The NASCAR Thread

[chargerboy69]

He has toned it down some, maybe he's grown up a little, he's a damn good driver thou...

I agree, he is a very good driver, and any team would be lucky to have a driver with his skills.

With that being said, I do not know if I trust him just yet.  True, we have not heard anything about Kurt this year at all,  I am just not convinced. And to take Ryans spot, just another strike against him. 

[thedodgeboys]

mark Martin will be driving the 14 for the rest of the year for Stewart except for talladega

What if Kurt is to take over the 14 car and Tony and Mark split a car next year???

[JB400]

I guess Vickers is going to run the rest of the year in the 55?  That'll be good.  He might make the rest of the year interesting.

I don't think Tony will be interested in a part time ride.  I also don't think that Kurt will be in the 14 if he goes over there.  It'll probably be the 39  since Harvick will be in the 4.  Martin could share a ride with someone in the 39

[Aero426]

Larson is good, but I'm not for sure if he's good enough for Cup.  My bet is that Newman ends up in the 42.  

Larson will get the #42 ride.   He is under contract with Ganassi for eight years.    The weekend of the Road America Nationwide race in June, Larson was going to drive a local sprint car.    That got nixed because the story was, that he had a meeting to be introduced to the Target people.     Sounds like he is locked into that deal.   They have no doubts in his abilities because he can handle high HP sprint cars.   

[Budnicks]

He has toned it down some, maybe he's grown up a little, he's a damn good driver thou...

I agree, he is a very good driver, and any team would be lucky to have a driver with his skills.

With that being said, I do not know if I trust him just yet.  True, we have not heard anything about Kurt this year at all,  I am just not convinced. And to take Ryans spot, just another strike against him. 

I don't/wouldn't hold it against Kurt, that's the nature of the business, but I still like Ryan too, I hope he settles in somewhere, where he can thrive & win....

[JB400]

Truck race is on right now on that new Espn channel Fox 1

[JB400]

Rodney Childers is leaving MWR and going to be Harvick's crew chief next year.  That might put a dent in the 55 next year, even though Vickers will be in it full time.

[thedodgeboys]

Rodney Childers is leaving MWR and going to be Harvick's crew chief next year.  That might put a dent in the 55 next year, even though Vickers will be in it full time.

Yah makes one wonder if they would have let Mark leave early if they would have known Childers was leaving, not much of a head start for Vickers now.

[Budnicks]

Dang it I almost missed all the Bristol Race, 51 to go, I didn't think of looken' over at ABC for race coverage...

[TruckDriver]

I missed most of it too. Only saw maybe 50 or 70 laps

[JB400]

Congrats to Kayne for giving a clean race, even though he had several opportunities to spin out Kenseth.  Kenseth won, and JJ rear ended a guy and ruined his night.

[nvrbdn]

kurt busch signed an agreement to join stewart haas racing to expand their team to 4 drivers.

[moparstuart]

kurt busch signed an agreement to join stewart haas racing to expand their team to 4 drivers.

Yup when he was the only fish in the pond , he has settled down and been great again  .   Being just another fish on a 4 man team .  I can see this going bad very fast .   

[Aero426]

Team meetings should be interesting.   As someone put it, they are the most "personality rich" team in NASCAR.

[General_01]

kurt busch signed an agreement to join stewart haas racing to expand their team to 4 drivers.

I was reading an article that said Gene Haas courted Kurt Busch on his own and told him he would pay for the team if no sponsor could be found. Sounds like Tony was left out of the loop on this one. 

[JB400]

I want to know what Stewart Haas is really thinking?  I call it a bonehead move to jump to a 4 car team.  Wouldn't it make mores sense to get your current cars more competitive?  I use Childress as an example.  When he went to a 4 car team, the whole team suffered.  Losing one car and redistributing his resources to the other cars benefitted the whole team.  Roush is another example of this as well.  This is why Penske doesn't go to a 3 car team.  Stewart Haas is not a front runner team.  I call them a 2nd rate team at best much like Earnhardt Ganassi.  They have their moments, but they're not consistent enough.

As far as Kurt,   He should have stayed where he was at if he could, and continued rebuilding his reputation.  Right now, he is the center of attention at Furniture Row.  He will not get the same attention or resources at SH. If he, or Harvick are successful, I predict that those resources will be redirected to Stewart and maybe even Danica, leaving them both 2nd fiddle.  Bad call in my opinion.

[thedodgeboys]

I think it's going to be great.....





The 42 cars driver is being announced this Friday at 2:30 I bet it's Larson 

Maybe Newman will go to the 78 now that its available  I would hate to see him as a 4th car at Childress.

[JB400]

Big question, will the 3 be back for Dillon?

[A383Wing]

Stewart says they can't afford a 4 car team and dumps Newman in favor of Harvick? Now after all this crap...Stewart-Hass can make a 4 car team now? I call BS....

I think it was wrong for Kurt to leave the 78 team...he has basically built them from nothing...

[nvrbdn]

 

[Budnicks]

I hope Kurt does well...   I'm not a Debbie doubter     or an A-Typical Kurt hater either   now wreckers or checkers Kyle is a completely different Busch bros. all together... I think the guy/Kurt has an extreme amount of driving/racing ability & talent {so does Kyle, but I really don't like that guy}, only if he/Kurt learns how to deal with the media {those A--Holes could also give the guy a little bit of a break too, yanken' his chain & provoking him all the time, freaken' no talent wanta-bees} & Kurt learns how to respect his people, that are on the radio with him, trying to help him, they also could shut the hell up sometimes too, he's driving... I know most all the BS over the radio is in the heat of the moment too, driving at speeds that you could get hurt really bad or killed, emotions will & should be running high... Their adrenaline is at it's peak 1000% going around the track, it's not easy to just shut it off like a light switch, like so many of them Robot drivers seem to do nowadays... IMHFO it's become the damn wussification of NASCAR {like most sports are today}, they can't say chit, with out being fine, unless it's Jr. JJ or Jeff Gordon, they Nascar say "have it it boys", then Nascar spank them for having any outburst or personality that isn't like one of the damn Robots spouting all the same Nascar Kool-Aid Drinken' media crap & they wonder why they have lost viewership ??.... I doubt much if any of radio BS, is taken all that personally, buy the crew either, it's typical media over-blown media hype, commentator BS to fill too much damn air time & all the PC wanta-bee's media followers, that jump on that band wagon... I personally think he can be the best driver on the Newman Haas team now, don't get me wrong, I still really like Tony  always have & I still like Ryan & think he's a top teer driver too, but Kurt has also proven that he can drive also win & with far less resources than many of the other "so called marque or top teer drivers", have available to them.... I see it as a great move for Kurt, he has mellowed some so far, maybe he has actually learned his lesson, maybe he will be like a train wreck you can't help but watch too... IMHFO it's just the nature of the business, drivers move all over the place, all the time now, it ain't 1969 anymore...  not meant to ruffle any feathers, it's just what I see

[Ponch ®]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these came from somebody here...

Boners, F-Bombs, And GoDaddy: Inside NASCAR's 18,359 FCC Complaints

[A383Wing]

I hope Kurt does well also, I just don't see it happening. Where he is at now with the 78 team, it's one car, one driver, all one team doing what they do best, run up front & win races. Now he's going to be part of a 4 team unit and probably not be as good as he is now....I think he's gonna get lost in the shuffle

The Dillon brothers need to stay in Nationwide series as far as I'm concerned....something about those 2 kids bug the shit outta me, besides riding Grampa Richard's money train.

[TruckDriver]

NASCAR driver Truex has fractured wrist

CORNELIUS, N.C. (AP) -- An MRI has confirmed that Martin Truex Jr. fractured his right wrist in a wreck during Saturday night's race at Bristol.

Michael Waltrip Racing said Tuesday that that Truex has a scaphoid fracture and sprain. He's been fitted with a special cast that allows him to grip the steering wheel and he is expected to finish the season after being cleared by NASCAR.

Truex currently holds the first wild card position with two races to go to set the 12-driver field for the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.

MWR said it has not yet determined if a stand-by driver is needed for this weekend's race in Atlanta.

[Budnicks]

I wouldn't be surprised if some of these came from somebody here... :lolBoners, F-Bombs, And GoDaddy: Inside NASCAR's 18,359 FCC Complaints

Ponch, I especially like the one claiming the Nascar & Bill France, is teaming up with the KKK to spy on the WH, of all places T-Mobile & Verison, some idiot extremist wacko-nut-job... some are just really too funny... I do somewhat agree with the some of the complaining about, all the damn erectile dysfunctional commercials constantly, it's really too much sometimes, let alone all the rest of the Pharmaceutical commercials bombarding the airways today... I wouldn't waste my breath complaining about it to Nascar or the commission thou, it's big money they wont ever turn that $$$$$$$$$ down... I actually like most of the goDaddy, beer & burger commercials they were all complaining about thou... Yeah I can think of a few posters on here too, that would send in complaints, like those.... I'm not sure why they even air any of the radio conversations between crews & drivers ever anyway, it doesn't need to be aired, they know that cussing type crap happens all the time... I think it's kind of for media shock factor or something along those lines, coverage is so bad, it's kind of constant editorialized, filling dead air time, just show the race & comment on it only... IMHFO I'm not really sure why they can't have a 10sec.-30sec. delay at-least, to catch a bulk of the f-bombs etc. from being aired... The Beyoncé gyrating deal, that was another funny one too, but IMHFO that stuff shouldn't be aired either, not on the Super Bowl Half time anyway, they can always air that stuff latter, when children aren't watching, when it's mostly adults are the audiences... Just like all the shock jock factor crap, borderline pornography on stage, on of the MTV Awards same type deal... It doesn't bother me really, but I don't have small children in the house any more just my perverted dirty old Pops    all over, when anything in a skirt is showed on the screen...LOL...