No, I don't watch to see crashes, especially not something like that when someone could have been killed.
It happened on a caution lap, which is the first odd event. You don't normally have crashes on caution laps obviously. Juan Pablo Montoya had been in the pit and was traveling up to speed to get back to the pack (allowed.) The jet dryers often come out during cautions to blow debris off the track. Montoya's car broke just as he was driving past the jet dryers, he lost control and slipped up the track crashing into one. Jet dryers are powered by jet fuel, which started to pour down the banked track and caught on fire.
Luckily Montoya and the driver of the jet dryer were both okay, though the truck driver was taken to a hospital for observation - the car crashed into the back of his truck and his driver side door and he doesn't have the safety gear that the race car drivers have.
No, they were hungry and wanted to grill some hot dogs.
Nascar is fun to watch and this race is one for the ages. Glad everyone is ok and nobody got hurt. First Monday race ever and it wasn't over until 1 Am.
My cousin and her family were there. Her husband works for Roush and had pit and garage passes. I don't get how Nascar or any car racing is a sport, but to each his own.
I'm struck by two thoughts, first that I've only seen the 500 twice and the first time Earnhardt died and the second time the track melted, so maybe they should just ask me to stay away, and secondly, the ability to not make judgmental comments about things you don't personally enjoy is apparently a learned skill.
I'm struck by two thoughts, ... and secondly, the ability to not make judgmental comments about things you don't personally enjoy is apparently a learned skill.
Not to mention the heat and g-forces in the car and the weight of the car they're man-handling in those conditions for 3+hours, combined with the mental gymnastics of doing all that inches from another guy doing the same thing.
That was one heck of a scary race for sure. When that car plowed into the dryer truck and that fireball appeared I was worried someone was not going to make. Thank God no one got hurt. And Danica.....can that poor girl ever catch a break???
I wasn't offended, Pam. Lots of people think racing isn't a sport. I just wanted to give some points about why I think they are athletes and it is a sport.
Lindsay's did rub me the wrong way, I have to admit. I COMPLETELY understand if you're not a fan of racing. It is definitely not for everyone & I don't try to hound people into watching. (Although, there's nothing like being at a race. I didn't get the bug until I actually went out to the track with Jason.) I don't understand why non-fans have to be snotty about it is all.
(They race on road courses too - so they do occasionally turn right.)
It was a joke... a memory of Robin Williams bit about NASCAR and Boxing (saying people watch NASCAR because of crashes like people like boxing because they watch people beat the crap out of each other)... I wasn't trying to be snotty.
At least when you go to a baseball game you don't leave with grit all over your face. Admittedly I have never been to a big race, but when we go to our local race track . . . it is grit city. Our local track hosts everything from stock car races to school bus figure-8 races, but it's still racing .
I am not a big fan of going to the races (I hate leaving feeling dirty), but from April 1st - mid-September I love listening to the races (we can hear them every Friday night). They start practicing at about 3:30, and we can hear them roaring around the track that is 1.5 miles away.
Part of the reason Group B rally cars were banned was because of the number of accidents involving spectators. You use to be able to get right next to the road.
We live just a few miles from the track at Daytona. During the 24 hour race you can hear them all night!! My son, a Fire Fighter, was working the Speedway for the races. He was assigned to the Pits so he did not fire that fire (because there was still fuel in the pits they are required to have Firefighters present) but they pulled most of the other crews for that one. They had just spent a future totally repaving the track, first time since it was opened in 1959, and did not want to see the new surface go up in flames!!!
Going to the races is fun, but you can see more of what is going on via TV coverage....
True. The few times our youngest worked security in the pits at the Vegas races, he would text me to see what happened.
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