The 2021 Running NASCAR/IMSA/other racing things thread

Just a guess: Some of it will move to Peacock, and some of it will move to TrackPass on NBC Sports Gold.

 

Admit it: You thought Smoke would marry a race car.




The bride-to-be is NHRA Top Fuel dragster racer Leah Pruett.

 

And she was only on the market for a second.

I always thought of Tony Stewart as a modern-day Tim Richmond in a few ways.

 

At least she’s probably not a mercenary for hire.

 

She'll go flat out for 4.5 seconds but after you pull the chute, she'll need a complete teardown before the next run.

 

Don't know if I've seen him smile before. Also looks like he's lost some lbs. Must be love.

 

So Smoke doesn't think she's a real drag ...

 

Chip Ganassi’s No. 01 Cadillac DPi is running at Sebring without sponsorship again. Screenshot from Andy Blackmore’s spotter’s guide:



I wonder who’s paying the bills for that. Can’t be GM by itself, right? I know that there was a story gossip going around that some combination of the France family and/or IMSA/NASCAR was helping Ganassi’s sponsorship package when he had Daytona Prototypes before the Ford GT years.

 

If that happened, what would be in it for IMSA?

 

Fuller field for DPi and in general. They’ve already brought back both LMP2 in all the races and added LMP3 (which used to be farmed out to Prototype Challenge) to help pad out the fields. I think that also drives the demise of GTLM (driven by Porsche ditching its factory team) with the factory teams switching to the new GT Daytona-Pro next season (GT3 rules, like the current GTD class).

 

Noah Gragson is making Kurt Busch c. 2002 look like Mark Martin.

 

What is in the water in Vegas? Growing up near cacti must make those guys all serious pricks. Gragson's family money can't possibly make up for his lack of awareness, on and off the track.