User blog:Ajaxcupseries/Chris Barrymore Is Out Of Excuses

By: Jake Dwyer - Written after Denver in 2020
So I started the season off writing a column on why Chris Barrymore was the most overrated driver in the ASCA. And OF COURSE everyone was up in arms that I was calling out the ASCA’s golden boy over his lack of performance so far in his career.

1 career win in 47 starts and a highest points finish of 7th in 3 seasons for the ASCA’s “next big thing”, and heading into the All-Star break this season he currently sits 10th in points. While fellow young guns Greg Healey, Todd Kidd, Jared Ayers, Doug Bowden, and Ryan Dixon are all ahead of him in the standings.

But please, do tell me how Barrymore is “only” 22 and how him leading 41 laps at Denver and finishing 3rd changes any of this. Ironically enough, the guy that won that race (Cameron Atwood) now has as many career wins as Barrymore does with one less season of experience and in much worse equipment!

Folks, it has been WELL past time for Chris Barrymore to face the music.

The son of CJ Barrymore is nowhere near as good as everyone hyped him up to be entering the Cup Series at 19 years of age. 7 Craftsman wins and a Craftsman title don’t mean jack squat if you can’t convert it into results in Cup.

For years Todd Kidd kept receiving flack for not being able to win a race (and deservedly so). But at least while he wasn’t winning, he finished top 5 in points in S4 and S5 and now has 2 wins in his last 8 starts.

When exactly is Chris Barrymore going to start receiving this treatment?

His entire career he has been incredibly inconsistent (a career high of 9 top 10’s set last season), and not only that but he can’t even close out races!

There’s no reason why Barrymore shouldn’t have at LEAST 3 Stoneyard Cup wins by now. But every time the last 15 laps come around he manages to choke the race away somehow, even after having the dominant car.

And don’t even try to talk to me about his performance in the Windows 300 like that changes anything. He flat out choked the race away to Caleb Henderson Jr. in Season 4, and we all know he was going to choke the race away in Season 5 as well before Diego Orkedi put him out of his misery.

Even the one race he did win, the Season 4 Apple 225, was only literally because Caleb Henderson Jr. choked the race away himself!

Everyone wants to rant and rave about the fact that Barrymore can run right up next to the wall, but has that really helped him win races THAT much? Obviously not considering he only has 1 Cup win and he can’t even win in the Craftsman Series anymore.

So folks. STOP this nonsense saying that “Chris Barrymore is the most talented driver in the ASCA.” Because that’s all it is, nonsense.

Chris Barrymore will NEVER win a championship. He will NEVER reach double digit wins. Hell, with his low talent level he’ll be lucky to even reach 5 career wins.

He will NEVER be as good as his daddy, and its time for the ASCA media to accept that this is the truth.