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Wait until a race ends under caution and it costs Larson or Elliott.

Shows that some teams didn’t understand strategy. You would get playoff points based on your regular season points finish and you can get playoff points by winning stages. Not a good look for the teams.

I remember the bitching back when NASCAR did that. I recall some trash ending up being thrown on at least a couple tracks.

Ford abandoning the secondary series is not good for the sport.

History says being a mess has never stopped a team from expanding.

He barely registers in ARCA, which is just rich kids and weekend hobbyists and did not look competitive in his Truck and O’Reilly starts. Cleetus needs to run CARS and more ARCA. That RCR ride could have been given to a driver who actually earned the opportunity. But I guess earning something...

My mistake, I missed his top 10s last year. You misunderstood my question. You were concerned about “legitimacy” when it came to the playoffs but not when a YouTuber is showing up in the secondary series? 5 ARCA starts with an average finish of 15.4 is a paper thin resume. He has one Truck...

If you were crying about the playoffs making NASCAR “less legitimate” and you now support this Cletus farce, how do you square the inconsistency? A YouTuber with no top 10s in ARCA does not belong anywhere close to a competitive car in the secondary series.

They dropped “Grand National” in 2002.

The evolving identity of the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series points to a deeper problem that has been building for years. In the span of about two decades, the series has cycled through multiple title sponsors. Each change comes with a new name, a new logo, a new color scheme, and a new...

If it keeps the peace here, I can call it the OAPS. I didn’t mean to cause trouble.

I just call it the Cup Series these days. Again, it goes back to the problem of the secondary series not having a distinct identity. You can refer to the Cup, Trucks, and ARCA without saying a sponsor. You can’t do that with the O’Buschfinitywide Series.

It's a symptom of a broader problem, the erosion of tradition in name of the almighty dollar. I would be a hypocrite if I just advised candidates and campaigns that want to fight corporate power while at the same time being led around by the corporate dog collar. Notice how I just called it the...

I’ve dedicated my career to fighting for policies that help poor people. You might want to direct your anger at someone else.

It’s ridiculous. My favorite example is people talking about “going to Petco” for a baseball game or (formerly) “going to Minute Maid.” But hey, as long as people do this, those sponsorships have value. Did anyone here call Charlotte “Lowe’s” during that weird time when they had naming rights...

I did no such thing. I called it by a name that doesn’t “respect” the absurdity of the corporate revolving door. Do you work for O’Reilly Auto Parts? You seem unusually worked up about this.

I’m done with the sponsor roulette. To me, it’s either the Busch Series or Grand National Series. The bowing to corporations that we see in sports has to stop. The wholesale tying of an entire series identity to a corporate sponsor and the ease with which fans go along with it makes me cringe...

You’re the one being picky about using the correct corporate sponsor. 🤷‍♂️

As an aside, the Grand National Series being the only series without a real identity is unfortunate. You have to be a walking billboard to talk about it. ARCA, Trucks, Cup All distinct identities not tied to a sponsor. The former Busch Grand National Series doesn’t have the same luck.

Go lick some more corporate boots. Let me guess, it’s also the Willis Tower, Crypto.com Arena, and Daikin Park too right? The evolving name of NASCAR’s secondary series is a bigger joke than Cleetus McFarland’s “racing” career.