Bonehead of the Week: Martinsville II

Skoalbandit33 said:
I had the sound down for a lot of the race as I thought the stooges Letarte and Burton would be hyping everything.
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That's a shame. You missed some more really informative stuff from Jr. again, as good as his Talladega stuff last week. As much as anyone else, I hope he's back in the car next year. If he can't be, somebody need to find him a slot in the booth on some network regardless of how he's worked in. The guy conveys technical information in a clear, understandable way, raising subjects I've never heard even from other I admire (Jarrett, Craven, Burton, Schrader, even Baker and Parsons). We all know of his legendary knowledge of the history of the sport.

Seriously, you did yourself a disservice on this one.
 
Stewart Fan said:
JGR guys were so obsessed with not bumping into eachother they let their biggest threat lock himself into the final 4.
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I don't think there was a thing they could do with him. Running out of gas at M'ville and staying on the lead lap? Chad must have found that horseshoe.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
That's a shame. You missed some more really informative stuff from Jr. again, as good as his Talladega stuff last week. As much as anyone else, I hope he's back in the car next year. If he can't be, somebody need to find him a slot in the booth on some network regardless of how he's worked in. The guy conveys technical information in a clear, understandable way, raising subjects I've never heard even from other I admire (Jarrett, Craven, Burton, Schrader, even Baker and Parsons). We all know of his legendary knowledge of the history of the sport.

Seriously, you did yourself a disservice on this one.
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I didnt think Jr said anything substantial enough that a longtime/hardcore fan didnt already know.
 
Nascar, no contest. Compounded by doing it in a race that has been elevated as one the most crucial for determining the championship.

28 freaking laps to still get it wrong. Bad enough that they could not establish order with all the electronics available. But compounded futher by no immediate red flags to allow them to get it right even by pen and paper. That would have been awkward, but at least the integrity of the officiating would have been salvaged with just a little embarrassment.

I still think the right car won, but a lot of other things were altered.
And who knows about that, Brad K was robbed of at least 20 more green laps to catch the leader. Harvick took and was gifted with a lap, and who knows what else....

Again, all Nascar screw ups today exponentially more critical due to the chase crap.
 
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Nascar again, lets pace around for 20 yellow flag laps as the #19 ( in the pits, gets enough time to fix his car--which really didnt matter at the end , but red flag it until you can figure it out--which may still be wrong). 2nd place is NBC--- again--- Richard Craniums at its finest. 3rd is kyle booooosh for his candid post race interview.Put a microphone in front of his face, if he doest finish first and you get it every time--idoit/**** nozzle. Geez, he has the personality of a grapefruit at best.
 
Charlie Spencer said:
That's a shame. You missed some more really informative stuff from Jr. again, as good as his Talladega stuff last week. As much as anyone else, I hope he's back in the car next year. If he can't be, somebody need to find him a slot in the booth on some network regardless of how he's worked in. The guy conveys technical information in a clear, understandable way, raising subjects I've never heard even from other I admire (Jarrett, Craven, Burton, Schrader, even Baker and Parsons). We all know of his legendary knowledge of the history of the sport.

Seriously, you did yourself a disservice on this one.
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When I did have the sound up I didn't hear the usual BS but I have a really low threshold for Burton and Letarte so I didn't want to chance it
 
BOWTIE GUY said:
once the 48 got past them they were not going to pass him for the win. hell the 11 tried to take him out.
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To be honest Hamlin didn't do any bump and run when he did get to JJ's bumper late in the race.
He was point racing :)
 
Skoalbandit33 said:
When I did have the sound up I didn't hear the usual BS but I have a really low threshold for Burton and Letarte so I didn't want to chance it
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I had the sound on while junior was in the booth and enjoyed his comments. As someone else said here, "he knows his stuff". The regular booth have their orders to hype the mouse just off the track.
 
Yup, Jr in the booth was worth turning the mute off, by far. Way better than any NBC jack whole. I'm sure Burton and LeTarde are great people, just cant stand listening to them. The main announcer is a joke and I really dont care what his name is. I'd take Ralph Sheheen from motocross any day.
 
AndyMarquisLive said:
I'm nominating the driver who plowed over a bunch of pedestrians after the race.
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Hey, I wasn't there. I didn't do it. But seriously, I've been so drunk at Martinsville, I won't even tell you the things I've done after the race. Well, maybe one story. I made my own path out of the track. Passing about 300 cars going in the oncoming lane leaving.
 
Bonehead of the race: Many many to choose from
1. Not calling a red flag to sort out the who goes where debockle, allowing for over 20 caution laps that could have been racing laps.
2. Hamlin not letting his teammates by to try and catch JJ. Kyle had a right to be mad.
3. JJ having a caution after a tire rub, over debris that was not even on the track, but was a banner flickering a little bit on the safer barrier. I guess from now on they will call a caution for paper on the track. :rolleyes:
4. Larson smacks the wall late in the race, no caution another car on the front straightaway going extremely slow, no caution.

After the race: The truck passing a line of cars and running into race fans, sure hope they all are all right.
 
sdj said:
Bonehead of the race: Many many to choose from
1. Not calling a red flag to sort out the who goes where debockle, allowing for over 20 caution laps that could have been racing laps.
2. Hamlin not letting his teammates by to try and catch JJ. Kyle had a right to be mad.
3. JJ having a caution after a tire rub, over debris that was not even on the track, but was a banner flickering a little bit on the safer barrier. I guess from now on they will call a caution for paper on the track. :rolleyes:
4. Larson smacks the wall late in the race, no caution another car on the front straightaway going extremely slow, no caution.

After the race: The truck passing a line of cars and running into race fans, sure hope they all are all right.
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One of the easiest things for Nascar to fix would be consistency in caution periods as right now everything thing is guess work. One week a rolling tire on pit road causes a full course caution and the next week a bouncing tire at the entrance of the pits doesn't. Last week the 22 car drags a jack around at speed on a super speedway and that is completely cool but a flapping banner represents a clear and present danger yesterday.

Nothing is perfect and people will always have issues with certain cautions and non cautions but at this point the methodology Nascar uses to determine what is and what isn't a caution is nonexistent.
 
Greg said:
Nascar, no contest. Compounded by doing it in a race that has been elevated as one the most crucial for determining the championship.

28 freaking laps to still get it wrong. Bad enough that they could not establish order with all the electronics available. But compounded futher by no immediate red flags to allow them to get it right even by pen and paper. That would have been awkward, but at least the integrity of the officiating would have been salvaged with just a little embarrassment.

I still think the right car won, but a lot of other things were altered.
And who knows about that, Brad K was robbed of at least 20 more green laps to catch the leader. Harvick took and was gifted with a lap, and who knows what else....

Again, all Nascar screw ups today exponentially more critical due to the chase crap.
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Good post, Greg. I agree, Nascar was the bonehead yesterday.
 
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