[herr_oberst]

So, I made the decision to watch the Great American Race yesterday.

I haven't watched Nascar in about 3 or 4 years, maybe longer.

I think the only thing that's changed is that there are even MORE commercial breaks, (mostly for super-violent Fox TV shows or movies) and I sure did see a lot of empty seats over in the turn 4 area.


Good god. Boogeety boogety boogety? Still?

But, in between the nonsense, there was some really good racing, 3 wide, 10 deep for the win with 20 laps to go and (at least till the last turn of the last lap) nobody crashed!

And somehow, Nascar couldn't wrangle Jeff Gordon into the winners circle, in spite of all the machinations to try and make that happen. (I'm convinced that certain cars have looser rules. They's been far too many hollywood stories for this not to be the case. Kevin Harvick winning his first race in the Number 3 after Earnhardt died; Danica getting pole position in her first year in the bigs; Jeff Gordon on pole for his last race at Daytona. Far too many "you couldn't script this" events to be a coincidence for my conspiracy minded brain!)