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Northstar
I'm starting to wish Jimmie waited until the end of the season before announcing his retirement. Fox just doesnt know when to shut up when a driver is doing a "farewell tour".
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Cheap, easy talking point. They did it with Dirk for almost two years locally, and almost every year it seems someone in baseball is on a retirement tour.

Annoying as hell, but inevitable.
 
Today well and truly is the Jimmie show, it’s just like having ESPN back.

Last year was the “Kyle Busch wins 200” show, guess California is a race FOX need to have a predetermined storyline for since they don’t expect much action.
 
I like how they cut away to the crowd expecting a reaction to Jimmie trying to take the lead only to be met with them going mild. :lol:

Edit: definitely seems like there are some fresh rain drops on some camera lenses. :nervous:

Edit 2: Denny is a 🤬
 
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Northstar
Edit 2: Denny is a 🤬
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Very 2015 Jeff Gordon wrecks the 18 at the Auto Club 400 because he thought David Regan (taking Kyle Busch’s place) in the 18 was racing him too hard. Jeff came out smelling like a rose. So if my calculations are correct and we hold everyone to the same standard, the move was fine.
 
Blood Eagle
Very 2015 Jeff Gordon wrecks the 18 at the Auto Club 400 because he thought David Regan (taking Kyle Busch’s place) in the 18 was racing him too hard. Jeff came out smelling like a rose. So if my calculations are correct and we hold everyone to the same standard, the move was fine.
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The move wasnt fine in either case. It's sad that NASCAR has apparently already forgotten Daytona, they need to crack down on crap like that.
 
Blood Eagle
Very 2015 Jeff Gordon wrecks the 18 at the Auto Club 400 because he thought David Regan (taking Kyle Busch’s place) in the 18 was racing him too hard. Jeff came out smelling like a rose. So if my calculations are correct and we hold everyone to the same standard, the move was fine.
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I was reminded of this

And yeah, wrecking people on the straightaway is fine still, Noah Gragson didn’t even get a slap on the wrist for doing basically the same thing last week that Edwards did to send Keselowski flying at Atlanta.
 
It is weird to see Jimmy J being able to stay up front during restarts. He hasn't had that power for a good 2 years now. Can this be his day?
 
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I understand they’re trying to make the sponsor logos more visible but the numbers on the door are what makes stock car racing stock car racing, and it makes each car and driver more visible and identifiable to the fans. The cars are slab sided for a reason.
 
The Bman
Everything but the middle right option looks gross. :sick:
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The top right is tolerable as well, since this year they seem to have completely eliminated the small contingency decals behind the front wheels, so there’s a lot of wasted space between there and the numbers. It could make sense to move the numbers rearward a bit to put a primary sponsor logo there. If the shape of the new car makes sense for it.

They’ve tried moving the numbers behind the rear wheels on some of the regional series cars, and it just looks wrong and makes the cars look ill-proportioned.
 
bloodyboyblue
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I understand they’re trying to make the sponsor logos more visible but the numbers on the door are what makes stock car racing stock car racing, and it makes each car and driver more visible and identifiable to the fans. The cars are slab sided for a reason.
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Did you get that pic from reddit and see me tell the dude that he broke every rule of the council by posting that? I don’t care either way but wondering if Reddit was the source.
 
Blood Eagle
Did you get that pic from reddit and see me tell the dude that he broke every rule of the council by posting that? I don’t care either way but wondering if Reddit was the source.
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I saw it on the council survey so I saw it there first, but I took the picture from the reddit Twitter, I’m not on nor will ever be on reddit itself.

I’m breaking the rules of the council just by being on it, Canadians aren’t allowed. It even told me that when I renewed my membership this year but then they proceeded to keep sending me the surveys anyway.
 
bloodyboyblue
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I understand they’re trying to make the sponsor logos more visible but the numbers on the door are what makes stock car racing stock car racing, and it makes each car and driver more visible and identifiable to the fans. The cars are slab sided for a reason.
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I'm torn between number dead center, number fore of sponsor (bottom left) and FIA style number in window (bottom right) Bottom left works if they switched to IMSA style numbers, and the FIA/Rallycross/Aussie V8 style works because the teams keep changing sponsor liveries all the time. Roof numbers should stay though. Even Rallycross and drifting had those. Likely they will vote for having the numbers large and dead center, because tradition.
 
I dont really see a reason to change the current format, but if they did I would prefer having it right behind the front wheels.

Also, it's refreshing to see them considering various things beyond just mixing up the schedule and a new car. Hopefully another thing they are considering is removing the cautions in-between stages.
 
I'm fine with the move to a single lug setup as it gets old seeing someone's race get ruined because they had 1 loose lugnut out of a possible 20.

Since we're on the topic of the new car, have any of the manufacturers hinted when they will be unveiling their cars? I was expecting them to be shown during the 500 week for obvious reasons but that didnt happen.
 
Well we’re 11 months away from the start of the 2021 season and there’s been a grand total of 3 prototypes of the new car built so far. “Rushed” seems to be an apt word for everything to happen.

I also don’t care about the lugnut, pit stops are irrelevant to racing for me.
 
Northstar
I'm fine with the move to a single lug setup as it gets old seeing someone's race get ruined because they had 1 loose lugnut out of a possible 20.
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Also valve stems getting zinged off from contact with a wayward nut or spinning impact socket.
 
opelgt1969
Now all we need to get rid of is that useless jack and the caution at end of stages, the stages are OK but we don't need to allow the cars on pit row every time. Would be nice to do away with that bomb the pit crew takes over the wall, let's fuel the cars like Indy/F1 cars.
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Both of those pit related things are supposedly possibilities with the fueling one seeming more likely to be happening than not.

https://www.autoweek.com/racing/a30351017/next-gen-what-we-know-about-nascars-new-car/
 
bloodyboyblue
Well we’re 11 months away from the start of the 2021 season and there’s been a grand total of 3 prototypes of the new car built so far. “Rushed” seems to be an apt word for everything to happen.

I also don’t care about the lugnut, pit stops are irrelevant to racing for me.
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How are things being "rushed"?
 

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