This weekend is a rare off-weekend for Cup. XFINITY and Trucks are racing this weekend, however; and at two quality road courses. That's right. No ovals for these two series this weekend. XFINITY takes on all 4+ miles of Road America this Saturday, and the Trucks leave the U.S. of A to take on Mosport (or Canadian Tire Motorsports Park). So if you want some NASCAR racing this weekend, get excited for Road America and Mosport.
Of all the throwback schemes I've seen for the Darlington race on September 6, basically the two "Beer Wagons" look the best to me- the #2 car and the #4 car. I love the touches on that car dedicated to Buddy Baker. I still think Jeff Gordon should stick to those rainbow colors like he ran at Bristol. After all, when I was learning about racing and came across Jeff Gordon in 1998 in a Popular Mechanics article, I recall the DuPont Chevrolet in those classic rainbow colors. I'm like... "stick with those colors, dude. They're sweet!" It's much the same way I felt when the SRT Viper program in USCR went with those Oreca colors with the red and the whie stripes. Sometimes, classic is better. And who knows? These pretty throwback cars could get themselves some Darlington stripes once the cars are driven in anger.
The race at Darlington should still be a great one.