Another edge of seat race is in the can. I’ve never shied away from calling out Nascar when they seem to make questionable decisions. I’ve also tried to give them credit where credit is due. (Somehow, I’m guessing there have been a lot more of the former than the latter.) So let me just say, […]
Author: Gary Erdakos
The Patellar Reflex
Another race is in the can. Once again, if the actual racing isn’t water cooler fodder for the week, Nascar’s decisions are. As they say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. I know somehow there’s a reasonable solution to having fair restarts. However, Nascar’s decision vis-a-vis the 16 and the 2 was not it. […]
Clean Air Act
It is beyond my ken why Nascar continues to prefer ( and has for many years ) the racing off pit road be more important than the racing on the track. They must, or they would have fixed it by now. Well, maybe not. They also haven’t been able to figure out how to conduct […]
Carlington
A first ever “throwback” race is in the can. Another in a long list of races that Nascar just can’t help itself to get out of the way and let the race play out. It was an almost perfect evening. (Last Saturday at Darlington.) 40% of all Hall of Fame dignitaries on hand; Nostalgiac paint […]
Thick(headed) As a Brick
Another race ( and avoided tragedy ) is in the can. It appears the independent contractors ( aka drivers ) are going to have to chip in the money themselves if they want SAFER walls everywhere. Actually, there’s probably more than one of them that has the means to fund the whole thing alone. But […]
Hello Walls…
I’d like you to meet SAFER. Oh. You’ve met. I guess your actuarials have calculated the odds of anyone hitting any particular part of a wall and weighed that against $500 per square foot. Sorry Kyle, Denny et al. Unfortunately you picked those obscure spots. Daytona (aka Nascar) spent 400 million on improvements, but couldn’t […]
Bush Clash
And so it begins. Another opening weekend is in the can. I get the sense whenever Nascar can find a monkey and a football, they will do their best to put them together. I agree with what most ( or all?) of the drivers had to say about “Knockout Qualifying”. Of course, the shills in […]
I Had a Dream..
The other day there was a race. It was called the Snowball Derby. In the field were Nemecheck, Grissom, LaJoie, Elliott and Kenseth. None of them were named Joe, Steve, Randy, Bill or Matt. Man, I’m getting old. On a lighter note, Nascar’s corporate racetrack partners (including something called International Speedway Corporation which is of […]
Justified
Seriously. Were Boyd Crowder and Kevin Harvick separated at birth? They both also like to engage in pranks. Nascar came out smelling like a rose – by one point. We learned at least one thing from the Championship race: you need more than just “heart” to become the champ. Farewell to Allen Bestwick, Dale […]
A True Champion (?)
Imagine… a driver so good he didn’t need to run the full schedule, has had one top 5 in the last 10 races, has 1 victory through 97% of the season ( at a track where Ron Bouchard, Bobby Hillin and Phil Parsons got the only win of their careers ), and was middle of […]
