The 2022 running NASCAR, IMSA & other racing things thread

[Batman]

Interesting.

Chicago authorizes NASCAR street course race beginning in 2023, per report

I hear they'll have a special pit stop competition:

 

[DanOregon]

Interesting.

Chicago authorizes NASCAR street course race beginning in 2023, per report

IN!

 

[maumann]

 

[DanOregon]

Surprised there aren't more famous Chicago chase scenes - SF? Sure. NY? yes. LA? of course. Too flat? But we did miss one. Steve McQueen's final film (you may recognize the parking structure from the openings of the Tom Hanks film Nothing in Common or the Bob Newhart Show.

 

[wicked]

Still wondering how they're gonna get people ok with blocking off busy roads for a week or two.

 

[wicked]

I can't remember the last time I watched a race start to finish and I did today. I thought the product was good. Other than the manufactured cautions, there weren't many stoppages early so the race got momentum. I haven't heard a crowd that loud since Junior won at Talladega years ago. The stands were far from filled, though. Perhaps they should flip this and the Daytona summer race, basically just swapping plate race for plate race and putting the 400 where it should be.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Silly Season 2024 gets under way a year early.

23XI Racing signs Tyler Reddick for 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season

 

[murphyc]

I can't wait to see the revenue on the Dale merch. The older crowd who remembers him doesn't watch or like NASCAR today, for the most part. The younger crowd that might be more in tune with Dale Jr, or anyone after him, likely doesn't remember Dale or much other than "a legend who died in a race somewhere." I can't see them buying a lot of Senior merch.

Maybe it'll sell. Who knows.

I agree about the younger crowd not being aware of Earnhardt enough to buy merchandise of him. The other issue with the older crowd is my hunch is many of them are like me: they suspect Teresa will be getting a cut, which is a deal breaker. I still have some old Earnhardt shirts, a couple of which I wear twice a year. I bought a couple of the retro Earnhardt Wrangler shirts that came out when Jr. drove the Wrangler Busch (er, Xfinity) car once, but nothing since then.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

This starts as a look at life inside DEI, but at the end takes a serious turn toward what it might've been like to be Teresa Earnhardt after Senior died.

 

[Driftwood]

I watched that last night. It's pretty good.

I will add that Eury said he didn't blame Teresa. I absolutely blame Teresa for the demise of DEI. All she had to do is put the right people in place, sit back, and let things unfold. She didn't do that.
She didn't have to run the team. She did run it into the ground.

 

[wicked]

Run it into the ground implies malfeasance. I think she just stopped giving a shirt and then she got stubborn after Junior made his ownership demands.
Even 2007 era Junior wouldn't have been ready to run the joint. Would he have hired the right people? I'm not so sure.

 

[Driftwood]

They had the right people in place. Just let them do their jobs, show up a time or two to glad hand some sponsors, and it works out. She wanted to cut out anyone except herself and Taylor Nicole.
All she had to do was let the racing people handle the racing.