Because on race day the engine boost will be dialed down for less HP, and all cars will be running medium to high downforce packages, trimmed out to handle in traffic instead of going fast by themselves.

It could happen, but the cars they will be racing next Sunday will handle completely different and be going 5-10…

Sunday morning update....

Released from hospital this morning with a compression fracture to the T5 vertebrae. He will return home today and receive further treatment/evaluation at home.

truth, but that is a long, long way from a “free ride”

I don’t think Dale Jr got a free ride. His father made him work on all his early vehicles, scavenge the junkyards for parts and figure out how to pay for it all.

I will agree that his road to the big leagues was made much EASIER by his name, but not because he was given anything. He just happened to grow up around…

3 went to the hospital, one released last night.

Looks like it happened again on Sunday night. This time at least 3 were injured, one severe. Reports are that a helicopter landed on the backstretch and transported one.

I love ARCA, they still hold real races on dirt and I find even the superspeedway shows to be far more entertaining than NASCAR.

I was chuckling at the Vegan food sponsored car until they told us that Bob Weir was involved.....we need more of these non-traditional sponsors!

A few photos of Lakeside taken in May 2015, stolen from Kevin Eckert’s FB page

ECR is the Richard Childress owned outfit that also builds all his NASCAR team’s engines.

I have insurance, both car and thanks to that fuckhead soon to be ex president, health.

Again, mind your own business and I will mind mine.

Ray Evernham featured TROG on one episode of his excellent show Americana. You can catch reruns all the time on Velocity TV or pay to watch an episode on Amazon.

This is the Colfax Comet (Robert Bell) who completely built his 410 winged spring (raced at Knoxville Iowa) in the comfort of his living room in his trailer home.

You gotta wonder if KB and NASCAR will get drug through the mud again before this story goes away. Remember that NASCAR did have a relationship with the Armed Forces Foundation and undoubtedly that included cash and services donations.

Their only success is as a Cup team running the lower divisions. When on equal ground they have failed to produce results. That is a fact.

The part that compelled me to comment was your claim that they are “down to earth” and “humble”. Apparrently you didn’t see the video of when they got thrown out of a track while…

What have they proven? That a Cup team can win in a lower series? Face it, those two silver spoon pussies are the same no talent assholes that got thrown out dirt tracks screaming about how rich their paw paw is. They are consistently beaten by lesser teams. Sure they are grateful, neither one knows what a hard days…

It does not surprise me one bit, even if it leaves me shaking my head in shame at the sense of entitlement people have these days. The nearby town of Wheaton had (back in the 80s at least, not sure about now) an ordinance that prohibited parking a personal work truck in your own driveway. They would also go out and…

Those are Steve Eckert’s words, not mine. I copied and shared from his brother’s page only after seeing that a bunch of others already have. As long as Steve and Kevin are given proper credit.

BTW, Steve wrote that in 2013.

The following is cut/pasted from open wheel journalist/historian Kevin Eckert’s Facebook page. It was written by his journalist brother Steve. It seems appropriate to share here.