Last week it was time to renew my cell phone contract for another two years and as a part of that renewal, I was allowed an upgrade to a new phone for 99 cents. (unfortunately for Daytona, it was not "fitty cent"). The guy who always helps me at the cell phone store is just a phenominal young man and knowing I'm into NASCAR, he installed a NASCAR whatever it is (you know I'm technically challenged) on my phone. So now I can actually pick my driver and watch the race from the in-car camera although I don't think I'll go that far with it. But last night, after the show "Racing Through History", I was playing with the NASCAR "app" and read an interesting commentary on NASCAR's review of "blocking" in the sport. It was almost funny reading the comments like Ryan Newman's statement that blocking was "chicken driving" and Dale, Jr. opining that it is totally acceptable in some circumstances. There was much discussion about Tony Stewart and his block at Talladega last year which took out 24 or so cars. I guess, like everything else in life, it depends on which side of the fence you're on as to whether or not a certain thing is right or wrong. I suppose, in the sport of NASCAR, if YOUR favorite does it, then it's right. If someone else does it TO your favorite, then it's wrong.
The second thing I found incredible was that the new NASCAR.com site still contains the advisory that fan comments currently cannot be accepted but that they are "working on" correcting that problem. It concerns me that the technical heads on the media center in Charlotte cannot determine what is required to allow fan comments to the site. I can understand me not be capable of doing so,but you would think NASCAR would have competent folks handling the matter. When the site first came on line like three months ago, it was easy for fans to comment and I did so more than once, mostly about my excitement over the Gen-6 cars and the elimination of the top 35 rule. However, most of the comments, and I mean literally hundreds of comments were from fans very dissatisfied with the new site. It would, therefore, appear the only technical issue involved here is NASCAR refuses to accept criticism. Admittedly, many of the comments were from the usual negative folks who never find anything to their liking, but many contained very constructive remarks. I do hope NASCAR works out the "bugs" in their system so they can continue to hear from fans direct.
Tim
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What a change! It's been awhile since I've checked in and I'm quite surprised. It may take me awhile to figure it our but first look it's really great.
updated by @tim-leeming: 12/05/16 04:02:57PM
