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Terrible Daytona 500
02/18/2020 | Tnoldman

Posted on 02/18/2020 12:53:34 PM PST by TNoldman

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To: humblegunner

Without change I would not watch or attend again.
So unless they put you in charge you’ll sit home and pout.

Man, I bet that has the bosses in a tizzy.

Way to tizzy up them bosses.

Man, I loves me some sarcasm, but here? You ain’t seen sarcasm like the kind that Freepers can spew. Well played, very well played.


21 posted on 02/18/2020 4:16:41 PM PST by sgt_lau (Being tolerant to the most intolerant people on the planet is a losing proposition. Reject islam.)
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To: glasseye

“ Check out IMSA”

What he said. But nothing beats a good F1 race. But they are rare.


22 posted on 02/18/2020 4:38:10 PM PST by moehoward
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To: glasseye

I was with BFG back in the early-80s (Lola T616) and mid/late-80s (Porsche 962) IMSA GT-P Race Teams, and it was fun!


23 posted on 02/18/2020 4:44:58 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Lib-Lickers 2
I went to a few NASCAR races when I was in the Marine Corps in the early 1980s. I remember the tailgating in the parking lot and the red coolers full of Budweiser. The sounds of revving engines and the smell of racing fuel and burning rubber in the air. Always deep blue sky with puffy clouds above.

Never did make heads or tails out of what was going on down at the track. But otherwise I had a swell time going to those races.

24 posted on 02/18/2020 4:48:05 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Trump (61); Butt (23); Commie (21); Fake Indian (8), Crazy Amy (7); Slow Joe (6); Drunken Weld (1))
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To: TNoldman
the blame is squarely at the feet of NUTScar...

they wanted drama, so they manufacture it, and they got it.

25 posted on 02/18/2020 4:54:54 PM PST by Chode (Send bachelors and come heavily armed.)
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To: TNoldman

I was there...what a race...President Trump leading the racers, Jimmy Johnson being honored, the flyover and yes, the results was great... JH Nemechek coming in 11th in his first NASCAR cup race and yes, the Blue Oval with Rousch Yates Engines doing great. The race was safer than any weekend in any big city like Chicago.


26 posted on 02/18/2020 6:49:52 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Svartalfiar

That was the theory behind the old IROC series. Get a bunch of top drivers and put them in identical Camaros. Race em and see how they do. As we know it didn’t last.


27 posted on 02/18/2020 7:39:06 PM PST by xp38
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To: glasseye

The races I go to are ISMA rather than IMSA.

The supermodified is a unique class of cars and the best racing is in the pack not for the lead.


28 posted on 02/19/2020 5:43:39 AM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: xp38

From what I recall,Earnhardt and Mark Martin did really well in those race.


29 posted on 02/19/2020 5:45:51 AM PST by pnz1 ("These people have gone stone-cold crazy")
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To: pnz1

Yes they did. Looking over the wiki page they first used a Porsche then Camaros followed by Dodge Avengers and Pontiac Firebirdss. Mostly NASCAR drivers won but some of the early years had Indy car drivers winning.


30 posted on 02/19/2020 6:08:50 AM PST by xp38
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To: humblegunner

do you have to be an a$$hole to everyone?


31 posted on 02/19/2020 6:12:21 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: relictele

I noticed that too

It’s as if they thought the race was boring so they constantly injected side bits about the cameras in the cars and other race trivia...


32 posted on 02/19/2020 6:14:43 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K
do you have to be an a$$hole to everyone?

You think I should play favorites?

33 posted on 02/19/2020 6:17:21 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: TNoldman

NASCAR has really struggled with the aero on these cars. I noticed when cars pulled up behind each other as the car behind approached it would make the lead car loose and then the trailing car would close the last couple of feet like slamming a door.

IMO, they need to get air going under the cars again and leave more to the drivers. Ryan Newman drove like his nickname suggests - Rocketman - and was within feet of winning and damn near got killed.


34 posted on 02/19/2020 6:30:37 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after the rain started.)
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To: TNoldman

Do you see any parallels between Americans and the primative Romans who fed victims to the lions for sport. I cannot call racing in front of a blood-thirsty audience “sport”.


35 posted on 02/19/2020 6:33:43 AM PST by Rapscallion
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To: IamConservative
they need to get air going under the cars again and leave more to the drivers.

When they are flying wings, they are not race cars. The only answer is slowing them down to say 100mph, and that will never happen.

36 posted on 02/19/2020 6:34:05 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Conserv

“Car of Tomorrow”. Restrictor plates. “Green gas”. Messing with the tires. Kowtowing to special interest groups starting with dropping the Winston Cup out of cowardice.

I love racing. 1/4 mile, sprints, dirt, NASCAR... heck... even the World Wrestling League of motor sports... Monster Trucks.

Anything where a human on a machine goes out and pushes the limits of physical endurance and technology.

NASCAR and Busch/Xfinity are shite. More about pretty logos, buzz words, and petulant owners/drivers. They’ve dumbed it down, focus grouped it, and made it “safe” for mass consumption.

Boring...


37 posted on 02/19/2020 6:55:51 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: humblegunner

At least your endless campaign against blog pimping has a purpose.

This was just being mean for the sake of being mean.

He’s entitled to his opinion without your mocking it.


38 posted on 02/19/2020 7:44:27 AM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: Mr. K

Point taken.


39 posted on 02/19/2020 7:50:52 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: Conserv

I had almost the same experience. Kept checking in and it was always in caution, a comercial or blathering commentators. I’ll check it again in another 20 years.


40 posted on 02/20/2020 12:54:47 PM PST by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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