Josh harts New 2026 ride (14 Viewers)

[stitcherbob]

Have you ever talked to him?

About what...the weather?

 

[stitcherbob]

oh i LOVED Bazemore 2001 on. Him and Lee Beard gave a HUGE middle finger to JFR, and his interviews were always riveting. Miss the guy. Thought he was GREAT.

And that's fine. I have no problem with that. Their competition was interesting to watch.
But when I read that Hart was joining JFR, it felt like if Bazemore had dumped Lee and joined JFR.... if he had started kissing John's posterior knowing he was gonna win some races.
I'm sure that when Angelle joined the V&H Harley team there were plenty of fans who were aghast. Not me, but it was shocking.
Imagine Bob Glidden teaming up with Lee Shepard and Reher-Morrison .... and running a Chevy Camaro....gasp!

 

[65 Goatboy]

And that's fine. I have no problem with that. Their competition was interesting to watch.
But when I read that Hart was joining JFR, it felt like if Bazemore had dumped Lee and joined JFR.... if he had started kissing John's posterior knowing he was gonna win some races.
I'm sure that when Angelle joined the V&H Harley team there were plenty of fans who were aghast. Not me, but it was shocking.
Imagine Bob Glidden teaming up with Lee Shepard and Reher-Morrison .... and running a Chevy Camaro....gasp!

Time to put the "big boy pants on"! LOL

 

[twostep]

Hart was hard to pass up when he brings $$$$

Eggs-zactly. Not that I hold it against him; that's what it takes to get a premier ride with a premier team, which explains why Hart got the slot and not Jordan Vandergriff whom I would have preferred myself. As mentioned, the important thing is that Force Racing's fuel dragster will still be racing in 2026. Doug Kalitta, likely the 2025 world champion, is reserved to a fault and doesn't have anything even close to an outgoing personality either but look what he and the Kalitta operation have done for the sport.

Best of luck to the new kid on the Force block.

 

[twostep]

oh i LOVED Bazemore 2001 on. Him and Lee Beard gave a HUGE middle finger to JFR, and his interviews were always riveting. Miss the guy. Thought he was GREAT.

Bazemore - the kind of guy you'd like to slap one minute and buy him a beer the next. I recall a very brief visit with him once in the pits and what I remember the most was the troop of little hotties all vying for his attention, swarming around him like a cloud of horny gnats.

I haven't seen him on here in years. The last I heard he was a professional auto-racing photographer and more recently a road racing cycle rider - at age 62. (!)

 

[ironpony]

Eggs-zactly. Not that I hold it against him; that's what it takes to get a premier ride with a premier team, which explains why Hart got the slot and not Jordan Vandergriff whom I would have preferred myself. As mentioned, the important thing is that Force Racing's fuel dragster will still be racing in 2026. Doug Kalitta, likely the 2025 world champion, is reserved to a fault and doesn't have anything even close to an outgoing personality either but look what he and the Kalitta operation have done for the sport.

Best of luck to the new kid on the Force block.

I have to agree if Doug was anywhere else he probably wouldn't be around anymore. I am dry but he makes me look like the life of the party.

 

[jgrigz]

I have to agree if Doug was anywhere else he probably wouldn't be around anymore. I am dry but he makes me look like the life of the party.

It probably goes with his being a pilot. Calm, cool, and collected in any situation