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There is no off-season for Fast Laps

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by Charlie Turner

I'm Charlie Turner co-host of the syndicated, mostly NASCAR radio show On Pit Row. Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. Oh yeah, Steve is an idiot.

November 26, 2007 12:15 pm CST 2 Comments

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Last weekend was quiet - too quiet.  It was one of only the dozen or so a year without some kind of NASCAR race to watch, or hear or smell.

Neither Jeffy nor Jimmy beat your favorite last Sunday.  Nobody cheated or threatened to punch anybody for some transgression - real or imagined - that occurred on the track.

Rusty Wallace didn’t make you mad.  ESPN was back in college football mode, where it seems they belong.  You can’t even complain about - or laugh at - the Big Banquet yet.

Many of the regular TV and radio shows centered on racing have gone dark for the “off season”. Even the racing writers have quieted down.

But not the Fast Lap blog.  Here are four fast, tight ones to keep you warm as the first snows of a short (we hope) winter start falling here in the great Midwest.

1)  Should NASCAR set and/or employ the broadcast teams for its race broadcasts?

2) Car of Tomorrow or Old Car?

3) Who was the MVP on the 48 team?

4) Junior in 2008–over or under 4 wins?

ON PIT ROW will be around all year - we have no stinkin’ off season - and we could use your comments on the show.  So fire away and then listen Thursday nights on RaceTalkRadio.com to see if you made the cut.

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2 Responses to “There is no off-season for Fast Laps”

  1. User Avatar Charlie on December 1st, 2007 10:35 am

    OK, so last night I hosted a “Live Blog” for the NASCAR Awards Show at the Bench Racing blog. Today I am, apparently, hosting a “Dead Blog” over here. AS Luke would say - “WTF?” Time for some “BPR” (BlogoPulminary Resusitation)

    1. Hell no! I like the diversity of the changing broadcast teams. The race callers they have now aren’t perfect, for sure, but what makes you think that NASCAR - the organization that brings you the aforementioned Awards Show - would make the right choices? I pass.

    2. For now, I think that the races were better in the Old Car. There is more room to cheat. I like that.

    3. I know that Steve thinks, hands down, it was Chad Knaus and I can see why. But once again, Jimmy Johnson fails to get the respect that his driving talent has earned him. I say JJ - with Chad close behind. They won races without Knaus this year and last. They wouldn’t have won without Johnson.

    4. Under. I say 1 win, and it may be at the 500.

  2. User Avatar steve on December 5th, 2007 10:36 pm

    1– Every major sport team has their own voice. If NASCAR put together a broadcast team that traveled from network to network; you wouldn’t have the cracked out, overly produced and overly occupied presentation that both TNT and ABC thrust at the unsuspecting NASCAR world.

    2– Car of ‘08 for sure. The racing was better overall than that with the skewed car of before. It will only get better. Give it a chance. Many in the racing world panned the daytona Prototype in sports cars and now NASCAR drivers talk about how much fun they are to drive and can’t wait to get to Daytona to run the 24 hours.

    3– Chad Knaus. Distant second–JJ. Nuff said.

    4– Under. One maybe two wins, if the other Jr.–Eury can acclimate to the Hendrick way. He is the key to DEJ’s success.

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