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Lost Weekend
Published: 2/21/2011 6:05 PM
Last Modified: 2/21/2011 6:06 PM

Imagine our surprise: Car racing is a team sport.

What that means is that a slow team member can spin somebody in front out and knock the fenders off 20 competitors just like that.

It would appear that the secret to winning a car race is to stay toward the front or toward the back, and wait for the mandatory crashes and then step on it and head for the flag.

Why do drivers and cars get to catch up during a caution flag? With the technology available, why aren't cars sent back to where they were on the track at the time of the wreck?

What could possibly qualify car racing a sport?

Kobe Bryant being named MVP of the basketball all star game was a joke. He scored a ton of points early when nobody cared. Durant of OKC was the MVP.

Blake Griffin winning the dunk contest was a joke. He jumped over two tires. Ibaka of OKC dunked a free throw. Another guy simultaneously dunked two basketballs on two goals.

The entire weekend was a joke.

Fishing is more of a sport than bumper car racing.






Reader Comments 12 Total
wilson (last year)
You are dead right about Nascar. They have ruined their sport with their ridiculous rules. It's auto socialism! Make every car exactly the same by rule! If someone can build a faster car they should be allowed to do it. That's what car racing used to be about.
hoss cartwright (last year)
Dead on again Picker, I wish you could teach sitler a little journalistic integrity.
bjorn2run (last year)
Stock car racing has never been about who is the fastest. It's who gets there first. b2r
dcood (last year)
You might change your tune on NASCAR if you tried goin 200 mph with 35 other cars and didnt either pass out or puke...as most normal humans would.
MexiMike (last year)
Lebron got a triple double in the All-Star game...only the second time in history it has ever been done.

I hate the guy but that to me is deserving of the MVP...even if he was on the losing team.
Hijinx (last year)
Its always the same with you pretend high-brow self appointed sports gurus to look down your nose at auto racing. And I don't get it. I am unaware of any other sport where you put your life on the line every weekend driving in a crowd at speeds upward of 200 mph. Oh sure they cant jump like Lebron or tee off like Tiger or even jack one outta the park like Albert Pujols but put them in a car and see if they, and you, don't soil their shorts in a fast manner.
Gato Del Sol (last year)
Blake Griffin won the Slam Dunk 'competition' because it was in LA. Serge got worked, and so did McGee.

NASCAR took 'tandem racing' to a whole new level Sunday, and I don't think it's going away anytime soon... and let's not forget the joy of a four hour left turn!


amron warrior (last year)
NASCAR is a bore. For real racing go to the Chili Bowl;then tell me racing's not a sport.
The Picker (last year)
A chief problem that makes the activity hard to understand is letting cars make up ground during a time out. During wrecks. With all the technology, why can't they put cars back on the exact spot where they were when a crash happened? In sports, you can't score during a time out.
wgspost (last year)
Know what you've got in the first two rows of a NASCAR event? A full set of teeth.
bjorn2run (last year)
Picker, good point about the yellow flag procedures, but, that's not just NASCAR. As far as I know, all forms of auto racing do it that way. It has become part of team race strategy. Maybe with the new technology, it will evolve, but I doubt it. My racing wish? For all racing teams and track owners to pitch in together and build a new, giant, futuristic race track where no restrictor plates are needed. I once read that NASCAR could go 250 mph down the Daytona back stretch if there were no restrictor rules. That would bring the audience in....b2r
justanotherokie (last year)
I'm surprised they just don't put chains on the cars to keep them close.

Way over regulated.
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