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One Good Thing about IRL and ChampCar
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Re: One Good Thing about IRL and ChampCar -
11-06-2006
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"Von Fourche" <Khonakong (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:6qv3h.3046$0r.917 (AT) newsread1 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net... Say want you want about the IRL and ChampCar and F1. There's one good thing that I think we can agree on - at least their seasons are not as long as NASCAR. Ugh, how long is the NASCAR season going to run? It just goes on and on and on. It seems like there have been five races left the last eight weeks. "After this race, only ten more races!" "After this race on twenty more races!" Over and over. So, after this Texas race there are only two more races left? I know when I turn on the pre-race show next weekend the announcer will say "Only five more races to go including this one!" When you run so many races like NASCAR who really cares who wins the championship? I sure don't. NASCAR at this time of year is boring. If it is so boring why are you hangin on the every telecast? Granted I am feed a troll a bit but everyone has to do that once in a |
grew up enjoying is gone. I watch a few minutes at the beginning to see
how they said goodbye to Terry Labonte, and watched the last few laps.
The rest I had other things to do. If I watched 15 laps it was a lot.
All this from a fan that used to miss maybe 15 laps all year long.
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"Maple1" <aerophoto (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote in message news:KVw3h.260624$1T2.55012 (AT) pd7urf2no (DOT) .. Von Fourche wrote: When you run so many races like NASCAR who really cares who wins the championship? I sure don't. NASCAR at this time of year is boring. Nascar will be worse next year with the new car NASCAR will be even better next year with the new car and the new American drivers to reseat those who are finally retiring. Oh you mean Americans like Juan Montoya??? With Toyota coming in, how |
shirts are going to be really big sellers in the trucks. As soon as
Honda is finished with their IRL commitments you can be assured that
Honda will be there to battle Toyota. People will look back fondly at
history and thing about the days gone by when Ford battle Chevy and they
didn't run spec race cars. Yet they have to make sure all the cars are
equal so as to have big packs for the big wrecks and the next awful movie.
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"just bob" <kilbyfan@aoldotcom> wrote in message news:454ec1dd$0$88691$742ec2ed (AT) news (DOT) sonic.net... "Maple1" <aerophoto (AT) shaw (DOT) ca> wrote in message news:KVw3h.260624$1T2.55012 (AT) pd7urf2no (DOT) .. Von Fourche wrote: When you run so many races like NASCAR who really cares who wins the championship? I sure don't. NASCAR at this time of year is boring. Nascar will be worse next year with the new car I don't think so. All the big teams will still win all the races and it will still be incredibly boring. And that is so much unlike the various forms of open wheel racing where the little teams win so often. Correct? |
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"just bob" <kilbyfan@aoldotcom> wrote in message news:454ec191$0$88691$742ec2ed (AT) news (DOT) sonic.net... "Von Fourche" <Khonakong (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:6qv3h.3046$0r.917 (AT) newsread1 (DOT) news.pas.earthlink.net... Say want you want about the IRL and ChampCar and F1. There's one good thing that I think we can agree on - at least their seasons are not as long as NASCAR. Doesn't it suck that there is completely nothing left to watch except NASCAR until February? Even the DDP's (dumb-downed Daytona prototypes) in January can't satisfy me. Actually, I heard Speed is going to show A1GP soon so will be something to watch and a couple kids from California did well this weekend in the kick off of the Autumn Formula Palmer-Audi series in England so there is something to follow, too. So get your foreigners to run some races in the Southern Hemisphere during the traditional off months. Nobody is forcing you to watch Jeff Gordon and the rest of NASCAR in November. |
Speed Report and Wind Tunnel. Plus all the euro stuff on the torrent sites.
I'm going back and watching 250cc MotoGP, and I still have 8 hours of
channel ten coverage to watch of the Surfers weekend.
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Amen. Ridiculously long season plus equally ridiculously long boring races with contrived finishes. Who cares? |
about CCWS or IRL, combined, several times over! :-)
Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone
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On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:49:50 -0600, 6andretti <mdequardo (AT) tds (DOT) net wrote: Amen. Ridiculously long season plus equally ridiculously long boring races with contrived finishes. Who cares? In the U.S. at least, a lot more people than who care only about CCWS or IRL, combined, several times over! :-) |
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One of the other posters was knocking NASCAR's long season, but I've always wondered if that wasn't another reason *for* its popularity? How hard is it to get into a sport that doesn't have weekly events, and has less than 20 events a year? |
here in the USA because they know it's every Sunday, and NASCAR is the same.
Having less events does hurt. I guess we could have events nearly every week
if there was a merger but not everyone likes every type of track. Even in
the high point CART my friends and I were completely uninterested in the
oval races.
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One of the other posters was knocking NASCAR's long season, but I've always wondered if that wasn't another reason *for* its popularity? How hard is it to get into a sport that doesn't have weekly events, and has less than 20 events a year? |
of a year..rain or shine. They even have a weekly show to themselves.
So it most be more than just about the amount of events.
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One of the other posters was knocking NASCAR's long season, but I've always wondered if that wasn't another reason *for* its popularity? How hard is it to get into a sport that doesn't have weekly events, and has less than 20 events a year? No, the reason for NASCAR's popularity is fans identifying with the drivers. |
Carey in Manvel
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