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Bristol used to be about tempers and pay backs… not so much this Sunday.
What happened to the sheet metal hanging off of cars that barely resemble anything drivable? |
No fights or angry words…what has become of this track?
Our ruthless Racing Maniac leader is out this week and I am but a pathetic substitute.
So…until I sub again,
Southern Tundra aka Carolyn Brewster
Camera or Super Star: How ‘bout neither. Digger, NASCAR’s most annoying rodent, is selling his junk not only on Fox.com but also on DW’s website. That makes two more cyber stop I’ll never make.
Keep it Simple: We live in America. We speak English. We read from left to right. Why does Fox find it necessary to display the starting grid in reverse order running right to left across the screen? Please…not every aspect of the broadcast needs to be unique- just show me the freaking line-up so I can read it.
H*** is Freezing Over: Tickets for Thunder Valley were available for the first time in years. Something I never thought I’d see in my lifetime… kind of like donkeys flying. What’s next… Derrick Cope becomes points leader going into the Chase? By Saturday, though, not a seat was left in the house extending the sell-out streak to 54.
Da Race- Sir Mark may not be winning but he sat on the pole for the second race in a row. Something is better than nothing.
Yellas- Andretti (what’s RM’s nickname for him… “just-average-andretti” would be generous) enjoyed a nice interaction with the banking, to bring out the first caution. Then a lapped average-andretti gets into Blarney who was running second. Blarney in the garage. All in all, nine relatively boring yellows.
Tempers- Pretty mellow for most of the race. MontYOYO showed a bit of his Colombian temper early when he got a warning for tapping McMuffin. No real tantrums and the race ended with way too many cars intact.
Green White Checkered Finish- Little Logano blows an engine with about seven laps to go making his other two Gibber teammates work a bit harder (but not much). The lack of bumping and banging was disappointing the majority of the race but especially in the final few laps. I miss the days of drivers throwing shoes at Bristol.
Kudos- To KidKyle who dominated the whole show in his Snickers ride. Poor Hambone- always a bridesmaid never a bride. But a big bravo to Joe Gibbs who went one-two and had his number 20 barely locked into next week’s race at Martinsville.
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There were plenty of empty seats at the race. If you looked closely at the stands or better yet, if you talked with anyone who attended, they will confirm it. Most of the seats were probably of people who bought tickets last year who did not use them and could not sell them. When you live 50 miles from the track and turn down free tickets, that should tell you something. The interstate going by my house (I live 50 miles northeast of the track on I-81) had fewer RVs traveling to and from the race that I have ever seen.
with the “quality” of this race, I think there will be tickets available to anyone who wants them for the night race.
When Digger becomes the more interesting part of the race, you know the race really sucked….. and it did!! Thinking back a year when the COT was first run at this track it was really boring too. It is now a game of follow the leader, hardly any 2 or 3 wide. Passing has become nothing more than me passing a car on the 2 lane roads where I drive, all very gentlemen like.
It seems like Nascar and the track owners have started to use the same fuzzy Math our wonderful elected leaders use. The track has sold out, full house etc. when you could clearly see plenty of empty seats. I would not waste my money to go to a race anymore and frankly I don’t much care if my satelite goes out during the race. We keep turning on the race but now only to listen to DW and gang and even that has become a strain on them, trying to make really boring races sound exciting. If only DW and gang could really tell us what they think.
Nascar has forgotten there roots, the people who really made this sport grow to what it is. Us blue collar workers are now not important to them. Well Nascar is no longer important to me either nor my friends. We have all decided that for the next 4 weeks we are going to get together at different locations and do outdoor stuff with all our families together, BBQs etc. and see if we really miss watching the races or give them up forever. No recording the races either. We can read about the race the next day. I have a feeling that our family/friend time is going to win out.