Running 2023 Motorsports thread

My first thought on the Nashville Broadway announcement is "I have access to some nice third floor windows that overlook the street!" and we won't be paying anything.

 

There is just entirely too much happening on an F1 grid before a race.
And that person singing the Belgian national anthem needs to lose the flag cape.

 

NBC is showing a meaningless English soccer game and kicking NASCAR to USA Network.

 

Verstappen coming from 6th to win and Red Bull winning 13 in a row is all you need to know that contemporary F1 is all about the car and how much money the team has spent.

 

And yet Red Bull left NASCAR whipped and tails between their legs. Of course, having Allmendinger and Vickers suck right off the bat at Daytona only left them with a massive hole out of which they never climbed.

Cup: 2 wins, 284 races. That's the 2003 Tigers of racing.

 

They’re much more comfortable in a series in which it can build its own dominant equipment and control the series than they were in a series where they had to start from scratch and run equipment nearly the same as everybody else’s equipment.

 

Shoutout to the four of 57 voters who didn't think Jimmie Johnson was a Hall of Famer.

 

They must have weighted his IndyCar career pretty heavily.

 

Are they letting the BBWAA vote for the NASCAR Hall of Fame?

 

Well, he did have friends in Lowe's places.

 

Johnson, Knaus and Donnie Allison made it. Handsome Harry Gant was the top vote-getter who didn't get in, followed by Ricky Rudd and Carl Edwards.

Gant's Sportsman record alone should get him consideration from the Hall, especially since he didn't start his Cup career until he was 39 and still chalked up 18 wins and 208 top-10s.

I honestly think Rudd and Edwards are Hall of Very Good candidates, but my opinion ain't worth spit.

 

If Carl Edwards is a HOFer (eventually), is Jeff Burton? Widely respected among peers (others who actually covered the sport would know that better than me, but sure seemed that way), and, hell, I don't know. Feels like the NASCAR HOF would run out of candidates in a hurry.