Bonehead Thread: Richmond II

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I put in an early candidate: Richmond International Raceway and the ISC for not deciding by now whether to postpone the Sprint Cup Series race to Sunday. The last time a storm like this moved through Richmond, 2004. Even though it was a Tropical Storm when it hit Richmond, Gaston was devastating.
 
But what happens if they postpone it now and the forecasters are wrong and Richmond is not affected? Then people are jumping them for THAT decision. It's a no-win situation. It's been my experience when you're in a no-win situation, stick with what you planned all along and make the most of it.
 
MRM said:
But what happens if they postpone it now and the forecasters are wrong and Richmond is not affected? Then people are jumping them for THAT decision. It's a no-win situation. It's been my experience when you're in a no-win situation, stick with what you planned all along and make the most of it.
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Kind of like hurricane evacuations. Think the people of NOLA should regret evacuating?

:rolleyes:

Error on the side of caution is always better than dead fans and busted up equipment.

Either way, they need to make a decision soon.

This is almost as maddening as when they waited until 9:45 to postpone a race there a few years ago. They started it under caution, even though radar indicated the weather wasn't going to lift for a reasonable amount of time. Instead, ISC and NASCAR (well, the ISC is NASCAR) got overzealous and tried to start the race when they had a window of about an hour without rain. :mad:

Want me to tell you how many wrecks there were in the parking lots because people wanted to get back to their hotels in time to wake up for the start the next day?

I'll tell you this much, we didn't get out of the speedway parking lot until 1:00am that night. And I was somehow supposed to get enough sleep.

The good news for ISC is this race isn't going to sell out. Attendance is going to be dismal either way for this race.
 
Or, like the people the of NOLA, the people going to the race should use a little common sense and check the weather before heading out? Its really not that hard.

But then again............

Comparing the evacuation of New Orleans when a hurricane is definitely going to hit and postponing a race for a possible storm is two different things.

That's the risk of running a night race....if it starts late or has a red flag condition for a while, expect to stay there all night. If it gets postponed, set your alarm early.
 
The forecasts I have seen show that will blow through sometime mid to late Saturday. Even if they don't get it in Saturday night, they will run it Sunday afternoon.
 
Well, all I know is it was predicted to have severe thunderstorms on the Sunday of the Glen. The other days were supposed to be better and they had one heck of a thunder and lightening storm one of the other nights. Granted it didn't have a hurricane or tropical storm headed there, BUT.... that was the NICEST of all the days that weekend. It was supposed to be the worst. It sprinkled in the early morning and was chilly. By mid-morning the sun was beating down and we were all dying in our warm weather clothes and taking off sweatshirts, jackets, etc. By the time the race started and after switching to "summer clothes", we were burning up in the grandstands with not a cloud in sight.

Especially with this being a Saturday night race, it's not like most people have to worry about taking a day or two off from the work to see the race. Just plan that the race might be rained out and you'll be seeing it on Sunday. Then again, maybe the storm will move through faster and it will be gone by the time the race starts.

While Gustav caused problems with electricity, etc., we watched it dropped down to a CAT 2 by the time it hit New Orleans. Thank God. I just hope this storm follows suit and just maybe, takes a different path out to sea.
 
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