Spade Racing Opens a Box of 2023 Donruss Cards, Pack 7 of 24

Pack 7: Obscure, Impure, and Endure

FIRST LOOK: Here we see Awesome Bill holding an incredibly obscure trophy—the pole award for The Winston All-Star Race in 2000.  What, did you not have a picture from that one race-winning blue car in 1991?

TO THE BACK: Oh come on—what’s the obsession of young drivers saying they want to race stuff other than Nascar?  Its the “but I really want to direct” of the stock car world.

SAY WHAT: “It took a while, but here I am, in one of the best cars in the series, with one of the worst paint schemes.”

RATING: 5 contingency decals out of 10

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Track “Facts”: Texas

Nascar races on all sorts of tracks, from short to long, oval to road course, concrete to asphalt.  Here’s a bi-weekly look at all the tracks of Nascar’s National Touring Series.

TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

1.44 mile asphalt quad-oval

Opened 1996

Lights?  Yes

Series: Cup, Xfinity, Trucks

Nicknames: The Great American Speedway, Texas International Raceway, Where CART Failed (again)

THREE FUN FACTS:

1. Texas Motor Speedway was forced to purchase the rights to the name from a small short track, similar to when a random law firm owned the rights to MLB.com for a few years.

2. Texas’s first race was a disaster due to “weepers”—cracks in the track surface that allowed water to seep through.  Not to be confused with “weepers” like Bobby Hamilton Jr. and Ted Musgrave.

3. CART was forced to cancel a race in 2001 due to excessive G-forces, something that could’ve been easily avoided with a simple test session.  Remember this when people say “I can’t believe that CART lost the war”.

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Spade Racing 2x4: Christopher Bell vs. Tyler Reddick, October Report

Spade Racing has watched the 2020 Cup Series Rookie Class winnow down from six full-time drivers to only two entering their fourth season at the sport’s highest level: Christopher Bell and Tyler Reddick.  We’ll keep following them, but here’s how things look going into Talladega:

POINTS STANDINGS: A slight change from five weeks ago—Christopher Bell is still fourth in the points standings, but Tyler Reddick has moved up to tenth.  Bell has the advantage both in trying to advance to the next round AND this relatively meaningless contest.  Advantage: BELL

BEST FINISH: Tyler Reddick takes a commanding lead here with a second win (at Kansas) to Christopher Bell’s single one.  But he still might not advance to the Round of 8 because this playoff system is so damn confusing.  Advantage: REDDICK

PERFORMANCE RELATIVE TO TEAMMATES: Joe Gibbs Racing has three drivers in the playoffs, and all still have a shot at the championship, with Bell between Denny Hamlin (2nd) and Martin Truex Jr. (5th) in points.  Tyler Reddick, meanwhile, had a disappointing run at Texas, leaving him BEHIND teammate Bubba Wallace. Advantage: BELL

FINAL SCORE: CHRISTOPHER BELL has a slight lead over Tyler Reddick, but anything can happen at Talladega.  And whatever doesn’t happen there will likely happen at the ROVAL.

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