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Kurt Busch reportedly has two offers on the table for 2022 but hasn't elaborated any further than that. Sunday's Cup Indy RC race was the least watched Indianapolis Cup race besides the 2018 Monday rain postponed race https://www.jayski.com/2021/08/17/indianapolis-tv-ratings-4/ Nascar is reinstating some Covid protocols such as masks and social distancing https://www.jayski.com/2021/08/17/nascar-implements-several-covid-19-protocol-adjustments-beginning-this-weekend/ . So we won't be seeing the media on top of the driver's anymore this year. They'll have to put their phones and mics on selfie sticks again lol. I don't know why but I found it funny seeing all those poles shoved in driver's faces. I just thought any minute now a pissed of racer is going to take one of those poles and either break it or swing it at someone lol. The races are at Michigan this weekend but on NBCSN.

Britney Spears For her recent ahem "tribute" to Daisy Duke. In case you Google it, it is definitely NSFW and that goes for Work or Wives because if your wife sees ya looking at her you might get a frying pan upside yer head .

Read it on the Nascar Reddit page. It was also on Twitter, that's what the reddit post linked to. The tweet I wouldn't call a reliable source though. Ryan Newman is coming to terms that this is probably his last Cup season https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/08/15/nascar-ryan-newman-future-indianapolis-motor-speedway/ AJ Allmendinger won the craziest Indy race since the 2008 tire debacle race. Turn 6 curbing came apart in the final stage and destroyed several cars taking out 1/4 of the field and at least half of the remaining that were still running at the end we're just limping to the finish. Denny Hamlin looked like he was going to win the inaugural Indy RC cup race until Chase Briscoe spun him thinking he was still racing for a win after Nascar penalized him for shortcutting the course even though he gave the lead back to Denny. NBC compounded fan issues by switching over to golf instead of airing the final restart and finish on NBC. That last stage was a poop show, from the curb coming apart to the driver's racing like it's a last lap demo derby. One good thing is some driver's that rarely get a top ten on the ovals got one here. Top 10 1 AJ Allmendinger 2 Ryan Blaney 3 Kyle Larson 4 Chase Elliott 5 Matt Dibenedetto 6 Kurt Busch 7 Erik Jones 8 Justin Haley 9 Austin Cindric 10 Ryan Newman

I get the feeling it's going to be like those Jenny Kaboom cartoons from the Animaniacs cartoon show from the 90's. She was already riled up from the crap he's been pulling the past few weeks with him coming up with every excuse not to drive. Yesterday we went over there to grab some mementos from the cars before they get hauled off to the junkyard. I grabbed all the badges off of them and an interior piece from the dash of the Monte Carlo. My dad came out 'Did you find the title yet?' My wife said 'Really? You going to start already. No hello how are you. Just where's the title.' My dad went back into the house lol. She's a fireball

Here's a rumor way out of left field...Front Row Motorsports might sell one or both of it's charter's to 23XI Racing and/or become another Joe Gibbs Racing satellite team and switch to Toyota's for 2022.

Well looks like my dad's garage will need to be demolished. With all the weight of the branches or the force that they hit it with the garage has a lean to the right to it now. The roof has holes in it now as well so until the branches get removed the stuff we have stored in there could get ruined since we can't open the big door to get stuff out. To top it off it looks like he won't make an insurance claim "because my deductible is to high" so if our stuff is already ruined we're SOL. If that's the case I'll let my wife release all her pent up rage.

That's a hilarious episode, one of my TAGS top 10.

Jimmie Johnson is open to running more Nascar Cup series races if the right opportunity comes along https://www.jayski.com/2021/08/11/jimmie-johnson-would-seriously-consider-running-nascar-race-if-right-opportunity-comes-along/ Rumor is Kurt Busch has a ride lined up but is waiting for the team to announce it publicly. Nascar is back on NBC this Sunday at The Brickyard but on the the road course. Will be interesting to see which team can get the setup right.

Volcano

Storms that rolled through yesterday took down some branches at my dad's narrowly missing the neighbor's house again. Neighbor called me yesterday at 6am about it to which I replied why call me it's not my house. The one branch landed on her patio table but not shattering it however it did knock over the chairs. My dad's garage bore the full brunt of the branches and I hope it's not leaking as my miter saw and vintage B&D Workmate table it's attached to is in there along with some my wife's grandmother's stuff she got after she passed away is stored in there. Guess my uncle is going to get the trees taken down even though it's my dad's house and property lol. Whatever, my uncle wants to keep enabling him even though he can be a responsible adult then he can have the fun cuz I'm sick of dealing with this .

He also took a monster truck and drove it in the ocean even after being told not too. He seems like the type that's trying to make his 15 minutes of social media Fame last forever.

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Kyle Larson won for the second time on a road course this season proving he can win at any track. Chase Elliott came from a last place start after his car failed pre race inspection to finish 2nd, given another lap or two he probably would have won the race. His driving in that last stage was incredible. Former Watkins Glen winner Brad Keselowski had a bad race with brake issues that caused him to spin out numerous times. Top 10 1 Kyle Larson 2 Chase Elliott 3 Martin Truex Jr 4 Kyle Busch 5 Denny Hamlin 6 William Byron 7 Christopher Bell 8 Kevin Harvick 9 Chase Briscoe 10 Tyler Reddick It's interesting once again Matt Dibenedetto finished ahead of all the other Penske teammate's yet he's the one losing his ride for next season . In other motor racing news the Indycar Music City Grand Prix might be a one and done deal. 40% of the race was run under caution or red flagged. If they do this race again next year the course should be changed, some parts of the course were way to narrow. Jimmie Johnson had a controversial DQ during a red flag. Although his team didn't work on the car they still touched it so Indycar officials DQ'd and parked him for the remainder of the race. Marcus Ericsson won the race by getting the lead during one period of the race that had caution after caution after caution etc.... Shocking considering he literally drove over another car on lap 4 restart.

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Talks are still going on to bring at least one Nascar series race to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway by 2023 https://www.jayski.com/2021/08/04/earliest-nascar-could-race-at-nashville-fairgrounds-is-2023/ This is still an uphill battle, the NIMBY's are fighting tooth and nail to get the track shutdown permanently even though they moved there knowing the track was there already . Rumor is Aric Almirola is staying in the #10 at SHR for 2022 season. He is so far the only SHR driver locked in with a win to the Chase or Playoffs or whatever they're calling it this year.

It's been a long week and it's only Thursday. Last night I got a call from one of my mowing clients and was told she's got cancer. Hopefully her kids will step up and at least one of them come up here for a long visit to help her. I don't know what's going on with my dad but it's driving me nuts. He refuses to drive his car and doesn't want to come out of the house. Me and my wife think he might have road raged the wrong person last week and they scared the out of him. Lately he picked up a bad habit of making his hand look like a gun and pointing it at driver's that piss him off. Last week he called me and was talking so fast I couldn't understand him. Then he texted he needed some groceries and made up a story about his car not running right. I and my uncle checked his car out and there's nothing wrong with it. Then he said his arm hurts so my uncle tried taking him to a nearby urgent care but my uncle could only get him to go to a pharmacy to do a blood pressure test. Then he needed some groceries yesterday and my uncle told him to just walk up to the Krogers at the corner but apparently now his leg hurts but yet he wants to got for a walk in the park today in my car of course, not his.

I prefer a naturally aspirated motor for longer reliability and since the Bronco is made to go way off-road it'd be easier to rig a fix together than it would with a turbo if something mechanical goes wrong on the trail.

Ross Chastain to drive the 2nd car for Trackhouse Racing in 2022 https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/08/03/ross-chastain-to-drive-for-trackhouse-racing-in-2022/

I scored a bit of gold at a garage sale over the weekend, a Nascar collectible car signed by the King, Richard Petty. It was in a box with other 1:18 and 1:24 scale muscle cars. It didn't have a price on it so I made an offer of $10 for that car and the lady said ok. When I got home I took the car out of the box and seen Petty's signature and my mouth fell on the floor. My wife did a Google search which brought up a current ebay listing for the same car but unsigned going for $140.

Looks like the door numbers are moving forward next season https://www.jayski.com/2021/08/02/nascar-possibly-moving-car-numbers-forward/ Rumor is RickWareRacing might scale back to a stronger two car team for 2022, if that's the case he could stand to make some money selling or leasing one or two of his charters. I know the team is going to lose the RPM charter they're currently leasing. Racing is back at Watkins Glen is this weekend, since the Olympics are still going on you'll have to check your local listings to see which channel the races are on. On a side note Indycar is racing on the streets of Nashville Tennessee this weekend. Hopefully it's a good race.

Bison

I like the new Bronco, the faux suv Bronco Sport not so much. I just wish the Bronco had a non turbo motor.

Found out something new about the wife's car yesterday. Apparently there were two suspension options for it, softer suspension for more of a luxury ride and a sporty suspension. Hers has the luxury ride suspension. I took the car yesterday morning to get the rear springs replaced since the right rear one is broken but the auto parts store shipped the sporty springs to the mechanic. Hopefully they ship out the right springs this time, just sucks that we have to wait another week for them to get in. Almost didn't make it there yesterday morning. Some crazy old man was doing 50mph in a 65mph zone on the interstate and decided he needed to get off at the next exit. It was bad enough that this was also where I475 & I75 merge together and he was already in the far left lane. I moved over when I got a break between traffic. He just, uncaring for the speed everyone else was doing, moved on over. The semi on the left of me had to slam on the brakes to avoid running into the back of him then the nut comes over in front of me and I had to slam on the brakes and prayed the semi truck driver behind me was paying attention, thank God he was. And this crazy old fart was driving a tin can death trap Chevy Aveo. In a car like that I wouldn't be taking chances with my life like that. I told my wife about it and she said that same nut almost caused a huge accident a few weeks ago on I475 riding in the fast lane at 50mph. Tuesday while heading home I seen a pile of free things set out after a weekend garage sale, scored a his and hers cross country ski's set, even included the ski carrier for the roof of a car. I usually don't stop at those piles as they're usually just junk but seen the ski's so I doubled back and I'm glad I did. Ski's just need some new boot holder things but other than that they're in great shape, no breaks or cracks.

Word out of Detroit is the next Camaro will be a 4 door electric sedan possible crossover like Ford did with the Mustang. Rumors say the last year for the current Camaro is 2023. With Malibu production ending in 2022 this will leave Chevy without a ICE car in 2024 to use for Nascar unless Nascar changes it's rules.

New phone is definitely an upgrade from my old one. This one is so much faster, hd videos don't stutter and load at the snap of a finger. Battery lasts a lot longer too, my old one I had to charge every other day, this one just once since Thursday. The new OS is going to take some getting used to though. We're having one of the wettest July's on record, already double our usual rainfall. I'm not complaining though except when it comes to mosquitos.