Steven Taranto
@STaranto92 • 18,386 subscribers
@NASCAR multimedia storyteller (fmr. CBS Sports) Somewhat professional Internet poster. Hardcore @Giants fan. NY ➡️ NC ➡️ TN. Elon University '15 ✝️
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Asked Joey Logano for his reaction to Kasey Kahne returning to full-time NASCAR racing next year. Turns out I ended up being the one to break the news to him. "What you're getting is raw as you can get here, because I had no idea!" "Huh. Cool! That's cool, I didn't even know that was really a thing. Shows how tuned in I am to that type of stuff, I had no idea. But cool! I think everyone's gonna think that's pretty neat. I'm looking forward to watching it."
Steven Taranto162,061 views • 11 days ago
not impressive when you consider that NASCAR cars have been capable of this for years
Steven Taranto33,105 views • 3 days ago
Signs we should've seen Brad Keselowski leaving RFK Racing coming: At Chicagoland, he had a lot to say about the state of OEM dynamics in NASCAR and how Toyota had created two "A" organizations, as opposed to having an "A, B, C" pecking order. "The challenge that I see is, will the other two OEMs actually kind of react to that? I haven't seen that at the moment. I think RFK is doing all the things it needs to do to position itself to be successful if that were to happen - Particularly in the Ford camp. But at this point, we have not seen the level of collaboration at Ford that we see at Toyota, and it creates challenges for the program." "I think if you're gonna beat Toyota, you have to have at least two elite organizations collaborating at very, very high levels and sharing the elite resources that are specific to the OEM. And I only see Toyota doing that right now." tl;dr Keselowski has said some things to suggest that he's been dissatisfied with Ford's level of support for RFK
Steven Taranto148,453 views • 19 days ago
Went back and watched the final laps/photo finish from Christopher Bell's onboard. With a little under 10 to go the 20 team had seemed resigned they wouldn't catch Chase Briscoe, so the message to Bell was to save fuel since they were tight to the end. "It's gonna take a big mistake from him to get there, so just save me a little bit of fuel, make sure we're covered." You can see just how abruptly Bell catches Briscoe and how the intensity on his radio ratchets up on the final lap and in coming up just short at the finish line. "Ugh! So close!"
Steven Taranto50,075 views • 7 days ago
Chase Elliott shared that Kasey Kahne actually called him a few months ago to ask for his opinion when Kahne was offered his full-time Truck Series ride with Spire. Chase goes way back with Kahne between him taking over for his dad at Evernham to being teammates in Cup later on. "He just asked for my thoughts, and I told him I thought it would be a really cool thing for him to go do if he wants to race competitively. I think it would be a good team to go do that with, and I thought he would be really pleased with the effort and I think he can do them a really good job." Chase credited Kasey with helping him out in his Cup career, pointing out that he had grown up around him and admired him, and that led to a mutual respect between the two.
Steven Taranto63,058 views • 8 days ago
Asked Chase Elliott if he has considered recusing himself from the Most Popular Driver Award voting to allow Kyle Busch that honor, as his father Bill did when Dale Earnhardt died in 2001. "I would be in extreme favor of Kyle winning the vote. I think that he's a guy that certainly poured a lot of his life into this sport. Although he might've been getting boos a lot of weeks, he also had a lot of fans, and a lot of really passionate fans. "I really haven't processed all of that, I guess, to get to that point. But I would certainly be in favor of him winning and whatever it took. Yeah, I think it would be really deserving for him to have that honor."
Steven Taranto1,088,512 views • 4 months ago
Joey Gase finishes 15th at Charlotte in what was a very expensive tire race for a team of his size. Gase's team was buying tires as they went, and it actually helped them at the end as they had a set of stickers to use on the last caution. "Hopefully this will open the eyes of some folks and they'll see that we do have some good race cars." A Top 15 is especially notable for Gase given that his team completely rebuilt the car he ran tonight from start to finish, and they also earned a Top 15 on a 1.5 mile track.
Steven Taranto48,100 views • 7 days ago
Breakdown of the Kevin Magnussen vs. Noah Gragson beef. It began when Magnussen put the bumper to Noah and knocked him out of the way in Turn 2 on about Lap 25 which set him off. "All these F1 dickheads just think they get fenders and a fuckin' bumper, they just drive in the inside and just barrel into everyone. I've fuckin' had it." Gragson shipped Magnussen in the chicane about a lap after their initial contact, then drove up and against Magnussen during the caution for the Turn 1 pileup, gave him the finger for several moments, then gave him the finger again when they stopped for the red flag. Once the red flag was lifted and Magnussen passed Noah (after being told he'd line up between the 43 and 4), Noah took a shot at Magnussen's right rear fender and then his door. On the restart, Noah shipped Magnussen into Turn 3 and continued taking shots at him. Things finally calmed down for awhile until the Tyler Reddick spin, in which Noah ended up passing Magnussen. The next lap after Alex Bowman passed Noah, it looked like Magnussen just cleaned him out in Turn 4. "Welp, the 4 just got shipped. I don't know if it was by us or somebody else, but he's in the wall." "To be honest to you, it looked like it was us."
Steven Taranto620,021 views • 3 months ago
Kyle Larson shared that the Busch family expressed their appreciation for the "Tiny Kyle" namerail in last week's Coke 600, and also that it got a good laugh out of Brexton. His wife Katelyn has been keeping in contact with Samantha Busch who shared that with them. Kyle said that he put plans in place last Saturday to put Tiny Kyle - what Kyle called him and also what Brexton calls him - on his namerail as others started putting Kyle's name or Rowdy on theirs. "I thought with Kyle calling me something different, I thought it would be a cool tribute to put 'Tiny Kyle' on there."
Steven Taranto706,208 views • 4 months ago
This is what happened on Kyle Busch's radio: Busch was dealing with a loose racecar and couldn't get in the corner with it. Eventually, crew chief Jim Pohlman became frustrated their adjustments weren't working. "What is the frickin' problem now? Is the thing sideways or is it plowing? What the fuck does it look like!?" Spotter Derek Kneeland said it still wasn't getting in the corner and Pohlman snapped again. "Why? I don't get it! We tighten it up and why can't it get in the fuckin' corner!?" "I don't know. I've got a headset on, not a helmet. I don't, I don't know." "We keep tightening it up and we keep going slower!" After Busch's spin and more discussion on how to make the car better, Kneeland spoke directly to Pohlman under caution and told him yelling at each other won't help and they need to keep it together. "You copy?" "Yeah, I copy. It's the same shit every week."
Steven Taranto886,713 views • 6 months ago
Onboard video of the latest chapter in the Austin Hill vs. Shane van Gisbergen feud. Spotter Derek Kneeland put on his "psych major" hat again. Austin was hot on the radio in the moment but calmed down afterwards and I didn't see or hear anything more of this.
Steven Taranto86,843 views • 21 days ago
Missed this in real time but it looked like Austin Hill retaliated against Shane van Gisbergen under yellow. Hill hit SVG in the left front area as he was driving off pit road to the garage "Big picture, Austin. Big picture, please." ... "The, uh, fellow hit my left front."
Steven Taranto419,308 views • 3 months ago
Denny Hamlin said he appreciated and will display the regular season championship trophy that his fans gave to him before the race. "I don't know if it's 3D printed or out of wood or whatever, but they did a great job." Denny also said he thought the percentage the new package made the race was actually higher than he estimated. Said it was a weird race because of the stages and he thinks the key is going to be getting the stages right to match the racing product it created when the pack was going all out. "If you can push the first stage back a little bit from Lap 35 to like Lap 45 and then give those other stages five laps less, you're gonna have people racing all out the entire race."
Steven Taranto199,272 views • 1 month ago