You will always hear crew chiefs tell drivers to “remember their checklists” after they take the checkered. I’m sure some of that checklist involves getting the car as legal as possible before they come to pit road.

I can’t Facebook at work, but if you go to the Larson Race Cars Facebook page and scroll down a little, you’ll see that Larry Larson trailered his S10 to the track and had the motor shipped to the track to meet him. Stuffed the engine in the truck and won the event.

What about the “Bad Seed” Chevette that Hot Rod did awhile back?

You are correct. Whoever starts the race gets the points and the credit of victory.

I would say it’s probably more that they don’t want to overwhelm Bowman. He’s doing quite well in a Nationwide car. Let him focus on that and not deal with the pressure of filling in for the sport’s most popular driver. Also, putting Gordon in the car at one of his best tracks might be good shot in the arm for a team…

I’ll be interested to see what Alex Bowman can do in Hendrick equipment. He rode around in the back last year in an underfunded team. Then Jr put him in a Nationwide car and he’s been in the top 10 every week it seems.

Agreed. When it comes off the boat it swings around a bit before finally dislodging. From his perspective it was probably very hard to tell which way it was going to go. Panic braking on the I-94 in that stretch (I live in that area) will get you killed by someone tailgating you while they’re on their phone. Wasn’t as…

But he does have a pretty face.

I’m sure it was done for free by some local prod company. I know I’d be involved if asked.

I follow the Shakopee, Chaska, Eden Prairie and Bloomington PD Facebook pages even though I live in St. Louis Park simply for this reason.

Seconded. I leave the metro area immediately when I’m on a bike.

As a motorcyclist, Thank you.

However it is fun to find the videos from when Hamilton and Tony Stewart as well as Juan Pablo Montoya and Jeff Gordon swapped cars and think about what could have been. Gordon wanted to be in IndyCars or F1 when he was growing up.

Can I get a rough estimate as to what this car is worth?

Dave has been a great addition to this show. Him and Fred are hilarious together.

Correct. at probably 220 mph.

His new one where he works on the El Camino is pretty good, Roadkill is his full time job now. He does some special contributions to Roadkill magazine, but to my knowledge he doesn’t write for Hot Rod anymore. He uses these to fill time.

My biggest question on this is why they didn’t wave cars around and get everybody on the lead lap, or reset everyone to the lead lap after every segment. If the rules aren’t working NASCAR likes to act like they don’t have the power to change them, but they do.

When I worked at a tire shop a coworker was seating the bead on used tire and blew the sidewall out at about 65 psi. I was deaf in one ear for several hours.

I’m not sure if Goodyear is bringing the tires they’ll use for the 600 or tires just for the All Star Race, but they could make tires that would fall off that badly. I agree. Maybe 20 laps, but 13 means they have to pass a car per lap. Which is great and exciting in theory, but maybe not realistic.