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Well Ricky Stenhouse won back to back Nationwide Championships and is headed to the big show in NASCAR.
Now we'll see who gets the championship in the big series, Jimme Johnson or Brad Keselowski.
I'll have to admit that neither one would be my favorite to win but, they got it done and deserve to win so if I need to choose 1, I'll hope it's Brad K., Jimmie has done it a few times so it'll be good to see someone else at the top again. :3dSMILE:
I'm with you on Bad Brad winning it! He has his issues (don't we all) but he's done quite well for himself so far in NASCAR, would be good to see him win it!!!! Being the old dirt burner that I am, I was really pulling for Kasey Kahne, mainly cuz he dumps so much money in a couple sprint car teams and isn't likely to forget where he started out!!!!!
I hope BK wins it just because Roger Penske has never had a cup championship. Hard to believe that BK could give him his first.
So, if the Captain, Roger Penske, adds his first ever NASCAR championship to his list of accomplishments, should we rename him the Major, or maybe Colonel Penske??? Man his given his life to motorsports in most every form there is, would be great to see him get this one too!!!!!
It's time for Penske to reach yet another pinnacle...................he's earned the possibility. Go BK!
Missed a lug nut! Might have just killed it for Jimmie!!!!
Well, the Captain gets his Championship through Bad Brad and one heck of a great team effort for the whole year!!!
Yep. He worked for and earned each point! Congrats to the Penske Organization!
Trying to remember (tough for me!), how the heck long has it been since MoPar won a NASCAR championship anyway????
Had to look, Richard Petty was the last champion running a MoPar, 1975!!!!!! That's a couple years ago!
WOW, "75"?!?!? Seems like yesterday the King was winning everything.. LOL..
And Dodge is leaving NASCAR so they go out on a high note too..
At least someone took Keselowski 'out back' and suggested that it might be a good day to be conservative. Then Bowyer sneaking past Johnson for second:LOL:. I'm not a big fan of any of the first 3, though anyone but Johnson is fine with me. Billionaire Roger Penske finally bought himself a NA$CAR championship along with the last, for a while, anyhow Dodge {Fiat?} win.
Lots of NASCAR fans were tired of the "plain vanilla" champions, the Johnson's and Gordon's who always try to say the right thing to the right crowd and now they have Brad who is anything but!!!!! A third generation racer from Detroit who grew up in racing....His father (Bob) raced NASCAR North and ARCA for many years, building his own stuff and being competitive doing it! Just 3 years in Sprint Cup and Brad drove his way to a Championship in a Dodge. At the start of the season I remember all the "experts" saying how the Penske teams were going to just roll over and play dead this year, waiting til next year with the Ford's to be able to be competitive. So, here they come with a very young team, and a crew chief named Paul Wolfe that nobody had ever heard of...Also out of the NASCAR North series, an ex-driver himself turned Crew Chief, who seems to be able to communicate so well with driver and team. They started races with a lot of cars that didn't handle, and during the course of the race tuned the car to be competitive and finish up front consistently! Brad is also one of those drivers who could build the car himself if he had too as he grew up in his father's shop doing just that.
So, Roger Penske started out with a young driver with only 3 years experience who says what's on his mind and can back it up, a Crew Chief and team that nobody had ever heard of (Paul brought some guys with him when he signed on as Crew Chief), scrapped, struggled, and fought his way to the front in the majority of races this year, survived a couple far less then perfect races during the Chase, and came out on top of the heap over the Best of the Best crews and drivers most with at least twice their experience. Yup, I guess Roger Penske just "bought" the Championship after only 27 years of trying......
I used to be a fan but, even tho I try, I can't get interested anymore. My fault I know - - - maybe there's a support group I could join for weekly circle chats???? LOL
I can't stand to watch even the highlights from stick and ball sports, I won't apologize for that as we all have our interests.... Mine happens to be racing in most any form there is!!!
Cannot stand Hendrich because of personal reasons and so cannot stand any of his drivers either. I even had a hard time following Mark when he drove for him. So I am very happy that a car with NO connection to Hendrich won the title.
and now it's only 97 days til Daytona!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After about 60 days the withdrawal symptoms start getting bad, but by then it's usually time to help some of the locals put their cars on the scales and start helping out on some chassis setup over at Jim's, so I usually make it through it without methadone treatments!!!!:LOL::LOL::LOL:
Theres always Chilibowl in Jan. Davey boy !
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Originally Posted by Dave Severson
All the top levels of motorsport championships are "bought"! Who in the world can afford it otherwise? That's why sponsors are needed.
What was that saying about making a small fortune in racing? Just start out with the largest fortune you can right? LOL..
I still enjoy the competition. As long as it uses money to create noise and horsepower, I enjoy it!
I am glad an underdog won the whole she-bang too, and they used a Dodge to boot, in their final season after tossin' in millions (billions??) for development they grabbed for the ring and were rewarded for the effort. I can't see it gettin' any better.
jmho!!
and, that wild two week stretch down in Florida when all the sprints and late models come out to try out their new toys!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by HWORRELL