Another race is in the can. That’s what I’ll call a Pete Barbutti race – a long way to go for a punch line. I’ll concede everything’s wonderful about Indy. Everything but the racing. If your thing is watching a wagon train cross Nebraska, this place is for you. The ESPN crew did a fine […]
Month: July 2009
Preflections On Indy(400)
If you have the opportunity to go to the Brickyard this weekend (or any weekend), don’t – unless you’re a member of the glitterati, feting a client, or just a glutton for punishment. On a non-race weekend it may be OK to use the golf course. I was there once – several decades ago – […]
Reflections On Chicagoland
Another race – and great finish – is in the can. Remind me. Why did Nascar think it necessary to enter the Chicago market? Here’s a track with less than half the seating of a handful of other tracks and less seating than the overwhelming majority of all the tracks, and – the economy notwithstanding […]
Reflections On Firecracker 400
Another good race – and great finish- is in the can. Unless you were on line or maybe listening to the radio, it wasn’t until lap 73, when TNT put up a graphic of lap leaders (plus some deductive reasoning), that we learned definitively who led the first lap. We also were treated to another […]
