With how everyone says “they would have raced different” under different formats etc, I bet Dale would have “points raced” a little bit more.
Mark was great. Any other year with he would have won with that season. The same could be said many times for Jeff Gordon for example vs JJ.
Agreed, except that the rule was absolutely non-sensical in the first place, and then there's the fact that the spacer was there in place for all to see and passed inspection pre race, and it took Richard Childress to point it out to NASCAR officials. This would have been a good time for NASCAR to to swallow the whistle and either change the rule or just say, don't bring it back.
I have never liked Gossage, and his comments don't shock me at all. He's a blowhard self promoting promoter. His "shut up and race comment should have gotten his teeth knocked out.Eddie who?
As most know, I don't like Denny at all and smile with his every failure, but what some would call pandering might just be the truth sometimes, even if most are loathe to admit it. My experience has been that unpopular opinions are right about as often as popular ones.
Nonsensical or not it was still broken. Also I've never seen a race car fail for something that makes a car slower, so likely they felt making it that way provided an advantage
According to Steve Hmiel, it was bolted on because it was a last minute decision to get the air cleaner closer to the hood and match up with the cowl better. Hmiel claims Robin Pemberton requested the spacer, and Jack had the engine shop in Lavonia MI make it and Jack brought it to the track on the plane. Hmiel claims he had no idea it was even on the car. If they would have had time to weld it on instead of bolting it, it would not have been a penalty at all. I am certainly no fan of Jack Roush, but I have never seen any evidence of an intention to actively circumvent the rules, and I contend, as do many that the rule was stupid in the first place. The only issue with a bolt on spacer would be if it created an air leak below the throttle bores. Not normally an actual issue on a unrestricted engine. If it had happened at Daytona or Talladega, I would be far more skeptical. Hmiel claims that Jack had pissed off NASCAR during inspections at Daytona the previous week, and they (as they were known to do) wanted to make an example of him. Even at that, Hmiel claims that Richard Childress is actually the one that pointed it out to NASCAR officials post race.
I remember there was some some conversation at the time that the spacer didn't provide any advantage. I will not claim to understand engines and building HP as well as some others but I have always believed a high rise intake was beneficial with the higher rpms. In any case I didnt see the big deal aside from it being a violation of the rules and I just accepted the reports at face value
And Byron is out. There's that 24 luck again lol
I know I couldn't quit laughing. He said mechanical failure. MRN reported he hit the wall pretty hard earlier before he finished it off the second time. I'll go with the MRN story. Watching him fade at Martinsville wasn't as fun, but when he fell back away from potentialy screwing up the 12's day it wasn't bad.You betcha, ain't it wonderful !! Made my day for sure, best part of the whole race.
Those that forget the past are doomed to repeat it....
I thank Eddie Gossage has had the Verbal Diarrhea for longer than 33 years (probably born with it).Worse than any of the gerbils, he just does not have the constant hot mic amplifying his sickness.
eh, I'll borrow a quote from former Chicago Bears coach, Mike Ditka: " I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past."
I was with you until the Kyle Petty part.....
And it didn't even involve Hallie Deegan!
I know Kyle has more than Gossage.
But his record is as good as mine. I haven't lost a cup race yet lol
I dont equate great driving to great gerbiling. One doesnt have to be a great driver to be great in the boothc'est la vie
Yes, he has 8 wins, highest he finished in points was 5th in 1992, 1993, and his career average finish is 23.3. I'm sure his "hot takes" are super relevant and valuable as a mid-pack driver.
Well he did grow up in and was involved in one of the most iconic racing families in stock car history.c'est la vie
Yes, he has 8 wins, highest he finished in points was 5th in 1992, 1993, and his career average finish is 23.3. I'm sure his "hot takes" are super relevant and valuable as a mid-pack driver.
Petty and Gossage both have forgotten more than you know about the racing business. I don't agree with everything they say, but I pay more attention to what they say than a whole lot of stuff posted here.c'est la vie
Yes, he has 8 wins, highest he finished in points was 5th in 1992, 1993, and his career average finish is 23.3. I'm sure his "hot takes" are super relevant and valuable as a mid-pack driver.
There's a big difference between living in the past and learning from the past
Repeatedly saying Mark won a championship is living, not learning.
Just to be clear, I never said he won it. I think the case could be made that he was screwed out of it though.
It doesn't matter as you are incorrect either way...
The second screw job was in the fall Charlotte race when the greatest driver ever stupedly left the pits with no lugnuts on the left side tires. Nascar blantantly let the 3 crew take tires, jack and a 4 way lug wrench down to turn 1 and fix their screwup. Anyone else and it would have been put on a rollback.
Or the end of pit road...
Actually, I found the video...it was on the apron of turn 1
Earnhardt finished 25th as well and 17 laps ahead of the next car. I doubt that any gained any positions by due to the crew changing his tires.
My point of contention was that Nascar permitted this repair outside of the pitbox instead of sending a rollback. In my opinion it showed an extreme amount of favoritism.
