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What Do You Call the Pennant Race in NASCAR?

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by Charlie Turner

I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.

September 7, 2008 7:10 am CDT No Comments

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First baseball had its “Pennant Race”. You can take those words - “pennant race” - and put them on your car or in the name of your bar and nobody in a three-piece and cleats is going to show up with a cease and desist order.

NASCAR calls their deal the “Race to the Chase”. That’s not bad I guess, but the France family is pretty protective of their branded properties. Try calling your Swedish Spa, Olga’s Race to the Chase and Brian Francewill own your ass. I need something that I can play with in relative, judicial safety.

But baseball still has its “Pennant Fever”. The suits in Daytona haven’t put the yellow, red, purple and blue striped logo on anything like that yet. So what would the, uh, stock car version of that saying be?

Something like “Road Race Rash”? Nah, no road courses in the Chase.  Maybe the “Homestead Trots”.

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