RIP Nascar on NBC, you were marginally better of the two legacy networks.

On "Hauler Talk," @mforde weighs in on the "regular season champion" discussion:

"Here's where NASCAR stands, in a way: I don't think we care what anyone calls it, really. We're not going to call it the 'regular season champion,' we're not going to call it 'playoffs' and that comes from feedback from the playoff committee."

Forde notes @markmartin brought up that in racing, the competitors don't "play" and so "playoffs" isn't an appropriate term, and Forde said fans agree: they don't love any term that has anything to do with "playoffs" vernacular.

Forde: "Regular season champion -- there's only one champion per season and that's the one who takes home the big trophy. So don't need that anymore either."

He goes on to confirm there's not going to be a regular season trophy anymore. NASCAR is just calling that person the "No. 1 seed" rather than "regular season champion."

(Side note: Forde then directly addresses @TravisRockhold and says "Call it whatever you want, Travis. I'm good. Whatever you want!")

The engines are ready to roar again.
Paramount is finally putting the pedal to the floor on a sequel to Days of Thunder, giving the keys to Jonathan Levine to sit in the driver’s seat as director of the Tom Cruise vehicle.
Cruise is on board to star in the follow-up to his 1990 racing drama and is producing with Jerry Bruckheimer, one of the producers of the original. The feature is intended to be Cruise’s next production.
Paramount’s tapping of Levine, whose deal is in the midst of negotiations, is a strong vote of confidence in Mr. Irrelevant, its upcoming sports drama that Levine helmed. That movie, which stars David Corenswet and has a prime Christmas Day wide release, has been hitting stratospheric highs during test screenings earlier this spring

Denny Hamlin is one of the successful drivers in Nascar, but the only track he has not won it yet. It is Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

In 2018, Hamlin was come close winning at Indy, but then a late caution gave Brad Keselowski a win over him.

In 2020, Hamlin has the dominant car, He has come close, winning with only six laps to go, but then a tire failure sent him into the wall.

In 2021, Hamlin was close winning the 2021 Verizon 200, Then he was caught up in a late wreck with Chase Briscoe ending his hopes of winning.

This is like Larson at ANY drafting track

https://x.com/SiriusXMNASCAR/status/2079926781872611361?s=20

Any shot Logano can equal Blaney's success. If so, he can still win it, imo

https://x.com/spiremotorsport/status/2079937006008766968?s=46

I was listening to DJD this morning and at about the 1:12:30 mark Dale was talking to Marcus Smith about SMI's recent investment CARS Tour. Marcus asked Dale what some of the feedback has been and he said "well people just assumed that welp they are going to race Bristol, they are going to race Rock.....they're going to go to all your racetracks and start racing." It could've been Dale just slipping up but it felt like maybe he knows something we don't yet, and caught himself.

This place was amazing.

Clean and crisp: Bass Pro, Field and Stream has entered the chat.

Rick Crawford was featured in this Roush Yates photo. Do they know?

I was just looking at the schedule and noticed after Iowa the O’Reilly series is off until Daytona at the end of August. They also didn’t race at North Wilkesboro, what comes to my mind is NASCAR is limiting how many smaller tracks they run after the craziness of Martinsville a few years ago. Is there any legitimate reason or is it just the way the schedule fell and I’m reading too much into it?

I wish the TV side of things would show the importance of communication between the driver, CC, and spotter to the casual fans out there during the broadcast. Some think it's just driving in circles with nothing else to it.

In a world where cost cutting means everything…

Could we ever, EVER see teams paint cars again? Here is just one example. Comment your favorite comparisons/paintjobs