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As usual, in a lot of the comments around the web, there's a Toyota hate about them taking over the series soon but imho that's on Chevy and moreover Ford for not supporting the series enough, if it comes to that.

It always bugged me that so many people rip Toyota for having a large truck count in the Truck Series but Ford is basically non existent and Chevy seems like they're just there to be there. I really hope Dodge comes back and runs the Ram again. Pete Pistone made an excellent point, this series was created to bridge that gap from local short track racing to NASCAR's top national tours. They keep shooting themselves in the foot with the series but every solution they come up with is just another bullet in the gun.

According to Claire B Lang of SiriusXM, Matt Crafton recieved only $15,000 for winning Eldora. Compare that to Christopher Bell's $37,273 in 2015, the last year race purses were publicly released.

He's referring to Dale Jr. and Jimmie Johnson, who supported removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House after white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015.

Dale Jr. also spoke out against Trump’s immigration ban back in January. He most recently tweeted “Hatred, bigotry, & racism should have no place in this great country. Spread love,” after the white supremacist and Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va. where a white supremacist killed a woman, Heather Heyer, with his car when he deliberately plowed into the crowd.

“It’s sad and frustrating to see what happened,” Dale Jr said at his Thursday press conference. “And you feel sort of somewhat responsible to speak on it.”

Dale Jr.’s statements didn’t come across that brave to me when I first heard them. They seemed more like human decency than anything bold or divisive. But as I stand here talking to Jim among the multiple RVs flying Confederate flags, it's somewhat impressive Dale Jr. said anything at all.

All of a sudden I hear a voice in my ear scream, “ARE YOU PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN?”

I whip around to find a guy wearing a DRUNK LIVES MATTER T-shirt bending down so that his face is level with mine, about three inches away. He’s holding a big black flag that has both the NASCAR and Monster Energy logos splashed across it. I recoil and don’t say anything.

He responds to my silence with, “You should be.” Then he drapes the flag around my shoulders and puts his hand on my back.

“Stop it; what are you doing?” I say, swatting the flag and his hand away and jumping back so quickly that I almost fall over onto three shirtless, middle-aged men in front of me. Flag Guy stares directly into my eyes. He shakes the NASCAR logo in my face.

“You just got baptized by the greatest thing this country has,” he says.

Is he on a quest to fuck up all good TN short tracks?

Is he on a quest to fuck up all good TN short tracks?