The 2021 Running NASCAR/IMSA/other racing things thread

My gravel driveway is in better shape than this.

 

Re: other racing things

Wednesday’s TdF stage is the one to watch for non-cyclists. Two trips up Mount Ventoux. It will be hell.

 

Thank you for posting this. I just flipped it in. It's amazing how some of these guys are kicking ass on this climb. It makes the banking at Bristol look like child's play.

 

They've already made one ascent and are working on the second one. The peloton is getting shredded. Wout Van Aert is a former world champion in cyclocross and is just ripping up this slope.

 

IMSA, FIA and ACO have come to a Balance Of Performance agreement which they believe will allow Le Mans Hypercars and the forthcoming LeMans Daytona Prototypes to compete head to head as equals in the world’s biggest endurance races.

IMSA WEC prototype convergence agreement detailed | RACER.com

Technical details and math: ACO, FIA and IMSA firm up agreement on the future of Endurance | IMSA

 

A whole lotta numbers that went over my head, but that's huge. There's only a limited number of folks willing to pay to play with those expensive toys. If you can combine ISMA and LeMans at Daytona, that's going to make for larger fields of prototypes and presumably more interest.

 

thanks for posting this i haven't kept up and wasn't aware of the podcast

flash back in time, me, a yankee trying to earn the trust of the NASCAR community, try that one on

some i earned their trust, others, i didn't

one team in particular i fucked up bad with, all on me, didn't do my due diligence and learned a life lesson

watching the clips on YouTube has been fun

 

Shrub, tell us what you really think about the Atlanta repave.

Kyle Busch angry at Atlanta makeover: 'Ain't nobody thinking' - NBC Sports

 

And then this happened:

 

How much of the track coming up was heat-related? Didn’t get a chance to see any of the race today, sounds like it was a Busch brothers show.

 

Hendrick Motorsports extends Larson through '23

HendrickCars.com is the sponsor.

 

Some interesting notes in the Kyle Larson/HendrickCars dot com sponsorship announcement today.

The site has been on Larson’s car in 14 races so far this season but only three of his five NASCAR victories. A different sponsor was on the car when Larson won at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May to make Hendrick the winningest team in NASCAR history and the automotive group was not pleased.

Hendrick told AP his marketing team at Hendrick Motorsports was actively selling Larson sponsorship and had offers, but the team owner halted all conversations when his automotive group said it wanted the ad space.

“I bumped it up about 20% once automotive committed,” Hendrick said. “We had one deal for the whole thing, so I made them step up and at least match the offer. And they did, they want as much as they can get.”
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Jackson said since the paint scheme was revealed in February, traffic to the HendrickCars.com website has exploded. Five of the six highest-trafficked days this year followed races in which Larson contended with the website as his sponsor.

“He’s created total lead generation value of $1.8 million and over $5 million in television exposure,” Jackson said. “And we haven’t even gotten to the (playoffs) yet.”
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“Look, Kyle’s on-track performance and what we saw on the business side is what drove us to make this decision,” Brian Johnson, vice president of marketing at Hendrick Automotive Group, told AP. “Kyle has elevated our business platform in such a tremendous way that this makes sense. As someone who is responsible for our advertising spend, and all things have remained equal except for the addition of Kyle, I don’t know how else you correlate what he’s doing for the company.” ​

Kyle Larson lands extension, full sponsorship through 2023