Longtime NASCAR fans remember when Greg Sacks pulled off a huge upset in the Firecracker 400 at Daytona for his only career Cup victory.
Greg Sacks, 57, To Drive For JR Motorsports At Daytona
↵That was 25 years ago, so if you don’t have any idea who Greg Sacks is, that’s OK. Sacks never had much success after that. His last top-five finish was in 1990 and he faded away with a couple start-and-parks at Pocono in 2005 (though he had three DNQs in ‘06).
↵But amazingly, Sacks is back. Now 57 years old and a part-owner of Grand Touring Vodka, Sacks has inked a 25-race deal for his liquor to be the primary sponsor for JR Motorsports’ No. 88 car.
↵Oh, and he’s driving the first race.
↵Yep, you read that right: Sacks will mark the silver anniversary of his Daytona Cup win by racing in the Nationwide race there in July.
↵He’ll drive the 88 (Dale Earnhardt Jr. is in the No. 3 Wrangler car) and race against many drivers who haven’t even had a silver anniversary of being alive.
↵The driver for the other 24 races over the next two seasons has yet to be determined, so we can only assume Sacks wanted one last hurrah as part of the sponsorship.
↵If that’s the case, someone with common sense should have talked him out of it. Actually, they still should. Sacks’ last restrictor-plate race of any kind was the 1998 Daytona 500, where he finished 39th.
↵Think the racing might be a little bit different now? How can NASCAR even license this guy?
↵So NASCAR has come to this. Even you, dear reader, could find yourself racing against Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick if you had a sponsor who could bring money to a Nationwide Series team.
↵Or, sadly, maybe even a Cup team.
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