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It's completely bogus media statements like this that continues "the Danica love machine" momentum... http://youtu.be/WHcQ5wRZ9iU
"Danica Patrick is the most successful woman to get behind the wheel of a race car..." What?!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_4705287.html There are several women MotorSports Competitors & Champions - past & present - that'd agree with "King Richard" as to Danica's lack of demonstrated and/or proven race winning ability...except for the one (1) race win... |
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Put a ring on it
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King Richard. Lol please.
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/197745168@N07/ "There's nothing more unsatisfying than watching an electric car go down the dragstrip." |
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From an unencumbered by Danica hype source - The Smithsonian
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Sent from my Radio Shack TRS-80 using Tapa-What?!!! Speaking of Petty, winning, NASCAR, etc. see the April 2014 Hot Rod "Special Anniversary Of The 426 Hemi: 1964-2014" "The King's First Elephant" "Richard Petty, the 426 Hemi, and a Clone of the Car That Started It All" Check it out. Great issue. Last edited by Alvin; 02-12-2014 at 12:17 AM. |
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Lol funny..
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I always wondered who that burger king guy was...
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/197745168@N07/ "There's nothing more unsatisfying than watching an electric car go down the dragstrip." |
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But....what happens when Jimmy Johnson gets his 7th championship? Does it get an * like the home run records during the roid years since NASCAR monkeyed with the points system every ****ing year???
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The old points scheme worked fine. It promoted both winning races and consistency. Petty won 7 Championships and in those years won 93 of his 200 Cup wins. He also had 4 seasons where he had 10 or more wins that he didn't win the Championship. Example - 1970 he had 18 wins and finished 4th. Bobby Isaac won that year with only 11 wins. Bobby had 32 top 5's compared to Richards's 27. Bobby also finished a lot more races - completing 11,253 miles of competition compared to Richard's 9,813. |
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Danica is very positive that she won't race Indy again, unless she does...
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In '99 Tony finished 9th at Indy and 4th at Charlotte. In '01 Tony was 6th at Indy and 3rd at Charlotte. Danica doesn't have what it takes to actually RACE 1100 miles in one day. |
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The touring princess would make a good politician, she's pro to both sides of a subject.
Just as most politicians, talks a lot and doesn't really say anything...............
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If you don't recognize Petty's win on the basis of some rule bending, then JJ shouldn't have any championships. Cheatin Chad has been caught every year by the NASCAR Gestapo trying to gain an unfair advantage. If the last Hendrick appeal would have went the other way (and I think it should have) he wouldn't have won last year.
A slap on the wrist was all he got for his early infractions, when he got caught. The more times he's been caught the stiffer the penalties get along with NASCAR coming down harder on rule benders. Just how many times did Chad get away with rule bending over the last 13 years that NASCAR didn't catch them giving an unfair advantage to the 48 car? Knaus is good, but without some type of advantage over other teams the stats don't add up on the win ratio. Who can forget this caught on the radio in car? "If we win this race, you have to crack the back of the car," Knaus could be heard telling Johnson on the recording. "Got it?" "Really?" Johnson replied, sounding surprised. "Yes," Knaus said. "Got it? You don't have to have to hit it hard, you don't have to destroy it. But you've gotta do a donut and you've gotta hit the back end, or somebody's gotta hit you in the ass-end or something. OK?" After Johnson responds with apparent silence (he can't be heard saying anything else), Knaus added, "You'll be alright. Can't take any chances."
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those were the glory days...not unusual to see a guy go flag to flag or put a few laps on the runner up.
http://www.realclearsports.com/blogn...tona%20500.jpg
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Innovation is what set the early teams apart. The ability to open a rule book & read between the lines, building cars that met the rules, but weren't even close to stock is what moved the entire series forward - hell even the MFG's were doing it - Superbirds were just one example. The fact that Chad will still try to come up with improvements when NASCAR says that our rules include everything we haven't thought up yet is a testament to his strength as a crew chief. Ray Evernham was another building the T-Rex car for the Winston that had so many innovations it became illegal as soon as the race was over. It's part of the series and goes as far back as the early shine runners with the beefed up springs - take that away like NASCAR wants to, and it's just another IROC race.
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When Chad instructs his driver: "If we win this race, you have to crack the back of the car," Knaus could be heard telling Johnson on the recording. "Got it?" Then he knows he's clearly outside of the rules. Knowing that what you've done is illegal is just blatant cheating. This is no different than what MWR did in the last race this past season - and we all know the ramifications that occurred after that blatant attempt to cheat the system. |
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http://www.canepacollection.com/deta...d-5117058.html especially the "Ford" frame useage. |
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That's a direct result of NASCAR's no tolerance policy - wreck it so they can't make up a new rule! If you ain't cheating, you ain't racing! MWR's stunt is just poor sportsmanship.
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Some guys they just give up living And start dying little by little, piece by piece, Some guys come home from work and wash up, And go racin' in the street. Bruce Springsteen - Racing In The Street - 1978 |
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The car was never raced because it never passed tech inspection. At the time - the Ford frame was the only exception allowed to the stock manufacturers chassis. Smokey tried to circumvent the rules and got caught. How many times have we heard it said that people want to see them go back to "stock" cars. Well - they weren't "stock" back in the day either. |
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I've gotten second place because someone else was doing the creative rules interpretation and they full well knew they were cheating.
Upon pointing the fact out to the track owner that the tires were a half inch over the 7 inch maximum allowed, he agreed with me they were oversize. Having taken second place I asked him what he was going to do about it, the reply, "I'll tell him by next week he had better have the right tires on his car". That slap on the wrist is hardly sufficient when your car is legal and your going home with second place. If NASCAR would take the win away from the cheaters then it might promote following the rules to the letter. Any way you slice it it's morally wrong if you win, you did it under false pretenses. I built my own car and as you can see by the picture in my signature it's possible to win with a car within the rules. My car was examined almost each week by the officials because someone thought it was illegal, upon examination every time it was deemed legal. The feeling of being completely legal and besting your competition, PRICELESS!!! It takes more time, drive and skill to be within the rules and win, than it does to cheat. Something my parents taught me, cheaters never prosper. Anyone that says cheating is racing, doesn't have the right attitude in their life.
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