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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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I’d say.
3 for dale sr
43 for Richard petty
48 for jimmie Johnson.
Due to being 7 time champions.
No never
Its the Team’s decision to debate about if they want to retire numbers.
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.
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.
Yeah but then surely the entire team would have to change the font
@@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
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.
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
If anything, I’m with the people in the middle that want to retire the number in its respective font.
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.
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.
The drivers do not own the Numbers!!!!
That would be a stupid idea
I think I’d like to see the font retired?… maybe?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
The team could retire the number but not the sport as a whole
Austin Dillon ain’t built a new legacy for the number 3 except for at Daytona
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