Things I think about Fontana

By Keith Ott

1:  Broadcast – I’m two sided on this one.  Part of me thinks the guys in the booth need to get paid extra for having the ability to stay awake and at least try to entertain the TV audience.  The other part of me hates that Darryl’s nasal twang woke me up more times than I can count.  Did everyone catch the lame attempt to persuade us that ticket sales were surging?  “The ticket lines were staggering,” we were told.  All I can think is that the track mall must have a multiplex theater, and a new Harry Potter was secretly screening, because these people weren’t in the grandstands.  As far as the production goes, I’m still waiting for Fox to grow up and loose the inane graphics.  It’s a sporting network, or claims to be, not the cartoon network.  If you have a great angle, show it.  We’ll appreciate it all the more without a stupid gopher popping up.  And please tell me you did not dig up a little round patch of dirt for his home.  Oh, and if you want to “Crank it up,” just do it.  We have ears, we’ll notice that also.

2:  Racing – I wanted to leave this blank, but someone was bound to think I messed up and not see the sarcasm.  What racing?  I’m now of the opinion that this track isn’t even deserving of one race, much less two.  Seems the fans in Cali are voting with their attendance, or lack thereof, too.  The cautions are actually becoming my favorite parts, because if you rewind and play them at 4X it actually looks like racing two wide.  I even prayed to seven different incarnations of rain gods to no avail.  However, rain or no rain, Cali was a washout.

3: Drivers - Kenseth, Gordon, Johnson, the Busch Brothers and Biffle had good days.  The rest of the drivers were seldom seen or heard from.

Long story short, the next Cali race goes on the DVR.  I have better things to do than count how many times a gopher pops up.