Well since he's doing not so good in baseball, the sport he claims to know, i guess it's ok if we let him lead in neck-car! At least for a little while anyway! :lol:
So, how big a cesspool you all think Jr and Jr are in? I think it is pretty hard to breath down there. I also believe there will be a crew chief change before the second half of the season begins and then, more of a scent from the Hendrick camp. Guess Jr. believes that even though there is bad news, at least they are still talking about you. Good luck with that. I was dead wrong about SHR. I never would have thought the boff of em would be 2-7 in the points, much less contenders for the chase. Lot of season left but the happenings over there are proof that talent alone behind the wheel does not drive the entire ship. Kurt Busch runnin 3rd comes as a bit of a shock. The dodge camp as a whole has stepped up with their new nose but this weekend they bring a new engine package to the track so I am curious. Although the blue deuce is the lone dodge in the top 12, a few others are knocking at the door. JPM continues to show promise. Childress racing as a whole=WTF. HP seems to be their problem. Burton finishes well enough but it takes hat tricks to get up there, more credit geaux's to the driver. Without DEI to share engine partnerships, Childress is lookin pretty lonely. Casey Mears should give open wheel a try. The open ended science projects around the series has not done his namesake any good. The infant for the series, Joey Logano is showing that he is in fact, the real deal. Learning this car and having an ability to convey what he needs is getting better. The results are coming, the equipment is there, and he is surrounded by mega talent. This kid is gonna be a force, real soon. Hate Schrub all you want but guess what, the dude is infested with talent. Talent this sport has not seen in a few years. The moves this kid makes got bigger balls then the king himself. Notice how he does not have to punt a car up in the wall any more, he has gained the talent to get around just about anything he wants, anywhere he wants. If you are a hater, then be prepared to hate for a long time to come. His attitude is that of a child, his talent differs. Build a short track in New Orleans? I would love some opine on this matter.
where would one be built? the old jazz land (or whatever the name of it was, i cant remember) amusement park in no east? thats the only decent place i can think of.
Not sure but close enough to hospitality. A lot of pluses for the city if private investors cover the till but my thoughts mimic the article posted back a few and that is the city is a perfect fit. The hospitality is certainly there, enough so it would be easy to convince them to maintain a lower rate, low enough to attract fans on a budget. I believe it should be a short track, something between Martinsville and Bristol, the old Bristol. The food speaks for itself and certainly an opportunity to showcase the culinary talent in the region. Then you have the quarter, a place folks plan vacations around together with the rest of the city. Dunno, the feasibility is certainly worth exploration by some money bags. I would like to hear the cons.
Why a short track? Why not a 1.5 or even 2 mile? Now I wouldn't want to go with the cookie cutter tri-oval; we need something with a different flavor. But to attract a Cup event these days, I think you've got to have the potential for 100,000+ spectators at your event. That means a bigger track. I think the ideal place for such a facility is in St. Tammany Parish north of Slidell and Mandeville. That gives you a lot of highway access from east, west and north, and puts it in easy event-day distance from lots of hotel space in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Biloxi.
Well, there are a dozen 1.5ers plus and then the super speedways. There are only 6 short tracks of a mile or shorter. IMO, folks are about done with the cookie cutters, certainly in terms of new tracks being built. Bristol, before they repaved the joint, was one of the hardest tickets in all of sports in the US to obtain. Bristol seats 160 large! They expanded by over 50% since that beautiful day they cut the ribbon. Fontana has 93,000 seats and they cannot fill em to save their lives. This new car favors some good hard fender bending racing, it has a survivability rate much higher then the old car. I feel is another 1.5 is built, it is gonna be a hard sell. Folks wanna see wreckers and helmets flying, sad to say. Every short track on the circuit either sells out, or comes damn close. If the world told me NEAUX, then I would option for another Rockingham or Phoenix. I say a short track with 90,000 seats and room to add. Throw a couple of condos in turn two, back to the sun and laissez les bon temps roulez!
As I said, I wouldn't want to see another cookie cutter. But do we really want another Bristol? As you said later, the COT is good for beating and banging, but at the Bullring, the flipside of that is a ridiculous amount of cautions. Rubbin's racing, but at Bristol it tends to be too much of a good thing. Dover is along the same lines, but at a mile in length, the field spreads out a lot more and they spend a lot more time under green. I wouldn't be adverse to a duplicate of Dover.
That is a very good question! The today Bristol and the yesterday Bristol are two different animals. I would like a little of both. Drop the progressive banking in the straight aways and transition into the turns, sounds pretty dandy. In all fairness to the track, last two races there have set records for lower caution periods, but the chrome bumper is somewhat gone. Agree to make it Dover with asphalt instead of concrete and I will ask of your assistance on the exploratory committee! Asphalt is cheaper in repairs and should weather that fine southern heat wave. We will use concrete to build up the turns, sustainable building while keeping cost down. :grin:
