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Go fast, turn left (and also right): The 2025 Running Motorsports Thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by 2muchcoffeeman, Jan 16, 2025.

  1. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    I saw where former racing TV announcer Bill Weber died at age 67. I was shocked to read that he last called a race in 2009; seems like just a season or two ago I was listening to him.
     
  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    And he died in mid-December but the news is just now getting around? That's rare and unusual nowadays.
     
  3. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    I low key think one of the things that has hurt interest is improved liability. As long as you don’t bend the sheet metal, you have an excellent chance of completing a race now. So you get a turnpike’s worth of back markers making it harder to pass.
     
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  4. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    Crap! I've been off the beat longer than I was on it, as of this season.

    Weber had one of those "don't you know who I am!" meltdowns in a hotel that ultimately got him fired but the TNT guys said he was basically daring them to fire him for some time. Very mercurial personality. I never dealt with him personally but unlike Joy and Bestwick, not particularly friendly with anybody he considered "beneath him."

    If he ever tried to get back into the sport, I never heard. NASCAR (the France family) has a particularly long memory and if you embarrass the show, you rarely get a second chance. I would actually be proud if my name popped up on a "do not hire per NASCAR" list.

    RIP.
     
  5. brn623cl

    brn623cl Member

    We have us a DQ
     
  6. wicked

    wicked Well-Known Member

    Ryan McGee came out in a tweet and basically said Weber was a douche, without actually saying it. That’s the first time I’ve seen McGee come close to ripping someone.

    Someone on a Reddit thread dug up a photo of Bill from a few years back. Time was not kind to him.
     
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  7. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

    And Ryan's about as friendly and welcoming as anyone in the media center not named Mike Harris/AP. To be honest, I don't believe I ever had a falling out with any other members of the media. Even the famously cranky Ed Hinton would ask me questions about my cabin in north Georgia after he moved to other side of the state.

    We're all trying to do the same thing. I don't remember anyone pulling the ego card, which is surprising, given my dealings with the ACC Skywriters and other close-knit writing fraternities.
     
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  8. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

     
  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    From Tower’s media release:

    “The infraction cited by IMSA relates to excessive wear on the skid block, an issue that can naturally occur over the course of an intense endurance race due to variables outside of a team’s direct control.”

    They were down 8mm (max allowed is 5mm), which doesn’t seem like much … but nobody else was disqualified for that offense.
     
  10. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I haven't watched the whole thing yet, but what I have seen is pretty good.
    I am privileged enough to have watched both racing and college football at Bowman Gray.

     
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  11. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    TV guys are name dropping Burt Myers and Tim Brown.
    Tim Brown is a horses ass.
     
  12. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Honestly, if they wanted to make this a show, they'd put the Cup drivers in modifieds.
     
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