All Purpose NASCAR Thread

Could well be, though. Either way, the move to pull him out of the ride without even the courtesy of a phone call was pretty sketchy.

 

Was anyone surprised to see McFarland released from Junior's Busch ride? I guess I didn't realize how mediocre he'd been...one top 10 in 21 starts.

 

I hadn't realized that. I talked to him a week ago and he sounded fine...

I think it's back to the old driver/car question. I mean, how high, really, were expectations for a first-year Busch team that moved up from Pro Cup? I can't believe (though I could be wrong, certainly) that McFarland was that shitty of a driver that they kept giving him good car after good car and he kept underperforming. (Junior's team seems to be a seperate deal from DEI; I'm under the assumption there's no tight affiliation between JRM and DEI; again, correct me if I'm wrong.)

I just find it hard to believe that anyone could realistically expect a championship effort from an organization that didn't exist two years ago, you know?

 

I find it even harder to believe that some drivers with too much money and not enough brains jump into ownership deals just because they can, only to find themselves running at the back of the pack -- that is, when they make the field at all.

Hey, Mikey Waltrip, you'd be better off to pool all the resources at your disposal and see if you can get one car to be competitive before you try to put three of them on the track. Why anybody is at all optimistic about this team's chances to do anything but fill out the field and piss off its soon-to-be-disillusioned sponsors is a mystery to me.

 

Welcome to NASCAR. None of them are thinking, "man ... I just hope we don't finish 43rd." The modern NASCAR is about multi-car teams, pooling resources, gleaning notes from one another and those sponsors. One-car teams are going the way of the unsponsored driver. No one starts up one-car operations anymore.

 

Oh, I know that. It's just a bad idea to let Michael Waltrip be the driving force (pun intended) behind a multi-car team.

It'd be like giving $500 million to Bob Bahre and Bruton Smith and telling them to go build two new race tracks, knowing full well you'll wind up with two more pieces of shit like the ones they already own in New Hampshire and Texas.

 

Who is in the lead Jimmie Johnson or something.

 

Who beat?

 

Not Mayfield.

 

I believe they did that in Mexico City, as well.

Nah, that's reserved for Daytona in February.

 

;D

 

GREAT truck series finish just now...

Skinner leads Todd Bodine on the restart, a green-white-checkered.

Bodine makes contact with Skinner, moves him up the track and out of the way.

Skinner gets back to Bodine at about turn 3 of the last lap, runs Bodine all the way up near the wall, the field goes by and Johnny Benson wins (from fourth place) as Skinner wrecks.

Skinner: "He wrecked me to win it, so he didn't win it either."