Bear in mind a number of days again when somebody round right here (ahem) have been far more doable on the Las Vegas Strip than the
What? You already forgot about that?
Nice, let’s transfer alongside.
No, no one noticed a Josh Berry win coming Sunday. Simply to make certain, a glance again on the pre-weekend confirmed Berry smack-dab in the midst of the percentages board — 18th in a 36-man discipline. The payoff was at +7500, that means slightly $10 guess would netted you $750.
Hell, a wrinkled buck would’ve introduced you $75. Signal me up for that transaction every single day and, clearly, twice on Sundays.
Let’s ease off the clutch and stand up to hurry to determine this out and, alongside the way in which, contact on headier points. That’s proper. We’re going again to court docket.
TOO MUCH SCHEMING
First Gear: Wooden Brothers have a historical past with this form of factor
Since their glory days with David Pearson within the Seventies, and a few good years with Neil Bonnett within the early ’80s, Wooden Brothers Racing has alternated between launching pad and one thing of a retirement ramp.
Younger Elliott Sadler and Ryan Blaney, youngish Dale Jarrett and Michael Waltrip, and off-rampers Invoice Elliott and Ricky Rudd all took turns on the wheel.
All kinds of NASCAR racers have pedaled the No. 21 Ford, and sure, it’s all the time been a Ford. As soon as an off-Broadway store means off the overwhelmed path in Virginia, the crew finally caved to necessity and moved to Charlotte, and in recent times has principally bunked below
Wooden Brothers Racing, the oldest lively crew in , to Have a good time Diamond Anniversary in 2025. The season-long celebration will embrace a fan day on the crew’s museum in Stuart, Virginia, particular paint schemes, merchandise, digital content material, an exhibit within the NASCAR Corridor of…
“Technical alliance” is how this stuff are described.
Up to the mark? Good. Enter Josh Berry. Earlier than Sunday, you may’ve recognized him as “that dude who went to highschool with Taylor Swift.” However in racing circles (and ovals), he may match between the these varieties of racers who beforehand wore the Wooden Brothers’ red-and-white, and right here’s why …
Second Gear: Josh Berry is greater than Taylor Swift’s outdated classmate
After a largely unproductive season with the soon-shuttering Stewart-Haas Racing final 12 months, Berry is now in simply his second full-time season of Cup Sequence racing. But he’s no child, however a 34-year-old with fairly a racing portfolio — most of which you’ve by no means seen.
His highest-profile racing was three Xfinity Sequence seasons (2021-23) with Junior Earnhardt’s JR Motorsports, the place he received 5 occasions in 88 begins and completed fourth within the ’22 championship.
However the place he actually muscled up was on the CARS Late Mannequin Inventory collection (the newest title given to what started because the Hooters Professional Cup within the ’90s). There, the place he first raced out of the JR Motorsports store, he collected trophies with gorgeous regularity — 22 wins in 56 begins between 2015-22.
Fascinating facet observe about these CARS days with Group Junior. Whenever you drive for JRM at that stage, you solely have a few full-time crew members, so the driving force has to assist work on the vehicles all through the week. Which leads us to Berry’s post-victory burnout session at Vegas.
There wasn’t a lot of 1. Simply a few loud and considerably smoky donuts. Full-blown, tire-melting burnouts — let’s face it, we’re over them — can do critical harm to a race automobile, and Berry has now gone public along with his respect for individuals who have to repair such issues, largely as a result of he was one in every of them, and never too way back.
Or, as he elegantly defined: “… Received my ass chewed a pair occasions for doing burnouts once I shouldn’t and tore stuff up.”
Hopefully extra will comply with his lead. Then we go to work on the idiots who blast the foghorns after hockey objectives.
Third Gear: NASCAR viewers nonetheless mad as a result of for some, CW stands for Cannot Watch
Defending Xfinity Sequence champ Justin Allgaier received his first win of the season at Las Vegas.
Allgaier led over the half of the 200 laps, together with the final 49, and completed a number of automobile lengths in entrance of runner-up Aric Almirola. In different phrases, not a ton of late-race drama, and good factor, as a result of lots of people missed it.
Once more.
After years of shut finishes, Justin Allgaier secured his first Xfinity Sequence victory on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Saturday.
This the CW community’s first full season of Xfinity protection, and the community continues to alienate those that thought the CW’s full protection of Xfinity meant FULL protection. Seems, in contrast to the key networks, the CW offers sure independence to its nation of associates, which is why, as an illustration, an affiliate can choose to broadcast a spring coaching ballgame as an alternative of the Vegas race.
Lots to work out, it appears. However until they rewrite their whole affiliate agreements, and subsequently change the corporate’s whole enterprise construction, there’s no reply to that downside.
Fourth Gear: Attorneys fatten up in 23XI, Entrance Row, NASCAR case
Anybody holding observe of those billable authorized hours?
You guess your tangible belongings they’re.
“You sued me, so I’m suing you proper again.”
“Oh yeah? Effectively I’m a-gonna double-dog sue you again.”
And so it goes with the continuing antitrust swimsuit involving NASCAR and two Cup groups — 23XI and Entrance Row. An injunction final December granted the groups use of their charters for the 2025 season. NASCAR appealed the injunction.
Final week, the groups filed an official response to NASCAR’s enchantment of the injunction. A listening to for the entire above is scheduled for Could 9 in Richmond, and all of a sudden, the good Gomez Addams involves thoughts.
Texan Carolyn Jones as Morticia Addams and John Astin as Gomez Addams in “The Addams Household” TV present. Carolyn was born in Amarillo in 1930. One among her 4 marriages, lasting 11 years, was to future TV mogul Aaron Spelling. Sadly, she died of colon most cancers in 1983.
Gomez, after all, was the patriarch of the Addams Household but in addition an often practising lawyer. In a single episode, the household is defending itself in court docket with Gomez dealing with that protection. Because the predictable mayhem ensues and the decide loses management, Gomez blurts out the best line within the historical past of American jurisprudence.
“And yet another factor, Your Honor. Regardless of the decision, we WILL enchantment!”
We’re not at that stage but, however we’re closing the hole.
Bonus Gear: Did you see that flyover?
OK, true, the Subsequent Gen vehicles do have 5 gears and we must always most likely have 5 right here on a weekly foundation. However a few of us are outdated H-pattern, four-gear holdouts.
However some issues name for a fifth gear, and this week it is courtesy of the U.S. Air Pressure Thunderbirds, who used a close-by mountain vary to reinforce the visible. Goodness gracious.
