Toyota Wins NASCAR Pole: Hospital ER’s Overflow
“Thanks” Dave Blaney! Next time you decide to make history at the wheel of your Bill Davis Racing TOYOTA could you give a little heads up?
Waiting in a hospital ER isn’t the most pleasant thing under normal conditions, but waiting in an extended line watching Dr. Phil clones tending to xenophobes suffering acute cases of “Toyota Derangement Syndrome” is just too much!
Regardless, congratulations to the crew of the #22, Blaney, Toyota Racing Development and Bill Davis Racing for winning the marquee’s first NEXTEL Cup pole.
The pole victory was Blaney’s first of the season and second of his Nextel Cup career. His other pole victory was in 2003 at Rockingham. Starting alongside Blaney will be the Penske Dodge of Kurt Busch.
Reed Sorenson and Johnny Sauter will make up row two. Infineon Raceway winner Juan Montoya was fifth quickest.
IN OTHER NEWS: “TNT to wow jaded NASCAR viewers.”
Shouldn’t that headline be written in past tense? Didn’t TNT, aided & abetted by Kyle Petty, WOW NASCAR viewers last week? Guess not as NASCAR’s “porn squad” declared it a “non-WOW” event by ignoring the incident. Not that it matters, it was on cable, who cares?
But, on to the point of the headlined story; At Daytona next Saturday night, TNT will unveil its latest broadcast innovation called ”Wide Open Coverage.”
In short that means no commercial breaks. It means “the bottom of the TV screen” [will be used] “for sponsor messages, on-screen graphic elements and other vignettes.”
The top portion of your Idiot Box will have continuous and uninterrupted racing action. So they claim.
Wooo-who, no commercials! At least not in the traditional sense. But it remains to be seen what “the bottom of the TV screen” means. If the area is say 10%-15% of your viewing area it shouldn’t be much of a problem.
If that “ad section” stretches much beyond that the racing action may be like watching a flea circus. Instead of watching the Lenox Industrial Tools 300 we may get a broadcast of the “Arthropod 300″ from NHIS.
We’ll see, regardless it should be an interesting experiment.
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Well good for Blaney. I’ve had the privilege of visiting the BDR shop in the pre Toyota days and I’ve always been a fan of him. Down to earth guy with his number in the phonebook (well, not like hes a celebrity but still).
In regards to TNT, sounds like some marketing hype to me that might work to some extent. But heres the thing. I didn’t buy my 52″ HDTV to watch poor quality cable coverage of the best thing on television on Sundays (during football’s offseason).
LOL, hope they win!
If nothing else the bitching from the maases will make me smile.
I’d like to see a Toy win also if for no other reason than to tweak a few brains.
Brett, HD or not I gave up watching EVERY major U.S. sport about 10 years ago with auto racing the only exception. Too many drug addicts, rapists, and wife beaters the leagues do nothing about.
A Toyo win would light up the dark stars!!
I too have a larger than life HDTV… I think the zoom function could nearly eliminate the banner ad’s if it’s too annoying
Good call Michael I’m pretty sure youre right about that.
Toyota winning sure would stir things up, but Dave Blaney wiinning would really be cool. Good guy, good driver and overdue.
Yota winning a NASCAR race this year? Not likely folks, not at all. I do hope to see them win, just to apply more pressure yet on their miserable F1 team. Soon they will come to their senses and hire Eddie Jordan to run their operation and fire all those Toyota type committee managers.
Can you imagine what Jordan would do with a 400 million dollar annual budget?