2023 Season NASCAR thread (1990, credit, driver, engines)
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So Wallace flipped the bird to the camera during a post race interview... If I'm not mistaken Shane Hmiel got penalized for giving DJ the finger inside his car.
So Wallace flipped the bird to the camera during a post race interview... If I'm not mistaken Shane Hmiel got penalized for giving DJ the finger inside his car.
Shane Hmeil was high. He got many penalties, including being paralyzed. Flipping the bird was pretty minor in comparison.
Wallace apparently was flipping off one of his friends, so, they've taken the stance that it was inappropriate but since it was done 'in jest' vs in anger.. No fine.
My opinion.. Well.. If they're not going to fine for throwing punches.. I see no reason to fine for flipping the bird, regardless of the motivation. That's not an FCC issue, unlike if someone shouted out an obscenity that made it on live TV, more so if it was on a network.
all in all.. It's not a great look.. But.. Wow are there far worse things happening to be concerned with presently.
There really seems, and i'm sidetracking a bit here, but a lack of concern about obscenity on the air in the past few years. I've heard.. Some pretty strong language watching NFL games that were on network TV and.. Seems nothing has come of those.
A couple of guys have used curse words on live TV and not been fined.
Basically my point. Back in the day, anything stronger than "hell" was likely to get you a fine.
Even if it aired on TV because they were listening in on your radio. Dale Jr KINDA touched on this in his podcast that I saw yesterday.. How he hated the evolution of people having scanners at the track and TV airing their radio because he was.. 'salty' on the radio.
Now.. You kinda get a "we're sorry for the language", IF you get that, and.. Everyone moves on.
I get that when TV is airing radio.. the radio SHOULD be free range for the drivers and crew. If they drop an F bomb.. It's TV's fault for airing it, not the driver/crew's fault for saying it.
Other times, tho.. Look.. I get you want the emotion and all.. But.. this is one place that I agree with the "Actions Detrimental" rule.
Looks like Josh Berry is set to take over the 4 car from Harvick at SHR.
This one is probably a little more bittersweet for Jr than some of the others. No secret Jr has become quite fond of Berry and he is heavily involved in JRM late model program. Also would have been Jrs candidate to put in a JRM cup car when the time comes.
Looks like Josh Berry is set to take over the 4 car from Harvick at SHR.
This one is probably a little more bittersweet for Jr than some of the others. No secret Jr has become quite fond of Berry and he is heavily involved in JRM late model program. Also would have been Jrs candidate to put in a JRM cup car when the time comes.
Just.. Getting closer to official. We've pretty much known this for quite some time.
I'm sure Chevy would rather have kept him, but.. They couldn't offer as competitive a ride in Cup on a full time basis. And.. as I brought up.. His age is a factor. He's certainly right place, right time.
I meant to bring something up.. Dale Jr talked about Bubba a bit on his podcast.. I'll say yesterday.. I don't know when they actually do it, but I saw it posted to YouTube yesterday. He talked about some guy at the rail during driver intros screaming "Go Home" at Bubba at Darlington and how he thought it was obnoxious and classless to do, especially in front of the 75 Greatest Drivers. And basically how he knew that being booed was a part of things, but that Bubba really had to put up with more than just that.
He then brought up Kyle Busch and how moving to Chevy basically forgave everything. but, the funniest part of the story was that he was standing next to Carl Edwards and Carl was shocked that Kyle was being cheered.
Oh.. I forgot to finish my thought.. Bubba does bring some of this on himself. What Junior skimmed over.. He talked that he understood why Kyle Busch got some of the hate, because he brought it on himself, and Junior even said that he was involved in some of those. Well.. Bubba's been involved with Kyle Larson incidents as well.. Now.. Booing someone and screaming over and over "Go Home" are two distinctly different things.. So.. I agree with him about that guy. Not so much on not understanding why Bubba gets some fan hate. I get why he's disliked a bit.. I mean the whole 'noose' thing, which, wasn't ENTIRELY on him, as I believe one of his crew reported it.. He, as well as NASCAR, perpetuated the fiction that it was a noose.
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I'm actually glad the race just got pushed.. I was concerned that we'd have a situation last night, based on the weather here, where they would drag on thinking they might have a break in the weather and run 30 laps then stop again or something.
I'd just much rather run the whole race on a single day, even if it is delayed.
The Ware Shoals Catfish Feastival I made it to and had some dang good catfish, but.. Many of the vendors and the like either didn't show back up for Saturday due to the threat of rain, or packed it in early. Was pretty much a ghost town when I was there. Those of us here in the upstate, which seem to be many of us here.. Probably have heard of that before, but.. Explaining it for the rest of you.
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