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“Maybe I’m not who everybody wants me to be, but I am exactly who I’ve always been.”
-Mike Trout
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
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Robert Wedge IV retweeted
Was literally explaining the, "society falls when old men don't plant trees they will never sit under" to my neighbor (boomer)
He said he didn't get it and why would he plant trees if won't be around to see them
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NASCAR really needs to look at the O’Reilly Series and understand the NextGen car is simply not worthy of the sport’s top level.
What an incredible season for the O’Reilly Series. This car is amazing.
The NextGen will never put on a show like you saw tonight.
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This general platform has got to be protected and eventually someday be implemented in Cup at all costs
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i do not understand why NASCAR felt the need to shift away from what a stock car has been for 70 years+ to be "more road relevant" -- race teams make race cars, OEMs dont. it makes 0 difference if the suspension is "road relevant" or not.
I proposed to SO and others that we do this:
Keep the current car, but made with new parts from NASCAR specified companies.
The general concept of a NASCAR cup car is a mid 1960s Chevrolet Chevelle front clip and a mid 1960s pickup truck suspension in the rear. NASCAR teams spent decades refining this technology.
Keep all of the general concepts and theories. Similar mounting points and such, all parts made by a Nascar mandated manufacturer or two or three. Trailing arms, upper and lower control arms, spindles. You name it. Have designated companies produce it all.
We could phase these parts in over the next 5 years and continue to race into the future a car we all have an extremely deep connection to.
The truck series could use these same parts. They could trickle down to ARCA, Late Model Stock. There is enough racing going on between all levels of "stock car racing" that this could be lucrative to the specified manufacturers of said parts. It would be cost affective toward teams. It would create a pipeline of parts trickling down toward the grassroots levels of racing as they too are concerned over current parts and current and future scarcity.
This is doable and maintains a key identifiable element to our industry.
My fear is that the industry needs to create a trickle down model for the current Cup Next Gen car. Hubs, front and rear suspension, drivetrain. All these mileaged parts used to have a place to go and compete until the Next Gen was introduced. So there may be some who feel it's common sense for the other 2 national series to adopt literal framework to utilize these pieces. No doubt Cup teams would like to have a marketplace for these parts.
Time will tell but I have a feeling it'll be really challenging to convince the league to keep the O'Reilly vehicle on its current architecture long term.
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
Bro just casually fired this gem off at 2:38AM.
I’m not even kidding, Dale Jr. needs to run NASCAR.
I proposed to SO and others that we do this:
Keep the current car, but made with new parts from NASCAR specified companies.
The general concept of a NASCAR cup car is a mid 1960s Chevrolet Chevelle front clip and a mid 1960s pickup truck suspension in the rear. NASCAR teams spent decades refining this technology.
Keep all of the general concepts and theories. Similar mounting points and such, all parts made by a Nascar mandated manufacturer or two or three. Trailing arms, upper and lower control arms, spindles. You name it. Have designated companies produce it all.
We could phase these parts in over the next 5 years and continue to race into the future a car we all have an extremely deep connection to.
The truck series could use these same parts. They could trickle down to ARCA, Late Model Stock. There is enough racing going on between all levels of "stock car racing" that this could be lucrative to the specified manufacturers of said parts. It would be cost affective toward teams. It would create a pipeline of parts trickling down toward the grassroots levels of racing as they too are concerned over current parts and current and future scarcity.
This is doable and maintains a key identifiable element to our industry.
My fear is that the industry needs to create a trickle down model for the current Cup Next Gen car. Hubs, front and rear suspension, drivetrain. All these mileaged parts used to have a place to go and compete until the Next Gen was introduced. So there may be some who feel it's common sense for the other 2 national series to adopt literal framework to utilize these pieces. No doubt Cup teams would like to have a marketplace for these parts.
Time will tell but I have a feeling it'll be really challenging to convince the league to keep the O'Reilly vehicle on its current architecture long term.
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
This is extremely important. Please @NASCAR listen to this. @DaleJr has a plan that would be the perfect solution.
I proposed to SO and others that we do this:
Keep the current car, but made with new parts from NASCAR specified companies.
The general concept of a NASCAR cup car is a mid 1960s Chevrolet Chevelle front clip and a mid 1960s pickup truck suspension in the rear. NASCAR teams spent decades refining this technology.
Keep all of the general concepts and theories. Similar mounting points and such, all parts made by a Nascar mandated manufacturer or two or three. Trailing arms, upper and lower control arms, spindles. You name it. Have designated companies produce it all.
We could phase these parts in over the next 5 years and continue to race into the future a car we all have an extremely deep connection to.
The truck series could use these same parts. They could trickle down to ARCA, Late Model Stock. There is enough racing going on between all levels of "stock car racing" that this could be lucrative to the specified manufacturers of said parts. It would be cost affective toward teams. It would create a pipeline of parts trickling down toward the grassroots levels of racing as they too are concerned over current parts and current and future scarcity.
This is doable and maintains a key identifiable element to our industry.
My fear is that the industry needs to create a trickle down model for the current Cup Next Gen car. Hubs, front and rear suspension, drivetrain. All these mileaged parts used to have a place to go and compete until the Next Gen was introduced. So there may be some who feel it's common sense for the other 2 national series to adopt literal framework to utilize these pieces. No doubt Cup teams would like to have a marketplace for these parts.
Time will tell but I have a feeling it'll be really challenging to convince the league to keep the O'Reilly vehicle on its current architecture long term.
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
virtually every democrat regardless of faction ran against the establishment, if they do not deliver tangible & immediate changes inside the party like appointing dynamic leaders that will echo the fighting spirit the moment requires, we will lose the momentum - voters will see this as a betrayal. no amount of msm narratives around schumer's tactical prowess will change this. there's a reason why both hakeem & chuck are unpopular among dem voters. we didn't forget how they maneuvered around the last two years.
we also have to destroy the seniority structure in the party & appoint competent people to the right committees!! zohran proved that a young dynamic figure can reshape the entire political landscape! i am very worried that "insider politics" and corporate focused leadership decisions is going to take us back to business as usual politics when we voted for CHANGE. we voted for a FIGHT. we voted for ACCOUNTABILITY.
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I'm so tired, man.. this shit is so demoralizing.. we voted for change and Democrats want to back the same leaders whose fecklessness and inaction allowed Trump to FUCKING TORTURE US FOR SIX FUCKING YEARS. They wanna back the same two out of touch goons who have bent over backwards for AIPAC and corporations, even though we just voted to REJECT those influences.
I'm tired of the working class putting so much energy into hoping things can get better only to have Democrats spit in our faces with the same smugness and dismissal that drove people away from them in the first place and gave rise to Trump. They NEVER fucking learn.
God dammit dude.
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
Larson would hit these barrels only for Denny's crew to somehow get a windshield tear off stuck over the radiator and put him four laps down
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By this time in the COT cycle (5 years) nascar had already canned the car and the Gen 6 was coming out the following season btw
Steve O'Donnell indicates a Gen 8 car is not on the horizon. He defended the Next Gen and said tweaks are likely but not a new car.
Because of the Next Gen, O'Donnell said, "You have many new owners that have come into the sport. You have an ownership landscape that is much healthier than it was before. You have Dodge entering the sport. You have other OEMs who are looking at it, and you have pretty good racing.
"The facts, when you look at those compared to other sports, are pretty strong. So I think it's important to look at what changes can you tweak along the way.
"But for us, we want a sustainable model for the industry, a Gen 8 or next gen car comes with all kinds of costs and all kinds of different things.
"So I'm confident in our guys and the industry and the OEMs to tweak what we have where necessary, but also be pretty confident in our drivers going out there and having the ability to go win races and put on some pretty darn good competition."
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imagine seeing this & thinking voters want democrats to find common ground with the unprecedented corruption & fascism of the right. we want accountability & bold action protecting our democracy from any of it ever happening again.
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Randy Villegas overcame huge spending from the Dem establishment and won the primary anyway. Washington Dems warned the left had thrown the seat away. Instead he blew out Valadao, significantly overperformed.
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.@Progressive insurance is renewing and expanding its sponsorship deal with @JoeGibbsRacing, a positive sign for the NASCAR team and the sport from a major blue-chip company.
➡️ Progressive to move up to 24 primary positions on JGR’s No. 11 Toyota next season with Denny Hamlin.
Basically we’re going to hold onto this land and pray something falls into our laps but we are not actively seeking to do anything with it. Is that an accurate summary @jeff_gluck?
I asked O'Donnell about Fontana. Why does NASCAR keep holding onto the property if they aren't doing anything with it?
"We keep holding on to it because it's an important market for us. It will be a real challenge if we could ever put a racetrack there, candidly.
"But we also recognize Southern California is an important market for us. So I don't have any update beyond that. Just that it's a focus for us to make sure, in some capacity, we're there. ... We've got to make sure that we've got somewhere to race (in Southern California)."
Robert Wedge IV retweeted
While being shunned by Dem powerbrokers and effectively defunded by the national party, @AngieNixon delivered - by far - the best electoral performance of a Florida Dem Senate challenger in over two decades. Literally no challenger in 22 years came even close to the 48% she got.
Ezra Klein on the electoral performance of El-Sayed, Peggy Flanagan and Angie Nixon:
Angie Nixon—I don't think there's any reason to look at the results and say it was a brilliant strategic move to run the DSA candidate in Florida.
Sometimes people take statements about electoral performance as moral statements about the worth of a candidate or the ideas. That's crazy in my view.
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Dems need to find another speaker of the house stat.
If your first step out of this election is delaying permitting reforms for housing affordability in the name of more {waves hands} “process and input” you’ve completely missed the message. Not the right person for the moment. Move aside.
We’ve been in self-imposed stagnation when it comes to building ~anything~ in the physical world for decades. It has made everything we rely on more expensive, more scarce, and - perversely - worse in quality for the outcome.
It’s also become a direct cause of hardship for those at lower and even middle incomes. Our housing stock is older than it has ever been. Yet it’s also absurdly expensive.
Get on board with removing largely performative barriers that punish everyone (but especially the poor) or get out of the way.
