Thunder Valley Fast Laps on the menu
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.
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The pump has been primed. Kyle Busch won the Kobalt Tools 500 and grabbed the first win for Toyota in Sprint Cup Series competition. That should have been the biggest story ON PIT ROW in Atlanta, but it wasn’t.
Like an old Paul Simon song, those New Cars were slip-slidin’ away, all day long and a cadre of drivers led by Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr let loose on Goodyear for bringing an inadequate tire to the party.
Smoke didn’t complain - he attacked Goodyear and in the end did everything but blame the California weather on the Akron tire maker. Tony was pretty hot for someone who actually finished second to his rowdy teammate, Kyle Busch.
On Monday, several drivers, current and former, stepped up to defend Goodyear. Michael and Darrell Waltrip along with Ryan Newman praised Goodyear for erring on the side of safety with the Atlanta tire compound. It seems kind of funny that Stewart and Gordon, the drivers most recently involved in hard crashes, would be the ones on the flip-side of that argument.
The first Bristol race of 2008 is on tap and it’s a near certainty that heads will be hot in the post-race pits on Sunday. Goodyear could use the diversion of some hotly contested Fast Laps. Let these four high-banked testers divert you for a few hundred words.
1. Is Tony Stewart’s criticism of Goodyear justified?
2. Now that Toyota has it’s first win, are Jack Roush’s worst fears set to come true?
3. Was Kyle Busch the right guy to get Toyota’s first win?
4. Was the #99 team of Carl Edwards, guilty of premeditated down-force addition?
Four Fast turns and you get 100 words or less to respond. Of course, you can use as many words as you want to put your fellow commenters into the wall. The Fast Lap blog is about NASCAR debate. Bring your best and we may use it on our next show.
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Fast Laps! Welcome to the On Pit Row Fast Lap blog. Every week On Pit Row we pose four Fast Lap questions. Four corners - four questions. On the radio show, Steve and I have 30 seconds each, to give our response to each of the four. If you are a listener, you already know that we rarely agree on any answer. The Fast Lap is NASCAR debate. Hannity and Colmes. Lincoln and Douglas. Wronkowicz and Turner. OK, maybe not Lincoln and Douglas. We have more fun than Lincoln and Douglas. Here's the challenge. We will post our Fast Lap questions some time each Monday. Four questions on topical NASCAR related subjects. Your mission is to comment with your answers and each answer is limited to 100 words. The questions, answers and comments will form the basis of this blog for that week. Comment on the Fast Lap questions. Comment on the comments. Insult the commenters. Witty ridicule is rated at least as highly as cogent commentary. Just remember that you have limited words and penalties are severe. Or not. Steve and I will select worthy blog entries to be featured on an edition of On Pit Row. That's the plan. I'm sure we will have some other things to post about each week but the intention is to pose most posts as questions. I want to argue with you! Bring it on.
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You know though, I still just can’t fully believe that they would be that dense when they know NASCAR is hot to trot for that area at the moment. See: Daytona Penalties.
However, at the same time, Check out how the penalties were reversed as well. But, those weren’t known until after the fiasco. So, you have to believe that going into the Vegas race that they knew it was bad juju. Could they really be that dumb, or overly confident, that it would pass?
So anyway, I honestly can’t believe they would be that dumb. Then again, how the heck does something like that just come off? Doesn’t compute. Could it be they had something rigged that would loosen under high pressure, yet “feel tight” when being inspected, and that “system” failed?
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1– Not only justified; but refreshing. He’s not letting up either. Stewart is still giving it to Goodyear, saying that most of the drivers have been complaining about these “crap” tires for some time. Tony Stewart is the new NASCAR “Speaker of the House”.
2– Look out Jack–yes indeed–the Toyotas are coming. I hope the detractors didn’t think that Toyota would take to being embarrassed lightly. Adding JGR put the program over the top and Jack needs to spend R&D money to keep up.
3— I don’t know about the right guy thing; but it is a fun story. Cast aside by Hendrick in favor of Junior and who is laughing now? The first round goes to Rowdy. It is a good time watching him turn into an almost likable guy. I’m a sucker for a good story and this is one of the best so far.
4– Another good story for the start of the year. There is nothing like a good cheating scandal to get the troops excited. I go with Elliott Sadler on this one; most likely they knew what was up–hence no appeal. Hmmmm.