James ‘Bubba’ Stewart takes a look at NASCAR
Quote selected text Published February 18th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Could motocross great James “Bubba” Stewart leave motocross to pursue a career in NASCAR?
“I’m trying to convince him four wheels are better than two,” said Max Siegel, the president of global operations at Dale Earnhardt Inc.
Stewart was Siegel’s guest on Sunday; it was the first Cup event he has attended. The 22-year-old phenom said Siegel has “hinted around with it a lot” about putting him in a developmental program.
“Yeah, I’d like to try it,” he said. “Once I came down, saw all the people, all the merchandise, that definitely interests me.”
Stewart reminded that there were five times as many people at the 500 [185,000] as there are at a motocross event.
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The Kid has talent, and has won just about everything there is to win in MX/SX, and his body is already starting to take a toll from it. Now might be the right time for him to hop into a 4 wheeled racecar
Umm that talent is on a motorcycle lol not a car,he has no business getting in a cup or nationwide car or even a truck for that matter stick him in a saturday night late model if even that.
the man has got talent but if he whants nascar let em drive on dirt and let him work his way up us dirt boys dont get a free ride 2 the top a name shouldnt change that etheir.
You dirt guys don’t have as far to get to the top.. I mean what your top division is the same class that runs at thousands of tracks weekly, Latemodels, Modifieds, and Sprints.
Lee, I’m not saying put him right into Cup or anything like that, Personally I think you should have to have a year in either the Trucks or Nationwide before you can even test a cup car, and a year in either the Camping World East or West, or Canadian or Mexico series before you should be allowed to test a Nationwide car or Truck.
And a lot of the talent transfers over.. well I guess its not really talent, but hand eye coordination and reaction time, and stuff like that.
What a crock. TEI is trying to fill the Jr void…and I don’t mean talent, I’m talking $ov $ale$. Again, whata crock.
Rick I look at this as DEI trying to replace that other MX’er that they had here on the east coast but who wanted to go back west so he could spend more time with his family (I can’t think of his name right now). And I also look at this as DEI trying to fill the Diversity requirements…. or at least that’s what it kinda sounds like
Diversity=REVERSE RACISM.
Rick wrote:
Exactly.
Maybe the other MXer was McGraff. There was one, but I don’t remember exactly who it was. This Div deal gets under my skin. I’m not for or against anyone, but by the same token don’t start me a lap down due to something I have no control over. I would be for a Vets program…a group of people that have done something that should be rewarded.