Dallas

racecar go vroooom

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

Respectfully, and out of curiosity, where does the unfair advantage come from?

Assuming nascar is not intentionally throwing yellows to help certain teams, every team has the exact same data and exact same uncertainty on when a yellow may or may not come out. That seems like a level playing field to me.

Sure, sometimes it’ll hurt you and sometimes it’ll help, but stage cautions do the exact same thing.

Personally, I am against all cautions for any reason other than the track conditions actually requiring a caution, but I don’t see how one unnatural caution is actually any more unfair than another as long as all teams have the same data and are treated equally.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@samh8876 The original SpongeBob movie from 2004

[Gassss @_Gassss_]

“4 hours of anything is too long” is a terrible excuse and a terrible point.

I’m sure there are more examples, but here’s the one I’ll use.

Golf has about 8 hours of coverage every round for all 4 days. It has a core audience that tunes in every week for all four days. They do not complain that it’s too long.

& You know what? At the Majors they also get all the casuals tuning in. I never once in my life heard a golf fan say “there’s too much golf”

This is just a bad attempt to rationalize a factually *wrong* opinion.

[andrew @ham11in]

@S1apSh0es The ones who are now saying "NASCAR will never get rid of stage cautions, just get over it" are the also the ones who were saying "NASCAR will never get rid of the playoffs." They've shown they're willing to change and I know this is more to do with TV but we shouldn't give up.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@dennyhamlin @AlextheAdm1ral Stages are needed for tv, which is exactly every other major racing series in the entire world has stage racing too!

Oh wait, no, that’s literally *only* nascar, nvm

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

People simply don’t understand it’s the fact that McLaren claims the 2005 US GP as one of their starts, even though the officially didn’t start the race (their reasoning for counting it is shaky at best, but clearly that’s how they’ve been counting it this whole time if they said Abu Dhahi was 995)

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

100% agree, like just let people race, this isn’t F1, the only contact that should ever get you in trouble is intentionally wrecking someone on a straightaway or in a particularly dangerous spot (like in the corner in front of the pack at Talladega or something).

Imo even most cases of intentional wrecking in the corner (like what Ryan Preece was falsely accused of doing) aren’t reason for penalty.

And while we’re at it, bring in hockey fighting rules where drivers can fight without penalty as long as they stop when one or both of them go to the ground. I’m probably okay with continuing to ban crew members from fighting, but let the drivers fight if they want to, they’re adults and can handle themselves.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@lmm2996 Right? It’s like tons of people have all of a sudden decided that every racing series needs identical rules to F1 and it’s incredibly annoying

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

Personally I’ve always hated it from the second they announced it, but it has had some good moments still. (Don’t get me wrong, I’d launch that thing into the sun and add 300 HP to the O’Reilly car and make it the cup car or even just create a modern Gen 4 given the option, but I’m also not one of those “I hate the car, so every race is bad” weirdos either)

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

First of all, the race finished at its scheduled distance of 300 laps and was 4 laps to the finish, not a GWC. So, you’re just factually incorrect there.

Secondly, the opinion that bc you hate the next gen it automatically makes every race horrible no matter what is kinda sad.

Like I fully agree we should launch those abominations into the sun and go back to actual stock car racing, but, like, sometimes the race is good anyways (and imo even without the finish it was a good race that was held back from being a great race by the car)

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

Of course.

I mean the absolute worst that can happen is they completely shut you down and you still get to use the public viewing areas of their shop and see a few cool race trucks anyways and you’ve only spent 2 hours of your day round trip.

Oh, and there’s also Cedar Ppint amusement park in Sandusky too if you want to make a day out of it and want to take your mind off stuff for a bit.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@CoachOrlando3 @NixToWaddle Drake Maye and Bo Nix didn’t even play in that game, so idk what point you were trying to make here really.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@samh8876 Nah, it’s just our turn to make you smile here and there until you heal enough to spread some smiles yourself again. No anchors involved

[caba🍉 @cabanascar42]

The difference between watching race cars and the next gen is wild sometimes

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

Definitely sucks when friends aren’t here when you need them the most, but I can be your new internet friend and I understand completely. I had to get a mental health drop for an entire semester of college when my grandpa died and I had time to prepare for it.

And while KFB isn’t family, you had a relationship with him and cared about him as a person and he just died out of nowhere on us. To me, your reaction is absolutely understandable, but I’d suggest leaning on your mom even though it hurts seeing her worry about you. Moms are amazing at making things even a little better when you let them.

[Motorsport @Motorsport]

Kyle Busch gave us the guitar smash, then faked us out in Nashville 12 years later.

Nobody understood the assignment of entertainer quite like Rowdy.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

If you haven’t eaten or drank in a while that’s likely the cause, so I’d suggest doing those two things even if you don’t want to (I’ve almost passed out and had to go to the hospital from dehydration before, it sucks).

If it’s not that, I’d suggest seeing an urgent care place just to be safe, it could just be from the extended extreme sadness, but better to get checked out and get proper care than try to tough something out you shouldn’t be toughing out and it getting worse.

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

@BBNDi9 Willy B is one of the most vanilla drivers ever and you like the other 3 Hendrick guys, so out of curiosity, what did he do to hurt you?

[Dallas @dalhoon_]

You don’t need Dale for every race. The platform and consistency would more than make up for a rotating booth, especially with the quality of talent they have on their broadcasts, just let Dale pick the races he wants to cover.

Potentially losing Fox in the next broadcast deal is only an argument for giving Prime those races, so idk what your point was there.

And regardless of what the NFL costs, NASCAR is bringing in bigger and bigger viewership to Amazon and will make the investment on their end worthwhile. Also, it’s not like they don’t have money to just spend on whatever productions and broadcast deals they damn well please to.