Felt like watching the Braves to me. You just knew they’d find some way to screw it all up.

How do you figure? You step on the lip of the wheel with a boot (with rocks and sand and grit on the bottom), you’re directly grinding that into the surface. At worst the salt is hitting and staying on the surface of the wheel. You can if you want, but I’d rather keep expensive wheels from being purposely trashed up.

You’re on a completely different model. The next gen one has a massive center console that makes it incredibly cramped for an enormous car.

That could be part of it, but 99% of it is the ridiculously large and tall center console. Matched with a console shifter that’s always in the way, it’s just really claustrophobic.

This. I test drove an SHO and all I could think about was “it would be great to have somewhere to rest my arms that wasn’t on a part of the center console. Soo cramped. On the flipside, I took a thousand mile trip last weekend in a Fusion, no problems whatsoever.

My wheels don’t have a dish, even if they did, I wouldn’t step on them with my work boots and mar them all to hell. That corner of the bumper isn’t much of a help either. I’m not making excuses, I deal with them as my truck doesn’t have the tailgate step, I’m simply telling you why people want these types of features.…

Bumper and Hitch go away when the tailgate is down. Tires are too tall, you might as well step onto the tailgate.

I typically use the bumper, but it doesn’t help if the tailgate is down. And the tires are too tall to comfortably step up on, I’ve ripped a couple pair of jeans flexing my football player sized thighs trying to step up on the tire. Besides, the top of it is usually higher than the truck bed & lowered tailgate anyway.

I think the new trucks, the F150's for sure, actually lock the tailgate when the vehicle is locked.

You really should stop talking out of your ass. I’m 6'5, and would love a step for my F250. It’s got nothing to do with my sizable member.

I take one look at those and back away. I can see my booted foot trying to wedge a toe in there when it’s wet. Go to step up, boot slips, you get a face full of bed corner.

They do make a lot of ridiculous looking stuff, but their plain t’s/shorts/socks etc are absolutely magnificent. I wear their boxers and heat gear shirts daily, have a good bit of their other stuff as well. Great materials, very good construction, long lasting stuff.

Their twitter was great, the FB coverage was also fantastic! Not to mention the app, was able to watch the stream with no issue, and no commercials. Made it easy to follow at the track.

It was awful. Took me someone telling me it was the art car to realize that’s what it was.

Great pictures Kurt, especially in challenging conditions!

“cup road racers” - out of the core NASCAR guys, true. He also benefited greatly from limited fields and having the best equipment.

Slow zones don’t work, because drivers are always going to push the limits. Look at the controversial qualifying in F1 this year where Nico Rosberg set pole lap despite going through a caution zone.

That’s just not the way it works. If you call a caution, you’re going to have several minutes of procedures. You can’t just send marshalls out to get the car with no caution, that’s how people get killed/hurt.

Night, rain, cold, frigid wind. Might be amazing on TV, sucks to have been there in person. I put on about everything I had, put my chair as close to a fire as I could and still be covered by a tent, watched the coverage on my phone. I had really wanted to watch night sessions from the grand stand, didn’t get to do…

Gordon was a tag on to get some notoriety. And it worked, big time. The pit lane pre-race was 15 deep around the WTR car. I couldn’t even get around the mob to see the other cars like I wanted.