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June 12, 2007
Races and Rain
With Mother Nature not playing too kindly with NASCAR races this year, I was wondering what fans thought of NASCAR's rain policy?
Over the years, we've seen races go to barely past the halfway point to races being held on Mondays. There have been times when races were picked up where they left off to starting all over on Monday, depending on how much of the race was able to be run on a Sunday.
How do the fans feel about the rain policy NASCAR has? If rain threatens the possibility of a full race being run, would you rather they run it on Monday and get the whole thing in or do you feel you still get your money's worth if they call it sometime after the halfway point or further? Do you plan on the possibility of the race being run on Monday when you get your tickets for a race or just hope for the best?
There's not much NASCAR can do, you can't really fight Mother Nature, but I'm interested in hearing what the fans thoughts on rain delays and postponements.
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Kathy,
It's been pretty frustrating to see Nascar call races off when they've had time to dry the track and/or they had lights at the place. An obvious example of this would be when Mikey Waltrip won his second Daytona 500; here is Nascar's premier race and they called it off in the middle of the day. My best friend lives in Daytona and he said it was sunny down there an hour after the race!
However, I think Nascar had no choice but to call it off this past Sunday. Thankfully they at least TRIED or APPEARED to be trying to dry the track. At least I felt better when they at least attempted to get out the jet blowers.
Regarding your previous blog, I understand the frustration you feel about Nascar's call. Like some of the more sensible anti-Gordon fans on your blog, it seems fairly biased that Newman was closing in on Jeffy and SURPRISE! out comes the caution flag. Just my opinion.
Ironman
Posted by: Ironman | Jun 12, 2007 11:02:31 AM
I agree with you Ironman about Daytona a few years ago - they called it way too early that time. Now I consider that HANDING a race to someone, they had plenty of time to finish it up. As for Sunday, I don't think Pocono has lights and they had tried all stinkin' day to get it going and like you said it looked like they at least tried and appeared to be trying to dry the track. As to when the caution came out, who knows - it's Nascar when do they ever do anything that makes a whole lot of sense.
Kathy - Newman will get at least one win soon - wouldn't surprise me if it isn't this Sunday.
Posted by: racemehard | Jun 12, 2007 11:23:48 AM
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