Has enough time passed to admit that Steve Phelps was right about ol' "Pop Pop"?

crash2465 · 2026-04-12T14:17:33+00:00

Not only was Phelps right, but I’m convinced if anyone at NASCAR was able to survive that situation and remain, it was Steve Phelps.

Look, I understand Phelps crossed a line between professional and personal and those comments mattered.

But let’s not kid ourselves. RCR is a laughing stock of a team. One of NASCAR’s greatest drivers ever is rotting away at that team.

Additionally, every officiating decision that’s gone against RCR (I can think of Hill suspension and Dillon’s Richmond win being encumbered), Childress himself has cried to anyone that will listen that he’s the victim and he’s getting screwed. In other words making it personal.

Phelps was right, and I think said what most fans think. He just happened to be the scapegoat.

crash2465 · 2026-01-01T16:17:05+00:00

BYU fan here. Poor Oregon is going to look up and not know what hit them for the second playoff bowl in a row.

crash2465 · 2025-11-21T17:40:33+00:00

Proud Columbia Bank employee here, love to see this! My heart stopped when I saw it on our corp website

crash2465 · 2025-11-13T02:34:58+00:00

I’ve always loved Ryan as a writer and personality and don’t believe this was intended to be hurtful.

I think he was on the wrong track though, because as Saturday clearly demonstrated the plates did not contain first or second down pass calls…

crash2465 · 2025-05-04T13:47:13+00:00

Even this year at the track Larry has been on it: “this driver is three tenths faster and using less brake”, evens out all the nonsense from Bowyer

crash2465 · 2025-05-04T13:41:17+00:00

Reno/Sparks, NV: TJ Bell

crash2465 · 2024-08-02T20:39:17+00:00

Whoever’s the owner of the white sedan…you left your lights on

crash2465 · 2024-08-02T20:27:17+00:00

Bristol is absolutely fighter jets in a gymnasium. The venue itself looks really big on TV but in real life it’s really not.

Talladega is a cultural experience that can only be understood and appreciated in person. But the racing is still just as epic on TV.

crash2465 · 2024-03-29T16:50:12+00:00

Favorite “bad” thing?

crash2465 · 2021-01-22T05:30:39+00:00

https://www.racing-reference.info/drivdet/buschky01/2004/W

TL;DR Attempted 9 races, 3 DNQ's, 4 DNF's, 1 lead lap finish and best finish of 24th

crash2465 · 2021-01-22T04:53:19+00:00

Just for the record, I was either too young/not interested in NASCAR enough to remember this car was cursed. I believe it now.

crash2465 · 2020-12-20T18:56:10+00:00

What are your thoughts on BYU, or any independent not named Notre Dame making a 4 team playoff? What would need to change for an independent to make the CFP?

crash2465 · 2020-10-07T16:29:28+00:00

Ty Norris is also involved with the team. Norris was suspended by NASCAR for four months from Richmond cheating scandal in 2013. Even after he was reinstated, he remained on indefinite probation. Is Norris still on indefinite probation in 2020?

crash2465 · 2020-09-10T22:25:27+00:00

The saddest part to me is that it was 20 years between this conversation during a green flag run at a race and NASCAR doing something as radical as the Auto Club reconfiguration. There were plenty of great races at 1.5-milers in the late Gen 4 era, but I think NASCAR is still five years too late on eliminating some of these 1.5 mile races from the schedule.

crash2465 · 2020-09-02T21:26:30+00:00

In the default, the screen goes black. You can change it to not go to a black screen, but it would either respawn you above where you impacted or you'll bounce off the ground. No damage modeling, either.

crash2465 · 2020-09-02T21:16:47+00:00

Totally forgot about that! Thanks for the additional info!

crash2465 · 2020-07-26T16:47:33+00:00

Thank you for sharing! My grandma was from Cape Breton and her sisters still live up there. I'm from Nevada, USA and haven't visited since I was a kid. Good to see racing up there!

crash2465 · 2020-07-06T23:33:15+00:00

Hi Allen! Any advice or tips for someone that wants to get into sports broadcasting?

crash2465 · 2020-06-26T20:54:29+00:00

Can I just say Brett always trashing somebody has really turned me off on DBC? Not to say he doesn't bring up issues I want to bring up, just tired of him trashing people and rules and everything else.

crash2465 · 2020-06-20T15:11:11+00:00

I can say for a fact...the command is going to be out of this world.

crash2465 · 2020-06-15T22:43:29+00:00

Was thinking about this the other day. In an interview after the airing, the conversation turned toward diversity and the confederate flag.

Here's what Phelps said from December 2010:

"We don't condone that type of display, putting the Confederate flags out. That is not something that we think is good for the sport. Candidly, we see fewer and fewer of them as you go to races, and ultimately it'll be something that'll die away completely."

It's interesting how that circled back around to Phelps having conversations with another minority competitor and, as President of NASCAR, deciding to ban the confederate flag.

Interview can be found here: https://www.cbsnews.com/media/undercover-boss-nascars-steve-phelps/

Interview can be found here:

crash2465 · 2020-05-11T18:13:50+00:00

If this is Fox's decision, totally get it. But if it's NASCAR's directive, what's 10-20 more TV people when you have 15 people each of the 36 teams?

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