's video there is that I guess I know now why he was following me on Twitter when I still had it (good band recommendations).

The biggest issue with race craft is something the simulator is not going to be able to provide decent feedback on: racing with live people around you. I don't know what if any AI-competition exists within their simulations and how they manage to set up those competitors on varying strategies or...

Dirtrackr Daily yesterday indicated that the XOM series is probably not coming back full scale but just 6-10 events.

Highlighted component. Phelps criticism of RCR is never known if Jim France doesn't balk at cash damages/legal fees requested by FRM and 23XI that he wound up paying anyways. Jim France and Jim France alone is why you know that happened. Imagine being Steve Phelps then. You spend 20 years...

Creep of classes isn't anything new or isolated to dirt racing and cuts to a different issue (using the pits as a revenue generator for oval tracks). Again, NASCAR is NASCAR. If they want to rethink the way they are interacting with the local tracks and how they are overseeing or not overseeing...

Jim France could sit on the beach and enjoy many lifetimes worth of passive income like other members of the family from whom we never hear. He instead chooses to be hands on. His choices included not settling with the teams before the trial and before the unrelated documents from discovery were...

Had Jim listened to Phelps, he probably wouldn't be paying any of that money. Unfortunately, he didn't, and Jim France also decided not to settle in such a manner that ensured Phelps be exposed in the way he was to the garage. I don't think Phelps has necessarily helped anything significant for...

They've been given decades and the best they could do was the template body. NASCAR can wait another 75 years if they want, though by then, who knows what would even be left.

If only there was a large sanctioning body, perhaps one which is in charge of major league stock car racing!

Agreed and agreed that NASCAR can and should do more. My only concern here is that this at least gives the appearance that you are citing dirt racing as responsible for the attitude of the drivers. I would argue that it is just a result of them being extremely young and generally inexperienced...

Jim France was and is not going to be the person to take the hit on this. It's gonna be the cronies. I'd feel bad for them but they all have immense personal wealth and don't need to work again a day in their lives.

I have no idea how to feel about any of this these days. On one hand I understand the notion of why the Trucks should be a support series and that making them a true standalone didn't really succeed. This is a racing series which hasn't effectively changed the chassis specs in 30 years and you...

I agree with all of this and I think ultimately our disagreement is just one of nuance and language. We fundamentally believe exactly the same thing (which in fairness; what we believe is objective reality). Imagine if The France Family had taken, I dunno, half the money they do now from the...

I don't want to write a novel, but I see things structured in an informal fashion around the sport in a different way because of the barnstorming nature. I'm talking about how there's an economy of things like graphic designers who make a living (or at least a partial living) designing shirts...

TIL Ashton Torgerson races monster trucks on the side (his dad apparently runs regional monster truck events). I leave Friday. I cannot wait.

That's a very short version of that without any nuance and yeah it is still an effective explanation in many ways. What's the best paying pavement late model race? 25K, 30K? There's probably 30-50 wing races that pay that much or more now in front of more fans who buy more merch and yet it costs...

I think it comes down to simple math. If you can win twice as much money for half as much expense racing on dirt, and there's no penalty for racing dirt in terms of getting to NASCAR, then you probably should race on dirt if NASCAR is the end goal. I don't think it is any more complex than that...

This is a message board and the point is that we share our opinions. I admit this is nothing beyond that, but you know, it's been educated over the years by various experiences I've had and knowledge I've gleaned and as such I will make the strongest argument possible supported by evidence for...