The 2024 running motorsports thread

Did they tell anyone who had tickets?

 

They were supposed to be doing that.

 

Glad I'm not trying to find my way out of that part of Los Angeles in the dark tonight. I went to the Florida-USC game back in the early '80s, got lost afterward and went through some sketchy neighborhoods. And this from a kid from Detroit, which is one big sketchy neighborhood.

It's not even the most dangerous place I've been for a NASCAR race (hello, Mexico City), but a white guy tooling around in a rental car that makes you look like an undercover cop is never a good feeling.

 

You’ve watched too many movies.

 

I swear it sounded like he'd bitch out poor Bono during the formation lap: "These tyres, man."

 

If you’re going to Daytona Beach this weekend, bring rain gear and reschedule your flight back home a day later.

 

The guys from the RV park are planning for the Friday night truck race. I won't care much about the weekend anyway, so let it pour.

Also, IndyCar driver David Malukas, who just got a McLaren ride, broke his hand in a mountain bike accident and is questionable for the St. Pete opener.

 

How much longer can auto racing survive with corporate sponsorship seemingly going the way of the carburetor?
Look across the board, not matter the series. The series don't have what I'd consider major sponsors, and neither do the teams.
To me, a sponsor has to be something where the consumer has a choice to make when they reach for their pocket: Pepsi or Coke, Miller of Bud, Winston or Marlboro, Castrol or Quaker State, O'Reilly's or Advance, etc.

 

Out of that list, none of them are regular primaries. Busch Light is probably the closest you'll get to that type of sponsor with a serious presence anymore.

Qualifying tonight for the fi' hunderd, done before the cars can even take a lap before practice (whoever thought that one up is an idiot).

 

You may not be old enough to remember when pole qualifying was on the Sunday before the race, right after the 20-lap Busch Clash.

 

I remember that, but the teams also had practice on Friday and Saturday, right?