Bristol Baby and More Tire Talk!

I love short track racing! Bristol and Martinsville are a couple of my favorite tracks. Wish we had a few more short track races each year. At least with short tracks, if ya crash, ya can usually get into the pits or garage and make something drivable. We might not see a sponsor anymore, but, you can drive it and keep up with the minimum speed. Short tracks are where guys can get laps back, even without that stupid ass "lucky dog" free pass.

In the last week there sure has been plenty of Goodyear bashing. I am really surprised that Tony Stewart showed up to race this weekend! I mean he spoke with such conviction shitty and useless the tires and, the tire company, Goodyear, are. Why not stick to your convictions and really make a stand, get out of the car, fly home to Indiana and dismount all the Goodyear tires on all your vehicles, just as you had promised. I heard Tony was less than helpful at the tire test at Las Vegas in December. Even by his own admission he was on vacation and didn't wanna be doing the test. Waaaaaa!!! Waaaaaaa!! People that make gazillions of dollars each year playing in sports or driving race cars should learn to keep their friggin mouths shut when it comes to whining about not getting enough time off. Day-by-day, week-to-week, when all is said and done in a year, you frickin whiners work less hours and days per year than the white or clue collar average worker. The average worker who is struggling to put gas in their cars and pay their mortgages. The average worker, who when he has to go on a business trip, isn't afforded the luxury to fly a helicopter from where he was working to the airport and be on a plane and in the air in 20 minutes. No, we'll sit for endless hours in airport terminals waiting for the next connection. Or, be the average worker and spend a couple weeks in a cheese line because your company is going through a slow down. Next time, stop stompimg your feet and pitching a fit about being at a tire test and give some useful feedback on tire tests. That feedback will have a direct correlation to the tire you race on Sunday, someday.

Watching pre-race on Speed and it looks kinda cold at Bristol. Cold being 50 degrees for them. 50 would be a friggin heat wave around this neck of the woods and we'd be out in shorts and t-shirts, haha.