This is Talladega
Race three of ten and it was a dandy with Dale Jarratt sneaking past Tony Stewart (the Burnstein boys' favorite driver) and Matt Kenseth on the final lap to take the victory. Steph's dad and brother, by the way, drove from Peoria to Talladega, Alabama for the race.
There were some big crashes, which I hear is not uncommon at the "restrictor plate" races, run at Talladega and Daytona. By way of digression, don't you just love that word "talladega"? It makes you want to stand up, wave your STP cap in the air, and yell boogity-boogity-boogity! It does. Anyway, the biggest and most controversal crash was the first, on lap 20 or so. The facts: Jimmie Johnson smacked into Sadler's car and this triggered a pile up, with Waltrip taking the worst hit and going upside down several times. But why did Johnson hit Sadler? Did Jr. cause it by hitting Johnson first? No one knows for sure and this, my friends, sums up the anarchy that is NASCAR racing.
There were some big crashes, which I hear is not uncommon at the "restrictor plate" races, run at Talladega and Daytona. By way of digression, don't you just love that word "talladega"? It makes you want to stand up, wave your STP cap in the air, and yell boogity-boogity-boogity! It does. Anyway, the biggest and most controversal crash was the first, on lap 20 or so. The facts: Jimmie Johnson smacked into Sadler's car and this triggered a pile up, with Waltrip taking the worst hit and going upside down several times. But why did Johnson hit Sadler? Did Jr. cause it by hitting Johnson first? No one knows for sure and this, my friends, sums up the anarchy that is NASCAR racing.
"I don't know what happened ... but all anybody can say is, 'This is Talladega.'"Link
posted by david burnstein at 3:41 PM
1 Comments:
WOW i was just reading through the links from freakonomics and i find a post mentioning tony stewart.. tell your boys tony has fans IN BRASIL, my wife is from there and we live in the northeast, and when i went to the GP in sao paulo (F1) i had a home depot tony#20 baseball cap, and got a lot of thumbs up from people who recognized it.. BTW restrictor plates would not be necessary IF all cars were equal (wasnt this the original idea behind stock?) i dont like them one bit, but i understand why they do it..
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