2022 sezona

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To odavno nije Pettyjev tim. Richard Petty je bio vlasnik samo 4% tima cini mi se, ali je ostao da bude lice tima zbog marketinga. Poslednji tim gde je Richard Petty licno imao vecinsku kontrolu je bio Petty Enterprises koji je ugasen posle 2008. godine. Richard Petty Motorsport je nastao 2009. godine spajanjem 3 posrnula tima (Petty Enterprise, Evernham Motorsport i Robert Yates Racing), ali je tu Petty imao vlasnistvo samo 4%.

Novi vlasnik Richard Petty Motorsporta (RPM) je Maury Gallagher koji je takodje vlasnik GMS Racinga. Cilj mu je naravno da dobije charter. RPM poseduje 2 chartera, od cega je GMS Racing iznajmio jedan za 2022. sezonu (za svoj novi #94 tim, vozac Ty Dillon). Drugi charter je naravno za Erik Jonesa, a taj #43 tim ce nastaviti da postoji. Nije samo poznato da li ce se zvati Richard Petty Motorsport ili GMS Racing.

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Kevin Harvick je juce gostovao kod Dale Earnhardta Jr na njegovom podcastu. Do sada sam odslusao samo prvih 40 minuta, a traje 3 sata i 15 minuta, tako da malo po malo slusam svako jutro kad idem da setam.

Harvick je rekao da je bio jako blizu da se penzionise na kraju 2021. sezone, ali se ipak predomislio i potpisao novi 2-godisnji ugovor.

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Golden boy opet proglasen za najpopularnijeg vozaca ... Zamisli to cudo ...

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Darrell Waltrip Doesn’t Hold Back and Warns NASCAR About Making Too Many Changes and Losing Fans

“I think what we’re seeing is people that are managing the sport, running the sport, that maybe aren’t old school, that haven’t been around as long as we have,” Waltrip said during a recent interview on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “I think they look at the sport differently. I always think about what Bill France Jr. told me. He said ‘We can do whatever we want to, but we have to put on a show.’ Sunday was all about the show. That was his philosophy.”

‘I think that’s what we’re going to see for a while,” he said. “And maybe they’ll come up with a formula where some things last longer than others, but I like moving around. I like moving the All-Star Race around. I like moving things around, giving people a different look at what we do, and that maybe never get a chance. Go to different towns. Go to different tracks. I don’t see anything wrong with that. I don’t think we have to be married to the schedule that we’ve been married to all these years. I think moving things around and trying something different is good for the sport, and I think it’s good for the fans. I think the drivers are really buying into it.”

“I think about that Car of Tomorrow,” Waltrip said of the car that debuted in 2008. “Introduced that thing. That was going to level the playing field and make everybody equal. And that thing didn’t last too long. And now we’ve basically thrown away the car that we’ve raced for 50 years. Every piece. Not a piece off the car other than the engine works on this new car and so it’s like starting with a clean sheet of paper, starting from scratch. I think we have to be careful making too many changes at one time. You’ve got to work on the car and that’s going to take a little while before the drivers get comfortable with that.

“We got a schedule that’s looking a little bit different. SMI is buying up racetracks. There’s a lot going on. I think we’ve got to be careful not to do too much to get the fans confused and lose our focus. I like a lot of things we’re doing. I think those are important and I think they’re necessary but I think we have to be careful not to overload the fans and the media and everybody else with what we’re doing.”

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Kako se prica, Richard Petty Motorsport ce nastaviti da se takmici pod tim imenom u 2022. sezoni, ali posle toga #43 ce postati deo GMS Racinga. Ovo se samo nagadja na osnovu dogovora, nista jos zvanicno.

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Bilo je ranije prica da ce Dodge uci u NASCAR 2022. sezone. Ipak, kako se sada prica, to ce se desiti 2023. godine ako se uopste desi.

[kyle]

2022 je rano ne znam ko je to ocekivao. Cak i 2023 je rano

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Nema tu neke velike matematike kao ranije. Motori se vec duze vreme nisu promenili, a skoljka je univerzalna za sve timove. Nisu potrebne godine i godine testiranja kao ranije. To je i bila cela poenta predstavljanja ove nove generacija auta, da smanje troskove i da bude pristupacnije za takmicenje.

[kyle]

Pa sta onda cekaju?

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Dodge nikada nije ni potvrdio povratak, to su bile samo glasine medija. Ako se Dodge zaista vraca, onda verovatno zele da potpisu neki jaci tim jer nema se poente vracati ako privuku jedino Pettya ili neki slican tim.

[kyle]

Pa sa SHR se povezuje

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To se pricalo samo zato sto je Stewart kupio tim u NHRA koji u Funny Car klasi koristi Dodge. Kao sto rekoh gore, Dodge nikada nije ni rekao da ce se vratiti u NASCAR pa samim tim Stewart-Haas ne moze da se povezuje sa nepostojecim proizvodjacem. Vec je bila prica "ako se Dodge vrati koji tim bi mogao da privuce" pa su onda neki zakljucili "SHR vec ima tim u NHRA koji koristi Dodge pa ajmo da glasamo i za NASCAR". A to ne fukncionise bas tako jer eto recimo Ganassi u Indy koristi Hondu, u trkama izdrzljivosti Forda, a u NASCAR-u Chevrolet ...

Plus, SHR je uveliko testirao Mustanga od kada je sezona zavrsila tako da sumnjam da bi to radili da kojim slucajem idu negde drugo. Vec su predstavili auto za 2022.

[kyle]

Dobro, ali niko nije ni demantovao znaci "ima nesto." Iz iskustva ovo znam.

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Kako se prica, Richard Petty Motorsport ce nastaviti da se takmici pod tim imenom u 2022. sezoni, ali posle toga #43 ce postati deo GMS Racinga. Ovo se samo nagadja na osnovu dogovora, nista jos zvanicno.

Novi tim ce se zvati Petty GMS Motorsports i imace 2 auta u 2022. sezoni - #43 Erik Jones i #94 Ty Dillon.

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Ty Dillon ipak nece koristiti #94 vec #42. To je originalni broj Lee Pettya (Richardov cale koji je osnovao originalni Petty Enterprises) sa kojim je pobedio preko 50 trka (ukljucujuci i prvu ikada vozenu 1959 Daytonu 500)

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Vec sam namestio DVR ...

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Stewart-Haas Racing i vozac Chase Briscoe zakazali konferenciju za stampu na Indianapolisu u petak. Verovatno novi sponzor posto su i Tony Stewart i Chase Briscoe iz Indiane.

[kyle]

Cuo sam da ce Toni saopstiti da ce voziti Xfiniti trku na Indijanapolisu

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Zbog cega je Briscoe onda tamo?

[kyle]

Zbog cega je Briscoe onda tamo?

Ne znam za Briska kazem sta sam cuo

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Mozda budem isao na Indianapolis trku opet ove godine, mada nikako nisam ljubitelj road courses. Rodjendan mi ove godine pada na Richmond, ali Virginia mi nije bas blizu za putovanje kolima. Najverovatnije cu ici na Gateway - nalazi se odmah pored St Louisa, a tamo nikad nisam bio. Taman da mozda odem na utakmicu Cardinalsa dan ranije ako je budu imali i onda nedelja na trku.

Bristol mi je i dalje najveca zelja, za mene to je najbolja trka u sezoni. Posle ide Darlington.

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Navikao golden boy da za njega pravila ne vaze u NASCAR-u pa mislio da ce tako biti i u drugim takmicenjima.

[kyle]

"Video je nedostupan"

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