Another good race is in the can. Good way to spend a Monday afternoon. It was like a doubleheader. The first game I’ll call the Pocono Pit Challenge. A great thing about Pocono is when the rubberband raises its ugly head, you have the beautiful vista to feast your eyes on. Then there was the […]
Category: 2009
Reflections On The Brickyard
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 […]
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 […]
Reflections On New Hampshire
Another good race is in the can. It shouldn’t end that way, but sometimes it does. Maybe it’s the COT and/or the restart rule, but amazingly New Hampshire may no longer be the waste of asphalt it has always been. It’s been a death trap. It’s given us some of the worst races in Nascar […]
Reflections On Sonoma
Another great race is in the can. That’s a thrilling race. Lots of fun, a beautiful venue, constant battling, strategy – tons of strategy- and points. It’s a great exhibition, but I’m not so sure there should be points involved. So, is it 11 or 12 turns? Maybe Larry Mac can do the calculations. I’ve […]
Danica Patrick
Is it just me or did Ms. Patrick just dis Roger Penske? According to quotes from Danica today, she indicates Sam Hornish Jr. does not drive for “any of the top teams” and his team “does not have the resources”. Before she decides to “up and drive Nascar” (as Harry Hogg would say) further homework […]
Reflections On Michigan
Another good race is in the can. Well, that finish railroaded my post plans. Mark is certainly the one you’d expect to be able to pull that off. Has MIS reverted to its mode of old – high speed wagon train with fuel mileage the major factor? To TNT summa cum laude for its free […]
Preflections On Michigan
The 1st Cup event I attended was this race 18 years ago. Emerging from under the stands and beholding the track and the brightly painted cars queued on pit road for the first time was as awe-inspiring as your first trip to a Major League Baseball game or the scene in the Wizard Of Oz […]
