Full Throttle

Homer: How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

Nextel Cup director John Darby speaking of running the CoT for the full 2008 season: “It’s a pain in the butt for the teams to run two parallel programs with two different race cars,” Darby said. “It’s a pain for us to manipulate and work and apply two different rule books, two different inspection procedures.”

The question that remains is what got pushed out of Darby’s, and by extension, NASCAR’s brain when they had this “two parallel programs” epiphany?

It couldn’t have been common sense. It was never a resident of any ones brain bucket otherwise they never would have hatched this hair-brained scheme.

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