Night Racin’ Fast Laps at Bristol Motor Speedway
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. Follow me on Twitter @onpitrow
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The Race to the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship is down to two short tracks and a big, two mile intermediate. That’s thirty, potentially huge, Chase bonus points up for grabs.
Carl Edwards snagged the extra ten points for winning the Michigan race. And MIS is the clone of one of the three tracks remaining - Auto Club Speedwayin Fontana, Fruitland.
Edwards is also the defending race winner of the Bristol night race, which just happens to be the next stop on the NASCAR Sprint Cup tour.
Racing under the lights in Thunder Valleyis one of the true spectacles of motorsports. Maybe of any sport. It has become more than just a race. Anything can happen at Bristol. I can’t wait.
But there’s a whole week to kill before Saturday night. Try our own, four Fast Lap heat race to help make the time go by.
1: Ryan Newman to Stewart-Haas in 2009 wasn’t a very well kept secret; but what could be causing a delay in sponsorship talks?
2: Morgan-McClure Motorsports said NASCAR hijacked their number 4 to give it to SHR. Should NASCAR have been more sensitive to one of its historic teams?
3: What should the penalty be to Joe Gibbs racing for trying to alter the dyno test results after the Nationwide race at Michigan?
4: Four Roush-Fenway cars finished in the top 5 at Michigan. Is that finish a good indication of who should be jettisoned when the team needs to get down to four teams?
Keep your responses down to 100 words or less. We are working through the bugs of a weekly video feature that will take the best of the Fast Lap to, we hope, another level. The first Fast Lap Show would have been making its debut this week, in fact. If only I had remebered to turn the mike 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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