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Post by monkeesfan on Feb 16, 2015 18:58:05 GMT -5
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Post by miranda3 on Mar 16, 2015 11:32:15 GMT -5
I'd agree with all of this...
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Post by monkeesfan on Mar 16, 2015 13:28:45 GMT -5
Thank you.
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Post by miranda3 on Mar 17, 2015 19:11:47 GMT -5
I was just thinking the other day that really it has boiled down to one super team for each make, with a few smaller teams that can't cut it without the support of a super team. Another thing you said that I have been thinking is that Richard Childress racing is no longer a top team. Especially since Kevin Harvick left. Actually before then.
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Post by monkeesfan on Mar 23, 2015 11:55:27 GMT -5
miranda3 - indeed. And after five races it's shaken out to just two teams - Stewart-Haas and Penske. Everyone else - even, curiously, Hendrick Motorsports - is racing for fifth place at best. The Fords especially are awful - as a Petty fan I'm still hoping Dodge returns.
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Post by miranda3 on Mar 24, 2015 16:42:40 GMT -5
Stewart-Haas is really just a branch of Hendrick if you ask me. Don't they run Hendrick engines?
i read an article the other day about the failure of Roush's team. Basically it seems to me that Penske is pretty much the only Ford team left to amount to anything.
As for Toyota, I think they will leave in the next few years if there is not a major upswing in the program. I look to see Gibbs go back to Chevy sooner or later.
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Post by monkeesfan on Mar 26, 2015 11:46:33 GMT -5
Stewart-Haas runs Hendrick engines and everything else - and I'm astounded they're getting away with beating Hendrick as a customer team - previous times Hendrick customer cars beat his guys he cut them off - JGR saw that coming and built their own engine shop for 1996.
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Post by miranda3 on Mar 26, 2015 20:11:11 GMT -5
Hendrick's cars aren't doing all that great at the moment compared to normal. Junior is besting all his teammates, so clearly something is wrong. LOL
I always was an earnhardt fan but I haven't cared for Junior in more than 10 years. Im tired of the media showing him down everyone's throats, especially because he is so highly overrated...
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Post by monkeesfan on Apr 9, 2015 16:58:56 GMT -5
Unlike other sports stars who seek out the attention - Darrell? - the hype isn't really Junior's fault; he's actually pretty restrained as far as ubiquity goes.
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Post by monkeesfan on Apr 9, 2015 17:01:24 GMT -5
You mentioned Penske and Ford - Penske has long has this ability to politic his way into getting the bulk of engineering help - he did that with Dodge and pretty much drained that program dry; it was also what led him to found CART in 1979, and the biggest irony of his career is he wound up almost being ruined by his own creation by the end of the 1990s.
If Toyota leaves the sport will really be hurt because the costs in racing have become such that it needs the factories.
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 10, 2015 11:16:52 GMT -5
Unlike other sports stars who seek out the attention - Darrell? - the hype isn't really Junior's fault; he's actually pretty restrained as far as ubiquity goes. I agree, it's not really his fault. But I'm long past being a Junior fan. |
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Post by monkeesfan on Apr 26, 2015 23:31:25 GMT -5
Doesn't that beat all?
The first driver in living memory suspended for off-track nastiness, Kurt Busch today beat the stuffing out of the Richmond 400, leading 291 laps for his first win since last year's Virginia 500 at Martinsville. The win further showcased the trend of the season - of the top-20 finishers, fourteen were Chevrolets, and only Joey Logano's Ford led anything close to what Busch led. The win further cemented this season as strictly a two-team shuffle - Hendrick vs. Stewart-Haas.
Non-Chevrolet resistance more and more looks feeble. Toyota's program looks weaker as the season progresses and more and more it appears Carl Edwards is a dismal fit with Joe Gibbs Racing, with nothing in the way of contribution coming from a moribund Michael Waltrip outfit. Meanwhile Ford looks all but dead, especially the Roush bunch, as once again Richard Petty's #43 outclassed the entire Roush fleet, which isn't anything to cheer about as Aric Almirola finished a forgettable 20th. As usual what Ford resistance was offered came from Penske's bunch, and that pretty much fizzled out after 100 laps.
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Post by miranda3 on Apr 30, 2015 20:09:49 GMT -5
I read yesterday that Danica Patrick is losing her Go Daddy sponsorship. I can't believe they stayed with her as long as they have.
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Post by monkeesfan on May 3, 2015 18:09:01 GMT -5
Yes, she is losing that sponsorship. As much as she didn't deserve it, it's never good when a sponsor leaves the sport.
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Post by miranda3 on May 6, 2015 19:06:08 GMT -5
I've noticed the past few years very few cars have the same sponsor on the hood week after week anymore. Almost everyone has a split sponsorship now. I don't think it bodes well for NASCAR.
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