The 2021 Running NASCAR/IMSA/other racing things thread

It wasn’t as over the top this week, if only because he he took himself off the lead lap early misjudging a turn and then not knowing how to reverse back onto the course. But he still gets lots of check-ins for a back marker, plus a ton of Carvana ads and an in-race promo read. And I get they need the cash, but that opening race was brutal (even though he acquitted himself ok making laps.)

 

Canadian Grand Prix officially off, to be replaced like-for-like with another round at Istanbul Park.

F1's Canadian GP replaced by Turkish GP amid pandemic

 

Healing thoughts to ARCA driver Derrick Lancaster, who suffered burns at Talladega and is on a ventilator.

Just watched a replay and the car stepped out of line and hit hard on the right front, knocking the fuel pump/filter loose and him unconscious, perhaps.

Fire is still my biggest fear for one of these folks strapped inside. The cabin fire extinguisher can only do so much.

 

That’s a lot of stages. Maybe they should have actual heat races instead.

 

Details …

 

They screwed the pooch last year in Bristol. They needed a lot more laps. The stages were ridiculously short. I’m sure they’ll screw this up, too.

 

Dang, just saw Charlie Glotzbach died at 82.

He was sort of the Tom Sneva of his day in NASCAR. Super fast (set the Talladega track record at one point) but never really at the competitive level of the Pettys, Allisons and Pearsons. Could have won the Daytona 500 several times, particularly in 1969.

Along with Fred Lorenzen and Paul Goldsmith, one of the top Midwest drivers who ran all the high-paying races instead of competing for Cup titles, back when drivers had to survive on purse money.

RIP, Chargin' Charlie.

Charlie Glotzbach obituary: NASCAR star dies at 82 – Legacy.com

 

Live look at the committee coming up with this plan:

 

The all-star race might be entertaining if there were some consistency to it. Changing the rules every year even when the race is almost always on a tri-oval gives me a headache.

 

It would be more fun if instead of screwing around with the order, tell the teams to set their cars up like any race - then do a draw to figure out which driver is going into which car. Yeah, confusing a bit - but we'd find out which teams have the drivers and which teams have the cars.