2023 NASCAR Discussion ThreadNASCAR
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- ScottPuss20
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Hey where you at Penske? HELLOOOOOOO??? You're getting your arse kicked by RFK!
Good to see a different Ford team mixing it up at the front.
Good to see a different Ford team mixing it up at the front.
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- NotThePrez
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Gragson is officially out of Legacy Motor Club.
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That was unusually quick for Front Row. Usually they wait until January to announce their driver lineup.
As for that "JR Motorsports" tweet, I also highly doubt they'd be heavily invested in the Milwaukee Brewers. Do note the underscore at the end and the lack of the yellow checkmark the real JR Motorsports account has (as well as the FRM account linked to above on their early 2024 driver announcement) as a Twitter/X-confirmed affiliate of NASCAR.
One more item - per Jayski, NASCAR also moved the Indy road course restart zone to between turns 13 and 14 (had been just before the start/finish line on the front straight), and are not requiring drivers to remain in their lane past said zone. The choose V (first time on the road course) will be before turn 7.
As for that "JR Motorsports" tweet, I also highly doubt they'd be heavily invested in the Milwaukee Brewers. Do note the underscore at the end and the lack of the yellow checkmark the real JR Motorsports account has (as well as the FRM account linked to above on their early 2024 driver announcement) as a Twitter/X-confirmed affiliate of NASCAR.
One more item - per Jayski, NASCAR also moved the Indy road course restart zone to between turns 13 and 14 (had been just before the start/finish line on the front straight), and are not requiring drivers to remain in their lane past said zone. The choose V (first time on the road course) will be before turn 7.
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The question is how Trackhouse gets the third charter because both Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez signed multi-year contracts earlier this year. The 51 is 3 points behind 33rd place in owners' points (the 77), and the charter, as the 15, was in the bottom-3 in 2021 and 2022, so if they don't improve, NASCAR should be seizing that charter at the end of the season.
Related to that, Rick Ware is probably kicking himself for swapping the 15 and 51 charters before the start of the season - the 15 is 22 points up on 33rd place, and with his son no longer racing, he could have used the money from a charter sale to help Justin Haley's chances.
The other possible sources for a charter for 2024 - the 78 (Live Fast will be on the third year of the bottom-3 clock as the team is solidly in 36th, and they're a Chevy team running ECR engines like Trackhouse), the 77 (Ty Dillon is reportedly on his way out of Spire's second ride, and Spire is a Chevy team, though aligned with Hendrick), and the 42 (GMS-Pet...er...Legacy has already jettisoned Noah Gragson, and they are a 2-car team about to move to Toyota, which hasn't supported 6 teams since -edit-Furniture Row went back to 1 team after the 2017 season).
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This is a better flow of racing and they should eliminate stage breaks at every track, not just road courses. It really seems to me that the best way to get a driver prepared for a Cup race is to run in some type of TC series. SVG ran very well he just wasn't as fast as the top 3 and Kostecki made a decent effort following the crash in qualifying. Kobayashi was in the top 20 early but fell out after getting spun and just not as quick of a car. Button and Rockenfeller were basically also rans. I was confused though why Almirola's car was stopped on pit road and they didn't call anything in regards to that.
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Yay, a race which didn't turn into a farce! More of this please NASCAR.
