Random Card of the Day

Knew it was a Donross based on the border. Nice to see the car design and paitntwork. Would have been nice to maybe have a photo of the driver on there too, perhaps on the back.

I enjoy Donruss' borders. They look good

I always liked Kasey Kahne. He had a good career and he had a couple years he was a championship contender. Shame the way he had to leave the sport.

I have always liked how they have both Car and Driver in the sets and each has own card, Was never a fan Of Kahne but he had some great paint schemes, Great layout of the crad and nice action shot. 

I have some unopened Nascar boxes. I need to open and complete a Nascar set. I live 45 mins away from the World's Fastest 1/2 Mile. 

This isn't the BEST Donruss design for car cards to me, but I still like it enough. The paint scheme was also a common one for the Farmers Insurance company. They had several others that really stood out on the track. Billy's comment seems a little off though. Kahne did not retire entirely BECAUSE of the CO poisoning. He cut his retirement year short DUE to it. He was not going to race anymore after the 2018 season anyway. 2017 was his final season with Hendrick Motorsports in the #5 car. In 2018, he raced in the #95 Leavine Family Racing car and announced that it would be his final season in a car. After several incidents midway through the season, he had to medically pull himself from the team due to the CO poisoning AND concussion protocol and he was mostly replaced by "retired" driver Regan Smith for the rest of the season. It really is a shame that Kahne's career ended the way it did. Not just with him not getting to complete his final season, but his move to the powerhouse of Hendrick Motorsports was NOT good to him. While he did win some races there after replacing Mark Martin in the #5 car, he was never as good as he was when racing in a Dodge and he was easily overshadowed by his teammates. He was a very good driver early on (ROY in 2004) until he started bouncing around due to team mergers and vehicle shifts. After Dodge left the NASCAR ranks, he never really fit in well with other teams and manufacturers. I do wonder how well he would have done in the #95 if they switched from Chevy to Toyota a couple of years earlier! Would he have had the same issues if the #95 was a JGR-based Toyota? Christopher Bell had none of those issues last season with that same team as a Toyota. Now that team has folded though and Bell moves into a real JGR car for 2021. With several long-time teams shutting down in 2019 and 2020, I'm curious what is going on with these minor teams. It almost seems obvious that they are selling out for big money to the new people coming into the sport. A "NASCAR Charter Spot" guarantees a place in every points-race of the season and those seem to be getting sold for more money than any sponsorship can bring to a small team. I'm still surprised that Furniture Row Racing, Leavine Family Racing and Germain Racing have all shut down in the past few years. They were all potential contenders for a championship annually with FRR actually winning one a few years ago with Truex Jr. driving. Germain never really got a shot b/c they couldn't put the right driver in the car! They had the major sponsorship of Geico for about a decade but never spent the money on a better driver. Ty Dillon was only in that car b/c of Richard Childress. Now Ty is going to spend the 2021 season in the #96 car that Daniel Suarez desperately tried to use to stay relevant in 2020. Suarez moves to another new team for 2021. This NASCAR season should be really interesting!!!