NASCAR running thread

Which drives home the point that it's not people with guns, it's people with mental health issues who have guns.

 

Seemed like a normal broadcast to me ... they certainly mentioned the NRA 500, etc., etc. There were a few plugs in there, which I assume are part of a normal broadcast.

 

I missed everyone then. I never heard NRA mentioned once.

 

They certainly did in the pre-race stuff ... I was at the race and was listening (on scanner) to try to get the low-down on Keselowski et al. with those pre-race inspections. And they had some normal (I would assume) plugs/promos that come with the sponsorship territory. During the race, I wouldn't have noticed ... I listen to the broadcast until commercials, when I scan through drivers, etc.

On edit ... perhaps we were talking past one another ... I was talking about the PRN/MRN (which is it, anyway?) radio broadcast.

 

I watched the race on Fox. Not the pre-race stuff, just the race itself.

 

Wouldn't surprise me if they didn't mention it on the teevee ... Now that I think about it, I don't know that they mention (on the tube) a lot of the race sponsors week in and week out. They don't call it the Food City 500, they say "Bristol," don't they? I know they weren't saying "The STP Gas Booster 500" at Martinsville last week. I could be wrong, but it seems like they just say "Martinsville". Maybe its absence was just more prominent psychologically because it was the NRA rather than Cheez-It?

 

National Rifle Association totally missed its target clintele. Drunken infield fan didn't use a rifle.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/14/nra-500-suicide_n_3082119.html

Sonuvabitch.

 

TV requires its own fee from the sponsor to use the name. If you don't pay, you get maybe one or two mentions.

 

Buried in this post: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/man-shoots-self-infield-nra-500-214951761--nascar.html

Annnnnnd ... waterytart beat me to it.

 

Interesting that they would choose not to buy it. Wonder why they did it.

 

Keselowski and Logano teams get hammered by NASCAR for unapproved suspension parts.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nascar-from-the-marbles/nascar-drops-hammer-keselowski-logano-penalizes-truex-jr-190953907--nascar.html

 

I didn't read the story, but was there a certain reason why all of them got suspended rather than just the crew chiefs or were they just tired of people bending the rules?