2022 NASCAR THREAD

please explain your outburst.

 

thats what I was thinking ... In my head

 

no wonder he's been absent for a bit.

 

JHN not a fan of either. I think he is arrogant

 

well... he's good. That's what matters. Arrogance is NASCAR spelled backwards.

 

I'd say so, I got a 7 day ban hammer for the same thing.

 

With JHN solidly in the Toyota pipeline, will he move up from KBM truck team to the #19 JGR car to replace Brandon Jones?

 

I have no doubt he'll be in Xfinity. Toyota is having to do so much shuffling right now due to drivers leaving that JGR pretty much has a wide open Xfinity field next season.

 

Kyle Petty's comments on the 45's actions in LV.
“He should have been suspended for the rest of the year. Rest of the year,” Petty said of Wallace.

“He drives for Denny Hamlin, who has been vocal about safety. His teammate (Kurt Busch), the only reason he’s in the 45 car is his teammate’s career was all but ended because of an accident in this car that the drivers have vocalized that it needs to be safer. He turns a guy in the right rear into the outside wall intentionally. Steering brake? That’s laughable.

“Turns a guy into the outside wall, then walks across the race track. First, you intentionally wreck somebody. That’s a suspension. He’s walking across the race track and cars are going by him on both sides. That’s not safe. That should be another suspension.

“Physically confronts a driver, shoves him. That’s a physical confrontation. If I do that on the sidewalk, I’m in handcuffs somewhere. So, he physically confronts this driver, shoves an official, doesn’t get in an ambulance, walks back to the pits, and then … tells a fib. … The lesson should be the rest of the year, just the rest of the year. That’s just me.

“My man Matt Kenseth, who didn’t speak to me for almost a year after his accident with Joey Logano (at Martinsville in 2015) got two races, so you can turn a guy right side, driver side into the wall at 180 miles an hour, and you get one (race).”

Petty also questioned Wallace getting a one-race suspension when NASCAR announced on the same day that Kyle Busch’s crew chief and two pit crew members would miss the next four races because a wheel came off Busch’s car at Las Vegas.

“It’s OK to spin a guy and knock him into the wall and you only get one (race),” Petty said. “The optics of that for NASCAR … are not good. They’re just not good.”

Petty also said in comparing the four-race suspension to members of Kyle Busch’s team for the loose wheel and the one-race suspension Wallace received for intentionally wrecking Larson: “They’d didn’t leave that wheel off intentionally. They didn’t. … What did he was intentional.

“He can say the steering broke, but he never lifted off the accelerator at the same time he drove back down the race track. This was an unprofessional move.

“What we saw out of Kyle Larson was a champion and a professional reaction to the situation, the way he backed away from Bubba. … and the things he had to say.

“What bothered me is, I have driven race cars and to get hooked in the right rear, it is so freaking intentional. You have no recourse, no chance to recover. At that point in time, Kyle Larson is along for the ride. The way the car spun, the way it hit (Christopher Bell’s) car, it goes driver side in.

“You’ve seen Kurt Busch and we’ve seen Alex Bowman, they backed in and they’re not here right now. They’re not driving because of concussion. This could have been the season-ending, if not a career-ending, accident for him.”

 

Kyle is 100% Correct but when it comes to NASCARS Spokesman about everything that is wrong with the sport and the fans NASCAR isn't going to slap Bubbas hand that bad. We are lucky they did what they did.

 

A bigger issue is consistency. Eric Estep cited two relatively recent truck series incidents that resulted in no penalties, but also pointed out that Matt Kenseth got two races for wrecking Logano under caution at lower speeds. Maybe Kenseth's had to do with safety workers being present or something, but still.

 

Kenseth didn't wreck Joey under caution. Matt's car was already tore up from a previous wreck, Joey was leading and Matt was driving extremely slow, waiting on Joey. I was at that race.

 

You also cannot compare anything from the other series. Cup is the top tier and those drivers should be professional and polished by the time they have a ride in cup. The lower series are designed for jackassary.

 

I think his point was just about the consistency. Intentionally taking people out should be reserved for video games.

 

I stand corrected

 

Very unimpressed with Bubba Wallace as a person. That Netflix documentary put a bad taste in my mouth and this most recent event fortified my decision to dislike him. I usually don't even have an opinion about drivers

 

Yep, he's a certified piece of shit.

 

I won’t speak for rest of y’all but in my 20s, I was too!

 

Lol, same here and still reserve the right to be every so often in my 40’s.

 

JHN's name will be in the 45 car this week since Bubba is suspended and not injured.