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Post by chevyfan98 on Nov 22, 2018 21:47:04 GMT -5
Use this for any general discussion that doesn't pertain to something that already has its own thread such as silly season or predictions.
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Post by JSPorts on Nov 24, 2018 12:36:36 GMT -5
As we know, Jimmie Johnson's 17-year run with Chad Knaus as his crew chief has ended. Here are the top 10 longest-running active crew chief/driver streaks as of the start of 2019:
1st: Brad Keselowski / Paul Wolfe - since 2011
2nd: Joey Logano / Todd Gordon - since 2013
3rd: Kevin Harvick / Rodney Childers - since 2014
4th: Kyle Busch / Adam Stevens - since 2015
4th: Martin Truex, Jr. / Cole Pearn - since 2015
6th: Kyle Larson / Chad Johnston - since 2016
6th: Chase Elliott / Alan Gustafson - since 2016
6th: Ryan Blaney / Jeremy Bullins - since 2016
9th: Austin Dillon / Justin Alexander - since 2017
9th: Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. / Brian Pattie - since 2017
9th: Clint Bowyer / Mike Bugarewicz - since 2017
9th: Erik Jones / Chris Gayle - since 2017
Only 12 drivers have been with their crew chief longer than one season. Just 8 have been with theirs longer than 2 years. Only 2 have been with their crew chief for more than 5 seasons. Nobody has been together for 10 years or more.
A couple notes: Ryan Blaney & Jeremy Bullins have worked together in Cup part-time since 2014, but didn't go full-time until 2016. Also, Chris Buescher worked with his 2019 crew chief, Trent Owens, in 2017 and the first 27 races of 2018, but Owens switched with Tristan Smith with 9 races to go this season, but will re-join the 37 team next year. However, I didn't include that pairing here because their association is non-consecutive.
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Post by chevyfan98 on Nov 24, 2018 17:08:49 GMT -5
As we know, Jimmie Johnson's 17-year run with Chad Knaus as his crew chief has ended. Here are the top 10 longest-running active crew chief/driver streaks as of the start of 2019: 1st: Brad Keselowski / Paul Wolfe - since 2011 2nd: Joey Logano / Todd Gordon - since 2013 3rd: Kevin Harvick / Rodney Childers - since 2014 4th: Kyle Busch / Adam Stevens - since 2015 4th: Martin Truex, Jr. / Cole Pearn - since 2015 6th: Kyle Larson / Chad Johnston - since 2016 6th: Chase Elliott / Alan Gustafson - since 2016 6th: Ryan Blaney / Jeremy Bullins - since 2016 9th: Austin Dillon / Justin Alexander - since 2017 9th: Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. / Brian Pattie - since 2017 9th: Clint Bowyer / Mike Bugarewicz - since 2017 9th: Erik Jones / Chris Gayle - since 2017 Only 12 drivers have been with their crew chief longer than one season. Just 8 have been with theirs longer than 2 years. Only 2 have been with their crew chief for more than 5 seasons. Nobody has been together for 10 years or more. A couple notes: Ryan Blaney & Jeremy Bullins have worked together in Cup part-time since 2014, but didn't go full-time until 2016. Also, Chris Buescher worked with his 2019 crew chief, Trent Owens, in 2017 and the first 27 races of 2018, but Owens switched with Tristan Smith with 9 races to go this season, but will re-join the 37 team next year. However, I didn't include that pairing here because their association is non-consecutive. Justin Alexander didn’t join the 3 team until about ten races into 2017 so that one wouldn’t be as long as the ones that started at the beginning of that year. I know this because Murb said it would make Dillon worse and then he immediately won the Coke 600. |
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Post by JSPorts on Nov 25, 2018 9:42:43 GMT -5
As we know, Jimmie Johnson's 17-year run with Chad Knaus as his crew chief has ended. Here are the top 10 longest-running active crew chief/driver streaks as of the start of 2019: 1st: Brad Keselowski / Paul Wolfe - since 2011 2nd: Joey Logano / Todd Gordon - since 2013 3rd: Kevin Harvick / Rodney Childers - since 2014 4th: Kyle Busch / Adam Stevens - since 2015 4th: Martin Truex, Jr. / Cole Pearn - since 2015 6th: Kyle Larson / Chad Johnston - since 2016 6th: Chase Elliott / Alan Gustafson - since 2016 6th: Ryan Blaney / Jeremy Bullins - since 2016 9th: Austin Dillon / Justin Alexander - since 2017 9th: Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. / Brian Pattie - since 2017 9th: Clint Bowyer / Mike Bugarewicz - since 2017 9th: Erik Jones / Chris Gayle - since 2017 Only 12 drivers have been with their crew chief longer than one season. Just 8 have been with theirs longer than 2 years. Only 2 have been with their crew chief for more than 5 seasons. Nobody has been together for 10 years or more. A couple notes: Ryan Blaney & Jeremy Bullins have worked together in Cup part-time since 2014, but didn't go full-time until 2016. Also, Chris Buescher worked with his 2019 crew chief, Trent Owens, in 2017 and the first 27 races of 2018, but Owens switched with Tristan Smith with 9 races to go this season, but will re-join the 37 team next year. However, I didn't include that pairing here because their association is non-consecutive. Justin Alexander didn’t join the 3 team until about ten races into 2017 so that one wouldn’t be as long as the ones that started at the beginning of that year. I know this because Murb said it would make Dillon worse and then he immediately won the Coke 600. I did it by year, not by race. Otherwise, Johnson & Knaus wouldn't have been "consecutive" for 17 years because Knaus got suspended. Same with Harvick & Childers, and pretty much any other pairing. The point is, they've been together since 2017. |
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Post by Mile501 on Nov 25, 2018 21:27:03 GMT -5
That's shocking that only 5 pairs out of 30+ teams have bene together for more than 3 years, and only 2 pairs have been together for more than 5 years. Didn't there used to be a greater number of long-running driver/crew chief pairings than this?
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Post by JSPorts on Nov 25, 2018 22:43:07 GMT -5
Yes, there were. But a lot of those drivers and crew chiefs split up, or the drivers retired. 10 years ago, there were about 43 full-time teams (as opposed to 36 now) and several of them had 10+ year pairings between drivers & crew chiefs.
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Post by Mile501 on Nov 30, 2018 20:50:43 GMT -5
Regardless of your opinion of Kyle Busch the race car driver, this is very sad news - his wife was pregnant, but she has suffered a miscarriage.
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Post by JSPorts on Dec 25, 2018 10:29:23 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Post by JSPorts on Jan 1, 2019 0:49:24 GMT -5
Happy New Year!
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Post by Mile501 on Jan 1, 2019 12:52:01 GMT -5
I feel like I haven't been here since last year.
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Post by JSPorts on Jan 1, 2019 15:47:40 GMT -5
This forum has been sort of dead since the end of the season. Any ideas to spice it up for the new year?
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Post by chevyfan98 on Jan 20, 2019 21:02:09 GMT -5
Joey Logano appears to be having a busy offseason.
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Post by 02Justin10 on Jan 20, 2019 22:36:23 GMT -5
This forum has been sort of dead since the end of the season. Any ideas to spice it up for the new year?
Now...the forum concept is still better than the RR comment pages where anonymous trolls can run rampant and unmoderated. And certain formatting can be used fo our posts and things can remain orderly.
However, since the offseason I find myself checking the Discord 3-4 times daily and usually chiming some racing bits over there. I check this forum roughly twice a week. My feeling is that I'll keep talking motorsport on Discord and use this forum to play Mile's NASCAR and IMSA fantasy games. But that's about all I see myself doing here this year.
And I hate saying that because I know how much work and oversight you and CanadianFan put in over here. With all that said, I can't see anything to create more activity. There is only a little bit of racing in the near future and the Discord just seems to be where any conversation happens effortlessly.
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