Dick Whitman
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Go black guy!
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maumann
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Truly shows where this sport is right now that **** was the first to start a thread -- during the Daytona 500. (Not that anything at all was interesting during the offseason.)
tapintoamerica
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NASCAR Nation would melt down like never before.
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I'm not sure NASCAR even qualifies as a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area now.
Consider this: Daytona announced a sellout of its grandstand tickets yesterday, less than 24 hours before the biggest race of the year. Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Except the speedway has eliminated so many seats that the entire place -- including luxury boxes -- only seats 101,000. Smaller than Neyland, Michigan and the Rose Bowl, for starters.
Ten years ago, there were nearly twice that (a figure of about 180,000 seems to come to mind).
Consider this: Daytona announced a sellout of its grandstand tickets yesterday, less than 24 hours before the biggest race of the year. Sounds impressive, doesn't it? Except the speedway has eliminated so many seats that the entire place -- including luxury boxes -- only seats 101,000. Smaller than Neyland, Michigan and the Rose Bowl, for starters.
Ten years ago, there were nearly twice that (a figure of about 180,000 seems to come to mind).
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The Boston PD will credit Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough for popularizing Daytona so the black guy has a place to race.
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They started it last year. Races are broken up into three segments now. Each ends with a caution flag (except the last, obviously), and the leader at the time gets a bonus point for the season standings. I think the number of stage wins also factors into tiebreakers somehow, so there is some importance to them.
The idea was to generate some excitement in the middle of the race, when guys would otherwise be mindlessly turning laps. It's contrived, but hasn't been as bad as the idea seemed at first. It creates some checkpoints in the race, gives fans a chance to get a bathroom break, and does break things up a bit.
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One time I got a flat tire and Wendell Scott’s son gave me a ride. I don’t have five interesting things about me, so I’ll just put that one here.
Dick Whitman
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Congrats to Austin Dillon winning the Daytona 517.5
(I hate green-white-checker finishes)
(I hate green-white-checker finishes)
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At least they kept it green on the last lap after Almirola wrecked but was clear of everyone else.
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He finished second!
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The No. 3 spins the leader to grab the win. Hello, NASCAR, it’s nice to see you again.
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Like most pro sports, I think NASCAR really is hurt by the lack of full season sponsors. The STP car, the Tide Car, CAT, Goodwrench... better to limit the different looks to one or two races a year. I realize most teams have to cobble together sponsorships,, but it seems apparent that NASCAR is not sustainable. The ratings, the attendance, the operating costs.
I almost think a "senior tour" featuring the retired drivers with lower safety risk and emphasizing driving ability would be bigger than what NASCAR has now.
I almost think a "senior tour" featuring the retired drivers with lower safety risk and emphasizing driving ability would be bigger than what NASCAR has now.
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He really didn't do anything that hadn't been done probably a hundred times during the course of the race. And I'm not sure the bump was even what directly caused the wreck. It looked like Almirola recovered and then spun once Dillon and Wallace caught up to him and the air got sucked off the bumper.
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As someone who watches one NASCAR race a year, all the stage talk was too much. It would be like talking about playoff implications during the third inning on opening day or giving points to the team leading at halftime.
Any thoughts of tuning in to another race went away.
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It's so contrived. It's manipulating the end of the race just to guarantee an exciting finish.
If a baseball team scores 10 runs in the first inning, they still play nine innings. MLB doesn't suddenly declare that the team that is behind gets three extra innings at bat to try to come back.
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Don’t get me wrong, as an Earnhardt fan, I’m happy. Amarola pulled up in Dillon’s line, and if he didn’t want to get spun, he should’ve maintained his own line. I’m hoping these young guys get back to racing hungry, rather than the 500 parade laps we’ve been forced to watch for the past 20 years.
