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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 45m

@dgoodin24.bsky.social would you buy NASCAR 25 or not at this point?

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 6h

The one thing I’ll give them so far is that they do seem to be doing the right thing on RCs. The highest of the 11 drivers revealed in this video were Briscoe with an 89. Assuming SVG is a 100, that should mean the low 90s will be the absolute peak for the other Cup drivers. Maybe Conor is a 95.

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 6h

The driver by-track ratings on NASCAR 25 are absolutely atrocious, I almost want to just wait for the PC version if we can’t fix them

youtu.be/xCM9dUf-J_s?...

Drivers Guess NASCAR 25 Ratings | Blaney, Hocevar, Chastain & More

YouTube video by NASCAR

youtu.be

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 18h

It is very remarkable that Elliott has always been a top 5 driver in Cup except for year one and in 2018 and 2019 when Chevrolet brought the worst manu package they have ever had in 50 some years. And that by this metric, he’s by far the best of the Next Gen era in spite of ranking 7th in wins.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 18h

If NASCAR made the unexpected move of changing the point system back to the Latford system in addition to a full season championship, nobody would benefit from it more than Elliott. Average finish usually determined the champion at the end of the season, as long as said champion started every race.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 18h

Where Elliott has finished in average finish ranking by season:

2016: 11th (14.6)
2017: 5th (12)
2018: 6th (12.3)
2019: 13th (15.1)
2020: 4th (11.7)
2021: 4th (11.4)
2022: 1st (12.5)
2023: 5th (13.1)*
2024: 1st (11.7)
2025: 2nd (12)*

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 18h

Maybe the weirdest Cup stat I’ve found recently is that Chase Elliott has the career highest average finish among all active Cup drivers with 12.8. This ranks very well historically in spite of Elliott having spent about 40% of his career in the next gen spec car era, 23rd all time.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 19h

Maybe the best historical example of this being Bret Hart

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 19h

When you wrestle like he did for as long as he did while staying relatively injury free, there comes a day the bones age 40 years all at once

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 23h

Bah god

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 1d

This is like when Fox scripted the fans chugging milk to promote the Indy 500 but actually good

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Fan wearing a "Dump Here" jersey with 61 caught Cal's HR 🔥

Immediately changes into an identical 62 jersey

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 1d

That's when he starts singing the Canada version of the song

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 1d

Griffey Jr. was the Mk 1 of this final model.

lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

vlad guerrero jr is the product of a 30+ year project to concentrate an entire planet's psychic resentment against the yankees into the form of a single human

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 1d

… I mean look, at least Hornaday is there making sure the top two in career truck starts aren’t, uh, problematic

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

I am working on something about this, but the ultimate irony of the Richmond 2013 fallout is that NASCAR has now created a culture where 12 years later, Richmond 2013 happens once every three weeks in the fall.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

Here is a handy short video series explaining what this baseball thing is

www.pbs.org/show/baseball/

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

At the very least, we now have NASCAR going from never settle to... fuck okay we might want to settle in some form. Which is interesting.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

My understanding of the NASCAR settlement news is that, essentially, this is NASCAR wanting to settle on their terms and against how 23XI/FRM wants to settle. My unprofessional reading of this is that NASCAR wants to point to this and go "See? They won't settle!"

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

I want Steve to show us how to cook no bake brownies damnit

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 2d

This and more episodes of Weber Cooks

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 3d

It’s really funny that of all the recent year long celebrations in games, the year of Shadow may have been the best executed but nobody even remembers it now

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 3d

What more does Shane have to do? Honestly? What else does he have to do at this point? Don’t tell me Gordon winning against a field where 3/4ths are actively phoning it in and just trying to get to the finish means more than SVG against the best field of road course regulars Cup has ever seen.

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 3d

When you see a car wreck, it's hard to remember sometimes that things happen that are much worse.

F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 3d

Just be ready for Martinsville, that has become the worst of these circus races

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F ~! @finleyfactor.com · 3d

Tune in for a circus, get a circus.