RIR NASCAR Cesspool
Hey, a scribe (or ink-stained wretch if you prefer) gets to leadoff the Cesspool this week. Bob Margolis of Yahoo! Sports, no you didn’t! Really! There are more than a few things to be critical about Victory Lane celebrations, (endless sponsor mentions comes to mind) but this isn’t one of them: “How comfortable were you with having to watch two models in victory lane hold up bottles of Crown Royal behind Earnhardt Jr. while he was being interviewed on television?”
WHAT bottles of Crown Royal? Did you see any? I did see two hotties, a blonde and brunette, but sorry, no bottles of Crown Royal! Welcome to the Cesspool Bob, and please, get your eyes checked!
This entry is so obvious it hardly deserves the mention, but I will anyway. Because I can. NOTE: KB, when you suffer the dreaded flat tire that drops you a lap or more behind the competition, it’s adviseable to wait so the crew can get that last tire across the centerline so as to not be assessed a drive-thru. Of course performing a [avatar:http://cranialcavity.net/files/butt-head.gif]cranial-rectal reversal[/avatar] by speeding on pit road during the very same penalty thus invoking a second drive-thru isn’t exactly the stuff of Einstein either.
Kevin Harvick, what can you say? Dominates the race, and loses. Making the wrong pit call and being an “only soldier” left on the track while everyone else is in happens so often the team doesn’t deserve a full dip in the Cesspool, maybe just a toe or two. And frankly anyone that claims it cost him the race is full of partisan BS. With over 100 laps to go at that point anything, and everything could have happened.
The next entry comes second hand. Ya see I don’t have the “pleasure” of seeing commercials during the Cup broadcasts. What I get are in-car camera shots during that time, including driver/crew chief communications. (hey don’t shoot the messenger, it’s not my fault!) Anyway I hear tell during Saturday’s broadcast 13 promos for the season premiere of the NYC fire department drama “Rescue Me” were shown. If that isn’t overkill and deserving a dip in the fetid feces this week nothing does. I don’t even want to guess of the 13 how many times FX returned to the action late and missed a restart or yellow flag.
Kasey, Kasey, Kasey. As the defending race Champion luck just wasn’t on his side. Kahne found early trouble that put him five laps down and he never was able to recover, eventually finishing 34th. Reportedly the mis-fire was due to a couple loose plug wires. It makes you wonder how the crew could take so long to find an obvious solution to the situation. Kasey, it ain’t you. The crew gets this dip for overlooking the obvious.
Next up, The Lady in Black, at night. That should be fun.
UPDATE: Kevin d pointed this out in the comment section and here’s confirmation, from the horse’s mouth (Bobby Labonte’s): “On the last stop, the left rear tire got put on the right rear and the right rear got put on the left rear,” he said. “That hasn’t happened in about a hundred years. I was wrecking after that. I just had to hold on for 40 laps.”
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you forgot one, i read that on Bobby Labonte’s last stop, the crew put accidently got the tire mixed up and had the right rear on the left side and vice versa. Bobby said he was just trying not to wreck the thing for the last 40 laps.
Nah.. I didn’t forget, just didn’t hear that as the reason he dropped from the top ten to the ass end of the field. But honestly, unless there was a very large difference in tire presures it shouldn’t have made a difference.
Back in the day (pre-radials) when teams used stagger I might buy it, but not now.
I’ll reserve judgement until I see a Labonte quote confirming it.