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Hendrick to focus on turning around Earnhardt's slumping team

No, what it's going to take to turn the 88 team around is trust and a big dose of good luck for a change. No, jr. isn't the quality of driver his father was but he is as good or better than 95 percent of the drivers involved in Sprint Cup today. Being running good and getting a flat tire or getting involved in other peoples wrecks are just of a couple of the bad luck things that have plagued the team. Sure, Jr. has made some totally bonehead moves himself and has to take a lot of the creadit for the miserable performance of the team. As much as success begats success, faliure begats failure. Failure, whether your fault or not, begats self-doubt. Self-doubt creates more failure. Jr. doesn't need to cruise the Carribean this winter, he needs to spent his time in Florida running the late models, building confidence. Spent some of that big money on the best late model equipment and get the feeling of winning back. Get himself mentally ready for the NASCAR season. Hit the gym everyday, hard. Toughen his mind and body. It's going to take the greatest committment of Jr.'s life to put him back in the Cup winners circle and if he isn't willing to make that committment, then throw in the towel and head on over to Whiskey River.  (2 hrs ago | post #4)

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NASCAR wants France info kept from Mayfield

I totally agree. This case is about Jeremy Mayfield and his drug problems, not someone else's personal actions. Personally, I don't think he will ever get a dime out of NASCAR but the legal counsel he has been using are going to take everything he has. Jeremy is destine to work one of the off ramps on I-85 north of Charlotte. Probably somewhere around Speedway Blvd.  (2 hrs ago | post #4)

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All Jimmie Johnson does is win

We hear ya, Pete. You don't have to scream. Take the damn caps lock off. It just makes you look like a bigger idiot than we already think you are. Now, let's talk about you theory of Jeff throwing races so Jimmie can win because Jeff will make more money. Are you f*cking stupid or just don't have any idea how the drivers are paid. Here's a little help. Each driver on a major team has a guaranteed salary, then he receives a percent of whatever he wins from the race purse. Most drivers receive at least 50 percent of the winnings. So, for the sake of argument, let's say Jimmie wins a race that pays $250,000. Jimmie gets half, the owners get half. So Rick and Jeff splip their half which will net them $67,500 each. A lot of money right? The only problem is, Rick and Jeff as the owners had to pay Jimmie his guaranteed salary which for someone like Jimmie is a quarter million plus, then Rick and Jeff had to pay all the expenses for taking the 48 team racing, and lastly, that check that Jimmie is going to receive at the banquet is HIS unless he want to share it with the crew in some way. Please, in your infinitive wisdom, explain to me the financial benefit for Jeff by allowing Jimmie to win instead of gaining the full financial rewards and fame wommomg himself. Pete, it's very apparent that you didn't pay much attention in high school english so here's one more tip, if you want to be taken seriously, write something coherent.  (3 hrs ago | post #4)

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NASCAR sorely needs Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s resurgence

I think I sort of know what Jr. is going through in his head. My whole life had been spent either waiting to get in the Army or being in the Army until one faithful morning that everything went wrong with a routine parachute jump. I shattered a leg. 15 months later after several surgeries I was giving a medical discharge and sent home to wait for my disability checks. When everything turns around on you in your life, your biggest enemy is self doubt. You second guess everything you do. It took a couple of old soldiers that had seen their share of hard times to get me jump started. I have a hint that Jr. is going through some of the same emotions. Something or someone will turn the tide for him and he'll get back on his feet. I thought the Army was all I could do but I found out that I was also a half decent business man too. He'll right his ship, it just takes time.  (15 hrs ago | post #5)

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Is Jeff Gordon's Drive For Five Permanently Stalled?

At last, someone other than myself that understands the problem at the 24 team. Letarte is a great car chief but as the crew chief he sucks. Chad graduated from the Ray Evernham school of crew chiefing but Letarte took a correspondence course.  (15 hrs ago | post #8)

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Play the Hamlin-Keselowski feud for all it's worth

Look, I'm one of those "show me" people. Don't tell me how great someone is when his performance doesn't show it. Kyle is in top notch equipment, HAD a great crew chief and until the pressure started building, was the odds on favorite to go all the way this year. But he took himself out of it when he let the pressure get to him. If we haven't seen his best yet then he'll have to change some in order to get to that point. Right now, my best comparison is, Dale Jr. has twice as many championships as Shrub. Think about it.  (Yesterday | post #7)

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It's Official: Dale Earnhardt Jr. Is Cursed

I'm not quite sure why you think I'm a "younger fan" or don't know anything about these prople that you're referencing. In my year since I left the military and when into business, I have owned several late model dirt and pavement cars and sponsored many more. My cars ran occasionally ran South Boston, Langley, Orange County, County Line, Southen National, and New Fayetteville. Southern National and Wayne County (when it was still running)was my home track. I gave it up a few years ago. Over the years I've been an avid NASCAR fan and knew enough people racing in NASCAR, that getting credentials was never a problem. So throwing around names to me means nothing. I'm sure either why you think that I think the drivers are some sort of Gods, to me they're nothing but ordinary people that possess a talent for driving a racecarEach one has his can of worms and demons just like everyone else does. The absolute best late model dirt driver I ever saw is serving life for killing a friend of his over drugs. Race car drivers are just ordinary people in an unordinary job. I understand you love to play the great philosopher of the forums and while you do know about racing than the average fan, please be aware there is others around that have spent money and time in the sport also.  (Yesterday | post #74)

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Years Biggest Dissappointment

Who's kidding who? There wasn't many more people more disappointed when Dale Sr. passed away than have been over Jr.'s performance this year. I'm sure there has been several nervous breakdowns over his year. I'm basing this opinion of course, on the all the pissing, moaning, whining and gnashing of teeth of people on these forums. It's totally understandable though. Everyone knows perfectly well, that it's the absolute rule that if a man is great, his son has to be greater. Well, okay some people are absolutely sure that is how it must be to satify them. Well, we didn't even have to wait for the Myth Busters to work on this one. Some of us figured out on our own that it is just as easy for the son of a great race car driver to have a sh*tty year as it is for anyone else. Some of us, though the number is fewer, are smart enough to realize this will pass and Jr.'s performance will improve but that regardless of how much we want it, he'll never be as great a driver as his father was. But to those of us that understand that, he doesn't have to be. We accept him for WHO he is, not who his father was.  (Yesterday | post #2)

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Johnson wins 4th straight title | The Columbus Dispatch

Jimmie Johnson is the King of NASCAR for 2009. Long live the the King. Kyle Busch was the Court Jester for 2009. Long live the Court Jester. I know, Kyle won the Nationwide Championsip. Here's my take on that, Dale Earnhardt Jr. has two of those. Get It? Long live the KING.  (Monday | post #3)

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Another Rigged Racing Season Ends

Here's the recipe: Take one great driver, mix with the sports smartest crew chief and crew, stir the best equipment in the business , add a large dash of high morale and put contents in 36 races. Results: a Sprint Cup Champion of record setting proportions. That's my kind of cake.  (Monday | post #4)

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Kyle Busch 2009 NASCAR Natiowide Series Champion

Let me put Shrub's Nationwide Championship in the proper perspective, even Jr. has two of them. LMAO  (Monday | post #3)

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Will Roger mind if Brad stuffs Denny in the wall with his number 12?

Stewart must have went totally brain dead last night to decide Juan was the right person to screw with. I'm thinking something must have already happened that the cameras didn't catch that preceeded Tony swinging on in front of Juan and causing Juan to bump him. Smokes a great driver but apparently a slower learner. The lesson being, don't piss Juan off! It tickled me when he came back out of the pits and didn't waste two laps before he zeroed in on Smoke and played kick the can. Did anyone besides me notice how NASCAR didn't do crap when Tony wrecked Juan but parked Juan two laps when he returned the favor? It was a good race. The only thing missing was Brad took the high road and didn't mash the Hamlin car like I wanted him too.  (Monday | post #6)

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How old are you now, Matthew?  (Saturday Nov 21 | post #12)

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Will Roger mind if Brad stuffs Denny in the wall with his number 12?

Well, I hope he doesn't but I have a feeling it isn't going to matter whether he does or not. If I was in Denny's place, I'd wear my case iron underwear to work tomorrow. Denny gave it his best shot but Brad showed him how to drive a car the right way. I don't think Denny is going to be as successful in saving his car as Brad was. If Brad is smart he will get him from the outside in the middle of a turn so he will spin up the track into the wall. Brad isn't going to wait till Daytona, he hasn't much to lose even if they park him tomorrow. Daytona is a totally different story, new year, points starting over. I figure NASCAR will call them both to the trailer in the morning, if they didn't tonight. I thought it was so funny that Brad and his crew chief was making fun of Denny because he couldn't even wreck someone right.  (Saturday Nov 21 | post #1)