Stupid Car Racing

Memorial weekend: Racing weekend

So the Chief LOVES to watch this stuff.  Me?  I use this time wisely by taking a nap.  Before I headed off for the nap, I caught a little excitement on the screen.  The only reason to watch Nascar or any car racing is for the accidents.  It is the train wreck that you just can’t turn away from.  This didn’t start off that way.  

I am watching the screen and watch driver Mike Conway come into the pits.  Then I see something horrific.  He crashes into his crew!  Knocks one guy so hard that he flies over the hood and lands on the front wing of the car.  This was the Indy 500, so those cars are a little different from the Nascar cars.  These cars have wings on the front of them.  

Indy Car:

NASCAR Car:

Something about the way the air rolls over...or under...or through, whatever, there is a good reason for the way they build these things.  Back to the pit stop.  He comes zooming into the pit stop and takes out half his crew (okay, TWO of them...but when we are talking like seven guys total, TWO is almost half!).  I turn to the Chief and say, “Does he get fined for that?”  He informs me, calmly as if is no big deal, no, he just has to take a slow lap.  There is actually certain lingo for this, but I can’t remember what it is.  Basically, it means he has to take a lap in the slow lane (which means his punishment doesn’t fit the damn crime).  Shocked, I asked if that was seriously the only repercussion for running into his crew.  

Are you hearing this?  The guy HITS crew members, and he only gets a pee-pee slap?  He could have KILLED them!  He doesn’t get fined, he doesn’t get taken out of the race, he only has to take a slow lap so he loses a couple spots in the lineup!  

Can you see that in real life?  You hit a pedestrian with your car and the cop says, “Hey dude, just take a lap around the block slowly...it’s all good.”  Are you freaking kidding me?  

Hours later (seven to be exact), I was sitting on the couch with the Chief.  

I turn to him, “I have been thinking.”

“Oh no.”

“I’m being serious.  I have been thinking about that guy that hit his crew with the car.  That is TOTALLY wrong that he doesn’t get in big trouble for that!”

“Why?  It was an accident, it happens, that is why they wear helmets.”

“Helmets don’t protect their legs!  He could have paralyzed that guy, and he doesn’t even get in trouble!!  He didn’t even lean out the window and say, ‘Sorry, Dude!‘  That poor guy didn’t do anything wrong, he only came to work!”

“He didn’t do anything wrong?  Because he couldn’t stay away from the buffet line, his fat ass ending up breaking the front left wing off the car which cost the driver the race!”

Yes, Yes...you read that correctly.  

When the driver hit the guy, he flew over the hood and landed on the wing, which broke it.  After the quick pit stop, the driver headed back out and had an immediate accident.

So guess what?  The car people might not have given a punishment that fit the crime, but guess who did?  The one who controls all.  

The Jack Wagon, already over the fact he almost killed someone, immediately went back out on the track and had an accident that knocked him out of the race.  Serves him right.  THAT punishment fit the crime.  

****Now, I am FUMING mad!!  I go to post the video on this blog of him running into his crew and it is no longer viewable for the audience!  They took the video down!  They have videos of the accident that followed it, but no more videos of him practically killing his crew!  GRRRRR!!  I guess that is there way of showing the only important part of the day is that he lost, not that he almost killed half his pit crew!****

Stupid car racing.  Stupid dangerous sport.  Stupid Mike Conway.