1. Outta the can with The Rocket Man and a Cubbie Fan
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BACK OF THE CARD BONUS: Note the use of not only major team logos on the cards, but in Austin Dillon’s case, also his “personal logo” (which I should probably hate for possibly stealing from my site, but that is neither here nor there). Thankfully we don’t get Kurt Busch’s old “OUTLAW” logo, which was simultaneously hilarious and sad.
PICK OF THE PACK: I swear on the ever-changing Nascar rulebook that these packs were chosen at random—and yet here we are with a Derrike Cope card in my first shot. By the way, the card is numbered 110 out of 199, which is fitting since there’s a 110% chance that Derrike did NOT “…go out on his own terms”.
FINAL RATING: 4 lug nuts out of 10.
2. A swatch, a botch, and two guys like to watch
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BACK OF THE CARD BONUS: BK Racing gets some love for giving Corey Lajoie “…his first opportunity to run a full-time schedule in…Cup.” To be fair, its easy to give someone an opportunity when you’re not planning on paying them.
PICK OF THE PACK: More Cope love from Donruss/Panini in this pack, getting a little backstory on Derrike’s pre-racing days as a baseball player. Anybody else imagining him boring his pit crew with stories of the time he hit a five-run homer for the win?
BONUS: It’s our first memorabilia piece! Denny Hamlin’s firesuit gets the cut-up treatment here. I wonder how they prepare these things for card-mounting—do they wash them first? If not, ew.
FINAL RATING: 8 laps out of 10.