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How or why did Junior finish 15th?
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Re: How or why did Junior finish 15th? -
07-12-2009
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"Invisibrarian" <no.spam (AT) mail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:G5s6m.7784$Wj7.6952 (AT) nlpi065 (DOT) nbdc.sbc.com... ~M~ wrote: "Gh0stRid3r" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote in message news:4a59b9a4$0$24967$ce5e7886 (AT) news-radius (DOT) ptd.net... What happened? He outperformed his talent by about 20 places. Not at all. He survived the race to end up there. Some of the drivers that typically finish ahead of him had problems. Junior has been the highest finishing Hendrick car exactly once all season, and that was at a restrictor plate race. In contrast, he has been the lowest finishing Hedrick car 7 times, and has been the second worst Hendrick finisher 10 times. What's really gotta be embarrassing for Jr. is that Brad Keselowski has a win and just as many top 5's and top 10's as Junior, while only starting 7 races to Junior's 19 starts. |
Jr.'s popularity has nothing to do with driving skills. He's just a
mid-pack driver that sells a ton of merchandise.
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| Since by your responses you feel he is medium talent at best, how hard did you laugh when he spoke about driving open wheel at Indy? |
for some place else to run. Especially taking a step down to the minor
leagues.
I don't have a problem with Jr. He's doing great in NASCAR. He's
finishing races, pretty much staying out of the way of the better
drivers, not taking out the leaders anymore. He can even find his pit
OK. He's a safe bet for a top-25 or top-30 finish pretty much every
race. There a reason he's NASCAR's most popular driver, just not for
his talent as a driver.
He would probably be competitive at Indy. He could finish in the top-10
in most races in that series. But he better hurry, the IRL might not
last too long. The purse strings have been tightened.
He won't be another Montoya, but he could probably drive competitively
with his Indy counterpart, Danica Patrick. Might even win an event.
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. What I wonder is how much longer he'll produce milk for RH. Sooner or later his fans will migrate to other drivers who actually win once in a while. |
hop around to the flavor of the week... that said, I am not a fan of Jr, no
matter how popular he is, and I am not a "hater" either... he's just
there...
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... that said, I am not a fan of Jr, no matter how popular he is, and I am not a "hater" either... he's just there... |
I don't look for him on the track,
but don't get upset when I see him..
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Dan
No matter how much you push the envelope,
it'll still be stationery
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In article "Joey Tribiani" <Joey (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: ... that said, I am not a fan of Jr, no matter how popular he is, and I am not a "hater" either... he's just there... 'zactly how I feel... I don't look for him on the track, but don't get upset when I see him.. "vanilla" |
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In article "Joey Tribiani" <J... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote: ... that said, I am not a fan of Jr, no matter how popular he is, and I am not a "hater" either... he's just there... 'zactly how I feel... I don't look for him on the track, but don't get upset when I see him.. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------*------------ Dan No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery |
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