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From Yahoo! Sports:
" INDIANAPOLIS – While NASCAR and Goodyear point fingers of blame at each other over the debacle that was Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard, many fans that left disappointed gave both of them just one finger – the middle one. "
Mandatory cautions every 15 laps?
NASCAR commisioner have to appear on the broadcast to appologise for the sorry racing?
This is absolutly pathetic
If Goodyear can't make a tire, I'm sure some other company out there can. I glad Team 48 won, but this was one of the most pathetic races in all of racing history, whether it's auto racing, chariot racing, camel racing, wiener dog racing, or any other form of racing out there
If I was a fan in the stands, I would be raising a fuss today.
I was at Talladega the year that Jeff Gordon got showered with beer cans when he won. NASCAR and the track tried their darndest to make it look like it was done because Jeff Gordon won....that wasn't it at all. It was because yet again a race ended under caution.
The entire race was plagued with cautions....one of the was for a piece of debris is turn 4. I was sitting in turn 4 and it was a piece of tire down by the yellow line. By the time they threw the caution the tire piece had blown down well below the yellow. Now folks, they needed 7 laps of caution for this??? The track is 2.66 miles long. It doesn't take that long.
That is just ONE example of the wasteful caution laps of that race.
But we raised such a fuss because of our wasted $$$ there is now the green/white/checkered and they pay more attention as to how many laps a caution should be.
I'd start complaining 1st to the track because if the fans don't come back it's $$ out of their pocket...then NASCAR...
I think the cautions hurt a lot of drivers on top of being a nuisance. Matt Kenseth said he would have come down pit row right before his tire blew but he knew a competition yellow was coming out so he stayed out 2 laps more than he was comfortable with. This happened more than once.
If I did not have it Tivoed I would have turned it off and just waited to see the last few laps. I am curious as to how it would have turned out if they had to go to the Pocono tires like they mentioned.
This wasn't even the worst race at IMS. Anyone remember the Formula One race a couple years ago where 12 of the 20 cars pitted after the pace lap and refused to race? If this had happened in Europe, they probably would have burned the place to the ground. All the American fans could muster was to throw water bottles and hot dogs onto the track.
Yeah, that was something. Here's an article I found about it. Even with all the cautions in the NASCAR race this year, there were some good racing moments throughout.
World-class Formula 1 Fiasco at Indianapolis - Column/C/D Columns/Columns/Features/Car and Driver - Car And Driver (http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_columns/world_class_formula_1_fiasco_at_indianapolis_colum n - broken link)
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