He won four races last year. While also winning twelve Nationwide races.
People like to say KB won't win a championship and they could be right but I doubt it's because of running more races or lower series. He is one who enjoys racing, yes winning doesn't hurt but people are so blinded by things they aren't seeing the biggest picture with him. He isn't the only guy who would like to race more, or can afford to but one of the few who actually does it. He has built a top truck team and employees alot of folks, that's huge these days....also helps smaller teams out. Nemco is one of their customers!
And it's also pathetic that Martin Truex, Jr. - who won a race last year - is doing awful in the Furniture Row Racing Chevrolet that brought Kurt Busch to the Chase before. And won at Darlington with Regan Smith in 2011. Truex having accomplished more than Kurt Busch last year and only getting screwed over because of Spingate, why is he doing so terrible all of a sudden?
Truex has never been much of a threat in Cup, I think his time at MWR they found a good package for them as a team along with Bowyer...now that is all messed up. They went from 2 chase guys, multiple wins to being a top 15-20 team most weeks at this rate.....they lost alot after last year. As far as Regan, I'm not a fan but he was one who wanted the most the day he won....but that doesn't mean he deserve a top ride anymore. Kurt has some of the best talent in the garage but he isn't easy on cars or himself, so that' plays a big part of the difference at times.
After what, three years of full-time Cup competition, something that Danica Patrick is yet to have completed? And Hornish might just be done in NASCAR, only running part-time Nationwide this year with no presence in Cup this year as of September.
And Jeff Burton finished 24th in his rookie year and dropped like a rock to 32nd the year after. Fast-forward to 1997 where he started to win multiple races per-season.
BK didn't do so hot his first year in Cup (not the few races but first year with Penske), then look what happened. It can be done, but most don't have it happen. If you ask me Danica's talent level in racing in most series will always be somewhere in the mid pack or back. You can't have everyone be a top talent even if in the top series of any form of motorsport, I've said this time and time again. Mother nature's rules always will play out no matter how the hand is stacked. Just look at Cup, there are really on any given weekend 8-12 drivers who can win without stepping foot on the track, most of the field will finish between about 12-32ish are somewhat close in talent levels (that can change a touch depending on track, car) and the back markers will normally always be there no matter what car you put them in on a track. Look at Landon Cassill, his cars are closer to the lower half of the field around 30-40th and he usually runs alot better in both series.
Keep in mind that some of Danica Patrick's DNF's were mechanical failures when she was having a good run (most notably Indianapolis). Others she crashed, some her fault, some caused by others.
Parts failure is a part but she hasn't exactly been making noise before that either. I think that's the biggest reason we see the issue around her being in a top ride. If she was battling top 5 then engine blows or a wreck or something...most will over look it saying she was racing upfront. If it happens in 30th....big difference to most considering the car itself she is driving.
Paul Menard doesn't have a vagina, and he isn't the best. But the reason RCR keeps him is the fact that he brings dough to the organization through the way of his family's company.
Valid point but it isn't as if he is running 35th each week either. You can't count him out a most 1.5 milers these days, and has almost got a few wins this year if things had played out a little better.
It does, because unless you're watching you have no clue about the circumstances from the drop of the green to the checkered flag. About the only things you knew about the race - I'm guessing - is what we've posted here, or what the NASCAR Live Leaderboard said.
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