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Here's a question- who will finish higher in 2016 final points, Brian Scott (the driver of said 44 car) or Danica Patrick?
 
Here's a question- who will finish higher in 2016 final points, Brian Scott (the driver of said 44 car) or Danica Patrick?

Brian Scott. No contest. If Matt Crafton can finish his first Daytona 500 higher then Danica, then this is a walk in the park.
 
Brian Scott is in the 44? Wouldn't have known without the Shore Lodge sponsorship, which I now assume will be on the car at some point.
 
Here's Kyle Busch's 2016 M&M's car, which celebrates M&M's 75 year aniversary
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Daytona is possibly the worst track to use for an example though. Hell, Trevor Bayne won his first 500 and he's not much better than Danica.

Point I was making though IS how terrible Danica is, regardless of what track she is on. I wasn't saying anything about taking talent at Daytona.
 
So why use that as your example than?

Here are her average finished at every track, Daytona is actually one of her "better" tracks.

Because I was making fun of her. Exactly because this is one of her "Better" tracks is why I bought up Crafton. Again, I didn't say anything about the talent of winning at Daytona.
 
The Speedweeks Schedule for 2016 has been leaked by Motorsport.com:

Thursday, Feb. 11
4-5:55 p.m. ARCA practice

Friday, Feb. 12
9:30-10:30 a.m. Final ARCA practice

3:30 p.m. ARCA qualifying

5-5:55 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

6:30-7:25 Sprint Cup practice

Saturday, Feb. 13
10:30 a.m.-12:25 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

1:30-3:25 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

4:15 p.m. Lucas Oil 200 ARCA race (80 laps)

8:15 p.m. Sprint Unlimited (75 laps)

Sunday, Feb. 14
1:15 p.m. Sprint Cup qualifying

Monday, Feb. 15
No track activity

Tuesday, Feb. 16
Daytona 500 Media Day

No track activity

Wednesday, Feb. 17
5-5:45 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

6:10-6:55 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

Thursday, Feb. 18
Noon-12:55 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

1:30-2:55 p.m. Truck series practice

4-4:55 p.m. Final Truck series practice

7 p.m. First Cam-Am Duel qualifying race (60 laps)

9 p.m. Second Cam-Duel qualifying race (60 laps)

Friday, Feb. 19
10:30-11:55 a.m. Xfinity practice

Noon-12:55 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

1-1:55 p.m. Xfinity practice

2-2:55 p.m. Sprint Cup practice

3-3:55 p.m. Final Xfinity practice

4:30 p.m. Truck series qualifying

7:30 p.m. NextEra 250 Truck series race

Saturday, Feb. 20
10 a.m. Xfinity qualifying

12:15-1:55 p.m. Final Sprint Cup practice

3:30 p.m. PowerShares QQQ 300 Xfinity race (120 laps)

Sunday, Feb. 21
1 p.m. Daytona 500 Sprint Cup race (200 laps)

Note: All times EST
 
You gotta wonder if Chase Elliott even knows he is the male version of Danica. NASCAR is gonna do everything they can to shove this punk down our throat. Based on talent he is nowhere near Ryan Blaney. We've seen this before with Dillon bringing back the #3 only to be swept under the rug by Kyle Larson. Let me be the one to say Blaney wins rookie of the year. But at least the #24 wont be disgraced, looks like RPM gave up the #9
 
You gotta wonder if Chase Elliott even knows he is the male version of Danica. NASCAR is gonna do everything they can to shove this punk down our throat. Based on talent he is nowhere near Ryan Blaney. We've seen this before with Dillon bringing back the #3 only to be swept under the rug by Kyle Larson. Let me be the one to say Blaney wins rookie of the year. But at least the #24 wont be disgraced, looks like RPM gave up the #9
Although I don't think he's anything like Danica, I agree with you in the sense that I believe Ryan Blaney's gonna demolish Chase Elliott for the Rookie of the Year.
 
Eehh. I liked the other one better.

Yeah, same here. Almost looks as if they're going back to the shape of the CoT, with how round it is. I actually liked the look of the Fords beforehand, maybe they looked a bit more agressive.

Also, please tell me those red wheels are staying on the #21. I kind of like them for some reason.
 
Yeah, same here. Almost looks as if they're going back to the shape of the CoT, with how round it is. I actually liked the look of the Fords beforehand, maybe they looked a bit more agressive.

Also, please tell me those red wheels are staying on the #21. I kind of like them for some reason.

Black wheels wouldn't fit the car, and white wheels are supposed to be burned :lol: Keep'em red!
 
Looks ok to me. I'd figure aerodynamics plays a huge part in a manufacturerwide switch. Looks sleek like Toyota did. The new Toyota front grew on me especially over the garbage they ran about 2010. Bet it works better than it looks.
 
Looks ok to me. I'd figure aerodynamics plays a huge part in a manufacturerwide switch. Looks sleek like Toyota did. The new Toyota front grew on me especially over the garbage they ran about 2010. Bet it works better than it looks.

Main problem I have with it is that it ditches the very distinguishable front end. Without the stickers, you could still tell it was a fusion (which is what I love about the Gen 6 over the COT) but with this, it's only a fusion in stickers and that's it.
 
Main problem I have with it is that it ditches the very distinguishable front end. Without the stickers, you could still tell it was a fusion (which is what I love about the Gen 6 over the COT) but with this, it's only a fusion in stickers and that's it.
Yeah I wish the would have kept the extra grill insert but sadly speed goes over looks in Racing.
 
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