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Max Rockatansky

Hopefully she can get a top twenty on an oval (assuming she runs another this year).  The social media talk about a rookie driver in her 40s has been really shitty. 


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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2025, 05:26:22 PMHopefully she can get a top twenty on an oval (assuming she runs another this year).  The social media talk about a rookie driver in her 40s has been really shitty. 

That is very unlikely as long as she is in the 78 unless it is a huge attrition race (probably even moreso than Atlanta last week).  Having stated that, I am glad that she ran well at a road course.
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Quote from: 74/171FAN on July 06, 2025, 06:40:00 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2025, 05:26:22 PMHopefully she can get a top twenty on an oval (assuming she runs another this year).  The social media talk about a rookie driver in her 40s has been really shitty. 

That is very unlikely as long as she is in the 78 unless it is a huge attrition race (probably even moreso than Atlanta last week).  Having stated that, I am glad that she ran well at a road course.

I've always wondered how Live Fast stays in operation.  They kind of strike me as having much in common with the field-filler teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s. 

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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2025, 06:46:19 PMI've always wondered how Live Fast stays in operation.  They kind of strike me as having much in common with the field-filler teams of the late 1990s and early 2000s. 

Well they did sell that 78 charter for $40 million a couple years ago so that has to be part of it.
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Quote from: 74/171FAN on July 06, 2025, 06:40:00 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 06, 2025, 05:26:22 PMHopefully she can get a top twenty on an oval (assuming she runs another this year).  The social media talk about a rookie driver in her 40s has been really shitty. 

That is very unlikely as long as she is in the 78 unless it is a huge attrition race (probably even moreso than Atlanta last week).  Having stated that, I am glad that she ran well at a road course.

She could be a top 10 driver on road courses in good equipment, but she's way too weak on ovals to get a full time ride.

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Wonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)
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Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.
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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

NWI_Irish96

Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:44:25 PM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

My problem with the current format is that in a series with several kinds of tracks, the championship is decided on a single track. If you really want the most deserving champion, have the championship decided by a 3-race total points affair, with a road course, short track, and 1.5 mile oval.
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Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:44:25 PM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

Assuming he doesn't have his accident at Michigan, Ernie Irvan probably wins in 1994 in that instance as well.

I wonder, other than rovals (Phoenix, Charlotte, Texas World, Homestead when it was built in '95) how many road courses aside from Sonoma and Watkins Glen had enough garage and pit road space for a full Cup (and possibly Busch/trucks) field at the time. Maybe just Laguna Seca and Road America.
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NWI_Irish96

Quote from: Takumi on July 07, 2025, 04:18:48 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:44:25 PM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

Assuming he doesn't have his accident at Michigan, Ernie Irvan probably wins in 1994 in that instance as well.

I wonder, other than rovals (Phoenix, Charlotte, Texas World, Homestead when it was built in '95) how many road courses aside from Sonoma and Watkins Glen had enough garage and pit road space for a full Cup (and possibly Busch/trucks) field at the time. Maybe just Laguna Seca and Road America.

Never been to any of them so I have no idea if they have what's required, but just off the top of my head:

Mid-Ohio
Montreal
Portland
Sebring
Daytona has a road course
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Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 04:29:31 PM
Quote from: Takumi on July 07, 2025, 04:18:48 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:44:25 PM
Quote from: NWI_Irish96 on July 07, 2025, 03:33:33 PM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on July 07, 2025, 03:18:11 PM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 07, 2025, 03:09:13 PMWonder what King Richard thinks about SVG and his playoff qualification now?

(I missed the race, but sounds like I missed a good one.)

My take on road course wins is that they just as legitimate (if not more) than restrictor plate tracks.  Road courses at least require skill, plate track winners often just lucky.

If NASCAR ran as many road courses back in the 1990s-2000s as they do now, Jeff Gordon would have retired with about a dozen championships.

Mark Martin would have certainly had at least one.

Assuming he doesn't have his accident at Michigan, Ernie Irvan probably wins in 1994 in that instance as well.

I wonder, other than rovals (Phoenix, Charlotte, Texas World, Homestead when it was built in '95) how many road courses aside from Sonoma and Watkins Glen had enough garage and pit road space for a full Cup (and possibly Busch/trucks) field at the time. Maybe just Laguna Seca and Road America.

Never been to any of them so I have no idea if they have what's required, but just off the top of my head:

Mid-Ohio
Montreal
Portland
Sebring
Daytona has a road course

Yeah, those all would fit. Probably Road Atlanta too.
Quote from: Rothman on July 15, 2021, 07:52:59 AM
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