You Knew This Was Coming, Didn’t You? Talladega Days
NASCAR DRIVER AUSTIN WAYNE SELF HAS ANNOUNCED THAT HIS CAMPING WORLD TRUCK SERIES VEHICLE WILL BE EMBLAZONED WITH DONALD TRUMP CAMPAIGN MARKINGS DURING THE UPCOMING OCTOBER 22 RUN OF FRED’S 250 AT TALLADEGA SUPERSPEEDWAY.
I wonder if he has to report the paint as a campaign contribution.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
Some folks don’t care how boldly they proclaim their willful ignorance and stupidity.
1This guy is pretty dumb. Just made his camper target for tagging and open cans of painting remover.
2I can’t tell the make of that pickup. Toyota? Nissan? Ford, Chevy or Dodge made in Mexico?
3@Papa
I suspect that is a mylar wrap, not paint. Easier to pull off when the sponsorship ends or a more valuable sponsor signs on.
4@Debbo
According to Austin’s official internet world wide thingy site, truck number 22 is a Toyota Tundra and truck number 45 is a Chevrolet Silverado.
5This is perfect.
6Something named Trump, driving around in a circle, but really fast.
First of all, anybody with the middle name of Wayne probably does not have both oars in the water. Think of Elmer Wayne Henley and John Wayne Gacy. There are whole websites devoted to killers with the same middle name.
7Secondly, it is very suspect that someone who is so far to the right can only make left hand turns.
Sooo looking forward to seeing video clips of the spectcrapular ‘crash and burn’ loop of the small-bore .22 (and Dolt.45).
8(y’all don’t think I’d ever watch an entire boring effen nasscar race, do ya?)
@Howard Williams
+1 on the only left turn philosophy of NASCAR.
Plus, and this is my number 1 gripe about stock cars in all their forms: on road courses, stock cars are slow, as they have no grip to utilize their powerful engines.
9“I wonder if he has to report the paint as a campaign contribution.”
More likely Wayne will want to report the paint job as a total loss after he flames out on the track.
10@Micr#9- I have to agree, up to a point there is that plus their weight makes them more sensitive to side loading, but, at least on road courses the drivers have to drive, steer both directions, use the brakes and transmissions effectively, besides what do you propose to deal with the problem you cite? Even Formula 1 has banned traction control.
11Ahhh “Talledega Nights”, and the Ballad of Ricky Bobby, are about to get some competition. Don’t tell me I’m the only one here for whom that fine film leapt to mind.
12@Micr,
Ever watch any Formula E races? Interesting electric ePrix racing. Still fairly low class rule limits on power (180/270HP), speed (140mph) etc., but getting faster. Only slightly louder than a regular road vehicle.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_E
13@L’Angelomisterioso
One solution is more downforce. I thought the Chaparral 2J ground effects car was sheer genius. But if race fans can’t stand the idea of a sucker car, then how about turning the bottom of the car into a turbulence controlling wing that plants the suspension.
And spoilers/wings that adapt to speed and air flow might be an idea as well. My brother has owned Porch for a while. One had a “whale tail” (not what you youg guys are thinking.) and another had a spoiler that deploys itsownself as speed increases. I’m not a Porch fan but I do like the 993 doing that.
F1 and maybe Indycars have spoiler/wings in the front as well to tame air turbulence. I see no reason for NASCAR to discourage this sort of work either. And on open wheel cars this nose treatment appears to work, else various manufacturers would not include it in their designs.
There!
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Just because F1/Ecclestone banned it doesn’t mean it was wrong!
How about wider rubber? F1 went to 12-inch wide front tire and 16-inch wide rear tires to get more traction this season. Indycar tires by comparison are 10-inches front and 14.5-inches rear. I’m not sure how wide NASCAR truck tires may be but of they are not in this range, they should be.
14@Sandridge
Love Formula E. Of course if a race car fan must have the screech of 800ish horsepower and 12 cylinders, then Formula E will never do.
15So trumpian. Racer with MAGA is Japanese.
16@Debbo,
All US Toyota Tundras (and Tacomas) are made in a big, fairly new Toyota assembly plant on the southern edge of San Antonio, TX.
Some parts are imported from Japan+, but most are made there or nearby (some from Mexico I think).
It was a huge thing locally, chingos of tax breaks and subsidies based on a ‘projected’ high-paying (relatively) jobs jobs hard sell. Not as great an impact as advertised.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Motor_Manufacturing_Texas
Besides, those nasscar racers only ‘look’ like a particular model, don’t think they have any original parts inside or out.
That thing above doesn’t really look like a Tundra to me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Tundra
17I should feel bad about this but I would love to see this guy never finish a race. If he’s so fond of Dump45 he probably has the same attention to detail and ability to assess the skills of those he works with.
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