"Nancy1" <nancy-dooley (AT) uiowa (DOT) edu> wrote

"Young guns" are any drivers younger than Dale Jarrett, Ricky Rudd, Dale
Senior (had he lived) Rusty Wallace, Ken Shrader, Kyle Petty, etc. I think
in loose general terms, young guns represent "the next generation" of
driver, regardless of their age. Presently, the "young guns" group IMO
represents everyone from the just-legal 18 y/os (if there are really any
that young out there) to Jeff Gordon/Tony Stewart and the rest of the "30
somethings" that followed Jeff into the sport in the 1990s. I'd go so far to
say that anyone that comes in between 18-39 could be considered one,
depending on their performance and racing history. (Greg Biffle came in
"kind of late" in age but is still a young gun IMO)

Also, and unfortunately, the young guns are usually the group hardest hit by
tradegy the past few decades: Clifford & Davey Allison, Rodney Orr, Kenny
Irwin, Adam Petty, Rob Moroso, Blaise Alexander, Tony Roper, John Nemechek,
et al all died in NASCAR/ARCA competition (except for Moroso, who wrecked
his Corvette while DUI, killing himself and his girlfriend), and were under
40 (IIRC), just to name a few.

"SimRacer" <nOspaM@simracer68 (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote

Actually - the Glillette commercial came about *from* the use of the term
"Young Guns" that the networks had recently started at the time.

Close, but as the networks began using the term (and that's where the term
as it used popularly today originated) it referenced the likes of Harvick,
Newman, and drivers who came in around the same time or later. Gordon has
certainly never been in that group - neither one of them.

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