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September 06, 2020 at
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Posted By: hiroshimacarp on September 06 2020 at 06:03:03 PM
we don't know what bubba can really do because he's driving for petty. he was right in the mix at the end last weekend at daytona and has had some good finishes elsewhere.
nobody is making an issue out of these dime a dozen white guys somehow getting rides...are they? i'm guessing money has a lot to do with guys like erik jones, alex bowman, william byron, cole custer, tyler reddick, austin dillon etc. etc. getting a ride. nobody makes an issue out of that...and how they're making the sport painfully boring because they have no personality.
my son and i sent a photo to bubba wallace in early june. it came in the mail last saturday autographed. we're fans for life. the responses to my posts on twitter about it (with photo of my 6 year old son smiling ear to ear) included he's not an athlete, he has the free time to do it...and worst of all was a joke about the man who was shot in wisconsin. i'm hoping we'll look back on bubba in 30-40 years in the same way we look at jackie robinson and other athletes who broke color barriers.
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Hmmm, Wendell Scott, Elias Bowie, Charlie Scott, George Wiltshire, Randy Bethea, Willy T Ribbs, Bill Lester.. Black NASCAR Drivers. Wendell Scott HOF NASCAR. Bubba is not the Jackie Robinson of NASCAR. But I was pleased to know he put a smile on your sons face.
We need more sprint car racing at our home track.
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September 06, 2020 at
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September 06, 2020 at
10:20:22 PM by singlefile
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Posted By: hiroshimacarp on September 06 2020 at 06:03:03 PM
we don't know what bubba can really do because he's driving for petty. he was right in the mix at the end last weekend at daytona and has had some good finishes elsewhere.
nobody is making an issue out of these dime a dozen white guys somehow getting rides...are they? i'm guessing money has a lot to do with guys like erik jones, alex bowman, william byron, cole custer, tyler reddick, austin dillon etc. etc. getting a ride. nobody makes an issue out of that...and how they're making the sport painfully boring because they have no personality.
my son and i sent a photo to bubba wallace in early june. it came in the mail last saturday autographed. we're fans for life. the responses to my posts on twitter about it (with photo of my 6 year old son smiling ear to ear) included he's not an athlete, he has the free time to do it...and worst of all was a joke about the man who was shot in wisconsin. i'm hoping we'll look back on bubba in 30-40 years in the same way we look at jackie robinson and other athletes who broke color barriers.
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I am not ripping on Wallace in any way, but isn't that standard among NASCAR drivers to respond to autograph requests through the mail? Maybe things have changed over the past 25 years, but I can remember writing to drivers in the 1990s at their team race shops and almost always getting an autographed hero card in return.
Racers have always been great about fulfilling autograph requests thruogh the mail. I can still remember the feeling of elation when I would open the mailbox as a kid and there would be an envelope from a NASCAR team. That is pretty shitty that people online made smart-ass remarks about you posting a photo of your 6-year-old showing off his autograph from a Cup driver.
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