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Official: Brad Keselowski buys minority stake in Roush Fenway Racing and will also drive the #6 https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/20/brad-keselowski-jack-roush-roush-announcement/. This of course leaves Ryan Newman without a ride for 2022 though RFR has offered him a part time ride if he's interested. The New Hampshire race was one of the least watched of the season so far with only 2.1 million viewers tuning in https://www.jayski.com/2021/07/20/new-hampshire-tv-ratings-3/. Rumor mill: Richard Petty Motorsports is mulling selling one or both of it's charters. RWR is leasing one for the #51 this season. If RPM sells both of it's charters the #43 team will most likely fold and sell off the assets.

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Ring notification woke us up last night, apparently police were looking for someone last night and they set off our Ring doorbell camera when they were checking around our building. Took me and the wife about an hour or so to get back to sleep. I usually turn the ringer off when we go to bed but forgot to last night. I watched this episode of The Orville the other day called Majority Rule that mirrored our current Social Media problem even though it was made in 2017. Even though the show is basically a Star Trek The Next Generation spoof that episode was very interesting to watch considering everything that happened in 2020.

Aric Almirola won the shortened Foxwoods Resort Casino 301. Nascar execs at the track decided to start the race even though it started raining in turns 1 & 2, by the 8th lap it got so bad that the Joe Gibbs drivers spun out with race leader Kyle Busch getting the most damage, he subsequently took his frustrations out on the pace car before retiring to the garage. Nascar execs made another great call before restarting the race by penalizing Joey Logano 2 laps after he reported to his crew that his throttle was stuck and a crewman reached under the hood to see what the problem was and removed the obstruction from the linkage to the throttle body, you'd think that being a safety issue that he wouldn't have been penalized. Penske Racing dominated after the rain delay restart with Ryan Blaney winning the first stage and Brad Keselowski winning the 2nd stage. Aric Almirola's car came in on the long runs in the last stage. Top 10 1. Aric Almirola 2. Christopher Bell 3. Brad Keselowski 4. Joey Logano 5. Ryan Blaney 6. Kevin Harvick 7. Kyle Larson 8. Ross Chastain 9. Alex Bowman 10. Denny Hamlin

If you watched it Saturday night you seen shades of the old Awesome Bill from Dawsonville. They put Bill Elliot and Chase Elliot on the first row for the first heat and Bill took advantage of it and lead all but one lap. Helio Castroneves dominated the second Heat race. He's really getting the hang of full body race cars during this series, would be interesting to see what he could do in a Nascar Cup car. The Main Feature Race was once again a race between the Elliot's. Awesome Bill lead most of the laps but pushed too hard in a turn on a restart and fell back to 5th but managed to get back to 3rd. Bobby Labonte also had a good night finishing 3rd, 4th and 4th. Tony Stewart won the series Championship. Main Feature Race Results 1 Chase Elliot 2 Tony Stewart 3 Bill Elliot 4 Bobby Labonte 5 Paul Tracy 6 Ernie Francis Jr 7 Michael Waltrip 8 Tony Kanaan 9 Helio Castroneves 10 Hailie Deegan 11 Marco Andretti 12 Willy T Ribbs

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Friday we dropped the wife's car off to the new mechanic's. Turns out the RR spring is broke at the bottom perch or whatever you call it. Due to the part shortage we have to wait a week or so for a new set of springs. They were nice guys. We found out the tire place the tires were purchased from never sealed the RR tire either like they said they did. They took the tire off the rim, sanded the bead on the rim and added sealant to the tire. Wife got new front brakes and rotors put on there too. We went shopping while they finished doing the brakes, I got a new phone, looking forward to trying it out when I get all the stuff on this one backed up today. This one just has a quad core processor, new one has an octa core processor. Also my luck with finding clearance deals was still going strong, got a new Levi Sherpa lined jean jacket 60% off and a neat Star Wars shirt 75% off. Wife said she's dragging me shopping with her so my good deal luck nets her some good deals . Saturday while mowing I witnessed an accident right in front of the house I was mowing. Teenager was on his phone instead of paying attention to driving, ran into the back of a car that was slowing down in front of him. I called 911 and reported it then went back to mowing. After I got done I waited half an hour but the police didn't show up yet so I went home. I called the lady I mowed for after I ate dinner and she said the cops still haven't shown up. They must have not needed my statement for the accident as they never called me. That pretty much sums up my weekend, yesterday we relaxed after our morning cleaning gig and took a nap. Roger what was the medieval festival like? I never went to the one across the border in Michigan before but I've been thinking about checking it out this year.

Official Brad Keselowski leaving Penske Racing https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/15/brad-keselowski-roger-penske-austin-cindric-team-penske-nascar-cup-series-2022/ Unfortunately matt Dibenedetto is out of a ride as Harrison Burton, son of Jeff Burton, will drive the #21 Wood Bros. car in 2022. https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/15/brad-keselowski-austin-cindric-harrison-burton-matt-dibenedetto-team-penske-wood-brothers-alliance-2022/ Matt Dibenedetto's thoughts on losing his ride https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/15/matt-dibenedetto-says-in-video-that-losing-ride-does-suck-but-says-he-will-win-in-cup/ Austin Cindric will be taking over the #2 https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/15/austin-cindric-to-drive-no-2-car-in-2022-harrison-burton-to-join-wood-brothers/ Really sucks that Matt is losing his ride but I doubt he'll be on the free market long as he has shown he has the talent. Just hope he can land in a good team.

Kyle Larson signs an extension with Hendrick Motorsports through 2023 https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/14/kyle-larson-signs-extension-with-hendrick-motorsports-through-2023/. Hendrick Motorsports is also working on extensions with Chase Elliot and William Byron.

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JR Motorsports apparently Is still interested in running in the Cup series https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/13/dale-jr-kelley-earnhardt-miller-motorsports-continuing-conversations-on-possible-cup-effort/ there's a rumor that Dale Jr and his sister Kelley will buy into Richard Childress Racing either partially or outright takeover. Another rumor is Kevin Harvick is interested in buying JTG's portion of JTG Daugherty Racing team. I don't know if this one holds much water, he ran a Trucks and Xfinity teams and folded them because it was too much to handle while also driving and raising a family.

If you want to see some of the behind the scenes stuff at the SRX races Hailie Deegans YouTube channel has a few videos https://m.youtube.com/channel/UC61Cf_xnxEHa-8Dvas3pQHg Paul Tracy doesn't come off too well in the Slinger Speedway one, talk about classless. He's lucky none of the other racers were there to hear what he called Hailie, Tony probably would knocked him on his butt.

Tempers got heated again at Slinger speedway. Paul Tracy used his bumper up. Marco Andretti won both Heat races and the main Feature Race. Local star Luke Fenhaus came close to winning the Main Feature Race but a late caution wreck that took out a few cars allowed Marco Andretti to get the jump on Luke on the final restart. Main Feature Race Results 1 Marco Andretti 2 Luke Fenhaus 3 Tony Stewart 4 Hallie Deegan 5 Bobby Labonte 6 Ernie Francis Jr 7 Willy T Ribbs 8 Greg Biffle 9 Bill Elliot 10 Helio Castroneves 11 Michael Waltrip 12 Paul Tracy The finale this Saturday will be at historic Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.

In the final Atlanta race at the track's current configuration Kurt Busch with help from his teammate Ross Chastain edged out his younger brother Kyle Busch for the win. In typical Kryle fashion in his post race interview he whined about losing instead of congratulating his brother. They must have had one helluva contentious relationship growing up. Early on it looked like it was going to be a JGR stomping with all four JGR Toyota's looking strongest in the field. Probably would have been Martin Truex jr's day if not for failing pre race inspection twice and being forced to start last. He arguably passed the most cars having to drive through the field a few times due to bad pit stops. Top 10 1 Kurt Busch 2 Kyle Busch 3 Martin Truex jr 4 Alex Bowman 5 Ryan Blaney 6 Tyler Reddick 7 Chase Elliot 8 Christopher Bell 9 Matt Dibenedetto 10 Brad Keselowski Kyle Busch won his 5th and final Xfinity race at Atlanta this season. Hopefully he'll stick to his word and retire from the series since he's won over 100 Busch/Nationwide/Xfinity races as he promised. He's the reason Nascar limits how many starts Cup series driver's can make in the lower tier series. Instead of limiting cup series driver's they should make them run in struggling team's car's to give them some help against the juggernaut teams like JGR or Jr motorsports. The next time you see Atlanta motor speedway on tv it will look different. Instead of just repaving the track they are going to redo the banking as well https://nascar.nbcsports.com/2021/07/06/atlanta-motor-speedway-repave-reprofiling-2022-nascar-cup-series/.

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Apparently Gypsy is another word on the banned words list, I read a news story yesterday about the Gypsy moth is going to be renamed because the name is now considered super-offensive . I think there are better things to worry about at the moment than the renaming of a moth. My Fitbit said I walked over 15miles while mowing Friday and Saturday. That's about the distance of a walking/hiking/biking trail that connects two nearby parks. That's kind of neat to know in case I ever want to walk that trail.

I remember him in a lot of shows from the 80's; Chips, Knight Rider, Air Wolf, Simon & Simon, Buck Rogers etc... He was also in Conan the Barbarian, played Arnold's Conan's father. He was one of the better 'bad guy' actors.

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Yeah frankly I'm tired of walking on eggshells when dealing with him. My wife called him to ask if she can drop her car off so he can look at it when he got a chance but she didn't even get one word out before he hung up on her after yelling he "doesn't have time to deal with the car." He used to be a nicer guy but lately 9x out 10 you call him you get Grumpy.

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Chase Elliot will be in the Inaugural season finale race at Nashville Will be interesting to see how him and Bill race each other.

Guess we're looking for a new mechanic. Yesterday was the last straw. Dude's a great mechanic but we've had enough of the attitude he's had the past few years. He's been way more Hyde than Jekyll lately. Gonna try my uncle's mechanic and see how that goes next week.

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SRX Series was back on asphalt this week at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indiana. SRX had a little fun with Paul Tracy by having him show up in the back of a police car for security . Scott Speed dominated the 1st heat race leading all the laps and winning. Helio Castroneves won the 2nd heat race after passing Paul Tracy on the 5th lap. Ernie Francis Jr won the Main Feature Race leading all but 11 or 21 laps, typo on SRX website not sure which number is correct. Main Feature Race Results 1 Ernie Francis Jr 2 Bobby Labonte 3 Scott Speed 4 Marco Andretti 5 Bobby Santos 6 Michael Waltrip 7 Tony Stewart 8 Paul Tracy 9 Helio Castroneves 10 Tony Kanaan 11 Willy T Ribbs 12 Bill Elliot