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Vanvideo
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 08:25 am: | 
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The ending was a let-down. A little rain, and everything shuts down. I wish they would race in the rain. Doesn't Formula 1 do that?
And Dale Jr. - what was up with him? Two pit mistakes?? I'll bet his pitcrew was ready to drag him out of the car and kick his ass. |
Gunut75
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 09:24 am: |
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I had friends that swore up and down, they would never be NASCAR fans. I had some extra tix for the Michigan late race a few years ago, and took a few of them with. I can honestly say, if you have'nt stood next to the track when 30 cars come whizzin by at 170, you don't know what yer missin! On another note, I was a rear tire changer for two years, with International Harvester series. We ran late models, and ran right before the Truck, or Busch series. I lost a lot of hope for it the first time I went to a drivers meeting. The staff at NASCAR dose'nt do well to help any one driver out. They impose rules to make a team change strategy, not go faster or handle better. We may never see guys slammin doors across the finish line much any more. This is due to rising liability costs and a number of other things. The old street cars were the best to watch. Brute HP and the drivers had balls of steel. Yes, now it's a majority of primadonnas, governed by saftey rules and money. Of course the car had to change. That old 69 Torino could not hold one of those corners at 150 mph......passing someone. My hat is off to all the drivers, and their pit crews. If you think the cars are pussyfoot, go to Vegas, pay your money, and sit in the passenger seat of one of em. Let the car do the talking. When the driver and car are carrying you around the corner at 130 mph, and his foot is going for the firewall, your nutz kinda go back up in your body, and you get an unsettling lump in your throat, but, DAMN it's fun! Drivers and pit crews are the heroes of this game. It takes a special personality to WANT to go out and tango with a 3000 lb. dancing partner, when theres 42 other couples on the floor. I know I dont. I love the racing, I just don't like NASCAR's way of running the show. They try to keep it as safe as possible, and it has a profound effect on the fun factor. If the drivers have the nutz to lay it all on the line, and they know whats at stake, NASCAR should let em. Believe me, the cars can go a LOT faster than they do now. Man.....the rules SUCK! |
Buellinachinashop
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 09:25 am: |
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wtf is up with, "Boogity, Boogity, Boogity" and the freaking Gopher? What's next a split screen to Uncle Jesse's still? |
Danny_h__jesternut
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 09:46 am: |
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Screw NAS-CRAPPIE. IRL Indy cars #1! Danica Patrick, swimsuit issue? Is it so wrong to cheer for a HOT fast chick. NASCAR don't have one.
I thought the point of racing was to build the fastest, bestest car, to kick the other guys cars butte, If you can't keep up build a faster car or go home. Whats with nutered kit cars,equality? Leave paraity for the NFL(national fellon leage) |
Rubberdown
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 09:55 am: |
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The end of the 300 was superb racing. Damn fine race car driving. |
Lost_in_ohio
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:17 am: |
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Never raced??? You guys don't know a thing about me other than I am an jackass.
I raced Go Karts in a sportsman class in a regional series for more years and dollars than I care to remember. Some of the series members were Bobby Rahal and Brian Herta, now other than sort of a ceremonial thing I never saw them on the track but is still cool.
Just turning left isn't racing to me whether nascar or IRL.
Now I do enjoy endurance racing, I would love to attend the 24 hours at Daytona. |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:33 am: |
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Well, ya can't put evolution back in the bag.
I built, paid for, toted, and drove dirt track cars in the early eighties. I worked on friends cars through out the seventies. I wouldn't trade any of what I experienced and learned about not only the business, but people, and life in general. It was an awesome thing.
My compadr'es and I only got to watch Nascar back then when we were rained out or off for early season or late season, being from NW Pennsylvania.
I have friends who went on to crew for Nascar teams, and some are still at it in the WOO Sprints and Super Late Model tours.
Nascar was really cool back when the likes of Petty, Baker, Pearson, Roberts, and so on used to have to run dirt tracks in between the big venue super speedways.
A friend of mine bought a '70 Petty Satellite when the dirt track deal faded. He raced that Hemi car for about five years, until it was used up. I believe it was cut up to make a Sportsman class car at the end of its carreer.(that would have been a keeper if one had only known).
It is hard to be a fan of Nascar now compared with the earlier days. Innovation and ingenuity are quashed in the parity of the big show in order to make it TV acceptable and sale-able to the "new" fans.
It seems like it was more fun when racing was more about showing off than we have a big new shop and truck to pay for.
Oh well, I watch the first thirty laps, then sleep through the middle and wake up with thirty to go. Ya can't miss the wrecks, there are so many after the race shows, or you can wait until next week to watch it on the pre-race stuff. |
Buellinachinashop
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 10:57 am: |
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NASCAR should have a couple of "retro" races where all the cars would have to share same displacement, but anything goes after that. Call it "Engineers Show Case" races. Have two, one on a short track and one on a super speedway. No restrictor plates of course. |
Etennuly
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 01:25 pm: |
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Factory show room car bodies, no wings, double roll cages, unlimited engines, pit whenever you want, as much fuel and tires as you want from whatever brands. Go fast, turn left, try not to get dead. |
Buellfighter
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 01:38 pm: |
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Cool story Jerry...I've always been a Harvick fan since he stepped in for Dale Sr.
I told my friends he would win the Bud Shootout!! He had me worried for a while...but then!! |
Froggy
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 01:42 pm: |
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Vern that might actually make it fun! How dare you post such utterly ridiculous ideas!
It would be fun to watch FWD V8 Impalas duking it out against FWD V6 Camrys and a RWD V8 Charger. Pontiac can get back into the action with the G8! GM would get banned like Dodge did years with the super bee ago for being too fast. |
Edgydrifter
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 01:43 pm: |
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+1 Etennuly. I enjoy the current state of NASCAR racing just fine (especially in HD), but I do miss the days when the guys were banging around in Monte Carlos and Cyclones with welded-up doors. NASCAR is less "stock car" and more "Hot Wheels" now that they have the rigid uniformity of COT specs. |
Bikertrash05
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 01:57 pm: |
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The ending was a let-down. A little rain, and everything shuts down. I wish they would race in the rain. Doesn't Formula 1 do that?
F1 races in downpours! On my DVR I still have a race from a year or two ago, you could hardly see the cars! |
Indybuell
| | Posted on Monday, February 16, 2009 - 02:33 pm: |
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MotoGP in two weeks! |
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