Re: Real big race coming up


"armpit" <udontneedit@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >> "Julia" <jpchick83@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >> > On 2005-08-29 12:18:42 -0400, "Daniel" <sabot120mm@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> >> > said:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> armpit wrote:
>> >> >> >>> "galloping.moron" <nascar42@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> >> >> >>>> The usually great race at California
>> >> >> >>>
>> >> >> >>> Any credibility you had went circling down the bowl with that
>> >> > statement.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Huh?
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > yeah, most of us realize that any credibility he had went
>> >> >> > circling
>> > down
>> >> >> > the bowl about 3 years ago.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Have they found those dreaded Iraqi WMD that I said did not exist
>> > today?
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Who are "they"? Nascar? I don't think they are looking for WMD in
> Iraq.
>> >> > (This is a Nascar group, right?)
>> >> >
>> >> > And getting back to the OP, I'll ask you the same question SteveO
> asked
>> > of
>> >> > Electrician in another Anti-Bristol post:
>> >> >
>> >> > Which track do you attend?
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> I am sort of partial to Las Vegas since I live there and it is a short
>> >> drive. I have also been to Michigan and Indianapolis and Fontana. So
> I
>> >> live the big tracks where the cars go 200MPH like they are supposed to
>> >> rather than the little, narrow, antigue relic, single lane, crashfest,
>> >> caution flag period tracks where the actual race results mean less
>> >> than
>> >> nothing because there is no room to really race.
>> >
>> > Don't knock it till you've been there. Bristol is a great race, IMO,
>> > but
>> > you
>> > have to go there to really appreciate it. The stadium-like atmosphere
>> > really
>> > puts Bristol over the top as far as best races to attend. And there
> ain't
>> > a
>> > bad seat in the house, unless you're in the Earnhardt terrace behind
>> > one
>> > of
>> > the posts that support the skyboxes. Someone once asked me where was a
>> > good
>> > place to sit at Bristol, and I simply told him, "Inside".
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I have no problem with other people loving the short track NASCAR races
>> to
>> death. I just do not like them because I feel that they are unfair to
>> the
>> better drivers and teams. The is no place to race and no place to go if
>> somebody gets sideways. That is not sport, that is a lottery.
>>
>> I think Homestead had a brilliant idea with the progessive banking but
> every
>> track cannot be Homestead either.
>>
>
> To each thier own. I just like to watch a good race, and many of the
> bigger
> tracks allow the field to get sprawled out to the point that there isn't
> any
> racing at all, just a bunch of guys making laps like an F1 race.
>
> And Bristol would be better if they slowed the cars down by taking away
> aero
> & mechanical grip. Keep the HP the same, though. The general rule is the
> faster the cars, the narrower the groove.
>
>

WTF are you talking about? The narrower the track means the narrower the
groove. Don't be making lame excuses for lousy tracks.


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