What auto racing series do you follow?

[Cooknn]

There is no Rossi guy in F1.


Unless you mean Valentino Rossi, who indeed was/is a motorcycle racer. He's tested a few times for Ferrari, but so far, nothing has come of it other than rumors and comparisons to the the only person to win major championships on 2 and 4 wheels (Mike Hawthorne?)

Heh. Shows you how much I'm paying attention. I've heard the guys on SpeedTV mention his name a couple of times and just assumed he was in the field.

 

[jadekitty24]

Im not saying Im against racing in any sense, but in reality its a "waste" of gas in that it does NOTHING for anyone in the public sector other than fill another afternoon with beer and hootin.

Every thread needs a person to piss on it, I guess.
Check your info before you make statements on a topic you know nothing about. Racing, of any form does indeed offer the public some things other than a beer-filled afternoon. Such a form of entertainment creates jobs, amasses money for charities, etc.

ON TOPIC...Nascar is my racing choice...gotta the love the smell of all that gas!

 

[bursty]

Formula 1

 

[jknight8907]

The only thing I come close to following is MotoGP.

 

[Counterfit]

Interesting news for Red Sox/NASCAR Truck Series fans.

Ex-ballplayer Greenwell to make Truck debut

By Mark Aumann, NASCAR.COM
May 17, 2006
01:58 PM EDT (17:58 GMT)

Two-time Major League All-Star Mike Greenwell will make his Craftsman Truck Series driving debut in the May 27 Mansfield 250 at Mansfield Motor Speedway, he said Tuesday.

Greenwell, who played 12 seasons as a left fielder with the Boston Red Sox, will drive Green Light Racing's No. 08 Chevrolet, with associate sponsorship from North Trail RV Center, from his hometown of Fort Myers, Fla.
...
Greenwell, who has plans to also race at Memphis and New Hampshire later in the season for the team owned by Bobby Dotter and Gene Christensen, said the opportunity to participate in the open test at Mansfield before the weekend was a major factor.

"I picked that race by design," Greenwell said. "It's the best opportunity to run the most laps in the truck before I race it."

Greenwell hit .303 with 1,400 hits and 130 homers before retiring in 1996.

He was also the real MVP of the 1988 season.

 

[Mr Skills]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your points in general but two aspects that I would take specific issue with:

Im not saying Im against racing in any sense, but in reality its a "waste" of gas in that it does NOTHING for anyone in the public sector other than fill another afternoon with beer and hootin.

Maybe true with some race disciplines, but certainly Formula 1 is a major technological force of progress - probably the next level down from computing/military/space in importance in this regard. Don't forget, individual teams are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year on research and development which regularly filters though to the rest of us.

if we stopped all races today, im sure we'd have millions of gallons of gas to offset the final "gurgle" of the last oil well.

Racing may be terribly polluting and use up lots of oil, but to say that stopping would have a real tangible effect on oil problems in comparison with the millions upon millions of cars on normal roads is a huge exaggeration.

 

[Boggle]

Smoke!

More Tony Stewart!

 

[JFreak]

F1

 

[Sdashiki]

Racing may be terribly polluting and use up lots of oil, but to say that stopping would have a real tangible effect on oil problems in comparison with the millions upon millions of cars on normal roads is a huge exaggeration.

What do we have? 10? 20? 50? years of oil left?

if racing and all that stopped along with its "waste" of gas and all that NOW, I believe that it would make a difference....in the looooong run. Which is how we should be thinking, NOT like Dubbya thinking "the world will end before then so F***-it, lets burn the trees and waste the oil".

Go find "Dimming Sun" by PBS Nova....it describes that for the 3 days after Sept. 11th when there were NO airplanes over the US, that there was an immediate response by the environment from the lack of vaportrails.

So, stopping all use of gasoline where it does nothing but entertain, would make some difference, and probably a larger one in the long run, because people would see that "Gee, I guess I really should conserve gas and energy".

 

[jadekitty24]

What do we have? 10? 20? 50? years of oil left?

if racing and all that stopped along with its "waste" of gas and all that NOW, I believe that it would make a difference....in the looooong run. Which is how we should be thinking, NOT like Dubbya thinking "the world will end before then so F***-it, lets burn the trees and waste the oil".

Go find "Dimming Sun" by PBS Nova....it describes that for the 3 days after Sept. 11th when there were NO airplanes over the US, that there was an immediate response by the environment from the lack of vaportrails.

So, stopping all use of gasoline where it does nothing but entertain, would make some difference, and probably a larger one in the long run, because people would see that "Gee, I guess I really should conserve gas and energy".

Read the first post in this thread. It did not ask about your views on gas usage. It asked what form of racing you like. If you feel so strongly about this topic, go start your own thread where you can rant all you want. For now just stop injecting your silly nonsense please.
I cannot roll my eyes enough.

 

[Sdashiki]

You got it.

/injection

ps - I posted once, and replied twice.