Posted in Grand-Am on Mar 26th, 2007 No Comments »
“The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things of rovals and rotaries . . .”
First, my apologies to Lewis Carroll, but the Rolex Grand-Am series race on the 24th of March was held on the ‘roval’ course at Homestead, FL. Roval course? Why sure, build an oval, add an infield […]
Posted in NASCAR, Indy Racing League on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Geez Louise, if you ever want to see both ends of the spectrum for race braodcasts you needed to watch the IRL [http://www.indycar.com/] race Saturday (3/24) and the NASCAR [http://www.nascar.com] race from Bristol (3/25). While the IRL has come a long way in building a respectable series with close racing (even though Dan Wheldon […]
Posted in NASCAR on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s good to see the mainstream TV channels broadcasting races, especially NASCAR. But I wish they would put some more thought into their programming. I get upset with fluff announcer and am SICK AND TIRED of this pandering to rock stars. Without exception, the women and crew chiefs are professional and informative, but some of […]
Posted in NHRA on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
It’s tragic that Force team Funny Car driver Eric Medlen died of injuries sustained during testing one of those 8000 hp behemoths. They are amazingly entertaining with their abundance of speed, noise, and flame, but they are probably the most unstable cars to drive in any form of racing. Yet the cars are cocoons of […]
Posted in Indy Racing League on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
It was thrilling to see the start of the Indy Racing League season at Homestead, FL, but excitement is lacking. Competition variety has been diminishing for over a dozen years, and now all cars are Dallaras running on the same Goodyear tires and using the same Honda engines. At least they haven’t sunk to the […]
Posted in NASCAR on Mar 25th, 2007 No Comments »
NASCAR’s “Car of Tomorrow” made its debut today at Bristol Motor Speedway. It has been touted as the sport’s great equalizer . . . It’s a pipe dream!
It is supposed to save owners money by reducing the number of racecars teams must build. The cars have fewer “gray areas” that can be massaged. NASCAR claims […]
Posted in Formula One on Mar 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
Talks for a F1 race – to be held at night under floodlights in order to boost its appeal to a European TV audience – took place on Sunday when the new season got underway in Melbourne.
Bernie Ecclestone is hoping to agree a deal with property billionaire Ong Beng Seng to secure a race, […]
Posted in Formula One, American Le Mans Series, NASCAR on Mar 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
What a weekend for racing! ALMS at Sebring, FL, Formula 1 in Australia and NASCAR wall-to-wall all weekend in Atlanta.
The American Le Mans Series is sports car racing (ostensibly two-seaters) and patterns itself on the riules used for the famous 24 hour race in Le Mans, France. They run two major types of cars, Le […]
Posted in NASCAR on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Well, here cars are supposed to be equal and the same. And everyone is supposed to have an equal chance. And the faithful teams that show up all the time are protected. But the end result is that over 80% of the previous year’s teams get such an advantage that all the newcomers and lesser […]
Posted in American Le Mans Series on Mar 18th, 2007 No Comments »
Again, once a province of technical innovation and original thinking, the schism between organizers has similar cars with different paint jobs that run in one series, and one brand dominating the other. Penske chose to align with Porsche for the second tier support class at Sebring, but Roger was humbled when an Acura effort in […]