re: 2026 NASCAR Season Thread

Haha I hadn’t thought about that sound bite in a while. That’s great!

Yeah it was a stinker.

WTF is up with all the brake checking in the corners. At least 4 drivers had their day ruined but that.

KL only has to finsh 28th next week to win. Or, get 9 stage points.

In reality, Kyle Larson will be champion barring a major catastrophe

Shane van Gisbergen with a top 5. He really likes Martinsville. Runs well there.

Hocevar making even more friends. It will cost him at some point no one will cut him any slack someday when he needs it to win a race.

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Denny has yet again squandered another championship away and you have to wonder how many more years does he have left.

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His strategist has cost him another title chance. Last year it was pitting late in race and this year it was not pitting early. Larson simply just needed to follow him yesterday to not lose points.

Hamlin needs to spend less time podcasting and more time going thru race strategies to know all his best options as race unfolds. He can override his CC.

Bell has cost himself as well. Spinning coming to pit road last week and trying to squeeze in last night. Logano could have let off a smidge to avoid taking both drivers out too.

Pretty boring race and I think a lot of the problem besides the car is the booth. They just add zero excitement. I bet if the NOAP crew was in booth they would make and show more drivers and make it sound much better. The booth is fans interface to action.

And everything has been monetized. Years ago they did thru the field and it was a novel idea with good info. Then Nascar sold ads for it and now its forced updates solely to advertise. “Credit One thru the field”. They only do it because its monetized not because they have good info to share.

But the booth is so bland and sound like they’re at a funeral. The booth has to be salesmen and thats what NOAP is, they add energy and great discussion no matter how the race is. Cup feels like you are at some lecture or seminar and feel imprisoned. Thats another reason Cup is bleeding viewers. Car is main reason don’t be mistaken. But booth could help. Amazing how bad these networks screwed up Cup booths.

Congrats to Larson! He took it and others choked. Hamlin especially.

Feels like Nascar did a rug pull on Toyota. Gave them a reg season advantage and then pulled rug for playoffs. Other teams worked on small gains while Toyota was fat and happy with their one carriage aero advantage. Once it got pulled the other cars were better due to all the little gains thru year and Toyota was left to scramble.

Before season started, I pegged Hocevar to take over the 48.

Now who besides spire will put up with his bullshite. He’s a frickin jackass. Used to like the kid. Not a fan. And haven’t been for awhile.

He’s talented but is the juice worth the squeeze?

I only watched the last 200 laps. What happened with the Blaney and Berry incident?

Berry and Hocevar in the same race smh. There should be penalties or this is going to become the norm ruining more driver’s day.

Here’s a reminder that were a little over a month away from the snowball derby! (Dec 3-6)