NA$CAR gets Saturday night's "Rig Job of the Day" award...
We all know that NA$CAR prides itself on being holier-than-thou and patriotic and all that stuff.
Don't believe me? Watch any pre-race coverage, for the pre-race flags and flyover and the invocation, including the one about the smoking-hot wife...
(Pastor Nelms, I had to include that, and there's no fraud in that prayer. Sometimes we forget all the component parts in the show, and then your smoking-hot wife... ;) )
(To be fair, he did mention his two children, and more...)
But that moment of levity is not why they earn the spot here.
Saturday night, Sept. 10, they had a race for the final positions in the Chase (the 26th race, the last before the 10-race playoff).
But, it being the 9/11 +10 Race, they wanted the fans and the announcers to be quiet for laps 9 through 11.
So, what better way to do that then for Clint Bowyer to spin on lap 8?
Now, if this simply brought out the caution, that might not be as big a problem... (Hell, I'd probably have thrown a "competition yellow" for the three tribute laps, get the business over with, and continue the race -- not unlike, say, for a soccer tribute at a European Cup match years ago, the match was stopped a relevant number of minutes in to pay tribute to a disaster which had happened in another country -- to which the fans at the game paid tribute with a stirring rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" before the game was resumed...)
What became the problem was when Dale Jr. couldn't stop and crunched his front right into Bowyer, turning his car into a tank for the rest of the race? Floundering in the back, NA$CAR'$ most popular driver needed THREE Lucky Dogs to keep on the lead lap and ensure he would (for the first time in about three years) make the Chase -- largely on his early-season form.
Something just don't smell right on that one...
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