This one is good.......BUT he forgot Canada.....
August 4 - Montreal 200, Montreal, Canada
If there's really 'good' video, are we all going to see it?
ThatsRacin.com Opinion | David Poole
OK, picture the buttons on the wall by an elevator:
The Up arrow is for David Reutimann
Driver banged up his foot in vicious crash at California, but thankfully he came through it otherwise intact.
Down arrow for Carl Edwards No. 99 Ford was a complete non-factor at California, a track where he Edwards has had a consistently excellent Cup history.
Down arrow for Mexico City In the first year, Busch race there had a little bit of buzz about it. Now, it’s largely just a nuisance to teams in foundering series.
Sideways arrow for Garage area health
Let’s hope an off Cup weekend helps ease an epidemic of “The Crud” that followed the sport from Daytona to California.
In my opinion…
Network television hooks up cameras looking at drivers from all kinds of angles and announcers are now “interviewing” drivers during pace laps or just before key late-race restarts. You can follow entire races from one team’s perspective on DirecTV, with a dedicated announcer-reporter-crew focusing only on that one car.
It’s great access for the hard-core fan, but could it go too far?
After David Reutimann wrecked Sunday at California, viewers saw him slumped over for a second. Maybe he had the wind knocked out of him, because he then started trying to get himself out of the car as rescue workers arrived. It was dramatic television, especially when the sound of his team calling for him to get out of the car because it was on fire was added later.
But if Reuitmann had turned out to be seriously hurt, would that have been something we would have wanted to see?
The more technology that’s allowed into the cars, the more pressure there is to show something that’s never been shown before. Are you worried, like I am, that if TV gets footage of somebody who may be seriously injured – or worse – they might not be able to resist the urge to use it?
In which situation was there more obvious peril? The final lap in the Daytona 500, with six to eight cars sliding all over the place? Or late in Sunday’s race at California with “debris” on the track with Jimmie Johnson leading? NASCAR, apparently, believes it was the latter, since that’s the occasion it threw a yellow flag.
Why doesn’t NASCAR just go ahead and change the rule that leaves cars trapped at the tail end of the lead lap when a caution interrupts green-flag pit stops? Just let those cars go around and get behind the leaders and be done with it.
For the life of me, I cannot see how it helps the Busch Series to force teams to take cars to Mexico City in between trips to California and Las Vegas and then have the field full of not only a double handful of Cup drivers but another sprinkling of road-course specialists on top of that.
OK, picture a thermometer now:
Hot
Ginn Racing is off to a pretty spiffy start, with Mark Martin first in points and Joe Nemechek two-for-two with solid finishes.
Tepid
Roush Fenway Racing got a Busch-Cup sweep from Matt Kenseth at California, but the news wasn’t very encouraging on other teams’ fronts.
Cold
Jeremy Mayfield’s new team at Bill Davis Racing hasn’t made either of the first two races. That’s an awfully deep hole to try to climb out of.
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