52 Pickup Racing Now Offering Race Shop Tours

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (Boogertown, North Carolina)

In a move a long time coming, 52 Pickup Racing is pleased to announce that they are finally allowing race shop tours for NASCAR fans.

“One of the big draws to our sport is how close the fans can get to the teams”, said Russ Bauers, one of the fifty-two co-owners of 52 Pickup Racing.  “And we’re proud to finally offer that to fans of our race team.”

“Oh, its a great opportunity for the fans”, said Ben “Moose” Milacki, the team’s hauler driver and tour leader.  “I mean, seeing those huge shops in Concord and Mooresville, its really something.”

Fans can come Monday through Thursday at 9am for the tours to begin.

“We get moving around 9:15ish”, Milacki said.  “I take them in my old Club Wagon van—its a little worn down but its still got a great sound system.  We go past all the big time race shops—Hendrick, Gibbs, Stewart-Haas.  Its really something to show fans how the sport operates…at least at the highest level.”

Fans are encouraged to bring a light lunch with them on the tours, as well as to use the bathroom before arriving in the 52 Pickup Racing race shop parking lot, as fans are still not allowed inside due to a town licensing dispute that has yet to be resolved.

QUOTES: “Wait—we’re not letting fans in here, are we?  We still haven’t gotten all the insulation put in, the ceiling leaks on rainy days, and nobody can figure out where that smell’s coming from.” —T.B. Dee, driver of the 52 Pickup Racing Monday Cigarettes race car.

“I go on the tours sometimes.  Just gazing out at a mega-shop like Team Penske and wondering how that could’ve been me, if only about nine hundred things in my life had gone differently.” —Russ Bauers, co-owner of 52 Pickup Racing.

ABOUT 52 PICKUP RACING: 52 Pickup Racing is NASCAR Cup’s newest race team.  Based out of Boogertown North Carolina, the team employs up-and-coming driver T.B. Dee and is considering trademarking the term “NASCAR Cup’s newest race team”, so don’t steal it.

For more information please visit the 52 Pickup Racing website at www.52pickupracing.com

For all media inquiries please contact Moxoc Media at moxoc(at)moxoc.com

Spade Racing Presents The Sophomores: JULY RANKINGS

Last year Spade Racing took a look at the six drivers competing for Rookie of the Year.  This year we continue to look at that vaunted class (sans John Hunter Nemechek and Brennan Poole) as they strive to establish themselves while avoiding the “sophomore slump”.  Returning for 2021 is the PRETTY grade: Performance Relative to Equating Team’s Typical Year (its pretty much how well each driver is doing considering their equipment).  Here’s how things look going into Road America:

1. Tyler Reddick (Richard Childress Racing).  Best finish: 2nd (Homestead).  PRETTY grade: A.  Tyler Reddick has been a model of consistency this year—no sub-20th place finishes since ATLANTA.  Not even Ty Dillon himself could take this ride from him now!  Well, I mean, I don’t think he could.  Oh, no—don’t let this happen next year!

2. Christopher Bell (Joe Gibbs Racing).  Best finish: 1st (Daytona Road Course).  PRETTY grade: B+.  How’s this for strange—Denny Hamlin is the only JGR driver without a win, but he’s leading the points standings.  However, if the Playoffs were to start today, C.Bell would be seeded ahead of Denny—although the tear in the time-space continuum by shifting our collective narrative would likely render such things meaningless.

3. Cole Custer (Stewart Haas Racing). Best finish: 10th (Talladega/Dover).  PRETTY grade: C+.  SHR is struggling this year—Kevin Harvick is still winless, and the rest of the team will be lucky to make the Playoffs.  Time will tell if its a temporary setback or the dreaded “fall off year” for this powerhouse three-car team.

4. Quin Houff (StarCom Racing).  Best finish: 24th (Martinsville).  PRETTY grade: D-.  Quin is a mere two points ahead of Josh Bilicki for last-place amongst full-time Cup drivers in the points standings.  But there’s no Quit in Quin—even though my spell check constantly confuses the two.

Spade Racing presents Uncle Max vs. Repeat Winners: Road America

So, I like to think that I’ve picked up a decent amount of knowledge over the past few years making these picks.  But with a new track like Road America, I’m a bit confused—not by the track itself, but by the name.

When you think about it, isn’t “Road America” a pretty dull name?  I mean, of course its a road—that’s the whole point of road course racing.  And its in America, so yeah.  But really, doesn’t it sound like one of those names you’d see in a knock-off racing video game, like “Racing Speedway” or “The Country Short Track”?

Maybe they could work on a more-evocative name like “Elkhart Lake Raceway” and call it “The Elk” for short.  Or call it what most people know it as: That Track With the “Speedville” Bridge.

TRUCK SERIES (3 wins): off

Saturday Afternoon XFINITY SERIES Henry 180 (1 win): Austin Cindric—really trying to make that win total plural.

Sunday CUP SERIES Pocono Mountains 350. Repeat winner (2 wins)—Kyle Busch.  FAVORITE (2 wins): Kyle Larson—nice to be able to pick him again. NEXT FAVORITE (1 win):  Chase Elliott—he IS a good road course driver.  DARK HORSE (2 wins): Michael McDowell—strangest two-time race winner since Derrike Cope?