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For the past week, Michael Waltrip’s facebook page has been blown up with “fans” excoriating him for his decision to change drivers from David Reutimann to Mark Martin for 2012. They have blasted him for everything from simply making the change, to the way he made the change and everything in between. So how much does loyalty matter in sports and NASCAR in particular?
NASCAR is a sport where a team not only [...]
And now another piece of the Kahne-Hendrick-Martin-Stewart-Haas puzzle has been revealed. (Man, this is more complicated than the last season of “Lost”!) Conventional wisdom has had Kahne cooling his heels in 2011 in a Stewart-Haas ride while he waits for Mark Martin to vacate the 5.
A lot of interesting topics are brewing in NASCAR since I last made a post here at Sports Jabber…
Number 1) has to be Jeremy Mayfield, because this has to be the most bizarre story of them all. Did Mayfield use meth or not? Someone is lying and I can’t wait to see who it is.
Forgive me for being excited about this soap opera happening off the track and not being excited about all the action on the track, BUT this is NASCAR’s biggest story and if it continues in the direction that it is heading, it will be NASCAR’s biggest story of all time.
I admit it. When the news broke I was like, seriously? Didn’t this guy retire like 10 years ago? In fact, I was so sure of myself I called a couple of friends asking about wasn’t he in a rocking chair doing a fair well tour? Isn’t he starting to look like the dudes from Aerosmith?
But Mark Martin was signed to run the 5 this year (supposedly instead of Brad Keslowski). Mark would replace Kyle Busch and be paired with Alan Gustafson.