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Dale Earnhardt and David Pearson are rolling over in their graves. Rubbin’s racin’.

Don’t want to be in the position where a backmarker ruins your season? Get to the front.

I thought NASCAR didn’t let you take a vehicle to the garage anymore for repairs? I know they extended the time limit for the DVP, but I thought that all had to be done on pit road.

 

Maybe that "Which RCR car will Tyler Reddick drive?" problem has been solved.



I suspect he'll drop into Kurt Busch's seat.

 

You're not a top-notch NASCAR driver until Lee Spencer pinches your butt on the way to the podium.

All kidding aside, Lee and Reid are some of the nicest folks in the media center. Because Reid also covers golf, I got to see him every January at the PGA Show in Orlando for a stretch. Glad they're still making a living out of it. And sorry about the Cardinals (no, not really).

 

Cole Custer penalized 50 points and fined $100K, crew chief Mike Shiplett fined $100K and suspended indefinitely.


And about that ...


NASCAR penalizes Cole Custer 50 points for block that helped Chase Briscoe at Charlotte Roval

 

That indirectly cost Harvick a championship, because of his obsession with all things Chase Elliott over the final two months.

So many ways to twist yourself into a pretzel, and Scott Miller is good at that. At least they updated the non-existent rulebook so they can penalize spinning someone out under caution, after the commission's appeal ruling. For the days where Daytona just used "actions detrimental to stock car racing" as the cover-all for penalties...

(And everyone currently in race control should be fired. Get one person up in the box making all of the calls, with some competent assistants. Even the Brian Barnhart years in the IRL were better than this. The team of Keystone cops up there now is clueless.)

 

It's just like the strike zone in baseball. Every umpire has a different one, but as long as they're consistent, everybody's OK with that. David Hoots was going to let some stuff go without issue but you knew if there was a speck of tire dust on the track with 10 to go, "Throw It Out!" Bam, caution flag.

Right now, NASCAR drivers have no idea where the limit is or what even constitutes a rules violation. It's like Angel Hernandez took over. Or they have a giant "Wheel of Caution" that they spin in race control.

 

Kurt's the last guy to race against Ironhead. It'll be the end of an era when he hangs it up.

 

So a guy intentionally slows down to ensure his teammate gets by and into the playoffs. Said guy and crew chief get penalized, while the teammate who benefits gets into the playoffs with no penalty, and the defending champion who gets knocked out of the playoffs due to this situation is stuck on the outside looking in. Did I miss anything?

 

Kurt's injury a whole lot worse than anybody let on.

Kurt Busch won't race NASCAR full-time in 2023 as he remains sidelined by concussion (msn.com)

In his words:

 

Bubba Wallace should be parked for the rest of the season for that stunt today.

And if you care: Logano beat.

 

The only thing better than an unsafe car? An unsafe car in the rain!

NASCAR Will Introduce a Wet Weather Package for Short Ovals

 

I think they tested this by hosing down the track at Martinsville — not quite as wet as the track would be after an entire day’s worth of moderate rain. There are probably three tracks where you can get away with this: Martinsville, Phoenix and Loudon. I’d imagine the elevation change rules out North Wilkesboro. I’d love to see the carnage it’d cause at Bristol.