NASCAR running thread

I listed to her on the mobile app most of the race and in those closing 20 to 30 laps she kept telling her spotter "If you get any idea about how anybody's making a pass let me know." You could tell she was pretty sure she didn't have a move that would do anything other than cost her a top-10 finish.

 

The debris was an aluminum crush panel from another car, and there was very clear video of it ricocheting off Jimmie Johnson's splitter and grille at speed.

 

That was it. Not a hot dog wrapper ...

 

There was one earlier that was a piece of paper. Maybe not the last one. Jeez you gear-heads are quick to jump on people.

 

Obscure as in Gucci Mane? His tastes seem reliably commercial.

 

LOL ... well, when someone posits that a given decision by race officials was "a deliberate attempt" to manipulate the competition, there has to be at least a little push-back, right?

In all seriousness, NASCAR deservedly gets ***t for those phantom debris cautions, but from a distance a shiny foil hot dog wrapper can look a lot like a piece of sheet metal. Let a driver airmail one of those into the crowd and have it turn out to not be a hot dog wrapper and imagine the grief NASCAR would get.

 

When the target audience is Michael Waltrip, you hit obscure pretty quickly.

 

So you're under the impression that NASCAR doesn't deliberately try to manipulate the competition? I bet you're still waiting for the Tooth Fairy.

 

"Doesn't" is not the same as "didn't in that instance" ...

 

Only when they're wrong.

 

Gene Frenette writing about rap may be proof the Singularity has arrived.

 

A few points:

1. The last caution was legit. Huge crush panel on the track. Jimmie plowed into the thing then it went soaring skyward.
2. Many debris cautions over the years have been questionable.
3. Fans don't like Jimmie because he's boring and people can't relate to him at all. It's hard to sell the "he grew up in a trailer park" story when he's got a supermodel for a wife. He's the Tom Brady of NASCAR. That, and he's completely dominated the sport for the last seven years and people are sick of him.
4. Those new Cup cars were absolute garbage. Took the most thrilling event of the year and turned it into something that more closely resembled a 500-miler at the Poconos. Not a good thing.