Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion The Water Cooler Daytona 500 picks

Oh, I add 3 hours to races. Unfortunately, with the rain delays Indy's been having that's not been enough.

Rick, I agree that the race should have been run much earlier. It really is a shame, as you said, when a race is called for weather and darkness. Hopefully it's a lesson learned.

I hear you, seems like the Indy 500 historically has been plagued with their own rain delays in the past.

I was watching the Winternationals drag race from Pomona a week ago and the final rounds got rained out, said they'll be ran on Monday morning and will be aired Monday night and I couldn't find it anywhere. The eliminations on Sunday were pretty wild, with the slick and cold track conditions I believe every pro car that ran had to do a lot of back peddling to get traction.

Did anyone catch Lemans a few years ago in the poring rain? some of the rooster tales would have put speed boats to shame.

Adrian I've been to the Rolex 24 at Daytona a time or two and have seen the rains come, first time I saw them run in the rain I was totally amazed with how slow they had to go with the slick tires whenever it first started to rain to how freaking fast they were on the rain tires. You're right, the rooster tails would have put an unlimited hydroplane to shame. The motorcycles are equally impressive.

F1 in the rain is highly amusing. They're nuts.

Remember when Schumacher ran into Coultard in the rain? that was a close one.

Now THAT'S crazy.

Ken one of my racing buds went to Indy for the F1 races and tried to get me to go every year but I didn't go for whatever reason and now I can kick myself in the azz for not doing so ... he told me the TV just doesn't do those F1 cars any justice whatsoever, said they were insanely fast.

I remember the days when the green flag for all afternoon NASCAR races was at 1:00 pm (ish). They have turned the pre-show into a bit of a circus. That is probably Sprint driving most of this. I don't think Winston cared as much. They seem to be trying too hard to match the Superbowl IMO.

Don't get me started on how NASCAR seems to manipulate the rules so that certain drivers get to win or get away with stuff. I remember in 07 at Pocono, J. Gordon car sucks, due to green flag pit stops, he is leading the race, Newman is 2 inches from passing him for the lead, and we get a yellow flag for rain, Gordon wins. I can think of a dozen or more other cases where a Hendrick car wins due to similar situations. I half kid with my wife that my fav driver could win 3 championships in a row if he cheated too, in reference to Chad Knaus's spotty record.

Jr, Gordon, and Johnson are the poster boys for NASCAR. Jr. and Vickers both need to be hit hard for they're driving yesterday. But I doubt we will see any of it. And you don't see any real critical analysis of the comentators either. "just a racing deal". Every one is a slave to their network / sponser.

We need a Don Cherry or Dave Hodge (CBC NHL personalities) for NASCAR!

paul