[Shotimes] (OT) Re: NASCAR numbnuts

[James F. Ryan III]

>"Real Racing"?  There might be some forms that suit you 
>better than NASCAR, but to call what these people do 
>anything other than real racing is showing how much you 
>really don't know.  Ever been on an oval at speed?  I have, 
>and I can tell you, that just by yourself it is scary.

Don, have you ever been in a commercial airliner at 30,000 feet, with
thousands of pounds of jet fuel under your feet, screaming along at
500mph in an aircraft made of Aluminum (wearing nothing more than a lap
belt)????  Now that's scary!!!

Driving around in a circle is neither scary nor exciting.





>
>Having said that, I admit that I enjoy europeon sedan 
>racing, rallye, dirt track and Trans-Am more than NASCAR 
>most times, but the round track stuff can be quite exciting.
>
>As for caution periods.  When you don't have any TV 
>schedules to worry about, and all your fans are from less 
>than 50 miles away, you can run events late, but a typical 
>NASCAR race has so many more people in attendance, and TV 
>and other concerns including security, employees etc, that 
>extending the race by an hour or more sometimes would be a 
>disaster. A NASCAR race event is a LOT different than your 
>red clay track, or the dirt track I went to most saturday 
>nights as a teen.
>
>You have to think beyond the race track to understand why 
>they do some things the way they do.
>
>Don Mallinson
>
>MonsieurBoo@aol.com wrote:
>> "Real racing can be found on your local track, not in NASCAR.  And 
>> it's sad
>> to say that."
>> 
>> Case in point, this silliness about ending the race under caution.
>> Talladega, where they ran the last six laps under yellow (in 
>first gear on a 2-mile 
>> superspeedway) because one guy in the back of the pack spun 
>out, didn't touch the 
>> wall, didn't dump any debris or fluid, just kept going 
>around to the pits to 
>> change his flatspotted tires.  Ain't no lame excuse about 
>safety concerns 
>> gonna make any sense out of that.
>> 
>> Back in the 70s in Hawaii when we were running at a 1/4 mile 
>red clay 
>> track
>> in the middle of the sugar cane fields on Saturday night, 
>caution laps never 
>> counted with less than 20 to go.  We ran it like that for 
>every class from 
>> claimers to super sprints -- and we got good finishes every 
>time.  Now the big boys 
>> got all these weird new rules, but yet can't fix the 
>simplest damn thing that 
>> would send everyone home happy.
>> 
>> Mark LaBarre
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