The Official 2024-25 NASCAR Offseason Discussion Thread

[Brandon Blaze]

Bell DOES NOT ADVANCE! Wall ride

 

[Brandon Blaze]

 

[Brandon Blaze]

There could be more changes during the week. No idea.

But both Chevy and Toyota had some heavy manipulation during the race. No idea what could come of it, but they were a lot of shady shady stuff

 

[Tommy Bedlam]

Alright. I had people over so I didn’t get to be part of the live discussion. My thoughts: Toyota and Chevy both manipulated. The 1 and 3 radios are obvious. Penalize both drivers; even if Ross is my dude. Poor ol bubba couldn’t even keep his made up story straight. Penalize him too.

 

[Tommy Bedlam]

It was obvious that bell put it in the wall, sped up, and stayed in the wall. Thats illegal and for once, nascar enforced a rule consistently.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

 

[Tommy Bedlam]

Interesting speculation. There’s some belief that if 23XI doesn’t have charters next season, its drivers are not under contract. No word on that being the case for FRM yet.

 

[Stellar]

Happy for Blaney to get that win. What a drive. Hendrick was 1, 2 and 3 at one point in the race.

I am not sold that Bell put the car in to the wall on purpose. It did look like he was loose...but that's not important anyway because he did purposely then gas up the car as he stayed up against the wall like Chastain did in the past. So, understandable for him to get a penalty.

What I don't get is why nothing has been done to Chastain and Dillon yet. In Dillons radio they seemingly were basically saying do the block without actually saying it.

Still dislike this playoff system and Elton Sawyer can talk about how it produces exciting finishes all that he wants but it devalues winning the championship and it causes what happened in that race to happen.

What crushed me the most was seeing MTJ continue to have misfortune. Speeding penalty. Ugh. Fastest time in practice, won the pole...and then that happened. Sucks. I didn't want to say anything before the race started and was hoping that somehow he would have a great race.

On to Phoenix... and Hamlin is NOT winning the championship this year. So I guess that's the good news.

By the way, I know that yall are done with the fantasy thing but I decided with 3 races to go to use MTJ in all of them regardless of if his car is fast or not because it will be the last time that ill be able to use him in any fantasy thing. So one last race to go.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

 

[Tommy Bedlam]

Yall know I’m a Chastain fan but I like the penalty. I know race manipulation is a thing, and it’s even more prevalent with this god forsaken playoff system, but I think it should be punished whenever possible.

 

[Brandon Blaze]

I wish this would be what finally makes them rework the points system, but sadly it won’t be. It’s gonna take something ridiculously crazy to maybe even get to where they say enough

 

[Chris]

I wish this would be what finally makes them rework the points system, but sadly it won’t be. It’s gonna take something ridiculously crazy to maybe even get to where they say enough

I think you might see more states adopt a ranked vote state like Maine and whatever other one, and then MAYBE when a state that actually has a decent number of electoral votes adopts it, that will be the tipping point for others

 

[Brandon Blaze]

I think you might see more states adopt a ranked vote state like Maine and whatever other one, and then MAYBE when a state that actually has a decent number of electoral votes adopts it, that will be the tipping point for others

Sir this is NASCAR

 

[Chris]

Lmaoooooooo yeah I clocked the wrong thread and your posts made sense for the election

I don't know what it will take for NASCAR to change it, probably a lot bc they've got their TV money under this system

 

[Doom]

Since the Championship 4 is this weekend for all three circuits, I've decided to rename the thread.