Shane van Gisbergen is the greatest talent to arrive in NASCAR . . .

Charlie Spencer said:
And when Conner moves up, that will be one less seat for a potential ringer to occupy.

As @virtualbalboa said, even if other teams wanted to hire their own ringers, where would the talent come from?
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It would be foreign talent just as it is now. I think the primary reason it hasn't happened more is that most of the qualified talent (basically: GT/Super GT/V8 Supercars) doesn't have a sponsor that wants to be in the US market and to advertise to Americans in an American racing series. If they did, drivers like Haley and John Hunter Nemecheck would be on the sidelines.

Honestly, that could change in the next 2-3 years as all the Americans trying the F1 ladder wind up running out of money or opportunities and someone like Jak Crawford seeks a seat somewhere in motorsports to recoup parental investment.
 
Conover said:
I love it for Trackhouse and kudos to SVG. He brought so much experience and savvy to his move, and is handling the learning curve on ovals decently. But as someone said, his time window is relatively short. Trackhouse is really positioned great; has a strong oval driver in Ross (who has developed into a pretty decent road race in his own right), has SVG and now adding The Prodigy next season.
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Marks has found the ‘meta’ to almost ensure Trackhouse will have three playoff entries for the foreseeable future. When you consider how much charter revenue is linked to the championship points fund and how big sponsors like Red Bull wanted to come back and associate with the team, knowing they’re going to be shown front and center at least half a dozen races per year, it’s basically a money printing machine.
 
It sure would be nice if Roger Penske took advantage of the fact that he actively employs Shane’s greatest Supercars rival, even if there are only one or two Cup road courses that don’t conflict with IndyCar events:

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C'mon dude, what did you expect. It's Petty. What's he's supposed to say. I just love road courses, I always loved road courses. I love foreigners, and them there wimmen race car drivers and everything about Nascar lol.
 
Shane Van Gisbergen is the greatest <foreign> talent to arrive in NASCAR. That much is verifiable. :)
 
Remember when we had fields where every team had a ringer in the seat? Remember how those ringers did ad adapting to the cup cars?

Can it happen again, sure. Will it - I doubt so. I'm sure the sequential transmission makes it much easier than the ringers back then had it. But I still think it's a long cry to ask somebody from LeMans or Rolex to come over and wipe butts in a cup car. Aussie Supercars are the most similar, and that's what we are seeing.
 
Magnethead said:
Remember when we had fields where every team had a ringer in the seat? Remember how those ringers did ad adapting to the cup cars?

Can it happen again, sure. Will it - I doubt so. I'm sure the sequential transmission makes it much easier than the ringers back then had it. But I still think it's a long cry to ask somebody from LeMans or Rolex to come over and wipe butts in a cup car. Aussie Supercars are the most similar, and that's what we are seeing.
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A way to really prove this. Perhaps they can collaborate with the Aussies for an exhibition race, maybe a future Clash back on the Daytona RC, and have all of them come over and race in a Nascar special event. Others welcome too, of course. Nascar spec cars, of course. The biggest issue would be how many cars make it in.
Not that it would ever happen, but it would be fun to see.
 
hmmm298 said:
A way to really prove this. Perhaps they can collaborate with the Aussies for an exhibition race, maybe a future Clash back on the Daytona RC, and have all of them come over and race in a Nascar special event. Others welcome too, of course. Nascar spec cars, of course. The biggest issue would be how many cars make it in.
Not that it would ever happen, but it would be fun to see.
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Run it on a neutral track. Maybe Brazil; that would mean the US drivers would also have to put up with at least some of the inconveniences of travelling.
 
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