50 States of Fans at Tonight’s Race…Even These Ones


This is a parody

A press release issued from EchoPark Speedway noted that fans are attending tonight’s race from all fifty states.  While some seem obvious (the Carolinas, California, Georgia), there ARE people attending from some of the lesser-thought-of state as well.  Here they are:


Hal Warren, Shelby Montana: Comes to this race every year as part of a visit to his step-grandparents, with the race taking up 3 days and the visit taking up 3 BINGO games.


Johnny Reynolds, Fairbanks Alaska: Superfan of Carson Hocevar—a welcome change after nearly 20 years as a superfan of Brian Scott.


Diane Murray, Peterborough New Hampshire—won these tickets in a divorce, sits next to a wooden sign reading “Was She Worth It?”


Jackie Neyman, Binford North Dakota: Actually lives outside Macon Georgia, but maintains a North Dakota mailing address so she can claim to be “North Dakota’s biggest Chase Elliott fan”.


William “Dub” Jennings, Little Heaven Delaware: Helped Marcus Smith change a tire on a rental car last year, now he gets free tickets to any SMI race he wants (well, except Bristol).


Bernie Rosenbaum, Honolulu Hawaii: We go on vacation to Hawaii, but Hawaiians go on vacation to watch Ryan Preece possibly fly through the air…again.



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Race Picks Atlanta/Lime Rock: Spade Racing vs. AI

Join me as I test my wits against various AI programs in picking the 2026 Cup races.  Once they’ve made their picks, I’ll make my normal Favorite, Next Favorite, and Dark Horse picks (in addition to my regular O’Reilly & Truck Series picks).  At the end of the year we’ll see who knows more—me, or a soulless machine gobbling up water and electricity.


ChatGPT AI (4 wins) sez: If I had to make one pick, I'd go with Ryan Blaney


Truck Series (2 wins) LiUNA 150 Saturday 1pm ET on FS1: KADEN HONEYCUTT—Lime Rock, next to Lemon Rock?


O’Reilly Series (4 wins) Focused Health 250 Saturday 7pm ET on CW: SHELDON CREED—as opposed to what, unfocused health?


Cup Series Quaker State 400 7pm ET on TNT  FAVORITE (1 win): CHASE ELLIOTT—and why isn’t this a Saturday night race, either?  NEXT FAVORITE (2 wins): AUSTIN CINDRIC—hey, my #2 pick is #2.  DARK HORSE (1 win): SPIRE PICK’EM—Carson Hocevar, Daniel Suarez, or Michael McDowell.



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Spade Racing Opens a 2026 Donruss Hobby Box of Cards—Pack 7 of 16


It’s back to a hobby back for the first official 2026 cards.  Join me as I go through all 16 packs of 8 cards each!


Pack 7: What Happened…


First Look: What Happened to World Wide Technology?  They were sponsoring the RPM 43 for about 2/3s of the season, now they sponsor a random track outside St. Louis and nothing else?


To the Back: What Happened to talking about WHY the 25 was available in 1988, huh?  HUH!?!


Say What: “What Happened to my name?  Is it just me or does ‘John Paul Southern’ sound like the name of a Nascar driver in a bad cartoon?”


Final Rating: 3 obscure regional series drivers out of 10


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