Category: Things

On a cool and windy night the drivers head to the drivers’ meeting to prepare for the race formerly known as the Bud Shootout.

Jimmie Johnson is doing a half-marathon (13 miles) tomorrow to raise money for his charity – The Jimmie Johnson Foundation.

SpeedTV has the hokeyest voice-over on lots of stuff with the Sprint Unlimited. It’s like the ‘wacky’ TMZ voice-over guy doing NASCAR voice over. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TACKY!!! It is starting to feel like the people in charge of NASCAR programming on SpeedTV feel the same disdain about NASCAR as the anchors on ESPN. Continue reading “2013 NASCAR Sprint Unlimited at Daytona”

John Wes Townley has the pole for Venturini Motorsports and teammate Milka Duno has the spot next to him. Milka leads from the green flag, leading her first lap(s) in the ARCA series.

Caution on lap 14 for Julian Jousse who has been riding around with steam blowing out of the overflow valve for 11 laps. Eventually, predictably, he blew up. Continue reading “2013 ARCA – Daytona – Race 1”

NASCAR is BACK!!! Finally!!! It’s been FOREVER!!!!! I’m so excited!!! NASCAR Live is on!!! Hoooorrrraaaayyyyyyyy!!! John Roberts! Yaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy!!!! And then it went downhill from there as the D squad showed up faster than anyone. Unfortunately Petty Kyle is back, and Stuck-in-a-Rut-ledge, Clueless Matt Clark and Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-or-Race-Time-Nicole Trotta. And she’s back to doing her scary ‘tv voice’. Ick!!! Where are the real NASCAR folks? And NO Dave Despain does NOT count! Continue reading “NASCAR IS BACK!!! HOORAY??”

What the hell does Danica Patrick have that a real driver doesn’t – besides a co-joined sponsor? I understand that money talks, but jeez louise, in her case it seems to out-shout the room! Danica has yet to prove she is a more talented driver than a huge number of people who immediately come to mind. There are talented young (and not so young) drivers out there spending a lot of time in sub-standard equipment, struggling to make a race. She is a she and she’s willing to make soulless concessions but that shouldn’t be more important, hold more weight than actual racing talent.

Why the rant? Continue reading “Racing with Training Wheels”