2009 NASCAR running thread

True.
I'm old school. I prefer my NASCAR drivers covered in grease from working on their own cars and lint from the textile mills and/or having a slight scent of corn mash about them rather than doing photo shoots for TAG watches and with lines of cologne at Wal-Mart.

 

Wal-Mart and cologne should never be used in the same sentence.

 

Burton is one of the classiest people I've ever met. That's not a bad way to go.

 

Guess who's playing at being warm and cuddly again?

http://www.dennyhamlin.com/seats/

 

And no modern fan - the ones who have just taken to NASCAR - will understand what Bill Elliott accomplished coming from almost two laps down under green-flag conditions to win a race in 'Dega in 1985.

Lucky Dog is a complete dog. Should be thrown out, but NASCAR has long been about anything but racing for a while now.

 

"My seats?"

Shut up, brat.

Clarification: Denny, not dixie.

 

All the REAL fans know Dale Sr. made it rain so the attention foisted on The Chosen One's wreck would be diverted away from the issue.

Sunday night was the first incident between Vickers and Jr. since Vickers took the 48 and 8 out just before turn 3 at Dega in 06. That's a long time to stew on a grudge.

They couldn't have picked a better winner for such an anticlimactic race than the most anticlimactic driver in the modern history of the sport.

 

Kenseth actually wasn't bad on the NASCAR teleconference today. I think he's got a sense of humor. We just never get to see it.

Jack Roush, however, couldn't remember half his wins at Daytona this decade.

Kenseth had to remind him that Jeff Burton and Greg Biffle, were, in fact, Daytona winners.

 

Your hatred for Denny Hamlin is unnatural

 

Familiarity breeds contempt.


And to be fair, he wasn't the only one I wasn't fond of. He was just the one I had to stalk.

 

Drivers pass first round of mandatory drug tests looking for steroids, uppers and recreational drugs.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/motor/nascar/2009-02-18-nascar-drug-testing_N.htm?csp=34

A driver and a crewman bring up the same interesting point:

"Looking at some of the over-the-wall guys, I have some concerns about these situations and the possibility of performance-enhancement." -- Brad Keselowski

"I think it's partly because of the way we recruit crewmembers (from the athletic ranks). We've been joking that we'd be suspected just because we're bigger than the drivers. A lot of the crew guys come from football or hockey backgrounds." -- Chad Avrit, rear tire changer, Team Red Bull.

 

To be fair, my then 94-year-old grandmother who was barely 5-5 was bigger than some of the drivers.

Those boys are ti-ny.