After last weeks NASCAR debacle with Kyle Busch, the world is in an uproar and being split in half. There are those that had no problem with what he’s done or his tactical behavior leading up to that, (aka, his fans) and there are those that never took to his ways and more or less, hate Kyle Busch. Nah, that’s a strong word. How about, have no tolerance for Kyle Busch’s practices.
Now today, it was announced that Kyle’s NASCAR Nationwide Series sponsor, Z-Line, asked Joe Gibbs Racing to replace Busch with Denny Hamlin in the Nationwide series finale race at Homestead.
I know it’s only one sponsor, and this isn’t related, but it’s starting to feel like a Tiger Woods thing all over again with how sponsors have to worry about their bottom line.
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Then today on SiriusXM, Dave Moody started talking about Z-Line’s Facebook page. It seems that, per a non-scientific survey done by Dave Moody, 50% of the comments on the Facebook wall say,
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Yesterday, 8-23-11, a 5.8 magnitude earthquake, now being called “The Virginia earthquake,” hit on the East Coast.
Above is the Virginia Tech seismograph chart during the Virginia earthquake.
Apparently The Virginia Earthquake was pretty shallow, meaning the actual physical disruption that caused the ground waves everyone felt, was close to the surface. It was a mere 3.7 miles below the surface and located 5 miles SSW from Mineral, VA or 38 miles from NW of Richmond, VA. It was a “reverse faulting on a north or northeast-striking plane” event. Um, whatever that means.
I first heard about the earthquake while listening to Sirius XM NASCAR radio, when Dave Moody started desribing his experience. As always, his skill at putting what he observes into words is second-to-none and as he described what he experienced, I was thinking, yep, those are the standard observations of an earthquake. Small things start to rattle and as the energy of the event starts to build, other, bigger things or events start to happen.
The earthquake was felt across a huge region of the Eastern seaboard and East Coast. To be precise, magnitude 5+ earthquakes are known to be able to be felt as far as 300 mi away from the event and can actually cause damage at distances of 25 miles from the epicenter.
This is actually very typical as earthquakes east of the Rockies can be felt over areas ten times larger than a similar earthquake on the west coast can be felt.
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NASCAR News: Danica Patrick coming to NASCAR!
Dave Moody on Sirius XM is chatting up the story that Danica Patrick is indeed coming to NASCAR, starting her career in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, with sporadic Cup Series starts.
Danica Patrick in Daytona Garage
Scene Daily is also confirming that Ms. Patrick is indeed finalizing her contract with JR Motorsports Nationwide team and Stewart-Haas Racing for her Cup starts. Whoa! Look out Ryan!!!
It looks like Danica is walking from her IndyCar ride at the end of 2011 and coming to the other side of the fence where cars can actually touch each other during a race and not lose a wheel doing it!
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In the short term, this will be great exposure for the Nationwide Series. It will bring new, fresh blood that has a huge popularity factor to it.
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The controlling body of NASCAR is contemplating a few rule changes. They’ve already changed up the Budweiser Shootout rules, as far as who can run in it? Now word is that the NASCAR governing body is looking to swap the COT wing out for a spoiler or blade.
At first I thought it was just a marketing ploy to get more drivers into the event. But now that Kenny Schrader is in the event, I’m good! LOL. (I guess the new rules worked!)
Over the last week, there’s been noise about NASCAR contemplating a few more changes to make the day more of a challenge for the drivers and teams.
One of the changes is removing the wing from the C.O.T. and returning to the era of the wing.
The wing showed up on the COT to remove a vehicle’s dependence on aerodynamics but it seems to have fallen short of that goal as drivers have complained that the car is hard to drive as it is, and fans don’t like the look.
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I’ve always wondered why we can’t get SIRIUS Satellite Radio, Channel 128 NASCAR channel on the Internet? We seem to have access to many other offerings from SIRIUS on their web interface. What’s up?
Dave Moody fielded a phone call today about that very subject.
Basically put, Turner Broadcasting owns the NASCAR rights. What Turner wants for $$ to stream the NASCAR content on the internet is apparently much more costly than what SIRIUS considers the value of the content to be worth.
What this seems to mean is that until either the debt ridden Satellite entity finds the money (not likely) or Turner decides to lossen up their premise of what the value is, we, the consumer / fan are victim to this stand-off.
So we all know that America’s Funniest Video’s apparently is more important than the last few laps of a hotly contested NASCAR race in the middle of a heated championship battle.
I want to take a quick look back at something I wrote in November of 2008 regarding Dave Moody from SIRIUS Satellite after that Phoenix network snafu:
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