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MRM
11-09-2018, 01:25 PM
Driver Casey Roberts and Blount Motorsports have parted ways. The team will select a new driver from candidates they considered last year when Roberts got the ride.

https://insidedirtracing.com/casey-roberts-and-bms-part-ways/
MADCAPRACING22
11-09-2018, 02:07 PM
Casey can do better than this team. I felt like he took a step back going with this team. I hope he gets a good ride. Casey is a good dude.
MI Dirt Fan
11-09-2018, 02:14 PM
Weaver????
Hoosier_Dirt
11-09-2018, 02:15 PM
I feel Tanner English will drive for Blount Motorsports.
castone
11-09-2018, 02:50 PM
Tanner English can, and will put-er in the Wind!
adamconners
11-09-2018, 03:38 PM
Casey can do better than this team. I felt like he took a step back going with this team. I hope he gets a good ride. Casey is a good dude.Believe Casey's previous car owner Mr Cushman (Cushman paint and Body) decided to hang it up and that's why/when Casey went to Blount.
RW57
11-09-2018, 04:32 PM
Yea he was turf in a longhorn they have rockets some people just don't like rockets plus they had some terrible luck.
SHOE32
11-09-2018, 06:57 PM
Tanner english would be a great pic for that team.
MADCAPRACING22
11-09-2018, 06:59 PM
Believe Casey's previous car owner Mr Cushman (Cushman paint and Body) decided to hang it up and that's why/when Casey went to Blount.
That is common knowledge. You are correct. Like I said, he took a step backwards. He worked on his cars with Cushman and he ran well doing that. The Blount ride was not like that. They just wanted him to drive. I didn't think that would work. Good luck Casey!
President Clinton
11-09-2018, 07:15 PM
Casey will be a great asset to some car owner!!!! He is a good driver, and wants to turn wrenches
Kwd1253
11-09-2018, 07:54 PM
Weaver????

Think that would be a great pairing. Think him and marlar would make good team up with randy. Don’t know if marlar trying national or regional next year. Think randy wants do regional and Casey would fit right in that, both like working on cars specially longhorns.
chupp n bloomer fan
11-09-2018, 07:59 PM
Casey can do better than this team. I felt like he took a step back going with this team. I hope he gets a good ride. Casey is a good dude.The Blount ride is a good one. Just for whatever reason they didn’t click very well and never really became as tough as we thought they might be in the South. Maybe the XR1’s just didn’t fit Casey.

Hopefully Casey ends up in the right situation for him, and Blount gets the right type of driver for them. Maybe a Tanner English as stated, Nick Hoffman needs a ride lol, or Ross Bailes.
flagone
11-09-2018, 08:29 PM
I think that Casey is going to be just fine. Man has already told me multiple times this year that he would write a check for Casey at the drop of a hat. My bet is the hat just dropped.
Barbecueboy
11-09-2018, 10:58 PM
Whee doggies......liking the sounds of it.
hucktyson
11-10-2018, 06:08 AM
For being a regional team they sure know how to generate press. This team gets talked about like its best performance or lance landers racing
JabberJaws83
11-10-2018, 06:19 AM
I think that Casey is going to be just fine. Man has already told me multiple times this year that he would write a check for Casey at the drop of a hat. My bet is the hat just dropped.

I need to find me one of those kinda hats
B_K
11-10-2018, 09:14 AM
They've been a top regional program for a while. I know it's a foreign idea, but if you win some races, you get talked about some.
RW57
11-10-2018, 09:36 AM
I don't think the Rocket was a good fit for him he was tough in a Longhorn plus with them he was hands on with them. I have always heard good things about the man saw him race a bunch somebody will be getting a class act with him.
CageFaraday
11-10-2018, 10:41 AM
Driver Casey Roberts and Blount Motorsports have parted ways. The team will select a new driver from candidates they considered last year when Roberts got the ride.

https://insidedirtracing.com/casey-roberts-and-bms-part-ways/

I'm less surprised they are splitting than I was when they got together, not a good match. Good luck to Casey.
speedracer 007
11-10-2018, 04:04 PM
Hope Casey finds a ride
jlacey
11-10-2018, 10:56 PM
Good luck to Casey, hope he finds himself a good ride. I wasnt sold on him teaming up with Blount back when it was 1st announced, but as a fan of his I had high hopes. He wasnt bad in the car just nowhere near what Roberts or McIntosh have done in the last couple of years. I cant remember the date but wasnt it July or August when they got their 1st win together? When was the last time Roberts or Blount went that far into a season to get win #1? The Cushmans are good people and hated to see them get out of the sport, but it would be great to find another deal like that 1.
SLIDING SIDEWAYS
11-10-2018, 11:04 PM
Hey jlacey
You havent posted on here in a while. Hope all is well
pap
11-11-2018, 11:50 AM
Has Casey ever drove for Baird??
CageFaraday
11-11-2018, 12:01 PM
Has Casey ever drove for Baird??

No, he spent the bulk of it with Cushman. He started in DLM with Slab Sellars driving an old Rayburn at Toccoa, then updated to a Walter Newman. When he left that ride to go out on his own Buck Simmons took over. Casey and a group of friends ran a Larry Shaw for a minute and then fielded a GRT(used Bart Hartman) for a season, maybe 2. Then in the mid 00's he hooked up with Cushman and they've utilized a lot of different cars while together:Barry Wright, VC by Moyer, Capital & Longhorn, in that order I'm pretty sure. Want to say he started up with Cushman in 2005 or 2006, but could've been as early as 2004. Then Blount and XR1.
jlacey
11-11-2018, 02:49 PM
Hey jlacey
You havent posted on here in a while. Hope all is well

Yeah im good thanks, just had to take a break from the trolls and crybabies that were taking over every post. My brain can only handle reading so much stupidity at once, plus started a new job and been focused on that.
t3r3e3
11-11-2018, 07:07 PM
Local/Regional guys that seem like good targets for Blount (depending on how DB ride plays):

Corey Hedge(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)

Tanner English

Marlar (likely ends up with a different team)

Michael Paige
Last Tru Outlaw 4B
11-11-2018, 08:08 PM
Gut feeling there will be a past driver back in the Blount motorsports car..
chupp n bloomer fan
11-12-2018, 04:31 AM
Gut feeling there will be a past driver back in the Blount motorsports car..I wouldn’t doubt that either, unless they left on less than mutual terms.
Wells Racing Photos
11-13-2018, 11:29 AM
http://images.memes.com/meme/484398
No_Weak_Links
11-16-2018, 07:01 PM
Casey is racing tonight at Screven for Ryan Crane.
wfofan
11-17-2018, 09:41 AM
Casey is racing tonight at Screven for Ryan Crane.
Let me know how that goes...
Necrosis
11-18-2018, 09:53 AM
It's Billy Ogle.
Barbecueboy
11-18-2018, 07:34 PM
It's Billy Ogle.

Good for Billy.....
ZERO25
11-18-2018, 08:03 PM
Good for Billy.....

Nothin better than a good racer with a good......right hook! :)
Barbecueboy
11-18-2018, 08:44 PM
Nothin better than a good racer with a good......right hook! :)

I know that guy......:)
CageFaraday
11-21-2018, 07:33 AM
Perhaps a reunion of sorts is possible... He wasn't the house car driver, but he was tight with Barry & Lance a few years back.
https://photos.smugmug.com/WORKING/Dirt-racing/Cherokee-Speedway/Cherokee-SAS-Mar-2007/i-cj2dgmg/0/37f0469e/L/DSCN4435-L.jpg Maybe???
No_Weak_Links
11-21-2018, 07:47 AM
Perhaps a reunion of sorts is possible... He wasn't the house car driver, but he was tight with Barry & Lance a few years back.
https://photos.smugmug.com/WORKING/Dirt-racing/Cherokee-Speedway/Cherokee-SAS-Mar-2007/i-cj2dgmg/0/37f0469e/L/DSCN4435-L.jpg Maybe???

It's about the money with Barry. He will have a house car if somebody is willing to foot the bills. They would have to furnish hauler and motors.
CageFaraday
11-21-2018, 07:54 AM
It's about the money with Barry. He will have a house car if somebody is willing to foot the bills. They would have to furnish hauler and motors.

Yes, I know. Casey is very well thought of in our area and its not unheard of for someone to step up with sponsorship to make something happen. I remember when JD got his first shot with BWRC driving for a bail bondsman out of the Carolina's. Barry even made JD a specially modified chassis because he was so fond of Rayburn SwingArm, think they called it the "Stealth" car or something.