They're Racin'

[BarryBobPosthole]

But I imagine Larke is watchng basketball.

Go Dale!

BKB

[Thumper]

CLOSE racing this year. Out of the first four races of this season, the difference between 1st & 2nd has been an average of 2/10's of a second.

[Thumper]

Man-o-man! Congrats to NASCAR. I'd say if that had been one of the old concrete walls, Larson would be in the hospital right now ... or the morgue! Wow!

[BarryBobPosthole]

That was a helluva lick. I don't see how they avoid concussions in those types of wrecks. Like you said, congrats to NASCAR. Maybe its time to get rid of restrictor plates.

BKB

[Thumper]

There ya' go! I wonder what they could do with today's technology applied to the good ol' 426 Hemi's, 427/454 GM semi-hemi's and Boss 429 & 428 Cobra Jets? I'm not sure they'd be able to keep 'em on the ground. :hair

[BarryBobPosthole]

What we have now is basically IROC racing. Removing restrictors would open up an entirely new area of engineering.
BKb

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What we have now is basically IROC racing. Removing restrictors would open up an entirely new area of engineering.
BKb

Yeah, but IROC includes some of Deppity's limp-wristed, foreign-tongued, pretty-boy, open-wheel drivers. (that's a lot of hyphens!) :D

[BarryBobPosthole]

I just mean all the cars are the same. They should open up the rules so teams can innovate with body design and engine design.

BKB

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I'm not so sure I'd understand the "body design" part. We'd end up with something like the old 1970 Chaparral vacuum cleaner! :D


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I'd rather go back to the days when the bodies matched what was on the local showroom floor. These days, the only difference is the emblem on the nose.

[Captain]

But I imagine Larke is watchng basketball. Go Dale! BKB

No chance of that Posty... I got up at 3 this morning and hunted turkeys. Had Jakes and hens all around me.
Home nursing these kidney stones with some powerful pain meds and watching my eyelids and NASCAR...
Danica just took a cheap shot from the 5 car.

[DeputyDog]

Man-o-man! Congrats to NASCAR. I'd say if that had been one of the old concrete walls, Larson would be in the hospital right now ... or the morgue! Wow!

What are you congratulating NASCAR for? The SAFER barrier? NASCAR had nothing to do with it. Look it up. It was developed by the IRL and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in conjunction with the University of Nebraska and was first installed at IMS. If NASCAR had developed i don't you think that it would have first used at one of the tracks that ISC owns like maybe Daytona?

[Thumper]

Cool yer jets Deppity. I don't see any design kudos mentioned. Congrats to NASCAR for installing them.

[Thumper]

Nice win Superman!

[DeputyDog]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFER_barrier

Read that, especially the history section.

[Thumper]

Don't need to. I've read it before. Relax dude. Youse Indy types sure are touchy! ;)

[DeputyDog]

It gets old when ole dimwit DW comments on how NASCAR did such a great thing in developing the SAFER barrier every time someone hits it hard.

[Thumper]

Oh. I thought I was the one who set you off.:D

Sometimes Indy fans vs. NASCAR fans remind me of bow hunters vs. gun hunters in some of the "elite" hunting blogs. ;)

[Captain]

Well just to STIR the pot a little (not that I would ever do that) NASCAR joined in the development of the safer barrier BEFORE it was installed at Indy....
"By 2000, NASCAR had joined in the development of the project. And the first SAFER Barriers were ready for installation at the Speedway in time for the 2002 Indianapolis 500. Now a fixture at every oval track on which NASCAR races, telemetry from accidents has shown SAFER Barriers significantly reduce the forces that cause injuries in high-speed accidents."

Like Paul Harvey use to say "and now you know the rest of the story"
Just noticing....
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2012/07/19/ups-safer-barrier.html

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SD'er. ;)

[DeputyDog]

Well just to STIR the pot a little (not that I would ever do that) NASCAR joined in the development of the safer barrier BEFORE it was installed at Indy....
"By 2000, NASCAR had joined in the development of the project. And the first SAFER Barriers were ready for installation at the Speedway in time for the 2002 Indianapolis 500. Now a fixture at every oval track on which NASCAR races, telemetry from accidents has shown SAFER Barriers significantly reduce the forces that cause injuries in high-speed accidents."

Like Paul Harvey use to say "and now you know the rest of the story"
Just noticing....
http://www.nascar.com/en_us/news-media/articles/2012/07/19/ups-safer-barrier.html

What I read said that NASCAR joined in 2000 after IMS and Indycar owner Tony George had used an earlier version the PEDS starting in 1998. That didn't work well so George got with the U of Nebraska to develop a better system.

The majority of the cost and development was already completed by the time NASCAR got on board. That was done at the request of Indycar and IMS since it was going to be installed at Indy and they wanted to make sure it would also work with a stock car and not just an Indy car. NASCAR came on board solely because of a "little" race called the Brickyard 400 at that time.

;)>

[Captain]

From what I read the Indy car dufe put up some styrofoam crap and it shred and held up the race for a couple of hours in 1998 to clean up the mess. They started trying to figure it out and after about 2 years had not successfully done so. So in 2000 NASCAR stepped in and fixed it for them and installed it for the 2002 race.
That's sorta the way it reads anyway. :D John Jarrod would still be bouncing off styrofoam at Indy if NASCAR hadn't helped them out... ;) :D

[Thumper]

NASCAR invented exciting beatin' and bangin' racin' followed by fist fights in the pits cheered on by beer drinkin' fans. Beats the heck out of sitting down for tea and crumpets after drinking a glass of milk in Victory Lane. 😇

Kinda like the difference between a Trump and Ben Carson campaign rally! 😉

[BarryBobPosthole]

NASCAR invented exciting beatin' and bangin' racin' followed by fist fights in the pits cheered on by beer drinkin' fans. Beats the heck out of sitting down for tea and crumpets after drinking a glass of milk in Victory Lane. ��

Kinda like the difference between a Trump and Ben Carson campaign rally! ��

WINSTON CUP invented all that shit. NASCAR rubbed it all out.

BKB

[Thumper]

Good point. I remember back in the day, we'd rent a U-Haul truck for the weekend, throw a ladder (to get up on the "deck"), coolers, sleeping bags and a pile of lawn chairs in the back, then head to the Daytona infield to party all weekend.

Next thing ya' know, rednecks weren't welcomed anymore and now you're only allowed in the infield if you have a hoity-toity motorhome! I think they lost track of their roots. :D

[BarryBobPosthole]

I know a guy in Texas that went in with three other guys and bought a schoolbus they rehabbed just for spending the weekend at Texas Speedway infield. From the sounds of it, its quite the party.

BKB

[DeputyDog]

I'd bet you just about everything I have that 42 out of 43 Cup drivers would give their left nut to drink that milk.

[Thumper]

I'd bet you just about everything I have that 42 out of 43 Cup drivers would give their left nut to drink that milk.

Ha ha ha! EXCELLENT point! I'd even throw ANY Indy car driver in on that bet! ;)

[Captain]

I'd bet you just about everything I have that 42 out of 43 Cup drivers would give their left nut to drink that milk.
Maybe so? But there have been a good many Indy drivers switch over to NASCAR, Montoya, Danica, Hornish, Busch, Stewart, Allmendinger and others. Perhaps those are just the lactose intolerant drivers...

[Thumper]

I know a guy in Texas that went in with three other guys and bought a schoolbus they rehabbed just for spending the weekend at Texas Speedway infield. From the sounds of it, its quite the party.

BKB

Yep P-hole, it was always a 5/6-day party actually. We'd get there on Tuesday night or sometime Wednesday to line up and camp on the street. They'd open the infield gate on Wednesday night (or Thursday morning?) and we'd go in to stake our claim to some real estate. The problem was, once you got to the infield, you were locked in 'til the 500 was over on Sunday. There'd even be small (amateur) bands that would set up in the lot with generators, etc. and it once got to the point there was an annual battle of the bands in the infield! One of the coolest (and BEST) bands was a bunch of guys who actually met at one of these infield parties and they formed an informal group who only played together ONE time per year ... at the infield party for the Daytona 500! And I'm tellin' ya', they were GOOD! Everybody always told them they should hook up and hit the road, but they were all just regular folks from all over the country who all had regular jobs. We'd be there for the twin 125's, the IROC race, the Bush race and whatever else went on during the long "weekend". The main problem was, after all those days and nights of partying, by time the 500 came along, it was a battle to stay awake! ;)

Once they made it motor homes only, we had a good friend with a huge motor home who'd lend it to us every year as long as we returned it to him clean and the holding tanks were dumped and flushed. He'd give it to us full of gas and we'd return it full. Then it finally got to the point it was just too danged expensive to go any more.

I will say, I've been to a couple of Deppity's Indy races also and it was much of the same. There was some major partying going on in the parking areas. One of the most fun parts was, it seems like an awful lot of wimmins really enjoy getting nekkid at those lot parties! Nekkidness EVERYWHERE! Maybe that's what Deppity likes so much about Indy. :D

[Thumper]

P-hole, you mentioned that school bus and it reminded me of this. There were some really elaborate converted buses at those infield parties. It finally turned into almost an unofficial car show and the crowd would vote on the best conversion. One guy had a BEAUTIFUL bus with a really elaborate paint job. He was an Earnhardt fan and his wife was a Rusty Wallace fan. One side of the bus was painted up as the black/silver 3 car and the other side was Rusty's gold/black 2 car. It was a very professional job and REALLY looked cool. It won quiet a few of our unofficial "coolest paint job in the infield" awards. ;)

I don't have any pics of the super nice ones, but it was just a good time. Here are some of the clunkers that used to be the "norm" at the infield parties.

http://www.autoracing1.com/images/2001/NASCAR/Chicago/nchi01bus7.jpg

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http://www.stockton99speedway.com/Weekly%20Articles/2005weekly/bussharkpose.jpg

http://racechaseronline.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/DSC_0465.jpg


Then they took the fun out of it and like everything else, it became a "rich man's" game. Now the infields look like a camper dealer's sales lot. Instead of beer, ya' got's ta' drink Champagne. :(


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http://www.chicagolandspeedway.com/~/media/DB6F8CFB8DAB47EE9E9FCD690D51B8CE.ashx

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I retired my old bus to the boneyard (lower right). :D


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