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NOTE: no picks for the All-Star Race
Truck Series (1 win) EcoSave 200 Friday 5pm ET on FS1: BEN RHODES—first place in the First State.
O’Reilly Series (1 win) BetRivers 200 Saturday 4pm ET on CW: JESSE LOVE—redemption from last week.
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Rather than a “hobby box”, I decided to go with the more economical choice of two “Blaster Boxes” for the 2025 Panini Prizm cards (although they were bought in January 2026. With six packs of five cards each in each box, that’s twelve packs to open!
Say What: “OK, remember, it’s AutoVentive, not AutoWentive. Wait, is it?”
Final Rating: 5 overtime laps out of 10
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Starting 19th: Rich Bickle #9 Orkin Melling Racing Ford
Finished: 29th
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| Bickle in retirement, wearing his 1994 fire suit |
Total Brickyard 400 Starts: 5
Best Brickyard 400 Finish: 29th (1994)
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| "Making the race 19th out of 80+ cars" --Rich Bickle 45 |
1994 Fun Fact: 1994 was a difficult year for Rich on-track, as he was mostly uncompetitive in a mostly unsponsored Melling Racing car. On the plus side, he didn’t have to pretend to like SPAM.
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Hero card responses just keep pouring in! 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. I sent SASEs (Self Addressed Stamped Envelopes) to every Cup, O’Reilly and Truck team, as well as a few major ARCA operations as well. Who’ll be the first to respond? Who’ll send in the most cards? Whose cards will be brand new? And will any teams send in autographed cards? Join me over the next few months as I find out!
The following cards arrived from April 12 through April 26.
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| Four cards (one for each driver) from Hendrick Motorsports |
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| Three AUTOGRAPHED cards from ThorSport |
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| An impressive haul--9 cards (one of them signed, and another from the online series) from Spire Motorsports |
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| Two pairs of cards (all four signed) from RackleyWAR |
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| Three signed cards from Hyak Motorsports |
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| Five types of cards (three are duplicates) all signed by Preston Pardus |
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| A NEW RECORD! 15 cards (some of them autographed) from Niece Motorsports |
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| Seven cards from Truck Series team MHR |
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| Five autographed cards from O'Reilly Series team Viking Motorsports |
RETURN TO SENDER: ALPHA PRIME RACING 120 Pitt Road, Mooresville NC 28117
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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 (1 win) sez: Based on current 2026 form and betting markets:
Tyler Reddick 🔥 Probably the hottest driver right now—multiple wins early in the season and often listed as the overall favorite.
Truck Series (1 win) BullyHill Vineyards 176 Friday 4:30pm ET on FS1: AJ ALLMENDINGER—turning into quite a wait for Dodge, huh? (Still!)
O’Reilly Series (1 win) Mission 200 at the Glen Saturday 4pm ET on CW: COREY DAY—Oh Happy Day (sorry).
Cup Series Go Bowling at the Glen 3pm on Fox FAVORITE (1 win): CHASE ELLIOTT—on a heater when it’s still kinda cold outside. NEXT FAVORITE (1 win): SVG—Trackhouse has to get their wins SOMEhow. DARK HORSE (1 win): AJ ALLMENDINGER—the specialist rides again.
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Rather than a “hobby box”, I decided to go with the more economical choice of two “Blaster Boxes” for the 2025 Panini Prizm cards (although they were bought in January 2026. With six packs of five cards each in each box, that’s twelve packs to open!
Say What: “Hey there, Kyle Larson’s car here. Oh, um, I mean, vrooooom.”
Final Rating: 3 sponsor mentions out of 10
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Starting 18th: Geoff Brabham #07 K-Mart Kranefuss-Haas Racing Ford
Finished: 38th (DNF—Crash)
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| Brabham (in the 07) next to Ernie Irvan at the Brickyard |
Total Brickyard 400 Starts: 1
Best Brickyard 400 Finish: 38th (1994)
1994 Fun Fact: This race was Geoff’s lone Nascar effort, although not his lone Indy effort in 1994. He failed to qualify in the 1994 Indy 500, aka The Little Al and Whiny Nigel Show.
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Yesterday I got to participate in a charity event—for a donation, I got to drive five laps around Dover Motor Speedway. Its hard to capture just how STEEP the track is in the turns, but check it out here:
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