I know my awesome readership of 5 people have been wondering; yes, I’m still alive. Taking a little break from the grind. Or maybe working up the courage to face the season opener for the IndyCar Series.
Make no mistake. It’s a good thing that there was a unification (although it has essentially been a buyout, not a merger). But there are still ugly things orbiting the series. Derrick Walker suing Craig Gore. No Paul Tracy. Forsythe taking his toys and going home. That sort of stuff.
The lawsuit between Walker and Gore promises to be interesting for no other reason than to highlight the regularly shady ways of doing business in which many racing team owners engage. But it also introduces a very unwelcome vibe of rancor and vitriol in a series that really doesn’t need any more.
I have to wonder how Long Beach is going to look like anything other than a gigantic waste of time and money.
And I also wonder how many of the brave souls that made the move from Champ Car to the IRL are quaking in their racing booties about the prospect of going high-speed oval racing.
Meh? NASCAR? What about it? The dullest season on record where the big excitement has been Tony Stewart getting his Sasquatchian back waxed. The only real exception has been the driving of Kyle Busch, a stone dickhead if there ever was one but also the guy who comes closest to Dale Earnhardt in ability and attitude in this era of white-bread drivers and corporate racing.
What the hell, at some point I’ll have to get back to work and this blog may pick up a bit more.
6 Comments
March 24, 2008 at 11:49 pm
hello friend. (3 of 5 here) (not to be mistaken for 7 of 9) (trust me on that…LOL)
I was wondering where the hell you disappeared to. Not that I’ve been all that prolific of late myself.
I must tell you, I’m feeling much the same as you at this point. (am gonna blog about it too!) (later though… it’s 2:47am and I’m zonked and a little punchy)
hang in there… no where to go but up right?
March 25, 2008 at 6:49 am
No news is no news, what can you say? Though I would have thought that Sebring was worthy of comment.
March 25, 2008 at 9:06 am
I didn’t cover Sebring, so that’s why I didn’t comment on it. I love Le Mans style sports car racing but I still have a hard time getting enthused about ALMS. There are some issues there that need to be sorted out (P2s beating P1s? Yow…).
March 25, 2008 at 12:02 pm
And doesn’t Kyle Busch have a face only a mother could love? Or maybe she can’t stomach those bug eyes and junk teeth either.
March 25, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Definitely a ferret face (no offense to Frank Burns). But he definitely has talent to offset his weaselity. If that’s a word.
March 26, 2008 at 2:03 am
Is Long Beach going to look like anything other than a thrown-together placeholder farce designed to just barely meet their contractual obligations?
Will we see the return of field-fillers extraordinaire, such as Shigeaki Hattori and Dr. Jack Miller?
Do the people of Long Beach care? Or is it just one big street party?
This race, I think, is going to essentially serve as the ultimate test of the “street party” theory. The racing will be a giant joke, and if the stands start emptying when that begins to dawn on people, the joke will be on open-wheel racing.
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