Danica redux

Shamrock 3x

Veteran
Hey where are Ratzso and all the other haters this AM, after her 24th place finish....on the lead lap... yesterday?  I am $1 richer today, as my wife & I bet on which lap she'd hit the wall. Wifey said lap 94, whereas I picked lap 150.  We were both wrong, but I was less wrong (for once!) than her. Collecting the $1 will be quite another matter, however.  Gosh, if this turns out to be a new trend for Danica, could that mean that Joe N. will finally get some decent mechanics to help him finish a race? Stranger things (but not much) have happened!
 
I'm not Danica basher, she's hot and she has SOME talent, and if she can parlay that into a career, good for her. But, I had to get a kick out of Kenny Wallace saying how impressed he was about her 24th place finish, and then Kyle Petty slamming the door and saying "with everything that went on today, why are we wasting time talking about Danica?"....  LOL
 
I usually am on the Danica bash-wagon, but she looked pretty good in the nationwide race, if it wasnt for some questionable pit calls she may have been a top 3
 

Ernie

Champion
What's the difference talking about her or the way NA$CAR would skip talking to a top 5 finisher and would interview Joonyer who finished in the rear? NA$CAR has been doing that for years. Is the Joonyer Nation upset that the spotlight is somewhere else rather than their boy?
 

chief57

Champion
i don't think she needs a redux, i would vote for enhancement though!
wow, where did all this 14 year old boy crap come from? is everyone pen pals with jerry?  :)
 

Salukifan

Veteran
I was kinda impressed that during the Nationwide practice show, one of the announcers actually found their way to Johnanna Long's car and talked to her for a bit.  I figured that they must have got lost on the way to the restroom or something since they have spent the whole season ignoring her in favor of yet another Danica puff piece. 
 

thedoebes

Veteran
They were definitely all temporarily speechless for a few seconds.I thought it was actually funny.I wonder what Kenny had to say to Kyle after the show and if Speed and NASCAR are going to say anything to Kyle?
 
I personally would love to see Johanna long in done better equipment bc some of the finishes she has gotten out of the car she is in if u put her in a top notch team I think you will see that she has more talent in stock cars than Danica. I'm not really a Danica basher but come on there are other things going on in NASCAR besides her mediocre finishes in cup and the fact she has a great car and still can get good finishes in nationwide series
 

Ratzso

Veteran
Shamrock 3x said:
Hey where are Ratzso and all the other haters this AM, after her 24th place finish....on the lead lap... yesterday?  I am $1 richer today, as my wife & I bet on which lap she'd hit the wall. Wifey said lap 94, whereas I picked lap 150.  We were both wrong, but I was less wrong (for once!) than her. Collecting the $1 will be quite another matter, however.  Gosh, if this turns out to be a new trend for Danica, could that mean that Joe N. will finally get some decent mechanics to help him finish a race? Stranger things (but not much) have happened!

Wow!  I would have replied sooner but I'm still in shock!

The Go Daddy Go Go ace driver didn't hit the wall, try to crash someone else because they didn't give her the whole track and she had a career best 24th place finish, which I understand is her best so far in France $print Cup Racing!  Must be she started taking her meds again.

She must have been extremely tired as that's the most laps she's run in a race this season.

I need to go sign up as a member of her fan club and join the other three active members in celebrating this monumental achievement!

I'm surprised that they didn't put her in victory lane to share the spotlight with a real racecar driver, Jimmie Johnson!


 
Take away Junior & Danica and see how many more empty seats are in the already mostly-vacated grandstands...  NASCAR (and all other forms of racing) is a show folks...  Until Mr. 5-time squeaky clean guy develops a personality and shows some emotion on camera, he won't ever have near the following of your two favorite whipping posts...
 
Take away Junior & Danica and see how many more empty seats are in the already mostly-vacated grandstands...

Just a question...

Is it possible that us REAL race fans (you know, the ones who actually support our local tracks - and the ones that helped get NASCAR on national television weekly) vacated those seats when NASCAR invented the COT, the yellow line rule, the lucky dog, taking away racing back to the yellow, disposed of tracks with true character (North Wilkesboro and Rockingham), cut down our beloved Bristol and turned it into another Darlington, shoved washed up bands in our faces for pre-race entertainment, demanded no cussing on the radios and never to talk negatively about the sanctioning body, and insist we are seeing the nations best 43 drivers?

Just a thought...

How about we return to grass roots racing, where the REAL champion amasses points all season long to determine who gets bragging rights between Daytona 500's? Let's get the advertising dollars and sponsorships back by running an aggressive 36 week shedule, eliminate this chase for the championship crapola and give the product manufacturers back what they came for in the first place... something to be proud to be associated with. WWE/WWF/WTF or whatever you call it has no place in racing. We are beer drinking, deer hunting, women ogling, tobacco chewing, cigarette smoking, pickup truck driving, Harley riding rednecks. We attend local races and know that through hard work and determination, we COULD stand a chance at the big time.

Just a dream...

Forget the pretty girls and boys who MAY appeal to a younger and diversified audience (bye bye DP and Junior). We want the days of old when Cale Yarborough and Donnie Allison settled their indifferences on the apron of the Daytona 500 - not a spoiled rich kid taking out his foes intentionally on the track. That's not what made NASCAR what it was. We want hard nosed, balls out, blood and guts racing. We want the rivalries back... Earnhardt vs. Bodine, Waltrip vs. Wallace, Allison vs. Yarborough, Pearson vs. Petty, Irvan vs. Elliott. Let WWE/WWF/WTF or whatever you call it have the flash bombs, fireworks and loud music playing during introductions. We already know who the players are - - we watched them earn their way at the local dirt tracks and paved bull rings.
 
Another theory I live 2hrs from the Glen 360$ 4 race tickets 150$ gas for RV 85$ to camp at the Glen 150$ for food Probaly spent 100$ at the track heck even if you live next to the place it will cost you 300$ thats alot of money and we do it cheap cant imagine what people are paying for hotel rooms and buying all there meals out Nascar is just to expensive..
 

Longhair

Veteran
Hey CC Rider... ROTFLMAO! I was shooting the Glen for AARN which I've done for the past 10 or 12 years, minus once 2 years ago. I got a perfect 4 or 5 shot sequence of Danica crashing in turn #1 and turned and looked at the other photo dogs and said.... well, that's it I can go home now, I got Danica crashing! We all agreed that was the #2 story of the day, and we were only on lap 1! I hung around till the end though... then, sprinted to SAS to work / shoot the Flat Track race!
 
Bob, you know as well as I do that the "hard cores" don't pay the bills anymore...  Not in NASCAR and certainly not at our local tracks...  The true promoters try to draw in interest from every angle and to do that, they need interesting game players...  You can stick to your old school thinking all ya want in order to give you that nostalgic, warm-and-fuzzy feeling, but in the end- it don't pay the bills...  ;)
 

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