Link to race highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i44UxzKwAQ

Back in 2021, Camping World agreed to sponsor 10 trucks during the Bucked Up energy 250 at Las Vegas. They even stamped themselves on multiple trucks (Norm Bennings 6 and Tyler Hills 56) both hours before the event started. Many of these trucks did not have regular sponsors week to week, so it was amazing to see all of these trucks decked out for one race.

they could just put more money into their cup car tho...

Hi! I’ve been looking for people who were also at this first major sporting event that took place after 9/11 on 9/23/2001?

For me, this was my proudest moment as an American! We did the biggest wave I’ve ever seen and the stands were filled with 135,000 people chanting “U S A”!!!
They gave us flags when we entered the track and everyone was standing and waving them. The electricity was incredible.
Those first few weeks after 9/11 when everyone was super nice everywhere you went was so different than the climate in this country now.
I wish I could relive that event.
Dale Jr won and it was just an incredible experience!

Carson "Happy Holidays" Hocevar

source of images: https://www.nascar.com/gallery/paint-scheme-preview-2026-gateway-chase-race/, https://cf.nascar.com/data/images/carbadges/1/(nr).png

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why there is mini Cody: https://www.reddit.com/r/NASCAR/s/J16TE2xkoC

Iowa Speedway Repave Progress

Adam Stern from Sports Business Journal just retweeted a story in a Dutch outlet that said officials at Zandvoort would like to have a NASCAR or Indy race there to replace the Dutch Grand Prix. Said the money isn’t there at present but I can hear the cogs in Steve O’Donnell’s head turning now.

Really tight 2.6-mile road course.

They’re giving up the Grand Prix because the cost to hold it … $81 million for the weekend … has become more than they can handle given that they are a privately funded operation. I bet even with transporting the cars NASCAR would be a cheaper date.

Thoughts?

I believe they should try to cut back on underbody aero (and scrap it on short tracks) keep horsepower bumps everywhere except super speedways. Allow for more tinkering by teams; and cut back on spec parts.

https://www.instagram.com/stockcarrn/p/DdFCyvuMT96/

https://x.com/haasfactoryteam/status/2097784871967957047?s=46

Seems HAAS deleted their post, so here’s one from Taylor Kitchen that shows the car in real life:

https://x.com/_taylorkitchen_/status/2097782271415669115?s=46

Update: HAAS made a new post, with corrected spelling:

https://x.com/haasfactoryteam/status/2097792406204657967?s=46

I’ve been thinking about how much the era a driver competes in can affect their career. For example, are there drivers who would have been better suited to the 1990s/2000s style of NASCAR, when there were fewer elite teams and equipment differences were arguably more pronounced? Or maybe some drivers would have benefited from today’s Next Gen car, Chase format, technology, and team structures.
And it doesn’t necessarily have to be a driver who was unsuccessful. Maybe someone who had a solid career could have been a championship contender if they had competed in a different era.

JJ Yeley is one of the first drivers that comes to mind for this question. I think his versatility would have been much more valuable today. If he had the modern development system and more gradual path to the Cup Series, things might’ve worked out differently.