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McMurray's last good season in the 1 was 2015.
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https://twitter.com/LASTCARonBROCK/status/1070139760264396800
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Sounds like McMurray is going to run the Clash, Daytona 500, and then move to the front office at Ganassi: http://racereviewonline.com/2018/12/mcmurray-headed-to-advisory-role-with-cgr-why-ganassi-values-that-role-for-his-organizations/
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Dec 5, 2018 04:13
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Hard to beat him for a receptionist.
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Dec 5, 2018 04:34
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Winning the Truck Series championship not enough to prevent Brett Moffitt from losing his ride Hattori Racing has reached an agreement with a funded driver for the 2019 season https://autoweek.com/article/nascar/winning-truck-series-championship-not-enough-prevent-brett-moffitt-losing-his-ride 
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Dec 5, 2018 18:01
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It's just hard to put to words how great the sport is doing. Oh wait, SLIDE JOB, those are the words?
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Dec 5, 2018 18:35
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big nipples big life posted:Winning the Truck Series championship not enough to prevent Brett Moffitt from losing his ride Championship-winning Cup team folds one year after winning championship Truck Series champion without a ride in 2019 Xfinity Series named worst customer service 
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Dec 5, 2018 18:48
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To be realistic most of the lower 2/3s or more of every other racing series is talentless ride buyers so it makes sense that NASCAR would eventually get there. There aren't enough good cars that can get sponsors on their own to fit all the talented drivers, it sucks but that's racing in the 21st century.
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Dec 5, 2018 18:53
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Championship winning teams folding within a year and championship winning drivers without rides for the next season is not business as usual, it's a bunch of lovely things all coming together at once that indicate a series is currently in a terrible loving state from top to bottom. Of course pay drivers exist, and people with more talent but not as much cash as the next guy face an uphill struggle, but your series champion straight up getting dropped is ridiculous. If Moffitt doesn't get a ride in trucks or xfinity next year it'll be a loving disgrace.
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Dec 6, 2018 03:14
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Reynold posted:If Moffitt doesn't get a ride in trucks or xfinity next year it'll be a loving disgrace. This makes me continue to appreciate how smart Indycar was to implement the MRTI scholarships and basically guarantee rides the next level up for the junior formula champions. Giving enough money to a Trucks/Xfinity champion to move up to Xfinity/Cup for a few races isn't really viable strategy given the nature of the NASCAR season, but NASCAR has got to do a way better job (read: do something, anything) to invest in the future top drivers that will keep the series relevant.
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Dec 6, 2018 03:20
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Who was the last defending champ in a top 3 series to not have a ride the following year? Johnny Benson? I remember KBM trying to get funding for a third truck for him which fell through because Kyle respected him and didn't want the defending champ to not have a ride.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Who was the last defending champ in a top 3 series to not have a ride the following year? Johnny Benson? I remember KBM trying to get funding for a third truck for him which fell through because Kyle respected him and didn't want the defending champ to not have a ride. That's immediately who I thought of. And that was TEN years ago already. He did drive for Red Horse the next year until they folded the team mid-season if I remember right.
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https://twitter.com/MW55/status/1070697396429049857 That's the best thing I've seen out of Michael Waltrip in probably 15 years. SPiTZ posted:That's immediately who I thought of. And that was TEN years ago already. He did drive for Red Horse the next year until they folded the team mid-season if I remember right. They closed the 1 truck after 8 races that year with him 7th in points. They brought it back for whoever the hell Caitlin Shaw was at IRP and then ran it again for some reason at Martinsville for Timothy Peters (who was in the 17 full-time) and he won. Benson came back in 2010 for 5 races and finished top 10 in all of them, with his last race (both that year and overall) being for KBM at Texas.
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Dec 6, 2018 17:18
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Too bad NASCAR doesn't have a Formula E to send their discarded talent to.
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-A bunch of NASCAR agents and ex-team executives have bought the FRM Charter and are starting a team: https://jeffgluck.com/spire-motorsports-purchase-furniture-row-charter/ -JHN confirmed to SRA's 23. Dirt Road Junglist posted:Too bad NASCAR doesn't have a Formula E to send their discarded talent to. Trucks were awesome those few years where they were basically a senior tour of washouts. Sprague, Hornaday, Benson, Todd Bodine, Musgrave, Setzer, Skinner, Hamilton, etc.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Who was the last defending champ in a top 3 series to not have a ride the following year? Johnny Benson? I remember KBM trying to get funding for a third truck for him which fell through because Kyle respected him and didn't want the defending champ to not have a ride. Alan Kulwicki.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Alan Kulwicki. Technically correct, the best *shot*
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Alan Kulwicki. it warms the cockles of my heart that I've been here in spirit all along
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Alan Kulwicki. 
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Alan Kulwicki. I came into the thread at a special moment.
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Boomer The Cannon posted:Alan Kulwicki. oof
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Let's be real here, Kulwicki did have a ride the season after he won the Cup. His career crashed pretty hard though during that season.
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iospace posted:Let's be real here, Kulwicki did have a ride the season after he won the Cup. Way to ruin the joke, mommmmmmm
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iwentdoodie posted:Way to ruin the joke, mommmmmmm Way to miss the other joke I made, dadddddddddd
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Bill France does not approve of jokes that dark.
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Slickdrac posted:Bill France does not approve of jokes that dark. Here's a dark joke for you: NASCAR's future
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iospace posted:Here's a dark joke for you: NASCAR's future but the 2019 package!
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Kulwicki died in an airplane crash on Thursday April 1, 1993. He was returning from an appearance at the Knoxville Hooters in a Hooters corporate plane on a short flight across Tennessee before the Sunday spring race at Bristol. The plane slowed and crashed just before final approach at Tri-Cities Regional Airport near Blountville. The National Transportation Safety Board attributed the crash to the pilot's failure to use the airplane's anti-ice system to clear ice from the engine inlet system. Kulwicki was buried at St. Adalbert's Cemetery in Milwaukee; the funeral was attended by NASCAR President Bill France, Jr. and numerous drivers. Kulwicki's racecar transporter was driven from the rainy track later that Friday morning while other teams and the media watched it travel slowly around the track with a black wreath on its grille. In 2008, Kyle Petty described the slow laps as "the saddest thing I've ever seen at a racetrack... We just sat and cried." Kulwicki had competed in five NASCAR races that season with two Top 5 finishes, and was ranked ninth in points at his death. In his career, he had won five NASCAR Winston Cup races, 24 pole positions, 75 Top 10 finishes, and one championship in 207 races. His car was driven by road course specialist Tommy Kendall on road courses and by Jimmy Hensley at the other tracks. It was raced for most of the 1993 season until the team was sold to Geoff Bodine, who operated it as Geoff Bodine Racing. Kulwicki had been selected to compete in the 1993 International Race of Champions (IROC) series as the reigning Winston Cup champion. He competed in two IROC races before his death, finishing ninth at Daytona and eleventh at Darlington. Dale Earnhardt raced for Kulwicki in the final two IROC races, and the prize money for those races and their fifth place combined points finish was given to the Winston Cup Racing Wives Auxiliary, Brenner Children's Hospital and St. Thomas Aquinas Church charities.
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iospace posted:NASCAR's future 
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Slickdrac posted:Bill France does not approve of jokes that dark.
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Slickdrac posted:Bill France does not approve of jokes that dark. The Frances love their jokes like their drivers, white as hell.
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Rent-A-Cop posted:Jokes under the lights! Jokes lit by the flames of a jet dryer JPM crashed into?
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We might watch the 250 lap Mod race from New Hampshire tonight in Winter Heat. Trying to figure out a time.
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TONIGHT...New Hampshire Motor Speedway lost its fall dates for the top 3 NASCAR touring series to Las Vegas this year but, not to be totally shut out, they came up with a great idea, and tonight we watch it. What is "it"? The longest race in NASCAR Whelen Modified Series history, the Musket 250. Who wins that glorious LOBSTAH or...a musket or generic trophy that says "Good job, dummy, you won" on it? Come find out! Also, maybe other stuff, I have short-length stuff queued up in the channel we haven't actually watched yet. 9pm Eastern/6pm Pacific: https://cytu.be/r/SASCARWinterHeat
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I had to leave before the end of that race but I caught the end of it later. Holy poo poo, that was a great finish and great racing after the first I wonder, though: Is that the kind of racing NASCAR hopes to replicate with the 2019 aero package?
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WindyMan posted:I had to leave before the end of that race but I caught the end of it later. Holy poo poo, that was a great finish and great racing after the first they can't replicate that because Cup cars are far more aerodynamic than mods and mods use bias ply tires instead of radials basically, mods are what I mean when I say chop the spoilers down and make the tires two inches wider
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VikingSkull posted:they can't replicate that because Cup cars are far more aerodynamic than mods and mods use bias ply tires instead of radials Stock cars will never be as fun to watch as modifieds. And nothing will ever be as fun as sprints. Preferably wingless 410s, but I will also accept winged.
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The start times for races were released and they all suck. The Books-A-Million across from DIS is selling old race programs. I looked through them to try and see if they were reproductions but couldn't find any publishing information for anything short of the original release.
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N: Jamie McMurray will join FOX next season after the Daytona 500 for pre-race and weekday shows. V: How many drivers of varying level of talent does FOX have working RaceHub or RaceDay? I don't watch either one much, but I've seen Wally, Bobby Labonte, Regan Smith, AJ Allmendinger, Jeff Gordon, now JMac.
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