Nascar..

If you are not a Nascar fan you probably wont want to read this.
I just wanted to comment about the race this weekend. This was the first "restricter plate" race in the new car, and there were a lot of worries about how it would go. Now all said and done, It turns out that it was a very uneventful race. Most of the Monday morning Nascar headlines were about how boring the race was, and how things "must be changed" in order to make it more interesting! Well, as a die-hard Nascar fan, I have to say... not much has changed. As usual, the last 20 laps or so were the most exciting, and this is exactly how it was before. Dont get me wrong, I did watch the whole race as usual, and had a pretty good time, and I very much so was on the edge of my seat for the conclusion of the race like every week. The long strung out lines at Talladega are not anything new. Just the fact that the winner from the spring race with the old car was the same winner of this race in the new car tells you how much things have NOT changed as far as racing at Talladega goes. If Dale Earnhardt Jr had not blown his engine and had went on to win the race, many people would be saying how it was so much more exciting with the new car, and how much of a success it was. Jeff Gordon winning races is nothing new, and not very exciting either. So all in all, it turns out all the fuss this weekend was just the media, doing what the media does. Making something out of nothing. The race was exciting in the end, and it was fun to watch. Nascar just needs to listen a little closer to its most popular driver when he says "these things should really be about 100 to 200 laps shorter". All those extra laps just cause the drivers to end up riding around the track waiting for the last 20 laps as the fans sit around waiting for them also. The only people who are actually befittingly from a 4 hour race are the advertisers, and thats not likely to change.