Ryan Blaney vs Martin Truex Jr

Hotrod said:
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I remember at some point in the 2015 or 2016 season , we were being bombarded with the Truex /Pollard story
each and every time Truex would have a good run or win. Even though it was a nice feel good story
the first or second time, it become just a little bit , well, enough already ,after hearing it the 3rd ,
4th and 5th time.
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Pollex.

Blame the media. Truex is not responsible for any of it and likely wished they'd shut up about it.
 
ChexOrWrex said:
I like Blaney because hes a helluva talent & has an old school straight to the point attitude.

Also relatable because we're the same age, a metal head & hes a huge star wars fan.
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Thanks for this. I am leaning to Blaney./Harvick as back up favorites.
 
Martin Truex worked for his success and it's getting everything out of his experience with FRR. He was shafted out of MWR, but it was the best thing that could have happened to him.

Honestly, to think that two former MWR drivers are now reaping rewards after hitting as team orders gone wrong. Its quite funny to know so everyone likes you when you're the underdog, but hates you when success really comes to light.

I've never understood that notion.
 
Kiante said:
Martin Truex worked for his success and it's getting everything out of his experience with FRR. He was shafted out of MWR, but it was the best thing that could have happened to him.

Honestly, to think that two former MWR drivers are now reaping rewards after hitting as team orders gone wrong. Its quite funny to know so everyone likes you when you're the underdog, but hates you when success really comes to light.

I've never understood that notion.
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Sad but true. Everyone loves you until you become competition. They were happy to see him do good, not so much when he started doing better.
 
Kiante said:
Its quite funny to know so everyone likes you when you're the underdog, but hates you when success really comes to light.

I've never understood that notion.
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Yeah its kinda weird isn't.? I fell victim to that especially with young drivers. I remember when Michael Schumacher first came on the scene
and how good and wreckless he was . Really exciting. Then he started winning ,and winning, and ............. Then I became , 'I want anyone but
Shumi to win '. Maybe some kind of human nature thing.
 
Hotrod said:
Yeah its kinda weird isn't.? I fell victim to that especially with young drivers. I remember when Michael Schumacher first came on the scene
and how good and wreckless he was . Really exciting. Then he started winning ,and winning, and ............. Then I became , 'I want anyone but
Shumi to win '. Maybe some kind of human nature thing.
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I did the same with JJ, but was already a huge Jeff Gordon fan... the mind is weird.
 
@DUN24 I'm surprised you didn't roll with the 24 post-JG. I know you like Chase, but I figured you'd place him as your new #1.
 
Hotrod said:
Yeah its kinda weird isn't.? I fell victim to that especially with young drivers. I remember when Michael Schumacher first came on the scene
and how good and wreckless he was . Really exciting. Then he started winning ,and winning, and ............. Then I became , 'I want anyone but
Shumi to win '. Maybe some kind of human nature thing.
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In the late 90's, I couldn't stand Dale Jarrett simply because I perceived him as Gordon's biggest threat. He was the guy who dethroned Gordon and I HATED seeing Jarrett run up front.

Looking back now, it seems incredibly silly. I love DJ, but for a few years I certainly didn't.
 
Ford 222 said:
Man they are ALL at least 90% car.
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Correct, if what you mean is that no driver can sustain front-running performance in a junk car. But a great car from a quality team with good funding merely gets you in the game. The driver has to convert the potential into speed on the track, laps led, and and races won.

There are at least 19 top tier cars in the field every week... Chevys from Hendrick and Ganassi, Fords from Penske and Wood Bros and SHR, Toyotas from Gibbs and FRR. To say the car can prop up an average driver and make him a consistent front runner is delusional.
 
Wrangler1 said:
Sad but true. Everyone loves you until you become competition. They were happy to see him do good, not so much when he started doing better.
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It is just stunning to me how anybody could dislike Truex Jr. Seriously.....additionally, the resentment for the Pollex story is mind boggling. Dunno. Just crazy.
 
LewTheShoe said:
Correct, if what you mean is that no driver can sustain front-running performance in a junk car. But a great car from a quality team with good funding merely gets you in the game. The driver has to convert the potential into speed on the track, laps led, and and races won.

There are at least 19 top tier cars in the field every week... Chevys from Hendrick and Ganassi, Fords from Penske and Wood Bros and SHR, Toyotas from Gibbs and FRR. To say the car can prop up an average driver and make him a consistent front runner is delusional.
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I would add to this that there are so many quality drivers that the smallest of fraction of an advantage in terms of equipment means everything hence the issues with skew, etc. Every fraction matters. Boggles my mind. Damn, this sport is cool.
 
Revman said:
It is just stunning to me how anybody could dislike Truex Jr. Seriously.....additionally, the resentment for the Pollex story is mind boggling. Dunno. Just crazy.
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He may be a great guy but when I have heard him he sounds like a whiny little so and so.
 
Yeah, truex jr seems to be smug. Not really warm towards him... never cared for him much to begin with.
 
JohnHill said:
Yeah, truex jr seems to be smug. Not really warm towards him... never cared for him much to begin with.
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Michael Waltrip won more races at DEI than Truex did and David Reutimann won more races at MWR. For some reason a 37 year old underachieving journeyman gives the great unwashed the warm and fuzzies. Scott Riggs, Brian Vickers, Casey Atwood, David Green, Kevin LePage and Robert Pressley could have won in the 78 car.
 
I like both Truex and Blaney. Hard to tell which one is the "good" guy or "bad" guy between these two competitors.

Just like having a group of friends -- not everyone gets along with everyone else.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
Michael Waltrip won more races at DEI than Truex did and David Reutimann won more races at MWR. For some reason a 37 year old underachieving journeyman gives the great unwashed the warm and fuzzies. Scott Riggs, Brian Vickers, Casey Atwood, David Green, Kevin LePage and Robert Pressley could have won in the 78 car.
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I can almost smell the bait from here.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
Michael Waltrip won more races at DEI than Truex did and David Reutimann won more races at MWR. For some reason a 37 year old underachieving journeyman gives the great unwashed the warm and fuzzies. Scott Riggs, Brian Vickers, Casey Atwood, David Green, Kevin LePage and Robert Pressley could have won in the 78 car.
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Kevin Lepage? That's a stretch. Even when he was on a good team (Roush) he was awful.

Pressley was a very underrated driver IMO
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
Michael Waltrip won more races at DEI than Truex did and David Reutimann won more races at MWR. For some reason a 37 year old underachieving journeyman gives the great unwashed the warm and fuzzies. Scott Riggs, Brian Vickers, Casey Atwood, David Green, Kevin LePage and Robert Pressley could have won in the 78 car.
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Ummm...

Okay, I guess seven wins in the past three years is underachieving. Your **** really stinks right here man.
 
Kiante said:
Ummm...

Okay, I guess seven wins in the past three years is underachieving. Your sh!t really stinks right here man.
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Hey Kiante, this is Nascar. Don't you know they hand out "most laps led" like candy? And World 600 trophies too, like candy? And Southern 500 wins... just more Nascar candy!
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
 
The Truex fishing may have been a dud but we did OK in the real world.

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Hotrod said:
What are those ? Mackeral?
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These were caught off the coast of Panama City. I am not a fisherman but the guys referred to some as mackerel and some as tarpon. I just supervised....:D
 
LewTheShoe said:
Hey Kiante, this is Nascar. Don't you know they hand out "most laps led" like candy? And World 600 trophies too, like candy? And Southern 500 wins... just more Nascar candy!
:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :sarcasm:
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Laps led is no longer rewarded.
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
For some reason a 37 year old underachieving journeyman gives the great unwashed the warm and fuzzies.
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Most of the Nascar industry's A-Listers took a bath last night and turned out to help Martin Truex and Sherry Pollex raise millions of dollars for child cancer victims. For the 8th year in a row...



 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I may be one of the rare ones on here but I don't see anything wrong with either Blaney or Truex.
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I agree. Hopefully it becomes a good little rivalry, but if not, Truex doesn't seem to be a big of an ass as some people make him out to be.
 
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