Here comes Larson...

Good top 5 racing.

Things are getting TIGHT! Blaney almost wrecked with Larson on his door.

Keselowski in the wall.

Amazing. Busch is gonna get back on the lead lap after the early wreck.

Logano edges Elliott at the line for stage 2.

Strongest non-plate performance by Logano this year by far.

18 for sure has some aero advantage wing damage lol...15th! and moving up!

Elliott to the lead, finally able to get around Logano, slidejob.

Bad luck for Almirola, had a good run going. Top 5 car at least.

Bowyer and Truex now. So many different leaders tonight, geez.

Busch up to 6th! and closing.

OMG fan favorite Busch might pull this off.

Wow. He wrecked him. It's on now. Truex not gonna be happy.

Looks like 18 misjudged it, but doesn't matter, it happened. He wrecked him.

This race has been insane.

Wow wow wow wow

Adult keebler elf gets it. jfc what a race.

#BristolNightRace

Yikes, Furniture Row announces it is shutting down at the end of the season due to lack of funding -- one year after winning the Cup championship.

https://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsp...shutting-down/

Charlotte Roval qualifying is on. First new track on the Cup schedule in how long?

Action packed Roval race last weekend. Had a little bit of everything. Loved it .

Bump because you watched the Daytona 500.

Wow goes to show how little attention I've been paying the past several years, as this post was from 2018. I had no idea Home Depot got out after 2014 and I watched the 500 and didn't even notice a lack of a Lowe's car. I really hope they can salvage the sport even though I'm not a big fan anymore (was never a HUGE fan fwiw). I guess the ratings for the 500 were better this year which is slightly encouraging.

That makes you a fanatic around these parts . But, yep Lowe's is out, Ally Bank is in, full primary for the year on the 48. The sport is leveling out to a sustainable level from the boom imo, considering all the factors of reduced interest (cars/driving in general, cord cutting, live sports tv watching and viewing in general). Jim France seems a god send, compared to Brian, thankfully.

In poker related news, Global Poker is debuting their sponsorship of Kurt Busch's #1 car this weekend. I have no idea the last time there was a poker sponsor on a Cup car, if ever.

I forgot I had got bored and NASCAR withdrawals before Daytona this year, typed up this recap of 2018, I'll go ahead and leave it here.




Let us recap last season and our 2018 MENCS Champion Joey Logano!

Things started off very slow for Mr. Logano, so slow he undoubtedly would not have Championshipped without said playoff system, but that’s okay! Remember the Kenseth incident? (of course you do). Well, this was Logano’s Revenge Tour and it began with a chromehorn victim named Truex:



An unhappy camper post race Truex would put this out there:


Ultimately, he would get all the lols when Logano goes screaming past him at Homestead claiming the Championship:


As for the bulk of the season, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick dominated under the regular season point system format with 8 wins each 22/23 top 5s 28/29 top 10s. Kyle prevailing in a close battle. Those are insanely dominating numbers for a 36 race season with 4 plate tracks on the schedule.
Jimmie Johnson completed another abysmal season for his standards with no wins. That is 2 years in a row. HMS has struggled across the board on speed with all 4 cars. Chevy as a whole continues to struggle compared to Ford and Toyota with the new Camaro ZL1 nose.

Here’s a list of all the driver seat changes silly season etc:

DC Solar (a major sponsor for Chip Ganassi racing) was raided by the FBI over the holidays for who knows what. That’s 2 major sponsor losses for Chip after Target’s departure early last year. That has to hurt. Could affect equipment with Larson and Kurt. McMurray has finally been ousted out of the #1 car, a long time coming imo.

Bubba has a disappointing season after a 2nd place finish at Daytona to start the season and full thread support. He’ll look to rebound, I honestly thought he would have a stronger car than he ended up having, but the King Petty does not seem too interested in fielding a competitive cup car. Just goes to show that plate tracks are indeed the great equalizer. He also takes the title for hardest wreck of the year:


“The Package”: One of the biggest changes to this season is yet another horsepower reduction (supposedly into the neighborhood of 550 hp) on mile and a half tracks. They experimented with a similar 400 hp package at the all-star race that drew praise from the fans that attended. It essentially turned Charlotte into a hybrid plate track with increased drafting importance. There was a large contingent of cars all grouped up just behind the leader. Definitely different than anything we’ve ever seen before. Personally, I’m not a huge fan of wide open momentum racing, but I am willing to take the wait and see approach.

NASCAR continues to make significant changes, with the statement "Everything is on the table".

Also, fight during qualifying yesterday.

https://mobile.twitter.com/nascarman...00409698177025

https://mobile.twitter.com/nascarcas...79455366504448

lol at guy wearing a helmet and still losing the fight.

Didn't know there was a Mexican in NASCAR, looks like I have someone to root for now.

nascar just reported newmans injuries are not life-threatening. that was one of the worst crashes i have seen.