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Just trying to be there at the end. 🪽 @turningfortune.com

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · Aug 14

I’m Jon, 1987-aged, born and raised in Georgia, left for 15 yrs, came back, married a rabbi, got some kids, cats and chickens, and in the past couple years, I have become about as obsessed with motor racing as it is possible to be.

On here to post about racing and befriend people who do so as well.

Two Indy cars racing around a giant spider at Barber Motorsports Park

Two children with red hair in opposite-colored rec soccer uniforms, the smaller one with their face censored by a loving skull emoji, the larger one’s face censored by a slack-jawed unicorn emoji with star eyes. They’re striking power poses in front of a Home Depot #20 Chevy Monte Carlo NASCAR Cup car from the Tony Stewart era, but it is being driven by someone else in a historics race.

Me and my bros, two of whom I’ve known since we were four years old, smiling arm and arm in sunglasses at a NASCAR race

A woman and a man dressed like casual adventurers in brimmed hats staring through aqueous plants

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 12m

Don’t look now but this weekend is kind of a banger race weekend

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 19m

I definitely mean the former, and I wish more people were broad enough racing fans to look at it that way. My contention is that a racing driver becomes a bigger deal, a hotter commodity, making that move. They’re more valuable both during and after their Formula E tenure.

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 20m

Yeah I feel similarly

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 37m

God this slaps

r/NASCAR on Reddit @nascaronreddit.bsky.social · 59m

Denny Hamlin’s 2025 King’s Hawaiian 75th Anniversary Paint Scheme for Martinsville (via u/Dmacthegoat) reddit.com/comments/1ockcle #NASCAR

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

They should watch even a single race sometime

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

At what point are people going to accept that Formula E is a legitimate next step from F2

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1h

There HAD to be a problem with his car

McLaren to review Piastri's disappointing COTA pace | RACER

McLaren will review why Oscar Piastri struggled for performance relative to Lando Norris during the United States Grand Prix, as the championship leader saw his advantage cut to 14 points.Norris secur...

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 4h

Dang I gotta get on it

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 4h

The thing is, I like finding out what terrible American cars drive like this decade

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 5h

Yeeeeeeeeeah buddy

Rajah Caruth to join JR Motorsports in 2026 - The Racing Experts

Rajah Caruth is set to join JR Motorsports and drive their No. 88 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2026.

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 6h

Colton in a Hitech
Towriss Power

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 6h

I hate absolutely everything about planning a trip except picking a rental car, which is among my favorite experiences

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 7h

Yeah I’m ready for the NASCAR season to end now

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 8h

lol we definitely need to refer to it this way as a culture

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 20h

I think a lot of people feel that the stage points awards give great incentives to push hard throughout the race. They do that in lots of endurance sports car racing championships. But the idea of taking a water break on a planned lap is, like, childish

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 20h

It’s a practice appropriated from the short track world, where “competition cautions” are sometimes needed for fuel or maintenance reasons, depending on the demands of the tracks and categories. But in the NASCAR Cup Series, of course, it was implemented to create commercial breaks.

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1d

I’m going to win Racing Bluesky Halloween, btw

Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1d

Looks likely

Formula 1 News: Tsunoda resurgence makes Marko pause on 2026 decision

Read about Tsunoda's standout performance that may influence Red Bull's decisions for partners in Formula 1's 2026 season.

www.autoracing1.com

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Jon 🛞 @jon.turningfortune.com · 1d

Once again, let racing Bluesky fix all drivers

Brock Not a Bot Bolton @brockbolton77.bsky.social · 1d

My favourite rush hour commuting activity in the rain is the random braking scrubbing 30 kph off then immediately going back up to speed. Why? Nobody knows!