NASCAR at Talladega

[TK4]

Years ago they flew Dale Earnhart in to race at Cayuga. OF COURSE he got pole... the green flag drops... and 4 cars take out Dale Earnhart. TOTALLY intentional, it was obvious... he didn't even make it to corner one. One of the funniest thing I have seen on the track
Dale went into the pits, it took 3 or 4 laps for his crew to build a new front end out of garbage bags and duct tape, went back out and lapped everyone at least twice to win the race
Nascar is fast and really cool, but has nothin on saturday night at the local racetrack for excitement... particularly when you know most of the drivers out there are just gassed
Don't know if they still do, but for the longest time all the nascar teams ran made in Canada Slack frames in their short track cars. Slack used to own both the Cayuga tracks
Roundy round guys party a LOT harder than open wheel or drag guys

When I was a kid my buddy's dad was a welder, he'd load us all the back of his truck and take us to Pinecrest. We'd be there in the infield, watching the show. Rubbing IS racing.

 

[Evoex]

I've cleaned up the thread and warnings were handed out.

I'd like to remind members that you all have access to tools that should prevent such behaviour from occurring in the first place, use them.

Thanks

 

[ToSlow]

Back in the day many moons ago, used to be stock cars ran mostly of the shelf parts on them. Not the case anymore though. These cars have nothing stock on them

 

[hdsomeday]

(...hold a candle?? what does really mean?)

"The phrase can't hold a candle to has its roots in the 1600s, when the lowly apprentice to a master of a craft might only be fit to hold a candle in order to provide light for the master while he tends to a problem. An apprentice who was not even skillful enough to hold a candle for his master was worthless, indeed."

I was curious.....