Posted on 09/15/2015 7:57:46 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
If the ground doesn’t thaw out in the next couple of weeks I might take you up on that.
Daytona 500 is a month away. Seems like Homestead was just a few weeks ago...maybe because it was.
Regan Smith is in and Bowman out at Tommy Baldwin’s racing:
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2016/1/21/regan-smith-tommy-baldwin-racing-2016.html
Those body parts break easier, take longer to heal.
More on Tony w.nytimes.com/2016/02/03/sports/autoracing/tony-stewart-is-hospitalized-after-atv-accident.html?_r=0
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wonderful...
have you seen this??????
http://www.roadandtrack.com/motorsports/news/a27947/nascars-caution-countdown-clock/
NASCAR’s Camping World Truck Series revealed a brand-new feature that has never been seen in motor racing, and based on that fact alone, it’s worth asking how the NCWTS found value in an idea Formula 1, IndyCar, and every other major championship left on the cutting room floor.
Announced during NASCAR’s pre-season Media Tour on Tuesday, the NCWTS will actually schedule caution periods this season using a countdown clock. For those who are familiar with motor racing, a caution period is traditionally used when a problem arises—a car has crashed and needs to be retrieved, harmful debris is on the racetrack, or some other issue has necessitated a temporary halt to the action. With the new NCWTS caution clock, those halts will happen every 20 minutes, regardless of whether it’s needed.
And if a genuine caution period happens during that 20-minute countdown, NCWTS officials will tend to the stricken car or debris (or whatever), then restart the 20-minute clock once the race goes back to green. The clock starts when the race starts, starts again on restarts and, as a race-to-the-finish bonus, it will be turned off during the final 20 laps of the race.
Most NCWTS laps take well under one minute, so if we stick to time measurements, all but the last five to 10 minutes of most races will run without the caution clock.
If you’re asking the logical follow-up question of “why would they manipulate racing with unnecessary cautions every 20 minutes,” my answer is “I don’t know,” followed by a lot of cursing and screaming into a pillow.
No reasoning for the introduction of caution clock was provided by NASCAR, although we can assume it’s for the sake of keeping its races nice and spicy. With teams expecting to race for no longer than 20 minutes before NASCAR dims the lights and throws on a slow jam to pack the cars together, action at NCWTS events would, in theory, never fall prey to runaway victories.
Imagine if the NBA created a similar rule where it called timeouts once a team builds a handy lead. It would disrupt the momentum of the losing team while, possibly, cooling the jets of the streaking team. It would also leave those in attendance, and watching at home, with the feeling the outcome of its games are being manipulated by The Man.
The caution clock is pure sports entertainment. At least NCWTS fans will now have a handy countdown clock to schedule bathroom breaks, make sandwiches, or grab fresh beverages.
Nascar seems to be borrowing ideas from stick and ball sports.
This looks like another one of these, sort of like fixed time periods.
I think doing it in the trucks first is a good move.
the truckers will love it!!! not... let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence
I can’t believe I bought tickets to the NCWTS race...pissed away a few bucks, there.
I’ll give a post race report the morning after, providing this rule is in effect for Daytona.
thx, God but i hope it's just a scare... have fun
I can’t see the benefits of this rule on a 2.5 mile track. Maybe at a mile or mile and a half, where there are long green runs.
More details on Stewart's accident: Legendary drag racer Don "Snake" Prudhomme gave NBC Sports a first-hand account of Tony Stewart's accident in the Southern California sand dunes Sunday. Stewart and a number of current and former racers including Greg Biffle, Jeff Gordon, Ray Evernham, Rusty Wallace and Prudhomme were having a day of fun in the sun and sand when Stewart became separated from the group and went missing for about 90 minutes. Here's how Prudhomme described the incident to NBC Sports:
"We were riding these sand rails. We do that quite a bit. We were all together. What really happened is, it isn't hard to get split off from one another. In other words, if a guy makes a left turn and you're not watching his flags or there's dust or something, you can make a right turn and kind of get lost. So, we got mixed up and (Stewart) was probably missing for an hour-and-a-half from the pack, at least. He was missing, he was not there. We figured maybe he got hooked up with one of the other guys. Then we were stopped and kinda gathered up and started to shoot the s- and asked, 'Where's Tony?' One of the guys (on the dunes) came driving up and said, 'Hey, one of your buddies is hurt over on the other side of the hill.' "There was about three of us who went back on our buggies and we came upon him. He was laying there. He got out of it (the sand buggy) and was laying there in the sand on his back."
"We pulled up, asked 'How you doing, dude?' He was on the ground and said his back's hurt. We made sure he could move all his legs and everything, so everything was good there." Prudhomme said Evernham took charge of the scene. Gordon, car collector Ron Pratte and Prudhomme provided assistance.
See more information at NBC Sports.(2-5-2015)
What is a burst fracture? #14-Tony Stewart suffered a burst fracture of his L1 vertebra and had surgery Wednesday in North Carolina. There are varying degrees of burst fractures, said ESPN college sports and motorsports announcer and reporter Dr. Jerry Punch, who also said he expects Stewart to be out for months. Punch has not talked with Stewart and is not treating him but said the burst fracture is worse than a compression fracture. Denny Hamlin missed five weeks after a compression fracture of his L-1 vertebra (the highest bone in the lower back) in 2013. "[A burst fracture] is basically an explosion of the vertebrae, typically the body of the vertebrae," Punch said in a phone interview. "Unlike a compression fracture, where it sort of gets pushed down on itself, a burst fracture usually involves multiple fractures and multiple fragments. ... Normally when someone has a burst fracture, you're talking months of healing, you're talking people wearing these big lumbar braces for two to three months." Stewart will not be able to return until an MRI or a CT scan shows that the bone has healed. Stewart also will need to have rehab to strengthen his back if any of the bone fragments caused weakness to his spinal column, Punch said. "It's not like a broken arm where you can put a plate in it where you can deal with the pain and get in the car," Punch said. "With the back, it can impact your ability to walk and move the rest of your life. You can't take a chance on hitting something at all."(ESPN.com)(2-5-2016)
forgot to PING List, sorry.
See above.
Kind of reads like Evernham may have been the only sober one. And even then moving him probably wasn’t the best thing to do.
Oh, this is very serious. He is probably done with the sport, in any major fashion.
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