Race Picks (the last season?), Uncle Max vs. The Points Leader: LAS VEGAS

EDITOR’S NOTE: Uncle Max is unavailable due to a heavy workload this week.  He texted me his picks last night.

TRUCK SERIES (6 wins) off

XFINITY SERIES (2 wins) Focused Health 302 (Saturday 7:30pm ET on CW) CONNOR ZILISCH—I still can’t believe a “302” race isn’t in Delaware.

CUP SERIES Bank of America ROVAL 400 (Sunday 5:30pm ET on USA) Points Leader picks DENNY HAMLIN.  Favorite (3 wins): RYAN BLANEY—time for Penske playoff magic.  Next Favorite (5 wins): CHRISTOPHER BELL—or maybe some JGR/Toyota magic.  Dark Horse (2 wins): BRAD KESELOWSKI—or just some dull fuel-mileage wizardry.

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Spade Racing Opens a 2025 Donruss Hobby Box: Pack 8 of 16

It’s back to new cards, with a “hobby box” of 2025 Donruss racing cards.  There’s sixteen packs, so join me as I go through each of them!

Pack 8 of 16: Seeing Double, the Racing Prodigy Bubble, and Future Trouble

First Look: Yeah, technically they’re different, but you’d think there’d be card-sorting technology in place to prevent getting the same dang card twice in a single pack by now.

To the Back: Hopefully Connor’s had a more well-rounded upbringing than Kyle Larson or Jeff Gordon.  Oh, and the car is safe—its the window rail that’s dangerous.

Say What: “You mean in the future my sponsor and team owners won’t be the same thing?”

Final Rating: 5 firesuits out of 10

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Spade Racing’s Stars in Unusual Cars: Darrell Waltrip (part 1)

Darrell Waltrip’s big break with Bud Moore (1975)

Join me throughout this year as I take a look at when some of the sport’s biggest stars drove some unusual cars! (Presented in no particular order).

Darrell Waltrip & Bud Moore, Courtesy NASCAR
Hall of Fame

Why? Darrell Waltrip started his NASCAR Cup career in his own equipment, but had a brief five-race stint with legendary team-owner Bud Moore in 1973.  Incidentally, this would prove to be the only time DW would race in a Ford until the final two years of his long Cup career.

How successful were they? Things started out well with an eighth-place finish in the Southern 500, but Waltrip failed to crack the top-twenty in his other four starts.

What was the aftermath? Waltrip moved back to his own cars, posting his first Cup win in a self-owned Chevy in 1975.  Bud Moore, meanwhile, continued to field race-winning cars.  Also of note, DW singled out Moore as one of his least-favorite car-owners to drive for in his autobiography.

Ranking on the Strange-O-Meter? 7 boogities out of 10—its just so random, going from your own cars to an established team…then hating it so much that you go BACK to your own cars.

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