Remember when everyone **** on him after Daytona?
Ricky is a racers racer. Glad he continues to punch about his weight.
They've had 7 wins in the last two years.
That's fine the field should always have a mix of legends and just fast guys.
I agree. Chase Elliott wouldn’t be a Chase Elliott if his dad wasn’t Bill Elliott.
…and field fillers…
Yea. I didn’t say they suck. I said they are the top of the mid tier teams.,
He ain’t no Kyle Larson.
Okay and I didn’t mention him did I. You said he not have a championship without his name. I said or his talent. Name can’t get you everything. Kyle Petty, Dale Jr, and Corey LaJoie just to name a few who had/have a last name but didn’t win a Cup Series Championship. Chase has talent, deal with it.
Well I don’t have a problem dealing with reality. Chase wouldn’t be in the 9 if his dad wasn’t Bill.
And Ty Gibbs got by on his name. Doesn’t take away the talent he has. Same with Chase.
I disagree. Ty wouldn’t have the same shot either if it weren’t for his name.
Then we just got to agree to disagree. Equipment helps, but you need the talent to win also. Did their names help? Yeah sure. But they also have the talent to back it up.
You’re right, we’re going to disagree.
How many guys "ain't no Kyle Larson" and still have titles and are still considered great? Why does this only apply to Chase Elliott?
I was trying to stay consistent with the current dialogue of the thread.
It's mostly a whole bunch of nonsense. In Larson's case, his mom and dad from the time he could walk taught him about racing, his mom held him on his lap when he was a child at races and explained what was going on. It's pretty much complete B.S.. It doesn't matter who it is, they start their racing careers at a young age. Just let it go.
At age 13, Elliott was featured alongside thirteen other athletes, including future world number one golfer Jordan Spieth and future NBA 2nd overall pick Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, as potential stars in the July 13, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated.[2] Elliott raced in 40 races in various series in 2010, winning twelve events over the course of the year and finishing in the top ten 38 times.[3] It was the third season of his racing career, and he won the Blizzard Series, Miller Lite and Gulf Coast championship en route to being named the Georgia Asphalt Pro Late Model Series Rookie of the Year.[3] He ended the season by winning the Winchester 400.[3] Sports Illustrated named Elliott as the high school player of the week in April 2011.[3] During the year, he competed in the Champion Racing Association, winning the series' National Super Late Model championship.[4] Later that year, just after his sixteenth birthday, he won the Snowball Derby and became the race's youngest winner.[5] He beat the second place driver, D.J. Vanderley, by a record 0.229 seconds.[6] In 2012, he won the Alan Turner Snowflake 100, prelude to the Snowball Derby, for the second time in three years.[7]
He doesn’t have that HMS braking edge. The box is smaller now, so the gap between the haves and have nots is less. I do believe HMS had a road course advantage figured out. Heck, maybe Freddie Kraft and Rev were eighth screeching about the Track Attack program. Whatever it was, NASCAR neutered it in the next Gen car. And people said adding more roadies was to get the Golden Child more wins…. They actually neutered him.
Too bad they won’t listen to us about this POS car.
There isn't anything wrong with the car. 10 different winners so far, last year more than that. Super highly competitive racing. Try F-1, it's much easier to pick a dominate driver there. Not easy to bandwagon in Nascar. Got to take the bitter with the sweet. In Elliott's case he put himself behind the 8 ball, but all of that can miraculously change with a race win but those don't come easily with the competition that is out there.
In your opinion
In other words, driving for the best, most successful team in the history of the sport was / is advantageous.
They shouldn’t listen to “us” about anything.
It's a tough pill to swallow for some that the larger owners in the sport saw to it and took it upon themselves to take up the steps to even up the competition between the teams. Without any rules, two or three owners would each have ten or twelve cars, spend gidzillions to keep it that way and that would be it.In other words, driving for the best, most successful team in the history of the sport was / is advantageous.
And hey I respect it. If we’re going purely off the races, they had some nice ones in the early 2000s for that. That’s what I loved.