All Purpose NASCAR Thread

I wrote a blog about what an asshole Stewart can be (didn't mention the Poole thing), and got this response:

So, HM, that dude thinks you're dead wrong.

 

Yes, let's all hail the working man, Tony Stewart. What other blue-collar worker has earned $3,664,940 for his bosses so far this year?

 

Yes, NASCAR Dad, Tony is just like you. While you're working another split-shift 44-hour week as a part-time employee with no benefits at the textile mill that laid you off 28 months ago and brought you back - off the books - last year, Tony's dating strippers and punching sports photographers and condescending to reporters at press conferences. You're exactly alike! He's a bully! He's a boor! He hates the fans! But he tells it like it is!

 

I figured you guys would enjoy that. My response, BTW, was this:

My wife said I should have written that I grew up the son of a bank teller and a concrete company dispatcher. But I guess that would equal spoiled too.

On actual news of the day, Dale Jarrett actually qualified for a race. So did Waltrip. And somehow, they were only slightly worse than Kenseth.

 

And Jeremy Mayfield will race tomorrow, too.

 

No one is talking about the Busch race? Maybe the one time Robby Gordon has a legitimate reason to act like a jackass and no one is documenting it?

 

I didn't see the move today.

But let me get this straight.

It was OK for Pruitt to be punted by JPM?
But if Robby Gordon punts someone, he's black-flagged?

 

I tuned in at the very end and saw Harvick win - didn't catch the shenanigans before.

But are we really surprised at NASCAR's make-it-up-as-they-go tactics?

Gordon said afterwards that he was told he didn't maintain his position after the yellow, so they dropped him back. Funny, I thought the purpose of those scoring loops was to "freeze the field" (as all the TV folks keep telling us) at the moment a caution is displayed.

 

ah yes, the scoring loops that no one seems to know where they actually are located at.

 

It's always been my impression that (even in the field-frozen-on-yellow era) if you don't make an effort to keep your position for whatever reason, you forfeit that position.

 

More and more, NASCAR looks like wrestling with its flexible rules, its appears-predetermined outcomes and other nonsense.

To quote Jimmy Spencer:
"I knew going in the No. 8 car was going to win this race. Something was fictitious."
-- Jimmy Spencer, July 8, 2001, after Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400, first race at Daytona after his father's death.

 

I'm surprised Spencer can even say "fictitious."


Robby has been parked. PJ Jones will drive the 7 car today.

http://www.thatsracin.com/247/story/5820.html



I finally got to see the video from Montreal ... NASCAR made the correct call. Robby failed to maintain position after the field was frozen under the caution. It's not like Saturday night at the short track where what happens under caution stays under caution (not that you could tell from the way Robby was driving).

That said, had Ambrose not been wrecked by Dipshit he should have been penalized for spinning Gordon out under caution.