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Fryer’s Five: NASCAR neutered Talladega
TALLADEGA, Ala. – There are only a few things you can count on each year from NASCAR, and a great race at Talladega Superspeedway is pretty much guaranteed.
By great, I don’t mean the spectacular wrecks that have come to signify NASCAR’s fastest track. What makes Talladega so special is the bumping and the banging, the slicing and dicing for position, and the white-knuckle race to the finish line.
So if Sunday was your first exposure to Talladega, well, you sat through a tremendous letdown. That race fell far short of expectations, and nothing NASCAR says or does is going to convince anyone otherwise.
A pre-race ban on bump-drafting through the turns essentially neutered the race.
Why can’t they run half the race Counter Clockwise and half Clockwise...
Yah, that was about as much fun as Dale Jarrett’s last win at Michigan.
Dude, don’t we need to go check the smoker again? Hate to see all that pig burn... wait, the Vikes are playin, right? Can I go buy some more beer? Series game? Good Eats reruns? Backgammon? Need some help with that laundry? Sock drawer? Dang, you’ve got a lot of leaves in the back yard...