Scott Speed Entered In Brickyard 400

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Scott Speed will replace Tony Raines starting with the Brickyard 400...

Scott Speed will attempt to qualify for Sunday’s Brickyard 400, driving the No. 37 Max Q Motorsports Ford Fusion.

Speed’s NASCAR Sprint Cup career had been in limbo since Red Bull Racing dropped him at the end of last season. Speed subsequently sued Red Bull for breach of contract, with litigation still pending.

Max Q Motorsports is owned by Larry Gunselman and its No. 37 Ford is 39th in driver points this season, with Tony Raines behind the wheel for most of the season.

Speed will drive the car in the next three Cup races - Indy, Pocono and Watkins Glen — “with hopes of continuing the rest of the 2011 season pending sponsorship,” according to a team release issued Monday afternoon.

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After washing out of F1 and showing no pulse after 2 years in NASCAR, it's clear that Scott's surname is the biggest oxymoron in motorsports. :bazooka:
 
FenderBumper said:
After washing out of F1 and showing no pulse after 2 years in NASCAR, it's clear that Scott's surname is the biggest oxymoron in motorsports. :bazooka:
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No doubt. To have the perfect racing name and suck so bad is a shame. I hope he does well.
 
You can look in the eyes of some people and realize that they don't have the drive it takes to succeed, and for me Scott is a prime example. After Red Bull released him, the press asked if he would go back to F1. Scott said "I have nothing left to prove in F1". REALLY? 28 starts, no top 10's and an average finish of 15.1 in a series that averages less than 20 cars per race.

Those are some pretty low standards.
 
FenderBumper said:
You can look in the eyes of some people and realize that they don't have the drive it takes to succeed, and for me Scott is a prime example. After Red Bull released him, the press asked if he would go back to F1. Scott said "I have nothing left to prove in F1". REALLY? 28 starts, no top 10's and an average finish of 15.1 in a series that averages less than 20 cars per race.

Those are some pretty low standards.
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He know there is no way in hell he will ever be behind the wheel of an F1 car again.
 
FenderBumper said:
You can look in the eyes of some people and realize that they don't have the drive it takes to succeed, and for me Scott is a prime example. After Red Bull released him, the press asked if he would go back to F1. Scott said "I have nothing left to prove in F1". REALLY? 28 starts, no top 10's and an average finish of 15.1 in a series that averages less than 20 cars per race.

Those are some pretty low standards.
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The lower your standards the less likely you are gonna get disappointed.
 
FenderBumper said:
Didn't he have a physical altercation or was attacked by an F1 team owner? I seem to remember something like that happening.
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Sort of, it was the team principal (basically the guy who runs the team for the owner) of RedBull. There was a rumor going around back then that the guy didn't like American drivers to begin with for whatever reason, didn't like being told that Speed was going to drive for them whether he liked it or not so he had it out for Speed before he really got a chance. It was just a matter of time, really.

A little trivia:
The guy that replaced Speed was Sebastian Vettel, the champ for the last two seasons and runner up three seasons ago. Makes me wonder if Speed really does have the talent and hasn't developed it yet or hasn't gotten a solid chance yet. Someone definitely saw something if Vettel was runner up and was under contract to Red Bull's driver development program.
 
Stewart Fan said:
The lower your standards the less likely you are gonna get disappointed.
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That's the way I see it. He also threw away an ARCA championship, if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the info, Chrome. It sounds like Scott had no chance to develop at Toro. I remember a TV special Scott did and his Cup CC was busting on him for never being at the shop unless there was a camera there. Scott seemed content to have a ride and doesn't push himself too hard.
 
FenderBumper said:
That's the way I see it. He also threw away an ARCA championship, if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the info, Chrome. It sounds like Scott had no chance to develop at Toro. I remember a TV special Scott did and his Cup CC was busting on him for never being at the shop unless there was a camera there. Scott seemed content to have a ride and doesn't push himself too hard.
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But unfortunately, the second he doesn't have a ride, he's looking for a lawyer
 
Stewart Fan said:
The lower your standards the less likely you are gonna get disappointed.
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VaDirt said:
But unfortunately, the second he doesn't have a ride, he's looking for a lawyer
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Yep. He raced right over and plunked down a retainer. He was the fool who demanded a raise in 2009, then let Redbull add a performance clause to his contract in exchange for an extra 1/2 million.
 
FenderBumper said:
That's the way I see it. He also threw away an ARCA championship, if I remember correctly.

Thanks for the info, Chrome. It sounds like Scott had no chance to develop at Toro. I remember a TV special Scott did and his Cup CC was busting on him for never being at the shop unless there was a camera there. Scott seemed content to have a ride and doesn't push himself too hard.
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No, he really didn't have a chance over there which could be the starting point of his attitude. Other drivers and former crew members back then said that the guy he got in a fight with would never tell him anything to build confidence or build up his ego, just on his ass constantly and everything he did was wrong.


A young guy that never did anything right in the eyes of your boss can be detrimental to your self esteem when you are starting out. Like I said, someone had to see something for him to get a ride at Red Bull. And like you mentioned he seemed content to have a ride and doesn't push himself too hard. That could be due to being told he's not crap in F1 and kind of just went with the flow and lost confidence. I saw him in F1 and ARCA, he does have talent but I think the damage has been done to his confidence so maybe he thinks "why try if I'm going to fail."
 
HHe's raced with the BigDogs & Won a Truck Race & ARCA races... Made Millions.. & Still in it!! Hats off to him!! $$$!!:beerbang::bazooka:
 
DJ Rossi said:
HHe's raced with the BigDogs & Won a Truck Race & ARCA races... Made Millions.. & Still in it!! Hats off to him!! $$$!!:beerbang::bazooka:
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A trained chimpanzee could've won ARCA races in the equipment Scott Speed had. Very same equipment and Justin Lofton won the championship -- hasn't done anything in the Truck Series.

I like Scott, and I believe he was screwed royally by Red Bull so they could get Justin Bieber on board... but Scott Speed hasn't burned any bridges with anyone -- he nuked them and napalmed the remains.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
Very same equipment and Justin Lofton won the championship -- hasn't done anything in the Truck Series.
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How many guys have come up from ARCA in the last few years and actually have done anything in the truck series? Usually at best they hang around in the truck series for a year or 2 until they are never heard from again in racing.
 
toledo47 said:
How many guys have come up from ARCA in the last few years and actually have done anything in the truck series? Usually at best they hang around in the truck series for a year or 2 until they are never heard from again in racing.
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Lots of guys started in ARCA, then ran some trucks and made it to NW and even Cup. Annett, Allgaier, Cassil, Stenhouse and Brian Scott to name a few.
 
FenderBumper said:
Lots of guys started in ARCA, then ran some trucks and made it to NW and even Cup. Annett, Allgaier, Cassil, Stenhouse and Brian Scott to name a few.
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How many of those guys were full time ARCA guys and then ran full time in trucks? None of them.
 
toledo47 said:
How many of those guys were full time ARCA guys and then ran full time in trucks? None of them.
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Running a full truck season wasn't the point you made, so why bring it up once I show that your original satement was incorrect?

Here's what you originally stated.

toledo47 said:
How many guys have come up from ARCA in the last few years and actually have done anything in the truck series? Usually at best they hang around in the truck series for a year or 2 until they are never heard from again in racing.
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FenderBumper said:
Running a full truck season wasn't the point you made, so why bring it up once I show that your original satement was incorrect?

Here's what you originally stated.
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Well out of the guys you mentioned only 2 of them ever ran ARCA fulltime. Annett ran a pretty good amount of ARCA, Don't recall him running trucks, maybe he ran a few. Landon never ran more than a few ARCA Races. Brian Scott ran trucks before he ran ARCA. The point is most guys that come from ARCA into trucks just fail. In recent years there was Joey Miller, Blake Bjorklund, Justin Lofton, Justin Marks. All ran fulltime in ARCA and won/did well in ARCA but didn't do much in the trucks.
 
toledo47 said:
Well out of the guys you mentioned only 2 of them ever ran ARCA fulltime. Annett ran a pretty good amount of ARCA, Don't recall him running trucks, maybe he ran a few. Landon never ran more than a few ARCA Races. Brian Scott ran trucks before he ran ARCA. The point is most guys that come from ARCA into trucks just fail. In recent years there was Joey Miller, Blake Bjorklund, Justin Lofton, Justin Marks. All ran fulltime in ARCA and won/did well in ARCA but didn't do much in the trucks.
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Now it's getting really confusing. Speed never ran fulltime in trucks, but did real well in the 16 truck races he did run in. 1 W, 4 T5, 9 T10 and a pole is real good for a part time first year. I'm completely lost as to what your point is.

I think Scott could have done better if he had spent 2 full years running NW with a couple of Cup starts sprinkled in. Pop's would have done him wonders by insisting he learn to drive a tight car before setting him free.
 
Did anyone else see the report that Speed was suppose to run two races in Nationwide for KHI? Wonder why that never happened....
 
toledo47 said:
Well out of the guys you mentioned only 2 of them ever ran ARCA fulltime. Annett ran a pretty good amount of ARCA, Don't recall him running trucks, maybe he ran a few. Landon never ran more than a few ARCA Races. Brian Scott ran trucks before he ran ARCA. The point is most guys that come from ARCA into trucks just fail. In recent years there was Joey Miller, Blake Bjorklund, Justin Lofton, Justin Marks. All ran fulltime in ARCA and won/did well in ARCA but didn't do much in the trucks.
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Also, the two full time ARCA drivers on that list, Allgaier and Stenhouse went in to Nationwide, not Trucks.

Scott Speed and Michael McDowell also ran full time ARCA and went right to Cup -- which is a recipe for failure.
 
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