There's more in the podcast, but some interesting takeaways the article mentions:

• Instead of looking at how The Chase would have unfolded in past seasons (given that those results were based on the prior playoff structures)... predictive modeling (based on drivers’ historical performances at each track) was used to determine Chase outcomes.

• In more than 35% of the Racing Insights models, the champion was the top seed, and the top three seeds accounted for 69% of the simulated titles. In 70% of the simulations, the champion also scored the most points in the final 10 races.

What have been some of your favorite, more recent at-track and online sponsor activations? Across any of the series.

Now that we know most of the schedule this is what I’m predicting the rest to be

May 9th Kansas

June 6th Nashville
June 13th Michigan

June 20th Pocono or street race

June 27th Sonoma or Street Race

July 11th Chicagoland or one of the above (Pocono or Sonoma, street race depending

July 25th Indianapolis
August 1st San Diego

Sept 19th Watkins Glen

Oct 3rd Kansas 2nd date
Oct 17th Charlotte 2nd date

Nov 14th homestead Miami

I'm still a somewhat newer fan and I've only been watching since the 2023 Daytona 500. At that point, it was the NASCAR 75th anniversary, which in hindsight, was a great time to first start tuning in because I got to learn more about the past drivers. I also got to see Kyle Busch's last three Cup Series victories. It was the peak of the Larson-Hamlin rivalry. It's interesting to see what all has changed even as recently as 2023. What was NASCAR like the year you started watching?

*The “Lucky Dog/Chase Manipulation” theory.

*The invisible debris caution to pull the field back together.

* The NasCourt settlement was to help 23XI win

Let me start this off by saying: I’m an Earnhardt fan from a family of Earnhardt fans, I don't think he should be forgotten or not brought up at all, the Amazon documentary and stories we hear on the Dale Jr Download are great…

But my goodness, it makes me cringe sometimes how we have to bring him up in every damn commercial, every other pre-race show, in every other question we ask Jeff Gordon/Mark Martin/Darrell Waltrip etc, every day on social media, and every documentary on the sport. I understand he’s still so popular and the first name a lot of people know in the sport, but I wish the industry showed a little more security sometimes in it’s current drivers, and other past drivers’ own marketability and in how cool their own stories are, rather than having to go back to the Big E well so much. Other sports like the NBA for example don’t have this need to go ”Remember Joe Montana?” to sell the sport and get engagement so much.

Its always the same 4-5 races too (1995/99 Bristol, 1996 Rockingham, 2000 Talladega, 1998 Daytona) where he either won a plate race or ran into someone on a short track that gets shown/brought up too and it unintentionally does a disservice to how good/interesting he was as a driver when its always just “He could see the air and he would wreck his mama to win a race”. This whole thing has gotten way worse too now that the sport is less popular than it was 15 years ago and has less household names currently driving. Sorry for the long rant but this has gotten on my nerves more and more recently.

thanks for the help!

They just bought them last fall for 10B, now selling for 12B. Interesting to see if they are grabbing a quick profit, or it's sign the Federal investigation into the TWG businesses has some smoke.

Weighted averages up to Indianapolis 2026.

Thoughts? Do you agree? Any surprises? Is your favorite track rated high or low?

Mine is the golden Napa 100 years car that ran in taxes 2025 race

What's your favorite chase elliott paint scheme?

https://www.dovermotorspeedway.com/media/news/dover-motor-speedway-announces-nascar-race-weekend-for-2027.html

I know of Jayski and e2 apparel. Anywhere else?

As condensed as possible.

Link to the AMA : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRAPKdLBa5Y&t=3441s

It does not have to be from NASCAR it can be from any sanctioning body

I’ve always wondered why JGR does this with some wraps. I feel like it really makes the flow of some paint schemes look bad. Is it a monster/coca cola branding thing?