tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post5675117812138795007..comments2024-02-23T11:23:45.971-05:00Comments on Lost Motorcyclist: Another Toyota Throttle Scandal: This Time It Won't OpenLost Motorcyclisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08873504561959138792noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-27523930094351365022010-03-30T07:47:59.587-04:002010-03-30T07:47:59.587-04:00Well, that question certainly prompted considerabl...Well, that question certainly prompted considerable debate between the F1 and NASCAR enthusiasts!<br /><br />Watching car racing on television is a poor substitute for the noise, the smell and the crowd excitement of the real thing.<br /><br />I was lucky enough to attend the running of the 1968 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Monaco_Grand_Prix" rel="nofollow">Monaco Grand Prix</a>, when the 'greats' including John Surtees, Graham Hill, Richard Atwood and Jack Brabham were racing.<br /><br />Monte Carlo is the most challenging track in the Formula One circuit, and in the 1960s F1 cars were much more dangerous than today's machines. This was the period of F1 racing celebrated in John Frankenheimer's classic film, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060472/%22" rel="nofollow">Grand Prix</a>.<br /><br />In those days, the pits were open and spectators could wander through and actually touch the cars (and drivers, if so inclined ;-) After that experience, anything else is anti-climatic.<br /><br />Especially a bunch of sedans going around and around and around ;-)Madeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593933575568389288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-1292687831927337282010-03-29T18:43:53.096-04:002010-03-29T18:43:53.096-04:00You should have checked the first hit, it was:
&q...You should have checked the first hit, it was:<br /><br />"Why is F1 racing so boring compared to NASCAR?"<br /><br />Of course that leaves 99,999 other hits.Lost Motorcyclisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08873504561959138792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2156536327610779049.post-9611442441052019882010-03-29T17:34:33.698-04:002010-03-29T17:34:33.698-04:00Golly! Toyota is competing in NASCAR? Who knew?!
...Golly! Toyota is competing in NASCAR? Who knew?!<br /><br />Anyhow, I was naive enough to think that the only rule for NASCAR racing was, '<i>Anything goes</i>.'<br /><br />So naturally I had to read up on that 'banned substance'. Turns out that there was <a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/16/nascar-scandal-toyota-waltrip-in-shame-fined-big-time/" rel="nofollow">'<i>an odorless, Vaseline-like substance in the car's engine</i>.</a>'<br /><br />So, of course, I had to look up the technical restrictions on NASCAR machines, to see which rule(s) was/were being violated by that odorless, Vaseline-like substance.<br /><br />Golly! It turns out that, '<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASCAR_rules_and_regulations" rel="nofollow"><i>rule books are published exclusively for NASCAR members and are not made available to the public</i></a>.'<br /><br />Anyhow ... by that point I'd pretty much lost interest in the whole thing ... just like when I watch NASCAR races themselves (which I generally do only when I'm having trouble getting to sleep). <br /><br />And ... just to confirm that I'm not alone in that feeling, Google just returned close to 100,000 hits on my inquiry: <a href="http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&safe=off&q=why+is+nascar+so+boring&meta=&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=why+is+nascar+so+boring&gs_rfai=&fp=4692a3ff86a6f392" rel="nofollow">why is nascar so boring</a>Madeyehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02593933575568389288noreply@blogger.com