“We’ll Race This Way Until We Kill Somebody”: Insane Talladega Final Lap Accident Injures 8

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“We’ll Race This Way Until We Kill Somebody”: Insane Talladega Final Lap Accident Injures 8

Apr 26, 2009 13 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

http://patdollard.com Joe Average

About the time NASCAR started ‘restrictor-plate’ racing at Talladega and Daytona, I bought a Mustang GT w/ 302 c.i. (5.0).

I always said that I wanted a car that I could get OUT OF TROUBLE as fast as I could get in trouble. You need the ability to step on the gas and save yourself and others sometimes…

Until ‘racing’ and not ‘the big one’ is what NASCAR wants, it won’t change.
Kevin

If they had steering wheels that turned to the right as well as to the left they could have avoided it!

dilly

ooooooooooWEEEE them boy can circle!

Birdddog

That was great live! What a race! :beer: :beer:
Mrs. Scoot

That was an awesome race! Ever since the introduction of the Care of Tomorrow racing has been boring as hell.

Mrs. Scoot

OOPs Car

YERMOM

THAT JUST HAPPENED!
Scoot

I’m glad the fans that got hurt will be all right. But, Nascar isn’t to blame for this, Carl Edwards is. That was a bonehead move on his part, but yet he blames Nascar for his bad decision. Kudos go out to Brad K. for putting a great move on Carl, holding his ground, and winning his first Nextel Cup Race.
Lock and Load

NASCAR is basically running around in circles (no pun intended) when it comes to so-called safety innovations. Sure the Car of Tomorrow is a safer unit, and that is a good thing, but the cars are now so equal in performance that they cannot really outrun each other and giant wrecks like this are par for the course. So, in the interest of safety, they have in fact created an unsafe racing situation.
Years ago NASCAR lost its way when it started to treat racing like an “event” rather than a RACE, and the races have become sterilized from any true racing. Teams are able to protest if they think their car or manufacturer is “not on par” with the rest, and if this is found to be true by NASCAR inspection, then the other teams are hobbled to make it even… This sounds like the same mentality that Obambi and the MSM are practicing lately… punish acheivement If the best are not allowed to excel, then what is the point Why develop new technologies, or work your hardest to be the best, when it will be taken from you in the interest of “equality” Alas, when NASCAR has become politically correct and accepted the mantra of socialism, what is left

http://patdollard.com Joe Average

Lock and Load
Great Comments. Parody equals the Equality shit that fucks inovation and new technological development.

Shaun

Lock and Load

That’s correct but the bottom line is money and you can see from Indy Car & CART racing that viewers are not interested in real racing and the reason is because after 450 miles of racing (i.e. Indianapolis 500) only 5 cars are on the lead lap and the rest of the field doesn’t have a chance because the lead lap cars are so much faster.

Furthermore, the average guy can’t go out and build a car and compete with these race teams. You have to be a Roger Penske to fund race teams anymore and that means whoever has more money to throw at their teams car can build a better & faster car.

Back to the money, NASCAR learned that with restrictor plate racing you kept the field together throughout the race which made the race more interesting for all 500 miles and kept the attention of the TV viewers. This meant more advertising money generated from the “event”.

So it all comes back to creating a race (event) which can generate a lot of money and you can’t do that watching one guy lead the race for a 5 hour 500 mile race because its boring and viewers will not stay tuned.

Lock and Load

Shaun
Point taken, that money rules, and only “true” fans will stay tuned for a whole race. So, to keep the rest occupied, it has become an event. The main problem with the whole TV viewing concept is that the camera often spends all of its time on the leaders, missing some of the best action deep in the field. Perhaps if the camera spent more time watching the rest of the field, it would not seem so boring to the non-racefans, because there would be continual action and less boredom. It is a true shame that money and its considerations have really mutated true racing to just a shadow of its former roots.