2010 NASCAR running thread

[Machine Head]

Are we at least all in agreement and universal approval of a very diminished Digger presence?

http://bit.ly/9AXzsq

DIGGER MUST DIE!

 

[derwood]

And shouldn't we be saying some guy nobody ever heard of won the Daytona 505?

520 but who's counting.

 

[Double J]

Some Daytona last thoughts:

The promo for this Sunday's race at Fontucky had 3x as many highlights and 10x the amount of actual excitement that we'll see in the race itself.

Fontucky's so boring of a track that me and my friends agreed that even if we were given luxury box passes behind the pits, going to a race would be debatable. New rules can't save this track. Only something radical like rebanking the turns or some other physical alteration can help.

What the heck got into Junior on those last two laps? Not sure I've ever seen him drive like that. Not a big Junior fan, but that was amazing to go back and watch. I'd love to see him drive like that again. Might've been one of the best individual pieces of driving that I've seen in a long, long time on a Sunday.

Most of the commercials were lame.

Krista Voda was dressed like a McDonald's regional manager.

All of which conveniently ignores the fact that the guy who led the Daytone 500 after 500 miles was not the winner.

Contrived WWE-style bullshirt.
No longer a credible sports. Just a show that now encourages agressive driving and crashes and scripts the ending.
But that pothole thing was a nice touch. Maybe they should include that in every race, kind like the water jump in the steeplechase in track.

If it's scripted, why would you script a relatively nobody like McMurray to win?

What they wanted was a script that ended with an EXCITING RACE TO THE FINISH!

Instead they got, did you cum? (No.) Did you cum? (No.) Did you cum? (YES!) forking finally.

And then KG finally, mercifully, got to go to sleep.

 

[spnited]

Scripted isn't the right way to put it. Contrived definitely is.

Thank you for that clarification, bubbs.

And WestCoast, I do not like figure skating. In fact, other than maybe a little hockey I probably won't watch one minute of the Winter Olympics except when it happens to be on in the office.

 

[DanOregon]

Maybe it's just me, but you would have thought Fox might have spent some of the downtime Sunday, recapping Speedweeks. Danica, the qualifying, the duels. I don't know how the pit reporters can still come up with questions after a 90-2 hour pre-race show.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Sort of unfair. McMurray's already won twice as many races as Cope.

It's more than just that. One-hundred seventy-seven drivers have won at least one Cup race. Of them, less than half have won more than three races. At some point, it's not just catching a lucky break. Jamie's a better driver than some other guys who had locked up sponsored rides for 2010 before he did.

(Not naming names, but the generic compound nouns Midwestern home supply center, Connecticut hand tools and brown trucks do come to mind.)

 

[Bubbler]

Didn't Derrike Cope win at Dover the same season he won Daytona?

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Didn't Derrike Cope win at Dover the same season he won Daytona?

Yep. Won a Busch race in ... eh. 1994? Seems like it. That's it for Derrike Cope.

The promo for this Sunday's race at Fontucky had 3x as many highlights and 10x the amount of actual excitement that we'll see in the race itself.

Fact: None of the clips shown in the Fontana ad came from Fontana.

What the heck got into Junior on those last two laps? Not sure I've ever seen him drive like that. Not a big Junior fan, but that was amazing to go back and watch. I'd love to see him drive like that again. Might've been one of the best individual pieces of driving that I've seen in a long, long time on a Sunday.

Best since his father, Talladega, fall 2000. The kid can drive.

Most of the commercials were lame.

Switched over to DirecTV's in-car camera channels during the commercials.

Krista Voda was dressed like a McDonald's regional manager.

Did you see the red velvet tuxedo jacket she wore for the pre-race show Saturday night?

 

[kleeda]

Random observation while sitting in the Orlando airport. A quarter of the people here are wearing NASCAR gear, and of that quarter, at least half are sporting 88 stuff. Hope never produced long odds.

 

[budcrew08]

I've never liked adding laps to have a green checkered. To me, it would be like deciding to wipe out an interception on 3rd down on the opposing team's 35 to give a team a shot at the game-winning field goal because it would be more dramatic.

If there's a yellow on lap 199, then the race should end in yellow on 200. None of this fake laps so we can have a nice finish.

I think far more people hate races ending on caution than the new rule. Bottom line is that everyone knew the rule change. Greg Biffle doesn't get to bench about it.

This.

 

[Bob Cook]

Now I'm getting the end-of-race Nascar rule change. The Frances realized how insanely popular soccer is getting in America, and they wanted their own version of injury time.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Now I'm getting the end-of-race Nascar rule change. The Frances realized how insanely popular soccer is getting in America, and they wanted their own version of injury time.

Nope. Fans hate races finishing under caution. Hate. As in "too many races ending under yellow drives down the number of people who want to buy tickets, buy souvenirs and watch the race on TV."