2010 NASCAR running thread

DIGGER MUST DIE!

 

520 but who's counting.

 

And then KG finally, mercifully, got to go to sleep.

 

Thank you for that clarification, bubbs.

And WestCoast, I do not like figure skating. In fact, other than maybe a little hockey I probably won't watch one minute of the Winter Olympics except when it happens to be on in the office.

 

Maybe it's just me, but you would have thought Fox might have spent some of the downtime Sunday, recapping Speedweeks. Danica, the qualifying, the duels. I don't know how the pit reporters can still come up with questions after a 90-2 hour pre-race show.

 

It's more than just that. One-hundred seventy-seven drivers have won at least one Cup race. Of them, less than half have won more than three races. At some point, it's not just catching a lucky break. Jamie's a better driver than some other guys who had locked up sponsored rides for 2010 before he did.

(Not naming names, but the generic compound nouns Midwestern home supply center, Connecticut hand tools and brown trucks do come to mind.)

 

Didn't Derrike Cope win at Dover the same season he won Daytona?

 

Yep. Won a Busch race in ... eh. 1994? Seems like it. That's it for Derrike Cope.

Fact: None of the clips shown in the Fontana ad came from Fontana.

Best since his father, Talladega, fall 2000. The kid can drive.

Switched over to DirecTV's in-car camera channels during the commercials.

Did you see the red velvet tuxedo jacket she wore for the pre-race show Saturday night?

 

Random observation while sitting in the Orlando airport. A quarter of the people here are wearing NASCAR gear, and of that quarter, at least half are sporting 88 stuff. Hope never produced long odds.

 

This.

 

Now I'm getting the end-of-race Nascar rule change. The Frances realized how insanely popular soccer is getting in America, and they wanted their own version of injury time.

 

Nope. Fans hate races finishing under caution. Hate. As in "too many races ending under yellow drives down the number of people who want to buy tickets, buy souvenirs and watch the race on TV."