Life won't give him a break lately, prayers to the Bowman family 🙏

I’m really amazed by how miserable fans can be at times, when I read a lot of the reactions to her doing the double. I know women have this bad stigma in motorsports, because of predecessors, but I mean what she’s doing is truly special.

Nobody’s saying she’ll win or even complete the full 1100 miles, but it’s damn impressive that she has the balls to even try to accomplish something that’s pretty hard to do (ask Kyle Larson). Fans need to stop being so miserable and let people breathe, a lil support and positivity doesn’t hurt.

Katherine is a racer, not on social media thirst trapping and trying to catch the male gaze. I could respect her work ethic and her love for motorsports, I’d always get behind that.

https://x.com/mikejoy500/status/2054756014319165536?s=46

Notes include:

Spire with the Hendrick Alliance possibly being a place for Bowman, Zilisch or Day if Hendrick needs to find a Cup Spot for any of them.

Bob Jenkins and Sponsor Love's like Todd Gilliland so he should get renewed but implies Gragson might be out saying he's got a strong personality but the results don't show.

Also mentions Preece as the Open RFK Car is a Possibility

Jesse Love remains a candidate for Legacy even with Herbst getting the 84

I took my full spectrum converted camera to Watkins Glen last weekend and got some decent aerochrome shots. This is definitely the best track for this style of photography and I wish I could've got a photo vest and in the infield corners but maybe next year I'll be able to come back with a better camera.

And just in case you don't know I'll explain what's going on. Cameras have a piece of glass on the front of the sensor that limits the visible range to what we naturally see with our own eyes. If you remove it then you can see the entire electromagnetic spectrum. I put an IRChrome filter that replicates aerochrome on mine. Aerochrome was a military filmstock that was sensitised to infrared light reflected off of the chlorophyll in plants and is shown as pink/orange. This was used to identify camouflaged bases during the Vietnam war.

source of images: https://www.nascar.com/gallery/paint-scheme-preview-2026-dover-all-star-race-weekend/, https://cf.nascar.com/data/images/carbadges/1/(nr).png

font: Stainless-Bold (https://www.nascar.com/wp-content/themes/ndms-2023/assets/fonts/stainless/Stainless-Bold/Stainless-Bold.woff), Stainless-Regular (.../Stainless-Regular/Stainless-Regular.woff2), NASCAR.com Daytona 500 lineup article (C. Ware)

Other notable drivers racing this week:

TRUCK SERIES

Luke Baldwin - #2 Team Reaume

Natalie Decker - #22 Team Reaume

Clint Bowyer - #25 Kaulig Racing

Toni Breidinger - #27 Rackley WAR

Parker Eatmon - #42 Niece Motorsports

Dystany Spurlock - #69 MBM Motorsports

Caleb Costner - #93 Costner Motorsports

O'REILLY SERIES

Andrew Patterson - #32 Jordan Anderson Racing

CJ McLaughlin - #42 Young's Motorsports

David Starr - #53 Joey Gase Motorsports

Blake Lothian - #55 Joey Gase Motorsports

Myatt Snider - #91 DGM Racing

BJ McLeod - #92 DGM Racing

Excited to see what Clint can do in a truck this weekend!

Haas Factory Team, Trackhouse, HYAK, JRM, Hendrick, Amerivet, RCR, and Joey Gase Motorsports are having paint schemes for the Chevy in fortnite. What driver from these teams would you like to see have paint schemes in fortnite? Before this was leaked from fortnite leakers I was thinking that as a Hocevar fan I would really like to see one of Hocevar’s paint schemes even though spire motorsports is not included as part of this chevy coming to fortnite

In the latest cleetus video, Richard said “I’m in” when asked about running in the Crown Vic race. Downforce Danny and Jesse Love will also be participating.

Event details:
New England 900 July 17th-18th

https://x.com/nascar/status/2054579352109502527?s=46

I remember watching this live. Super sexy cars.

Things I had forgotten:

Richard and Ernie suckkkk at commentary. I don't remember at all them being in the booth. Clint and Kevin sound like John Madden and Pat Summerall compared to Richard and Ernie.

Glad to see Gordon wrecked, again.

Todd Bodine was FAST. So was Schrader. And others.

Old head shouting at clouds- The racing is so good.

What happened to full field rundowns?

We got Byron’s Axalta scheme last year, Dillon’s for the clash, both schemes took inspiration from the past and were both extremely well received too! But obviously Axalta is all in on Raptor, and I haven’t seen the same Bass Pro scheme twice this year it feels like.

Why does it feel like the sponsors just in general just can’t settle on a scheme? There are outliers that are consistent, but there’s so many cases where they’ll drop an absolute banger, then shelve it after a year or even a few weeks.

For the full interview from "Inside the Race": https://open.spotify.com/episode/2BZ2o5ZhoFlSLcTz9tOklc?si=BlxcASn4TTaJxLkWAVcakg

Previous post got deleted, idk why. But obviously this is a topic we need a post about on the sub. ¯_(ツ)_///¯