Anyone been baffled in the past week?
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 9:09am CDT
By Luke, Thunder Lounge
Published on Thunder Lounge.
My time is short, and my schedule’s been hard, but lucky for you I’m out of cards.
OK, so it’s supposed to be money’s short and times are hard, but hey, work with me here.
Either way, I’m left wondering where the last week went? Wow. I have no idea, although I slept through most of it due to one hell of a cold (or some kind of sinus/respiratory crap).
Richert out a Red Bull
Doug and Red Bull Racing have parted ways, effective immediately. Are they NUTS?
From the sounds of it, although nobody is placing blame, it sounds like RB was the initiating party here.
Um, WTF? Doug is quite the capable crew chief here folks, and miracles don’t happen over night. You’re a start-up team, and with this move your sophomore year isn’t going to be any better either.
Your loss, someone else’s gain. Best of luck, Doug!
Green out, Mayfield in; Sauter confused as hell
You read that one right. Mayfield knew he was on his way out at BDR in favor of Chez Jacques, so he did some shopping. He landed in what could be his last opportunity in the Cup Series. Who knows if Green, who was expected to be a contender in Cup but it never came to be, will get the same opportunity.
Mayfield has a history of foot-in-mouth when he departs from a team. With Penske it was the team, with Evernham is was the “relationships”, and so on. While nobody will confirm it, Mayfields mouth has been the cause of him being blacklisted from the rides at the top, and if this last ditch effort fails he may end up in a truck, if he’s lucky, or out of the top 3 NASCAR Sanctioned Series for good.
So, what was the problem with Green? He was at least keeping it in the Top 35, which I can tell you there are teams that would love to be in those shoes. He wasn’t setting the series on fire, but he was at least respectable. So WTF?
On top of that, Johnny Sauter has also been decent, and remains in the Top 35 as well. Yet, you can’t sack up and tell the man his fate? WTF?
Replacing Green with Mayfield (effective immediately), and having Scott Riggs ready to come in for 2008, should tell Sauter one thing: “Find a ride, pal.”
Rumor has it that he could take Yellow with him to Robby Gordon Motorsports. I’m sure Ford wouldn’t mind picking up a decent looking guy, that still has that young and marketable look.
Brian France out, Jim France in?
If rumblings are to be believed NASCAR may soon have a new CEO. According to some there is speculation inside International Speedway Corporation that current NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France will step down from his post ‘in days’ to make room for his uncle, Jim France.
The conjecture is that the growth of the sport has stagnated to point where a change at the helm is necessary. TV ratings are down and several attempts to build new speedways in different regions of the country have been thwarted.
If this information is true, as per Cup Scene Daily, wow. What a shocker. Could it be that the almighty NASCAR is starting to “get the message”, even if just a tiny bit?
Need we bring up our favorite Dave Chappelle phrase for Brian?
NASCAR/ISC sees a problem, so we’ll ask WTF are you going to do about it?
There you have it folks. The wrap up of WTF’s from the past 7 days. Granted, I’m sure I could go on, but we’ve got a little thing coming up at Texas Motor Speedway in 9 days, so come one, come all, and we’ll see you in the infield.
(First 10 people to find me down there, and tell me they read our fishwrap, er tripe, um… stuff, will get a free custom Thunder Lounge wristband!)
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“(First 10 people to find me down there, and tell me they read our fishwrap, er tripe, um… stuff, will get a free custom Thunder Lounge wristband!)”
And the first ten people that laugh and point?
Or the first to pass along a communicable disease?
Or the first to run the other way?
Or the first to… well you get the idea.
Yep. I get the idea.
Answer: There’s one in every crowd.