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NASCAR’s social media is promoting the Snowball Derby today. Coincidence?

Dennis was a poor choice to be the Norma Rae of NASCAR team owners.

I would bet my law license that Dennis’s lawyer wants him to shut the **** up and get off Twitter.

But the owners aren’t employees of NASCAR. No one is arguing that Todd Gilliland should be able to sell Front Row’s charter. In this analogy, NASCAR is an apartment/commercial building owner.

In theory, you could do that. As long as your lease allows it and your landlord approves it. It’s common in commercial real estate. Businesses do it all the time. If I own a bar and rent the space and I sell my bar to a new owner, they also purchase my obligations under the lease.

A charter is a temporary license to get certain benefits from NASCAR. You never truly own it because it can expire and go away. It is analogous to a leased property, to which you can sell the rights. NASCAR is the “landlord.”

That’s a flawed argument and comparison.

This lawyer is a moron. You can assign a lease to a new tenant, with the approval of the landlord. In fact, that kind of sounds like selling a charter! Also, Dennis praising NASCAR in the past is irrelevant to them being a monopoly.

Dennis would be a nightmare client for any lawyer.

I don’t know, a lot of people call the championship illegitimate despite drivers clearly being upset when they don’t win it. 🤔

I think there’s a delineation between a full time jump and doing a one-off. The money differential between IndyCar and NASCAR made a full time jump a financially wise decision for some. That’s a different can of worms. We have full time NASCAR Cup guys who trip over themselves to run open wheel...

This is the best data point we have for how IndyCar views Daytona. Kyle Larson and Kurt Busch attempted the Indy 500 while active winning drivers. I don’t see Will Power or Josef Newgarden asking Roger to put them in a Cup Car or Alex Palou trying to line up a ride. It feels like NASCAR being...

The Daytona 500 is still the most prestigious race in stock car racing. NASCAR shooting itself in the foot repeatedly doesn’t change that. I want the old Speedweeks back. The run up to Daytona made it feel like the most important thing on the planet. Give me back Preseason Thunder too.

NASCAR leadership went through a period where they saw the sport’s history and traditions as a liability, around the same time as that Bill Weber example I cited above.

Whenever I think about drivers and the media on Indy, I think about Bill Weber going on about Rick Mears when Jimmie Johnson won the Brickyard 400 for the first time. NASCAR’s history there pales in comparison to open wheel. A lot of drivers grew up fans of open wheel racing and winning at Indy...

No one is denying this. It’s just not a crown jewel for stock cars, no matter how much people in the sport try to force it. The Indy 500, Daytona 500, and Grand Prix of Monaco are the three most prestigious races in the world. The prestige is tied to those races.

If IndyCar ran a race at Darlington, would they consider it a crown jewel? I suspect not.

Then that's not a real negotiation. The teams had leverage, but NASCAR waited them out. If you enter into a negotiation without at least the possibility of walking away, you're not negotiating, you're just wasting your time. I guarantee you that if the teams threatened to go on strike over the...

Option #5 is a bluff. There’s no way running a spec car series where you absorb all the costs is profitable at all. Any good negotiator knows that you shouldn’t be afraid to call the other side’s bluff.

If the teams had that strategy that then “dumb” is an accurate description for those owners. Instead of doing things themselves, they want the courts to step in. Imagine telling Junior Johnson to rely on a court to straighten out NASCAR.