[Shotimes] (OT) Autocrosser Goes for Olympic Gold!

[Donald Mallinson]

Jeez James,  Geoff Bodines sleds are pretty well respected in the 
bobsled community.  That he built and raced some pretty fast cars 
doesn't mean he can't learn another skill, or already have it.

Didn't see a single beer sticker on the sled, or any other type, the 
don't allow it anyway in the olympics.  Better take all those beer and 
tobacco names off the F1 cars to meet your expectations. 

Also, don't you think that maybe, just maybe the way the sled placed had 
to do a little with driver skill and not ALL with the "Nascrap" 
people/sled?  And 6th place isn't considered laughing stock territory, 
lots of other "Formula 1" sleds from countries with a lot more bobsled 
history finished behind the US.  Here they are:

8. Switzerland 2 (Ivo Rueegg, Andi Gees, Roman Handschin, Christian 
Aebli), 3:41.80.

9. Russia 2 (Evgeny Popov, Sergei Golubev, Piotr Makartchuk, Dmitry 
Stepushkin), 3:41.93.

10. Latvia 1 (Janis Minins, Daumants Dreishkens, Marcis Rullis, Janis 
Ozols), 3:42.59.

11. Italy 2 (Fabrizio Tosini, Luca Ottolino, Antonio de Sanctis, Giorgio 
Morbidelli), 3:42.61.

12. Italy 1 (Simone Bertazzo, Samuele Romanini, Matteo Torchio, Omar 
Sacco), 3:42.84.

13. Austria 1 (Wolfgang Stampfer, Klaus Seelos, Juergen Loacker, Hans 
Peter Welz), 3:42.86.

14. Czech Republic 1 (Ivo Danilevic, Radek Rechka, Roman Gomola, Jan 
Kobian), 3:42.97.

15. Poland 1 (Dawid Kupczyk, Michal Zblewski, Mariusz Latkowski, Marcin 
Placheta), 3:43.02.

Not a Jamaican sled in the bunch, but one of the Jamaican sledders did 
participate on another sled, forgot which one or if they beat the US.

Bodine deserves a bunch of credit.  the US team is doing better with his 
sleds than previous ones.  If they weren't fast, they wouldn't use them.

A bunch of these "nascrap" people are pretty smart.  Most could buy you 
and me many times over with their petty (not Petty) cash!  :)

Don Mallinson

James F. Ryan III wrote:

>And in another automobile/winter olympics connection:
>
>The Americans failed again to win a medal in bobsledding.  So far, the only
>times we have won medals was in 1948 and 2002.  The Americans are the
>laughing stock of the bobsledding community.
>
>Enter Geoff Bodine and a few of his Nascrap redneck friends.  "We're goin'
>to apply Nascrap technolgy (isn't that an oxymoron?) to these here sleddin'
>thangs", he said, which was actually his 2nd affirmation.  His first
>affirmation was, "What size engine y'all runnin' in these here midgets?
>Huh....they don't use engines....ummm......are you sure?"  To which he
>immediately followed with, "First, you need to purty up these thangs with
>lots and lots of ugly beer, cigarette, and erectile dysfunction stickers.
>That'll make 'em faster."  (Now that was all just this writer's
>embellishment, but I suspect I'm not far from the truth.)
>
>If I was involved in bobsledding I wouldn't let those Nascrap a-holes
>anywhere near my sled - but that's just because I hate Nascrap and anyone
>involved with it.  A more logical way to make that statement would be, "What
>the fuck does a redneck from the south know about ice and snow?!?!?!?!?!?"
>
>Geez, if we wanted some "expert" technical advice we should have consulted
>the Jamaican bobsled team!!!!!!!  Atleast those guys have some bobsledding
>experience!!!
>
>Having a Nascrap redneck "take a look" at my sled makes about as much sense
>as Arabs controlling US ports!!!!
>
>In the end, after all of Nascrap's meddling and sticking their nose where it
>didn't belong, the 4-man US bobsled teams only managed 6 & 7th place
>finishes.  Thanks a whole helluva lot for nothing, Nascrap!!!!!  I guess the
>European bobsledding teams enlisted the expertise of Formula 1.
>
>Maybe for the 2010 Winter Olympics we should consult with CART/IRL teams -
>you know, people from the North who actually know what they're doing AND
>have actually seen snow!!!!
>
>"You know why they call the South the "heartland" don't 'ya?  'Cause the
>brains ain't there!!!!!"