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re: 2021 NASCAR Season Thread - 2021-22 OFFSEASON

Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:49 pm to
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
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Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:49 pm to
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Elliott Sadler


Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in forever.

Could have been such a good driver. Guess he didn’t have the right ownership and crew chief.
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
27290 posts
Posted on 3/23/21 at 10:56 pm to
He did good in the busch series at least. I raced with him on iracing a while back. He was cool, but got pissed off at some guy.
Posted by prostyleoffensetime
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2009
12707 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 8:30 am to
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He did good in the busch series at least.


He rejuvenated his career in the Busch Series and seemed to kind of figure out that mental health wise, top tier rides in the that series is better than the dumpster fires he was dealt in Cup.
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
27290 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 8:32 am to
I really wanted him to do well as a Yates fan, but he did come in as the team was going down.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 8:52 am to
Yeah Sadler deserved better. He had top-10 talent but could never find a team worth a damn. And when he did finally land w/such a team, Evernham, as luck would have it Ray lost his edge and the team went downhill.

Too bad SHR wasn't around then. He could of won quite a bit w/them IMO. He was a good driver.
Posted by Paul Allen
Montauk, NY
Member since Nov 2007
78581 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:01 am to
He could have won with Ganassi racing. Were they around back then?
Posted by prostyleoffensetime
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2009
12707 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 9:43 am to
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He could have won with Ganassi racing. Were they around back then?


They were around, but were just starting to come up as a multi car team. Ganassi merged with DEI and started to catch a little stride, but it was right around the time things were falling apart at Evernham.
Posted by Roll Tide Ravens
Birmingham, AL
Member since Nov 2015
51907 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 7:44 pm to
IRacing Pro Invitational Series race on the Bristol dirt tonight. Been a lot of drama on Twitter about Timmy Hill not getting invited to race in it over the last few days, but Keselowski couldn’t do it tonight and Timmy Hill will drive the 2 car.
This post was edited on 3/24/21 at 7:46 pm
Posted by BuddyRoeaux
Northshore
Member since Jun 2019
2784 posts
Posted on 3/24/21 at 7:48 pm to
If this goes well for this weekend, will NASCAR try to implement a dirt track race into the circuit or do y’all think this will be just a flash in the pan?
Posted by Wishnitwas1998
where TN, MS, and AL meet
Member since Oct 2010
64537 posts
Posted on 3/25/21 at 10:18 pm to
Barring disaster I would expect this race to be dirt at Bristol in the spring for the foreseeable future
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
27290 posts
Posted on 3/25/21 at 11:16 pm to
Yeah it'll be this way from here on. They finally realized that no one wants to watch cookie cutters over and over.
Posted by BuddyRoeaux
Northshore
Member since Jun 2019
2784 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 6:39 am to
But Bristol isn’t a cookie cutter compared to the 1.5’s. Ide like to see them bring back Bristol as a paved track but do away with some 1.5’s and go to a track that was designed as a mud short track. What do I know.... Not my money, not my business.
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
27290 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 7:21 am to
No, it's not. But the repave or whatever they did to it a while back really screwed it up.
Posted by PJinAtl
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2007
14663 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 7:37 am to
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But the repave or whatever they did to it a while back really screwed it up.
Didn't they do something like progressive banking or something to try to develop multiple racing grooves?

They wanted to make it more competitive and do away with the bump and run, but that was what people loved about Bristol were the bumps that turned into more than bumps.
Posted by EarlyCuyler3
Appalachia
Member since Nov 2017
27290 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 6:23 pm to
Yeah I can't remember exactly what they did now, but it made the high line the fast line which is opposite of what it always was.
Posted by TiptonInSC
Aiken, SC
Member since Dec 2012
21245 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 6:41 pm to
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They finally realized that no one wants to watch cookie cutters over and over.


They're just teasing us. They'll go back to the cookie cutters before you know it.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
43337 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 6:47 pm to
I think you're wrong on this one
Posted by BuddyRoeaux
Northshore
Member since Jun 2019
2784 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 9:04 pm to
Yeah, they’ve hemorrhage too much viewership... have to go back to the roots.
Take away downforce and aerodynamics & lower the horsepower would be a start. It’s crazy to think many of the safety features you see standard in automobiles came from nascar. EX: power steering.
Posted by prostyleoffensetime
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2009
12707 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 9:28 pm to
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Yeah I can't remember exactly what they did now, but it made the high line the fast line which is opposite of what it always was.


Progressive banking.

Dale Jr says they should go back to asphalt. They switched from asphalt to concrete in 92. Concrete still produced a lot of great action in the mid-late 90’s thru mid 2000’s, so I don’t about the asphalt vs concrete. but when they went to progressive banking like 10 years ago, it got boring.
Posted by Yellerhammer5
Member since Oct 2012
11051 posts
Posted on 3/26/21 at 10:09 pm to
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lower the horsepower


If they lower the horsepower any further, it’ll be the Kentucky derby.
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