NASCAR is BACK!
Well, there’s a tire test going on at Texas Motor Speedway. But for the racing-starved masses enduring a winter more brutal than Twitter after you make contact with Chase Elliott, the sight of cars on track is enough to provide solace.
There will be a lot of changes in 2018. So many. A lot. Tons of them. One of which is the number swap between Chase Elliott and William Byron. Chase will be running the No. 9 car, while William Byron will be running the No. 24, AKA his age in 10 years. But as evidenced by this tweet from Texas Motor Speedway, these changes will take some getting used to.
https://twitter.com/TXMotorSpeedway/status/950789698837995520
There’s no shame here. This is a relatable moment. This is basically the same as:
- Trying to re-purpose that ill-begotten tattoo of your girlfriend’s name after she dumps you even though you only went on one Tinder date and she looked at her phone the whole time.
- Still writing “2017” on probably the one check you write every year. WASSUP, VENMO.
- Trying to change the “F” you received on your math test to an “A,” by adding a single line to the right side of the “F,” because everyone in the world, especially teachers, writes the letter “A” using sharp right angles.
- Placing the new shipping label over the old one when reusing one of the 567 Amazon Prime boxes you received over the holiday season.
- Autographing a piece of racing memorabilia RIGHT over the signature of the driver you don’t like because you are ruled by spite.
Rest assured that by the time we get to Daytona, Chase and William will have the appropriate pit boards. However, the area above the window net of the No. 88 car might still read “DALEX.”