@@willp8003 I remember hearing that from the Radioactive segment when Smalls said he didn’t think Truex needed to know. There might be some things crew chiefs don’t tell their drivers, but tire condition is definitely not on that list.

I agree Small killed his desire to race. Small is a terrible crew chief. When he put used tires on his car last year and didn’t tell Teuex that right there told me all I needed to know about the kind of person Small is.

I think he would have had way more wins with a different crew chief. You can hear from the team radio that they don’t really get along.

From running MTJ out of gas at Sonoma to the 4 tire call when the rest of the leaders took 2 a few weeks back, dropping him almost 11 spots back when he was the leader and had a chance to win. James Smalls has made a lot of bad calls.

No….there are far better options than Ryan. We shouldn’t just give him a ride because he’s a brother. If that’s how you have to start your sales pitch….

Kurt busch too

34 is nothing to sneeze at either.

Yeah but if we were going off of radioactive Ryan Blaney would have quit 3 years ago. Some guys are just that way and unless you have a crew chief that knows how to work with that or a spotter you just ruin a good driver.

​@@fallenfetusTrue, but then again if it wasn’t for Dale Jr, we probably wouldn’t have heard about MTJ in the first place

Ya these are stats that any driver would be proud of especially for a late bloomer like MTJ