I am not a NASCAR enthusiast but I loved the Dale documentary and am fascinated with the legendary Daytona500 track and history. Then, this morning I saw this mural at a restaurant. Curious what the story is. Clearly an OC passion project by someone more than a few decades ago. Most likely made by someone near Wausau Wisconsin

I’m sure this’ll be a common thread, but I’m curious as to where everyone think Layne will end up. He’s definitely too talented to be in trucks another season.

This one should be great

With Quaker State not renewing its title sponsorship of the 2nd Atlanta race, here's the new longest running title sponsors of Cup races:

1. Coca-Cola 600 - Charlotte - 1985

T2. Food City 500 - Bristol - 1992

Toyota/Savemart 350 - Sonoma - 1992

1. Bank of America 400 - Charlotte - 2006

2. Toyota/Savemart 350 - Sonoma - 2007

3. Coke Zero Sugar 400 - Daytona - 2008

4. Hollywood Casino 400 - Kansas - 2012

T8. Firekeepers Casino 400 - Michigan - 2016

Bass Pro Shops Night Race - Bristol - 2016

T10. Pennzoil 400 - Las Vegas - 2018

Go Bowling at the Glen - Watkins Glen - 2018

South Point 400 - Las Vegas - 2018

YellaWood 500 - Talladega - 2018

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

I know the race quality has been up and down over the years, but what were some of the years it was “up?” (Other than 1994)

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

Are there any updates to this? There were multiple withdraws from this race, and some of the series' best haven't returned to the Whelen Modified Tour.

Justin Bonsignore: 4x champion, 4x runner-up, 2nd most wins all time, 246 starts.

Ron Silk: 2 x Champ, 2x runner-up, 8th most wins, 282 starts.

Others that have been away from the series since; Craig Lutz 158 starts, Dave Sapienza 127 starts, Kyle Bonsignore 112 starts.

Side note, I did see Bonsignore and Silk racing in the Monaco Modified Series, and their extended race highlights on Youtube are great.

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

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

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

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

This place was amazing.

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.

Yes, I am aware that her results and speed have regressed since last season. However I’m a believer that she has the talent, and that things are just not falling into place this season.

She has plenty of ARCA experience at this point, 36 races with 23 top 10s and plenty of top 5s. She has contended for wins.

I don’t think this seasons results should depict her future. Some people are great in ARCA and don’t do well afterwards, some people don’t show speed in ARCA and excel outside of it.

If she’s given the opportunity and it doesn’t work out, at least Toyota can say they tried, but now even Boschele is getting his opportunity first, with way less experience.