Related posts

Josh Berry makes an impressive save in the third stage of the Food City 500 #NASCAR #JoshBerry

klengel

RAJAH CARUTH INTERVIEW HAILIE DEEGAN QUALIFYING LAP – 2023 NC LOTTERY 200 NASCAR TRUCKS AT CHARLOTTE

klengel

Austin Hill takes a gamble at Las Vegas on the final lap for the win

klengel

23 comments

@Denverbroncos87 March 23, 2024 at 2:34 pm

I’d say.
3 for dale sr
43 for Richard petty
48 for jimmie Johnson.

Due to being 7 time champions.

Reply
@billharrison2503 March 23, 2024 at 3:06 pm

No never

Reply
@ChaseTPS March 23, 2024 at 2:37 pm

Its the Team’s decision to debate about if they want to retire numbers.

Reply
@PaladinNL5 March 23, 2024 at 2:43 pm

Numbers belong to the team, it’s up to them to retire numbers or not. Personally though I wouldn’t want numbers to retire anyways.

I was never upset when Childress brought back the 3, actually I thought it was cool back then because I never had the chance to see Earnhardt drive it. That’s pretty much my only experience with the retired numbers debate.
I guess there was the 24 but I was ready to be an Elliott fan at the time because my driver Gordon was retiring so I was never bothered by the 24 staying.

Reply
@qbcards March 23, 2024 at 2:49 pm

Retire numbers in there respective fonts. Win win for everyone. Everyone number is just as iconic as the font. Let them run the numbers but in different fonts and everyone is happy.

Reply
@F1MonopostoChampionship March 23, 2024 at 4:34 pm

Yeah but then surely the entire team would have to change the font

Reply
@mjsultimate March 23, 2024 at 4:57 pm

@@F1MonopostoChampionshipwell, that would work for RCR

The 8 and 3 are different fonts. We change the font on the 3 to match the 8 then people would be happy

Reply
@Scarred.13 March 23, 2024 at 2:51 pm

Number is NOT the Driver’s. It’s the owner/Team. Earnhardt had 2 numbers as a driver and the number 1 as an owner. Don’t retire the numbers….Honor the driver.

Reply
@bigbenwakefield5932 March 23, 2024 at 2:56 pm

When u think about it certain numbers have a legacy in nascar like the 9 with bill and chase elliott we havent seen the 28 run since robert yates closed it doors but DEI shouldve never been run by Teresa Earnhardt i can understand why she took over but she ran DEI into the ground LITERALLY

Reply
@USAKing1776NASCAR March 23, 2024 at 2:59 pm

If anything, I’m with the people in the middle that want to retire the number in its respective font.

Reply
@adgibson82 March 23, 2024 at 3:01 pm

I remember seeing an interview a long time ago that the King did shortly after his retirement where he was explicit in not retiring his number and didn’t think anyone else should either. Have heard the font argument, but I would be sad to see a different 43 than what’s been on the track for decades now.

Reply
@SuperNASCARrocks March 23, 2024 at 3:16 pm

Well yes and no. On one hand you have to pay respects to the driver and the legacy that they’ve built up with that car number and retiring the number is a great way to do that. On the other you have new drivers coming in who want to continue the legacy of that car number of the driver before him like William Byron in the 24 is doing. He’s continuing the legacy of Jeff Gordon.

Reply
@co7814 March 23, 2024 at 3:18 pm

The drivers do not own the Numbers!!!!

Reply
@richieosborn2639 March 23, 2024 at 3:20 pm

That would be a stupid idea

Reply
@b-rad1170 March 23, 2024 at 3:44 pm

I think I’d like to see the font retired?… maybe?

Reply
@KDill29 March 23, 2024 at 3:51 pm

The only numbers in my opinion that could be retired would of course be 3, 43 (edit as I forgot sorry JJ) and 48.
Also, as someone else put, retire the number and font would be good/cool.
Cause if you were to start retiring numbers on a bigger scale, you’d run out of numbers eventually. As we all know there isnt triple digits.

Reply
@austinwiseman3186 March 23, 2024 at 4:35 pm

They can’t retire numbers, not now. You have the biggest name in the sport with the most championships at the biggest race in the sport lose his life on the last turn of the last lap. If that’s not deserving of having your number retired then nothing is

Reply
@jarettehutchens4152 March 23, 2024 at 4:50 pm

Absolutely not. There’s only 100 numbers that are not 3 digits.
Just add to the number(s) legacy

43 now has 200 wins. Petty won 200 but not in the 43. Erik Jones won the 200th win for that number at Darlington.

Reply
@TheDouble0NO March 23, 2024 at 4:51 pm

I don’t mind seeing some numbers put away for a few years like the 5 was. I always wanted to see the 25 come back or the 46 like Jeff Gordon originally wanted to be.

Reply
@mjsultimate March 23, 2024 at 4:56 pm

Unless NASCAR allows triple digit numbers, we can’t be retiring numbers.

I’m cool with retiring fonts of numbers, but if we retire the number itself, then we’d run out of numbers

Reply
@josephharrison5639 March 23, 2024 at 4:58 pm

The team could retire the number but not the sport as a whole

Reply
@BradyTaylor-tf9ho March 23, 2024 at 5:22 pm

Austin Dillon ain’t built a new legacy for the number 3 except for at Daytona

Reply
@brunz24xxx March 23, 2024 at 5:30 pm

3, 24, 43 we all only think of one driver for those numbers. And we may never get drivers as impactful as those three. Retire them

Reply

Leave a Comment