I heard on SiriusXM that Jack Roush denied team drafting orders for the NASCAR Talladega last weekend. And if you’re a general auto racing fan, you know that in Formula One racing, team orders are common.
I’m disappointed that Roush is denying the Roush Yates Motors clan order.
There are basically just a few huge teams that make up most of the top tier of NASCAR and I would be totally shocked if there wasn’t something afoot. Come on, back at Richmond when Menard missed his alleged coded radio cue, things seemed suspect back then.
But when it comes to Plate Racing, I see the need to make plans but the racing in the moment can definitely create new or more opportunistic moments.
Bayne even noted earlier this week that depsite his helping other manufacturer drivers, if he’d been given the word, he would have backed another Ford.
And despite Roush’s denial, Jeff Gordon pretty much confirmed in a different media report that everyone knew Ford was going to back Ford.
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Since Danica Patrick announced her plans last week to join NASCAR‘s Nationwide Series full-time and Sprint Cup Series part-time next year, the fans and anti-fans have been having a field day.
Since Danica Patrick announced her full-time NASCAR plans for 2012 and beyond, nothing she’s done has gone unnoticed. Folks are on-board with tracking her 1 in 112 race-win record, or the huge high-heels she wore to last week’s announcement, and of her GoDaddy ads.
To be honest though, being a hater is too easy. I do get it, I have my anti-liked aspects of drivers of the sport of auto racing. But hating is just too easy to do and it’s like shooting the side of a barn while being inside the barn.
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Earlier this week I heard a caller on the Sirius XM NASCAR radio show call in to Dave Moody and trash on Danica Patrick’s scathing GoDaddy ads and the lack of clothing she adorns herself with in those ads. But this particular called seemed to be a “hater” and wasn’t balancing out things.
Dave Moody & Angie Skinner both asked the caller that if she wasn’t happy about Patrick wearing her firesuit top unzipped and hanging around her waist, showing off a bikini-like ensemble, how did she feel about Carl Edwards being nearly stripped for a men’s magazine?
Ah, how the double standards flew. She was fine with Carl and Denny’s ads, (Denny’s TV ad has a fake upper torso, but still funny) The caller definitely couldn’t see the “fun” of the GoDaddy ads and I’m guessing her moralistic meter only had one gender and direction it could go.
I do get her perspective, but one needs to see both sides of the coin before admonishing it. And this caller somewhat inspired this little tirade!
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