Layers Of Earth

Was kinda busy this weekend and largely unmotivated to write, but there’s some interesting things to comment on:

I get the sense that Jack Roush, Geoff Smith and Mark Martin aren’t going to sit down for Rosh Hashanah dinner this Friday. Not that they would anyway, but it’s an interesting image. No, really, there is some posturing going on here. Seems that Mark would rather run the full schedule for Yates and part-time the truck thing with Roush, but that isn’t what his longtime team owner really wants. Personally, I think Roush and company owe Mark Martin quite a bit and should give him anything he asks for…

So what exactly is an Almond Dinger? Evidentially, it is a pretty adept little nut…

Man, smells like the old days. People accusing teams of cheating, cutting rims and bleeding air this time. NASCAR denies. Harvick infers, and Roush is curiously silent…

So reporter Bill Dilner gets burned trying to break a story that wasn’t there. Talk is that the story, the one mentioned above was a setup to get Harvick and RCR off their game. Well, that’s what I hear, which seems to be more than enough to warrant airing on the Speed Report. Somehow, it is not surprising to learn that Speed is owned by Aussie Rupert Murdoch, the same guy who brings you the upstanding journalistic pillar of truth that is Fox News.

Repaving Talladega. Hmmm. Understand that they are bringing the compound used on the left side at, ahem CHARLOTTE! Ok, it may be a bit crazy, but haven’t we been down this road before? That’s all these guys need, a new surface with unproved tires, at TALLADEGA during the fraking CHASE. Look. The old girl needed a fresh top, that’s for sure, but why now? And here’s the kicker: The best drivers, the one’s who you would like to test the new surface and evaluate the tires, you know, guys like Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, they can’t test now because it would give them an unfair advantage in the chase. I hope I’m wrong, but having Travis Kvapul test the tires isn’t what I’d call an optimum situation…

Man, it was sure funny to see the fans in the stands doing the wave during the touchy part of the pre-race ceremonies. You would have thought the stands were loaded with my friends. Aw shucks, I’m sure there are some people who are upset by the invocation being skipped, but there were plenty of others who were obviously too drunk to notice…

Wanted to post a belated comment on how cool it was that Harvick had a Barenaked Ladies scheme on his car at Richmond - and he won, no less! Yeah, I’ll proudly admit it, I’m the NASCAR fan so smartly targeted with this brilliant marketing plan. Actually, there is this BNL documentary from the Stunt tour, circa 1998, where the band members take to carrying around this old Bobby Hamilton figurine that they got outta some thrift store. The figurine is from the Countrytime era, and it’s pretty funny to see what the guys in the band do with old Bobby. Nothing that bad, just funny in a Flat Eric kinda way…

One down, nine to go. I think everyone better keep a close eye on that #24, as if that isn’t obvious at this point. The guy has the eye, you know? Haven’t seen that in a few years, but if you let Jeff Gordon get in, you better be ready to face the best he’s got. We all know that’s pretty damn good. Watching him and Harvick go at it will bring back some memories and what-ifs, but guys, the old man would be 55 and he woulda hated this bump-stop shit…

This entry was posted on Monday, September 18th, 2006 at 11:23 pm and is filed under Racing.