Re: Datona 500!
Well; three hours of dead air makes for a lot of talking heads doing backflips tryng to come up with something to say/show.
Good to see a decent guy get a win the hard way; contrary opinions noted, and respected.
When 26 cars finish the race out of a field of 43 and everyone's congratulating themselves over how great the sports doing this year, something's way outta whack, IMHO. Reminds me of the 'race' in the movie On The Beach]/i]. They drive identical cars with severely restricted powerplants, severely restricted chassis/suspension adjustments, identical tires, and call it more competitive. When a half dozen to a couple of dozen cars get wadded up into a furball, the call it exciting action, and praise the folks who design oacoons for drivers that don't even allow them enough freedom to see their own fenders, any of them.
Oh yeah, nothing wrong here.
Saying that, I'm still pretty much glued to the TV when NASCAR's on. Not so much that it's the best thing, but that it's maybe another instance where TV scheduling and ad marketing are manipulating the collective attention.
My lesson from all this: get off my ass and get outside..., do something, instead of watching somebody else doing something.
Friday, I was visiting friends in Port Orange, about 1/2 mile from Clyde Morris Blvd. The cars were out on the track practicing, and I could hear them from the driveway. They were advertising $55 tickets for Sunday's race, but in fact, they had all been sold out days before.
Oh yeah, tell me this isn't a money maker.
Greg
