2010 NASCAR running thread

Ed Hinton:

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/nascar/cup/columns/story?columnist=hinton_ed&id=4915951

Cut NASCAR and the speedway a little slack for this one. Try to remember the vastly improved racing and not the long, forced intermissions.

 

It's lucky for NASCAR that the sports calendar was so crowded with attention split between the NBA All-Star game and the Winter Olympics. Seeing how many columnists ripped the Olys after the luge death (before most of them had even broken the sanity seal on their hotel toilets) - and the outcry after the baseball all-star game debacle, I'd say NASCAR would be a national joke by now if it had the stage to itself.

 

Don't let that little 2-hour delay or the contrived ending fool you. This was great racing.

NASCAR syncophant.

 

Who? Me?

 

Only if you're Ed Hinton telling us this was the greatest race ever.

 

Ed Hinton is far from a NASCAR bobo.

This wasn't the greatest race ever, that would be the Daytona 500 Ward Burton won.

 

That column did nothing but fellate NASCAR.

There might have been great racing, when they raced. But you can't simnply ignore two-hours of delay for a fraking pothole at the Great American Race nor the bogus ending -- I did not realize they went 8 extra laps because not a single story I read mentioned that. Makes it even more of a farce.

 

The pothole was a joke. I think we all agree on that.

The racing was better than it has been the past few years there.

NASCAR is trying to give the fanbase an ending with a payoff. I'm not sure I like it, but I do understand why they would want to try something.

 

I'm normally in Hinton's corner, but not this time.

 

And if there are no wrecks, then it's a bad race?

 

it's not that no wrecks = bad race. It's 250 laps at 2-mile long "Fontucky" that make you zzzzz in the middle of the event.