By Erik Tomas.... the Raceline Radio Network Newsletter Update (May 8, 2008)
NASCAR’s most popular driver crashes out 3 laps from a win at Richmond that would have wiped out a 71 race victory drought and suddenly stock car racing is supposed to be a no-contact sport? Give me a break!
Take 43 cars on a track less than a mile long, under the lights, and guess what gang, cars ARE going to come together sooner or later, because the “big one” doesn’t just happen at the big restrictor plate super speedways.
At my favourite NASCAR facility, and heard live on several Raceline Radio Network affiliates I have to add with delight, we got taste of good ol’ fashioned short track warfare on a Saturday night at Richmond Virginia. It reminded me of what happens at countless local neighbourhood ovals up and down The Raceline Radio Network!
Just past halfway, our Quebec buddy Patrick Carpentier, after a brilliant 4th place start, a NASCAR career best, got snared in an 11 car entanglement. Somebody got sideways, lots o’ tire smoke and the chain reaction wadded up plenty of sheet metal. Carp’s # 10 got kicked around like an old soccer ball! Shades of things to come.
Fast forward to those 3 laps to go. Dale Earnhardt Junior fans will tell you up and down between tosses of beer cans that Kyle Busch didn’t have a car to catch Earnhardt Junior, so he stuffed him. Baloney! Watch the replays.
If there had of been 10 laps to go instead of 3, Kyle would have slipped under Dale easily. Junior’s car was pushing, it wasn’t turning well, so he was drifting up the race track. Busch’s car was loose. With laps running out, these 2 guys simply didn’t give themselves enough room as they battled door to door for the same chunk of race track. You just knew another Richmond wreck was seconds away.
Sure enough! Junior came down on Busch as Kyle started to slide up. Boom. Trouble was Junior went into the wall and Busch carried on unscathed. It could have very easily been the other way around. But E is NASCAR’s darling, and Busch is ultra-aggressive upstart! Moronic boo birds armed with beer cans erupted. I hope they found some of these clowns and ejected them from the premises permanently.
As I ranted last year when, ironically enough, it was Dale Junior who pleaded with fans NOT to throw beer cans ( some of them full!! ) when a call goes against their driver, there is absolutely NO excuse at ALL for throwing ANYTHING on a race track, or ANY sport playing surface. If you ever feel the need to do so, you need to see a psychiatrist.
71 races without a regular season win. His new Hendrick team was supposed to fix this. Dale Junior was very frustrated in his TV interview. But he handled it well, saying he got wrecked, but he stopped short of accusing Kyle Busch of stuffing him. That’s because he didn’t.
True southern fried NASCAR fans call it, “one o’ them racin’ deals.”
Once again they’re right.
Short little sub script here. My father died last week. He was in his late 80’s. We didn’t get along for a long time, and that’s another story, but Dad introduced me to this sport back in 1960 when I was 7 years old. He took me to our local dirt track, Merrittville Speedway in St. Catharines. He wasn’t a huge fan, but thought I’d like it. Like it? I was hooked for life and it’s grown into my full time occupation. I’m even back there as track announcer on Saturday nights, and my daughter Katelyn just started as a scorer there. Merrittville’s also where I met my wife Janice.
For getting the wheels rolling…..Thanks Dad.
Keep those belts tight and your eyes up!
ET
COMING UP: Sunday May 11th, 2008
“The Business of Motorsport!” Tissot CEO Francois Thiebaud on how their involvement with NASCAR and The MOTO GP Bike Series helps them sell watches world-wide… Yet another installment in our “Canucks in Cup” Series as we catch up with Toronto’s Marty Gaunt and his new gig at Bill Davis Racing… and our Tissot/Raceline E-Mail Bag contest to win one of Francois’ watches!
BROADCAST SCHEDULE:
AM 900 CHML Hamilton FLAGSHIP LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
The FAN 590 Toronto Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
The FAN 960 Calgary Sundays 11:06 PM Mountain
CJOB 68 Winnipeg LIVE Sundays 7:06 PM Central
780 KIXX Halifax Saturdays 10:30 AM Atlantic
105.1 THE RIVER Niagara Falls Mondays 9:06 PM Eastern
CFCY Country Charlottetown PEI Saturdays 5:00 PM Atlantic
AM 800 CKLW Windsor LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
TEAM 1040 Vancouver Sundays 12 Midnight to 1 AM
TEAM 990 Montreal Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
TEAM 1260 Edmonton Sundays 11:06 PM Mountain
KHJ Fredericton NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
AM 1220 Cornwall Sundays 5:00 PM Eastern
KHJ-One Oromocto NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
KHJ-Two New Maryland NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
CAT 99.5 FM Truro NS Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
Country 105 FM Peterborough Mondays 10:06 PM Eastern
AM 790 CIGM Sudbury Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
AM 1070 CHOK Sarnia LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
AM 570 News Kitchener Mondays 7:00 PM Eastern
NASCAR’s most popular driver crashes out 3 laps from a win at Richmond that would have wiped out a 71 race victory drought and suddenly stock car racing is supposed to be a no-contact sport? Give me a break!
Take 43 cars on a track less than a mile long, under the lights, and guess what gang, cars ARE going to come together sooner or later, because the “big one” doesn’t just happen at the big restrictor plate super speedways.
At my favourite NASCAR facility, and heard live on several Raceline Radio Network affiliates I have to add with delight, we got taste of good ol’ fashioned short track warfare on a Saturday night at Richmond Virginia. It reminded me of what happens at countless local neighbourhood ovals up and down The Raceline Radio Network!
Just past halfway, our Quebec buddy Patrick Carpentier, after a brilliant 4th place start, a NASCAR career best, got snared in an 11 car entanglement. Somebody got sideways, lots o’ tire smoke and the chain reaction wadded up plenty of sheet metal. Carp’s # 10 got kicked around like an old soccer ball! Shades of things to come.
Fast forward to those 3 laps to go. Dale Earnhardt Junior fans will tell you up and down between tosses of beer cans that Kyle Busch didn’t have a car to catch Earnhardt Junior, so he stuffed him. Baloney! Watch the replays.
If there had of been 10 laps to go instead of 3, Kyle would have slipped under Dale easily. Junior’s car was pushing, it wasn’t turning well, so he was drifting up the race track. Busch’s car was loose. With laps running out, these 2 guys simply didn’t give themselves enough room as they battled door to door for the same chunk of race track. You just knew another Richmond wreck was seconds away.
Sure enough! Junior came down on Busch as Kyle started to slide up. Boom. Trouble was Junior went into the wall and Busch carried on unscathed. It could have very easily been the other way around. But E is NASCAR’s darling, and Busch is ultra-aggressive upstart! Moronic boo birds armed with beer cans erupted. I hope they found some of these clowns and ejected them from the premises permanently.
As I ranted last year when, ironically enough, it was Dale Junior who pleaded with fans NOT to throw beer cans ( some of them full!! ) when a call goes against their driver, there is absolutely NO excuse at ALL for throwing ANYTHING on a race track, or ANY sport playing surface. If you ever feel the need to do so, you need to see a psychiatrist.
71 races without a regular season win. His new Hendrick team was supposed to fix this. Dale Junior was very frustrated in his TV interview. But he handled it well, saying he got wrecked, but he stopped short of accusing Kyle Busch of stuffing him. That’s because he didn’t.
True southern fried NASCAR fans call it, “one o’ them racin’ deals.”
Once again they’re right.
Short little sub script here. My father died last week. He was in his late 80’s. We didn’t get along for a long time, and that’s another story, but Dad introduced me to this sport back in 1960 when I was 7 years old. He took me to our local dirt track, Merrittville Speedway in St. Catharines. He wasn’t a huge fan, but thought I’d like it. Like it? I was hooked for life and it’s grown into my full time occupation. I’m even back there as track announcer on Saturday nights, and my daughter Katelyn just started as a scorer there. Merrittville’s also where I met my wife Janice.
For getting the wheels rolling…..Thanks Dad.
Keep those belts tight and your eyes up!
ET
COMING UP: Sunday May 11th, 2008
“The Business of Motorsport!” Tissot CEO Francois Thiebaud on how their involvement with NASCAR and The MOTO GP Bike Series helps them sell watches world-wide… Yet another installment in our “Canucks in Cup” Series as we catch up with Toronto’s Marty Gaunt and his new gig at Bill Davis Racing… and our Tissot/Raceline E-Mail Bag contest to win one of Francois’ watches!
BROADCAST SCHEDULE:
AM 900 CHML Hamilton FLAGSHIP LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
The FAN 590 Toronto Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
The FAN 960 Calgary Sundays 11:06 PM Mountain
CJOB 68 Winnipeg LIVE Sundays 7:06 PM Central
780 KIXX Halifax Saturdays 10:30 AM Atlantic
105.1 THE RIVER Niagara Falls Mondays 9:06 PM Eastern
CFCY Country Charlottetown PEI Saturdays 5:00 PM Atlantic
AM 800 CKLW Windsor LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
TEAM 1040 Vancouver Sundays 12 Midnight to 1 AM
TEAM 990 Montreal Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
TEAM 1260 Edmonton Sundays 11:06 PM Mountain
KHJ Fredericton NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
AM 1220 Cornwall Sundays 5:00 PM Eastern
KHJ-One Oromocto NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
KHJ-Two New Maryland NB Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
CAT 99.5 FM Truro NS Tuesdays 9:06 PM Atlantic
Country 105 FM Peterborough Mondays 10:06 PM Eastern
AM 790 CIGM Sudbury Mondays 7:06 PM Eastern
AM 1070 CHOK Sarnia LIVE Sundays 8:06 PM Eastern
AM 570 News Kitchener Mondays 7:00 PM Eastern
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