2023 NASCAR Discussion - 75th Anniversary Season

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Bottom post of the previous page:

Kyle Larson is this years oldest driver in the championship 4, at just 31 years old.

No driver in the championship 4 drove in NASCAR during the 2000s, and none drove a Cup race in the COT era (2008-2012), with Larson making his first Cup start in 2013, Blaney in 2014, Byron in 2018 and Bell in 2020.

Do you feel old yet?

[erwin greven]

No. these guys are puppies.

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Hocevar up to his old tricks...

NASCAR have been asking for that to happen with this championship 4 format though

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andddd that right there is why the Truck series has fallen apart over the last decade, too many youngsters full of themselves with zero regard for their teams hard work.

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This race is an absolute joke, should of never removed the 3 Overtime/GWC limit

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After an absolute clown show, Ben Rhodes wins the 2023 Truck series championship while Christian Eckes takes the race win.

[Vassago]

I stopped following Trucks full-time around 2013. Looks like I missed nothing. It's a modern motor racing problem, too many young drivers who think they are playing video games on minimal damage settings.

[SBan83]

TBH, it's even worse than video games. Don't think I've seen this level of avoidable carnage in some of the iRacing oval stock car streams that I watched.

[erwin greven]

I stopped following Trucks full-time around 2013. Looks like I missed nothing. It's a modern motor racing problem, too many young drivers who think they are playing video games on minimal damage settings.

Agreed 100%. The same reason i don't follow the Trucks any more. And i see it dripping into the X-Finity series too. Former Trucks drivers who import their behaviour into X-Finity.

[DaleJuniorFan]

Auto Club Speedway update: Banking's coming down.

[erwin greven]

Another "Riverside".

[Vassago]

Land prices must be insane in California so too many property developers don't want to waste it on something as trivial as a racing track.

[DaleJuniorFan]

Cole Custer wins the Xfinity Series championship.

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Ryan Blaney claims his first NASCAR Cup series championship at Phoenix, while Ross Chastain takes out the race win. Remarkably that's the first time in 10 years a non "championship 4" driver has won the final race.

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Kevin Harvick’s final interview as a driver. I have a feeling he will now be on the other side of the microphone for years to come as he moves into the FOX broadcast booth from next year.

[erwin greven]

Of all the drivers who ran in 2007, the first season i followed NASCAR fully, only a very few are still there. Kyle Busch, Truex, Hamlin are amongst them. Also Harvick, a driver i always respected a lot.