re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread

Speed Channel. Speed Sport 1 app carries them, though I can't find the races in Perth this weekend.

I'd rather not pay for SuperView, but their races are outstanding.

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I don't mins it, kind of looks like it will be similar to the Xfinity dash for cash. Non-points bearing, but a $1MM check for the winner. Will use the 3 Amazon races for seeding drivers 1-32 and then have an 'elimination' style tournament over 5 weeks where the drivers will have head-to-head matchups culminating with the winner taking home $1MM. I like it.

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I like it also. I think it gives some juice for the middle part of the season. For example:

It widens the door for gambling. Just like March Madness, it will add the opportunity to not only bet on the overall race but on head to head matchups. Other than baseball and maybe golf, there isn’t much to bet on during the summer months.

Don’t know what 5 tracks they are going to pick but let’s face it, a lot of tracks during the summer months are boring tracks. This could give a little more juice to some of these tracks.

Finally, it has the possibility to create drama and spark some rivalries. You could have 2 drivers battling each other late in the race and a late caution comes out. A final pit stop could happen and it comes down to who wins the battle off of pit road. You could have a scenario like the 5 and 17 at Kansas or what we saw at Darlington this past weekend.

Oval trophy- Richard Petty
Short track trophy- Curtis Turner
Superspeedway trophy- David Pearson

Any other ideas?

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Superspeedway trophy- David Pearson

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I think it has to be Big E. Not only does he have 13 wins, but also had 45 top 5's at superspeedway races. Also could see Fireball, he had 4 wins but only ran 11 races at Daytona (Talladega wasn't open yet).

Different era especially on the superspeedways vs the last 40 years. In Pearson's lone 500 win he and Petty were 2 laps up on 3rd place, they wrecked and Pearson crossed the line after restarting by driving the length of the tri-oval going under 30mph. Meanwhile Petty had to be pushed by his pit crew and they still managed to get his car across the line before third place had completely unlapped himself. Not to detract from that era and the drivers of the era, but four cars at most would unload able to win and most races only one of those would survive until the end. I'd argue the 80's and 90's were they heyday of the sport and especially at the superspeedways and Big E was the king during that era.

Dale Sr won FOUR races that matter at Daytona. Busch races, Clashes, qualifiers, and IROC races don't count for shite.

ETA. Three. You're right.

Bad luck is bad luck. Wins are wins.
Half the field at Busch races were guys who weren't going any higher in the sport. So he won a bunch of races against part-timers and never-weres. Color me unimpressed.

Agree to disagree. Fair enough?

10-4.

May have to come verify and check out the changes at KM and make sure they didn't forget how to make a burger while they were doing everything else.