A Late Green Flag Today: What To Do

As usual, the Cup Series’ second visit to Las Vegas Motor Speedway is, for the east coast, a late-afternoon/early-evening start, with the green flag scheduled to drop around 5:45pm ET.  Here’s what you can do today to pass the time:


—Check out the NFL, with such riveting early matchups as Colts vs. Commanders and Jaguars at Bengals.


—Tune into USA Network early to catch up on your Law & Order SVU reruns (dun-DUN).


—Read one of the many autobiographies “written” by Nascar drivers.


—Call up your uncle who got you into racing and listen to him yammer about Toyota and Bubba Wallace for an hour.


—Determine all the things that would have to happen for Dodge to return to Cup in 2027, then figure out how they could finish better than 25th anywhere outside of drafting tracks.


—Reorganize your diecast collection, just don’t look up its value unless you REALLY like being disappointed.



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Race Picks Las Vegas: 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.


Claude AI Sonnet 5.5 (6 wins) sez: If I had to pick, I'd go with (Kyle) Larson.


Truck Series (2 wins) Kansas 200 Saturday 1pm ET on FS1: JAKE GARCIA—at least its not GREG Garcia.


O’Reilly Series (4 wins) Focused Health 302 Saturday 7:30pm ET on CW: SHELDON CREED—the ol’ double-oh is heating up.


Cup Series South Point 400 5:30pm ET on USA  FAVORITE (1 win): DENNY HAMLIN—JGR could be our only hope to avoid Larson running away with it.  NEXT FAVORITE (3 wins): TY GIBBS—see above.  DARK HORSE (2 wins): ALEX BOWMAN—his last win?



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Spade Racing Opens Three 2026 Select “Blaster” Boxes—Pack 2 of 18


I’m moving away from Hobby Boxes to three “Blaster” Boxes this time for the 2026 Panini Select cards.  Join me as I go through all 18 packs!


Pack 2: Blurry, no hurry, and fury


First Look: You’ll have to take my word for it—this “Select Skills” card is pretty cool in person.  Guess I shouldn’t have skipped photography class in high school.


To the Back: Keep in mind that while Erik LIKES the Chase returning, he didn’t find it necessary to actually qualify for it this year.


Say What: “The next guy who asks me to take my hat off will feel the wrath of someone who had to run for SHR for four years.”


Final Rating: 4 out-of-sync calls to start engines out of 10



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