Full Throttle

Gather the women folk and children and rush them to safety! (and inoculate them against “NASCAR Nation Fever!”)

If you have a large boat anchor toss it into the backyard, the Earth’s rotation is about to speed up 10 fold and the stratosphere is about to be sucked into a black hole that once was the Pacific Ocean! (READ: The sky is falling!)

The absolutely unthinkable has happened! The unimaginable in our lifetime! An event that Nostradamus failed to see!

NASCAR has reversed themselves not once this week, but twice within the span of 48 hours.

National Stock Car Racing Commission, headed by Charles Strang, has reversed a previous commission decision on the Le Affair Robert Yates that occurred at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal on August 4, 2007. (out of spec shock absorbers)

The first appeal finding was to reduce the original points penalty.

This second-level and final appeal Mr. Strang found that “the results of the inspection process are not adequate to prove culpability on the part of the appellant or his associates.”

Mr. Strang therefore ordered that: The 25 NASCAR Busch Series Championship Car Owner Points shall be restored to car owner Robert Yates. The 25 NASCAR Busch Series Championship Driver Points shall be restored to driver Stephen Leicht. The $5,000 fine for crew chief Charles Barraclough shall be eliminated.

I’m not sure what to think. I’m breathless with disbelief, but there it is in black & white, justice served by a NASCAR bureaucrat!

Just in case this string of The Improbable continues I have a bit more writing to accomplish.

To be on the safe side you understand, but if there IS a Santa Claus, a real one and not Dear Ole Dad dressed to not fool anyone, I’ve got a very long list to compose.

It won’t hurt, it might be a long shot, but so is NASCAR reversing themselves in such a public and meaningful way.