NASCAR

[Dalton26 16,892]

Anyone else a NASCAR fan?


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[Parakeet Jones 3,784]

I watch it a lot between the end of basketball season and the beginning of football season.  I am more of an IndyCar fan though.  

[Dalton26 16,892]

I was just sitting here watching the final race and was curious. I'm hoping Jimmie Johnson blows an engine.


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[Parakeet Jones 3,784]

I forgot F1 too.  I like F1 as well.  

[JSHoosier 20,508]

I was just sitting here watching the final race and was curious. I'm hoping Jimmie Johnson blows an engine.


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Johnson is someone I get tired of hearing about.  He's won so many championships because the new point system is catered to someone like him.  Under the old system he'd have 1, maybe 2 titles right now.

 

Oh, and his crew has been caught cheating about as many times as UK but no one ever mentions that.

[Dalton26 16,892]

Johnson wins again. The chase is the worst thing to ever happen to NASCAR

[JSHoosier 20,508]

Johnson wins again. The chase is the worst thing to ever happen to NASCAR

They wanted to put more importance on wins.  I prefer the days when consistency was what mattered most.

[MrYuk 208]

I'm a Kenseth fan so I was really hopin Johnson ate the wall hard

[Dalton26 16,892]

They wanted to put more importance on wins. I prefer the days when consistency was what mattered most.

Me too.

I'm a Kenseth fan so I was really hopin Johnson ate the wall hard

[MrYuk 208]

Me too.I would have been satisfied with a blown engine.I'm a Jr fan myself.Sent from my iPhone using BtownBanners mobile app

I can handle Jr better than Johnson...I can't stand him lol

[OliviaPope40 6,640]

I don't watch it very much the only time I do is the 500.

[Dalton26 16,892]

I can handle Jr better than Johnson...I can't stand him lol

Jr and Lagano are my favorites while I don't mind to see Edwards or Harvick win either.


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[JSHoosier 20,508]

I'm a Jr fan myself.


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I pull for Jr, but that's mainly because I was a huge Sr. fan.

 

I'm not looking forward to the "Johnson is the best ever" crap.  Earnhardt Sr. could do things in a car no one else could do, and Johnson would've wrecked trying the pass in the grass.

[Dalton26 16,892]

I pull for Jr, but that's mainly because I was a huge Sr. fan.

I'm not looking forward to the "Johnson is the best ever" crap. Earnhardt Sr. could do things in a car no one else could do, and Johnson would've wrecked trying the pass in the grass.

Johnson races in a completely different era too. The old guys would have knocked him all around the track. I don't care how many he wins Johnson will never be in Sr or Petty's league. Sr was just on another level when behind the wheel.


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[JSHoosier 20,508]

Johnson races in a completely different era too. The old guys would have knocked him all around the track. I don't care how many he wins Johnson will never be in Sr or Petty's league. Sr was just on another level when behind the wheel.


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I think Sr would've won at least one more title had he not gotten killed.  He had back surgery one off season, and he said he felt comfortable in the car again.  He finished 2nd in the standings the season after the surgery, and at the awards ceremony told his gas man to keep the tux because they'd win #8.  A few bad breaks in the late 80s/early 90s kept him from having 10 or 11 titles, and that's not an exaggeration.

 

There was a race at Bristol in the 80s, his power steering went out early and muscled the car around the rest of the race and still won.

 

It's never easy to compare different eras, but Sr raced against some pretty stiff competition.  Petty, Waltrip, Wallace, Martin, Labonte, et al and his stranglehold on the sport didn't slip until Gordon was at his best and even Gordon credits Sr for teaching him.