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@AedanMcHugh

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I can turn left harder than you๐Ÿค™๐Ÿป NASCAR Xfinity engineer๐Ÿ Opinions my own

Charlotte, NC
Joined December 2011
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
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If youโ€™re ever having a drought just schedule a NASCAR race
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
3 years
You can say what you want about @NoahGragson but how many drivers do you think are here at night helping the boys pull down racecars
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
2 years
17 years apart. Same track. First race and last race. Honored to work for my hero @DaleJr
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
1 year
Never won with an underage driver before. Whatโ€™s the protocol here? Milkshakes and chicken tenders? Please advise @DaleJr
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
4 months
I never thought I would say this but please can we go back
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@NASCARonReddit
r/NASCAR on Reddit
4 months
A day prior to the Indy 500, photographer Mark Rebilas flew his drone over Kentucky Speedway. Hereโ€™s its current condition, four years after itโ€™s last NASCAR race. (via u/Competitive-Luck201) #NASCAR
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
Iโ€™m glad weโ€™re at a point in the sport where these things are shared freely with the public
@Chris_Buescher
Chris Buescher
2 months
A little GoPro footage from the test
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Aedan McHugh
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AI had absolutely no business going this hard
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Woke up. Pissed excellence. Kicked ass. Took over a Waffle House at 4am. Winning is fun. On the Atlanta
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
4 months
Idk maybe itโ€™s just me but I probably wouldnโ€™t be trying to publicize this
@ESPNF1
ESPN F1
4 months
For the first time in F1 history, the top 10 of the grid finished as they started ๐Ÿ˜ณ (h/t @virtualstatman )
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@CoreyLaJoie
Corey LaJoie
3 months
Plenty of work to do to finish this year strong, but really excited to get the chance to work with a championship winning guy in Rodney next season. Rodneyโ€™s credentials speak for themselves.
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
Remember that time Denny got penalized for saying something on a podcast days after the fact?
@ryanpistana
Ryan Pistana
2 months
I guess the precedent has been set that intentionally wrecking multiple drivers, including the forbidden right hook while your spotter yells โ€œWRECK HIMโ€ is now legal
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Seven years ago we showed up to Salem with a blank ARCA car and now ole boy is a cup winner. The Cunningham kids finally made it๐Ÿ
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
2 years
Earnhardt country
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Kinda uncool to post this without clarifying what was said on channel 1 vs channel 2
@NASCAR
NASCAR
3 years
Take a listen to @ChaseBriscoe_14 's team communications during NASCAR Overtime on the @IMS Road Course.
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Skirts looking minty fresh @NoahGragson
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Lick the stamp and send it to Cali
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
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The sport will be in a much better place the day this loud mouthed, ignorant hilljack finally gets run off.
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Christopher Beltram Hernandez โ€œSwaggy Yโ€ Yeley
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Jesus Christ Brett
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
10 months
Of all the ways to break down halfway through an 8 hour road trip this one was not on my bingo card
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
10 months
Anyone mad about this hasnโ€™t spent much time at the track lately. Cup cars are borderline painfully loud
@Cole_Cusumano_
Cole Cusumano
10 months
Mufflers have been a divisive topic over the past couple years. While @KyleLarsonRacin didnโ€™t notice a change in cooling, heโ€™s a fan of what was tested today โ€ฆ he believes it will help the โ€œfan experience.โ€ #NASCAR @drdiandra and @devonhenry77 with the questions.
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
I donโ€™t remember seeing a bunch of fear mongering about Gateway, Vegas, Kansas, Indy or Atlanta. I guess facts donโ€™t make for good click bait? Weird
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@CouchRacerShop
Couch Racer
1 year
Rolling up to the spotters stand like โ€ฆ.
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
Chicago vibes are pretty awesome so far. Weโ€™ve gotten numerous โ€œgood luckโ€ and โ€œwhat number are yโ€™all withโ€ comments on our walk into the track. Locals seem pretty stoked
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Aedan McHugh
6 months
Half the field just got burnt by a car brushing the wall in Stage 2 why would they take the risk now
@jeff_gluck
Jeff Gluck
6 months
Kinda floored everyone is on the same strategy now, essentially. That was like the only selling point Richmond had. Thought at least someone would try the one-stop.
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Short track racing is alive and well @WorldofOutlaws | @Lakeside_Spdwy
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
2 years
Some things are bigger than racing. Make sure your loved ones know
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Aedan McHugh
6 months
Truck race (full field) vs cup practice (half field)
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Racecar Engineering Magazine January 2008 issue would like to remind us all that time is a flat circle
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
The Venn diagram of people complaining about this and people refusing to get vaccinated is literally a circle
@A_S12
Adam Stern
3 years
. @NASCAR today is re-implementing additional COVID-related at-track restrictions, namely reducing interactions between essential personnel and guests/fans. โž– Guests won't be allowed at haulers, garages or grids, and drivers can't visit suites (but can do things outdoors).
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Aedan McHugh
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Racing is great when pitting for tires after three laps is a make or break decision
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
3 years
Tell me you donโ€™t understand racing without telling me you donโ€™t understand racing
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
I love holidays when youโ€™re the only person in racing and you have to field hard hitting questions like โ€œso do they ever let you drive the car or do you just have to work on it??โ€
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Aedan McHugh
9 months
Iโ€™ll preface this by saying that I love my job and I happily signed a 2 year extension on my contract BUT in general going racing is a bad financial decision. As an engineer it took me 6 seasons and 3 promotions to earn what I could have straight out of school in industry.
@PPistone
Pete Pistone
9 months
Understand many Cup and even NXS teams are having a tough time filling positions internally with burnout factor becoming more of a tangible challenge over the length of the season - one principal believes itโ€™s even reached the level of drivers not wanting to commit to full season
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
3 years
The world famous umbrella stopped by pit stall 1 to say hi. Oh and @alanisnking was there too
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Thereโ€™s no driver in the field that takes care of his guys like @NoahGragson . I canโ€™t say thanks enough for making sure we all got a clock to take home
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Racing contracts are so weirdly vague. Baseball is like โ€œwe have him for this many years at this many dollars and if he successfully completes no nut November he gets a billion dollar bonusโ€
@bobpockrass
Bob Pockrass
2 years
The team didnโ€™t give a length of the deal saying it keeps Blaney at Penske โ€œwell into the future.โ€
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Should have known this was gonna happen when we went to McDonaldโ€™s last night and the ice cream machine was working
@NASCAR
NASCAR
3 years
NEWS: @BubbaWallace 's No. 23 car clears post-race inspection at @TALLADEGA . Today's victory is official!
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
One of the longer race days of the year for the @XfinityRacing boys and girls so how about a little race day thread 5:37am departure for the airport 1/?
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Championship sunrise
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Man I am so butt hurt that @NASCAR_Xfinity isnโ€™t going there
@NWBSpeedway
North Wilkesboro Speedway
2 years
Imagine seeing this video a year ago. ๐Ÿคฏ
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
Anyways, Indycar and IMSA just held a street race in Detroit and no one had to be dumb on the internet about it
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Ainโ€™t no fans like @NoahGragson fans. Thanks for the beers fellas yโ€™all are what itโ€™s all about
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Anyone thatโ€™s against mufflers on the next gen should come to an Indycar race and see how pleasant it is being able to have a conversation with cars on track
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
5 months
This is gonna be an episode you donโ€™t want to miss. Marlin is one of the coolest people in the sport and the story of how he got here is even cooler
@DirtyMoMedia
Dirty Mo Media
5 months
New @DaleJr Download w/ @marlin_yoder ๐Ÿ‡ Abandoning Amish Life ๐Ÿ“ป Secret Radio For Races ๐Ÿ’” Making A Painful Decision ๐Ÿ“ Racing At Local Level 5๏ธโƒฃ Champion At Impossible Odds LISTEN Apple: Spotify: Web:
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Aedan McHugh
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Gonna need a few of these to handle the Mexico City announcement
@terminallyOL
Terminally Online Leftist ๐Ÿฅ‚
1 month
coming soon to a spirit halloween near you
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
@NobleDuke67 No, thatโ€™s literally why this is a rate scaled to population
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
Fly in crew chief tonight, canโ€™t wait to blame it all on the pit crew
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Aedan McHugh
5 months
Happy Donโ€™t Speed in McBee day to all who celebrate
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
Or literally any major stick and ball sports team that has a stadium downtown in a major metropolitan area but yeah cities are scary got it
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
1-2-3 in Sin City๐Ÿ
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
As a reference for anyone following along with testing today the fastest laps from this weekend were Cup 1:23.399 Xfinity 1:24.554 CC @BoziTatarevic
@TeamHendrick
Hendrick Motorsports
3 years
Itโ€™s time for some testing at the @CLTMotorSpdwy ROVAL in our #NextGen Chevys. ๐Ÿ‘Š Be sure to follow along with us in this thread! โฌ‡๏ธ
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Aedan McHugh
7 months
Unofficial petition to bring the @XfinityRacing cars back here twice a year
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
9 months
My first year of cup racing I worked over 5 months (850 hours) of over time and made less than $65k
@JordanDworaczyk
Haybaler
9 months
@BrakeHardBlog @PPistone I wanna drive race cars so I can get burnt out and whine while spending less actual work hours than all of blue collar america does.
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Aedan McHugh
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@NickBromberg I live for the replies to this every damn time
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
*brett griffin voice* โ€œmAn i cAnT BeLiEvE wE rAcE oN eAsTeR iTโ€™s So WrOnGโ€
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Unmatched attention to detail from @RyanW_Design . 1 and 7 in their truck bays 8 and 9 out in the parking lot
@JRMotorsports
JR Motorsports
3 years
Merry Christmas!
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
I guess if you have to miss Martinsville you might as well go win the Xfinity race right??
@XfinityRacing
Xfinity Racing
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The No. 1 is the one tonight. @joshberry is the #XfinitySeries ace at @LVMotorSpeedway !
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Aedan McHugh
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@JRHouston20 Man I feel like a next gen race here would slap
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
This is the ๐Ÿ’ฉyouโ€™d get if you made an AI bot listen to Fox News for too long smh
@SpotterBrett
Brett Griffin
2 years
@Brian_Murphy_ So many cities shit the bed after the riots. What a shame.
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Aedan McHugh
4 months
Ride into work looks a little different today. One hour until fan day begins here at @JRMotorsports
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Aedan McHugh
10 months
Shoutout Loweโ€™s for being pet friendly
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Issa tradition๐Ÿ†
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Woke up. Pissed excellence. Kicked ass. Took over a Waffle House at 4am. Winning is fun. On the Atlanta
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
People can have their opinions all day and night but data is data
@BoziTatarevic
Bozi Tatarevic
2 months
There have been a lot of opinions on the moves by Austin Dillon on the last lap but best way to analyze them is to look at the actual data so let's dig into his last two laps in a quick thread. Orange = Lap 407 Blue = Lap 408
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@NobleDuke67 You are so close to getting it
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Xfinity cars at Homestead 36 times
@RyanVargas_23
Ryan Vargas
3 years
Scenario: Youโ€™re the commissioner of a brand new racing series. What type of racecar and what tracks do you visit? Can be any type of car and track๐Ÿ‘€
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Thank you for this excellent anecdotal argument in favor of more strict gun control
@SpotterBrett
Brett Griffin
2 years
This happens a lot. Iโ€™ve known Several folks who accidentally had their gun when going through TSA.
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Aedan McHugh
30 days
Packed house tonight in Florence for @CARSTour racing. Love to see it
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
We love the west coast swing. Left California 9 hours ago, rinsed off and now itโ€™s time to dig on Phoenix
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
5 months
Like this
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@dailydownforce
The Daily Downforce
5 months
Imagine this: You have unlimited money and unlimited power in NASCAR. With all the recent controversy, how would YOU fix the Next-Gen car? โฌ‡๏ธ
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Aedan McHugh
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What a stupid side quest
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Aedan McHugh
6 months
Iโ€™m in my third Uber of the weekend to and from Texas Motor Speedway and zero (0) of my drivers had any idea there was a race this weekend. My current driver Jeffery said he would have gone if he knew there was a race
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Aedan McHugh
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@joshwhitephoto
Josh
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Give me your most ideal aero package, go as into detail as you want
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Aedan McHugh
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
Content is being made @BoziTatarevic
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Aedan McHugh
10 days
Heโ€™s so ready for the truck series at Bristol
@autosport
Autosport
10 days
Kevin's light-hearted response now he's back on zero penalty points ๐Ÿคฃ #SingaporeGP
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Aedan McHugh
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I should add that this entire ordeal is taking place while Iโ€™m wearing the most obnoxious โ€œitโ€™s a road trip no one will see meโ€ outfit ever
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Aedan McHugh
6 months
Solar eclipse NASCAR style
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Aedan McHugh
4 months
Starter motor fighting for its life
@Jondean25
Jonathan Howard
4 months
Martin Truex Jr cheered across the line with no fuel:
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
2 months
People seem to forget that flying commercial means an extra travel day on both ends of each race weekend. Thatโ€™s easily an extra 50 days on the road if you factor out races within a 5 hour drive
@BoziTatarevic
Bozi Tatarevic
2 months
Are they just supposed to force crew members to load up in a cargo van and drive around the country for 38 weeks instead of using planes?
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
1 year
@JRHouston20 If the only voices people hear are the ones spewing vitriol and hate then everyone is going to be lumped together until someone decides to speak up
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
West coast swing means Sunday morning teardown
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
This has gotta be some sort of record for number of times setting up and tearing down a pit box in one weekend. Round 3 coming up
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
6 months
Out here making content with @alanisnking this morning
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Aedan McHugh
1 year
TIL cheese has a tech center. Wisconsin doesnโ€™t mess around
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Aedan McHugh
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@jeff_gluck
Jeff Gluck
5 months
This whole conversation online this week is getting merged into a bunch of different things. Is anyone arguing dirty air is new? Not that I've heard. The topic this week has been about air-blocking as a technique used by the leader to defend. And that is relatively new (within
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
@MattWeaverRA It is the perfect racecar
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
The racing gods are angry
@JSchuoler
Justin Schuoler
2 months
A crane fell over yesterday during demolition at Auto Club Speedway. #NASCAR
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Aedan McHugh
4 months
This is my 13th reason
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
. @NoahGragson please let me drive the car
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Aedan McHugh
2 years
The Queen of Bumper Cars, @alanisnking
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Aedan McHugh
4 months
Ricky made more contact in the pits than he made on track
@bobpockrass
Bob Pockrass
4 months
The fight start
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Aedan McHugh
4 months
Fans are taking the โ€œfirst come first servedโ€ very seriously. Left work at 8pm and we already had some campers settling in for the night
@JRMotorsports
JR Motorsports
4 months
We've got your plans for tomorrow already sorted out. Autograph sessions, @DirtyMoMedia shows, and so much more. JRM Fan Day 2024 presented by @Lionel_Racing is here.
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Aedan McHugh
2 months
@BoziTatarevic ARCA brakes babyyyyyy
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
3 years
Itโ€™s really hard to describe how cool it is to climb the fence and see all those people cheering
@NASCAR_Xfinity
NASCAR Xfinity
3 years
Still not over @NoahGragson and @JRMotorsports celebrations.
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Aedan McHugh
3 years
Yeah and then we realized that was stupid because the non smokers would still get the second hand smoke????????
@SpotterBrett
Brett Griffin
3 years
Remember when we had smoking and non smoking sections? I feel like we need masks and no masks sections. Whose with me. #FuckaMask
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
1 year
8:54am Biscuits have been acquired CC: @BoziTatarevic 6/?
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
1 month
The Xfinity series is racing on a Friday night this weekend which has opened up the opportunity to have one of the craziest weekend adventures of my life. Here comes a fun little thread 9:15am Thursday arrival to Daytona, FL 1/x
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
5 years
@BetoORourke UNCC loves you Beto
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
10 months
Did I miss something? Where is the dumb part
@SpotterBrett
Brett Griffin
10 months
Dumbest thing youโ€™ll ever read on social media.
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
1 year
Damn it feels good to be good
@NASCAR_Xfinity
NASCAR Xfinity
1 year
NEWS: No issues in post-race inspection at @WGI ! @sam_mayer_ 's second win is official!
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@AedanMcHugh
Aedan McHugh
2 years
Beautiful day for some racing yโ€™all
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