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Originally Posted by Seadog
If you are a real race fan, how can you be bored at a race? Some are better than others but they're all good. Compared to what I did last night, which was leave work and go to the grocery store, and go home and do some "honey do" chores and then go to bed, I'll trade places with you any day. I couldn't even get the god darn video feed to work.
Unbelievable - people go to a race and still beotch.  |
Seadog,
I tried fighting this battle last week and it's like pissing into the wind. There are just some people that don't appreciate the fantastic racing they get to see week in and week out. Never mind the fact that there were some really great battles mid-pack in the midget race between Whitt, Kuhn, Bowman, etc. Or how about Dave Darland going from 24th to 14th in the first 15 laps of the silver crown race, including passing 5 cars in two corners? Apparently because there aren't constant side by side battles for the lead it is a horribly boring race...wrong. These are probably the people that find the freight train of tintops on Sunday unbelievably exciting...
I saw Ryan Newman come back and put his guts on the line...going three wide on at least two seperate occasions. If you look at more than the first five cars in the race you might find that there are great races to be found.
I'm sorry for going on these rants what seems like weekly anymore, and I'm not calling anybody out...but why must we have threads complaining about a race that was certainly intriguing...and lucky to be run considering the weather? Appreciate what you have...it may not always be here...you may not always be here. This year I have seen some of the best races in my memory...Brad Kuhn's last lap pass for the win at Bloomington, four fantastic races during ISW including Kamp which I still claim as one of the best I've ever seen, the Little 500 which was a hammer and tong battle between two greats that this race fan will never forget, the Indianapolis 500 which I know some people despise anymore but it's still a tradition to our family, my first trips to Gas City which was awesome and Lawrenceburg which was quite the show in itself. I, for one, go to bed each night dreaming of the races past and eager for the ones to come...not saying you should...but respect the men putting their lives on the line for your "boring" races...they could leave us at any time. And my thoughts are with John Surtees and family as well, he lost his son in a race at Brands Hatch last week and and it was just a sad deal all around.