2020 NASCAR Thread

I figure Jenna Fryer (AP), Bob Pockrass (Fox Sports, TV partnership) and Nate Ryan and/or Dustin Long (NBC Sports, TV partnership) are obvious choices. Not sure who ESPN has with credentials for NASCAR these days. Not even sure who the Charlotte Observer would send because Jim Utter is with Motorsport.com now (and he might be another obvious one for the pool).

Also, Pockrass will beat everybody else into the media center by 30 minutes.

 

I say they race at Rockingham and Wilkesboro, and the only people who get to cover it are Monte Dutton, Larry Woody, and the ghosts of David Poole and Tom Higgins... from the press box, not the infield media center.

 

And also Mike Mulhern … if anybody can find him.

 

Or better yet, put Woody and Mulhern curb stopping Tony Stewart on Pay Per View!

 

He’s the only guy who could make 8 inches (of quotations) seem like too much.

 

Charlotte Observer would send Alex Andrejev and certainly its columnist (Scott Fowler).

 

I remember some of my greatest frustrations came from sitting in the press box on deadline and waiting for PR to distribute quote sheets.
NHRA always did such a better job at that.

Dang, that was a different lifetime ago.

 

Good morning. It’s race week.

Chicagoland Speedway might be in trouble.


In case you missed it, iRacing’s North Wilkesboro debuted Saturday in Fox’s NASCAR Pro Invitational series event. It took some work to even get the old place ready to be mapped.

If y’all were thinking now’s a great opportunity to bring back North Wilkesboro, there’s certainly more chatter about it than ever but there are also two problems: Gonna take at least a year of work to get it anywhere close to a modern NASCAR facility, and North Wilkesboro is in the middle of frackin’ nowhere.

Jeff Gordon ran Saturday (poorly). Even Ray Evernham couldn’t save him.


It wasn’t supposed to be released to the general public until June 2, but it was popular.


Oh, and there will eventually be cars to go with the track. (Yes, users will be able to provide their own paint jobs.)

 

They still aren't talking about getting rid of the Chase? I thought maybe smarter people would make a smarter decision.

 

For better or worse, that was never on the table.