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The BrewCo team has released Joey Clanton from the #27 TrimSpa ride effective now, and announced that Chase Montgomery will take the wheel for the rest of the season.
Joey had lots of good runs in the ASA, but has struggled a bit since moving to NBS. Chase is a real young' un currently running ARCA for the most part.
Just wondering if the push to bring too many young and relatively inexperienced drivers up is being taken just a bit too far. There were a few who more or less rocketed onto the NASCAR scene and made an immediate impact. But it does not follow that all of them can do that. It may not be a matter of talent so much as experience. Like in any other sport, the drivers mature at different rates.
The big problem is in my viewpoint, that a young driver with all the talent in the world who moves too far and too soon can very quickly become baggage. Through no fault of their own, it doesn't take much to get labeled as "can't get it done". Unfair. It takes just a little of that to get a young drivers confidence seriously shaken, and shaken confidence will make bad runs and yer right back to "can't get it done". Unfair. And there is the possibility with shaken confidence, a bad rap and failure that a young driver can adopt an attitude, perhaps worse than unfair, usually fatal to one's career.
The fair only comes to town once a year as I've been told, but seems some of these kids need a little guidance to know when it is in town.
Joey had lots of good runs in the ASA, but has struggled a bit since moving to NBS. Chase is a real young' un currently running ARCA for the most part.
Just wondering if the push to bring too many young and relatively inexperienced drivers up is being taken just a bit too far. There were a few who more or less rocketed onto the NASCAR scene and made an immediate impact. But it does not follow that all of them can do that. It may not be a matter of talent so much as experience. Like in any other sport, the drivers mature at different rates.
The big problem is in my viewpoint, that a young driver with all the talent in the world who moves too far and too soon can very quickly become baggage. Through no fault of their own, it doesn't take much to get labeled as "can't get it done". Unfair. It takes just a little of that to get a young drivers confidence seriously shaken, and shaken confidence will make bad runs and yer right back to "can't get it done". Unfair. And there is the possibility with shaken confidence, a bad rap and failure that a young driver can adopt an attitude, perhaps worse than unfair, usually fatal to one's career.
The fair only comes to town once a year as I've been told, but seems some of these kids need a little guidance to know when it is in town.