600 Miles of Memorial Day Fast Laps Next Up
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.
May 19, 2008 9:43 am CDT 7 CommentsIf you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
Don’t relax your anti-hype muscles just yet race fans. It’s Memorial Day weekend, home of the race formerly known as - and still referred to by Latin American racing journalists and Tony George as - The Greatest Spectacle in Racing, the Indy 500.
The first summer holiday also hosts the brain child of NASCAR’s Barnum, Humpy Wheeler. The Coca Cola 600 was formerly and modestly, known as the World 600. PT Wheeler must have thought, “you know, if the open wheelers can have 500 Memorial Day miles, we’ll have six. And even basketball fans know that the “World” is bigger than anything in Indiana.”
All that Sprint All Star race hype that was heaped upon us last weekend is just the opening act to the slobberknocker that’s on deck. But there will be racing for real, at least. Try our four Fast Lap questions as the Bench Racing version of the holiday weekend warm up.
1. Why is NASCAR allowing teams to alter the front and rear end geometry on the new car, when they they are so stringent about body templates?
2. Dale Earnhardt Jr says he may move his JR Motorsports team to Cup in 2009 because of cost. What does that say about the Nationwide Series?
3. Will the Coca Cola 600 be just an extended replay of the Sprint All-Star race?
4. Best and worst of the Sprint All Star weekend?
At ON PIT ROW, we strive to tone down the hype ( LISTEN LIVE TUESDAYS AT 5 PM EDT!!!!!!) and be the touch of class (REPLAYS ARE AT RACETALKRADIO.COM THURSDAYS AT 7 PM EDT!!!!!!) that NASCAR and it’s circus barkers so often lack. If you participate, and we like what you write, we may invite you to join us for polite (BRING IT ON YOU WIMP!!!!!!) NASCAR-rich discussion on a future episode of the show.
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Scorching hot Arizona Fast Laps are on deck
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.
April 7, 2008 11:38 pm CDT 5 Comments
Carl Edwards loves NASCAR’s new car. Can’t say that I blame him. He has three wins out of seven 2008 Sprint Cup races and he could have had at least one more. The best part - for Carl - is that yesterday’s Car of Tomorrow is so in the heads of every other team on the track that Edwards is starting every race with a half lap lead.
Jeff Gordon finished dead last. That statement ought to be followed by exclamations of “liar” or at least “no way”, but the statement is true. The Rainbow Warriors had their asses handed to them and they still don’t have enough answers, apparently, to restore their confidence. Going to Phoenix isn’t likely a remedy as that is not one of Jeffey’s best tracks.
NASCAR moves on and so does the Fast Lap. Check out the four tricky, flat and fast lefties below. Tight in or loose out doesn’t matter - but your opinions do. Be prepared to stick up for yourself though - cause nobody else wiil.
1. More names have been thrown into the Richard Childress Racing fourth car sweepstakes. Who will it be?
2. If you owned a race team, would you hire Kyle Petty as your driver?
3. Who will be the focus of Chip Ganassi’s promised “sweeping changes” if his teams don’t start performing better?
4. Should NASCAR consider making mid-season changes to the new car?
The Fast Lap feature has been a regular part of ON PIT ROW for over seven years now. The debates and arguments that Steve and I get into during Fast Lap segments are pretty heated more often than not. Your input would just make it better. Don’t expect a bunch of Kumbaya agreement though. That’s not what this blog is all about. Bring your best and bring it on!
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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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