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



By the time you read this I’ll be on my way to my buddy’s beach house for my annual vacation!  I just finished up getting things squared away at work when I got the dreaded pre-vacation call—something was wrong at my townhouse!  It turns out that one of my toilets wouldn’t stop running, and decided to leak all over the floor.  Thankfully it was the one on the ground floor, and even MORE thankfully I rent, so my landlord got things squared away.  But why is it that something ALWAYS comes up right before vacation?  Oh well—time for grilling, drinking, and relaxing by the beach!


TRUCK SERIES (3 wins) off 


XFINITY SERIES (1 win) Chilango 150 (Saturday 4:40pm ET on CW) CHRISTOPHER BELL—well, unless JPM punts Scott Pruett out of the way again. 


CUP SERIES Viva Mexico 250 (Sunday 3pm ET on Prime) Points Leader picks WILLIAM BYRON.  Favorite (2 wins): CHASE ELLIOTT—nothing like having your most-popular driver win a historic race.  Next Favorite (2 wins): CHRIS BUESCHER—staying on a roll (in multiple countries!).  Dark Horse: DANIEL SUAREZ—NO, it’s not a fix.



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Spade Racing Opens 10 Value Packs of 2012 Press Pass Cards: 9 of 10


Here’s my latest haul—ten 8 card packs of 2012 Press Pass Cards.  So join me as I take a look back about 13 years ago with some cost-effective card packs

Pack 9 of 10: RePeters, Roush Heaters, and Bubbly Treaters

First Look: Yeah, Timothy Peters is the guy who shows up way too much in this set of packs for me this time.  Its even funnier since its the exact same card, as opposed to when I get about five different Hailey Deegan cards.

To the Back: Yes, folks, there was a time that a Roush-owned team was dominating Nascar.  And the lack of information about David Ragan’s race success is a good example of why they fell off.

Say What: “KSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhHHHHHHHHhhhhhHHHHH”


Final Rating: 2 overtime attempts out of 10



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Spade Racing’s Stars in Unusual Cars: Junior Johnson



Junior runs a one-off for Petty Enterprises (1955)

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).

Junior (after becoming a full-time team owner) and
Richard Petty, courtesy Autoweek


Why? Very few drivers ran for the same team owner the entire season in the sport’s early days.  So it’s not surprising to see Junior Johnson having run for four different team owners in 1955.  But for a single race, Junior ran for his longtime rivals in Petty Enterprises.


How successful were they? Running the Petty Enterprises 44 car Johnson came home second in the Greenville-Pickens Speedway race.


What was the aftermath? Both driver and team went their separate ways, with Johnson later hitting his stride as a legendary team owner.


Ranking on the Strange-O-Meter? 5 “Durllll”s out of 10—Junior ran for plenty of different teams, but the fact he ran for his arch-rivals early on, albeit for a single race, is just bizarre.



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The Hero Card Project 2025 Part 4

 


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Hero Cards!  They’re collectable, they’re colorful, and they’re free!  I have SASEs (Self Addressed Stamped Envelopes) going out to every Cup, Xfinity and Truck team, as well as a few major ARCA operations as well.  If you’re new to hero card collecting, check out my guide at herocardguide.com for step-by-step instructions on how to request hero cards, how to receive them, and how to store them.


Here’s my third batch of Hero Cards—they all arrived on May 24th, June 2nd & June 5th:

Three team cards from RFK Racing

Two AUTOGRAPHED cards from ARCA team Nitro Motorsports

Two small cards from Truck Series independent Norm Benning

Two signed cards from Xfinity Series team SS-Greenlight

Two signed cards from Big Machine Racing of the Xfinity Series

Two SIGNED cards from longtime Truck team FDNY Racing


Wow!  This might be a new record--13 different
cards from longtime independent team MBM Racing!




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



My vacation is allllmost here!  So I gotta make this fast!  Nascar—please don’t schedule races on Sunday nights.  It’s rough for those of us who work normal schedules AND those of us with non-traditional retail schedules (like me).  There wasn’t any football (no, the UFL doesn’t count), no big college events, and the NBA & NHL were between playoff series.  So why make it Sunday night?  Just have it at 4pm local time and make it an afternoon-to-dusk race.  Simple!  It’s easy to solve problems when you don’t consider any mitigating factors, isn’t it?


TRUCK SERIES (3 wins) DQS Staffing 200 (Saturday 12 ET on Fox) COREY HEIM—nice win by Rajah Caruth last week, but Corey’s still dominating this year.


XFINITY SERIES (1 win) off 


CUP SERIES FireKeepers Casino 400 (Sunday 2pm ET on Prime) Points Leader picks WILLIAM BYRON.  Favorite (2 wins): CHRISTOPHER BELL—unfortunately I get the idea this is going to be a dull race.  Next Favorite (1 win): DENNY HAMLIN—is 11 versus Michigan too?  Dark Horse: CARSON HOCEVAR—how many cars will be punt to win?



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Spade Racing Opens 10 Value Packs of 2012 Press Pass Cards: 8 of 10


Here’s my latest haul—ten 8 card packs of 2012 Press Pass Cards.  So join me as I take a look back about 13 years ago with some cost-effective card packs

Pack 8 of 10: Classic Waltrip, Almost Championship, and a Real Racing Blip

First Look: DW—from a dominate race-winner to a three-time champion to a Daytona 500 winner to a bit of a struggle, only wind up as a broadcaster for Blank Oval TV.

To the Back: Well, I’m sure Denny will wind up winning a championship eventually, unless he does something crazy like start his own team and sue the sanctioning body.

Say What: “What happened to me?”


Final Rating: 5 “through the field”s out of 10



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Spade Racing’s Stars in Unusual Cars: Alan Kulwicki



Alan Kulwicki starts his career for Terry Motorsports (1985-86)

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).

Courtesy Mike's Decals


Why? We all know Alan Kulwicki as the do-it-all modern independent owner-driver who used his mechanical and driving abilities to will his car to the 1992 Cup championship.  But it wasn’t always that way, as Kulwicki got his big break with Bill Terry’s car in 1985.


How successful were they? Although the small Terry Motorsports team rarely contended for wins, there were a few highlights, such as a fourth-place finish at Martinsville in 1986 and Rookie of the Year honors.


What was the aftermath? Kulwicki bought the team from Terry midway through the 1986 season, eventually building it into a championship-winning organization before tragically perishing in a plane crash in 1993.


Ranking on the Strange-O-Meter? 2 Zerex commercials out of 10—everybody has to start somewhere, and without much backing or experience, even Alan Kulwicki had to race for someone else in the beginning.



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Why Spotters Leave—A Spade Racing Investigation


This is a parody


Recently the Nascar world was rocked by the news that Stevie Reeves, spotter for Christopher Bell, had abruptly quit the team.  Besides surprising fans that suddenly remembered Reeves for his mid-90’s Busch Series career, it brought up the rarely-seen phenomenon of spotters leaving their teams mid-season.  Here’s a look back at some of the most-surprising moves in spotter history:


1975—Spotter CJ Bryant leaves Daytona in a huff, upon realizing that spotting hasn’t been invented yet.


1987—Numerous spotters are fired upon falling asleep during the Coca-Cola 600 as Kyle Petty laps the field in a rout.  The good-old days, folks.


1992—Scandal rocks the spotter stand as Jason Dugan is immediately fired at Dover Downs for disparaging scrapple on a live radio scanner feed.


1997—Several spotters quit the Geoff Bodine Racing operation, a surprisingly LOW number considering that they were working with both Geoff Bodine and Tim Brewer.


2001—Melling Racing spotter Bernie Flynn quits the team after crew chief Chad Knaus insists that if Stacy Compton won, they would have to “wreck the spotter” post-race.


2011—Melvin Gary is let go from his spotting job at GoFAS Racing at Talladega after mistakenly calling Terry Labonte “Mike Skin—un, I mean Ken Schr—er, I mean Jason Wh—um, no, TJ Bel—ah, dang.”



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