Wonder how much $$ in hardware was trashed today for the entire race?
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04-26-2009 06:17 PMDamn I was positive he was going into the stands. I yelled and woke my wife up. Good thing he wasn't about two feet higher.....
Wow....Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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04-26-2009 07:07 PMSlowing them more won't change anything. It is the wad of cars that causes the problem
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04-26-2009 07:22 PMthey might have to look at the roof flaps with the cot. if you watch the one replay you can see the car turn and the flaps deployed like they should but a second later the car lifted about a foot or so high , it seems like with the old car would of kept its ass planted to the track. maybe it was just a freak accident also??
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04-26-2009 07:25 PMHitting the other car didn't help. It was going after up after that. Kind of like a punt.
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04-26-2009 10:48 PMFrom AP.
The Speedway's medical director said eight fans suffered minor injuries such as bumps and bruises and perhaps a couple fractures. Two fans were airlifted to a local hospital, one with facial injuries and possibly a broken jaw, the other with a medical problem unrelated to the crash.Getting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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04-26-2009 10:50 PMIt is amazing more in the stands were not hurt
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04-27-2009 01:31 AM
OK Jim... I'm going to ask you this (and I'm sure light of a storm of insults directed at me) but you're a real race guy, how do you watch this crap?! I've wrenched stock cars and sports cars. I've driven late models, sprint cars, super modifieds and any road race car you can name. I love certain types of roundy round racing (Outlaws, short track, supers, Indy cars, etc.) and I can't stomach 4 hours of this nonsense... how do you guys do it?
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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04-27-2009 02:38 AM
Dude.........Were you mad that the Westminster Dog Show was not on TV?
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04-27-2009 02:41 AM
I don't see how it could have been less boring and more unrelated to actual racing than the Nascrap Taxicab circus is...
"Tear gas and draft beer don't mix."
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04-27-2009 02:44 AM
I watched MotoGP and a little of the Grand Am race today (F1 on Tivo still and DONT spoil it!)...
Grand Am cracks me up... every time I see a Daytona "Prototype" I think back to what a buddy of mine said... "Dude! Have you SEEN those cars with the body off... It's like someone put a Trans Am car together backwards... Prototype?!? ha ha ha!" That buddy was the gear box guy on the AAR Eagle GTP car... A real prototype...
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04-27-2009 05:38 PM
Sean, don't you know about the NASCAR Nap? You watch the beginning of the race, then you nap for a couple hours, wake up in time to watch the last 25 laps or so. Anything you miss in between will be shown on Speed Channel about a hundred times during the next week. :smilielol5:
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04-27-2009 10:05 PM
I agree watching the plate races do tend to bore you to tears at times, that's where the Nascar Nap was invented for.... Although I was driving back home from the lake, a nice leisurely five hour jaunt and it was pretty interesting listening to Kyle's in car on Sirius...
With the exception of the cautions its non-stop for the spotters and crew chief, it did break it up and made it worth listening to. While I like listening to the race coverage at times they always hype it up too much when there just trying to click off some laps...
Fortunately I arrived back home with 30 or so laps to go and it was pretty good from there to the end... Kyle caused his own mess by trying to block way to many times but it was cool watching him try to save it...That in-car had to be pretty wild...
It was a good win for Brad, Carl bit on his feint up high and was just a split second slow trying to cover down at the bottom... I'm glad neither him nor Ryan Newman were injured.
They can slow them down but a wreck like this is always possible when you have several cars trying to win and looking for the same real estate... It was kind of a freak occurrence that Ryan's car lifted Carl's up in the air that high....If he wasn't right behind in the wrong place Carl's car would have just came back to the ground...
As for some good racing we went and caught the first night at Lake Ozark Speedway Saturday and the Winged Sprint Races where very good...Nothing better than Sprints & Midgets...