#ricky stenhouse Jr.

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The Driver Suit Blog-The Final Paint Scheme Grades Of 2024-November 16, 2024

By David G. Firestone Austin Dillon #3 Dow Patriotic Chevy Camaro-Adding camo to this scheme isn’t helping this scheme. Camo NEVER looks good on a race car. F Josh Berry #4 Texas A&M University Ford Mustang-Camo NEVER looks good on a race car. F Justin Haley #7 Parity Week by Gainbridge Chevy Camaro-This shade of purple works, and I like the blue stripes. A Noah Gragson #10 Nitro Circus Ford…

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A Hot Diggity Dog Day for Todd Gilliland at Martinsville

New Post has been published on https://petn.ws/ECuXT

A Hot Diggity Dog Day for Todd Gilliland at Martinsville

Top Dog: Todd Gilliland Just a year ago, you couldn’t blame Todd Gilliland if he would have questioned his future before the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series season started. Front Row Motorsports had opted to put Zane Smith in the No. 38 for six races, a seat that was supposed to solely feature Gilliland. And for […]

See full article at https://petn.ws/ECuXT #DogNews #CarsonHocevar, #DanielHemric, #ErikJones, #HarrisonBurton, #JohnHunterNemechek, #JoshWilliams, #RickyStenhouseJr, #ToddGilliland

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2023 NASCAR Cup Series: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., #47 Kroger/Cottonelle Chevrolet, JTG Daugherty Racing. Download full resolution & extras on Patreon.

[devilbarista]

THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING

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North Wilkesboro All Star 2024

First of all, Kyle Larson is starting P5 in the Indy 500 next week, which is absurd. When I was told they were having a mechanical yesterday, I was like "welp, Last Chance it is. Classic." But then T12? And then T6?? And then somehow P4 in the All Star.

The All Star was classic Carolina short track in the best way. Like, forget the race--sure, we could talk about all the door-to-door, all the lanes, all that technical motorsports stuff--OR WE COULD TALK ABOUT

RICKY

RAMPAGE

KyBu took him out on like Lap 1, and Ricky parked his car in KyBu's pit stall and crawled up to menace the team. Then, fully two hours later, he actually picked a fight. THREW A PUNCH. RESULTED IN A MULTI-GUY BRAWL. RICKY STENHOUSE SENIOR WAS INVOLVED. BOB POCKRASS WAS UNWITTINGLY INVOLVED.

THIS IS THE DUMBEST SPORT IN THE WORLD I LOVE IT

LOOK. AT. HIM.

[music-wrestling-nascar-fangirl]

@citrisz @userblaney

[mycountrystvsucks]

Well, there's your problem...

You left your pizza rolls in the oven too long.

[duck7]

NASCAR Cup Series 2023 

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. wins the 2023 Daytona 500 after a wild overtime finish.

[saikoguadans]

[ryanthedemiboy]

Apparently Stenhouse was on American Ninja Warrior

[zachbiller]

[dgf2099]

The Driver Suit Blog-Paint Scheme Grades-November 9, 2024

By David G. Firestone Austin Cindric #2 Menard’s/Cardell Cabinetry Ford Mustang-Same scheme as last year, same A grade. Justin Haley #7 Optic Gaming/Gainbridge Sport Chevy Camaro-Simple and bold with a great color scheme, this is just perfect! A Bubba Wallace #23 Xfinity Toyota Camry-I’m not typically a fan of mosaic schemes, but this is good, and gets an A. Daniel Hemric #31 High Point Paint…

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NASCAR Numerology: How NASCAR's Current Teams Got Their Numbers: Part Five.

Alright guys, we've gotten to the last part of this little miniseries.

Today we're covering:

Front Row Motorsports, who run the #34 Ford for Michael McDowell and the #38 for Todd Gilliland in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series.

Legacy Motor Club, who run the #42 Toyota for John Hunter Nemechek and the historic #43 for Erik Jones.

and JTG Daugherty Racing, who run the #47 Chevrolet for Ricky Stenhouse Jr.

Fittingly, we get to end on representation for all three brands.

Front Row Motorsports debuted in 2004, running the #92 Ford on a partial schedule with drivers like Brad Teague, Tony Raines, and Stanton Barrett, but they would fail to qualify for any races. Furthermore, the Mach 1 Motorsports team ran the #98/#96 car that year, splitting time between Ford and Dodge, and running drivers such as Todd and Geoff Bodine, Larry Gunselman, Derrike Cope, Chad Chaffin, and Randy LaJoie.

This team did manage to make some races (keyword: some) and in 2005, Mach 1 would attempt the full schedule with a #34 Chevrolet while another slew of drivers (mainly LaJoie, Chaffin, and PJ Jones) but by the end of 2005, the team was up for sale. Front Row Motorsports would buy this #34 car, as well as Mach 1's shop, and build their team around it.

Often running as a start-and-park team with a revolving door of drivers, Front Row finally got some stability in 2009, with John Andretti driving the #34, and dragging it up to three top twenty finishes, at Daytona, Loudon, and Fontana.

Andretti left after the 2010 Daytona 500, but the top twenty streak remained, with Travis Kvapil scoring an 18th at Talladega and Kevin Conway a 14th at the summer Daytona race.

David Gilliland (Todd's father) ran the full 2011 season and scored a third place at the Daytona 500, building on the results of the last three years to make Front Row Motorsports a proper contender on the superspeedways.

For 2012, Gilliland was moved to the #38 (more on that later) while David Ragan took over the #34. This car would top off FRM's superspeedway streak by winning the 2013 Aaron's 499 at Talladega.

Ragan would leave FRM after the 2015 Daytona 500 to get the opportunity to fill in for the injured Kyle Busch, so that season was a bit of a revolving door for the #34 yet again. Yet, for 2016, they got a technical alliance with Roush Fenway Racing in exchange for running Roush development driver Chris Buescher.

And Chris Buescher would win the 2016 Pennsylvania 400 for them on a Monday after a rainy weekend followed by a foggy weekend led to a segmented and ultimately shortened race. It took a bit of luck, but it got FRM its second win, and the first that wasn't on a superspeedway.

Chris Buescher went to JTG Daugherty of all places for 2017 (more on that later), so FRM hired Landon Cassill, without much success, before signing Michael McDowell for 2018.

McDowell has seen FRM become a legitimate team, winning the 2021 Daytona 500 and the 2023 Verizon 200 at the Brickyard at the IMS Road Course. Furthermore, in 2024, now in alliance with Team Penske, Front Row Motorsports is no longer an ironic name, as McDowell has started first or second multiple times this season, including at Daytona, Atlanta, and even Gateway, the latter two being pole positions.

Michael McDowell, however, will be moving to the Spire Motorsports #71 for 2025.

FRM has built their numbering scheme off of the #34, running other cars such as the #35, #37, and most commonly the #36, but its second full time car has been the #38.

Driven by David Gilliland from 2012-2015 and son Todd Gilliand ever since 2022, the car has also seen drives from Landon Cassill, David Ragan (in a return to FRM), John-Hunter Nemechek, Anthony Alfredo, and Zane Smith. With four top tens and a further ten top twenties, 2024 has thus far been the most successful season to date for the #38.

FRM will run a third full time car in 2025, having bought a charter from SHR, and has signed SHR's Noah Gragson, but it is unknown was number he will run. FRM ran the #36 this season for Kaz Grala, but Bob Jenkins says he's not married to this numbering scheme. Still, even numbers in the mid-30s are as close to consistent numbering as FRM has ever gotten, so I hope they do decide to stick with the #36.

Onto Legacy Motor Club.

First things first, this team is a Frankenstein's Monster mess of forgotten NASCAR teams in hilarious fashion. Petty Enterprises, officially ran from 1949 to 2008, when sponsorship could not be found, leading to the team merging with Gillett-Evernham Motorsports for 2009. Gillett-Evernham Motorsports consisted of Evernham Motorsports, the former Dodge factory team that ran the #9 and the #19, MBV Motorsports (which was essentially the #10 car owned by Valvoline at this point), and money from George Gillett, who was at the time the controversial owner of the Montreal Canadiens and Liverpool FC.

So already, you had the Petty #43, Petty #45, Evernham #9, Evernham #19, and Valvoline #10 merging into one team, but for 2010, they also bought Yates Racing to take over Paul Menard and his #98 Ford. This allowed the entire team to switch from Dodge to Ford.

So come 2010, the team is running the #9, #19, #43, and #98 with relics from three different numbering schemes remaining in the team. It's freaking awesome.

The #19 and #98 went away after 2010, leaving the team with the #9 and the #43.

The #9 was initially their most successful car, with Kasey Kahne winning Sonoma 2009 and Fall Atlanta 2009 with the team, before Australian Marcos Ambrose won Watkins Glen for the team in 2011 and 2012.

The #43 would, to its credit, with the 2014 Coke Zero 400 at Daytona with Aric Almirola, and it would become the team's only car after 2016.

After the 2021 season, GMS Racing, a truck team, bought into Petty, becoming Petty GMS. Ahead of the 2023 season, the team became Legacy Motor Club, with Jimmie Johnson buying in, Richard Petty chasing out, and Maury Gallagher of GMS becoming majority owner. Petty remained involved a spokesman for the team, however.

So, finally, onto their numbers. They run the #43 and have since practically the beginning of time, because that was Richard Petty's number? Why, well, that actually takes us to their second car, the #42, which was Lee Petty's number.

Why did Lee Petty pick the #42? Legend has it was the first two numbers in his license plate.

So, Lee Petty ran the #42, his son Richard ran the #43, Richard's son Kyle would eventually run the #44, and Kyle's son Adam would run the #45. Each generation building on the last. When Adam died, Kyle took over the #45 in his memory.

Thad Moffitt in the Truck series is a grandson of Richard Petty through Petty's youngest daughter Rebecca, and he continues this trend by running the #46.

In any case, when Petty GMS bought a second car in 2022, they chose to run the #42 - recently vacated by Chip Ganassi - reuniting the original two Petty numbers.

This arrangement continued as Petty became Legacy and eventually switched to Toyota for 2024. Currently the #43 is driven by Erik Jones, who won Darlington in it in 2022, and the #42 by John Hunter Nemechek.

Also, fun fact, Kyle Petty drove the #42 at Team SABCO (which would eventually become Chip Ganassi Racing) from 1989 to 1996, so it was a Petty number even when it wasn't.

And now JTG Daugherty Racing. It started in 2007, running a second car (#47) in alliance with the Wood Brothers. I cannot find any specific reason for the #47, only that Tad Geschickter ran a #47 Busch car ever since 1996, so maybe it was an availability thing. In any case, they ran the #47 and made their Cup debut in 2007, with Ken Schrader and Jon Wood each trying and failing to qualify for a race.

The #47 managed a few starts in 2008 with Marcos Ambrose, finishing third at the Glen, which prompted JTG to split with the Wood Brothers to try and go full time for the 2009 season with Ambrose in a #47 Toyota. This lasted two years before Mabrose moved to the aforementioned Richard Petty Motorsports, with JTG instead drafting in Bobby Labonte.

They would sign AJ Allmendinger in 2013 as Labonte began scaling back his races, and with AJ full time in 2014, they'd win at Watkins Glen. Allmendinger would last until 2018, when Ryan Preece was hired for that car, but then Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was chosen for 2020. Ricky would win the 2023 Daytona 500 with the team.

JTG Daugherty also briefly has a second car, the #37 - ten less than #47, also apparently Tad used this number in college sports - the #37 ran with Chris Buescher for 2017, 2018, and 2019, before running with Ryan Preece for 2020 and 2021.

This brings up another interesting aspect of JTG Daugherty Racing - despite the fact that they're a Chevy team, they kinda have this unique relationship with RFK Racing. First of all, Chris Buescher was a Roush development driver. Second of all, that #37 car for Buescher was run on the charter for Roush's #16.

Third, was that when Roush took Chris Buescher back for the 2020 season, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. then went the other way, going from the Roush #17 to the JTG Daugherty #47.

Oh, and as recently as 2023, JTG Daugherty's pit crew was on loan from Roush. Yeah, odd.

So yeah, that is all 36 chartered teams for the 2024 NASCAR Cup series and the story of a couple other numbers that are relevant to the story. I hope you guys enjoyed all that, but I think I'm gonna write about some other motorsports for a little while. The blog has been a bit NASCAR heavy lately and this week added a whole five extra blogposts to it.

I do enjoy blabbing on about NASCAR, but I also enjoy blabbing on about MotoGP and Indycar. Formula One is also a sport that exists.

[userblaney]

dont like ricky stenhouse jr one bit but i do applaud him for dating danica for so long

[devilbarista]

"maybe Richard will hold my watch after the race" OKAYYYY. CUNTY.

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Talladega [2] 2024

I was trying to tend a butternut squash sauté during Stage 1, and those closing laps made it very difficult to TEND APPROPRIATELY four-wide with the 5 and 48 altogether too close to each other and too close to the front for me to believe something wasn't going to go horrifically wrong. KL's post-stage radio made me laugh because that man definitely saw God trying not to wreck or get wrecked, aha. I'm always impressed by the amount of confidence racecar drivers bring to Dega (reason 500 why I could never be a racecar driver), particularly given that KL obviously was not feeling great about their odds at the next two tracks during Kansas. But a week can do wonders and he's right, they do tend to run well at the superspeedways? They just rarely finish in ways that reflect that. I mean, most people do not finish a superspeedway race in ways that reflect how their overall race was run; such is the nature of superspeedways. But I always forget that the running part is worth some confidence.

Anyway, the overall race summary is that Blaney was the sole meaningful casualty for most of the race and was understandably mad about it, up until the front of the field destroyed almost the entirety of the rest of the field in the closing laps of Stage 3, setting an all-time record for number of cars involved in a single wreck. Impressive?? But I guess that's what happens when the car that goes around is the literal front of the field.

My favorite part of this race, though, was that Cindric turned right into the 47 and Ricky "DGAF" Stenhouse Jr. was just like NOT GONNA RUIN MY DAY!!!!! and kept running straight as absolute carnage ensued behind him.

RICKY "DGAF" STENHOUSE JR

RICKY "INVINCIBLE" STENHOUSE JR

RICKY "1776" STENHOUSE JR

I had a meeting tonight from 6-8PM so when the big one happened at 5:40 I was like efffff there's no way we get back racing before I need to log onto this. So I didn't get the full richness of the overtime because it was on mute about 2 inches big while I talked about grant jurying. =_= =_= =_=

But I'm very pleased by HMS's overall UNREALISTICALLY good fortunes today and very VERY pleased by

RACE WINNER RICKY "NOT GONNA RUIN MY DAY" STENHOUSE JR