NASCAR SUED FOR 500 MILLION DOLLARS.
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Amen, Brother Tim.
Total & complete BS lawsuit full of lies. Hope you crucify the charlatan, Tim. Maybe you can get Steve Harvey (who has disavowed all association) to come on with you and tell about this wannabe racing entrepreneur and his lies.
I'm thinking maybe we could continue to be extra kind to the thugs who injured 16 of our Charlotte police officers last night, but weren't arrested for those acts or their looting or damage to police vehicles. I'm recommending we put them all on one of those prison buses and take them just down the road to Charlotte Motor Speedway for AutoFair. Let them get Daisy Duke's autograph and take them for a ride around the track at speed in Daisy's jeep, Dixie. I suggest letting local resident and former driver Neil "Soapy" Castles be the jeep driver. I suspect that guy showing his drawers in the photo would find them full of something.
ATTENTION GUYS :
Daisy Duke's jeep "Dixie" will be on display this weekend at Charlotte Motor Speedway's AutoFair. Daisy (Catherine Bach) will be on hand signing autographs. Feel free to bring yer Confederate flags. This is not a NASCAR event. Of course, y'all are welcome to go to New Hampshire and watch Danica if you'd rather, but leave yer flags home.
BOSS H
My old Richmond racing buddy, Frank Buhrman ( http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/profile/FrankBuhrman?xg_source=profiles_memberList )announces some of the historic EMMR events at the Latimore track. I sent him a link to your post, Woody.
Patrick, I agree 100% that motorsports - from the weekly hometown track to the Indianapolis 500 - have it all over the stick & ball sports when it comes to public displays of patriotism and honoring the flag.
I'll never forget an afternoon in the early 90s at Richmond when one of my two personal racing heroes, promoter, Paul Sawyer (car owner Bud Moore is my other personal racing hero) took a patriotic stance against NASCAR. With threatening weather before the scheduled start of a Busch Series race, NASCAR competition VP, Les Richter announced we would start engines immediately and move the cars onto the track. Paul Sawyer immediately told Richter (an old L.A. Ram) that no cars were firing at HIS racetrack until the National Anthem was played. Richter was livid, but the National Anthem played.
You may have seen Carolina Panthers coach, Ron Rivera's comments earlier this week regarding the San Francisco team and their unpatriotic players and coach visiting Charlotte this weekend. I am thankful for our Charlotte football coach. San Francisco and Denver are welcome to theirs.
BY JOSEPH PERSON
Sports and politics are colliding all over the state of North Carolina this week.
San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick will be in Charlotte on Sunday, when hes expected to continue his protest of racial inequality and police brutality by kneeling during the national anthem at Bank of America Stadium.
Earlier, the ACC pulled this years football championship game from Charlotte amid the firestorm over the states controversial House Bill 2, which limits antidiscrimination protections for LGBT individuals.
Panthers coach Ron Rivera was asked about both the Kaepernick protest and the HB2 controversy Thursday.
Rivera said he doesnt believe sports should be used as a way to affect political change.
People come to the stadium to get away. And I decided that after the 1980 Olympic boycott. I didnt think it was fair. We were using sports as pawns, said Rivera, who was preparing for his freshman year at Cal when the U.S. boycotted the Summer Games in 80.
We werent happy with the politics in Russia, and what did they do? They were invading Afghanistan. So as far as Im concerned, sports is sports and politics is politics. If you want to talk politics, if you want to get involved, throw your hat in the political ring, you want to make change, vote. Vote. Thats the truth of the matter.
Very sad news about Robby's parents. Thoughts and prayers.
In related sad and unfortunate news, there was a death at Tony's Eldora track Saturday night:
Driver dies after accident at Tony Stewart's track in Ohio
September 11, 2016
The track says Shane Unger of Rossburg died Saturday night at Mercer County Community Hospital. He was 35.
The track says in a release that the crash happened during a late restart in the second heat race at the World 100.
It says emergency crews quickly attended to Unger and placed him in an ambulance to transport him to the hospital.
The track is owned by three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart, who was racing at Richmond International Raceway on Saturday night. A team spokesman said after the race that Stewart had not been informed of the driver's death.
So, racers and race fans... what did you think of Tony Stewart's move at Richmond Saturday night on his former employee, Ryan Newman? I thought it was bush league, but then I have disliked Tony since the first time I met him pre-NASCAR and called him out way back when driving a USAC Silver Crown car after he acted like an a$$ to my Richmond media staff.
This time I am in Patrick Reynold's corner. However, what I witnessed wasn't rubbin', it was intentionally crashing a fellow competitor and tearing up a bunch of racecars and nearly hurting some drivers. Adios, Tony. Maybe you can retire early.