Spade Racing: December 2024

Spade Racing Opens a Box of 2024 Donruss Cards, Pack 21 of 24

PACK 21: Mello Yello, a number that’s low, and a driver who’s slow

FIRST LOOK: I never got Mello Yello’s slogan during this time of “there’s nothing mellow about it”. It would be like if today Monster said “there’s nothing monster about it”.

TO THE BACK: Double-o-seven is James Bond. Single-o-seven is this random Sheldon Creed card.

SAY WHAT?: “Oh yeah? Well I’m still faster than my brother”.

RATING: 4 spark plugs out of 10

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Spade Racing Opens a Box of 2024 Select ’24 Cards, Pack 5 of 12

PACK 5: Fabric, Elliott, and no lips (and other slant rhymes!)

FIRST LOOK: Here we have a swatch of developmental driver and Petty family associate Daniel Dye. Double-D moves to Kaulig next year, where he’ll likely have to pitch-in on helping to clean up after Ty Dillon’s wrecks.

TO THE BACK: “You never want to put the cart before the horse” and you never wanted to put the CART on tv instead of Nascar in the late-90’s.

SAY WHAT?: (muffled) “My lips are gone!”

RATING: 7 pit stops out of 10

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Spade Racing Opens a Box of 2024 Donruss Cards, Pack 20 of 24

PACK 20: SVG, Keselowski, and who he be?

FIRST LOOK: An SVG Optic Rated Rookie! Pretty cool rookie card for the hottest new driver of 2023. Although I don’t really know what “enhanced health” is or why its in lower case.

TO THE BACK: I’m going to take a wild guess and say that you measure progress as a Nascar team owner by points results and race wins.

SAY WHAT?: “Who am I?”

RATING: 3 tires out of 10

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FINAL NASCAR ROTY RANKINGS: Ranking the Rookie of the Year Classes Through the Years

1979 Rookie of the Year Dale Earnhardt

#1 1979

#2 1993

#3 2002

#4 2001

#5 2006

#6 1999

#7 2016

#8 1987

2014 Rookie of the Year Kyle Larson

#9 2000

#10 2014

#11 2009

#12 2005

#13 1982

#14 1984

#15 1986

#16 1994

#17 2020

2003 Rookie of the Year
Jamie McMurray

#18 1973

#19 2004

#20 2003

#21 2007

#22 2018

#23 2017

#24 1983

#25 1980

#26 1977

#27 1995

#28 1991

2013 Rookie of the Year
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

#29 1988

#30 2013

#31 2021

#32 1997

#33 1989

#34 1981

#35 1998

#36 1976

#37 1985

#38 2008

#39 1974

#40 1978

1996 Rookie of the Year
Johnny Benson

#41 1996

#42 2019

#43 1975

#44 2015

#45 1972

#46 2011

#47 1992

#48 2012

#49 2010

#50 1990

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Spade Racing Opens a Box of 2024 Select ’24 Cards, Pack 4 of 12

PACK 4: Autograph, a numbered path, and doing the math

FIRST LOOK: Now THIS is an autograph! Not only is it from a damn successful driver, but it’s clear and easy to read. Legendary, indeed! I wonder what would happen if I sent it to JR Motorsports to be autographed—would Dale Jr. just send it back as-is, or would the fabric of time collapse upon itself?

TO THE BACK: Number 120 of 199 of this variant, in which Justin Marks talks about how much he loves his driver. Again, you’d think stuff like this would just be a given—with the possible exception of Elliott Sadler’s last year with RPM.