Nascar 2008

[Moesha]

So what do ya think Cuzin Carl meant when he said in his post race interview that that was the most fun he'd had in his clothes in a long time? Does someone have something that they would like to confess???

[Cincy'sMom]

Missed that comment...Hmmmmm

He and David Regan did go hiking on Saturday, and they showed Carl with his shirt off in the pre-race. He claimed David had his off too until the cameras starting rolling. Makes you wonder what was really going on out there on the trail....

[Moesha]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM3fOeBM0Xw

Carl's interview is about at the 5:20 mark.

[RICHARD]

Marcus Ambrose?

Sounds like a painter or poet..Stock Car Racer?

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Word is out that Patrick was allowed to win the Tokyo race. Her pit crew was tired of her whining and took up a collection for the 2nd place team.


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What is KB's carbon footprint after that smoke out?
It really don't matter, Mexico City's air sucks anyway.

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What Boris Said and what happened are two different things.

6 foot 5? Dang, I'd buy him lunch and wash his car if I caused him to crash outta the race!

[RICHARD]

Not necessarily a NASCAR/racing thought....

It's all about DP and her winning.

And what about all the other women who's shoulders she stood on to get there? Not only in open wheel racing, but in karts, drag, Indy car racing?

I can name a few right off the top of my head, Janet Guthrie, Ashley Force, Shirley Muldowney, Angie Semple. I forgot the gal who raced in the pink car for a while in stock cars.....

In these days of big money contracts there are very few sports and very few arse-leaks (My brother's term for athletes who think they poo don't smell)
who don't stop and think or thank everyone that came before them.

Example? Baseball. Those sissies (I love the game, hate the prices and some of the players) who ask for jillions of dollars to play a game where the worst is getting hit in the head with a ball....

Ask them about some of the history about the game and they can't tell you who Curt Flood is. Like, isn't that what happened after Katrina?

Yep, it's great that a woman won a race, I would have rather seen another gal do it....Not some Sports Illustrated bikini model.

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If you hear her mention any woman who paved the way for her win, let me know. It will probably be someone named Danica, who did it all on her own.

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I'd love to see her in NASCAR and go after a driver like she did last year...

BOOM BOOM, Out go the lights!

Then she'd cry and talk about people picking on her because she is a woman.

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O.K., I don't have the bits to race at 200 mph, but she does.

[lizbud]

Danica did race in karts at the age of 11 or 12. She blew the socks off
of the other racers, boys or girls. I figure she deserves her moment.

[anna_66]

Richard, we watched a couple of interviews she did and she seemed pretty humble. Maybe she wasn't thanking all the women before her, but she did win this race!
And what's wrong with her being in a bikini? She looks good!
I like Tony Stewart, but I sure wouldn't want to see him in a bikini

Hey, another thought...Carl Edwards was on the cover of a magazine with his shirt off, how come your not giving him a hard time

[Cincy'sMom]

I like Tony Stewart, but I sure wouldn't want to see him in a bikini

Amen to that!!! It was bad enough onthe Sirius Website, him in his blue silk boxers, during Operation "Wax Smoke". Eewww!!!

http://www.sirius.com/tonystewart

[RICHARD]

Moises and Robinson! Thanks!

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Patrick just doesn’t rub me the right way. She’s been a promoter of DP more than she has been of her craft. I don’t really look at Carl, Jeff, Jimmy or any driver as a media star or model. Dale Jr. selling Wrangler jeans is about as far as I pay attention. If the boys want to strip for a magazine, I really don’t care. If showing some man boob gets you a pole position, NASCAR need to revise qualifying!

DP has done photo spreads for FHM and SI. She’s also done a bunch of interviews for print and electric media. I didn’t find her stretched across the wing of an Indy car especially interesting. And she always seemed like she never lost a race because of her driving-it was the crew, the car or some other excuse.

Now, had she saved the skin for after a win, I probably would have said, “oh, good for her”. I don’t remember any other woman driver doing skin shots before winning or even making a second place finish in a race. For me, it’s more fun to see a gal make it to the top of her game as a driver first, woman and any other title she wants to be known by, second. I just got tired of all the drama associated with her.


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F1, CART and Indy car racing is like surgery. A driver has to make a turn or a pass in a very precise manner. NASCAR is more like, “Move outta my way sucker!” She’s got the chops for open wheel and she finally got a win. Would a team have put up with 49 also-rans if it was a man driving??


I love NASCAR and anything else that goes faster than I can walk. But, have they done enough to fire up the imagination of women –getting a gal into the left hand seat? It’s got women into the stands, in front of the tube and cheering along for the drivers-not just the brands of soap, motor oil or male enhancement pills . And DP, in all the media that I have seen, really has never talked about getting women behind the wheel. I am sure there is a smoking hot gal out there that can drive the wheels off a kart, open wheeler or Cup car, but isn’t it a media stunt to publish pics of half -naked drivers? I think Carl Edwards has won one race, so he can race naked for all I care. (Wouldn’t that make a great in-car camera shot?)

I just find that the Media Machine known as Danica Patrick doesn’t really inspire me to want to watch her race.

It's like a eating a good steak. I am not really interested in every step it took to my plate, I know how it got there, I just want it to be tasty. And I don't want to hear the server keep telling me that my steak will be ready, 50 times over!

I do like the women NHRA racers, they are no-bones drivers. I don’t need to see skin to find them attractive or sexy.

As a matter of fact, I love the way a woman smells in racing leathers.

It reminds me of a new car!