This week he’s discussing the return of “The Speed Report” this Sunday and “NASCAR Racehub” the following Monday, both on Speed Channel.

If you’ve never read this site, you’ll enjoy it. If you’re up for a little multi-tasking be sure to read the real-time live comments he moderates during the races each weekend. His readers are very savvy and well-mannered And you can also follow his Twitter feed, http://Twitter.com/TheDalyPlanet. Last year he tweeted Kyle Petty during a TNT racecast with a question and Kyle answered it on the program.

West Coast Kenny
Alameda, California

Right now, we are just waiting for TNT to announce who their main guy is for this season.

There are but two that despise them the most. The lead driver that is kicking everyone’s ass and the racing purest. I happen to be a purest, but then again I have come not to expect pure racing from NASCAR. Sports cars and certain open wheelers satisfy that particular need. NASCAR does, however, put on a pretty good “show”.

Don’t give me that “erring on the side of caution”. Remember at Martinsville, when a car was stalled at the finish line, and NASCAR didn’t stop the race until the very last second? Call me crazy, but I think a 3000+ lb. car could cause more damage than a water bottle. Not to mention the restarts after the caustions, which could cause 8 cars to be involved in a wreck.

And Fox can use a billion and a half “Digger cams”, in car cams, etc. yet they can’t even find a piece of debris? They can do their Hollywood Hotel crap, but they can’t even show proof as to why a caution came out? Debris IS noteworthy because it caused the race to be slowed down! NASCAR can have one guy tell the Fox truck where the debris caution is, so being “busy” is no excuse.

But NASCAR wouldn’t lie to us, would they? No, I’m just another uneducated fan who should just shut up.

To repeat myself… precisely.

I can pooint to a reliabe scientific article that details how something so samll as a paper coffee vup can break a cars windshield at legal highway speeds.

You can imagine something seemingly so small, not to mention soft, as rollbar padding could damage if not create total havoc at speeds approaching 200mph.

We all know the smallest piece of debris can blow a tire, and an entire race for one or more racers. Its perfectly reasonable to believe NASCAR officials can find that debris and quickly wave the caution, and the TV crew just can’t find it on a 1+ mile track!

Its not like NASCAR is going to also spend the time to call the Fox booth to tell them where to point the camera.

Precisely, frankly I’m damn tried or reading and hearing about phantom cautions.

Show me the memo, or “competition directive” that outlines when or how many should be thrown during an event and I’ll believe it.

“Til then they are nothing more than race directors erring on the side of caution, no pun intended, and TV networks concern for showing as many ads as possible and not for showing tire treads and roll bar padding on the track.