It was nice of CBS to let us view the race occasionally in between the
commercials. Good riddance CBS !
2_Slow
Don McCorkle
From Speedvision.com:
Dale Earnhart on "plate" racing:
"I've heard some drivers say we're going too fast at C***te, going too
fast here get the hell home! If you're not a race car driver, not a racer,
stay home. Don't come here and grumble about you're going too fast. Stay the
hell home!
"Get out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or on your ass.
Get out. Put the damn kerosene rags around your ankles so the damn piss-ants
won't climb up there and eat that candy ass."
Do you get the feeling he doesn't like plate racing?<g>
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Let's face it, network television just doesn't do auto racing well. Leave it
to ESPN, ESPN2, Speedvision, or TNN but the greedy bastards at NASCAR went
for the big bucks, and we as fans will end up paying the penalty.
Hmm...I thought it was pretty exciting. 3-wide much of the time, close racing,
many close calls, etc.
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I think ABC outdid them with the CART race today -- they must have take
commercial breaks every 5 freaking laps. Then, they can't stick around to
properly interview the winner because they have to cover golf (can't we miss a
shot or two of the golf???) AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!
"The moment someone's laziness makes my life difficult, I turn into an ***
with a cause."
Fortunately I didn't watch a single commercial during the event, due to
satellite feeds (which you don't get with non network races, it's amazing
what you miss, and the announcers were verbally disappointed that they had
to go to commercial breaks at certain times, and relieved that it's the last
commercial break.
> > I think I am going to stop watching races at Daytona and Talledega
> >altogether. 7/8" restrictior plates, 6700 rpm, 185 mph laps. *yawn*.
> >Just make the restrictor plates 1/4", you would have really safe racing,
> >at 80 mph.
> > Boring!
> > 2_Slow
> Hmm...I thought it was pretty exciting. 3-wide much of the time, close
racing,
> many close calls, etc.
> Eldred
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This sounds *so* much like the way in which F1 fans moan - we don'g get
overtaking in that, either. But I don't think rpm makes a difference -
F1 cars rev to 14,000 and beyond, and it's no more exciting as far as
the racing goes.
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> Jim
>> Hmm...I thought it was pretty exciting. 3-wide much of the time,
>close racing,
>> many close calls, etc.
>> Eldred
Eldred
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>I think ABC outdid them with the CART race today -- they must have take
>commercial breaks every 5 freaking laps. Then, they can't stick around to
>properly interview the winner because they have to cover golf (can't we miss
>a
>shot or two of the golf???) AAARRRGGGHHHH!!!
>"The moment someone's laziness makes my life difficult, I turn into an
>***
>with a cause."
Eldred
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