I feel like their xfinity careers are very similar and i feel like Stenhouse Jr is at point that Martin Truex Jr was at in 2012. Do you think Ricky will get that good shot? I feel like he could get that shot with SHR soon with Harvick and Almirola getting closer to retirement age. What do you guys think?
Aric almirola is signed only for 2021 and stenhouse is gonna be in his last year with JTG in 2021. I heard Smithfield is in talks of leaving aric almirola which probably explains why he only got a one year contract extension. Unless aric starts to win races i don't see him returning. Its pretty obvious SHR signed him because he brung money to the team and without him having Smithfield i just don't see SHR keeping him. Now when you look at drivers SHR has hired over the years majority of their drivers were veterans. The only exceptions were danica, Cole custer and now chase Briscoe. Ricky Stenhouse is a veteran and he's only in his early 30s. Not to mention him and Tony stewart are good friends. Since Tony missed out on larson I think his eye is on Stenhouse now. I honestly think stenhouse has a lot of talent, its just that he overdrives his equipment because the equipment he's sat in during his whole cup career has been mediocre. Yes im including roush. When stenhouse came to cup in 2013 roush was already going downhill. And they got worse ever since then. One thing people overlook is how solid stenhouse rookie year was in cup. He had a average finish of 18.9 (second best in his cup career) and was running at the finish in all 36 races. No DNFs. That's not bad for a rookie at all. And this was when roush was still decent. I feel like if stenhouse can climb behind the wheel of a top tier ride he could easily be a guy that wins multiple races a year and maybe could be a title threat. As long he doesn't overdrives his cars. He wouldn't need to anyway because the equipment underneath him would be top notch. I know a lot of you will probably laugh at this post but I seriously think a lot of people are overlooking stenhouse. He has a chance to become a late bloomer kinda like Martin truex Jr and Dale jarrett. One thing I know some people are gonna bring up is what sponsorship could stenhouse bring? I think NOS energy, a sponsor that's been with stenhouse for awhile would step up and sponsor a good amount of races while haas takes the rest of the races if I had to assume. What do you guys think? Do you think stenhouse could be a top candidate for the 10 car at SHR if aric almirola doesn't return? Also let's say stenhouse does end up in the 10, how you think he'll perform?
Like everyone else, we wish we could be at the track this year. But to celebrate our #47 pancake paint scheme, we've got a fun challenge and a giveaway this month!
Right now, we've got a challenge going on: get pancakes on to the griddle faster than Ricky's pole qualifying time at Daytona (46 seconds) and you can win Talladega 2021 tickets, free pancakes for a year, a diecast, merch and more! We're running this primarily on Instagram. The first 50 people to enter win free pancakes, so what do you have to lose? More details here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFClcUVFMhk/
Later this month, look out on Hungry Jack's Facebook and Instagram on September 26 (National Pancake Day) for a giveaway opportunity to win prizes like tickets to Talladega 2021, a personalized video message from Ricky, pancakes/syrup for a year, diecast, hero cards, hats, and more!
Hope you have some fun with this - and looking forward to seeing Ricky race the car!
139 documented wrecks from https://www.racing-reference.info/driver/Ricky_Stenhouse_Jr
47 (33.8%) Not of his fault
20 (14.4%) From tire failures. (Could have resulted from pushing the car too hard)
2 (1.4%) Completely Unsure
17 (12.2%) 50/50 Mixed blame
53 (38.1%) His fault. [44.5% ignoring tire related incidents from the formula]
Edit: 3 "his fault" wrecks were changed after receiving insight from last year's Talladega 2 & Daytona 2
Other Takeaways: He's wrecked everywhere on the cup schedule plus 5 other tracks. Certified weapon at Superspeedways. I would not be surprised if he gets another SS win. I can't believe Jack Roush held on to him for so long: Including practice and qualifying, he wrecked close to 150 cars over 12 seasons together. 411 races including 281 Cup, 108 Xfinity, 22 ARCA/K&N. He had multiple accidents in some races, so you can assume 130/411=31.6% of races with an accident.
(* means the wreck is worth watching. ** are spectacular wrecks. The links are setup a few seconds prior to the wreck.)
2008 ARCA (4) __________ __________ __________ __________
Daytona (no - wrong place wrong time. 2nd car that weekend)
Pocono - (not sure, no video found)
**Talladega (blew a tire and almost flipped over.)
**Toledo (yes. ARCA version of Kenseth vs Logano @ Martinsville)
NNS 2009 (4) __________ __________ __________ __________
**Nashville 1 (not sure if he's at fault, but he definitely caused Joe Nemechek to flip over and somehow, Joe drives the car back to pit road like Dale did at Daytona.)
*Nashville 2 (yes - loose off of 4 causing big wreck. 2nd car that weekend)
Gateway (no - turned from behind)
*Charlotte 2 (no - wrong place wrong time. Hard hit in the Tri-oval)
NNS 2010 (14) __________ __________ __________ __________
*Daytona (no - big one)
*California (yes - arguable, I don't know what the spotter t
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I’ve never seen him run in trucks a single time and there is proof on racing reference.
He had a last lap pass for the win! I watched on Flo Racing it was awesome! https://twitter.com/nosenergydrink/status/1327477989098082304?s=21
He loves dirt racing! The more he’s behind the wheel the better!
It seemed really strange to me that for all of last season Fanatics never made any updated merchandise for Stenhouse when he switched teams, but I saw today that he’s got his own merchandise site that opened this morning. Figured I’d post it on here in case there were any other Stenhouse fans on here who wanted to get some updated apparel.
https://stenhousejr.com/
