internet fact checking services have determined that the 2023 Lucas Oil Late Model series champion is Ricky Thornton Jr, any press release stating otherwise is inaccurate and false. lol
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internet fact checking services have determined that the 2023 Lucas Oil Late Model series champion is Ricky Thornton Jr, any press release stating otherwise is inaccurate and false. lol
This is a prime example (on almost every thread today) of the breakdown that happens when things don't go the way a libtard wants them to, even though they knew this is how it would play out at the end... laugh
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Playoffs entertain people, all sports use them. Fans can choose whether or not they want to follow the sport. However bellyaching about the rules is a waste of time and energy.
The bellyaching about Nascar is also boring. People that don't like the rules, simply should not follow that sport either.
BTW, I thought that the race Sunday was quite entertaining. I am pretty sure many fans enjoyed it more than the drivers. The big E. did a great job even being able to pull the race off.
I don't agree with not being a stick and ball sport. Any sport that has fans attending is there to entertain them. Playoffs entertain them. I am old but not set in my ways. I have been going to races since 1950. Love the sport obviously, have no problem with new formats.
If you have racing series then there should be some drama to cap them off. IMO
Mark Richards bank account says different about this
Show us where in the 2023 Lucas Oil Late Model Series rulebook that it says the Champion is recognized at the season end for consistently getting the job done. It's not there and you know it. The highest place finisher in last nights race was the Championship Winner which is Hudson O'Neal.
The history is corrupted. It's like when Essex talks about how ole Bloomer made the dtwc 34 times. That accomplishment now means absolutely nothing. All you have to do is follow the Lucas tour around to get in the show now.
In maybe yours and a few others they chose to cheapen the accomplishment. I think it's time for you to start your own series, run your rules and see how you do instead of making countless posts a month on here. I have been around this sport for 50+ years and I didn't have no problem with the way it was run this year.
Forest has his own series which we are talking about, you are the one that doesn't like the way his series is run. Racing has been in trouble ever since I have been around and it's still here 50+ years later. The real worry is when will the environmentalists shut all of this down, or when racers will have to use electric motors.
Everyone who ran the series knew the rules up front and chose to run the series. So…the correct person won the championship. You don’t have to like it, I don’t really think it’s fair either. However….the rules were the rules when everyone lined up to run back on the first race of the year knowing what they had to do to win the crown. So….you can do one of a few things….start your own racing series, write a letter to the people who make the rules, don’t follow Lucas anymore, sit back…watch the races and enjoy them, go bar hopping on Saturday nights instead of going to the track… if all the racers who ran the series were ok with it when the season started, they have no basis to complain now. I don’t even hear the racers complaining…only fans.
Ricky is complaining pretty loudly, considering the sponsor of the mess was one of his sponsors. There are more people to satisfy than just the racers. The satisfying the racers first mindset is part of the problems with the sport, tbh
And I agree with you about 1987 compared to 1982. So much of it is also in conjunction with the economy of the country, when more people have money, more race cars, less money, less race cars. And also people with money will spend any amount of money to win in any class, just to be a winner. Late Models are not the only one with problems, modifieds are just as bad, first modifieds then they got out of hand price and rule wise, so then b mods and now economy mods.
I know Forest doesn't run the series, but I wouldn't go and say that he has idiots running it for him. I sure and the he!! wouldn't want the job. To keep up with the rules, keeping drivers, car owners and track owners happy and then to find and keep all of the sponsors happy to invest in this sport. That's where this Final Four came about, Big River Steel wanted to add money to the championship but run it the way they wanted it run. As a series would you say no to that and giving the drivers more money? I sure and the he!! wouldn't.
^^^^ anyone with half of a brain knew that wasn't going to last. That car wasn't lasting another 60-70 taking that much abuse. I think he was going hard while everyone else was trying to conserve. It was fun to watch though.
A solid 42 years for me. And I’d agree, trouble is coming.
This years Lucas Champion will always have an asterisk beside it. The one race playoff cheapened the Championship in my opinion, no matter who was leading the points going in.
In my opinion, I’d guess it more has to do with the world we live in today more than anything.
Kind’a like a Participation trophy by definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participation_trophy
Lucky for me I can speak with my wallet and TV remote.
For the record there will be no asterisk behind the Championship. Hudson won it fair and square under the 2023 format. You may not like the format and I don't but, they raced under the same rules and or format for the year. It's not like they changed things midway through the 2023 season. Do I think RTJ deserved the Championship Yes but, that's not reality.
The Lucas Oil late model series has always been touted as the better series when compared to the WoO late model series. The 2023 LOLMS season will be the one that goes down in history where all the luster was taken off that polished comparison.
I seen on another thread where the guy posted that O'Neal only ran 99 laps because of the lucky dog?? I have no idea about this but may make some sense
In Context, in my book, it will always have a asterisk. Kind’a like others books.
Five sports records that came with asterisks - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRidopZprHU