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by Charlie Turner

Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. The best NASCAR and IndyCar news and opinion, exclusive pictures and video. I'm Charlie Turner. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

May 26, 2008 11:17 am CDT 6 Comments

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I believe in Monsters and Fast LapsThis will be a somewhat truncated Fast Lap post this week as I am “off on vacation and some things are hard to explain” as Jimmy Buffet said.

The Coca Cola 600 was Looonnnggg. The Indy 500 was looonnnggg and less filling. I’ll have more to say about that later at the Bench Racing blog, but something was missing still at Indy.

The Monster Mile is next up for the Cuppers and while you wile away your week, take a shot at these Fast Lap questions and let us know your thoughts. The best - and maybe the worst - of the results might just land you the vacation fill-in gig for future ON PIT ROW broadcasts.

1. Will the victories at Lowes propel Kasey Kahne to more wins?

2. Should NASCAR allow SMI and Bruton Smith to move a race to the newly purchased Kentucky Speedway?

3. Bootie Barker says the “illegal” wing brackets on their cars have been there all year. How could NASCAR have missed them all this time?

4. Rank the 500 and the 600.

Have fun kiddies. I’ll be back to comment and attack you like a shark in a frenzy. Right now though, Margaritaville calls.

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600 Miles of Memorial Day Fast Laps Next Up

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by Charlie Turner

Thanks for stopping by OnPitRow.com and the Bench Racing with Steve and Charlie blog. The best NASCAR and IndyCar news and opinion, exclusive pictures and video. I'm Charlie Turner. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow

May 19, 2008 9:43 am CDT 7 Comments

600 Miles of Memorial Day Fast Laps Next UpDon’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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