Nascar Race Picks: Uncle Max vs. The Tarot Deck—Bristol Dirt

EDITOR’S NOTE: Uncle Max is deep into the process of doing inventory at work, as well as lamenting finishing a single point out of the money in his March Madness pool.  He texted me his picks:

XFINITY SERIES (1 win) off

Saturday Night TRUCK SERIES (1 win) WeatherGuard Dirt Race: Stewart Friesen—goin’ with the dirt specialist.

Sunday CUP SERIES Food City Dirt Race:  The Tarot Deck (1 win) selects The Three of Cups, 13th in points Tyler Reddick.  FAVORITE: Joey Logano—Truck Series practice pays off.  NEXT FAVORITE: Kyle Busch—the momentum keeps growing at RCR.  DARK HORSE: Austin Dillon—and that momentum goes both ways.

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Spade Racing Opens a Box of Panini PRIZM Cards, BONUS

BONUS INSERTS: Autographs!

Here’s four autographs I got in this box.  A pretty nice haul!

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Track “Facts”: Bristol

Nascar races on all sorts of tracks, from short to long, oval to road course, concrete to asphalt.  Here’s a bi-weekly look at all the tracks of Nascar’s National Touring Series.

BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY (original layout)

0.533 mile concrete short track

Opened 1961

Lights?  Yes

Series: Cup, Xfinity, Trucks

Nicknames: The Last Great Colosseum, The World’s Fastest Half-Mile, A Football Stadium Twice

THREE FUN FACTS:

1. Bristol was the first Nascar Cup track to switch from asphalt to concrete, doing so in 1992.  As any of you who’ve driven on both know, this changed the noise of the track from “rrrrr” to “AHHHHHH”.

2. Bristol is the only motorsports facility to feature a center-hung scoreboard (known as Colossus), mostly because you’d have to be insane to try it anywhere else.

3. The centerpiece fall race used to be sponsored by Sharpie, inundating the Nascar fanbase with that horrible “Gimme my Sharpie dude” commercial.  *shudder*

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