It just doesn’t get any better than this.

Reality. Definitely stranger than fiction.

25 Responses to “Shades of Ricky Bobby”

1. Husky Midget Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 5:23 pm

   Looks like the ol fashioned cop spinout t-rick. I call it CRASHcar. Caint they put some jumps in nex yer? main did ya see eem?

2. Mikey Says:
   April 27th, 2009 at 6:51 pm

   “Ah’m the best and no one can hang with my stuff.” I love that movie.

3. Steve Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 7:38 am

   The commentators could see that Edward’s carb was knocked off, but then Mr. Joy claims that he saw NO debris going through the fence, into the fans. What a lying POS shill for NASCAR. 4-minutes of broadcast and no mention of concern for the fans.

4. R-ster Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 8:16 am

   Left turn, left turn, left turn….

5. WC Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 11:43 am

   NASCAR Soap Opera for Men!!! Screw the fans, its called natural selection.

6. MM Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

   Hey Steve, not an observant chap are you…? That’s Ryan Newman’s car with the carb knocked off…

7. mitch Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

   outside of my moral concern for humanity in general, i’ve never been all that concerned about nascar fans either.

8. Flanders Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

   “carb knocked off…”??? Are you joking? Don’t they have fuel injection by now? I know these are old tech, POS’s, but come on. Please tell me this is a mistake.
   I just don’t get what is so great about Nascar. I get dizzy watching! Imagine having to turn left for hundreds of miles… You’d get dizzy and crash too!

9. bikesgonewild Says:
   April 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

   …nope…as edwards climbs out of his car, if you know what yer lookin’ at, you can clearly see the carb’s 4 hole baseplate, the one that is referred to as the talladega & daytona “restrictor plate”, on top of the manifold…

   …& considering the weight & speed of one of those lumps, i mean racing cars, i think the fence did a remarkable job…it looked as if the car debris was basically confined to the track & other than fluid, dust & maybe some tiny particles, what went into the crowd were some fence brackets themselves…

   …it IS auto racing & there is always gonna be an element of danger involved…a 180mph yard sale speaks for itself…

   …i watched the end of it on sunday & my first reaction was “oh good…edwards tried to block keselowski & the kid legally put him sideways…so fuck you, edwards”…then i saw the rear end on edwards car come up, despite ‘flaps’ that are designed to stop that from happening & my second thought was “man, this could be bad & even edwards doesn’t deserve this shit”…

   …but the fence held…prob’ly took ten years off yer life if you were sitting down there but that vehicle stayed on the track & on top of that, the cars safety cage held & after his ‘fly-by’ edwards was able to get out & jog down the track…

   …shook that ol’ boy up some & that’s a fact…

10. HUMPTY Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    I wake up in the mornin and piss excellence

11. Flanders Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm

    YEEEEHAAAW!

12. Mikey Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 3:15 pm

    Flanders-

    They still run carbuerators in NASCAR. Steel wheels are legislated too. Pickup truck differentials. It’s supposed to be “low tech.”

    Those cars weigh around 3400 pounds (heavy as hell) and have all the aerodynamics of a brick. That’s the trick to driving them- the kids come up through the ranks driving much lighter cars (higher power/weight ratio) so learning to set the car up as loose (oversteer) as you dare and NEVER LIFT is key. At all but the short tracks, those guys run flat all the way around, and you can’t just dial in more wing like an Indy car. It actually does require a lot of skill to run the car loose and keep it off the fence. They tell the rookies, if the car steps out, turn DOWN (across the skid) and spin the car. Otherwise, you can end up taking a big old hit up against the wall.

13. Gnome Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Ahwl, shit’s all off cambridge n shit.

14. patrick Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    An “old gray lady” article a few years back sums up my feelings about asscar. “The only thing worse than being in traffic is watching it on TV”.

15. Gnome Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pm

    Watching traffic on TV. Classic.

16. Mikey Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 4:33 pm

    “You made me spill my macchiatto.”

17. sommerfliesby Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pm

    For some reason, I actually like watching NASCAR on TV…though it’s better live…the track is right down the street from my house and I’ve only gone once…just too damn expensive. I was one of those guys who said “How hard could that really be? Certainly it’s not an ATHLETIC endeavor to drive a car in a circle?” Then I did the Richard Petty Driving Experience…10 laps in a full-blown Cup car. 750 horses, unmuffled. You have an “instructor” in the car with you, but you can’t even talk to him its so loud. I hit 165 on the straight, and muscling around those turns is DEFINATELY no picnic. I simply cannot imagine doing it with 40 other guys around…at 200 mph. These guys are a rare breed for sure…much respect to them. Now I’m gonna go get me a PBR and watch that clip a couple more times.

18. el jefe Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    Give me F1. Although I know the “stock” cars go almost as fast on a road course, they never look as good doing it… bouncing all over the place and shit. In circles, it’s both boring and ugly.

19. Mikey Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 7:15 pm

    el jefe- what I loike about F1 is those guys make NASA look like a high school science fair. I understand that every single team uses full-scale, high-speed wind tunnels. And 19,000 RPM at a specific power density of ~350 horsepower per liter displaced is… insane pneumatic valve trains. Serious cubic dollars required.

20. Steve Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 7:16 pm

    MM, Watch the video again. It shows the 99 without a carb. The boys in the booth seem to agree.

21. Mikey Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 7:17 pm

    Full-scale, high-speed ROLLING FLOOR wind tunnels. The only way to measure downforce generated under the chassis. Not that tunnels are allowed, no sir, nothing like that going on here.

22. Flanders Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    I give a shit!

23. Flanders Says:
    April 29th, 2009 at 12:00 am

    Make that 2 shits!

24. Greeng Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 7:01 pm

    Don’t know how well everybody knows this, but Carl races the Charlotte MTB series in the sport and expert class. Rides in Cool Breeze Cycles Kit. He’s faster than you are.

25. Gnome Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

    10 points to Carl for that. Very cool.