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A relatively new scheme whereby you complain if you think your neighbour is being antisocial (animals waking you up in the night etc) the problem is people are taking advantage and ASBOing everything, including small children.
Murphy's 9th Law of Technology:
Tell a man there are 300 million stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
You ever watched a race at Daytona or Talladega? That's skill if I ever saw it. You can say all you want about road racing being harder than NASCAR, but alot of the drivers that are in NASCAR have done that kind of racing as well. As much as I root for JPM, he didn't do jack in the Daytona 500. He only finished as high as he did because of attrition. Plain and simple. We'll see how good he is when he is at Sonoma or Watkins Glen trying to throw a 3500 pound whale with no traction control and a clutch around those tracks. Hope he brushes up on his heel and toeing, he's gonna need it.
If Nascar doesn't require any talent then why is there only a handfull of drivers that have any chance at winning a race? If it's so easy then JPM should have lapped everyone.
Oval racing is more then just flooring it and turning left. It's more about strategy, drafting and some on track politics. I'm sure any F1 driver could put in a fast lap, without too much practice but I doubt that even JV could ever win a race.
You have to remember that oval racing is engrained in Nascar drivers heads, they grew up racing dirt tracks, 1 mile, paved, concrete etc, they always raced heavy V8s. All that experience counts for a lot.
I don't think JPM has the brain for Nascar. He needs that on the limit, one and a half hour adrenaline rush that only F1 can give him. Nascar is too much of a chess game for him.
Enough of this ---! JPM, and JV also for that matter, made his big-time break out in American open wheel racing on American ovals. And they both won the Championship and Indy 500. So, going out on a limb here, I'm going to say that they are more than familiar with the long oval races strategy requirements. NASCAR and the IRL race on a few of the same tracks, so here's even less virgin territory for JPM.
I have been a fan of NASCAR since I was a kid, and I'll be watching tomorrows race from the infield at the exit of turn 3. I'll be driving a 32-year-old car to the race that is more sophisticated than the ones I'll be watching on the track. But I wouldn't miss watching the Taxi-Cabs race. They're the most highly engineered bricks anywhere. And JPM is a racer, he'll have his brick flying before long.
