I love how I watch NASCAR. I watch Sportscenter. In about 17 seconds of coverage, I'm shown wrecks, fights, a couple of key passes, and the checkered flag. I save myself about 3:59:43 in time which I can use for other important things, like playing XBox.

I think Baseball can get pretty damned boring until the Pennant races unfold, Nascar is brutal.....

The amazing thing is the dude didn't die for it. 1100 degree air being blown from a jet engine, which explodes into an inferno upon impact, and then spills jet fuel which is almost impossible to extinguish, without letting it burn out....

Serious technology going on in those suits, that should have cooked him alive on the spot.

"You damn Northerners.  It's not that complicated."

Even an dumb Yankee like me understands they need to dry the track. My issue was why the contraption with the jet engine and the cars were on the track at the same time.  Isn't there someone in Nascar who ought to consider that a collision between two flammable time bombs might create a problem?

forsberg_us wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"You damn Northerners.  It's not that complicated."

Even an dumb Yankee like me understands they need to dry the track. My issue was why the contraption with the jet engine and the cars were on the track at the same time.  Isn't there someone in Nascar who ought to consider that a collision between two flammable time bombs might be spectacular for ratings?

Fixed it for you

LOL (and I did actually LOL. I didn't just chuckle warmly and try to pass it off as an LOL).
Why not just have the cars drive straight into a pit filled with live alligators and poisonous snakes? The first driver who gets out alive wins. Or is there an essential fire component?

APRTW wrote:

I have went from an casual NASCAR fan to almost forgeting it exist.  What I dont understand is why a car was traveling fast enough to lose control during a caution.

I wasn't watching the race, but happened to turn on Fox just after the wreck.  From what I could tell, Montoya had an issue with his car and was pulling into the pit on every lap trying to find the problem.  You know how that works--he goes into the pit while everyone else circles the track, then leaves the pit just before he gets lapped, circles the track and heads back into the pit.  I think he was in the process of trying to catch back up to the pack so he could pull back into pit row when something on the car broke.

forsberg_us wrote:

APRTW wrote:

I have went from an casual NASCAR fan to almost forgeting it exist.  What I dont understand is why a car was traveling fast enough to lose control during a caution.

I wasn't watching the race, but happened to turn on Fox just after the wreck.  From what I could tell, Montoya had an issue with his car and was pulling into the pit on every lap trying to find the problem.  You know how that works--he goes into the pit while everyone else circles the track, then leaves the pit just before he gets lapped, circles the track and heads back into the pit.  I think he was in the process of trying to catch back up to the pack so he could pull back into pit row when something on the car broke.

Seems to me with the billion rule changes NASCAR has each year they would have inacted a maximum speed litim during caution.

artie_fufkin wrote:

"the billion rule changes NASCAR has each year"

Really? There's that much discrepancy in an activity (I refuse to call driving a car, at any speed and skill level, a "sport" per se) that has its foundation in the concept that all stock cars are created equal? I guess they ought to have statute that you can't tie tin cans to your rear bumper and shit, but one would think the rules kind of dictate themselves.

They have done alot of things since the sport has become mainstream.  The luck dog rule, were the first car a lap down is given his lap back during a caution.  The new chase for the cup thing a few years back and now they add a few more spots.  Alot of stuff with saftey.  You cant pass below the yellow line now.  The green white checkers rule.  I am sure there are more because I dont follow closely.  NASAR and the NFL seem to want to address every issue with a new rule and it has made them both seem like a joke.

I would say the sport turned when Earnhart died.  That really shined a light on it for several years.  Now that light has kind of faded and the "sport" has tried to grab headline by staying current.  The car are truer to their name by being "stock" now then they ever have.  Before Earnhart's death the playing field was not equal.