re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread - 2024-25 Offseason

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I agree. I just hope RC and the 3 don't think they are now devoid of retribution or will be given any leeway by his fellow competitors as long as he is in the series. He showed his true colors on Sunday and in his talks since then. Then again self-awareness isn't AD's strong suit, see last year when he wrecked himself and tried to throw his helmet at Reddick because he had to blame someone and he definitely doesn't realize he isn't anything more than a mid packer that can find wins every year or two.

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Dillon has always been a tool. The cowboy hat, reality show, wrecking people to win and thinking it's OK. Good to see the playoff spot taken away and you have to think the attitude from Dillon and RCR played a big part in it.

Jeff Gluck linked on Twitter to his piece in The Athletic saying NASCAR did the right thing … I won’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall … and he’s being savaged by people who say soyboys are pussifying NASCAR by turning it into F1 where drivers can’t make contact and that what happened at Richmond is what NASCAR is all about.

I think what’s right and wrong is cut and dried here. As I’ve observed, however, there’s a significant portion of the fan base that wants what happened at Richmond to be the norm. So does NASCAR run them off?

I think you nailed it

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there’s a significant portion of the fan base that wants what happened at Richmond to be the norm

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I think a large portion of the fanbase doesn't know the difference between a bump and run, door check, or getting someone loose vs a right hook or intentional wreck. I've seen as much on social media and heard as much on the call in show. Listened to one guy either this morning or last night on one of SXM shows ask if NASCAR should take away Reddicks playoff spot for what he did at Darlington. The host pointed out that Reddick made a dumb move trying to get to much too late, but had the 17 not done the same thing causing himself to slap the wall when he was told Reddick was making the move then that contact doesn't happened. The fact that a portion, small large whatever doesn't know that there is a huge difference between trying to do too much and losing it vs intentionally wrecking someone is extremely telling.

I've listened to a lot of drivers at different levels and different experience levels talk about Sunday, and the consensus by guys who drive racecars is that if what AD did gets you black flagged and suspended in karting, local tracks, and the CARS Tour then why should it be ok at the pinnacle of North American Racing?

Bingo.
I'll never be mistaken for an Earnhardt Sr. fan, but I can acknowledge that he was better than all but a few of his competitors. Dillon is at the bottom of the middle of the pack.

Let me choose my words carefully here … a lot of the caricatures people in other racing series have about NASCAR fans and about what they come to see at the races is 100% accurate.

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While I don't think it's right to take the playoff spot away,

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Of course you don't.

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a lot of the caricatures people in other racing series have about NASCAR fans and about what they come to see at the races is 100% accurate

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Oh...I've been to enough tracks to see that. I'll just say my conversations with fans at certain tracks are way different than they are at others. Some fans it's fun to have actual strategy conversations and talk about what a driver is doing with his line and how he is carrying his speed or listening to the RE and discussing strategies that might be divulged. Others well...your caricature is a perfect example. Though some of the caricatures have been way more fun to party with between the xfinity and cup races.

Revson was a badass, great wheelman and a lot tougher than his playboy, jet setting image. Horrible loss to the sport.