Sports – Favorite Tony Stewart crashed out of the Daytona 500. Ditto defending champion Jimmie Johnson. And Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Why wasn't the caution enacted? Martin should have had it.
The new rule of NASCAR, that has been in effect for a while, is that a race cannot end in a caution. They have a shoot out of a couple laps ( was three last year) to determine the winner and if there is another accident, the leader at the time is declared the winner. I think it had to do with the year that J. Gordon or Johnson (not sure which one) won by finishing the Daytona 500 race under caution and the fans were very angry because they felt like the others behind him were cheated.
True enough, but, technically, the "green-white-checker" is only valid for 1 try?...after that, if the yellow comes out again, the field is frozen and the race is over. So, this was a judgement call, allowing the 2 cars to race to the line - and - even though I am a Mark Martin fan (and he was leading when the 2nd caution COULDA come out), and like to root against Kevin Harvick - I'm glad the race ended as a race to the line.
I agree... Martin winning would have been great, but not freezing the field allowed for a dramatic finish... nothing would have changed the outcome of that race as far as another accident... and seeing Clint Bowyer, the jack daniels #07, skidding across the finish upside down is a NASCAR hall of fame highlight. Congrats to Kevin, who ran a great race. Good try, Mark... maybe next time.
the accidents were behind them & stoll happening -they were too colse to the finish line - if cautions had been used it would have looked very suspicious & taken away a breath taking finish
So, to follow the rules would have made it boring. Well, that answers the whole question posed about racing being a sport. It isn't- it's a psuedo-sport/entertainment. To the racers it is sport. Introduce subjectivity into a ruling to make the race more exciting for the consumers [oops fans and advertizers] and it's entertainment.
I cannot understand why people enjoy watching cars go around and around in a circle.
The fans must be waiting for things like this to happen.
To get off topic slightly. What is everyone thoughts of having a foreigner (Toyota) join NASCAR?
"To get off topic slightly. What is everyone thoughts of having a foreigner (Toyota) join NASCAR?"
Mixed feelings because Toyota is not an American company but it could be argued that neither is Chrysler. Toyota has assembly plants in America but most parts are made else where but Ford, Chrysler, and GM have parts made out side the U.S. In either case, I don't like it any more than someone using my toothbrush.
I feel like they ruined NASCAR when they started letting racers build their own car body. I liked the car when they were more like the cars we could buy.
A True Sport? Of course, according to Hemmingway, along with boxing, and bullfighting...maybe horse racing? Stick and ball activities are simply games. The really funny thing is seeing poker (as a sport?) on ESPN?
Poker is not a sport any more than checkers and chess. And a person in a wheel chair could kick you butt in poker.
The only time poker could be considered a sport is when a fight breaks out from someone cheating. LOL
look up the definition of 'sport' before you go around asserting your own RE-definitions. only in the modern era has the word sport been 'mandatorily' classified bi today's society as purely physical... revisionism at its best.
The first definition of sport is "1. an athletic activity requiring skill or physical prowess and often of a competitive nature, as racing, baseball, tennis, golf, bowling, wrestling, boxing, hunting, fishing, etc."
Granted the term sport has many broad meanings but in no way is poker an athletic activity. Competitive yes but athletic no. If you are going to call poker a sport than you have to call chess a sport and I haven't ever heard anyone call it that.
Toyota
Sony
Panasonic
Shell
BP
A&P
Chrysler(Daimler)
HSBC
on & on lots of foreign Co.s employing lots of Americans
if American Co.s can't cut it too bad as long as there are major players to fill the void & give Americans jobs.
I watched Toyotas race at Daytona on my Sony HD
Yes, I watched the race on my Sony HD also but I'll never buy another Sony anything because I've never gotten anything Sony made that ever worked without going to the shop and that goes back to the first Sony BetaMax which I had to junk and buy a Sanyo. TV has a great picture but it's been fixed 3 times.
Hey V.O.R. not all NASCAR fans voted for the idiot in charge of the country!!!!
And aceofspades1 if you like foreign products so well why not move overseas where the money is going, ever check the cost of living in Japan??? It is mindless dolts like you that has hurt our country. Example: Ford, Chevy, and dodge make cars just as well as the foreigners do. In fact the ford fusion beat the camry for quality this year, Gm has beaten Toyota in quality as well with the buick line-up 2years ago. And you could have bought a Zenith HD for about 40% less and they rate much higher at consumer reports. But you go ahead a blow your money on their products, in fact why don't you just go blow them.
quilly - did you know that Toyota is the largest idustrial employer in Kentucky? Where was Ford or GM or any other American car mfr. to open a plant there - I don't think the people who work for Toyota there are converting their wages to yen- They're putting the money right back into OUR economy. The moronic reply -"if you like foreign products so well why not move overseas where the money is going" is what I'd excpect from someone as dimwitted as you.Everything is being outsourced now - call customer service & you get to talk to someone you don't understand in Bombay-
At least foreign companies investing in the US are filling the void left by bankrupt American co.s & providing jobs for Americans - but I doubt you know much about having to work for a living
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My definition of a sport is one in which athleticism in involved. All others are merely activities or hobbies. I mean does it take athleticism to drive a race car, no, talent yes, athleticism no.
without going into it too far, athletes of all stripes have to make instantaneous body decisions based on reaction to situations, and due to the safety suits and equipment in NASCAR, it takes a great deal of physical stamina to compete.
Basketball players, for instance, must react quickly to physical stimuli and interpret that stimuli[read a defense} before making a quick body decision[drive left? right? pass?]
Any physicaly demanding activity can meet many of the criteria of the 4 major 'sports'.
And for quick reflexes and reaction time, there's a little more consequence to some of those physical activities than others...ask the driver of the #7 car...
I have to echo AmpLee's posting. 3-4 hours of constant stress instantaneous reactions to situations doing this at track temperatures of over 100 degrees. Having the visual accuity to space yourself within inches of another car at 180 MPH - truly atheltic.
Putting on layers of protective clothing going out on the ice for 5 min. hitting your opponent - sitting down for 10 min - professional hockey now thats a real athlete- HAHA
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As much as I really dislike Kurt Busch, I have to say that I admire the fact he took responsibility for taking Stewart out (although it wasnt really his fault). Great race and even greater finish.
I'm not a fan of Busch either but what he did was no different than what others have done (including Jeff Gordon) and they claim it as a part of racing. I saw Stewart take out Kenseth last year so like they say, what goes around comes around.
it sure looked like his fault... he got right into the back of him and Tony didn't really slow down. you cannot call that bump-drafting, because Tony did not need any help, there was plenty of room for Bush to get around him and they were in the middle of a curve... the worst place for bump-drafting. Busch blew it... he is right to apologize... and no, I'm not a big Tony fan, either. my driver is Dale Jr., who also unnecessarily got wiped out. that finish was one of the craziest ever... I was really rooting for Martin while my freshman daughter went into hysterics over her driver, Kevin Harvick, who is a nice guy, bi the way, very fan-friendly... stole my daughter's heart two years ago after Tony, who had been her driver since 1999 until he stood her and 20 others up at an advertised autographed signing for them both. Kevin called her a cutie and a doll and said that Tony made a mistake for leaving prematurely. He hugged her to console her and well, she was in heaven after that. lol.
i disagree. if you watch the replay carefully, you'll see that tony hit a bad spot on the track, which caused a minute speed reduction and rear end waggle, and THAT's what caused the wreck. the only thing bush can be blamed for is being too close, but then you'd have to blame stewart earlier in the race when their positions were reversed, as well as everybody else on the track. just one of those things.