re: 2023 NASCAR Season Thread - 2023-24 Offseason

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If/when Chevy cut ties and support, why couldn’t they have just fast tracked to Toyota? I mean you can’t make that change in a week, but I’d think it would be mutually beneficial to Toyota and LMC to be running Toyota’s in the back half of the year.

I’m sure there’s some red tape, but would think Toyota could handle it (buyouts) and basically make LMC the test dummies for other Toyota’s in playoffs.

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I don’t think it would be logistically possible to make a switch during the year from a parts and manufacturing standpoint. Especially not in the Next-Gen era where parts shortages have been an issue.

I don’t think the ringers have any advantages like Chicago. Firstly, it was a new track and Nascar ever barred regulars from XFinity race to not get any track time. Ringers got an hour practice. Then you had rain and it changed everything. Nascar drivers are all about downforce and grip whereas ringers drive roads in all kinds of weather.

Everything was stacked against nascar regulars and favored ringers. That won’t be the case at Indy. Its not new and Nascar regulars have driven it way more than ringers. The restarts at Indy are a total dive bomb wreckfest and drivers use outside corner 1 cars as their brake for corner.

I think a reg wins it. Ginsberg was a great story but he maybe should have skipped this race in case he doesn’t do well which could hurt his stock. People have him in top 5 already so anything less will seem dissapointing to the fans and pundits.

Expect more carnage if same rules as last year. Restarting mid straitaway is dumb amd allows cars too much speed yet no separation in corner 1 causing massive wrecks. Need to make start just before tuen 1 or even right after. Then can see top cars “race” each other not be best dive bomber painting notches on car as trophies.

Single file would help but thats 40 cars long so would be a long snake. Drivers were shown up in Chicago and my guess is they don’t play as nice with SVG this time around. Plus with Chicago being all concrete lined it was more single file race. Indy has way more raceability and run off areas so drivers will take more risks and do more pushing. Its cool so many ringers though but I don’t think they win.

The 9, 99, 16, 34, 54, 14, 48, and 2 all need a win and have been good on road courses. Those guys will not give any quarter to a ringer the next two weeks. Throw in the 45 who has had a rough summer with errors costing him potentially 3-4 wins, and I think the ringers will have a tough time finishing in the top 10 this weekend.

Noah is officially done at Legacy

So apparently he was not fired as was initially reported.

Noah quit before they fired him.

Joey Logano’s voice is struggling.

Smoke just dominates here. Fun to watch

Austin Dillon, Chase Briscoe and Tony Kanaan will miss the main event after the earlier crash in Heat 1.