NASCAR in the Inland Empire
“A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.” -T.S.Eliot
The above quote sums up this pre-Fontana, Inland Empire, Sony HD, Hollywood Pander 500 post. It’s about everything or nothing, dependent on your point of view. The reality is there has been no single overriding issue this week that rates an entire post devoted to it. So I’ve assembled a whole bunch of nothing, mixed in with a little bit of something and came up with the following:
NASCAR apparently rolled out what it thinks is it’s “greatest” accomplishment achieved so far of its Loop statistics program. With two events left before the Chase their Loop stats tell the suits in Daytona’s corporate HQ that there remains over 500,000 possible combinations for the final make-up of the Chase.
Ah-huh. Yea, ok. I pulled out me trusty abacus and it tells another story. Total combinations 2: 1) Everything remains the same as it stands going into the Chase, 2) or one driver is out and one driver (Kasey Kahne) is in. Everything else is superfullious BS.
Every NASCAR season brings another example of the tried and true Bump and Run tactic. This year brings a new Sheriff in the town of Bump and Run. Philip Morris is leading the Late Model standings at Motor Mile Speedway by a scant 17 points over rival Jason Lawrence.
Lawrence’s car owner, Tim Harris wanted Morris suspended following a NASCAR review of a pit road incident 12 days ago between a Morris crew member and driver Kelly Kingery. That didn’t happen. Then an “anonymous supporter” of Jason Lawrence tipped off the The Roanoke Times that the points leader had been charged with two counts of public records forgery and two counts of improper use of an inspection sticker while performing his day job.
“The guy is a snake,” Harris said. “The people in the know know what happened. He ain’t lily-white like everybody thinks he is.” Helloooo “Mr. Anonymous!” “IT remains to be seen if the legalistic version of the Bump and Run will get Morris suspended from competition, NASCAR spokesman Jeremy Davidson said such situations “are handled on a case-by-case basis.”
Speaking of superfullious BS, why is Michael Waltrips hair a story? I guess many others are facing a lack of writing material this week also.
Clance is back after her “vacation,” sort of. She had planned to take in the Fontana event this weekend. That was before she decided to mix a few shots of tequila, a hill and a pseudo “stock car” with the driving prowess of Buckshot Jones. Hey, nice picture though. If you like X-rays! Get well soon Clance’!
Let’s stray of the NASCAR “reservation” for a second. Would you believe studying the Ferrari teams F1 pit stops has assisted “doctors at a U.K. children’s hospital completely transform their procedures.” It’s true! It’s true! AutoBlog has the story.
And finally, I received a comment on a post “informing” me of a new NASCAR.com service offering free photocasts “of your favorite drivers streamed directly to your desktop or blog.” My BS gauge hit redline when I noticed the name associated with the comment was linked to a PR firm. The link was deleated as it ran afoul of my comment policy and a quick review of the linked site didn’t show any outward connection to NASCAR but… Having said that, why would I want NASCAR’s crapola on site anyway. Just what will they be offering my site in, say, December? Live pics of the birds nesting around Lake Norman? No thanks.
Moreover, NASCAR’s site design is trash and the vast majority of contributors I don’t really care for. I mean really, they can’t even have one of their own writers give each weeks race report, they rely on the AP wire service. Sad, very sad.
NASCAR, NEXTEL Cup, Sports, Fontana, California, Auto Racing, Motorsports, Full Throttle
Site design is trash…
Goes to show NASCAR doesn’t listen to me. (There’s a joke in there that many may not “get”.)
The “new” additions have fueled to make it even worse, and further from standards compliance than it was before. Not to mention it loads even slower.
That’s OK though… really. Something is brewing on the horizon, and NASCAR.com will either step up to the plate, or find themselves no longer the major news source for NASCAR…
What? Hey, anything is possible as long as there’s hope right? Tweet tweet tweet…
Neeexxxxxtt uuup!
I got the same crap through our contact form amid all the ticked off people that decided to write and tell me why they thought I was on crack because I said the racing at Bristol didn’t suck. I came to the same conclusion as you did, by the way. Then, you get there and it’s nothing but a download for your desktop. Raise Flag. Even if I wanted to add that crap to my blog, it wasn’t possible, unless it’s changed in the last 48 hours.
If you’re not one of our buddies, there’s no free ride. I’ve got better things to do with my time, and space.
You are right though, it was a slow week. Which is probably good considering I’m still drying out from last weekend!
Ya I got the same link too. I didn’t even try it. I’m always cautious when it comes to things like that and I very rarely link with anything like that.
I must be a very slow week if all we are writing about is some crappy link that no one wants.
on crack because I said the racing at Bristol didn
Well, I try to keep it family safe bubba. lol
Of course, it’s hard to offend a sailor. We’ve all got a “mom” and a “sister” ya know.