NASCAR unveils this year's All-Star Race format, featuring a new tire compound developed by Goodyear. Also, the Class of 2025 Hall of Fame nominees are out! Let's react.
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0:00 All-Star Race Format
3:05 New Tires!
6:52 Petty scheme
8:02 Hall of Fame Nominees
45 comments
AJ Foyt getting kicked off is insane
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@@lbf5984 AJ Foyt who only did races before the Indy car racing season would start, whatever the series was called in 1990’s.
@@caseysmith544 but he was kicked off of something?
LETS VOTE ERIC FOR THE ALL STAR RACE AND MAKE NASCAR PUT HIM IN
and for hall of fame as best outside entertainer in the sport
Harry Gant deserves to be a Hall of Famer, no question at all
give it to Gant and Bonnet. both are well overdue
Agreed
The Biff!!
Handsome Harry Gant definitely deserves to be in the HOF…
Always Mr September to me…
Tires were the savior of Bristol. I will hold judgement until I see it. I am cautiously optimistic.
If this tire option doesn’t work, then the horsepower has to be tried out. Otherwise we are condemning short tracks to death in the Cup series.
I’m with you. The “option tires” need to show us SOMETHING
Would that be a bad thing?
@@elitegamer21005 Absolutely. If you don’t think that’s a bad thing then there’s a chance you started watching NASCAR after the bigger tracks took over.
@@GlitchunlockedI did, I also think Short Tracks are overrated
Nascar keeps saying increasing HP isn’t an option. I’m so close to leaving the sport as a fan and committing to Indy tbh..
Prime tires: perfect for the Amazon broadcast branding
Dang you’re right lol
NASCAR Goodyear Cup Series presented by Amazon Prime.
“Our car is as fast as xfinity 10G and our prime tires are faster than Amazon delivery.”
heading towards the GEICO Restart Zone for one-to-go presented by Credit One Bank
it’s gonna be commercialized heaven
Those lightning fast Prime tyre’s lol yeah your right I see the ad now
I’m stoked for All Star weekend. Not only is the race on my birthday, for the first time in the nearly 30 years I’ve been a fan, I’m going to the race in person too. Hopefully these tires along with the new surface can help put on a great show.
Hope you have a blast!
@@EricEstepp Thanks man! If you’re at the race I’ll try to find you haha.
It is past time to see Tim Richmond on the list for the HOF. He died young and was at the height of he career. He won 9 of the last 25 races he competed in and was a huge star in the sport, but he contracted Aids and being the scared and ignorant 80’s, Nascar banned him after 8 races in August of 1987 and he died two years later. If he had died on the track he would have been in the HOF already, and if he had not contracted Aids, he would have won Championships.
Harry Gant was still building houses and Cutting Grass
For the HOF, drivers: Gant and Rudd. Pioneer: Larry Mac said it on one of his Sirius shows earlier today that it should be the doctor that designed the SAFER barriers. I mean, how many lives and injuries has his design saved?
Many people say those in the hall should be people that you cannot tell the story of NASCAR without. Gant and Rudd are mine, too. Gant maybe just for his September. Rudd for ironman. Lol….Eric picked the same (I was writing the comment before the video finished)
I like that pick.
@@extragoogleaccount6061…I say NEIL and Harry. Neil’s slightly more impressive winning percentage (18 victories in 5 full-time cup seasons of his 20 year driving career) over Rudd’s longevity (23 Cup wins over a 32 year (full and part time seasons) career.
Rudd has a much lower winning percentage.
Give it time. He’ll eventually get the HOF jacket. But this year, it should go to Neil Bonnett.
Ive been saying for years what Probst said there: Goodyear doesnt want to make “bad” tires – they dont want them to “fail”, cause that makes Goodyear look bad. But fans and drivers want to see tire falloff, and the only way to do that is make “bad” tires.
Harry Gant was one of the best drivers to race against, a clean driver and always smiling. mr. september.
Got to meet him back in 02 at my 1st cup race at charlotte. Still have the signed picture.
goodyear is confusing a “tire failure” and a “driver pushing the tire to failure”
for me this years Hall of Famers should be the following
Pioneer Ballot: Banjo Matthews
Modern: Harry Gant and Ricky “tough S.O.B.” Rudd
This is why I wish NASCAR kinda held off a little bit on adding so many “golden era” guys like Jr, Gordon, and Tony Stewart so quickly. I feel like some of the names on the ballot this year would have got a little more hype around them in the early year of the HOF when they were choosing 5 guys.
I’m a big proponent of Randy Dorton getting in. He revolutionized engine building, and made Hendrick engines what they are. He was also one of the 10 killed on the way to Martinsville. There’s a special on YouTube called “Beyond 200” that was filmed not long after HMS got its 200th win, and Rick and DW and Terry Labonte talk about Randy. He sounds like a good man, a smart man, and a behind the scenes very influential man
I was a Jeff Burton fan for many years, so I’ll admit I’m biased. Just like Eric is for Kenseth, but… I believe Hall of Fame consideration should consider a persons entire contribution to the sport, not just their driving career statistics. I love Carl Edwards, but he left the sport and you basically never hear from him anymore. Burton has 21 Cup wins, 27 Xfinity wins, was always considered to be one of the cleanest drivers out there, and was often referred to as the Mayor of the garage. Those are great stats for any career, but consider his whole families continued involvement in the sport. As Eric mentioned he’s the head of the drivers council, he continues to help promote the sport via NBC, and his son and nephew both continue to drive in both the Cup and Xfinity series. I think his continued involvement beyond his driving career makes him one of the top contenders for entry into the Hall of Fame, but as Eric mentioned, it is a close this year. If I’m being honest I think Biffle’s overall statistics with championships in the truck series and Xfinity series give him a leg up on that front.
Very well thought out and written. I’ve never been a Burton fan at all, but have always appreciated his style of driving and his off-track demeanor. When I saw Carl Edwards name on the list I was dumbfounded. The guy abruptly left NASCAR like a bad habit, then just sort of drop kicked everyone and everything about it. Even in his most recent return on television for that throwback telecast where Mark Martin joined them in the booth for a few, he stated that he didn’t even want to be there. He had to be talked into coming. I can’t see exonerating someone for something in an activity where they really could care less to relive, reminisce, or so much as revisit. To him it seemed to be just a j. o. b. Nothing more.
The Nascar Hall of Fame needs to be similar to the MLB HOF where drivers must reach a certain percent of votes to get in so that means some years we may not get any one, but it secures the prestige of getting in
>Nascar introduces different tire options
Formula One:
First Time? 😉