Running 2019 Nascar thread

Forget Harvick. If he doesn't want to run in it, don't.
Scrapping traditional NASCAR events is what has helped created the mess they are in.

 

Let the drivers drive and wreck someone else's cars. I'd put them in floor models of whatever car they are supposedly driving. No reason to wreck something they might use in the 500.

 

But it essentially is the premise of IROC these days because the cars are cookie cutter.

 

At least if he crashes there, he won't be able to take out half the field.

 

I wouldn’t put it past him.

 

Big difference between ditching the Clash and dropping the Southern 500. That decision was the beginning of Brian France’s total fucking up of the series. Or maybe the Chase came first. I can’t remember.

 

I was thinking last night when watching the qualifying races about how they used to be run on Thursday afternoon. That's the only time I ever remember my dad taking off work to do something enjoyable. He'd leave work at lunch to come home and listen to on the radio and in later years watch the races. I thought it was so cool to get off the school bus and my dad be home.

My mom and dad went to Daytona for their honeymoon. My first race was the '73 500.

 

That’s not all of it — the Earnhardt-Gordon rivalry pretty much created the bubble, which popped 18 years ago — but BZF’s so-called leadership was not helpful. Still, Steve Phelps (the guy in Mike Helton’s old job) said all the right things in this interview.

The State of NASCAR: 'We probably lost our way'

 

So only two drivers DNQ? And all cars running at the end of the Twins - that has to be a first.