re: 2024 NASCAR Season Thread - 2024-25 Offseason

Burton takes another playoff spot, so it’ll be interesting to see how the points look.

He ain't looking at the mantle when he's stoking the fire.

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Butter face.

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Great night for Virginia

He beats himself up too much

Jeff Burton is my favorite driver, and I quit paying a lot of attention to NASCAR after he retired.

Got to admit, I was screaming for the kid that last lap. Just like old times.

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The 62 car (Beard Motorsports) is affiliated with RCR. Retzlaff was in 4th, so had he not taken the top when they chose lanes he would have gone back to the third row because Bell in 3rd took the bottom.

That will probably be the end of the affiliation with RCR but you gotta do what’s best for you.

My various comments:

There should only be ten teams in the playoffs. This 16 is so watered down it gets into horrible teams making it in. The recent weeks of total carnage are all related to this farce. Last night a driver got in who could never race his way in all season long. Its a fluke that teams can go all in on plate races to luck their way in. They sit in back most of race and wait for wrecks to feast off a clean car. Thats not racing its pure luck. Imagine a 3-14 NFL team making playoffs due to some flukey rules. Thats what this is.

Bubba is just a horrible person. He is always angry. He can’t drive, always hovers around the cutoff at 16 or so in a sport there are only maybe 20 viable teams. If you put Algier in his car he’d do much better as would just about anyone. His teammate proves the cars are great. History shows Bubba is not.

Clown car. 3 rollovers in one race plus last week.

Race and TV. What a disaster. It was big wreck after big wreck. The plate racing is dangerous qnd going to kill someone again. Larson took out a lot of cars last night to be honest.

And holy cow TV is cluttered with so much garbage and can’t even show details. That sidebar showing positions has now turned into an infomercial most of the time. The whole screen is cluttered as well. Feels like a site you might visit with spam popups.

After big wreck one they never showed all cars involved. Along with left tracker it was impossible to know status of cars involved. And the Toyota no commercials scam. This allowed them to stay at commercial because they had a really small window showing wrecks so they stayed at commercial for minutes and never came back full screen like they normally do.

I did love the new play by play guy. About the only good thing. It was hard to hear Jimmy J when they cut to his questions.

And Rowdy was very tame afterwards. Resnef or whatever his name was messed up. I understand why he took the outer lane row 2, no issues with that. But once they got going he had options to help Bush and never did. Pushing Rowdy to a win (or helping by not pushing 21) would have been great for his resume. If a team ever wanted him they would want to know he’s a team player and he proved that he’s not. This is not to take away from Burton, congrats to him and Wood Brothers.

Just a boring race filled with carnage that took out all the good cars.

And another point on Kes penalty. They never looked at both thongs they should have. One being leader spinning tires. And 2 the car behind Kes pushing Kes where Kes can’t slow down to allow leader back in front.

Anyways, they need to fix plate races. Have smaller width tires means you have to slow down in corners. More HP to allow passing down straights. Or at least a push to lass technology.

And lastly, since they won’t fix plate races they need to implement brake lights on plate tracks. Will allow cars behind to see braking ahead.