King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes

King Alex, First of His Name, Lord of Vines and Occasional Wisdom; he conquered grapes, lost wars to raisins, and declared grapes a personality trait. 🍇

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@NASCAR listen to the man!

[Dale Earnhardt Jr. @DaleJr]

I proposed to SO and others that we do this:

Keep the current car, but made with new parts from NASCAR specified companies.

The general concept of a NASCAR cup car is a mid 1960s Chevrolet Chevelle front clip and a mid 1960s pickup truck suspension in the rear. NASCAR teams spent decades refining this technology.

Keep all of the general concepts and theories. Similar mounting points and such, all parts made by a Nascar mandated manufacturer or two or three. Trailing arms, upper and lower control arms, spindles. You name it. Have designated companies produce it all.
We could phase these parts in over the next 5 years and continue to race into the future a car we all have an extremely deep connection to.

The truck series could use these same parts. They could trickle down to ARCA, Late Model Stock. There is enough racing going on between all levels of "stock car racing" that this could be lucrative to the specified manufacturers of said parts. It would be cost affective toward teams. It would create a pipeline of parts trickling down toward the grassroots levels of racing as they too are concerned over current parts and current and future scarcity.

This is doable and maintains a key identifiable element to our industry.

My fear is that the industry needs to create a trickle down model for the current Cup Next Gen car. Hubs, front and rear suspension, drivetrain. All these mileaged parts used to have a place to go and compete until the Next Gen was introduced. So there may be some who feel it's common sense for the other 2 national series to adopt literal framework to utilize these pieces. No doubt Cup teams would like to have a marketplace for these parts.

Time will tell but I have a feeling it'll be really challenging to convince the league to keep the O'Reilly vehicle on its current architecture long term.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

Absolutely wonderful news!

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

You thought this story was over. It's only just begun.

@Dodge returns to the NASCAR Cup Series in 2027!

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

Two onside kicks recovered….. two penalties. I stg the life a UNC football fan 🤦🏻‍♂️

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

The fact we are in this game is insane to me

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@KellieBlundell Don’t let those people get to you. You do a great job and honestly the conversations are nice.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

Music to my ears 🎶

[William Coyote, Esq. ✌️😀 @EquateRadiant]

GAAAHH LEE THAT FORD LMDH STARTUP
IS VIOLENT 😤😤😤

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@PATRyderfan Jokes on you. I’m already broke

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@lmm2996 While you are correct. I do wonder how he would’ve ran the rest of the season if he did have those 25 points. Especially at Atlanta

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

This is interesting

[Tony Farmer @Tonysmarkettips]

Holy shit it appears there may be a coverup happening in real time involving FanDuel and Rob Gronkowksi.

The account CodyBrownBets has been called out for being a corporate account pretending to be a person based on patents. The government links to these patents are now being used in community notes on Cody’s posts to provide evidence he’s not a real person (or is and sold his account to be controlled by someone else).

The Cody account denied the allegations last night and then once the post was hit with community notes last night containing the patents, the post was deleted [An attempt to kill the community note?]

This is a problem for FanDuel because it collaborates with CodyBrownBets all the time. There are allegations that FanDuel, or its close partners, control the account in order to artificially engineer bets from the public on certain teams to balance its books.

Rob Gronkowki collaborated with CodyBrownBets and some of the evidence of that has been deleted too - attached is evidence that still exists (for now).

It’s certainly possible Gronk and FD have done nothing wrong, but it’s time for them to answer questions about their knowledge and relationship with the CodyBrownBets account. Also if Cody is a real human, now would be a good time to finally show his face.

Let’s hope a former NFL player isn’t knowingly helping FD deceive millions of fans.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

Sounds like I need to make some plans

[Adam Stern @A_S12]

.@OfficialWRC confirms next summer's Rally U.S. event will be held across more than 15 counties in Tennessee and Kentucky from the Appalachian Mountains to the Cumberland Plateau, with Knoxville the host city.

➡️ There will be a ceremonial start on Lower Broadway in Nashville.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

That hit Herbst took. My goodness that was scary. Glad to see him out of the car.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@JamesInCLT My message to NC State fans….

Womp Womp!

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

This right here folks! Vote KB for MPD!

[Bumblebee48 🐝 @KellieBlundell]

Don't listen to all these troll accounts hating on the fact everyone including fellow drivers are asking for or voting for Kyle Busch to win MPD. Everyone of em I've seen are either baiting or engagement farming. When Elliott, Larson and Hocevar are literally asking their fans to vote for number 8. That tells u where the sport's emotions lie.

[Jeff Gluck @jeff_gluck]

Carson Hocevar is asking his fans to vote for Kyle Busch for Most Popular Driver this year.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

Vote for KB for Most Popular Driver

[Joseph Srigley @joe_srigley]

From @CarsonHocevar on Instagram:

“TO MY FANS. DON’T VOTE FOR ME. VOTE FOR KYLE BUSCH. THANKS.”

#NASCAR

[Jordan Bianchi @Jordan_Bianchi]

Kyle Busch is eligible. Chase Elliott has removed himself from the ballot for Most Popular Driver.

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Dale Earnhardt, Jr. achieves his first win at Talladega Superspeedway as he clinches the EA Sports 500 in the No. 8 Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

Tony Stewart finished second and Jeff Burton finished third.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

@TigerMcBride @GamecockAP @MMw653106 My argument right there. It’s more natural drama and creates better TV. Like I’m genuinely excited to watch Ole Miss vs Texas this week because or it. It adds more flavor to a great matchup

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

How did they let him play? That’s my question. That’s unacceptable in soooo many ways.

[Ian Rapoport @RapSheet]

#Eagles QB Jalen Hurts, who is out for the season after several blood clots were revealed in his lungs, has been undergoing tests for days.

Before the London game, Hurts was in the hospital until 4 am and did not sleep because sleep was a risk. He played without having slept.

[King Alex I of the Kingdom of the Grapes @ManTheyCallAlex]

God could you imagine the chaos Saturday would’ve been in the BCS era? Madness I tell you