Recent content by Formerjackman

As of This morning, the US death toll among the known infected was .03% and 75% of those deaths were in one place.

The idiocy continues...............

For those of you who poo poo my views on the RTA, listen to the first few minutes of this week's show and hear Jr. espouse VERY SIMILAR views to my own about it. Basically, he has no use for it. Also, he mentions that in response to the good reviews on the low downforce short track package...

The first ARCA race I ever worked, a driver (Scott Baker) was killed by sliding sideways into an excavator tire "barrier" in the infield at Toledo Speedway. Happened RIGHT in front of me.

Current plate racing takes the concept to the absurd extreme in my opinion, but the overwhelming popularity of it, in both ratings and attendance is a pretty good indicator that MOST fans want close competition and LOT of passing.

I don't know how much it matters, but for MOST fans, it's an indication of how good the race was. If I wanted to watch cars follow each other for three hours, I'd set up a lawn chair next to the interstate.

A good reminder to track owners and sanctioning bodies. There isn't a place at a race track that a wrecking car can't end up. Plan and protect accordingly. :)

It's so early it doesn't mean much, but I think if somebody would have predicted that there would be four "Penske" cars, three HMS cars and no JGR cars in the top ten, or that Bowman would have a win and Kyle, Martin, Kevin and Brad wouldn't have one after four races, I think people would think...

I would laugh my ass off for a week if that were the case at the end of the season! :)

I've watched 99.5% of all the races Alan has been on the box for, and yes I know strategy isn't always his strongest suit. No, I haven't listened to all the races he's called, but when I have, I don't recall anything like that standing out to me. Regardless, however he does it, nobody should...

I don't know, but I sure miss Kim Crosby! Possibly the best looking woman to ever strap into a race car. :wub:

I get butthurt when my favorite team throws away a legitimate shot to win a race on a call that I KNEW was the wrong call the second they made it. Is that not what fans do? There are football fans still bent all out of shape about Pete Carroll's goal line play call in the Super Bowl against...

Well I am. SOMEBODY has to be the final authority, and it should be and usually IS the crew chief. That's a BIG part of the job and a big reason why some really good guys don't last long as crew chiefs. A couple of years back, Indiana University had a great guy as the basketball coach. Nice...

Well, evidently if you make a typo in a header, you can't go back and fix it, even if its inside the time window. And yes, even successful accomplished crew chiefs make mistakes. Yesterday was a BIG one.

The problem with letting the driver make the call is he doesn't see the WHOLE picture. He only knows what his car is doing, what laps times he's running, etc. He doesn't know how many cars are on the lead lap, what the tires coming off the car look like, lots of things going on that he can't...