Originally Posted by thebus79h I used to think that way about drivers but you know what. If I was racing with USAC, making a decent living, and someone offered me a contract to race with NASCAR, would I be bored shitless, absolutely, but I would be countin' those benjamins. You cannot blame anyone for trying to raise a family.

You are right. But Tony Stewart is not married and is not raising a family. But he does donate alot of money to worthy causes..

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Originally Posted by FOR4 OK the deal is this I think any sprint or midget driver who moves to NASCAR or ARCA or what ever is a sell out it is not a step up skill wise. The best drivers in the world drive sprint car and midgets. Give me Darland who I think is the best driver I have seen in the last 10 or 15 years Stanbrough, Cottle,Anderson,Gaines, etc. etc.they won't make alot of money but they are the best car drivers I have ever seen. Tony Stewart is bored to death driving those things but at the end of the week he says show me the money. Richard Murray

so your tryin to tell me that if you were one of these young drivers running sprints migets and whatever else your running and Chip, Ray, Rick, or Jack come to you and say " I'd like for you to drive a car in NC" you would tell him NO?" :kookoo2::rolling:

I don't know...... does $= a happy person?

Richard Murray
Last member of Buckshot Jones Fan Club

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Originally Posted by ossuks Eric Gordon may be the the smoothest driver I have seen since Tom Bigelow. In all the years I have seen EG race I have only seen him be the cause of one "get to gether" . EG races clean, runs up front, and rolls his equipment back in the trailer. EG also understands the cost of racing and tries to save his owners $ when ever he can. BS tells his side just as I saw it, entering turn 3 EG protected the bottom(sometimes the worst place to be is in the lead) leaving BS one option(only BS knows if he was better on the top or the bottom) and that was the top line thru 3&4. Upon exiting turn 4 EG & BS were side by side with BS having the drive to take the lead. EG's rear-end slid out from under him(he got loooooooooose), he bobbled slightly, his RR making contact with the LR of the 98 car, the contact caused the 98 car to turn down and the rest was hold on and hope. EG made the type of move you would expect from a racer, a calculated risk, as he seldom does, and just had a slight slip causing contact, or as BS said " a racing deal". These are the facts !!! I saw it live, then on tape. FACTS. The racing world is full of young men that work hard, have the drive, have the passion, were born in the wrong era, are only there because of the family gingle, ect... And then there are some like Tony Stewart, Bryon Clauson,Carl Edwards, Bobby Santos, that make it to the next level for one common reason---THEY ARE GOOD,THEY WIN! Are these guys better than EG, Brian Tyler,Kevin Huntley,and the list could continue for ever??? I doubt it, each are proven winners, cut from the same mold. Some get the breaks and some do not. When one of the hard core racer like these men mentioned make it to the top, I hardly think that "big NASCAR millionaire" is a respectful way to address them ,I would prefer they were just called RACERS--give them the respect they have earned!!

Great post, Ossucks (from the Alarm):emote20:

Now I have two drivers I will watch. Bryan Clausion and Bobby Santos. See... I am learning about all this stuff, when do these guys race again? are their races on TV do they race against each other ? This is kind of funny I went to the store and on the radio there was a guy called Jeff Gordon of NASCAR fame he said that his goal in racing was to race sprint cars and race agianst Steve Kinser and that he was blessed to have the chance to be doing what he is doing now.

Richard Murray
A very big bonehead.