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  1.   JR-TV posted:
  10.23.2018 - 11:16 am
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Seth Smith is the crew chief of the #54. The #23 should be listed as
owned by Maury Gallagher. It is a 5th GMS truck using the #23 xfinity
team's road crew and crew chief.


  2.   Mr.Victory posted:
  10.23.2018 - 11:32 am
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Kyle Benjamin drives the #17 this race.


  3.   1995z71 posted:
  10.23.2018 - 12:30 pm
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Glad to see Creed, Peters, and Kligerman all on the entry list. Will
definitely be watching this race now.


  4.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.23.2018 - 12:48 pm
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Mississippi racer Chase Purdy makes his Truck series debut, hot off a
full-time ARCA campaign that saw him finish in top-5 in that series
point standings. This is his first start in any "Big 3" NASCAR series.

John Hunter Nemechek came into this race hot off his first NASCAR
Xfinity Series win a week earlier at Kansas.

Jeb Burton returns to the Truck series for a first start in a year.


  5.   Long John Silver Himself posted:
  10.23.2018 - 1:50 pm
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JHN also won the last race here, so he has a ton of momentum on his side


  6.   02Justin10 posted:
  10.23.2018 - 1:51 pm
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Norm must be rooting for rain Saturday morning. With this quality of a
field I doubt Norm can get in on a provisional.


  7.   Anonymous posted:
  10.23.2018 - 5:30 pm
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Interested to see how Creed, Dippel, and Purdy will do this race.


  8.   JSPorts posted:
  10.23.2018 - 5:38 pm
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Don't forget Ankrum. He may be the most talented of that whole bunch.
He's certainly better than Dippel & Purdy.


  9.   Anonymous posted:
  10.23.2018 - 6:21 pm
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Forecast has a lot of rain. Could be tricky


  10.   Anonymous posted:
  10.23.2018 - 6:21 pm
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@8 Good point.


  11.   Sector posted:
  10.23.2018 - 11:27 pm
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So we have Texas Roadhouse sponsoring a Virginia race track of
Martinsville, whereas next week we head to Texas at Fort Worth...

Is it just me or do I find that odd? Lol


  12.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.24.2018 - 12:51 am
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@11
Well, that restaurant chain isn't exactly Texan itself...they're based
in Kentucky.


  13.   JSPorts posted:
  10.24.2018 - 3:52 am
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Well, Texas Roadhouse has nothing to do with Texas (which is probably
why their food is mediocre.) It was founded in Indiana, and its
headquarters is in Kentucky. JAG Metals, on the other hand, is a Texas
company with deep roots in the area (they're the sponsor of next week's
race.)


  14.   JR-TV posted:
  10.24.2018 - 8:36 am
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^Texas Roadhouse is awesome!


  15.   Long John Silver Himself posted:
  10.24.2018 - 9:04 am
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is Texas Roadhouse the one that has a bucket of peanuts in the middle of
the table?


  16.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.24.2018 - 9:35 am
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@15
Texas Roadhouse and it's competitor Logan's Roadhouse (which has also
done some sponsorship over the years) both offer their customers buckets
of peanuts.


  17.   JR-TV posted:
  10.24.2018 - 9:37 am
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^Yes. They are both awesome, IMO. Two of my favorite places to eat.


  18.   JSPorts posted:
  10.24.2018 - 9:50 am
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It's not that Texas Roadhouse is bad (I've never eaten at Logan's
Roadhouse, so I don't know about that one) but it's certainly not the
best steak you can get. The quality is also quite inconsistent. I agree
that it has a great atmosphere, though. I live in Texas, and I think we
probably have higher-quality beef & steaks than a lot of other places
(just because most of the good restaurants are farm-to-table or use
locally sourced beef). So Texas Roadhouse certainly isn't anything
special, especially considering I doubt that their beef is locally
sourced and is probably frozen at some point. But obviously if there was
no other place to go get a steak I'd still go there.


  19.   Land0nFand0n posted:
  10.24.2018 - 1:42 pm
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Meanwhile, I could care less about it being locally sourced or if it's
fresh or frozen, I just want it to taste good.


  20.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.24.2018 - 2:06 pm
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Former NASCAR Cup champion Kurt Busch will make his TV broadcaster debut
in this race as he'll be in the booth for the FOX Sports 1 broadcast
alongside regulars Vince Welch and Phil Parsons. Busch was part of the
radio broadcast team for the Truck series' last race at Talladega and
hopes to do more broadcast work in the future.


  21.   Spen posted:
  10.24.2018 - 2:56 pm
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Like most chains, quality varies from restaurant to restaurant. Iowa
City has an excellent one.


  22.   Sector posted:
  10.24.2018 - 5:35 pm
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"@11
Well, that restaurant chain isn't exactly Texan itself...they're based
in Kentucky."

Understandable but it'd be quite awesome for them to sponsor a Texas
track so we have the Texas to Texas name! Kentucky Roadhouse doesn't
sound bad either, wonder why they went with Texas of all state names.

"(which is probably why their food is mediocre.)"

It's one of the busiest restaurants in Sandusky, Ohio since they opened
up a few years ago here. They even managed to run Ruby Tuesday out of
business in the mall that is right next door to the building because
everyone went to Texas Roadhouse instead.

I've only had fish there so I wouldn't know, I don't go for steak when I
go to restaurants.


  23.   Timothy Eklund posted:
  10.24.2018 - 6:10 pm
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The best part about logans is that you can throw your peanut shells on
the floor. Who wouldn't love that?


  24.   Timothy Eklund posted:
  10.24.2018 - 6:10 pm
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We have one here in Huntsville Alabama and it is a 4 star restaurant.


  25.   Anonymous posted:
  10.24.2018 - 6:51 pm
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"Who wouldn't love that?"

Probably whoever has to clean up the peanut shells.


  26.   1995z71 posted:
  10.24.2018 - 6:52 pm
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Wow really thats the best part of Logans? Not the food or service? The
best part is you can throw your food waste of the food like an infant?


  27.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.24.2018 - 9:27 pm
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@25, @26
The restaurants have a hard, flat floor so the shells are easily swept
up. It's supposed to be kind of a throwback to the image of rougher bars
while it's still a family place. And as far as restaurant gimmicks go
that's a mild one (for comparison see Dick's Last Resort).

Texas Roadhouse has to be either loving or hating the discussion of
their restaurants and that of their competitors here. (waves) Thank you
for sponsoring the race.


  28.   Dawson posted:
  10.24.2018 - 10:36 pm
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Weather looking rough for Friday, but looks good for the rest of the
weekend


  29.   UnderdogFan89 posted:
  10.25.2018 - 5:33 pm
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Standard disclaimer: This is only what I believe to be true, and there
may be rules I am unfamiliar with that would change this. Nevertheless,
based on what I believe the rules say...

If qualifying is cancelled, the three teams that should be going home
are the #99 of Chase Purdy, the #38 of Landon Huffman, and the #30 of
Jeb Burton. However, one website said that the #0 of Ray Ciccarelli was
a late entry. I have yet to confirm this, but if this is true, then the
#0 would be going home, and Jeb Burton would be in.

If qualifying is not cancelled, then the #99, #38, and #23 of Timothy
Peters must qualify on time, having no provisional spot available for
them. If these teams do qualify, then the order in which teams would be
sent home would be as follows:

#30,#0 (again, if this team is actually a late entry, then they wouldn't
be eligible for a provisional at all, so they would move to the very
bottom of the list and the #38 would move up to the first one that would
get bumped),#17, #46, #63, #75, #83, #6, #33, #10.


  30.   David posted:
  10.26.2018 - 1:36 pm
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Looking like today will be a washout at Martinsville, though they're
saying that truck practices are merely "delayed" for the moment.


  31.   JFM01 posted:
  10.26.2018 - 3:23 pm
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Owner of the #15 should be Mark Beaver.


  32.   Mr.Victory posted:
  10.26.2018 - 10:02 pm
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Everyone seemed to comment about texas roadhouse, and not the race.
which... seems kind of dumb, but, not really.


  33.   JSPorts posted:
  10.27.2018 - 10:30 am
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DNQs:

#0 - Ray Ciccarelli

#6 - Norm Benning

#38 - Landon Huffman


  34.   6BenningFan posted:
  10.27.2018 - 10:54 am
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Crap, Yet Another DNQ For My Man Norm. Hopefully He Can Rebound At
Texas, Still Gonna Cheer On Moffitt Today


  35.   Paz Lenchantin posted:
  10.27.2018 - 11:42 am
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I find it to be pure bullshit how JJC pulls that nonsense at the finish
of the Dega race, then is 12mph off the leader, and 2mph slower than
Norm Benning, and she's still in this race.

That's just bogus.


  36.   Sandy posted:
  10.27.2018 - 11:42 am
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In using fastest 32 0 Ray Ciccarelli 6 Norm Benning
Out using fastest 32 10 Jennifer jo Cobb 15 Brad Foy


  37.   JFM01 posted:
  10.27.2018 - 12:15 pm
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The fastest 32 Trucks should qualify.
The provisonal rule is probably the second most stupid rule in NASCAR.


  38.   Luke posted:
  10.27.2018 - 12:32 pm
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Good to see Brad Foy finally made the race, almost made it in a JJCR
truck in 2016
And that sucks for Benning, he qualified better than the 20 that is a
good truck and a few other trucks, that s*cks for benning and also s*cks
for Huffman, had good expectatives to the race but crashed in qualify


  39.   02Justin10 posted:
  10.27.2018 - 12:39 pm
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@35 - Haha!

I like the provisional system. It rewards running full time and scoring
enough owner points over the season.

Provisonal starting spots are earned. Charters are not.


  40.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:25 pm
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We're green and Todd Gilliland is dominating Stage 1.


  41.   Danish Pie posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:37 pm
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Johnny Sauter wins stage 1, Gragson close behind.

Solid runs to end the stage by Kyle Donahue and Dawson Cram. Both stayed
out and started in Row 5 for the restart with 10 to go, and they both
held there own fairly well, Donahue coming one spot short of scoring a
stage point.


  42.   Danish Pie posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:40 pm
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One week after getting married, Chad Finley loses it getting into turn 3
and smacks the wall late in stage 1. He's out of the race, but he at
least has a honeymoon with his newlywed to look forward too.


  43.   Danish Pie posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:43 pm
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On Lap 63 of the race, everyone in the track is persuaded to stand up
for team owner of the 63 truck, Mike Mittler, who is battling Blood
Cancer. #StandUp2Cancer #Lap63


  44.   Danish Pie posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:45 pm
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Stewart Friesen makes contact with Jeb Burton, which causes a flat tire.
He loops it around in turn 1, not hitting anything. Cautions out.


  45.   Anonymous posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:57 pm
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Get ready for lap 63


  46.   Danish Pie posted:
  10.27.2018 - 1:59 pm
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Sauter wins Stage 2, Gragson still his closest competition. 3rd place
John Hunter Nemechek being nearly five seconds back.


  47.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:17 pm
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Todd Gilliland led a lot early on but he's mired back in seventh right now.


  48.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:20 pm
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Johnny Sauter is leading by 4.7 seconds at Martinsville. He's ahead of
Kyle Benjamin by about a full straightaway and pulling away more.


  49.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:24 pm
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Caution out after Stewart Friesen pops Dawson Cram, the latter in just
his second Truck start, and sends Cram for a loop.

Gilliland pits to get the #4 Toyota loosened up. He said the truck was
too tight to pass anyone.


  50.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:28 pm
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It's chaos on the restart as Myatt Snyder kamikazes his way up inside
Johnny Sauter and takes the lead! Behind that Snyder's teammate Grant
Enfinger spins, with help from Justin Haley, and brings out a yellow.
Debutante Chase Purdy also spins.


  51.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:34 pm
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And we restart with Satuer moving back into the lead. Snider is second
with Benjamin third. It's Chevrolet-Ford-Toyota running 1-2-3.


  52.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:37 pm
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John Hunter Nemechek breaks and has to park the #8 Chevrolet. What a
shame, he had a sponsorship, and a stylish yellow paint scheme, from
Ollie's Bargin Outlet today.


  53.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:38 pm
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Sauter leads Snider by about 2 seconds with 19 to go. He is GONE with a
capital G-O-N-E.


  54.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:40 pm
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Brett Moffitt forces his way past Myatt Snider for second. Ben Rhodes is
running fourth right behind his ThorSport teammate Snider. Sauter is 3.6
seconds up on the field with 11 to go, if there's no caution he'll have
no challengers.


  55.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:47 pm
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Johnny Sauter wins going away. It's his fourth Truck win at Martinsville
and his first since the fall of 2016. The #21 ISM Connect Chevrolet was
not going to be caught today.


  56.   JSPorts posted:
  10.27.2018 - 2:51 pm
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Sauter destroyed the field today. At this point, he's the only guy
deserving of a championship in the trucks.


  57.   Nucl3ar Wa4le posted:
  10.27.2018 - 4:16 pm
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Sponsor updates

#3 - Bommarito.com / Commercial Property Services
#22 - AM Technical Solutions / Go Texan
#33 - Auto Value / Strutmasters.com
#52 - Halmar Intl. / We Build America


  58.   RaceFanX posted:
  10.27.2018 - 5:26 pm
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Sheldon Creed, fresh off winning the ARCA championship, picks up a
top-20 in his first Truck race for GMS Racing.


  59.   JSPorts posted:
  10.27.2018 - 5:57 pm
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Some of the notable young part-timers ran well today:

Benjamin - 5th
H. Burton - 8th
Eckes - 9th
J. Burton - 15th
Kligerman - 16th

Others did not:

Dippel - 17th
Ankrum - 18th
Creed - 19th
Purdy - 21st
Thorson - 31st


  60.   Me. posted:
  10.27.2018 - 10:06 pm
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Great run by Snider today. Won't be long before he starts contending for
wins. As for Sauter, I genuinely hope he doesn't win the championship.
He's a massive prick, and a colossal failure in Cup for a good team to
boot. Very overrated as a driver. Pulling for Moffitt who is infinitely
more talented.


  61.   Mannoroth posted:
  10.28.2018 - 1:17 am
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Johnny Sauter scores his 23rd win and is "only" 28 wins behind the
series leaders Ron Hornaday, Jr. and Kyle Busch. At this rate, pretty
easy, huh?

Kyle Busch also made a funny comment, when someone asked him, if he puts
up a bounty for his KBM drivers to beat Johnny Sauter. He said that all
you need to do is put him in the truck and he'll beat him. It's not that
hard. Well, I guess Sauter is glad that no Cup drivers can start the
playoff races...


  62.   JFM01 posted:
  10.28.2018 - 2:06 am
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Is it possible that Kevin Donahue actually drove the #63, not Kyle?


  63.   Jason24 posted:
  10.28.2018 - 4:39 am
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#61. Typical arrogant delusional Kyle Busch crazed nonsense from
Mannoroth. Move along, nothing new to see here folks...


  64.   Tarheel posted:
  10.28.2018 - 8:03 am
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When was Sauter a massive failure for a good team in cup? Was it when he
ran a few races in a Childress car that rarely ran near the front
regardless of who was driving it? Was it when he drove for Haas, which
wasn't even a good team at the time? BTW, before Tony Stewart bought
into the team and made it an HMS satellite team Gene Haas scored exactly
one top five as an owner in 284 starts. One. Johnny was the driver who
did it.


  65.   Willsome429 posted:
  10.28.2018 - 1:45 pm
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Sauter is a guy who is just competitive, and that comes off the wrong
way sometimes. I guess if Moffitt is infinitely more talented than
Sauter, then Haley, Sargeant and Coughlin are career ARCA drivers at
best? You gotta have talent to win this many, no matter how good the
truck. Johnny also has a great grassroots connection, he goes to local
tracks and races his SLM during off weeks.


  66.   Tarheel posted:
  10.28.2018 - 1:46 pm
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61, if you care to check the stats on this very site, you'll see that
although it may not be easy, it's definitely a possibility that Sauter
could exceed fifty wins. He's forty now and has 23 wins. Guess how many
wins Hornaday had when he was forty.... 23, that's how many.


  67.   Mannoroth posted:
  10.28.2018 - 2:23 pm
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66. Yeah, but you're forgetting about two really important things.

First, Johnny Sauter has been racing in NASCAR since 23. Average
successful career always lasts at least 20 years, then the decline
comes. In Hornaday's case, he started his career in NASCAR at 33 and his
last win came at 53. Do you seriously think he or Kevin Harvick will
finally break that trend and will become the first drivers who were
winning races for at least 30 years? I really doubt it - their decline
will come soon. Sauter is already 40, by the way...

And the second thing is that one thing is for sure and that is that
nothing is for sure. To explain Sting's words - no one knows, if his GMS
Racing team keeps running good in future years or if Johnny is able to
run Kyle Busch down by at least 4 wins each year (situation, when Kyle
Busch always wins at least 2 races each season and Johnny Sauter wins at
least 6 times). And by the way, Sauter isn't ageless Hornaday...


  68.   Corey posted:
  10.28.2018 - 2:40 pm
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Trucks is different then Cup though. Sauters winning ways may last a
little longer then expected since the majority of his competition are
young and inexperienced. He would have to win about 5-6 races a year for
the next 5-6 years to catch Hornaday. He could do it, but it wouldn't
surprise me if he didn't.


  69.   Tarheel posted:
  10.28.2018 - 4:03 pm
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Mannoroth, you've proved what a numbnuts you are, again. I clearly
stated in my post that Sauter is forty now, and you commented that
"Sauter is 40, BTW" as though you were correcting me. Secondly, you
stated that Rons Nascar career started when he was 33, it actually
started when he was 30, and I suppose in your world nothing before that
counts. Furthermore, your assumption that Ron was only competitive until
he was 53 is also flawed to the point of absolute irrelevance. He
stopped winning because Harvick sold his truck team and Ron lost the
ride. He spent the next few years helping build up another team, and at
the age of 56 was starting to contend for wins again and was up to 4th
in points when the sponsorship went belly up and the team shut down. As
normal, you simply don't know what you're talking about.


  70.   Jimmie4life posted:
  10.28.2018 - 4:14 pm
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Mannoroth, please, he's been competing since his career started, and
he's always battled for wins. His first truck win was in 2009, and he's
won about 15 races in the last 4-5 years, so you can't hate on him for
that. Not every driver has to get good by 30, or they never deserve love.


  71.   Mannoroth posted:
  10.29.2018 - 7:36 am
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68. Yes, they are different, but the decline is waiting for everyone. It
doesn't make exemptions... And it doesn't have to be a decline that
stops Sauter, what about sponsorship issues or GMS Racing getting worse?
Nothing is for sure...

69. I'm sorry for mentioning that age of 40. I don't see your comment,
when I write mine, so I don't remember all the things you wrote. By the
way, 30 or 33 isn't a big difference and there are drivers with 30+
years of career, but all of them failed to win races during their whole
careers - it doesn't count, when you don't win races for the first 5
years and then you win races for 25 years. Only those 25 years count -
those winless years count as a decline, because the result is the same,
not winning.

Well, Kyle Busch did offer Hornaday his elite truck for the 2012 season.
It's not his problem he declined that offer and paid for it by being
winless in his remaining years. And it might be sad, but sometimes other
factors can get into the equation to make things worse (like running out
of money and losing sponsorship) and it doesn't have to have anything
common with decline. But that's the way it is...

70. I don't have anything against Johnny Sauter or Johnny NASCAR, as
some people call him that way. I was just saying that even him will
start to decline soon, when he's 40 already and has been racing for wins
since 23.


  72.   NazRacePhan posted:
  10.30.2018 - 11:04 am
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Todd Gilliland becomes the 125th different pole sitter in the truck series.


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